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M olly D a l s i n Architecture + Design Por t folio
TABLE of CONTENTS
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1st + 1st | Issue -based of f ice and public space
THE SPACE BETWEEN | Installation of movement and viewing
ARCHITECTUR AL FILMMAKING
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Cinematograph y in understanding architec ture
WEST BANK SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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Conceptualization of per formance and urbanism
THE QUESTION OF MEANING |
De -composition of OMA’s Dutch Embassy
APPROPRIATING INFR ASTRUCTURE | Recontextualizing public space and innovation
MOLLY
DALSIN
M.Arch Candidate 2016 The Universit y of Minnesota School of Architecture
ADDRESS 3233 Fremont Ave S #3 Minneapolis MN 55408
TEL. 651 270 9968
EMAIL dimo0026@umn.edu | molly.dimond@gmail.com
1st + 1st office space + public space for knowledge trading Minneapolis, MN Adaptive Reuse, Fall 2014
The existing storage warehouse at 1st Ave and 1st St consists of two Cass Gilbert facades protected by historic preservation, and is centrally located in a booming Minneapolis neighborhood. Because of its location and connection to an emerging professional and venture community, the shift in programming was to create an issue -based office space dealing with matters of urbanism. All professions, including urban planners,
psychologists, artists, transit experts, sociologists, and architects can perform their commissioned work utilizing the building’s office and resource space, but more importantly are connected to each other and the public through interfacing areas and public event spaces. Other community members working on urbanism may come for meetings and events creating a complex that is not quite academic, and not quite industry, but a third place where
work can be accomplished, shared, and studied. The interfacing space intersects the workspace and is built tectonically to allow for unique interactions that the load-bearing masonry cannot afford. Overall, the project catalyzes new kinds of urban activities, experiences, and human relationships.
E-W Section | Public + Interfacing spaces
Program
B
Circulation
Public Space - Event space, auditorium, galleries
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Interfacing - Meeting rooms, lounges, workshops
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Office Space
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Resources - Woodshop, Metalshop, Digifab, Printshop
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05
Slot for vertical mobility
Epoxy
Shim and grout pack behind plate
Plan | Steel column meeting existing brick wall
Tension rod connection to truss #2 clevis hanger
Section
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Double cantilever plate weld
N-S Section | Office + Interfacing spaces
N-S Section | Public + Interfacing + Office spaces
NY WALL + PROCESS + CONTEXT PROCESS + CONTEXT
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CHINA
A study of studio and gallery space
FINAL ARTWORK
Dashilar District, Beijing, China May 2014 One week intensive installation in traditional Chinese hutong Developed in collaboration with Shi Yingzhe, Li Yaqi, and Chao Yang
Art Space need not be limited to the categories of creating or exhibiting, but rather should lie in the ambiguous space between studio and gallery. The contemporary artist is not only concerned with the eyes and mind, but also with body movement through space. Viewing becomes relational to structural frames organized through space. The sight being viewed may be a working space and/or a piece of artwork, but the layering of the two creates a complexity that is overlooked when artwork is stripped from its context.
Arc hit ectural F ilmmaking Minneapolis, MN March 2015 One week intensive course at UMN Developed in collaboration with Justin Fleck
American Swedish Institute: A Dialogue in Culture Short film utilizing cinematography techniques to understand architecture
http://architectural-filmmaking-course.tumblr.com/ post/113520187569/american-swedish-institute-finalcut-produced
T h e We s t B a n k S c h o o l o f M u s i c
The building forms a layered
building through a nuanced flow
composition
of
urban
flux,
performance in
an
architecture, music,
that the
neighborhood’s topography.
The
and
culminates
ever-changing
mimicking
Performance Hyper-Urbanism Spectacle
of
outside/inside,
and
views between levels. This path
mural
becomes more than circulation
surrounding
and destination, but becomes a
existing
place in itself, expanding the
experience
theatricality beyond ordinary
of a street is wrapped into the architecture and unfolds for
Minneapolis, MN: Fall 2013
views
spectacle/self-reflection,
visitors as they perceive the
performances.
THE QUESTION OF MEANING
This
project
the
creative
process
which
underlying
through Berlin, Germany: Spring 2014
philosophical
analyzed
meaning
is
explored, defined, formed, and expressed in physical 1966 “...richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning...’bothand’ to ‘either-or’.”
form. The Dutch Embassy was de -composed to understand conceptual
organization,
then “redesigned” using a generative process guided by
Robert Venturi
knowledge of a theoretical
Complexity and Contradiction
agenda.
Berlin, Germany 2014
Berlin, Germany 1953
2001 “The beauty of Berlin - its opacity, complexity, its heaviness, the richness of its ghosts. The abundance of good intentions that somehow went wrong. The pressure of shame imposed by more and more monumaents. The obligation to remember, combined with surprising amnesia (where did the wall go?). How far it is removed from everything. How refreshingly German it remains. Its gray. Its stubbornness. Its lack of doubt. The meticulous mediocrity of its new substance. How old what was modern looks. How fresh what is ancient. How good what was communist. How Chinese what is new.� Rem Koolhaas Content
Appropriating Infrastructure Recontextualizing public space + innovation
Minneapolis, MN: Spring 2015 7-week Open Studio Developed in collaboration with Chris Massey and Anna Mahnke
The Delmar Mill complex is a site of historical and contemporary consequence. In its years of operation from 19101960, its performance was one that prominently fueled the economic growth of the Twin Cities. Now dormant in the service of grain, the colossal structures loom silently over the forgotten landscape, neither remote nor interwoven with the fabric of the city. This dissonance enables a new mode of architectural intervention and a shift in traditional
programming. Thus, the proposal for a contemporary urban park reinterprets the historic SEMI mills complex as both provocative public space and dynamic innovation district. By appropriating the historical infrastructure, the urban park enables exploration, activism, and interaction between people, structures, and nature. Fundamental to the complex is the public space, including procession, appropriation spaces, and spectacle as tools to
recreate the mill’s cultural stakes. The complexity and precarious nature instilled in the existing structures translates experiences, understandings, and meanings of history, culture, and contemporary attitudes to the urban park. The layering of meaning, interpretation, and subsequent mental state makes the architecture difficult to resolve, but it is exactly this multiplicity that make the building and the program relevant today.
Minneapolis | St. Paul adjacencies Missing link to Grand Rounds park Surrounding Colleges | Universities Potential use of surviving rail lines
SEMI District Mills 1953
SEMI District Mills 2005
PATH
PERCEPTUAL MOMENTS
https://openstudio2015.wordpress.com/category/projects/mill-ruinsprospect-park/