Nicole M. Doan
Selected Works 2010-2019
Nicole Magsaysay Doan 510.366.8910 nicolemdoan@gmail.com http://nicolemdoan.com
Strange Llamas
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Laghetto After the Boom
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Multi-Sensory Museum of Waste
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Rothko Chapel Expansion
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All Hail the Strip Mall
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Los Angeles Wetland Park Facility
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Home for the Old, the Young, and the Green
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Winnie’s Threshold
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Coat Rack Chair
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Not Your Average Seat
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My Los Angeles
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Beverly House Addition
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Credits
Table of Contents
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Graduate Work
Yale University Instructor: Nathan Hume
Strange Llamas
Strange Llamas Published in Retrospecta 41
Focusing on binaries such as artificial vs. real and natural vs. man-made, this project blurs the lines between the two through materiality and composition. Because its formal and material qualities teeter on the border of strange and familiar, one cannot help but ask, “What is it?� Are they llamas? Dinosaurs? Manipulated primitive shapes? Strange Llamas neither endeavors to mimic nature nor refute it in a technophilic way. Rather, it borrows from nature, but fuses it with the human-made, particularly through materiality. The use of moss, brick, mossy brick, and bricky moss, in addition to the individual forms’ relative positions to each other, blur its reading. Strange Llamas locates itself as both/and, as opposed to neither/nor.
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Existing site plan
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Yale University Instructors: Pier Vittorio Aureli and Emily Abruzzo Project Team: Nicole Doan, Issy Yi
Laghetto After the Boom
Laghetto After the Boom
Laghetto is located on the physical and mental periphery of urban expansion. The Metro C ends abruptly at the western tip of Laghetto, but the consular road Via Casilina runs through the settlement. Although Via Casilina is a major motorway, its designation as a via implies that it was supposed to be a city street. Our project refurbishes this busy road and sets up a new identity for consular roads. To make space for a green buffer, bike lanes and sidewalks, a parallel road will be built to replace the existing Via Casilina, while the existing road changes to a one-way local vehicle lane and a two-way bike lane. The green buffer between the new and the old roads is 7.5 meters at its minimum width, accommodating existing trees, and hosts areas for gardening and horticultural activities. The remaking of Via Casilina is an opportunity to envisage the street as a coherent sequence of urban elements such as street lights, benches, and bike racks. As the via further develops, additional amenities such as community centers, clinics, and elderly care centers will be established.
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Urban strategy
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Proposed Road
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i. Sidewalk ii. Two-way street iii. Two-way bike lane iv. One-way street v. Garden strip vi. Buffer zone
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Phase I: Existing condition with train station and lake
Phase II: Complete street with new lanes, linear garden & parallel secondary street
Phase III: Crosswalks, plazas, playgrounds
Phase IV: Densified middle manufacturing zone with amenities, parks & markets
Laghetto After the Boom Street Light Water Fountain Bench Public Plaza Playground Sports Field Public Amenity Bike Rack Market
Future civic corridor and work-live zone
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Playground
Public Plaza
Outdoor Market
Canopy
Trellis
Pergola
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Kiosk
Raised Bed
Bike Rack
Street Lamp
Water Fountain
Bench
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Detailed plan at train station
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Axonometric at train station
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Detailed plan at pond
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Axonometric at pond
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Yale University Instructor: Joel Sanders Project Team: Nicole Doan, Sissi Guo Exhibited in [NOW] Year-End Exhibition of Student Work
Once the largest landfill of New York, Freshkills is being transformed by James Corner into a recreational park. Four looming mounds of trash have been buried under landscaping in order to beautify Freshkills’ ugly past. With NYC currently generating 14 million tons of garbage each year, waste remains a pressing issue.
