DALE V FENTONarchitect-in-training

864.704.0172 • fentondale@gmail.com • http://www.dalefenton.com

omni mt. washington resort interior design - contract work

two for one chair - industrial design prototype

PROFESSIONALWORK

kerrison’s department store renovation - charleston, scnorth market street addition & renovation - charleston, sc

67 gibbes street renovation - charleston, sc33 pitt street renovation - charleston, sc

INTERDISCIPLINARYWORK moebius fork - industrial design prototype

ACADEMICWORK

bi_POLAR design/build studio - texas a&m universitynooka - texas a&m university

gateway park design/build studio - clemson universityhouse for the future - texas a&m university

academic

bi_POLAR

texas a&m university

bi_POLAR was an elective design/build studio fo-cused on digital fabrication & design. The team of

five students used techniques ranging from 3D CNC milling, thermoforming, and parametric design to fab-ricate the final project which was a 12-foot wall sec-

tion, 10 feet tall. This wall was a diagrammatic illus-tration of a proposed wall system, which integrates

hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical systems into the wall and structure and uses those systems to create

sensory experiences inside the space. Additionally, the system features built-in furniture and expressive

form.

This project was published on the sucker-PUNCH blog: http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2011/10/27/bi-polar/

nooka

texas a&m university

nooka is a company that produces design objects from watches to apparel. Their unique designs in-

spired this project to design a showroom for the company on an infill site. The strategy for this proj-

ect involved creating a network of nooka brand-ing throughout the urban environment through bus

stops donated to the city. These nodes connect to the lights placed in the showroom giving an ab-

stracted feedback system about activity around the city. Additionally, the site strategy involves placing

the showroom underground to allow the previous al-ley to be recast as a plaza. Parametrically controlled patterns are built into the floor to cast light patterns

and generate visual interest from the street.

gateway park

clemson university

gateway park studio consisted of roughly 30 stu-dents working over the course of a semester to de-

velop a master plan and implement two installations into a new park being built by the city of Clemson. This park acts as a gateway between the univer-

sity and town itself. The installations each consist of a volume representative of 1/1000th the fill taken from the dredging of abernathy park and infilled on

the site to create the park. This volume was then the basis for the investigation of several different design strategies based on the installations’ function within the park. The two implemented volumes served as a

bridge entry in the south of the park, and a seating area along the walking paths in the park.

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house for the future

texas a&m university

house for the future explores the possible develop-ments of future material and technological devel-

opments to the built environment. Additionally, this project used the Maya software platform to explore

expressive form and advanced topological inves-tigations. The strategy for this project involved us-

ing a bubble wrapped around an interior space and then juxtaposing this new typology in contemporary

suburban developments. This juxtaposition allows for comparisons and poses the questions of why

we build the way we do, and look forward to inno-vations in the practice of architecture that make our

current methodologies more sustainable and more comprehensive.

professional

kerrison’s department store

charleston, sc

kerrison’s is a four story L-shaped structure of ap-proximately 40,000 sqft on the lower portion of King

street in Charleston, SC. Our task was to catalog existing conditions and create a plan for develop-

ers to take the empty structure and create class-A office space. The orginal building was constructed

in the mid 19th century and at some point a second building was added on to create an “L” shape. The

building had endured structural damage from an earthquake in 1886 as well as more recent fire dam-

age and required extensive structural work as well as retrofitting of electrical, plumbing, HVAC and fire-

suppression.

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n. market street

charleston, sc

The existing structure at 6 n. market street was ap-prox. 650 sq. ft. we designed and built a 350 sq. ft. addition to the structure and a 600 sq. ft. outdoor

seating area to repurpose the structure for a restau-rant. Due to its location a block from the ocean we

had to negotiate code requirements for hurricane and flood provisions as well as city ordinances re-

lated to its location within a historic district.

67 gibbes street

charleston, sc

This project was an extensive renovation of an ex-isting residence dating to the 1970s. The primary

changes were to the kitchen and bathrooms includ-ing an all new master bedroom with walk-in

closet, and a new master bath. The kitchen area was reprogrammed and a new breakfast area was

added as well as a new island, new appliances, and new finishes. In addition, new south-facing win-dows were added to bring more natural light into the

house and open the view towards the harbor two blocks away. Extensive repairs were also performed

to the house and the ground level was finished out.

33 pitt street

charleston, sc

interdisciplinary

241 chair

texas a&m university

2 for 1 chair was designed as an exploration of adaptive furniture as well as digital fabrication. In-

vestigations of different mechanisms for the trans-formation of the chair included sliding, folding, pivot-

ing, among others. In the end the chair consists of two sets of legs and slats that are nested into each

other. This generates a single chair in the closed configuration and a two-seat chair when the slats are opened. A prototype chair was fabricated from

plywood contours to study the adequecy of the overall system, which is not indicative of the final

material nature of the design but approximates the form for a low-cost full scale mock-up.

mobius fork

texas a&m university

the mobius fork was designed as part of a two-week project to explore the idea of the edge. The

edge exists as the transition or border between two conditions, dark/light, open/closed, connected/loose. While edge at once suggests discontinuity or

the end of one thing so too does it herald the start of another. This apparent paradox is perhaps most

easily observed in the mobius strip. A single edge is capable of both defining a surface and represent-

ing the boundary to nothingness. Conceptually this project attempts to achieve a similar sense of con-tinuity in the definition of form and space while the

twisting motif, the lynchpin of the mobius strip, acts as a transition from one state to another along the object. Specifically the fork is the border of a solid

shape which twists at corners to transition from hor-izontal to vertical. In addition, there is a 180 degree flip along the bottom rail of the surface which cre-

ates the mobius strip where inside and outside con-stantly flip on themselves.

DRAWING 25a- NEW. BAR IN GUESTROOMS 400, 401, 402SCALE: 1/2" = 1'-0"

OMNI MOUNT WASHINGTON RESORTbeaty & brown

SIDE FRONTPLAN

PNT-11

ST-21" OVERHANG

FRIG.

36"

PNT-12 ACCENT COLOR

ADJUSTABLE3/4" SHELVES

1 3/4"

1'-6

"

2'-0

"

BASE PROFILE TOMATCH EXIST.

1 3/4"

2-1/2" TRIMINSIDE BACK OF CAB.

8'-0

"

6"

WIDTHS VARY, SEE PLANS

A

BKCW-1813 (3/4"X3-1/2")*

PLYWOOD

KCW-4204B (7/16"X2-3/4")*

DETAIL B- CROWN MOLDING, TYP.

BLOCKING

CABINET

DETAIL A- CABINET MOLDING, TYP.

SCALE: HALF SIZE

SCALE: HALF SIZE

*NOTE: KCW - (KARN CUSTOM WOODWORK) TEL: (804) 218-0300

omni mt. washington resort

contract work

I participated on this project as a contractor for Wil-liam Nachman Design, who was doing architectural drawings for the interior design firm beatty & brown.

The work consisted of miscellaneous drawings re-lated to the $60 million expansion and renovation of

the historic hotel which opened in Vermont in 1902. The hotel was built entirely by hand and as such no

two rooms are alike and with hundreds of unique rooms the logistics of the project were as much of a

hurdle as anything. In addition to documenting each individual room in the hotel for the interior design,

many custom furniture pieces were drawn for sub-mittal to fabricators.