DAVID WUSTERHAUSEN
Phone: (512) 803-8413
E-Mail: davidw7300@gmail.com
Location: Houston, TX | Austin, TX
EXPERIENCE
August 2023 - Present
Resident Advisor (RA) | University of Houston SHRL
• Facilitate community engagement within the dormitory by planning, promoting, and hosting monthly programs for 1200 residents following the SHRL residential engagement model (REM).
• Serve in an on-call rotation to assist residents with issues occurring after hours, including but not limited to: lockouts, noise complaints, facilities issues, psychological situations, and conflict resolution/mediation.
• Perform duty rounds three times while on-call to report facilities concerns and ensure safety and wellbeing of residents.
• Meet with residents and maintain office hours throughout each semester to discuss concerns relating to roommates, academics, mental health, etc. and facilitate a mediation if issues arise.
• Advocate for residents and serve as a directory of on-campus resources.
May 2022 - August 2022
Guest Advocate | Target
• Help guests with completing purchases and answer questions about product locations, availability, and details.
• Manage team member break schedule during closing shifts and assist coworkers and guests with questions.
• Troubleshoot and fix problems on self-checkout registers while keeping lines short and moving during store rushes.
• Close registers and self-checkouts at the end of every shift while ensuring an accurate and organized cash count.
• Train new team members in proper register/guest service operations and closing procedures.
June 2020 - August 2020
Green Building Summer Intern | EcoRise & BLGY Architecture
• Collaborate with industry professionals in the education and architectural fields to study the effects of sound pollution in dense urban environments and propose solutions to improve indoor environmental quality.
• Present research findings to a group of sustainability professionals and educators across the greater Austin area.
• Arrange and conduct interviews with green building and sustainability professionals from across the United States.
EDUCATION
Fall 2022 - Present
Fall 2022 - Present
Fall 2022 - Present
Summer 2021
HONORS SOFTWARE SKILLS
University of Houston | Bachelors of Architecture, Minor in Energy and Sustainability
Dean’s List
Academic Excellence Scholarship
CIEE Global Navigator Scholarship & Study Abroad
GPA: 3.88/4.00 Rhino3D
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OASIS
Aluminum Recycling Center Fall 2024 - ARCH 3500
Located on the North West corner of Brady Island in Houston, TX the Oasis Aluminum Recycling Facility provides a functional Oasis from the sea of industry surrounding it. Inspired by the historical increase of heavy industry in the area surrounding the site, the Oasis Aluminum Recycling Facility aims to provide an “oasis” from the industry and provide space for learning and recreation. The existing dense tree line surrounding the site provides a natural barrier from the industry to the East. This condition informed the position and form of the design. The building is located at the center of the site to provide a separation between the public recreation area, and private recycling area. The form was designed to reflect the pulling of the building out of the ground to provide a natural separation like that of a hill or mountain. This part of the building also serves as an interface between the two functions of the site. Visitors are able to enter this part of the building and look into the aluminum recycling part wile learning about the process in the multimedia auditorium. This auditorium also allows for further community engagement where the space can be rented out for events such as film screening, performances, etc. The Oasis Aluminum Recycling Facility provides a haven from the growing industry presence for residents of the surrounding area while providing a learning opportunity for school groups visiting the island.
Exterior Perspective
B Isometric
South Elevation
Section
02
THE LINK
Community Center
Spring
2024 - ARCH 2501
The Link Community Center was designed adhering to the concept of interconnection – within itself, the environment, and the urban fabric of Houston. The Link Community Center blurs the definition of what a spatial boundary is by seamlessly interconnecting the programmatic volumes of gathering, studio, sustenance, and learning spaces. On a visit to any individual space, the visitor must pass through and interact with the other spaces that occupy the building.
In addition to programmatic interconnection, the Link Community Center incorporates a connection to the urban fabric of Houston through the form that the design takes. Primary entrances are positioned to allow diagonal movement through the site, serving as a connector between the Menil campus and Mandell Park. The orientation also provides accessible access from the bus stop located at the corner of Mandell and Richmond and frames the views of the Houston and Galleria skylines. Beyond the primary entrances at either end of the diagonal mass, secondary entrances are located throughout the exterior façade to allow permeating in and through the building at numerous points. This, in turn, creates many paths that visitors can take to move in and through the building, each with a vastly different experience.
Exterior Perspective
Axonometric
Section A
Section B
North / South Elevation
03
FOLLY PARC
Conceptual Art Installation
Spring 2023 - ARCH 1501
In this project, I engaged in a process of analysis, extraction, and hybridization that uses architectural elements from a set of precedents to generate a series of Rooms for Landscapes. I experimented with the recombination and transformation of architectural elements that have been displaced from their original contexts to form a series of outdoor rooms.
Inspired heavily by the surrealist art game Exquisite Corpse, Folly Parc is a collaborative “game” where each studio member creates their designs by loosely following the rules of the game. Each studio member selected five elements from their assigned architectural precedent in project 01A which would then be added to the collective part bank. Each studio member was then required to use only those elements to create their three designs by scaling or otherwise transforming the pieces in order to create a room.
While each studio member was free to design each of their three plots as they chose, the collaborative nature of the game inspired many to work with their neighbors to speak a similar language in their designs.
More can be found at follyparc.com or on Instagram @follyparc
Collaborators:
Jimena Medina
Deisi Zarate
Doruk Dalyanoglu
Luke Brooks
Gerson Vigil
Mario Dominguez
Nate Gibson
Jonathan Gipson
Max Garza
Board Game. Using the 50 pieces extracted from the studio’s precedent list as a ‘kit of parts,’ players took turns placing elements to create a ‘room’ devoid of site conditions.
Site Plan. Players are randomly assigned three plots on the board based on a grid of letters and numbers ranging A-F and 1-6.
Plot A2 Elements
Plot D3 Elements
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SUPPLY STEPS
Interior Intervention
Spring 2023 - ARCH 1501
In the first project of the spring semester, I developed an extrafunctional intervention in the atrium of the CoAD -- a hybrid stair that simultaneously serves the function of moving between floors, while offering a variety of other potential uses that exceeds our conventional understanding of a stair.
In project 01B, I confronted the vast openness of the CoAD atrium, positioning my design alongside the legacy of interventions that have challenged or re-imagined the space while supporting and inspiring new events. I selected a collection of consumable studio supplies as my inspiration to hybridize with the stair’s function of moving between floors to create a stair-store duality.
Taking inspiration from the precedent in project 01A as a vending space and the lack of stores near the University of Houston, I developed a store where students can purchase consumable materials for their studio projects. Using a locker-cubby system, commonly used materials can be purchased 24/7 by students.
