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RADICAL ARBORETUM Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Typology: Theoretical Arboretum Date: Spring 2018 Software Used: After Effects, Illustrator, Lumion, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Rhino, SketchUp, Vray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546930033552-2V367949968IASEDL2C8/Urban.01.gif Radical Urbanism This assignment was intense. The overall idea was to replace the industrial sites in Minneapolis with an arboretum. This arboretum must include a visitor center, hydroponic towers, gardens, public spaces, and bridges that made crossing the Mississippi easy. This was a very stressful assignment, mainly because the decaying industrial areas were huge and creating videos ended up being a larger challenge than expected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931028950-WXI1C67O2O5E45LNBDHK/Urban.04.gif Radical Urbanism In the end, I created six videos that range from three minutes to seven minutes in length. Click on the GIFs to view my two favorite videos I created. Overall, this studio was fun. Mark Barnhouse, my studio professor, pushed us to use Lumion and explore a variety of movie making software. I’m still not a fan of Lumion, but there are ways to make Lumion an interesting film creator. Learning Adobe After Effects and Premier Pro was very helpful for me today. I am a movie buff so learning these film making tools became very helpful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931468645-92RGO4Q3ABISJEOV0E2V/Urban.07.png Radical Urbanism - Bridge Roundabout https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931483193-2OHYSN9OL2QIU8NU3QPY/Urban.08.png Radical Urbanism - Bridge Section https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931487571-5GLPS97MISL3D6NY0BV1/Urban.09.png Radical Urbanism - Visitor Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931499255-5QONLSR0KZ5FPC6JEQBF/Urban.10.png Radical Urbanism - Visitor Center Plan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931457266-1Y2UOQH7RR90BCXMM9TJ/Urban.03.png Radical Urbanism - Hydroponic Structure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931451762-EH1IZFNSB9WOIQHZJUPQ/Urban.05.png Radical Urbanism - Hydroponic Floorplan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931468607-B2F81402370FCJ60K5ZL/Urban.06.png Radical Urbanism - Hydroponic Floorplan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931498972-V7L5FK6C30U20I77IA00/Urban.11.png Radical Urbanism - Hydroponic Structure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931522856-OUIF3I5LQ5HGWABIQEBO/Urban.12.png Radical Urbanism - Bridge Roundabout https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931520317-LSEDP1FY5Y8BNEZLWP7V/Urban.13.png Radical Urbanism - Visitor Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931537583-KU7DYFOHPGVESF8GJ0MS/Urban.14.png Radical Urbanism - Greenhouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546931539164-3N5CXNM0JN4XCQXOPLVT/Urban.15.png Radical Urbanism - Conservatory https://www.shaunrolfes.com/about daily 0.75 2019-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547405949980-HZ0REB9PP9604HB5X4EU/image-asset.png Contact https://www.shaunrolfes.com/2017 daily 0.75 2019-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546843470114-CLHEMY7IU3X7SNHI9E22/HighRise.13.png High Rise - HIGH RISE Location: San Francisco, California Typology: Mixed-Use High Rise Date: Fall 2017 Model Materials: Acrylic Software Used: AutoCad, Grasshopper, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Rhino, Vray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546843687958-ARXET7HYOI45HUPREAYP/HighRise.01.png High Rise The high rise assignment of fourth year studio is considered the capstone class for the bachelors degree at NDSU. It is a very complex assignment. As a class, the first stage in the investigation phase was to travel as a class to San Francisco. We flew there and spent five days exploring the city and investigating our given site, everyone in the class was given a different site in San Francisco. After our visit, we studied the codes of San Francisco and had to publish a book on our findings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546843752859-VCTNKJ81LGJK3AE4N4PC/HighRise.14.png High Rise There were numerous drawings and renderings that were necessary for the final presentation. Technical drawings, exploded section cuts, a variety of interior and exterior renderings, and a physical model. It was the hardest studio I have ever had; even in 2019, no other studio can compare. I went a different path than other students in my class. At this time in my life, I wanted to push industrial design. In rhino, I would create my own light fixtures and furniture. Whenever I got annoyed at designing my building, I would design something else. My professor, Don Faulkner, even told me to stop designing furniture and instead further design the building. I refused. 