TAYLOR NIELSEN

2013

EV Charge House

Wichita Art Museum

Omaha Photograph & Film Institute

Oglala Lakota Center for Healing

Xylem Hotel

Professional Work

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EV CHARGE HOUSEElectric Vehicle Storage / Regenerative Charging Station / Multi-Family Residential

There are issues presently confronting us on a daily basis: the country’s fi nite oil supply, volatile oil prices, air pollution caused by carbon emissions and global climate change. Transportation and the required infrastructure plays a major role in contributing to these problems. By leading a shift from the gas vehicle to the electric car, this structure establishes itself as a catalyst for the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. By combining automated parking with renewable energy generation, downtown land can be freed up from endless parking garages while the new EVs can be stored and receive a ‘clean’ charge. With the inclusion of residential units, downtown living now boasts an added benefi t: the ability to have an attached garage multiple stories above the street within the urban environment. With zero tail-pipe emissions, the EV can contain a much closer relationship with the home, existing in a unifi ed adjacency. The automated system grants increased convenience while allowing for the structure to be sited on an otherwise uninhabitable place.

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Existing Bus Route

Charge Spots Extended Bus Route

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ENTRANCE

U.S. government research shows that 73% of

its domestic light vehicles could be replaced by

EVs without requiring any additional capacity when the EV system is complemented with a

“smart grid” available electricity.

Extending range via a network of battery switch stations that use a robotic system to

switch new batteries for depleted ones, cool and charge the batteries in inventory, and manage the complex logistics to ensure that each EV gets a fully-charged battery each time the vehicle arrives at a station.

Denmark’s DONG Energy estimates that the

country’s passenger

vehicles – if replaced with EVs – could run on

fewer than 750 windmills (or about 60%

of the installed wind capacity Denmark has right now).

WICHITA ART MUSEUMFine Art Gallery / Offi ce / Retail / Multi-Family Residential

The Wichita Art Museum held a regional student competition with the goal of generating a multiplicity of architectural schemes that explore the evolu-tion of the museum over the next 75 years. The most important aspect of any museum is fi rst and foremost the art, and the viewing of it. In order for the Wichita Art Museum to fl ourish for the next 75 years and more, new modern art installation types (such as digital art) must be introduced to coincide with the current historical pieces. Also, with the addition of new program, the museum can now bring a greater amount and variety of patrons. While historical art is object based, this project focuses on the space in-between, or the void. Large voids have been introduced to integrate the different program spaces. It is in the galleries that this strat-egy is most important. The void provides a visual and spatial connection between different types of galleries. While a landmark is form used for orientation, these new “void-marks” use the absence of form to orientate patrons. The voids reach out to the exterior and allow diffused natural light to enter the interior spaces. This negative space is what houses all of the social activity, as well as the art.

* this project was a collaboration with fellow student Joseph Wallace

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OMAHA PHOTOGRAPH & FILM INSTITUTECultural Center / Gallery / Educational Institution

This project is largely a critique and reinterpretation of the vast asphalt parking lots that exist all over this country, and specifi cally the site at the corner of Dodge St. and Saddle Creek Rd. in Omaha, Nebraska. In this Photograph & Film Institute, the asphalt is literally peeled back and an interlocking rectilinear form is placed underneath, revealing new spaces and opportunities under this often unwelcoming material. The white struc-ture allows the projection of digital media on any surface of the building, most notably the rear facade, which is utilized as a drive-in theater. The interior is designed with minimal detailing and material selection. The gallery space occurs in the residual space between the white forms and the manipulated asphalt.

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OGLALA LAKOTA CENTER FOR HEALINGCritical Care Access Hospital / Spiritual Center

This architectural studio was centered around healthcare design. The task we were given was to select a specifi c culture anywhere in the world and calibrate the design to best respond to those people’s needs. I selected a people in much need of assistance: The Oglala Lakota Native Ameri-cans on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The Pine Ridge Reservation is the second poorest place in the Western Hemisphere, only behind Haiti.