Multi-Sensory Museum of Waste
Multi-Sensory Museum of Waste
Instead of eradicating Freshkills’ past as a landfill, we are celebrating its history by proposing a trash museum that sorts and utilizes the recycled materials transported from the nearby Staten Island Transfer Station. Located at the center of the site, the museum houses a ferry terminal, which receives museum and park visitors. Through the multi-sensory exhibition of garbage, visitors experience the sensibility of waste by seeing it, touching it, smelling it, and hearing it. The direct interaction with garbage leads people to be aware of both Freshkills’ history and their own habits regarding waste.
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First floor plan
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Second floor plan
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Trash sorting
Scent exhibit
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Early diagrammatic model of human circulation (red) and trash circulation (orange)
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Yale University Instructors: Adam Yarinsky with Lexi Tsien
Like the canopy of live oak trees around the site, the Rothko Chapel extention creates a “conception of an inside”¹ through its roofscape and the experience of walking through the site. While the Rothko Chapel provides an introspective experience, various moments within the project either replicate this, or they look outward to reference the chapel to remind visitors of its disposition. Ultimately, the architecture’s relationship to the landscape provides its reading as an interior, and establishes the boundary between the Rothko Chapel campus and St. Thomas University.
Rothko Chapel Extension
Rothko Chapel Extension
Philip Johnson’s Rothko Chapel, located in Houston, Texas, is currently in need of supporting services to accomodate the myriad visitors and community events. This project addresses the chapel’s needs, while considering its identity as a cultural institution at the scale of a campus.
1. Lerup, Lars. “Stim and Dross: Rethinking the Metropolis.” Assemblage, No. 25, The MIT Press, Dec.1994, pp. 91.
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Mark di Suervo, “Bygones” West of site
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Rothko Chapel Project site
Menil Collection West of site
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Rothko Chapel Extension
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Rothko Chapel Extension
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Rothko Chapel Extension
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Undergraduate Work
Cal Poly Pomona Instructor: Axel Schmitzberger Exhibited in Cal Poly Pomona’s Interim Exhibit, September 2015 Published in Burrasca Issue No. 3: Glitch, November 2015
All Hail the Strip Mall
All Hail the Strip Mall
The strip mall is a strategic urban instrument and an underrated architectural device. Its ordinariness allows itself to melt into the background of the urban fabric, but its programmatic essentials do not go unnoticed, due to human behavior and needs within this consumerist society. Rather than offering products like the typical mall, the strip mall provides a variety of idiosyncratic services that people cannot order on the Internet or that may not exist anywhere else outside the strip mall. Parking plays a vital role as a characteristic signifier, but also as a transitional agent from the street to the building. However, the abruptness of the strip mall’s unsightly parking lots, which are always located in the front of the building, serves this purpose clumsily. This project uses parking as a catalyst to reinterpret the strip mall’s architectural form, and it strives to draw attention to the building as a celebration and praise for the strip mall through superficial means of graphic expression.
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All Hail the Strip Mall
Located in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District, this project’s site was chosen due to the neighboring residents’ desire for various services (grocery stores, salons, laundromats, etc.), which the proposed development would provide. This building type exists in a variety of contexts, but the Arts District is merely an example of where the strip mall may thrive. Above: Site plan Left: An indexical figure ground study of existing Los Angeles strip malls, in which black represents the building and white represents parking
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Parking ultimately defines a strip mall and distinguishes it from a regional center (the classic mall).
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Retail
Parking
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Pedestrian circulation
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Drive-thru strip mall iterations
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Parking reconfiguration
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Program shuffle
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Competition
First place in the Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Award Project team: Kate Bilyk, Nicole Doan, Jeffrey Stevens
This adaptive reuse project repurposes the Red Car building in South Los Angeles’ Wetland Park in order to introduce a much-needed communityoriented facility. Neighboring the Maya Angelou Community High School, the project targets South Park’s residents, particularly children who would use the proposed community center.
LA Wetland Park Facility
Los Angeles Wetland Park Facility
While keeping the Red Car building’s existing shell and primary structure, 10 new volumes house various programs such as a multipurpose room, gallery, cafe, administration, and spaces for after school activities. These volumes are oriented north to the new glazed openings in order to have a visual connection to the wetlands.
