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TREY NICHOLAS

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA

2021-2024

SELECTED WORKS

TREY NICHOLAS

EDUCATION

2020 - 2025

EXPERIENCE

2023 - 2024

May - Aug.

INVOLVEMENTS

2023 - Present

2024

May - Aug.

2023 - 2024

2021 - 2022

HONORS & AWARDS

2023

2021 - 2024

SKILLS

thnicholas17@gmail.com

951.392.6715

www.linkedin.com/in/trey-nicholas

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

B. Arch | in progress 3.94 GPA

WSP - Williams Sale Partnership | Intern, Architecture

Los Angeles, CA

• Transportation projects in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Prepared as-builts, design development sets, and schematic design on various projects.

• Worked on visualization efforts using 3D modeling softwares.

• Conducted site surveys and produced assessment reports for transit-based facilities.

Tau Sigma Delta | Vice President

Architecture Honor Society

CPP ENV Japan Interdisciplinary Program

Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Naoshima, Teshima

Neutra VDL Studio and Residences | Docent

Los Angeles, CA

Teaching Practicum | Studio Teaching Assistant

Jack & Marilyn Zuber Remembrance Award | Architecture

Cal Poly Pomona

Interim Exhibition Selection

Cal Poly Pomona Pomona, CA

President’s List + Dean’s List

Cal Poly Pomona

Rhino V-ray

Enscape

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign Revit AutoCAD Blender Twinmotion Bluebeam Microsoft Office

Model-making

3D printing

Laser cutting

Sketching

Photography Painting

SANTA ANA MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING

ROOTED N’ FLOOTED

MT. WILSON SCIENTIST RETREAT

MUSEUM OF JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART

PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHY

SANTA ANA MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING

Type-VA over Type-IA

Santa Ana, CA

Spring 2023

MASSING & CIRCULATION

This project aims to divert from the gentrified Spanish revival diluting Santa Ana in favor of pure forms and a return to a more familiar, ubiquitous shape that continues to tie closely to the residents of Santa Ana. The analogy of a typical house becomes a common motif in this project, serving not only as an indication of scale for single-family homes in Santa Ana, but also as these carved-out gestures to signify entry and choreograph space. To further convey and emphasize the subtracting operations occurring on the ground floor, these voids produce its inverted form as solid extrusions that are ultimately added back into the project to compose and serve as indoor amenity spaces for the residents. To continue the motif of the house analogy, the roof slope mimics this shape and rationalizes it to adapt in a multi-family complex where residents can experience the inherent vertical expansion of the roof. Thus, units directly attached to the roof will entice diverse income ranges to live in this housing complex.

TOP: Massing Diagram

Subtraction + Reintegration

MIDDLE: South Elevation Repetition + Rhythm

BOTTOM: Longitudinal Section Visual Communication

TOP:

Typical Studio Plan

360 SF + 70 SF Exterior

MIDDLE:

Typical One-Bed Plan

624 SF + 70 SF Exterior

BOTTOM:

Typical Two-Bed Plan

843 SF + 70 SF Exterior

CONFIGURATION

The units are arranged in a pinwheel configuration, leaving void spaces between each line of units that serve as private amenity spaces for the residents including gathering spaces, gardens, and viewpoints looking back out to the surrounding community. The pinwheel composes an inner courtyard where louder, more activated amenity spaces occur including a gym, clubhouse, and an open to below to allow for a connection between the residents and members stopping by.

PUSH & PULL

The facade pushes and pulls to break down the scale of the overall mass to chunk nearby units together and compose them as one small community in the complex, encouraging a city-within-a-city. The push and pull also grants more space to either balconies or indoor living spaces; thus, allowing for slight variations in an otherwise typical unit which can cater more carefully to the needs of the residents. To address the push and pull, recessed walls share the same pure color as the entire building, but the texture roughens to further emphasize this move and disrupt the monotony of a basic stucco facade.

