Spencer Anderson
SPENCER ANDERSON
CONTACT
PHONE: (605) 415-7313
EMAIL: spencermechamanderson@gmail.com
SKILLS
WESTERN DAKOTA TECHICAL INSTITUTE
DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF DESIGN
CREW CHEIF: United States Air Force
ā¢ SUPERVISION: Oversaw the repair and maintenance of dozens of multimillion dollar aircrafts.
ā¢ OPERATION LEAD: Optimized multiple government operations saving time and money.
ā¢ PROGRAM CREATION: Created transition programs qualifying personnel in less than half the usual time.
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Independent
ā¢ CONSTRUCTION: Fully Remodeled two houses and a 30ft RV.
MAR2021-SEP2021
ā¢ REPAIR: Responsible for fixing issues that arose for 8 houses, including AC, Plumbing, and Electrical
ā¢ INSTALLATION: Installed flooring, countertops, cabinetry
Drafts Person: Independent
ā¢ DRAFTING: Created construction documents for a church remodel.
ā¢ ESTIMATES: Coordinated with manufacturers to get material quotes.
EDUCATION WORK EXPERIENCE AWARDS
SKILLS USA PHI THETA KAPPA
ā¢ ON CALL: Met with the client multiple times to go over change requests. Winner in the South Dakota State Skills USA competition for architectural drafting. Awarded
CAMPUS
Program & Society
For this project, I was tasked with creating an intervention for a small town in Florida. The town had a high population of uneducated immigrants and a diverse cultural heritage. The community also struggled financially and there were many comments about the lack of art. This led me to the conclusion of creating a campus that would help educate the locals and provide them with the tools for helping themselves.
I decided to go with a comic book feel for my presentation. This allowed for my audience to not get distracted by details within the renders and focus on the program within. I played with the concept of how different age groups interact within the same space and with the idea of education being a never ending journey. The campus includes a school, a museum, and sculptural gardens throughout.
Here Iāve included images of the garden spaces and some interior renders of the school. I also included a site plan of the campus as well as a floor plan of the education building.
The art in the museum is meant to showcase the culture of the community and sold artwork helps fund the campus as well as other educational programs found in the town.
SUNPATH
CLASS YEAR
CONCEPT
Landscape Architecture
2023
I started this project noticing the movement of the clouds and the sun in my backyard. The sun climbed a set of stairs as it was setting and lit the tips of the trees until it finally disappeared. The trees looked like candles burning out, and I thought that the light climbing up the landscape as the sun set was in beautiful opposition.
For this project, I wanted to capture the exact moment the sun disappeared. Iāve been fascinated by ancient peoples sun studies and architectures and wanted to create one of my own. I started by sketching out my idea. I thought to mark the exact spot in space that the sun set from the perspective of the stairs. I was going to take some photos with a prism in front of the lens to try and bend the landscape into geometric fragments but ended up disliking the results.
I built a rock marker that went through many iterations because it kept falling over, but eventually I found a shape that was self-supporting. I waited until evening to make the final touches to it, making sure the rocks marked the correct location. I then created a little enclosure with a smoothed piece of quarts in the center, that I knew would light up when the sun hit it.
The first time filming, the clouds blocked the light from radiating on my project, but I ended up liking the weird noises that were created by speeding up the video. In my second time laps, the clouds went in front of the sun for a brief moment making it look like the sun set twice, which I thought was cool.
I enjoyed the process of walking around my yard brainstorming project ideas. I spent a long time finding the spot where the sun set, and I became more aware of why ancient people spent generations studying, marking, and worshiping the sun. The final build ended up looking a little unrefined for my liking, but I think the idea of what I wanted to capture was successful. I would love to be able to do more sun path studies on a larger scale in the future.
ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING
3D Architectural Design
2023
CONCEPT
This section showcases some of the architectural drafting I made while earning my associates degree in computer aided design at Western Dakota Technical Institute. Thereās a mix of two buildings. One is the first house I ever designed, and the other is one of my, and everyoneās favorite houses, Falling Water.
