As a fourth year architecture student at Iowa State University, I am excited to expand my knowledge in the industry with an internship in architecture this summer. I am very passionate about design and architecture and very driven to produce the best work I can. I am extremely motivated to solve complex problems with creative or efficient solutions and enjoy collaborating on these issues with others. With many interests aside from architecture, including photography and fiber arts, I hope to bring a fresh perspective to your team.
Education 2021- Present
Iowa State University Bachelor of Architecture (5 years)
- 3.8 GPA
- Residential Student Government (2021 - 2022)
- Freshman Peer Mentor
Work Experience
7 Brew Barista
Summer 2023
Awards
- Co-Winner of 2024 Hansen Prize
- Nominated for 2024 Wells Concrete Competition
- Dean’s List (Fall 2021 - Fall 2024)
- ISU Honor’s Program
Memorized Practices and recipes involved in working as a Barista in 2 weeks. Cooperated with coworkers to create a smooth and efficient team. Spoke with customers to help them find the orders that worked best for them and kept a positive and apologetic attitude when speaking to unhappy customers. Worked to make sure every customer was satisfied with their purchase and made sure coworkers always had the help they needed.
Barefoot Outfitters Retail Employee
Summer 2024
Helped customers find items they were looking for and ensured check out process was quick and easy. Coordinated with coworkers to keep store clean and organized. Rearranged and unpacked extra stock for the store and kept inventory of new items. Counted registers at open and close to ensure correct counts as well as keeping track of cash sales for the day.
Software Knowledge
Design: AutoCAD Revit Rhino Edit: Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Microsoft Office
Render: Enscape Lumion
D5 Render Twinmotion
Additional Knowledge: Grasshopper
Climate Consultant
Final Cut Pro
Adobe After Effects
Photography
Videography
Hand Drawing
Refuge From Fire Semester Project
Temperance Semester Project Augmented Semester
Landscape
Semester Project
Radiant Perforations
Competition Project
Expanded Interests Photography, Model Making, and Fiber Arts
Refuge from Fire
Typology: Seed Bank/Community Center
Location: Denver, Colorado
The natural world of Colorado is under threat from increasingly devastating wildfires. With human organizations working to prevent the spread of wildfires, natural fuels have been allowed to build up. This fuel leads to forest fires of such high intensity that they wipe out forests entirely, with no ability to regrow. Refuge from Fire is a seed bank in Denver, Colorado dedicated to addressing this problem through education and preservation of species with seed storage and research.
This comprehensive studio focused on sustainable design, using the Living Building Challenge as a framework for our decision making. Each team chose a few of the pedals within the challenge to achieve in their design. Refuge from Fire focused on the Beauty and Biophillia, Energy, Materials, and Health and Happiness petals.
Semester Studio Project Fall 2024
Studio Brian Warthen
In collaboration with Rosie Becicka
Important Floor Plans: Levels 1-3
With one side being burned and the other preserved, the building represents a fire break – an intentional cut through a forest to prevent the spread of fire between neighboring areas. The burned side houses a museum and education center, providing information on the importance of controlled wildfires as well as how forests regrow after a low intensity fire. The massing of the building is jagged and the exterior finishes are shou-sugi-ban, as though the building were burned up in a fire. The circulation of the space has the user winding in and out of the building, much like one might move through a destroyed, patchy forest.
Interior Courtyard | Photoshop Visualization
The preserved building houses the research centers focused on saving these environments and species from the increasing threat of fire. The building is more closed off, but double height ceilings emerge throughout as if the user is walking through a forest of canopies that are constantly changing in height. The building also contains lots of access to nature, with vertical gardens and planters reaching across multiple stories. This access to nature is in accordance to the Beauty and Biophillia petal of the Living Building Challenge.
An operable baffle system on the preserved building’s facade allows users to control the amount of light coming into their spaces. This is designed in guidance of the Health and Happiness petal of the Living Building Challenge, where access to daylighting and improved interior environments is emphasized.
