nmd Nicole M. Doan Selected Works
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IINTRUSION . 28
BERLIN LOVE ZONE . 28
la wetland park facility . 24
HEARTH HOUSOE . 20
Mt. Baldy house . 17
Silverlake housing . 14
CAL POLY POMONA SPORTS STADIUM . 08
ALL HAIL THE STRIP MALL . 03
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ALL HAIL THE STRIP MALL The strip mall is a strategic urban instrument and an underrated architectural device. It is a no-place (Does that make it a utopia?), as it is peripheral to architectural investments, while it is generic and ubiquitous on an urban level. The strip mall’s ordinariness allows itself to melt into the background of the urban fabric, resulting in its common treatment as mere “junkspace”. While this building type is a programmatic success, its physical manifestation typically becomes disregarded. This project not only rethinks the strip mall’s architectural form, but draws attention to the it as a celebration and praise for the strip mall through superficial means of graphic expression. 3
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CAL POLY POMONA SPORTS STADIUM Design team: Nicole Doan (arch.), Josefine Fabricius (arch.), Jose Miramontes (arch.), Shaun Sisack (arch.), Daniel Wishard (civil), George Yap (civil)
This architecture-civil engineering studio focused on designing with precast concrete. The project started off with an interest in reconciling the prescriptive nature of stadium program with a more irregular, formal exploration. Drawing trajectories from the greater campus influenced the stadium’s jagged amoebic shape. Intended as an extension of the campus, the project houses much program for student use during the off season, such as park spaces, shops, a hall of fame, and a restaurant. In essence, the structural system is that of a cap and receiver, touching in only one critical spot per bay (the pin connection). The precast concrete components (the structure, bowl, and concourse) act as a receptacle for the roof’s steel truss system. These two systems seem as though they work independently when, in reality, they are very much dependent on one another. 10
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Silverlake Housing Located in Los Angeles’ artistic Silverlake district, this housing project contains retail, 10 live/work units, and 8 live/live units. It focuses on both private and public outdoor spaces for residents. Not only are there two large courtyards adjacent to the building, but each live/live unit has an open accessible roof. 16
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MT. BALDY HOUSE This 600 square foot house, located in Mt. Baldy, serves as a vacation home for a Japanese film maker. The project focused on the building’s construction and structure to ensure that there was an understanding of how the house works. 19
01. FORMWORK
02. POURING CONCRETE 20
03. WALL FRAMING
04. FINISHED 1”=1’-0” MODEL
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HEARTH House Design team: Nicole Doan, Corey Pope
With Yosemite as the site for this “glamping” (glorified camping) structure, the project draws inspiration from Gottfried Semper’s primitive hut in order to define the shelter’s primary components. 22
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L.A. WETLAND PARK facility Design team: Nicole Doan, Kate Bilyk, Jeffrey Stevens Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Award - 1st place winner
This adaptive reuse project repurposes the Red Car building near South LA’s Wetland Park in order to introduce a communityoriented facility. While keeping the existing primary structure, 10 volumes were placed into the original building to house various programs such as a study center, multipurpose rooms, and a cafe. 24
NEW SKYLIGHTS
EXISTING ROOF
EXISTING STRUCTURE
NEW PAVILIONS
NEW PAVILION PLATFORM
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GAME ROOM
BATHROOM CORE
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BERLIN LOVE ZONE As a large-scale love hotel, the Berlin Love Zone brings people together in the same location where the Berlin Wall once stood. Within this 500-foot wide region, the Berlin Wall changes from a linear structure to a field of Smoosh Walls, on which the hotel units attach. Various programs allow people to not only carry out their sexual fantasies, but even more private acts of love. For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided the east from the west. In 1961, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) erected the wall around West Berlin to prevent emigration and defection from communist East Germany. As the wall transformed from a mere barbed wire fence to an entirely walled “No Man’s Land,” approximately 5,000 people endeavored to flee. Even until after 1989 with the reopening of the border, the Berlin Wall continued to symbolize imprisonment and the division of two opposing sides. With the occupation of No Man’s Land, the space joins these two sides physically and through the intimate relationships between individuals that utilize the project. 28
SMOOSH WALL
FANTASY MACHINE
SMOOSH ROOM
GALLERY OF CURIOSITY/LEARNING
COSTUME SHOP
BATH HOUSE
PARKS OF PASSION 29
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SITE SECTION
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TYPE B (MONAD UNIT)
TYPE C UNIT
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EXAMPLES OF LOVE/LUST 32
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INTRUSION Design team: Nicole Doan, Franco Chen, Kyat Chin, Zack Green This project was an entry to Blank Space’s 2015 Fairy Tale Competition, which asked participants to produce architectural projects to accompany fictional stories. Within the realm of Intrusion, the built environment consists solely of gray, banal structures that encourages nothing more ordinariness and a regulated way of life. However, the emergence of various geometries intersecting existing buildings changes the spatial qualities in such a way that people are forced to rethink their way of interacting with their built world. 34
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