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Existing roof
LA Wetland Park Facility
New skylights
Existing structure
New inserted pavillions New pavillion platform
Existing building shell
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Game room
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Bathroom core
Multipurpose room
Cafe
Multipurpose room
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Gallery
Study center
Administration
Art center
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South elevation
North elevation
Game room
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Multipurpose room
Cafe
Multipurpose room
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Gallery
Study Atrium
Lounge
Office
Studio
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Studio
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Graduate Work
Yale University Instructors: Hildigunnur Sverisdottir with Kyle Dugdale
“Full of merit, yet poetically, man Dwells on this earth.” –Quoted by Martin Heidegger in “...Poetically Man Dwells” Located in Reykjavik, Iceland, this project questions the ideas of home, existence, and dwelling among different entities. This 20-unit residential building integrates the elderly, youth, and flora into one cohabitation project.
Home for the Old, the Young, and the Green
Home for the Old, the Young, and the Green
Reykjavik has a dire need for elderly housing. Due to psychological issues relating to loneliness, students who attend universities in the area are integrated with the elderly. Likewise, domesticated plants—not unlike domesticated pets—play a role in keeping humans company through “landscape therapy.” The plants in the project are specifically chosen, based on attributes that benefit people or allow for particular living conditions.
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Catalog of functional plants located in the project
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Diagram of the most private spaces in the home (bathroom) to the most public (the city)
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Ground floor plan
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Third floor plan 84
Fifth floor plan
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Shared sitting room
View of garden from hallway
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Early conceptual model
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Site model | View from the water
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Site model | View from Reykjavik
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Yale University Instructor: Amir Karimpour Project Team: Nicole Doan, Jen Shin
Winnie’s Threshold
Winnie’s Threshold
Inspired by Paul Rudolph’s collection of Egyptian-influenced art in Yale’s architecture building, this project was a threshold into a small windowed nook of Rudolph Hall. We chose a site that would enable our project and its users to engage with the existing context. The built threshold wrapped around the cow statue, which we named Winnie. Drawing influence from the experience of entering a Japanese tea house, Winnie’s threshold consisted of a door within a door. In order to enter the space, the person had to push the first door open, then duck as they push the smaller second door. Not only did this require the person to be aware of how they moved into the space, but also to be aware of a typically unoccupied corner of the building.
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Site plan
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Plan of new construction
Existing conditions
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Above: The early prototype for a door pull drew inspiration from the Egyptian sphinx paw. Below: A modified design of the sphinx paw for the final door pull
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Yale University Instructors: Tim Newton and Nathan Burnell
Coat Rack Chair
Coat Rack Chair
Made of steel and recycled plastic, this chair doubles as a coat rack. It is meant to sit near the main entry door of your house, so that when one gets back home, you may throw your jacket on its tall, slender spine before sitting to remove your shoes. Referencing the playful yet utilitarian elementary school aesthetic, the blue tennis balls prevent the steel appendages from scraping the floor or damaging one’s hung coat.
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Yale University Instructor: Pamela Hovland
Not Your Average Seat
Not Your Average Seat
Chairs are often overlooked in everyday life, but they provide a place of rest, a place on which work can be done, a place for viewing—a place, nevertheless. This miniturized form of architecture allows for the designer to exercise his or her tools and to explore various aspects of design at a manageable scale. This fanzine was produced in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Pamela Hovland’s course titled Graphic Design Methodologies. Fourteen copies of this zine were produced for the Yale University Art Gallery’s ‘Odds and Ends’ Book Fair.
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Personal Work
My Los Angeles is my photographic journey in and around Los Angeles from 2010 to 2017—when I started undergraduate school at Cal Poly Pomona until when I left for graduate school at Yale. Separated into chapters, the 35mm film photos delineate the transformation of my hateful to affectionate sentiments towards Los Angeles.