West Elevation of Preserved Building | Operable Baffles
Temperance
Typology: Monastery/Multi-Family Residence
Location: Slater, Iowa
The most important beliefs of Buddhism are the intent of living simply, without excess, and living in harmony with nature. Temperance uses these ideas of austerity and symbiosis with nature to design a Buddhist monastery in rural Iowa. Using the landscape to guide the design and natural forces to activate the space, Temperance shows how simplicity in design can still create something bold and striking.
This studio was focused on the importance of austerity in design and encouraged the practice of allowing hand drawing to influence the design process. Temperance is represented entirely through physical medias including grahite powder drawings and physical models.
Semester Studio Project Spring 2024
Studio Pete Goche
In collaboration with Edwin Villaron
The project forms a symbiotic relationship with the site, embodying the Buddhist principle of interdependence with nature. The earth becomes a sanctuary through an excavation into the center of the site, sheltering the monastery from the elements and fostering a deep connection with the land.
Strategically placed light channels and ducts penetrate the subterranean refuge, suffusing it with a serene luminosity. Water is integrated into the design through drainage canals and a central reflecting pool, providing subtle ambient noise and light reflections that enhance the contemplative nature of the space.
Study Model of Building in Site Context
Longitudinal Section of Main Building and Accompanying Residences | Graphite and Photoshop
Approach by Car (From Eastern Road) | Graphite
Mausoleum Activated by Water Runoff | Graphite, Physical Collage, and Photoshop
Augmented Landscape
Typology: Research Laboratories/Community Center
Location: Ledges State Park, Iowa
Co-Winner of 2024 Hansen Prize
An architecture project, as any human intervention, is an inevitable part of the landscape. Augmented Landscape is designed to overtake the dichotomy between the natural and articial, investigating a third condition of landscape that could be found in Iowa. A hybrid landscape that transcends the traditional categories of agricultural and wild.
The project is located in Ledges State Park and houses the Iowa Landscape Agency, a facility focused on research and education about the Iowa Landscape. With multiple buildings focused on community, seed preservation, and animal rehabilitation, this project is defined by the landscape surrounding it.
Semester Studio Project Fall 2023
Studio Consuelo Nunez
In collaboration with Keelie Fleener
Bird’s Eye View of Project and Site | Graphite
Diagram of Triangle Panels and Bending Metal
Radiant Perforations
Typology: Precast Concrete Facade Proposal
Location: College of Design, Ames, Iowa
Nominated for 2024 Wells Concrete Competition
Radiant Perforations is a series of precast concrete triangles that are assembled to create a secondary skin to the facade of a building. These individual panels are cast with small perforations to allow daylighting into the space without harsh glare. These small perforations are fixed with a bimetallic cover that changes form depending on the temperature. These pieces close over the perforations during the warmer months, preventing unnecessary heat gain in the summer, and stay open in the winter, encouraging heat gain and increasing access to winter sun.
Science and Technology Competition
In collaboration with Keelie Fleener and Angela Jones
Assembly Detail
Expanded Interests: Photography
First Experiment with Developing My Own Film
Experiments in Light and Shadow
Scale of the Midwestern Landscape
Expanded Interests: Model Making
Expanded Interests: Fiber Arts
Felting | Cardigan | Raw Alpaca Wool
Coiling | an Experiment of Time | Found Materials
The Disorder of Time | Crochet and Coiling Methods | Acrylic Yarn, Studio Drawings
Time is influenced by the amount of entropy in a system, as time goes on, entropy increases. Often feeling overwhelmed and unable to discern lengths of time attributes to lots of stress and anxiety in my life. Specifically in reference to my time in studio, where I lose track of any sense of time as I forget to look up from my work. This blanket draped over my studio desk begins with a simple color and grows more and more complex as other colors and materials are added on. This increasing entropy is reinforced as the form is hung up in no specific order, being pulled in every direction. The strings hanging around the piece disrupt the image of the object, increasing that sense of disorder as well as the levels of entropy. Old drawings and prints from my studio work hang from these strings as well, attributing to more chaos and directly representing the disruption to my time by disrupting views.
