NICK DEWALD

RURAL SPA.
Pleasant Hill

This two-quarter-long studio which

focused on structure, detail, and
construction methods was heavily labor
intensive. It challenged students to focus
greatly on material choices and designing
for human interaction. Full-scale mock-
ups of individual details, countless
study models, and a quarter-inch-scale
basswood final model helped resolve
nearly every inch of the project. Comfort
was a major factor as the project was
to design a secluded spa facility in deep
rural Kentucky.

The major design feature was a 25ft tall

steel perforated wall (pre-De Young, in
my defense) that manipulated light and
privacy at the transition between inside
and out. Skylights and other openings
provided space-specific light to create
atmospheres and lead paths through the
majority of the building that was largely
embedded in the hillside.

Project won 1 of 2 director’s awards at

senior exhibition
MEXICO CITY MARKET.
Mexico City

The 2007 Lyceum Competition called for

an innovative design for a marketplace
in Mexico City’s up-and-coming Condesa
neighborhood.

In this design, vernacular lower class

construction methods are used to create
a market environment that effectively
uses space and allows the lower/merchant
class to have live/work space to call their
own in the high-priced neighborhood.

The design allows for versatility through-

out the day as well as family and business
expansion. The density and chaos that
the design promotes is in harmony with
the Mexican market atmosphere accross
the city and allows for endless personal-
ization.

Placing a community of the lower class

within a neighborhood that is rapidly
gentrifying will promote social diversity,
provide the lower class with the oppor-
tunity for entraprenuership, and give the
upper class a genuine Mexican market
within walking distance.
CANAL YACHT CLUB.
Copenhagen

At the Denmark International Study pro-

gram one of the three architectural stu-
dio projects in the summer of 2005 was
to design a club building for the members
of a boat and yacht dock at a corner of
two major canals in Copenhagen.

The final design was comprised of a lower

boat-upkeep level for custodial activities
with arbitrarily situated concrete walls
that limit comfort and encourage circula-
tion to the upper level. The upper mass
appears warm and comforting. Material
choices and a simple floor plan give those
returning from a wet and tiring day at
sea peace of mind and a true sense of re-
laxation.

The exterior of the upper level is sur-

rounded by a series of strategically-
spaced wooden planks that provide a
variety of privacy and light levels within
the club. The material quality of the lo-
cal wood is the main contributing factor
to the feeling of warmth that is notice-
able even beyond the corner site that the
building is situated on.
A WRITER’S HOME.
Los Angeles

This home in a hillside area of Los Ange-

les reflects the lifestyle of the single tele-
vision writer that it was designed for. A
strong entertainment presence maintains
a close connection to the industry that he
is involved with while providing ample
space for entertaining.

The spaces were designed for a single

occupant with the boundaries between
rooms and privacy tactics minimal. De-
spite the open feeling, it was designed
for future expansion, overnight visitors,
and entertaining, so optional privatizing
elements were included but intended for
seldom use.
INVESTIGATING SPEED.
Cincinnati

Highway-adjacent architecture in an ur-

ban setting rarely contributes to an inter-
esting city experience. Designers’ disre-
gard for the experience of those on the
road has numbed the aura of the city and
encourages no further exploration into
the urban environment. The commut-
ers that downtown enthusiasts complain
about have little to persuade them off of
the highway and into the city.

After years of slow decline, arguably a

result of the increased dependency on the
automobile, the mid-sized American city
is on the cusp of an urban renaissance
with a community of urban pioneers re-
versing the trends of the past half-century
and moving back downtown. Although
more people are walking the streets and
relying on rapid transportation systems,
the decisions of the past several genera-
tions have made the role of the car in
the city permanent. Design must reflect
that reality and attempt to affect those on
highways just as those within the grid are
affected. Passengers and drivers elevated
and disconnected from the city and its at-
mosphere by highways and by speed must
be stimulated with an opportunity to ob-
serve city life and a reason to desire and
seek it.
Speed and proximity alter the visual per-
ception of architecture for those on the
road. Recognizing and manipulating this
alteration through design could produce a
more descriptive and meaningful encoun-
ter with the city. The typical urban ex-
perience from the road can be studied to
discover what stimulates the human eye
at accelerated speeds and how the results
vary with the velocity of speed. The ex-
perience of the highway motorist must be
understood relative to that of a stop and
go motorist, and that of a pedestrian. The
gradient of comprehension across the var-
ious degrees of motion must be reflected
in architectural form and detail in order
to maintain an appropriate level of inter-
action between the build environment and
all those who encounter it.