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The goal was to make a small, floating home to float to fit within the unique house boat community that float on the Mississippi river. This was the first project where we were allowed to use the laser cutters, 3D printers, and render architectural drawings digitally. Since I only knew Adobe programs entering this studio, I dived into Rhino and Grasshopper immediately. Mike Christenson is known as the Rhino and Grasshopper expert at NDSU; I would approach him if I had any problems and now people at NDSU come to me for help with these programs. I didn’t just dip my toes in the water for this project, I jumped into it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724709093-FJC6FO733JAN7VI90CRI/Float.01.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724761269-212FO6AL1XB33XYXYGPA/Float.07.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724686783-KM84ZBQ12JUDXOZMJEI5/Float.02.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724774548-6BU4XI3ZDBGE68HBHN1N/Float.12.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724779191-CVP5C35SR3V77LFHV6YT/Float.13.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724728378-XNYINXBOZ66T99UG0LWM/Float.05.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724725704-JTQRUFNPO72FU6L99B52/Float.04.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724761275-V23C75NS0LGGGZ759AGN/Float.06.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724765846-ZWHXDDLDOTO9JARK805B/Float.08.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724766316-TQCSVM5XRHJBW10UYTNE/Float.10.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724773940-EGR84C5LCL5K0AZSABN5/Float.11.png Boathouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546724786152-I8A5ALLRM8KWO3TM6PIK/Float.14.png Boathouse https://www.shaunrolfes.com/resume daily 0.75 2021-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1629168414566-SP66L55FD0QW5H5M39YR/Resume2021-01.jpg Resume - 2021 Resume https://www.shaunrolfes.com/marvin-window-competition daily 0.75 2021-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546903209337-PXPN1V269VRZHQOB785P/Marvin.01.png Marvin Window Competition - MARVIN WINDOW COMPETITION Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: Competition Date: Spring 2017 Software Used: Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhino, Revit, Vray This was a small competition with to create a small home for our professors, Cindy Urness and Mark Barnhouse. There was a long list of things to do over this week long assignment, but essentially the goal was to create four boards showing our design intention while using windows by Marvin Windows, a custom window manufacturer located in Minnesota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546903382559-BN80VKQTZX4CQIUQN5XO/Marvin.02.png Marvin Window Competition - Board One https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546903382908-7T24Y1U0PA4EB714CGEK/Marvin.03.png Marvin Window Competition - Board Two https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546903519536-6VQ8DCHK3N88JYX7LM9B/Marvin.04.png Marvin Window Competition - Board Three https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546903522277-MBV3OC7RBMAT2AT9NXYH/Marvin.05.png Marvin Window Competition - Board Four https://www.shaunrolfes.com/noma-competition daily 0.75 2019-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547074586867-S2RD9G6EZJO3JY0QFWRQ/Noma.01.png NOMA Competition - NOMA STUDENT COMPETITION Location: Chicago, Illinois Typology: Transit Center Date: Fall 2018 Model Material: 3D Printed Material, Acrylic, Paper, Wood Software Used: AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhino, Revit, Vray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547074636893-LOUJQA6X91OIKKE2AAUD/Noma.02.png NOMA Competition I have been a member to NOMA since the fall of 2016. It is a club that promotes diversity in the architecture field, which I am a strong advocate for. This is the first year that NDSU’s NOMA chapter that has ever competed in the student competition that NOMA puts on every fall. This year, the assignment was to create a new transit hub that is mixed use and opens the doors to planned Barack Obama Presidential Library that is a short distance away from our site. This was an intense assignment, only because there was a lot of collaboration between all of the students and the advisers to our club, Doug Hansen and Bakr Aly Ahmed. For the competition, we had to create four boards that followed NOMA’s criteria and an optional model. We wanted to stand out, so we used loud colors for our boards and we even created two models when none were required. When attending the conference, the whole four day excursion was very surreal. The eight of us who went were running all over Chicago trying to move our boards and models from event to event. We would throw our models into Ubers, have our boards get crushed int he doors to the L, and dodging cars as we ran to get to the competition held at the Chicago Architecture Center. We didn’t win the competition unfortunately, but we mainly wanted a taste of what the competition is made of. The students now know what to expect next year when they compete. After the competition, I competed in a competition to get funding for NOMA since next year the NOMA club does not have funding. I competed in JLG’s (a firm located in Fargo) ninety second video competition where you make a film that says why you chose NDSU. We don’t know if we won yet, but I really hope we do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547075405144-MYAECWCM4I0RKTMVB42B/Noma.03.png NOMA Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547075451304-3EXCB42IDK5NX63L1BBF/Noma.04.png