Olivia Nilges Portfolio: Fall 2019 - Fall 2021
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Olivia Nilges linkedin.com/in/olivianilges (530) 722-8191 olivianilges0@gmail.com
Intent As a growing and ambitious architecture student, I am pursuing a full-time position following graduation in summer 2022. Interested in the design and development process of a project, I have loved learning through rigorous classes and pre-professional practice, including production and documentation of drawings and physical models. Upon successful completion of multiple architecture courses, projects, and group work, I am enthusiastic about developing and expanding skills from working professionals and willing to assist in projects. I am eager to tackle tasks with drive, and able to adapt and respond to responsibilities as directed. I am passionate about the creative process and provoking emotion through art and architecture alike.
Education and Work Experience - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Bachelor’s of Architecture - Architectural Intern at Ware Malcomb - Architectural Intern at Nichols, Melburg, and Rossetto Architects & Engineers - Visual Media Team Lead (2018-2020) And Core Team Member, Pomona Valley Cru
Skills Design: Development: - Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, - Microsoft Office After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom - BlueBeam - Rhino6/Enscape - Adobe Acrobat DC - AutoCAD - Revit - SketchUP -Model Making, 3D Printing, and Hand drafting
(2017- Present) (July 2021-September 2021) (May 2019 - August 2019) (August 2018 - May 2021)
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ARC 4031A: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College CPP ARC Fall Topic Studio 2021 Instructor: Sarah Lorenzen
ARC 4011L: COVID-19 Interim Design Center Remodel: Movement and Modularity CPP ARC Fall Studio 2020 Instructor: Yasushi Ishida
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ARC 4021L: Southwest Museum 2.0: Multi-Family Housing
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ARC 3021L: Small Lot Subdivision
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CPP ARC Spring Topic Studio 2021 Instructor: Alex Pang
CPP ARC Spring Studio 2020 Instructor: Marta Perlas
ARC 3011L: Vetter Mountain Scientist’s Retreat CPP ARC Fall Studio 2019 Instructor: Dennis McFadden
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | Architecture Program
ARC4031A: Fall 2021 Topic Studio: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College
01: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College This proposal for Pasadena City College is a Student Success Center- a place where students can receive services they need to succeed, find places of rest in two exterior balconies and places of focus and community located within the building and furthermore, within study stations and study pods throughout each floor. As students arrive from both the quad, primarily existing students, or from Colorado street, as prospective students, there is a welcoming entrance from the quad as a cantilevered floor stretches over the second floor, and from Colorado there is a spanning glass facade that allows visitors to see inside the building and what goes on in terms of student life.
OVERALL AXONOMETRIC Overall Axonometric of the Student Success Center
ARC4031A: Fall 2021 Topic Studio: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College
PCC is a campus dedicated to a pleasing student experience. The Student Success Center is meant to draw in and engage with the students and visitors that pass. The north and south façades are primarily clad with glazing, the north side being a series of glass curtain walls and the south side being glazing mixed with metal fins to provide shading on the second and third floors throughout the day.
SITE PLAN Overall Site Plan
ARC4031A: Fall 2021 Topic Studio: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College
These perspective sections illustrate the two similar facade styles that are used in this building, as well as demonstrates how students interact with the building, as it is four stories, with an approximately 10- grade from Colorado to the quad side.
Quad Perspective and Colorado Perspective Visualizations
ARC4031A: Fall 2021 Topic Studio: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College
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The Student Success Center is organized into primarily public-intended use to student life use. The sunken auditorium seats approximately 400 people with a lobby and cafe. There is two forms of egress that extrude through all 4 floors as well as an exterior social stair that exists on the northeast corner of the project. The basement includes a sunken auditorium, lobby, and café, with added student services. The first floor is flexible student study space, with sandwiching bars of student success program. The second floor also possesses an open floor plan of study spaces with an additional food services area as well as the first balcony, and the third floor offers conference rooms, even more study space and a second balcony.
