3699 east nObles, Centennial CO.

Summer 2021

Brian Van Winkle, AIA | NCARB

Summer Job/Internship

For the summer of 2021, I was fortunate enough to be employed by architect Brian Van Winkle of Vessel Architecture as an intern, hired to assist with remodeling his family’s new home in Centennial, Colorado. As Brian’s sole intern on the project, I consulted with contractors, addressed design and structural issues of the building itself, and participated in the demolition and subsequent framing of the interior of the building. One of my first tasks was to do a thermal map of the house to assess its insulation adequacy and found many instances of thermal leaking (top images of page 37). I learned countless hard skills, including running wire in a house, digging trenches for plumbing and gas lines, and constructing the framing. This was an incredibly unique opportunity because I finally got to see all of the concepts that I had learned in my structures and building tech classes applied in an actual work site setting. While I could not see the entire project through to the end, the lessons that I learned on that job site were invaluable.