My Los Angeles
My Los Angeles
As tribute to the deaths of my aunt and uncle, both of whom passed away to cancer in 2016, I directed proceeds for the book to the American Cancer Society. Only 36 copies were published.
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Professional Work
Vantage Design Group Project Team: Nicole Doan (project manager), Dominic Filosa (co-designer) Project Status: Built
Beverly House Addition
Beverly House Addition
Located in Beverly Hills, this single family residence was completely renovated, but uses much of its existing wood structure, with the exception of some changes to accommodate the second floor addition. The new second floor houses the master bedroom suite, which overlooks the revamped garden patio to the east. The new design not only includes an additional bedroom, but also accommodates more living spaces.
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Mech. 113
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Storage 116 Weather controlled automatic irrigation system controller
Kitchen 117
Master Bedroom 111
Living Room 112
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Dining Room 114
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Direct vent fireplace, sealed combustion Heatilator Peninsula (See specifications on A003)
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Master Bathroom 109
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Hallway 102
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Ground floor plan
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Dexotrex decking (LARR 2360)
42" guard rail Second Level F.F. 724.0'
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HEIGHT LIMIT 746.00'
(N) Class A 4-ply built-up roofing: 24 GA GSM flashing under 20 lb. fiberglass base sheet (mech fastened) under (2) layers 11 lb. fiberglass ply sheets set in 30 lb. hot asphalt mop per layer under (1) layer 72 lb. fiberglass cap sheet and hot asphalt Nichiha fiber cement siding (ESR-1694)
T.O. UPPER ROOF 734.50'
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SECOND LEVEL F.F. 724.00'
T.O. PARAPET 721.00' T.O. LOWER ROOF 718.83' D.01
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MAIN LEVEL F.F. 710.00' (E) brick veneer to remain
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Los Angeles California 90 Original Issuance Date:
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HEIGHT LIMIT 746.00'
(N) Class A 4-ply built-up roofing: 24 GA GSM flashing under 20 lb. fiberglass base sheet (mech fastened) under (2) layers 11 lb. fiberglass ply sheets set in 30 lb. hot asphalt mop per layer under (1) layer 72 lb. fiberglass cap sheet and hot asphalt
This document is the sole property of Vantage Design Group and may not be assigned by any party. Use is by express written permission of Vantage Design Group only.
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Nichiha fiber cement siding (ESR-1694)
T.O. UPPER ROOF 734.50'
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42" guard rail
SECOND LEVEL F.F. 724.00' T.O. PARAPET 722.00'
Hardcoat stucco
T.O. LOWER ROOF 718.83'
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Beverly House Addition
Front elevation
View of garden patio into living room
Second floor master bedroom suite
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Credits Laghetto After the Boom Drawings (p. 12-13, 15, 17, 20-22): Nicole Doan Drawings (p. 6, 8-11, 14, 16), renderings (p. 18, 19, 23): Nicole Doan, Issy Yi Multi-Sensory Museum of Trash Renderings (p. 24), plans (p. 26, 28-29): Nicole Doan Sections (p. 30-33), renderings (p. 35): Sissi Guo Diagrams (p. 34), models (p. 36-37): Nicole Doan, Sissi Guo Los Angeles Wetland Park Facility Competition sponsor: Los Angeles Business Council Drawings (p. 68-75): Kate Bilyk, Nicole Doan, Jeffrey Stevens Rendering (p. 64): Jeffrey Stevens Site research (p. 66): Kate Bilyk, Nicole Doan Photography (p. 67): Nicole Doan Winnie’s Threshold Construction: Nicole Doan, Jen Shin Animation and videos (https://nicolemdoan.com/Winnies-Threshold): Nicole Doan Drawings (p. 92-94): Jen Shin Photography: Nicole Doan (p. 90, 93, 95-99), Jen Shin (p. 95) Coat Rack Chair Photography: Nicole Doan (p. 100, 103-105), Nino Boornazian (p. 102) Beverly House Addition Drawings (p. 118-120): Nicole Doan
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