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ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS ACADEMIC COUNSELING OPEN TO BELOW EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM FOSTER YOUTH PROGRAM LEGAL AID
FIRST FLOOR
1. ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS 2. BLACK STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER 3. CAL WORKS 4. REGISTRATION AND WELCOME CENTER 5. STUDENT HELP DESK 6. STUDENT STUDY SPACE 7. PRIVATE STUDY SPACES 8. TRANSFER CENTER 9. ZOOM ROOM
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1. ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS 2. FOOD SERVICES/CAFE 3. EXTERIOR STUDENT LIFE 4. KITCHEN 5. OPEN TO BELOW 6. STUDENT STUDY SPACE
THIRD FLOOR
1. ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS 2. CONFERENCE ROOM 3. BOOKSTORE/MERCHANDISE 4. PRIVATE STUDY SPACE 5. ROOF GARDEN
Floor Plans: clockwise from left: basement, first floor, second floor, and third floor.
ARC4031A: Fall 2021 Topic Studio: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College
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Both the longitudinal and cross sections show how the open floor plan is utilized in section, with large spanning spaces as well as double-height spaces. Two balconies are also shown, one on the second floor quad (south) side, and another on the third floor, Colorado (north) side.
Longitudinal Section
ARC4031A: Fall 2021 Topic Studio: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College
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Cross Section
ARC4031A: Fall 2021 Topic Studio: Student Success Center at Pasadena City College
studying student needs
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meeting safety/security
collaboration
serenity
Interior visualizations and narrative drawing: student “moment captures” and experiential diagram.
break
escape
peace
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socializing
relaxation
recharge
community
ARC 4011L: COVID-19 Interim Design Center Remodel: Movement and Modularity
02: COVID-19 Interim Design Center Remodel: Movement and Modularity
The redesign of a space which students normally met, interacted, collaborated, and resided was a challenge in creating the same positive environment that students thrived in, while adhering to social-distancing and sanitizing guidelines. This improved studio space blends outdoor personal work habits with reimagined collaborative and safe workspaces, still reminiscent of the original Interim Design Center, a hallmark of the architecture department, and its open, shell-like design.
Exterior Rendered Axonometrics: Roof-Open and Complete View
ARC 4011L: COVID-19 Interim Design Center Remodel: Movement and Modularity
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The introduction of multiple modular and moveable desk pieces allows for the space to comepletely change within minutes. The orientation of these modules, as shown at right, can be changed to different depths, angles, and amounts. They create smaller, more intimate classroom or meeting experiences, as well as move to create an open, free flowing floor plan. This not only invites students to create spaces that work for them, but nudges them toward thinking about how a gathering can be created simply by the addition or subtraction of “walls”, or modules.
Floor Plan Highlighting Modular Desk Layout
ARC 4011L: COVID-19 Interim Design Center Remodel: Movement and Modularity
lightwell: allowing more natural light into the space (typ.)
ceiling materials (left to right): double-pane glass, metal paneling, wood lath
private meeting rooms with movable partitons for flexible and multipurpose spatial organization
meet work make
garage doors to allow airflow and indoor/outdoor experience
work breezeway: students can work individually on assignments/projects
desk partition with (2) desk spaces (typ.)
Activity and Details Axonometric
ARC 4011L: COVID-19 Interim Design Center Remodel: Movement and Modularity
Interior Visualizations
ARC 4011L: COVID-19 Interim Design Center Remodel: Movement and Modularity
These still photos are captures from a stop-motion video curated for this project, showing a small-scale 3D printed model of the studio pods and how they can be moved to create different experiences within a number of orientations.
Modular Orientations
ARC4021A: Spring 2021 Topic Studio: Southwest Museum 2.0: Multi-Family Housing
In efforts to preserve the history of Mt. Washington, it is crucial to incorporate history into both the appearance of the station and the housing development, as well as offer the proposition to revitalize the museum’s purpose into the design. Peak utilization of the site’s natural strengths, such as close proximity to parks and trails, is underdeveloped and are desired by the community. Prioritizing the rich history as well as desirable natural qualities of the site are in the utmost importance of not only holding onto what the museum’s location represents, but allowing that to drive issues regarding diversifying residencies and creating a cohesive metro station environment.
