About Me Currently I am a student of the Bachelor program in Architecture at Texas A&M University. During this time I have worked as an independent project manager allowing for me to gain a better understanding of the execution of the design stages within a real-world project. Throughout my time as a student I have been introduced to a diverse range of projects, design strategies, and architectural knowledge. As an architect I am passionate about the design process and the manifestation of an idea from paper to fabrication. I have also discovered that I enjoy dealing with projects that confront challenges that affect the architectural world today. The following is a collection of architectural and design works that reflect these ideals and the knowledge that I have gained.
Sean Nimmons B.A. Environmental Design 2019
Contents 01
DIGITAL CUTS
02
INDEXICALITY
03
TENSEGRITY PAVILION
04
TINY HOUSE
05
HYDRO-WALL
06
Art,Renders, and Photography
Houston,Texas
College Station,Texas
College Station,Texas
Reykjavik,Iceland
Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
01
Digital Cuts
A translation of the Dificult Whole
Digital Cuts : F&S Gallery Houston, Texas
Digital Cuts is about a series of individual objects that utilize sensibility in order to express both the diversity of their functions as well as their environment, leading to ideas of the ambiguity of the aesthetic agenda in the post-digital era, tension accentuated between individual objects due to the formal operation of the cut, and the oscillating relationships between individual objects. By performing a series of booleaning, extruding, and scaling operations, an object is established that allows for the parts of the whole to remain prevalent. This idea of the difficult whole is further defined through the formal operation of the cut. This project delves into the category of speculative realism. It deals with post-digital ideas of Low-FI and HighFi operations as well as the current speculative argument of representation.
Axonometric Render
Top Render
Model Photo
Plan Drawing: Underground
Section Drawing
Plan Drawing: Ground Floor
02
Indexicality
Transgressions and Transformations
Indexicality
College Station, Texas
The process of Indexicality began with the curation of canonical floor plans, in my instance Case Study House 12. Through a series of formal operations, the floor plan evolved from being organized around two overlapping L-typologies to organized around the intruding edge condition and the resulting fragments. This new system of organization is now transgressing the persistencys of architecture as it displayed both properties of a 2D drawing as well as a 3D object, or 2.5D. The model is the result of translating the edge condition into a 3D frame as well as extracting the 3-dimensional properties of the plan. Within a volumetric sense the edge moves around the conventions of the axon allowing for it to display a transitory ontology.
Model:Elevation
Case Study House 12 Floor Plan
Transgression Drawing: Final
Transgression Drawing
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Tensegrity Pavilion Repetition and Structure
Tensegrity Pavilion College Station, Texas In Collaboration with Wyatt Springer
The Tensegrity Pavilion deals with the process of formulating a structural system as a means of a defining the spatial condition. Through this idea the pavilion’s struts, panels, and base were defined first through drawing, and then digitally through a Grasshopper script. This script allowed for the calculation of the tension needed in order for the pavilion to stand. The fabrication of model further elicited ideas of repetition and definition in a three dimensional space.
Struts
Panels Extracted
Translated
Twisted
Connected
Arrayed
Defined
Base Rotated
Tessellated
Birds-Eye View Drawing
Perspective Drawing
Detail Photograph
Interior Photograph
Photograph Strut and Panel Interaction
Photograph of Base
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Tiny House Icelandic Beach Retreat
Tiny House Reykjavik, Iceland
The Tiny House is a contemporary idea that is spreading across the United States. This project directly translates the minimalistic idealogy of the subject into both the creation of its form as well as the organization of its plan. By taking a pair of rectangles and contorting them in order to produce the optimal experience of its inhabitants this Tiny Home rethinks quintessential notions of its existence.
Process Diagrams
Overlapped
Shifted
Inflected
1st Floor
Extruded
Rotated
2nd Floor
Section A
Section B
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Hydro-Wall
Re-imagining Sustainable Design
Hydro-Wall
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia In Collaboration with Alex Kingsley
A lack of fresh-water is one of the primary issues facing humanity today. The Hydro-Wall project is based on the principle of utilizing the environment to collect water and a well-ventilated structure. By first creating a module, the idea of using condensation to produce water was established. The module works by allowing air to go through the funnel cooling the sun baked air within the interstitial space of glass and copper. Condensation is produced and drips down the funnel and into water tanks. Overall this design utilizes the interlocking structure of a hexagon as well as the natural properties of ceramic, copper, and glass to make a water producing wall.
Assembly View of Module
Water Production Diagram
Fabrication Diagram
Water Retention Diagram
Top View of Hydro-Wall
Isometric Drawing with Detail
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Art, Renders, Photography
Sketch: Mountains of Telluride Colorado
Photography: Zion National Park
Perspective Render
Section Drawing
Booleaning and Clipping Experiment Sectional Object
Top View
Perspective Render
Parametric Study: Serpentine Pavilion
Grasshopper Script