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LaQuinton NimoxLouisiana State University, B. ARCH

Contents

[Project_01]St. Louis Monastery + Soup Kitchen:Design Studio X, Spring 2012

[Project_02]Ashby MARTA Station and Visitor Center:2011 NOMA National Student Design Competition

[Project_03]Chapel to Nature: Place for Memory + LossDesign Studio IV, Fall 2009

[Project_04]Crosby Arboretum: Interpretive CenterDesign Studio IV, Fall 2009

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LaQuinton NimoxLouisiana State University, B. ARCH

[Architecture_Portfolio] 2007-2012: Undergraduate Work

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St. Louis Monastery + Soup Kitchen: Design Studio X, Spring 2012

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Location: 701 Market Street, Downtown Saint Louis, Missouri

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Project_01

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Design Process

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The success of the Civil Rights Movement stems from the emergence of multiple leaders, some less recognized than others, working in concert to attain equality for all. The design draws upon the ideas of multiplicity and aggregation as the impetus to social gathering, pedestrian circulation, programmatic arrangement, and architectural form. As the main transportation hub of the area, the proposed project encourages pedestrian traffic on multiple levels on the site. The ground level hosts a variety of open and intimate public spaces for neighborhood residents and visitors to gather. This serves as a destination for visitors in the greater Atlanta region, while simultaneously providing public areas and green spaces for residents of Vine City. The ground level also engages the lower subterranean, as well as the upper visitor center level through a series of vertically oriented circulatory, spatial and visual connections.

Ashby MARTA Station and Visitor Center: 2011 NOMA National Design Competition

Vray rendering depicting vertical connectivity, perforated skin, and public space

Design Team: Kevin Nyguyen, Kim Nyguyen, Ivan O’garro, Elizabeth Galan, Erica Geromini, and LaQuinton Nimox

Location: Vine City Community, Atlanta, Georgia

The existing MARTA entrance brings the user through a modest building down to the platform below. Our design proposal draws commuters and visitors up from the MARTA platform to engage with the plaza level and retail spaces. The proposed design seeks to strengthen this connection between spaces on multiple levels by opening the ground level to below, resulting in a design solution that blurs the boundaries between the various elevations, promoting and encouraging the use of public transportation. In addition, the gallery floors of the Visitors Center intend to reveal and visually connect the pedestrians and activities occurring outdoors with the visitors in the galleries. and vice versa.

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01 02 03 04 Ashby MARTA Station and Visitor Center

Visitor Center Level

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Underground MARTA Level

Rather than covering up the transportation hub, the scheme celebrates the underground platform and the vertical connections guide the user’s attention towards the ground level.

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As a response to the fast-paced lifestyle of Atlanta residents and commuters, the Retail spaces pierce through the ground to the underground level, creating brightly lit, glowing surfaces, that serve as commuter information display areas, enlivened billboards, and add more ambient light to the rail station.

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The design intent of our project was to create a didactic landscape by providing tangible connections to the ecology of the site. Two types of ecologies are revealed: hydraulic cycles and wildlife habitation. Hydraulic cycles revealed in the site include stormwater filtration and sedimentation, both of which are indicative of processes occurring throughout the larger Chesapeake Bay region. Our proposed design demonstrates potential strategies which can be implemented in other areas throughout the bay. These hydraulic cycles reveal the similarities between our site and many others within the region, highlighting the wildlife situates this site as unique from many others within the Chesapeake Bay in general and the Chesapeake Bay watershed in particular.

Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center: 2011 Virginia Tech Student Design Competition

Revit/Photoshop rendering depicting blending of boundaries between landscape and architecture

Design Team: Maragaret Amori, Wei Cao, and LaQuinton NimoxLocation: Marlin Bay Drive, Norfolk, Virginia

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Site Design Strategy

01_POINT: Concept: ‘stillness’ Built form: structures designed for sitting and viewing wildlife

02_LINE: Concept: ‘movement’ Built form: elements designed for circulation of people + water

03_PLANE: Concept: ‘inhabitation’ Built form: program elements-- building, parking + docks

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is a group dedicated to saving the bay. Currently, on a scale of 1 to 100, the CBF rates the Bay’s health at a 31 out of 100; for context, a pristine bay from the 17th Century rates 100—and at the lowest point in the 1980s, the bay scored a 23. A “Saved Bay” would score a 70. Some years ago, the CBF and others opposed development on a prime piece of bay front land. When the economy faltered, the developer went bankrupt, and the CBF, the Trust for Public Land, and the City of Virginia Beach offered to purchase the land from the bank. This pristine site, adjacent to a densely developed part of Virginia Beach, is to be the site of your project, an environmental education center and

small office building for the CBF and other conservation groups. The progammatic elements are as follows:

• Space for 24 people to work (3000 to 3500sf)

• Event/meeting space for 150 (3000 to 3500sf)

• Grossing Factor x .30% to factor building services, mechanical spaces, storage, rest room facilities, etc.

• Outdoor education space, primarily for visiting elementary students. A portion of this should have roof and no walls, and a portion should have walls but no roof. (3000 to 3500sf)

• Bathrooms and changing stalls for visitors. • Pier with floating dock to accommodate a

40 X 15 work boat and 21 skiff (floating dock to be 15ft X 30ft.)

• Kayak dock, a pier with a 40ft X 20ft floating dock.

• Storage for six kayaks and six canoes • Parking for three buses (may be combined

with event parking)

01 02 03 04 Chesapeake Bay Foundation Environmental Center

Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette

Tschumi’s diagram for the park’s design is based on the superimposition of three independent systems: points, lines, and surfaces. The surfaces show horizontal space for activities, with the lines show the high density pedestrian movement, while the points are representing the follies on this point-grid coordinate system. This served as a successful precedent that was implemented in the design of our education center.

