Architecture + Design Portfolio | Molly Dalsin | University of MN

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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/