NICHOLAS JENSEN PORTFOLIO 2019
NICHOLAS JENSEN 336-542-6962 njensen3@uncc.edu
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TABLE OF CONTENTS NICKEL ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM REALITY DISTORTION HEADPIECE TERRACE DRAWING STUDIO ABANDONED MODERNITY MASS SHOOTING MEMORIAL SHADOW BOX FOR A HAND ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION CARDBOARD INTERACTIVE DESIGN-BUILD
NICKEL ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM
Loop Chicago, Illinois Fall 2018
This project is an architectural museum for salvaged Louis Sullivan ornament. I was tasked with responding to the Asakusa Cultural Tourist Information Center by Kengo Kuma & Associates as precedent for a multi-functional infill project. I took Kuma’s ideology of stacked objects filled with a dark void and decided to invert this ideology. My project takes a solid form and carves away to create five masses which are united by glass to create a light suspension between forms. As you move vertically through the space you experience larger open areas and open light to create a gradient through the section.
REALITY DISTORTION HEADPIECE Spring 2019
This piece was designed to alter the perceived reality of a participant. The participant wears this headpiece which suspends a distorted and dyed acrylic piece in front of their eyes. The different lens alter your perception in different ways. The distortion caused by the lens can be seen in the bottom right. The inspiration for the lens comes from the 2009 film “Enter the Void� by Gaspar Noe.
ABANDONED MODERNITY Plano, Illinois Fall 2018
For this project I was tasked with designing a guest house for the Farnsworth house by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. I looked at this project as an opportunity to cause an extreme effect on the experience of the Farnsworth House. I looked to the world of art for precedents, seen right. My take on this was to encompass the Farnsworth House by an earthen-like structure. Posing the question, What would the Farnsworth House look like if it had been abandoned and overtaken by the banks of the Fox River?
MEMORIAL FOR MASS SHOOTINGS Spring 2019
A mass shooting is an event in which at least 4 individuals are shot, in roughly the same location, and at roughly the same time. According to the collective knowledge of Wikipedia as of the February 14th 2019, there have been 176 mass shootings in the United States of America. This project arrays this data through bipartite posts where each post represents one mass shooting and each post scales those killed + injured in each mass shooting. One is invited to walk through the forest of posts in which they are inundated by this overwhelming data. The posts are spaced 2.5 feet apart causing people to be constricted by the multiplicity of shootings. The ground slopes upwards with time causing the progression through the field to be arduous like the succesion of these events is arduous. At the end of the current field of posts there is an array of holes for posts to be added to and to remind participants that there are more mass shootings to come if there is not a change in our legislation and culture.
TERRACE DRAWING STUDIO Cap Moderne, France Spring 2018
For this project I was tasked to design a structure for drawing on the site of E1027 by Eileen Gray and the Cabanon by Le Corbusier. This project focuses on compression & expansion, as well as restriction of views. When coming down to the structure you first interact with the public roof plane which is compressed by the retaining wall and the tree line. This compression and expansion is alleviated when you stand on the platform by the court because from this location you can view E1027, the Court, & the sea. When you proceed down the stairs you are restricted to a narrow subterranean passageway, upon entering the structure the space expands creating varying experiences depending on your inhabitation of the hillside.
SHADOW BOX FOR A HAND
Spring 2018
For this project I focused on the juxtaposition of the horizontal and vertical nature of the human form. The hand and forearm in this position are horizontal in nature, in juxtaposition to the vertical nature of the fingers. There are strong repeated horizontal moves prevalent in the box, countered by subtle vertical elements. The juxtaposition is reinforced by the cladding of the box, which almost solely works with vertical gestures. The cladding accentuates the verticality of the components of the hand, by drawing ones’ attention to the fingers and the space between them. The interjection of a frame into the hand not only supports the hand physically, but supports the ideology of the juxtaposition of vertical versus horizontal. The wood remains continuous through the intersection to indicate the continuation of motion in space.
ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION Fall 2017
For this project I was tasked with learning the components of design and form through creating abstract and scaleless form. This form uses materiality and form to direct motion though the form. Furthermore, the composition was a practice in regulating space.
CARDBOARD INTERACTIVE DESIGN-BUILD Fall 2018
This project was a full-scale design-build group project for 6 students. The project, seen in the foreground right, was designed to alter the perception of the space it was placed in. The object compresses the participant as they pass through the passageway. View ports through the form compresses and guides views through the object. Scan the QR code below to see a time-lapse of occupation.
NICHOLAS JENSEN 2019
NICHOLAS JENSEN 336-542-6962 njensen3@uncc.edu
Instagram: @nicholas_jensen_arch https://nicholastjensen.wixsite.com/nicholasjensen