Nick Chadde Portfolio by Nick Chadde

Nick Chadde

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Townhouse

The hybrid of a gallery and a home

Hostel 2.0

Sphere Bar

Stationsbyggnaden

Temporary containers for living in Weimar

A pole of calmness

Gothenburgs additional Centralstationbuilding

Townhouse

Concept The hybrid of a gallery and a home In the summer term of 2012 A Home As Path and Space was presented as the designproject for the department of Interior Architecture at the Bauhaus University. The site, an empty slot between two existing buildings placed in Weimar, was ment to be filled with a Townhouse which purpuse was to serve as a hybrid between the living area for a family and a gallery. The clean cuts in the frontfacade shape the character of my design. This creates exciting interior spaces which enables the inhabitants as much as vistors of the gallery to experience sightlines with the inner space and the area nearby. I have chosen atriums to strenghten the dynamic of how the buildings serves the experience of finding your own path through the building. To move freely and naturally was my declared goal by doing so. The floorplan is structured by a straightforward grid which gives it calmness and order.

PROTOTYPE

Situation

Directed visitor- flow The frontfacade is dominated by the characteristic cut that maximizes the window area, creates a roof over the protected zone infront of the entrance and drags the flow of visitors and potential costumers towards and into the building. The expressive form of the townhouse proves not only to be an attraction in itself but more importantly serves the function of the hybrid of a galery and a home.

Vision

Unified processes The people who live here shall fell at home while a serious procedere of the gallery should be provided. It is the organisation of this townhouse that enables a natural union of these functions.

FLOOR PLAN LEVEL 1: ENTRANCE & GALLERY

SECTION AA: ATRIUM & STAIRS

Hostel 2.0

Concept Temporary containers for living in Weimar The urge to naturally unfold without having a negative influence on your given environment becomes more and more important. Temporary architecture which offers a high amount of variability serves this new kind of challenges to the concept of accomodation issues. The natural concequences of realizing this has to be a product that is mainly these things: easy to transport, individually adjustable and environmental friendly. Wherever there is a place of creative selfdefined individuals or the need of accomodation for those who wonÂ´t stay long enough to rent but to long for sleeping in the hotel the Box is the answer. For those, who feel at home in the world. The area of the former electricity station in Weimar remains as a cultural hotspot for the creative scene. Today the once abandoned buildings serve as a important catalysator of the city with offering functions like an alternativ cinema, a theater and a highly appreciated venue for events and parties. Not only does being so close to the forest and the Ilm river attract the festive type to the E-Werk but it also makes creatives and artists gravitate towards it.

Situation

Preserve a strong character In the winterterm fo 2010/11 I teamed up with Katharina Bachstein and Yann Colonna to realize our common vision of preserving the unique atmosphere of this area. To ensure this task, we came up with the concept for a hostel that consits of a series of modules. Designed to be combined, added and to be extendend we created BoX: a futuristic object for contemporary housing and accomodation. We wanted to preserve and strenghten what we found at the site and what we learned to appreciate from it. The small-scaled footprint of our building impact was the attempt to make the E-Werk area and the youthostel a united attraction. We wanted to create something that attracts a specific group to avoid an overflow of tourists that could disturbe the ongoing processes.

Vision

Enriching atmosphere Our vision of the hostel of the future, our idea of Hostel 2.0 offers the highest amount of selfdefined living and encourages a humanic approach to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;genius lociâ&#x20AC;?. A place, where you can rely on the essence of being accomodatet in a hostel: the journey itself.

THE PATHSYSTEM IN THE “VILLAGE”

SPACES TO EXPLORE

Sphere Bar

Concept

A pole of calmness This project represents the final design of the seminar Architectural Freeformmodelling in Rhinoceros3D. The excercise asked the participants of designing a bar in the Henry-Van-deVelde-Bau, the main building of the Bauhaus University. To establish a bar at this prominent place it is necessary to take the go-to-qualities of the statue, which usually stands in the center of the stairway, in account. When you take a symbol of orientation away, it not only needs to be eloquently comensated but mostly surprise and attract with its new approach. My design aims on these qualities with placing a symbol of weight and this place sourrounded by the chairs that offer a contrast to this heaviness. The modern-claissical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bubble chairâ&#x20AC;? has been applied to the place and appears nearly like a cloud to sit in, while you enjoy a drink or a moment away from everyday- routine.

