Alex Rosno - Portfolio

ALEXANDER J. ROSNO PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

Table of Contents

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Resume

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Polyopoly

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Void Space

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No Place to Play

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3D Printed Housing

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Brookfield Apartments - Professional

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Sketching Samples

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Montessori Milwaukee - Undergraduate

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Resume

alexrosno@gmail.com 262-312-8934

Education

Personal Statement

Clemson

Completion in May of 2024

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Completed in Spring 2022

Gateway Technical College

Completed in Spring 2017

Masters of Architecture (M.Arch) Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BSAS)

AAS in Architecture & Structural Engineering

Work Experience Clemson University Graduate Assistant

Assisted professors in numerous aspects of education, including but not limited to: creation of graphics, teaching classes, managing the Digital Design Shop.

Nagel Architects and Engineers Architectural Designer

Performed drafting and design duties for residential, medical and commercial projects. Frequented site visits and meetings with clients. Taught incoming architectural design interns; was transitioning into a more senior role prior to my admittance to Clemson.

Postal Products Unlimited Drafter

Created shop drawings for clients on a per project basis.

Increased efficiency of the department through the implementation of new standards and practices.

JF Ahern

Fire Suppression Design Intern

Created drawings, went on site visits, attended project meetings, and completed numerous training programs related to fire suppression system design.

Golden Eagle Log and Timber Homes Architectural Designer

Created drawings for clients working hand in hand with the manufacturing, sales and estimating departments located within the company.

I love architecture and desig, and I want to continually reach for new heights in my design thinking throughout my professional career for the betterment of the people I work with and those close to me. Being surrounded by people with similar aspirations is important to me because I want to create inspired architecture with inspired people and I will not settle for anything less.

Personal Interests Clemson, South Carolina Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Brookfield, Wisconsin Spring 2021 - Summer 2022

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Summer 2020 - Spring 2021

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Winter 2020 - Summer 2020

Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Fall 2018 - Winter 2020

Fitness/Personal Wellness

Running, weightlifting, health optimization

Nutrition & Cooking Reading Art and Design Fashion Traveling Science and Engineering Motorcycle Racing Track and Field Antique Military Firearms Skill Competency Rhino Hand Drawing Revit Grasshopper Photoshop Illustrator InDesign

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Polyopoly PROJECT BRIEF In teams of two we were tasked with creating a piece of architecture that adressed the prompt: “tourism as an environmental disaster”. Our solution was to add to the skyline along the oceanfront, but through the means of a tower that possessed all the amentities that Atlantic City has neglected, and in a neighborhood format its inhabitants were familiar with. This was achieved by segmenting the structure in districts, addressing various housing, social, and personal needs which will be expanded upon on the next page.

PROJECT DATA HEIGHT. 655 Feet FOOTPRINT. 130’ x 130’ PROGRAMMING. Mixed Use

RESIDENCES. 150 Units WALKABLE PUBLIC AREA. 2.25 Acres SOCIAL SPACES. Cafe, Bar, Biergarten, Restaurant FOOD. Grocery Store, Garden WELLNESS. Gym, Rock climbing, Walking Emphasis CULTURE. Art Studio, Maker Space, Library WORK. Rentable Work Spaces, Employment in Tower

DATE. Fall 2022, M.Arch Semester 1 DESIGNERS. Alex Rosno & Johanna Hilmes TOOLS. Photoshop, Rhino, Blender, Illustrator

Site and State Maps 4

SECTIONAL THINKING The building’s conception was dominated by section thinking. The primary driving force on shape and form was derived from our idea on residential living. We wanted to bring a sense of familiarity for people that traditionally had been living in small residences with a sidewalk and front porch dynamic, along with cross ventilation and views from either end of the housing modules. This was achieved by using a “C” shape (diagrammed right). We enhancedd this by bringing the boardwalk up through the building vertically, creating a large public thoroughfare for people to interact socially and merge our architecture with an iconic piece of Atlantic City.

Residential Module Diagram

DISTRICT ORGANIZATION

District Diagram

Organizing the building was a two pronged approach of bringing in foot traffic from the board walk for commercial purposes and making it easy for citizens that didn’t inhabit the building to access the public resources such as the library, gym and public work spaces. Because of this, the media and boardwalk districts were placed on the bottom third of the building. The primary residential districts located above the media district were characterized by the public amentity within the volume they occupied such as the park, activity and social district. Lastly the entertainment district served as a buffer between the tourist and social district and a common space for tourists to interact with the city’s permanent inhabitants.

STRUCTURAL AND CIRCULATION ORG. The building was supported by three primary trussed members, two that housed vertical circulation and the third which housed the mechanical chase. The secondary structural I Beams created a gridded floor plate to place the CLT tertiary structure on. This gave us the opportunity to try a very unconventional highly insulated skin for the building, allowing us to achieve an R value of 30 for exterior walls and R 57 on floors and ceilings.

