Dendinger Portfolio 2020

A R C H I T E C T U R E

portfolio WILLIAM DENDINGER III

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Education Creighton Preparatory School High School Diploma, May 2015 GPA: 3.99 / 4.0 Class Rank: 15th of 258

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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ExpectedofGraduation: Masters ArchitectureMay 2019 Bachelors of Science in Architecture, Product Design Minor Graduated GPA: 3.842with / 4.0High Honors

Experience

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Student Intern UNO Facilities Management & Planning Updated building plans and used existing plans to create Revit models for future use.

Designed small scale renovations and repairs. Obtained construction documents, bids, and cost estimates to facilitate projects. Helped with weekly project update meetings.

Architectural Intern

Carlson West Povondra Architects

Working with pre-design, schematics, design development, and construction documents.

Help with design options for clients, detail drawings, renderings, plans, cost estimates, and addenda. Working on numerous projects ranging from new, large-scale construction to renovations on existing structures. Variety of projects including schools, commerical offices, churches, auto dealerships, and correctional facilities. Created and manage company’s Instagram.

Peer Mentor

Summer 2014 & 2015

2016 - Present

UNL Learning Communities 2016 - Present 2019

Student peer mentor to 30 freshmen in the Responsible Design Learning Community majoring in pre-architecture, pre-interior design, and pre-landscape architecture. In charge of program and event planning to build community among students in a way to promote learning and career development. Hold weekly study hours to help students with projects and student well-being along with bi-weekly meetings to discuss status of students with supervisor and additional mentor training throughout the year.

Graduate Teaching AssistantSheldon UNL College Architecture Visitor Services Associate Museumofof Art 2017 - 2018 2019-2021 Greet visitors to thefor museum, the galleries answering guests’design questions ensure2021 Teaching assistant Fall 2019walk Semester for sophomore interior studioand & Spring the safety for of artwork during events.

Ongoing trainingand throughout thevarious year learning Semester freshman dMake studio.

Give lectures tutorials on design about topics, help history theory of pieces onstudent display. work, and mentor students through projects and critiques. developand studio projects, grade

2017 - Present

Honors UNL - David Distinguished Scholarship Mary E. Roelfs Scholarship Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Dean’s List - Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017 American Concrete Institute RT Delorm Scholarship Nebraska Association Competition Graduated with High Honors

Certifications

Contact 402.681.4831 williamdendinger@gmail.com 8908 Fairview Rd. Papillion, NE 68046

CLRA Certified Master Mentor

References Mike West, AIA, LEED

Principal Architect

Contact Info: 402.551.1500

Contact Info: 02.472.0698

Interests Sushi

mwest@cwparchitects.com

Jordan Black, M.A. Assistant Director

Carlson West Povondra Architects 5060 Dodge St, Omaha, NE 68132

UNL Learning Communities & Academics

Travel Exercise

jblack@unl.edu

860 N 17th St, P.O. Box 880602, Lincoln, NE 68588

Music

Fu t u r i s t i c

American Society of Landscape Architects

Significance

2016 - Present, Group Leader 2017 & 2018

Autodesk Revit Rhino Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Lightroom Lumion Enscape

Competition

UNL Big Event

2015 - Present

Achiever

Delta Upsilon Fraternity

Skills

Strategic

Activities

SGH Dri Design Awards - Bronze Finalist Ride Lincoln Transit Hub The proposed design for a new Ride Lincoln Transit Hub activates a forgotten corner of UNL’s campus and becomes a gateway to the university, downtown, and the Haymarket district while creating a social node for transit users. This design looks at architecture on a larger scale going beyond the building itself and plugging into a network of infrastructure systems on a city-wide and regional scale. Through initial resesearch and site analysis, the current site of 10th and Q Street is a highly trafficked, yet underdeveloped corner of campus and downtown. UNL’s masterplan has slotted this area for future re-development as prominent to both the university and the city, and our design seeks to create a new transit hub.