Situation

Focus on the essence The transparent seating- bowls imply lightness and relaxation which should be expereienced while when one enjoyes a moment of peace at this bar. Steal-strings are holding the chairs hanging from the ceiling. This supports the horizontal tendency and to experience the sphere-character of the bar as a whole.

Vision

A sphere in the stairway My design uses the power of contrary materials and the whole hight of the stairway. Made out of clear acryl the chairs are gravitating around the monolithical concrete counter and are offering an exciting difference of materials and distinguished forms. This energy is supposed to establish the bar as a new attraction on campus.

Stationsbyggnaden

Concept

Gothenburgs additional Centralstationbuilding My first assignment at the CHALMERS TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLA in Gothenburg, Sweden was asking for a proposal for a complex building in the city centre close to the centralstation. The “Stationsbyggnaden” had to offer a waiting hall for the tourists and travellers of the swedish metropolis and attractive spaces for offices and shops inside the building. An extra aspect of this project was the great importance of fire safety, construction, communication and climate- and noise regulations. These factors had to be dealt with in a high quality design. That is how the Building as a System was developed. My main inspiration was the closeness to the water everywhere in the city of Gothenburg. The canals, the port, the shiptrafic and the nearly constant rain to name a few. A whale seemed like an appropriate symbol for these properties. Inspired by its anatomy the system of arraying rips along an ellipse generated my design.

LEVEL 1 - STATIONHALL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

MAIN ENTRANCE SOUTH INFORMATIONCENTRE WAITING AREA CAFÉ VIEW POINT RESTROOMS MAIN ENTRANCE NORTH

SECTION AA - ATRIUM

FACADE DETAIL ISOMETRIC SCALE 1:50

1 EXTENSIONAL ROOFGREENERY GEOTEX FOIL INSULATION 100 MM STEAMBREAK INSULATION 300 MM REINFORCED CONCRETE 2 FOLDABLE DOORELEMENTS/ DOORSYSTEM 3 GLASRAIL SL 25 XXL 4 IPE- O 500 STEALBEAM GALVANIZED STEALGRID 300 MM 5 CEILINGELEMENT REINFORCED CONCRETE 500 MM FLOORHEATING 6 WOODEN RAILS SL 150 ACOUSTIC PROTECTION 7 GLASDOME- CONSTRUCTION (RANGE CA. 9M) STEALCONSTRUCTION BASE INSULATED GLASROOF EXTERNAL GUTTER

Situation

A new center for Gothenburg To offer the reference of the Museum of Science and History and their exhibition of a whale skeleton and the similarity to the Ullevi-Stadium footprint a certain conceptual continuity is offered. a connection between old and new building structures. A familiar form with a new identity. The greenish shimmer of the glas-balconies embrace the building with a transparent layer that adds depth and a mystecial spehre to its appearance. The viewpoint in the center of the building becomes a natural point of attraction and the panel-wood structure of the atrium strenghtens the experience of the height of the building and serves as acoustic protection.

Vision

Future initative for masterplanning The image of walking through the skeleton of a whale has been the main generator for the interior spaces. The officeand stationbuilding close to Gothenburgs centralstation is supposed to set an example of how the transition of rescaping a main spot in the city with the masterplanning should be handled with. With its calm form the building becomes part of the new dynamic processes that flow around it and serves the urban context as a new landmark.

Notice

Nick Chadde Student of the Bauhaus- University Weimar T: +46760559615 M: nick.chadde@gmx.net H: www.nickchadde.de “My year at the CHALMERS University of Technology is nearly over. The final assignment I am participating in is to design a culture house for Ringön, an industrial area at the other side of the river in Gothenburg. This project marks a turning point in my architectural eduction. To spent time abroad for a longer period was almost something familiar since I lived in a social community in Northern- Ireland, but my hopes to study in a new exciting environment have been fulfilled by the chance I have been giving here in Sweden: I wanted to develope my architectural understanding outside my comfort zone, away from my routine, I felt I needed to explore what influence the constant conatct with new experiences and exciting input, the new language, culture and architectural mentality of this country and their people had on my process. I am grateful, because I think it is an essence to gain a wider understanding of what architecture could mean, while relating to a total new environment. These have been the circumstances I wanted to study in and I am very glad I could. To the next adventure! .” Gothenburg, April 2012

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