Isometric Section

Circulation Diagram 5

Social District Perspective Section 6

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Studio Apartment

Boardwalk Walkway, Social District

BUILDINGS AS INFRASTRUCTURE One of the particular things we found challenging was the cost effectiveness of such a project. The target demographic for housing was an average suburban income and common knowledge states that skyscrapers are expensive to live in very much out of this income bracket. This is where our skeletonized structure enters the fold. By deliberately having a proud structure, we theorized that the superstructure occupy a place in the public realm in the same sense as roads and bridges. This structure would then have setbacks, in terms of code, and design parameters just as any other road would have, and the volumes between them could be purchased and filled in at the time of construction. In a place like Atlantic City where the permanent inhabitants were neglected for decades, creating an anchoring point for them felt vital and we thought it was a small step in the right direction for a dying city.

Buildings as Infrastructure

BUILDING VOLUME The usage of this shape reduced the overall heating and cooling volume by 58% compared to a traditional skyscraper. In addition to this, the average R values for the walls in Polyopoly outperform the tradtional design by 600% (~R5 for tradtional vs R30 for the new design).

GREEN SPACE

Building Volume

Garden Space

Our design was centered around an urban infrastructure turned vertical, so we periodically utilized green space to tie together districts, create social spaces for relaxation, and control stormwater runoff.

Green Space

Exterior Render 9

Void Space PROJECT BRIEF Our architecture is designed to celebrate the continued perseverance of Santa Maria in Passione through respectful gestures towards the micro community that has ensured its continual existence. During World War 2, Santa Maria was struck by a stray bomb that damaged most of the site beyond recognition. It fell into disarray for years until a handful of people began to come together and take precautionary measures to delay any further damage to the structure, ultimately choosing to occupy it for their personal usage, while being branded anarchists in the process. This community continues to occupy the site, and we feel that their actions on preservation and stewardship should be celebrated through an architecture that highlights them and their unique goals while tying them into a community they’ve long been visually closed off to. We set out to achieve this goal by paying homage to what still stands, utilizing the church’s organizational system to influence the spaces, rhythm and planning within our architectural spaces. Careful attention was paid to creating distinct gaps between the new and old architecture, usually through means of delicate touches of natural light. We also wanted to take a small step in connecting the communities through a visual dialogue between the Genovese and the micro community by showcasing their work in a highly visible public gallery while still maintaining the privacy of their other spaces similar to what they had while being the sole occupants of the area.

DATE. Fall 2023, M.Arch Semester 3 DESIGNERS. Alex Rosno, Cody Prince, Josh Pickman TOOLS. Photoshop, Rhino, Illustrator, Hand Drawing, Enscape 10

CONCEPTUAL PHASE

Site Axonometric, Courtesy of Josh Pickman

Site Plan, Courtesy of Josh Pickman

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Exterior Render, South

Exterior Render, Main Entry

Exterior Render, Sculpture Garden

Interior Render, Light Well

Interior Render, Entry 12

Detail Section, Courtesy of Cody Prince

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Perspective Section, Exhibition and Studio Spaces 14

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The sectional experience was extraordinarily important in the function of the exhibition space. The existing s enveloped the existing space below, retaining the existing footprint and form, but allowing us to play with th penetrate into the space. This also served as an opportunity for the passerby to glimpse into the exhibition s simple, but effective. It used many similar design techniques to the existing architecture, but in a diffe 16

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structure of the baroque church was to remain intact and we planned on building a new volume above it that he spaces sectionally. Gaps were left between the new and old, allowing a healthy dosage of natural light to space at what the “anarchists” were creating, allowing the two groups to informally mingle. The new form is erent fashion, including the cruciform plan, lighting usage, material selection, and sequence of spaces.

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No Place to Play PROJECT BRIEF In my first semester at Clemson, I had the unique opportunity to work with newly hired M.Arch Health professor Dr. Lyndsey Deaton. During that semester I worked as her Graduate Assistant where we worked in the preliminary phase of receiving funding from the University to display her doctoral work in a moving exhibition around South Carolina. This allowed us to receive the funding to make this course a reality.

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“No Place to Play” analyzed children and their opinions on having places to play within a cityscape. The two countries Lyndsey traveled to were India and the Phillipines, and from there she performed investigative research in different portions of these countries, 3 main areas per country. This investigation was unique as most of the data collected was through children that she was given the greenlight to work with. Her data collection primarily consisted of photographs, photographs that the children took on disposable cameras, interviews in both audio and written format and mapping, amongst other things. In this course, our objective was to tell the story of her research through the careful selection data, present it to the citizens of South Carolina, and show how this research impacts them.

SPECIFIC TASKS INCLUDED: 1. Design charettes on concept of exhibition 2. Design of 3 exhibition space layouts 3. The design of a partition system that met financial, constructability, skill and strength constraints of students 4. Creation of 6 models 5. Construction of 50 partitions 6. Lead and direct groups of undergraduate students DATE. Spring 2023, M.Arch Semester 2 DESIGNERS. Alex Rosno, Khin Htet, Abby Buskirk, Jordan O’Connor, Jackson Copeland, et.al TOOLS. Photoshop, Rhino, Illustrator, Revit, Hand Drawing, Power Tools

DESIGN CHARETTES During the preliminary design phase we worked in groups, formulated concepts and then visualized and presented them. After presenting, we decided on which ideas we liked best to use in the exhibition moving forward.