By shifting the city bus routes to converge at 10th and Q to a new, more equipped terminal, an opportunity is created to link both UNL and city bus routes. Our design acts as a gateway to campus, downtown, and the Haymarket. The terminal acts a node connecting two bus systems, a popular ride-sharing drop off location, bike routes, close proximity to the Haymarket rail station, and next to I-180.

Reforming Distopia

Urban Design School The need to reform architectural education has never been more apparent than it is now. A student survey conducted in 2016 by the Architects’ Journal found that at least 25% of students in the UK currently are seeking treatment for mental health issues due to architecture school, with an additional 25% anticipating to seek help in the future.

This project takes this issue and accelerates it into the near future. With context in mind in urban Chicago, the narrative is set in a distopian period in history. The 2030 Challenge for all new buildings to be carbon neutral has failed miserably and Chicago has become a polluted wasteland held under the heavy hand of a totalitarian government. Creating this narrative is a connection to the mental health of the designer. As the negative aspects of architecture school degrade the minds of students who will one day be in charge of designing our physical environments, long lasting impacts will affect our society for decades.

My intervention on the site features a 23-storey tower holding an experimental architecture school. The school is able to hold 50 students, with space for dormitories, studios, a digital maker space, a woodshop, gym, library, lounges, dining hall, and faculty offices.

The building towers above the surrounding buildings as a landmark element within the urban site. It is to be seen as a beacon of hope within the distopian Chicago setting and within the educational reform of architecture. The building is sliced diagonally as it is carved by the L train passing. The lower portion features vertical precast panelling with voids allowing for windows. This creates a heavy effect, grounding it to the site, while the upper portion floats above made up of hexagonal panels responding to the program. The lower panels are frosted glass to cover the unusable portions of the building, with aluminum panels covering certain areas like the critique and lecture hall, and clear glass panels for the rest. This portion of the building is elevated and floating above the site.

The studios located at the top of this floating mass offer students a new perspective to look out upon the world they will be affecting.

In my drawings, the site starts out in 2030 shown as a polluted and distopian Chicago, but as it advances through 2040, and into 2050 in the other drawings, Chicago and the surrounding site begin to become a vibrant setting as it currently is today.

Scale model situated within contextual site mdoel of Chicago’s South Loop.

Reforming Distopia Urban Narrative

ROOS VELT UNIVER I Y

In the near future, 2030, the human population grows exponentially. Wars break out over resources, pollution chokes the air and seas, and governments control citizens through force. The once bright future imagined by designers is now a dark, faded image of the past. The designer is downtrodden in work and education through long hours, sleep deprivation, & rigid hierarchies. The mind is no longer bright & imaginative, but now plagued with depression and paranoia, spreading to the rest of society. The New School in Chicago is an experimental project aimed at elevating and educating the designer with hopes of building a bright new society for the future.

2030

2040

Detailed site axon set in distopian 2030 Chicago. (Above) Rendered narratives 2030, 2040, & 2050. (Right)

2050

ROOF LEVEL ROOF LEVEL 323’-0” 323’-0”

LEVEL 23LEVEL 303’23 -0” 303’-0”

LEVEL 21LEVEL 289’-210” 289’-0”

LEVEL 20LEVEL 275’20 -0” 275’-0”

LEVEL 19LEVEL 261’-0” 19 261’-0”

LEVEL 18LEVEL 247’-18 0” 247’-0”

LEVEL 17LEVEL 233’-17 0” 233’-0”

LEVEL 16LEVEL 219’-0” 16 219’-0”

LEVEL 15LEVEL 205’-150” 205’-0”

LEVEL 14LEVEL 191’-0”14 191’-0”

LEVEL 13LEVEL 177’-0” 13 177’-0”

LEVEL 12LEVEL 163’-0” 12 163’-0”

LEVEL 11 LEVEL 149’-0”11 149’-0”

LEVEL 10LEVEL 135’-0” 10 135’-0”