Analyzing and understanding the visual

experience of encountering the city via
the highway will provide a basis of design
for new movement-adjacent urban archi-
tecture. Enriching the urban experience
for those observing from a highway per-
spective has the potential to promote fur-
ther metropolitan exploration and allow
the aura of the city to reach those who
normally wouldn’t feel it.

These ideas were explored and represent-

ed in the design of a transportation hub
for a large vacant corner of downtown
Cincinnati.
PROJECT AMERICAN APPAREL.
Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture
EXPERIENCE. A controversial and wildly successful retail
Brooklyn chain in urban areas all over the world,
Los Angeles American Apparel strives to promote
Cincinnati interesting and progressive store designs.
Chicago Duties: Store design, project managment,
Baltimore client and consultant communication,
construction administration.
ONE SANTA FE.
Michael Maltzan Architecture
A mixed-use development in downtown
LA. 425 residential units, farmers mar-
ket, retail. Narrow site adjacent to LA
river that was existing train yard.
Duties: Preschematic research and de-
sign, model making, digital modelling,
residential floor plan design.
INNER CITY ARTS.
Michael Maltzan Architecture
A multi-phase childrens arts complex in
Skid Row, downtown LA. Phase I is com-
plete and functioning. Phase II is under
construction currently. Duties: Comple-
tion of final CD set. Detailing, finish
choices, final design development.
RED HOOK BIKE LOFT.
Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture
Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood held
an international design competition to
make themselves the most bike friendly
area of the city. JPDAs entry finished in
third place. Duties: Design development,
feasibility studies, diagramming,
research.
THE VILLAS AT GOWER.
Michael Maltzan Architecture
A 60-80 unit housing project for low in-
come or homeless youth in Hollywood.
Duties: Design development from con-
ception. Floor plan development, model
making, programming, digital modeling,
client interaction, code research.
REGEN PROJECTS II.
Michael Maltzan Architecture
A simple art gallery renovation that
included the addition of multiple office
spaces, a restroom, and several skylights.
Duties: Responsible for entire CD set,
majority of details, and translating design
ideas into drawings.
BROARMAN ARTS CENTER.
GWWO, Inc.
An adaptive reuse of a 1897 postal building
into a community arts center for a small
West Virginia town. Duties: Contruction
documents. Materials selection, finishes,
fixtures.
TURNER HALL.
Michael Schuster Associates
A renovation of a historic structure into
a retail storefront and condos with an
addition of a large architectural studio
space. Building is now used by the U
of Cincinnati Architecture program and
houses visting professors. Duties: CD set
production.
CRABTREE GUESTHOUSE.
Vinci Hamp Architects
Outside of Chicago, Illinois, a large, high-
end guesthouse was added to a sprawling
farm that contains art galleries, artists
studios, and landscape sculptures.
Duties: Design development, model mak-
ing, DD set drafting.
WYOMING RESIDENCE.
Terry Boling, Architect
A bungalow renovation and addition in
a suburb of Cincinnati designed by Terry
Boling. Duties: Interior/ exterior con-
struction, detail design and implementa-
tion.
SCARLETT OAKS.
Michael Schuster Associates
An addition and renovation of an adult
education center outside Cincinnati,
Ohio. Duties: Construction documents,
detailing, physical modeling , selection
of finishes.
BUILDING 42.
Vinci Hamp Architects
An early Gordon Bunshaft building was
slated for destruction. A successful pro-
posal lead to the building’s resue as a
museum space. Duties: Created full set
of as-built drawings. Created propos-
al’s skematic imagery.
SKILLS.
Hand Drawing
Physical Modelling
PRODUCTION.
Construction
Documents
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