After a vast amount of researching the culture of the Oglala Lakota, I set out to design a critical care access hospital that would serve the entire reservation, but more importantly would give the people a spiritual heal-ing center. This facility combines all of the benefi ts of western medicine technologies with responsive characteristics specifi cally tooled to the spiri-tuality of the Oglala Lakota. A connection with the land was a huge factor in the design of the facility. The rammed earth walls literally surround the hospital users with the land that they hold so dearly to their hearts. The circle is an important symbol of these people, and all of the inpatient rooms are concentrically located around a series of terraced forms facing into the central prayer garden.

“The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fi ts into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings.”

-Luther Standing Bear

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Medicine PhysicalHealth No DiseaseProvider Physician

Focus Treat DiseaseGoal Cure/Manage Disease In Individual

Values Confi dentialityHonors Physician For Curing

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Spiritual Medicine

Balance Health

Healer Provider

Promote Health Focus

Community Health Goal

Family/Community Participation Values

Patient for Wellness Honors

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Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Medicine Man

Tectonic vs. Stereotomic

Typical Patient Room

Nomadic Center for Diabetes

XYLEM HOTELStructural Wood Highrise / Hotel

The fundamental principle of this project was to operate from a position of creating buildings with a reduced carbon footprint, and attacking the problem at one of its roots: the embodied energy of the structure. The process of generating timber construction requires much less of fossil fuel than concrete or steel, reducing the total amount of energy consumed signifi cantly. The program of this highrise allows the project to push the structural limits of wood and re-think the way we build skyscrapers in the United States.

The ideation of this scheme looked at how existing large scale wooden structures can be utilized and manipulated to work within a tower sys-tem. The chosen system was the bridge truss due to its nature of dense, smaller members which allow for long spans. Through a series of sche-matic structural iterations, a scheme was developed that incorporated a steel tension cable system that ties the vertical planar trusses together. This system allows for a light, open ‘core’ and touches the ground with a minimal footprint, allowing for street level greenspace that would not be typically found in a urban tower situation. The bends in the exterior façade reveal the nature of the structural material and system, while creating open-air ‘vents’ that establish private balcony areas for the hotel rooms.

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1” DOUBLE PANE GLASS SKINW/ OPERABLE WINDOWS

1/4” SINGLE PANE GLASS SKIN

1/2” TH STEEL PLATE CONNECTORS

SUBDIVIDED WARREN TRUSS FRAME

2” DIA. STEEL TENSION CABLES

5/8” GYP. BD. DROP CEILING

5 1/2” X 10 1/2” GLULAM BEAMS@ 3’-0” O.C.

CROSS LAMINATED TIMBERFLOOR SLABS

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Experience

Carlson West Povondra Architects | Omaha, NESummer 2012 - Present

BCDM Architects | Omaha, NESummer 2012

Teaching Assistant | UNL, Lincoln, NESummer 2011 - Spring 2012

HDR Architecture, Inc. | Omaha, NESummer / Winter 2011

Steven Ginn Architects LLC | Omaha, NESummer 2009

Education

University of Nebraska-LincolnMaster of Architecture GPA 3.84Bachelors of Science in Design GPA 3.74

University of Nebraska-OmahaPre-Architecture GPA 3.82

Activities

American Institute of Architecture StudentsTau Sigma Delta Honor SocietyGolden Key International Honour Society

Awards

Graduated with DistinctionH + L Architecture Student Excellence Fellowship FundArchitecture Faculty Achievement Award RecipientHDR/Gary A. Spring Memorial Scholarship FinalistWichita Art Museum Design Competition - 2nd PlaceJames A. Murphy Memorial ScholarshipRegents Scholarship Award RecipientGary Lee Hansen Recognition Award RecipientGeorge Clayton Award RecipientChancellor’s Academic ListDean’s List

Skills

AdvancedAutoCADRevitRhinoceros 3DGoogle SketchUpPhotoshopIllustratorInDesignMaxwell RenderMicrosoft Offi ce

Intermediate3ds MaxV-Ray Render

BeginnerGrasshopperPremiereAfter EffectsDreamweaver

Humber River Regional HospitalToronto, Ontario, Canada

*worked on while a member of HDR Architecture, Inc.

STEVEN GINN ARCHITECTSTennessee Hilltop Residence

CARLSON WEST POVONDRA ARCHITECTSBellevue Public Safety Facility

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