2011_Architecture Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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laquinton_NIMOX

Phone: 985-415-3041 Email: lnimox1@lsu.edu

Chapel to Nature Spring 2009

LUMCON Chauvin, Louisiana 8124 Highway 56

“I believe in God, only I spell it N-A-T-U-R-E�

Frank Lloyd Wright The challenge of this project was to create a nondenominational space that serves as a space for Memory and Loss. It required creating spaces helped the user remember: the environment, the wetlands, and the past.

A space for memory and loss focuses on the environment and welcomes one while being a reminder of the natural beauty that is, that was, and that may or may not be.

Site

Process Work 1. View from sacred space looking out onto the deteriorating Gulf 2. Aerial view of chapel in its context 3. Frontal view of the chapel standing on canoe dock 4. Aerial view of the group gathering space with the individual area in the rear 5. Northwest view looking at chapel 1

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To respond to the challenge set forth for a chapel to nature, the notion of what makes a sacred space was keep in mind. By making the chapel an integral part of the LUMCON experience, interaction between the water and chapel was clearly encouraged. This interaction is aimed at seclusion from the man-made and intimacy with nature on a personal level.

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This structure is designed as a landscape focusing device---a mechanism through which the experience of this coastal area, from the reconstruction of the canal to the catrastrophe loss of the wetlands is made manifest. The design of the memory and loss spaces are informed by the idea of transition from mass to void; this reflects the connection of the coast where the structure resides. The construction is made in a way that shows our transition from a closed minded society who ignored the issue of coastal loss to one day, one that is open minded and embraces the idea of protecting this priceless resource.

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Focused Space for Memory/Loss Individual Space for Memory/Loss Individual Rest Areas Unisex Restroom Handicapped Restroom Electrical Room 360 viewing for Space for Memory/Loss

West Elevation

View from the group space looking south

View from canoe looking onto the chapel

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7000 Perkins Road Lease Office Building

Spring 2010

Site

7000 Perkins Road Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The project involved redeveloping a site and constructing a new medical office building along with an accompanying sustainable parking lot for commerical units and offices. Perkins Road near the Pennington Biomedical Research Laboratory at the intersection of Kenilworth and Perkins is actually where the site is located. The building faces Perkins Road and is designed to accomdate various types of businesses.

The underlying conceptual idea is a building shaded by an outerskin that supports a deciduous material which will provide shading during the summer and permit much needed light during the winter months. The structure that the grid is attached to merely supports the grid and doesn’t serve any other structural purpose. The pre-existing condition of trees on the site is referenced in the formal expression of the exterior metal configuration. Shifting of the different floors creates overhangs that allows at times for the building to shade itself while reducing solar heat gain.

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Arboreal structure that is made up of A36 steel with stainless steel cladding. The structure is supported by beams and bolted to concrete slab with J bolts. The form is expressive of the existing conditions of the site’s abundance of trees Powder coated stainless steel cladding is used to protect the structural members inside. The dimensions of the panels are 7 feet x 4 feet for a better economy of scale.

60 x 60cm steel matrix grid system that is attached to a steel support system. The grid carries the weight of the hanging gardens which act as shading devices

Site Yield

-7000 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA -Site area: 195,000 square feet -Parking spaces: 369 stalls(including 8 ADA accessible parking stalls) -Building area: 20212 square feet per floor(limited to 37,500 square feet) -Total Gross square footage: 101,060 square feet -Total Net square footage: 85,153 square feet -Setbacks: 5 feet from adjacent property lines, 25 feet from railroad tracks to the north, 20 feet from the street

Enclosure system

-Ceramic coated metal panel attached with clips light gauge steel studs which support the gypsum board on the interior -The aboreal structure is constructed of A36 steel tube clad in stainless steel composite panels and attached to the building with steel beams that protrude through the exterior facade -The envelope is formed of a 60 x 60cm matrix stainless steel grid secured to the support arboreal structure. The steel grid forms a supporting structure for climbing plants creating the appearance of vertical hanging gardens and an uninterrupted screen over the road frontage.

Building Classification -Occupancy classification: Business Transition -Type of construction: type II -Occupant load factor: 100 occupant load factor for Businesses -Occupant load: 221.4 per floor -Required egress widhth in inches per floor: 44.28 inches -Maximum height of buildings-65 feet -Floor to floor height=12 feet and 2 inches for 5 floors

Mechanical Information

-276.75 cooling tons required for HVAC system -3—Trane AquaStream Model CGAM rooftop units (100 cooling tons) -Heating/cooling systems using cooling coils added to warm air furnaces

King Street Bakery Fall 2010

901 King Street Alexandria,Virginia

Bakery air, that streaming froth of thick, buttery fumes, is a deeply memorable smell. Most people can identify as many as 10,000 different smells.Your challenge is to design a working bakery that appeals to all of the senses. An unemployeed engineer teamed up with a pastry chef to start a new specialty bakery in Old Town, Alexandria. The artisan bakery will include a full kitchen with traditional ovens as well as a public sales area and a small cafe. The owners each want a private dwelling along with the bakery for their own use------ as well as ten other living units to rent to support the endeavor complete with 12 parking spaces. Their workday will typically begin at two o’clock in the morning with the baking completed by noon, but the shop remains open until the late evening hours. The site is located at the corner of Patrick street and King street in the parking lot area behind Misha’s Coffee House.