NOMA Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547075576025-X4ZBWIDFH8DJ89QE8L97/Noma.05.png NOMA Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547075550554-ST0DU888THLG9K30UK67/Noma.06.png NOMA Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547075604921-B61KDMJ3A65IDVZTY4RL/Noma.07.png NOMA Competition - NOMA Competition Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547075622455-DF5IWKZ6FJ9A1CVYZKG8/Noma.08.png NOMA Competition - NOMA Meeting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547075661089-Z8TQWCI3DF0RPLLJ3V5Z/Noma.09.png NOMA Competition - NOMA Meeting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547075670102-KFXEU0SNQPF0FF9FSYLF/Noma.10.png NOMA Competition - NOMA Meeting https://www.shaunrolfes.com/obama-library daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547057288795-RMA2OJ2JEQOD5P0P5LMT/Obama.03.png Barack Obama Library - BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Location: Chicago, Illinois Typology: 3D Model Date: Fall 2018 Software Used: Illustrator, Rhino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547057349729-EQS2WOSATTIKRIHON9TI/Obama.04.png Barack Obama Library This was a small component that I produced for the NOMA club I participate in. Everyone in my club was assigned to do something for the 2018 NOMA competition in Chicago, Illinois, and I was in charge to 3D model the presidential library that is planned to be built in Chicago. However, this is in a very early stage of production so there were no drawings and no fully produced renders. I didn’t have much to work with. Attempting to find some images so I can model the library in Rhino, I fell upon a movie that shows the full library in model form. Taking photos from this YouTube video, I created elevations for the library. With these elevations, I brought them into Rhino where I was able to fully create the planned library. The video that helped me 3D model the presidential library is featured below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547057528801-Q2JGN1HQBGPAZ4IJ5OF4/Obama.01.png Barack Obama Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547057527748-7VGH0DIXV4RR5I289RVH/Obama.02.png Barack Obama Library https://www.shaunrolfes.com/ephemeral-project daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840549583-LMQS6CYLWUCKJAI8FWU6/Ephemeral.02.png Ephemeral Project - EPHEMERAL Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: Competition Date: Spring 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840582736-0CSEDAXJXFF0KLKV53F9/Ephemeral.01.png Ephemeral Project This was a small competition that was intended as a break from our high rise project. However it was more stressful than originally anticipated. The ephemeral project was super open ended; anyone in studio could create whatever they wanted. I have been pushing fashion with my architecture degree; I see a lot of similarities in the two disciplines. I wanted to create to garments, one that disappears with water and one with fire but they reveal something new after the reaction. The combustible outfit is a jacket made from paper with Donald Tr**p’s face on it with a metal shirt underneath the jacket. The soluble outfit is two shirts, one made from stabilizer (the fabric behind embroidery) and clear vinyl with the word “SHAME!” screen printed on it. Photos below show the process of my work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840747879-BUNI3K8H1LX73PVF3TCU/Ephemeral.08.png Ephemeral Project - Combustible Outfit - Paper Jacket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840716302-23U5RIU40A5GFUFBAOQ2/Ephemeral.06.png Ephemeral Project - Combustible Outfit - Metal Shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840711288-NFR5AVD2FVHG6CN5YLTR/Ephemeral.05.png Ephemeral Project - Soluble Outfit - Vinyl Shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840744418-T4237ZDF0KPIJCEGXAXS/Ephemeral.07.png Ephemeral Project - Soluble Outfit - Stabilizer Shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840686564-2GBF81AIX4H5XIQ2N9HL/Ephemeral.04.png Ephemeral Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840815437-0KLSBKGKAI11TVQISF1W/Ephemeral.09.png Ephemeral Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840811798-A7S5Y6KBDEIE16MAIERQ/Ephemeral.10.png Ephemeral Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840869841-27E9WD9EV3ZT47MCQ5DE/Ephemeral.11.png Ephemeral Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546841047421-7QT9Y05LO6AQI4N448ZM/Ephemeral.13.png Ephemeral Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840690446-IR9D9R1CV0D7BSCHC87X/Ephemeral.03.png Ephemeral Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546840990028-E4TSN87HUJAO61J8RS5R/Ephemeral.12.png Ephemeral Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546841052233-GK30E14X1OVRUY7EPHON/Ephemeral.14.png Ephemeral Project https://www.shaunrolfes.com/thesis-proposal daily 0.75 2019-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547098830273-3PPALKMO7UHY6DCKBL0S/Proposal.01.png Thesis Proposal - THESIS NARRATIVE Location: Toronto, Ontario Typology: Subway Design Part One: Fall 2018 Part Two: Spring 2019 (Coming Soon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099046464-HS4CEBIFV14W4SL025A8/Proposal.02.png Thesis Proposal Toronto is a faceless city. It isn’t the Euro-American hybrid that Montréal successfully