LEVEL 9 LEVEL 121’-0”9 121’-0”

LEVEL 8 LEVEL 107’-0” 8 107’-0”

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 93’-0”7 93’-0”

LEVEL 6 LEVEL 79’-0”6 79’-0”

LEVEL 5 LEVEL 65’-0”5 65’-0”

LEVEL 4 LEVEL 51’-0”4 51’-0”

LEVEL 3 LEVEL 37’-0”3 37’-0”

LEVEL 2 LEVEL 23’-0”2 23’-0”

LEVEL 1 LEVEL 0’-0” 1 0’-0”

SOUTH SOUTH ELEVATION ELEVATION

2050 2050

SCALE: SCALE: 1/16” 1/16” = 1’-0”= 1’-0”

ROOF LEVEL ROOF LEVEL 323’-0” 323’-0”

LEVEL 23LEVEL 303’23 -0” 303’-0”

LEVEL 21LEVEL 289’-210” 289’-0”

LEVEL 20LEVEL 275’20 -0” 275’-0”

LEVEL 19LEVEL 261’-0” 19 261’-0”

LEVEL 18LEVEL 247’-18 0” 247’-0”

LEVEL 17LEVEL 233’-17 0” 233’-0”

LEVEL 16LEVEL 219’-0” 16 219’-0”

LEVEL 15LEVEL 205’-150” 205’-0”

LEVEL 14LEVEL 191’-0”14 191’-0”

LEVEL 13LEVEL 177’-0” 13 177’-0”

LEVEL 12LEVEL 163’-0” 12 163’-0”

LEVEL 11 LEVEL 149’-0”11 149’-0”

LEVEL 10LEVEL 135’-0” 10 135’-0”

LEVEL 9 LEVEL 121’-0”9 121’-0”

LEVEL 8 LEVEL 107’-0” 8 107’-0”

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 93’-0”7 93’-0”

LEVEL 6 LEVEL 79’-0”6 79’-0”

LEVEL 5 LEVEL 65’-0”5 65’-0”

LEVEL 4 LEVEL 51’-0”4 51’-0”

LEVEL 3 LEVEL 37’-0”3 37’-0”

LEVEL 2 LEVEL 23’-0”2 23’-0”

LEVEL 1 LEVEL 0’-0” 1 0’-0”

EAST EAST ELEVATION ELEVATION

SCALE: SCALE: 1/16” 1/16” = 1’-0”= 1’-0”

Retreating From Distopia

Rural Design School

This project takes the narrative from the urban site in Chicago and accelerates it further into the future. Rather than being successful at changing the distopian society from the urban site, the previous tower of the New School in Chicago fails and society collapses. The narrative continues as a retreat away from society for the designer to rediscover the creativity that once existed in design education.

When visiting our site, located 12 miles west of Spalding, NE, near the Highway 91 & Highway 281 Junction, a sense of vastness and awe fell over the studio. Looking out from where the two highways intersect, the sandy hills stretched endlessly into the horizon. As we ventured further into the sandhills toward the plot of land our site sat on, the large scale of this site became overwhelmingly apparent. When standing on top of the dunes or hills, one could see for miles, but down in the valleys, the hills towered over making you feel small. Standing behind the dunes and out of the wind, there was almost no sound present and it felt as if you were isolated from the rest of the world.

The site had a subtle and quiet, yet strong power to it. It felt as if any manmade object here would be noticeably present and act as a landmark, but after a few years, nature would take control and the windblown hills will creep over and cover it. This slow powerful sense of nature demanded a certain respect and awe for the site that has the power to shift and erase itself over time.

Due to the fact that this narrative is set in 2080, the project had the opportunity to utilize future technologies, such as drones, which access the site via several landing pads. As users fly from the nearest population center, they experience the sandhills from a new vantage point being above the land whizzing by at hundreds of miles per hour until they glimpse the massive monoliths emerging from the landscape that are the building. Visitors would begin to descend and slow in flight as they approach until they are hovering above the landing pad with sand flying up in clouds around the drone. As they exit into this cloud they would glimpse the massive monolith before them and process up to the doors

to enter.

