college station, Texas
Texas A&M University
Critic: Shawn LUTZ
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Sean NIMMONS and Alyssa DOPHIED: The parameters of this project were defined by the urban conditions of the city of Houston as well as the rapidly developing fabric of the city.
- Sean NIMMONS and Alyssa DOPHIED, “Urban Interventions.”, Elevation
- Sean NIMMONS and Alyssa DOPHIED, “Urban Interventions.”, Axon
- Sean NIMMONS and Alyssa DOPHIED, “Urban Interventions.”, Plan
- Sean NIMMONS and Alyssa DOPHIED, “Urban Interventions.”, Section
In part of repurposing the site into two functionally and aesthetically ontologically separate buildings, the objective is to transform the undesirable state of a vacant parking lot and the raw character of the context between the buildings with a charged void that is further accentuated with a joint plaza.
The ground patterns within the plaza were developed around the idea of the transgression of objects as individuals in their relation to the notion of the figure ground condition of the city and the moment of tension between them.
A charged void is established through the juxtaposition of a chunky and a sculptural moment. From this moment we articulated the spatial conditions of the interior of the object through both the denial and acceptance of the charged void.
Within this moment of the charged void we deal with the idea of kissing architecture as presented in the work of Sylvia Laven, this is represented in the overlapping conditions of the joint elevation and section. This defies the reality of the charged void as at no moment do they actually touch
sP: Who or What influenced this project?
SN & AD: Sylvia Lavin Kissing Architecture
sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
SN & AD: We read The Charged Void by Allison and Peter Smithson.
sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
SN & AD: Jimenez Lai and Elana Manferdini