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Crosby Arboretum Interpretive Center

Fall 2008

370 Ridge Road Picayune, MS 39466

The Interpretive Center at the Crosby Arboretum will be developed using the various programmatic components to embody and reveal the spirit of the site for visitors. During the visit to the site, many observations were made concerning the plethora of spatial characteristics displayed throughout the different ecosystems and how they respond to each other. These spatial characteristics will be employed in the center’s design to unveil new ideas from the arboretum that the visitor will experience. By using architecture to heighten ones awareness of their surroundings, the center will partner with the pinecote pavilion on an endeavor for a much needed balance of attention at the arboretum to create a whole and allow for interpretation of the area.

The Pinecote Pavilion plays a major role in this undertaking. It serves as a precedent for the Interpretive Center in its service to the landscape, particularly the woodland and wetland, through journeys. As a landmark, the pavilion and its relationship to the wetland orientates visitors and use the trails through the woodland as a way of exploring the arboretum. The pavilion uplifts the wetland which has the least acreage to the most dominate standing. With these actions, it lacks in its neglect of the savanna area that is only experienced at the beginning of the arrival journey.

The Interpretive Center will pick up where the pavilion left off by sitting the savanna on a higher pedestal. The center will engage the site by using the existing conditions strategically with added features that create a coherent composition. Engagement means to bring together or interlock which will be achieved using the pavilion and the center. Although the arrival journey goes through the three ecosystems, the savanna seems to be neglected in this act. This is important because simply having a significant structure in two places doesn’t do justice to the arboretum. The center will draw in visitors with its presence and distribute them on through the woodland area to the trail leading to the overall view of the pavilion.

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The progam elements of the center will be used to orient, occupy, and arrange. The relationship between the public and private space will be revealed through their separation. This is important because the overall idea of separate pieces to createcohesion brings the concept of parts to whole to the site.

Different types of construction will further develop ideas about the programmatic elements. The spaces will orient the visitors by setting up an experience of the site in a particular manner.

Voids and open space will be used to gather and be used for a sort of meeting area before continuing onto the various public spaces. The pieces together will create more architectural moments that build an interpretation of the area. After experiencing, visitors will be launched into the woodland space on a trail to view the pavilion.

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Collaged Perspectives

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Rothko Museum Spring 2008

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Menil Collection 1515 Sul Ross Street Houston, Texas

We were required to design a museum to house a small collection of Rothko’s color paintings for a houston billiionaire. Her wishes are that this museum will embrace the spirit and critical nature of Rothko’s work.

The collector desires to provide an experience of the paintings that increases the distinctiveness and intensifies one’s desire to understand and interpret them. The programmatic elements that are to be included: gallery, lobby, men’s room, women’s room, offices, mechanical room, telephone room, gift store, and shipping & loading

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Menil Bungalows Front yards Tree line Sidewalks

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Scale: Streets Menil Collection

Park and Entrance to Rothko Museum

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Site Circulation Main Buildings Parking Streets Entrances Sidewalks

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Scale: Trees

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Siteplan

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Christ Church Alexandria,Virginia

Womens in Miltiary Service for America Memorial Arlington,Virginia

Herbert & Burke Bank Alexandria,Virginia

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Arlington,Virginia

LaQuinton Nimox lnimox1@lsu.edu 207 South Patrick Street Apt #210 Alexandria,VA 22314 985.415.3041 Goals

explore and expand my architectural design thoughts and knowledge

Education

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Bachelor’s of Architecture Washington Alexandria Architectural Center, Alexandria,VA One year exchange program

Fall 07-present Fall 10-Spring 11

Work Experience

Banana Republic_________________sales associate Urban Outfitters________________ sales associate Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches___ delivery driver American Campus Communities__marketing assistant LSU Public Policy Research Lab___ research surveyor PJ’s Coffee__________________ supervising barista Our Daily Bread_____ food pantry volunteer worker

09.10-present 05.10-09.10 05.10-08.10 05.10-08.10 02.10-05.10 03.08-12.08 01.06-12.10

Achievements

Third place in Acme Brick Competition with the design of the re[used] Trombe wall Robert Sprague Jr. Memorial Scholarship Dean’s List on several occasions

Abilities

AutoCAD, Revit,Vasari,Rhino, Sketchup, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Artlantis, Power point, InDesign Hand Drafting, Freehand Sketching, Model Making, Rendering, Painting,Visual and Oral Presentations

References

Available Upon Request