For the house I designed, I took a lot of inspiration from earth ship homes. I made the walls with a mix of concrete and rammed earth and incorporated green roofs. I loved being able to experiment with all the unique shapes.
I found a ton of interesting happenstances while drawing the falling water house. I had to remake all of the dimensions because the original blue prints dimensions are ridiculous. I took another Japanese inspired element of burned wood for the facade.
Here I included some renders of the two buildings as well as some prints. I just want to show that I can create construction documents and annotate.
Here I have a drawing of falling water I made, some more construction drawings and a few renders. The image on the far right is an interior shot of the building I designed. I liked the shapes the straight and curved arches made.
MECHANICAL DRAFTING
3D Engineering Design
Mechanical design was one of my favorite classes. I liked being able to create the things I was designing. I also loved that I was proficient enough to make anything I could think of.
This project was my final for the class. I was inspired by the kinetic sculptures of David C. Roy and wanted to create one of my own. It took me a while to figure out all the mechanics, but in the end, it was super rewarding. I wasnāt able to build it exactly how I wanted. My original design incorporated six planetary gears and a second sculpture with bevel gears, but the extra parts caused too much friction within the assembly.
I included my hand drawings of the early designs and part drawings of some of the gears. Below is a picture of the final piece. The optical illusion created when the two wheels spin in opposition is well worth the effort it took to make.
Above is an exploded axon view of the assembly in CREO with some bomb balloons depicting the different parts. The hardest part of this project was connecting all the parts within the program to that they moved in the correct way without any issues. My least favorite part of this assignment was creating all the tolerances for the parts. You can see some of the tolerances on the next page. Iām appreciative to my teacher for being so helpful and knowledgeable.
As you can see with some of the dimensioning bellow, I was trying to incorporate the rule of three and golden ration within the piece. Iāve always been fascinated with natures relationship to the golden ratio, and I think that humans love to see it in art because it reminds them of themselves in a way. I try and use it as much as possible in most of my designs. I had to make exceptions in some areas, but Iām happy with how the final proportions ended up. When I finally completed this project at posted videos of it in motion, I had a lot of people asking me to make one for them.
ARTWORK
CONCEPT
Current Hard Knocks
Now letās jump into some of my personal artwork. Weāll start with some of my hand painted works then finish with some of my digital drawings. I hope you can appreciate the attention to detail and patience it takes for me to complete these.
The next page shows a linework drawing I painted for my partner. I start out by creating a golden ratio grid. You can see what some of the grid would look like on the boarder of the painting. This first painting is a 36āx36ā board.
I was proud of how this painting turned out, so I decided to do another one with some Japanese architecture that youāll see on page 27. I wish I could show you these paintings in person because the pictures donāt quite do them justice, but I hope you enjoy them none the less.
Above are some of my early paintings and just to the right is my newest completed work. The painting on the top left is painted using glow in the dark paint, so Itās a fun one to show people.
This dot painting, like the one on the previous page, took a very long time to complete. I learned a lot about breathing and drinking plenty of water throughout these paintings. I donāt know if I will ever want to do another dot painting again.
away. Itās amazing what new insights you can bring to a design after stepping away. Iāve gained so much knowledge while painting these works and can use the lessons learned in so many areas of my life. I hope you can see how much I have progressed in just a few years of practice. I also hope to showcase my ability to complete large projects. Next, Iām going to show you some of the digital artwork I have been making during the first year of my architecture program.
Here are some recreated drawings by Da Vinci. His lifeās work is bar none. I also have this sketch of a church and a skyscraper project. The Sullivan building to the right is showing early use of steel and how the material use contributed to some of the artistic styles of that time.
Finally, I included a skyscraper that is designed using the principals laid out by Sullivan, for how a skyscraper should be built. I went for a flower blooming top, with a root like structure toward the base.
The Image above is an English cathedral showing how all the structure is intended to guide your eyes toward heaven. This is done with long unbroken vertical lines and using the rafters and arches to create arrows.
Thanks for flipping through my portfolio.
Spencer Anderson