NICOLE ANDERSSON Selected Works
CONTENTS selected works 2011 - 2014
This selection of work contains architectural and design projects completed during my time with PDG Architects, The Building Studio, The Living and during my first year of Columbia University’s GSAPP M.Arch program. The projects demonstrate my most recently completed architectural work, displaying design process in both the academic and professional settings. 2
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Natatorium
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Art Bank
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Public Closet
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Precedent Study
New York, NY // GSAPP
Brooklyn, NY // GSAPP
New York, NY // GSAPP
OMA, Kunsthal Museum // GSAPP
Professional 05
‘Hy-Fi’
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Lake Residence
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Ridgewood Apartments
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NYRA Master Plan
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Greenroof Addition
Long Island City, NY // GSAPP
Lake George, NY // PDG Architects
Queens, NY // Building Studio
Saratoga Springs, NY // PDG Architects
Jackson, NY // PDG Architects
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section diagram and rendering
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NATATORIUM New York, NY // GSAPP Core I Critic: Marta Caldeira This project is an exercise in urban planning and architecture as a means of community development, this project seeks to expand the usable public space within the Frederick Douglas Housing development in New York City with public pool and auditorium programs. Designed topographic shifts and water features across the site redefine and widen existing walking paths, opening the natural landscape for public use. The pool and auditorium programs are pulled vertically apart; the auditorium raised, the pool lowered, ultimately freeing the ground level between. The building, in turn, acts as an extension of the public promenade as a set of two ramping systems; one ramping up to become the auditorium, the second ramping down to become the pool floor. The spiraling of the two systems creates a center void, allowing visual connectivity into and out from the pool below. In this way, the ramping creates a collection for both water and people. Access points into the site and building are redefined by elevating pathways into ramping systems, the convergences of which define a new gateway and main entry point into the site.
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site plan study
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plan and section drawings
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paper study models
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final model
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detail section study
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ART BANK Brooklyn, NY // GSAPP Core II Critic: Mark Rakatansky The Art Bank is an interpretation of the architectural schemas of a traditional bank, by introducing a third program; an art museum. An art ‘vault’ on the lowest level is the programmatic anchor to the building, serving art up through the core of the building on an open mechanical platform, to art galleries above. Structurally, programmed ‘boxes’ hang from a structure above. Artist studios comprise the top open boxes; their work and art in plain view to the public outside and below. Shifting planes, of both the art and walls, were an exploration in the density of program and structure. Each floor represents a unique programmatic intention; deposit (art vault), exhibit (art museum), meet (art community), sell, (art gallery), create (art studios). The mechanical art platform at the core of the building unifies program by physically transporting art to and from each level; an art gallery in motion.
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DEPOSIT: VAULT , STORAGE ART AND $
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EXHIBIT: GALLERY BANK: ART GALLERY/ EXHIBITION & BANK TELLERS/ DEPOSITS
MEET: CAFE/MEET: CAFE & MEETING AREAS
SELL: GALLERY/ AUCTION: EXTENDED GALLERY SPACE & AUCTION ROOM
exterior rendering and floor plans
CREATE: ARTIST STUDIOS: WORK SPACE AND PROCESSEING OFFICES
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concept drawing and structural modeling
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section perspective
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interior renderings
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study models
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final section model
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exploded axon
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PUBLIC CLOSET New York, NY // GSAPP Core I Critic: Marta Caldeira As an exploration of the public bathroom, the public closet turns what is often dreaded into a visual sensory experience. A pre-fabricated ‘closet’ module has been conceived to be assembled into varying configurations to facilitate different site contexts and scales. A collection roof captures rain water for additional water usages. Perferated panels reveal beneath the screens of interior projected images, providing additional safety light during night time hours of use. While using the restroom, the sensory view of the images is meant to lighten and even enliven the bathroom experience.
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plan and section renderings
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exterior renderings
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axon diagram
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PRECEDENT STUDY New York, NY // GSAPP ADR Critic: Marta Caldeira This series of drawings and models is a visual exploration and study of OMA’s Kunsthal Museum. The building program and structure were modeled to extract key building concepts and derive a new interpretation of the architectural work.
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section diagram
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concept model
photo: Architizer.com
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interior view
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HY-FI Long Island City, NY // The Living MoMa PS1 Installation Design by: David Benjamin Part of the Young Architects Program hosted by Moma PS1 in Long Island City, this project was an experimentation in new and ecologically sustianable building materials. I worked with a team of intern architects during the construction and evntual dismantling. Mycelium combined with organic waste matter was cured and molded into bricks that provided the exterior and partial structure of the spiraling mass. After bricks were cured and tested by engineers at ARUP, structural calulations provided the mapping for each invidual mushroom brick. Before being laid, natural waterproofing was applied to the bricks to prevent early decay. The use of mushroom as a building material was an experiment in sustianable and new building methods that may one day be used in the future. Over the duration of the installation, bricks were dismantled to decompose in gardens at the base of the structure. Remaining bricks at the end of the summer were brought to local gardens for composting.
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rendering: The Living
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exterior concept rendering
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concept elevation sketch
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LAKE HOUSE Lake George, NY // PDG Architects Residence Design team: Jon Haynes, Steven Evanusa This lake house project, situated on the north side of Lake George, NY, is comprised of a main house and corridor connecting to a winter guest house. Meant for summer occupation, the main house utilizes large glazing and a two-story open living space to capture views to the surrounding landscape and lake. Central to both parti’s are the masonry fireplaces, visually connecting the two structures. I collaborated with the owner and other design team members in developing schematic designs and construction documents.
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presentation plan drawing
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interior and exterior photos
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concept elevation rendering and plan
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RIDGEWOOD APARTMENTS Queens, NY // The Building Studio Multi-family apartment Design team: John Fields This multi-family residential project sought to utilize material variation and scale to divide and create depth in street-facing elevations. Subway grating was chosen as an efficient and new material to provide both solar shading and definition to individual units. The circulation corridor set to the middle of the parti broke up the building volume to bring down scale and punctuate entrances.
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grand stand program proposal
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NYRA Saratoga Springs, NY // Phinney Design Group Master Plan Design team: Michael Phinney, Tim Wade, Andrew Allison The NYRA master plan was an effort among landscape architects, engineers and designers to revitalize the existing Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, NY. The plan consisted of developing large scale site plans and schematic building plans in an effort to redistribute and increase programmatic needs. The grandstand plan (left) introduced additional free-standing stalls and a center carousel for outside food vendor and was one of 25+ programming studies categorized into phased plans to be executed over a 10 year span. The viewing stand was the first of these projects to be completed at the race course because of its small scale; it has become a symbol of the race course and attracks viewers to the practice track during racing season. As part of the master plan, I completed a 80 page master plan report outlining building program proposals for intervention across the site.
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master plan drawing
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viewing stand renderings
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perspective sketch
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GREENROOF Jackson, NY // PDG Architects greenroof basement addition design team: Andrew Allison Due to the site’s precipitious landscape, a request for a 1200 s.f. guest addition was placed underground with a full basement renovation. The project was a study in the natural topography, utilizing the existing land formations to produce a guest room with reaching views. A greenroof became an obvious device for pervious coverage over the addition. It also allowed for an expansion of level ground for outdoor program which the natural landscape did not otherwise provide. Retaining walls adjacent to the guest suite gave way for an additional lower level patio.
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concept sketch and presentation plan
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existing landscape
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