Drone landing sequence at site.

Underground critique & lecture space displaying rammed earth walls and high ceilings punctured with skylights to create a “sacred� space.

View from drone flying above the sandhills showing drone pads, rammed earth monoliths, and dwelling units arranged in a ring.

Section cut through grand hall entry, gallery, and sacred critique spaces.

Elevation of monoliths and dwelling units.

Site master plan.

Product The Art ofDesign Seating Exhibiton Duality Stool

The design of the Duality Stool stems from the idea of creating a single form with mulitple uses and changes in persona. Users can easily transform the stool by simply rotating the chair to create a secondary seat. As the chair is rotated, the personality of it changes as well. When situated with the seat back upright in a high position, the stool takes on a formal, elegant personality. As it rotates and transforms into the horizontal position, the curves become more vivacious and animated creating a fun, casual persona to sit on. The dramatic curves of the stool, combined with the soft wood entice users to touch the stool and explore its dual personalities.

Formal, upright seat.

Casual, relaxed stool.

Kruger Gallery Envelopment UNL’s Kruger Gallery is home to one of the nation’s largest collections of miniature furniture pieces. My group and I were tasked with designing an exhibition piece to highlight a miniature of Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair. The concept behind the Womb Chair is that it would conform to users’ bodies and absorb them in its form. Our design for this exhibition uses over five hundred 3D printed modules which were then assembled in a form that appears to grow and envelope the exhibition pedestal.

Detail of modules.

Womb Chair and pedestal enveloped by 3D printed form.

Glitter Urbanism - UNL Thesis LGBTQ Narratives in Architecture My thesis topic is looking at the idea of what defines queer space and the relationship between the LGBTQ community and the built environment of Chicago. By examining gender, sexuality, and bodily identity, we can begin to make connections to the idea of queer space as a temporal, fleeting atmosphere defined by occupants, events, and the stories of these spaces. Through the lens of “camp“ and its exaggeration, contradiction, and parody my thesis aims at sprinkling queer spaces throughout the urban landscape in vibrant moments that evoke visibility and connection to the emotions and stories of LGBTQ figures and events which have often been overlooked or erased. The interviews I have conducted provide the characters and the narratives which then become the basis for a catalogue of queer spaces to exist across a larger site, Chicago.

The emotional stories of historical events to everyday life all play out across the city. Each architectural intervention is connected in the same way these characters are, through their location within the city and their tie to being a part of the LGBTQ community. The complex and multi-faceted aspects of LGBTQ life play out across the Chicago landscape, each intervention taking on an aspect of sex, politics, discrimination, disease, celebration, religion, homelessness, community, etc. They may know and interact with one another or may be completely unaware and individual, but each person and space is tied through the social imaginary existing within Chicago’s LGBTQ life of queer space. The idea is that Chicago’s urban landscape becomes sprinkled with the lives and stories of the LGBTQ community throughout in temporary or permanent ways, ever changing and vibrant, acting as a “glitter urbanism.”

AIDS Inflatable - Axon

AIDS Inflatable - Eidetic Image

Fruit Loops - Site Plan

Fruit Loops - Eidetic Image

Fruit Loops - Site Axon

CWPA BaxterInternship Auto Group Headquarters Misc.

ClientRenderings Renderings As an architectural intern working at Carlson West Povondra Architects, one of my responsibilities has included creating renderings of multiple projects. These are created for client visuals and may be used for promotional uses, construction document title pages, and site signage.

West Dodge Point, new corporate headquarters for Baxter Auto Group.

Staff cafe & break room

Second floor lounge & waiting area

First floor executive board room

Lexus of Omaha AIA Awards Submission Graphics

Showroom Section

Column Detail Diagram

Site Plan

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