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01_Points: Wildlife Observation Structures

These three site specific structure assists in the center’s mission of teaching through hands-on activities and serve as miniature outdoor education centers. The first structure will be built under the canopy of the northwestern pine forest with it lack of a major overhead plane resulting from its location. This location will be used to observe bald eagles. The second structure is set on the shoreline and used for observing osprey out in the water. The third structure is to be constructed near the shore and also serve as a secondary kayak dock and used to observe oysters.

Concept: ‘stillness’Built form: structures designed for sitting and viewing wildlife

02_Lines: Articulated Pathways

DIDACTIC LANDSCAPE: The design intent of our project was to create a didactic landscape by providing tangible connections to the ecology of the site. Two types of ecologies are revealed: hydraulic cycles and wildlife habitation. Hydraulic cycles revealed in the site include stormwater filtration and sedimentation, both of which are indicative of processes occuring throughout the larger Chesapeake Bay region. Our proposed design demonstrates potential strategies which can be implemented in other areas throughout the bay.

Concept: ‘movement’Built form: elements designed for circulation of people + water

Ocean current carrying sediment

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navigation channel dredged yearly sediment builds upas water velocities slowAtlantic Ocean currents carrying sediment

Section showing proposed sedimentation groins

sedimentation groins reduce dredging needs sediment builds upas water velocities slowAtlantic Ocean currents carrying sediment

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03_Planes: Didactic Landscape Inhabitation

DIDACTIC LANDSCAPE: The design intent of our project was to create a didactic landscape by providing tangible connections to the ecology of the site. Two types of ecologies are revealed: hydraulic cycles and wildlife habitation. Hydraulic cycles revealed in the site include stormwater filtration and sedimentation, both of which are indicative of processes occurring throughout the larger Chesapeake Bay region. Our proposed design demonstrates potential strategies which can be implemented in other areas throughout the bay.

Concept: ‘inhabitation’Built form: program elements--building, parking + docks

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10,000 square feet program environmental education center

Split program into three equal parts: workspace, education space, and meeting/event space

Developing a hierarchy of space based on circulation and dissolving indoor and outdoor boundaries

Extend program along landscape for more integration

Elevate program to allow buildings to interact with different ground conditions: over water; over land; and on land

Split program service spaces, such as restrooms, from primary program activities

Develop a hierarchy of primary and secondary spaces through massing of program

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Building Concept Strategy01 02 03 04 Chesapeake Bay Foundation Environmental Center

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The challenge of this project was to create a non-denominational space that serves as a space for Memory and Loss. It required spaces that helped the user remember the environment, the wetlands, and the past. A space for memory and loss focuses on the environment and welcomes visitors while being a reminder of the natural beauty that is, that was, and that may or may not be. To respond to the challenge set forth for a Chapel to Nature, the notion of what makes a sacred space was kept in mind. By making the Chapel an integral part of the LUMCON experience, interaction between the water and chapel was clearly encouraged. This interaction is aimed at seclusion from the man-made and intimacy with nature on a personal and spiritual level.

Chapel to Nature: Place for Memory + Loss Design Studio IV, Fall 2009

Artlantis/Photoshop rendering depicting chapel in its marshy context

This structure is designed as a landscape focusing device--a mechanism through which the experience of this coastal area, from the reconstruction of the canal to the catastrophic loss of the wetlands is made manifest. The design of the Memory and Loss spaces are informed by the idea of transition from mass to void; this reflects the connection of the coast where the structure resides. The construction is made in a way that shows our transition from a closed minded society who ignore the issue of coastal wetland loss to one that is open-minded and embraces the idea of protecting this priceless resource.

Location: LUMCON, 8124 Highway 56, Chauvin, Louisiana

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Initial Conceptual Ideas about the occupation of the site: These images attempt to visually represent the notion of ascension from the man-made to a space of reflection

Images of Conceptual Development of Early Ideas: These images show the direct translation of early ideas into a more rational and practical design composition

Conceptual collage about human interaction with site and structure: This image shows the scale of the design alongside the human side. To make a space that captured the significance of the landscape compared to humanity was an important concept from the beginning

01 02 03 04 Chapel to Nature

West Elevation

Memory + Loss Floorplan

View from South in the grassland looking towards the Individual Sacred Space

View from the water looking up at the overall structureView of Individual Sacred Space with facts illuminating the interior surfaces throughout the day

The One Day Poem Pavilion by Jiyeon Song was an important precedent for how the individual reflection space would operate. Its perforated skin allows light to penetrate the ground at precise angles that result in the illumination of a poem over the course of a day.

This idea of using light and shadow in the individual reflection space was important to tell the story of the wetlands through facts and figures.

01 02 03 04 Chapel to Nature

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Explorations in Digital Photography:

Building corner perspectiveInner Harbor, Baltimore, MA

Photography

The following photography samples represent a different avenue for exploring existing environments and objects to tell untold stories. With photography, the subject encourages a connection that simply interactions or observations cannot present. The idea of capturing a moment in a building’s life - a moment meticulously planned by the architect - reveals the powerful bond between photography and architecture

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Freehand_Sketches

Weekly drawing assignments were coordinated to give students a full range of drawing and sketching experience. The drawings explored various techniques and employed multiple mediums, such as shaded pencil sketches, penned line drawings, and quick marker sketches. Emphasis was given to capturing the essence of the view and overall experience of the subject

Christ Church Alexandria, Virginia

Women In Military MemorialArlington, Virginia

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