65’-8” T.O. ROOF

47’-6” LEVEL 4

38’-0” LEVEL 3

28’-6” LEVEL 2

19’-0” T.O. PLATEAU

0’-0” GROUND

T.O. ROOF

47’-6” LEVEL 4

38’-0” LEVEL 3

28’-6” LEVEL 2

VIEW THE FULL DESIGN DEVELOPMENT SET HERE

This project includes a more in depth proposal within design development. Scan the QR code to view my full design development set with additional plans, details, assemblies, code analysis, scheduling, and more.

ROOTED N’ FLOOTED

Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Honolulu, HI Fall 2023

In collaboration with Benjamin Ramirez

The EOC focuses itself as a horizontally oriented structure rooted on the sloped hill of Kapi’olani Community College. The design features modular use of precast concrete for ease of assembly and blast protection from potentially severe tropical weather on the island of O’ahu. The facade consists of variously mutated precast fluting patterns that communicate where the different programs are located inside. The concrete modules are fluted in response to how prevalent the sun is in O’ahu, encouraging a dynamic play with shadows and depth. The facade extends itself inside the EOC and onto the adjacent plaza to blur the lines where the EOC starts and ends.

MIDDLE:

BOTTOM:

TOP: East Elevation

South Elevation

West Elevation

MASSING & CIRCULATION

The massing is composed of three main rectangular extrusions that terrace off each other to respond to the slope of the site and allow for external circulation. The plan follows a rule of thirds pattern complimented by the structural grid. The subject enters from the middle where they are greeted by the central atrium which presents the vertical circulation. From this lobby, there are two wings of the building: the west side is more public including the media center, and the east side is more private including the administrative spaces.

MT. WILSON SCIENTIST RETREAT

Research Station / Domicile Mt. Wilson, CA

TOP:

Site Plan

Topography, Adjacencies, Arrangement

MIDDLE:

Formal Strategy

Shifting, Compressing, Expanding

BOTTOM: Rendered Elevation

COMPOSITION

This dual-functioning facility serves both as a home for the astronomers and a research station the public may visit. The mass is composed of two similarly shaped truncated volumes cantilevering off of the site that is unified by a meeting deck cantilevering from both masses. The programs branch off from the meeting deck in the center, distinguishing public program from the private and further producing a post-modernist framing of space with its C-shape plan. Given this project is located in Mt. Wilson, which is known to be a high fire danger zone, this arrangement of space protects the exposed meeting deck from wind as well as offers shade.

TOP:

Housing Section

Shifting, Compressing, Expanding

BOTTOM:

Elevation

Panelization, Cantilever

MASS & SITE INTEGRATION

Since the site is on a slope that ranges from shallower to steep, the intensity of the truncation runs parallel in section in accordance to the mass’ placement on the site to promote integration. Additionally, the cantilevering quality of the project promotes an integrative architectural promenade and program arrangement with the site. Given these truncated volumes inherently possess the qualities of compression and expansion, these moments are directed towards the surrounding views in which those compressed and expanded faces are dematerialized while the other faces of the volume remain completely opaque.

MUSEUM OF JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART

Located near the sculptural Noguchi Plaza in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, this infill museum proposal offers itself to the community as an eye observing the cultural context, as well as a highly sculptural megalith preserving and showcasing contemporary Japanese art. This project is composed of variously scaled and oriented truncated volumes that catalog a multitude of functions including lighting, spatial qualities, and circulation. Each truncated volume allows for unique visualizations of compression and expansion by removing one of their faces to permeate light; thereby further elevating the representation of Chiharu Shiota and Yoshitomo Nara’s artwork inside.

Art Gallery

Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

Fall 2021

MASSING & CIRCULATION

The main staircase is positioned within the central staggered atrium space where a large truncated volume bisects it, illuminating this circulatory moment with ambient light to serve as a guiding force in the museum. This move also maintains a stable hierarchy between program and circulation as the stairs themselves take on a larger purpose in facilitating a meaningful architectural promenade. These unique volumes also function as key entry points for the museum as a transitional funnel space deliberately moving the subject from outside to inside the museum.