A portion of my design work from over the last few years.
NICHOLAS CHILTON
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
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nmchilton@gmail.com 801.698.5396
- CONTENTS -
Natatorium
A Simplified Office
Ballet West
St. Louis Science Center
Slot Canyon
Sweetwater FD
Jakkara
Retroactive-active Skin
Laine Table
- NATATORIUM - While at CannonDesign we created a natatorium to house the new varsity swim team of the University of Southern Indiana. Connecting to the existing rec center to the south, while staying east of an underground utility tunnel and maintaining a pedestrian trail to the north, the building form parametrically shifted in concert to the topography and pedestrian flow. Utilizing a simple material palette and conservative pops of color, we highlight the pedestrian, observer, and swimmer experience while guiding circulation with subtle graphics and material textures. At the interior, visual scripting was utilized to develop supergraphics as well as the simple yet complex acoustic baffles that needed to satisfy atmospheric standards while adhering to strict NCAA diving clearance requirements. Opened September of 2021.
- A SIMPLIFIED OFFICE - As a Project Designer at EDA, I helped guide our successful competition entry for a national heavy-civil construction firm’s new office and training center in 2022. Responding to the CEO’s vision for their employee-owned organization, we developed a design that balanced refined simplicity with architectural distinction. The result achieved both the client’s desire for understated elegance and our firm’s commitment to design excellence.
Construction finished in 2024.
- BALLET WEST - As a project designer at Method Design, I led a site selection study for Ballet West’s non- profit division to expand their accessible dance program’s reach. Through detailed demographic analysis and bilingual community engagement, I identified four optimal locations to serve underrepresented communities. The project culminated in developing a flexible design narrative that could adapt to each site’s unique context and constraints while maintaining the core mission of increasing diversity in dance education. One form of design thinking that could react to site uniqueness, context, and constraints.
ENTRY AND DROPOFF
BLACK BOX AND SIGNAGE WALL
DROPOFF LOOKING WEST
- ST. LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER - While working as a designer for CannonDesign we submitted a winning competition proposal for the new public entry to the existing St. Louis Science Center. With a current entry that is both confusing and inconvenient,
we created in its stead a simple floating form that functions not just as an entry but also a public event space that in its simplicity can be programmed to cater to their unique institutional needs all while creating obvious formal signage to clarify building entry.
Competition won fall 2018.
- SLOT CANYON - EDA was hired by West Valley City to create a Veteran’s Memorial that would be a part of a larger development plan and eventually an event space. While helping develop the overall concept and design, I was tasked with creating a sculptural element at the center of the site. Utilizing visual scripting, I was able to create an element that was directly driven by images of a specific Utah slot canyon. The sculpture invites you to touch and become immersed in something that is powerful, unique, and expresses the passing of time.
- SWEETWATER FD - In the fall of 2019, EDA worked with Sweetwater County to produce a new fire station that would house traditional services in addition to wildfire services. The materials utilized create a comparison to the surrounding context that references charred wood, while the interior seems as if to be untouched by this metaphorical forest fire. The form orientation, placement, and exterior shading were directly influenced by climate studies that were created using Grasshopper.
- JAKKARA - A sauna stool built using a typical Finnish material, laminated plywood, and designed for easy replication and shipping.
- RETROACTIVE/ACTIVE SKIN - With the explosion of local commercial development, EDA was asked to help provide suggestions to a local developer on how to retroactively create an interesting skin for a generically shaped office building. Rather than creating something just “skin- deep”, I created a parametric system that was driven by solar exposure, needed opacity, and material variation. The final design responded to it’s surrounding context and consisted of perforated coated metal panels and copper panels that helped to provide the building with an always changing facade depending on the viewpoint.
- LAINE TABLE - made from reclaimed wood and metal, the Laine Table conceals digital output within a more simple analog fabrication Made from reclaimed wood and metal, the Laine Table conceals digital output within a more simple analog fabrication.
MINIMAL ASSEMBLY
GENERATED SURFACE
USABLE SURFACE
MILLED SURFACE
SIMPLE LEG SYSTEM
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