Overall Context Section
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ARC4021A: Spring 2021 Topic Studio: Southwest Museum 2.0: Multi-Family Housing
Project Goals: 1. Allowing history to promote purpose and character into the housing theme. 2. Attractive, habitable spaces that are clean and subdued, considering surrounding urban noise. (+ sustainability) 3. Aesthetic functionality: combining careful choices of material that serve a purpose. 4. Adopting the service of public transport, and revitalizing it to adhere to community needs. 5. Connection of natural elements found in the site to housing, highlighting ease of access and walkability. 6. Incorporating the site’s inherent past and using it as a guide for further advancement of both residential/non-residential. Overall Context Plan and Complete Axonometric
ARC4021A: Spring 2021 Topic Studio: Southwest Museum 2.0: Multi-Family Housing
The form of the project is situated into four main structures, with sky bridges and pathways that weave throughout the project. The curved building along the edge of the site is a gallery space that showcases work both inside and outside along the stepped path. The work intended to be shown is of local artists and artisans, as well as historical pieces from the original Southwest Museum.
Overall Site Plan
ARC4021A: Spring 2021 Topic Studio: Southwest Museum 2.0: Multi-Family Housing
Above two levels of subterranean parking, each floor has exterior access, from stairwells that are conveniently located in spaces of high traffic. The first floor is a shared amenities floor, with one and two bedroom apartments on the above four floors.
Floor Plans, clockwise from left: first floor (shared amenities), second floor, third floor, fourth floor.
ARC4021A: Spring 2021 Topic Studio: Southwest Museum 2.0: Multi-Family Housing
The facade material is a combination of vertical wood cladding, as well as operable wood shading devices on the glass-clad facades of the apartments. This facade sits on the edges of the private balconies in select floors, that creates a sense of movement in the facade from the street view, as well as privacy for the residents.
Longitudinal Elevation
ARC4021A: Spring 2021 Topic Studio: Southwest Museum 2.0: Multi-Family Housing
Each section is strategically cut to show the bridge between the apartment units and the gallery space. This adjacency creates an inner-culture of the residents interacting with each other, the artwork, and the artists that display a circulation of work. The varied roof profile also creates a different experiences from each level of the project, as shown in the longitudinal section.
Longitudinal and Cross Sections
ARC4021A: Spring 2021 Topic Studio: Southwest Museum 2.0: Multi-Family Housing
Exterior Vignettes: “In-Between” moments of housing and gallery.
ARC3021A: Spring 2020 Studio: Small Lot Subdivision
04: Small Lot Subdivision
This project shows selected works from a design-development stage drawing set of a three-unit small lot subdivision in Los Feliz, California. This projects takes into consideration modern design trends, lot use, and key structural elements such as wood construction and mechanical and electrical drawings.
North Elevation
ARC3021A: Spring 2020 Studio: Small Lot Subdivision
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SMALL LOT SUBDIVISION 4521 Melbourne Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027
Olivia Nilges // ARC3021L //Marta Perlas
UNIT PLANS
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Overall Lot Plans DRAWN BY: Olivia Nilges
LEGEND THIRD FLOOR:
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4521 Melbourne Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027 Olivia Nilges // ARC3021L //Marta Perlas
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DRAWN BY: Olivia Nilges DATE: 05/08/20
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4521 Melbourne Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027 Olivia Nilges // ARC3021L // Marta Perlas
Overall Floor Plans and Site Plan
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ARC3021A: Spring 2020 Studio: DETAIL 01Small Lot Subdivision SLAB ON GRADE FOUNDATION DETAIL
FRAMELESS GLASS RAILING DETAIL FRAMELESS GLASS PANEL
EXTERIOR CEMENT PANEL GYP. BOARD
WATER BARRIER PLYWOOD
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BATT. INSULATION 2X SOLE PLATE
ALUMINUM CLAMP
CONCRETE FLOORING
CONCRETE BLOCK
CAULKING
GLASS ( PRESSURE SUPPORTED)
BASE SCREEN EXTERIOR CONCRETE PANEL WATER BARRIER