RIGHT. Design showing how a map could interact with planned models MIDDLE LEFT. Recycled wall partition idea MIDDLE RIGHT. Boys vs girls space concept (explained more later) BOTTOM. Recreated shanty housing concept

Interaction Between Map and Model Data

Wall Partition

Boys vs Girls Concept

Recreated Housing Concept 19

Interior Sketch, Courtesy of Jordan O’Connor

DESIGN CHARETTES - CONTINUED Additional graphics on this page were created by team classmates during our design charette time period.

Wayfinding, Courtesy of Jackson Copeland

General Plan on Experience of Space, Courtesy of Jackson Copeland 20

Interior Sketch

THE WINDOW The window served as a really important design metaphor within our project. One of the most surprising finds in Lyndsey’s research was the distance boys traveled on average to explore or play (~600 meters) compared to girls (>200 meters). During some of the interviews, some of the girls voiced their complaints about how far they could venture compared to their male friends or siblings. So the window and the partition, seeing beyond but being unable to pass, served as a strong metaphor for the division of male vs female research within the exhibition.

Interior Sketch, Idea Explanation 21

CONSTRUCTION

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BELLE LAB CLEMSON, SOUTH CAROLINA

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OPENING NIGHT

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MONAGHAN MILL GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA

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3D Printed Housing PROJECT BRIEF The objective was to convert an existing parking lot in Los Angeles into housing through the utilization of clay 3D printing technologies.

DATE. Spring 2023, M.Arch Semester 2 DESIGNERS. Alex Rosno TOOLS. Photoshop, Rhino, Illustrator, Midjourney

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CONCEPTUAL THINKING WITH NEW TOOLS The conceptual phase of this project was extraordinarily complicated. Being constrained to a tool, understanding how new technologies work for construction and how they can be utilized, and also the usage of AI (Midjourney) and how that can be leveraged in during this phase. The following are some samples from Midjourney and collages exploring forms and details.

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Interior Exploration with Printable Vaults

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Exterior Exploration with Integrated Planters

Interior Exploration with Selective Lighting

Interior Exploration with Private Outdoor Spaces

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Perspective Section

THE CHALLENGE OF THE ARCH The most intriguing aspect of the 3D printing project was two fold. First was removing labor as much as possible. This can be achieved by printing as many of the parts and pieces of the architecture as possible. The second less obvious one was multiple floors or a roof as printing over an inhabited hollow space would just mean that the material would land down there, thus the arch was utilized. Arches only work in 3D printing at approximately 45-60 degrees, but this is dependant on material weight particularly in this application. The idea behind the arches was to print them on top of a thinner metal arch shape that could pick up the tensile forces, sandwhich the clay in between another and then crane them into place, leaving as much as possible to the 3D printer.

Just a few more pages and I’ll start my day

Yep! Just Give me a few minutes.

I just finished that meeting! Almost ready to go run some errands?

Ugh, I’m Tired.

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Programming

Construction Diagram

Activity Space

Floor Plan

I bet this will work well for some diagram colors.

17 foot ceiling heights are just lovely!

Hey! Are you ready yet??

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Brookfield Apartments Professional

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PROJECT BRIEF

PROJECT DATA

DESIGN DETAILS

Operating as both the designers and developer, we were seeking to create an approximately 225 unit apartment building aimed at young professionals looking to work in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.

LOCATION. Brookfield, WI PROGRAMMING. Residential UNITS. Approximately 225

DATE. Summer 2022 CURRENT STATUS. Unbuilt ARCHITECT. Rodrigo Fontan DESIGNER. Alex Rosno ASSOCIATE. Olivia Wegner TOOLS. Revit, Hand Drawing

Exterior Render, Courtesy of Olivia Wegner

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Sketching Samples

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Montessori MilwaukeeUndergraduate PROJECT BRIEF The project was to design an elementary school in the Milwaukee area. I performed extensive research on the Montessori style of teaching for an assignment prior to it, so I decided to design one around its principles.

OVERLAYED COMMON TRAVEL PATHS

DATE. Spring 2022, Undergraduate DESIGNERS. Alex Rosno, Sam TOOLS. Photoshop, Rhino, Illustrator

STAFF COMMON TRAVEL PATH

Site Plan

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PUBLIC ACCESS COMMON TRAVEL PATH

STUDENT COMMON TRAVEL PATH

South Elevation

West Elevation

East Elevation

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INTERIOR

Main assembly area connected to exterior court

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R SPACE

tyard, entry, lunch room and class room spaces.

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EXTERIO

The main exterior space is excavated 10 feet below ground. This creates a defen addition to this, it also minimizes heating costs in the cold Wisc 40

OR SPACE

nsible space for the elementary school students within a protected courtyard. In consin winter by soaking up some of the heat from the ground.

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