GYPSUM BOARD
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WOOD 2X JOIST TOP PLATE
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GRAVEL
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PARAPET DETAIL METAL FLASHING
DOUBLE PANE WINDOW
EXTERIOR CEMENT PANEL
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AIR WATER BARRIER SEALANT
BATT. INSULATION WOOD 2X JOIST GYPSUM SHEATHING STUD PLYWOOD SHEATHING
BUILT-UP ROOFING
RIGID INSULATION
METAL FLASHING AIR WATER BARRIER EXTERIOR CEMENT PANEL PLYWOOD
TORRANCE STEEL WINDOW FRAME
SHAPED MEMBER
2X TOP PLATE STUD WALL BATT. INSULATION GYP. BOARD
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SMALL LOT SUBDIVISION 4521 Melbourne Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027 Olivia Nilges // ARC3021L // Marta Perlas
WALL SECTION AND RENDERING
DRAWN BY: and Olivia Nilges Wall Section Walll Details DATE: 05/08/20 Scale:
ARC3021A: Spring 2020 Studio: Small Lot Subdivision
Overall Exterior Perspective
ARC3021A: Spring 2020 Studio: Small Lot Subdivision
ELEVATION MATERIALS Cedar Wood Siding Horizontal Orientation
Cement Paneling
Aluminum Door and Window Frames
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SMALL LOT SUBDIVISION
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ELEVATIONS
DRAWN BY: Olivia Nilges
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Elevations and Sections
ARC3021A: Spring 2020 Studio: Small Lot Subdivision
LEGEND Recessed Can Light Fixture Outlet (Double) Switch Kitchen Pendant Light Fixture D
Switch (Double) Covered Electrical Box Pendant Light Fixture Wall Mounted Light Fixture
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Exterior Sconce Porch Light
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Stacked Clothes Washer Exterior Sconce Porch Light
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SMALL LOT SUBDIVISION
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4521 Melbourne Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027 Olivia Nilges // ARC3021L //Marta Perlas
Electrical Plans
LIGHTING PLANS
DRAWN BY: Olivia Nilges DATE: 05/08/20 Scale:
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ARC3021A: Spring 2020 Studio: Small Lot Subdivision
LEGEND Linear Diffuser Used: Architectural Linear Diffuser, Aluminum, 2" Slot. FTBI-15. FlowTee for bolt slot ceilings, 1.5" slot Flowbar with factory mounted insulated plenum. FL-15.
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Linear Diffuser Soffit Ceiling HVAC Duct
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SMALL LOT SUBDIVISION
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4521 Melbourne Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027 Olivia Nilges // ARC3021L //Marta Perlas
DUCT PLANS
DRAWN BY: Olivia Nilges DATE: 05/08/20
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THIRD FLOOR
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SHEAR WALLS
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SLAB-ON-GRADE FOUNDATION
SMALL LOT SUBDIVISION 4521 Melbourne Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027 Olivia Nilges // ARC3021L // Marta Perlas
FRAMING SITE PLAN STRATEGIES
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Framing Strategies
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ARC 3011L: Vetter Mountain Scientist’s Retreat
04: Vetter Mountian Scientist’s Retreat
This project is the culmination of three preceding projects: a tower, a bridge, and a cantilever. Each study was altered and connected with each other to create a retreat that could house two scientists in a private space, while also entertaining guests and educating visitors across a span to an elevated space at the peak of the mountain. The apertures of this project are the primary focus of the design, as it illustrates a “crossing through” effect of light, which determines the entire spacial experience.
Exterior Vignette
ARC 3011L: Vetter Mountain Scientist’s Retreat
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Floor Plans
ARC 3011L: Vetter Mountain Scientist’s Retreat
Exterior Elevations
ARC 3011L: Vetter Mountain Scientist’s Retreat
Overall Longitudinal Section
ARC 3011L: Vetter Mountain Scientist’s Retreat
Detailed Wall Section
ARC 3011L: Vetter Mountain Scientist’s Retreat
SOLID AND VOID: APERTURES solid fiber cement
windows
STEEL COLUMNS
STEEL BEAMS
JOISTS
SPAN
Site Plan and Components Exploded Axonometric
Thank you! Olivia Nilges | CPP Architecture
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | Architecture Program