grips. It doesn’t have the natural beauty of the coastal city of Vancouver. Chicago and New York both grasp a grunge aesthetic that is specific to their long history. Toronto doesn’t have an image when compared to other cosmopolitan cities. Toronto is possibly one of the bleakest cities in Canada. It is clear that functionalism silenced the populous city, prioritizing the algebratization of their people and architecture. Toronto has created a new language, a triumphant voice for science, technology, and businesses. A poetic vision of the physical world was pushed aside, seen as an illegitimate aspiration for knowledge. It is an obvious loss of human intimacy. In a city that has a metro population nearing six million people and housing over two hundred languages, Toronto has a celebrated population. These humans create the city, they create the language. But language is now devalued, it fails the human experience of communicative settings for action in the present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099158667-WH7DN9RKS93NYKVYIMTV/Proposal.03.png Thesis Proposal This loss of language is due to cities, they have stopped being articulations of ritual spaces; they have had a shift towards movement, mere circulations. In the book, Timely Meditations by Alberto Pérez-Gómez, he quotes, “Circulation of fluids, such as air, fresh water and sewage for hygienic purposes, circulation of goods for commerce and consumption, and circulation of people…” (Gómez 116). Humans today are seen as a commodity. We are objects. Seeing humans as simple objects causes a fall in public space and a sterilization of language. The spoken word can’t be understood by mere letters and words or figures and numbers; spoken word is pregnant with meaning that is grasped with the texture of linguistic gestures. A hesitation, a simple stutter, or a change in volume can change the meaning of what was spoken entirely. Every expression is seen as a trace, a degree of opacity and given to the person with transparency. These intimate gestures can be experienced through the frozen gestures of public space. Public spaces should be particular to a specific culture that is embodied in stories while projecting imaginative thinking that enriches life and values. These architectural spaces enable human freedom by revealing the limits associated with particular human actions. Gomez quotes, “This intersubjective and emotional space of face-to-face communication is crucial for human self-understanding” (Gómez 113). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099347122-LCE7NMHSRB4JBRJN6D8J/Proposal.04.png Thesis Proposal Possibly the only space where humans can see each other as humans is within public spaces, but public spaces are in danger. In fact, Richard Sennett, the author of The Fall of Public Man, points out that the fall of the public space is due to the fall of the Augustan Age, a time when the term res publica, or public affair, was defined. Spaces are either owned by the state or by the citizen, which is translates to res private. A public space is not owned by your family or friends, but is a shared space, joined together by people. In Roman terms, this space was called a Forum Magnum. These forum spaces were scattered all over Italy and similar plazas throughout Europe. Public space functioned as a marketplace, a social gathering place, a space for social activities. The psyche of the people in Rome was level. You would go out in the world, discuss politics and interact with people then go home to your personal, religious transcendence. It wasn’t until seventeenth century when society took on the definitions of “public” and “private.” Sennett quotes, “’Public’ meant open to scrutiny of anyone whereas ‘private’ meant a sheltered region of life” (Sennett 16). It is extremely hard to find public spaces in the modern age. Even if you linger in a park, that park could be considered private space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099444403-84N2XC1VM0A5CUF9TD2E/Proposal.05.png Thesis Proposal In the year 2018, we are still stuck in the nineteenth century era that is surrounded by fear. There is a standoff between moralities in public space. We create this tension between our inner beings and the space we occupy. There needs to be a blur between the concrete outer world and our inner world. Our bodies and the natural world must negotiate, a convergence of reality and fantasy. Weston paraphrases the book Nadja in her essay Surrealist Paris. André Breton, the author of Nadja, starts his book with the question, “Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I ‘haunt’” (Breton 11). Breton, also the narrator of the book, is taken on a ten-day journey following his phantom-like guide named Nadja. We are transported to this gloomy October afternoon, an uncertain world that is connected with spatial and temporal meanings. October can metaphorically mean regeneration, nature starting over, or it could blatantly mimic death. These associations between human definitions and the natural world is extremely surreal and intimate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099548148-HN0FRSN4UMD6ELMDIP3Y/Proposal.06.png Thesis Proposal The triangle, the shape of the park that Nadja and Breton sit, has numerous connotations. It could reference a sinister occult, an alchemical work, or even sexual meaning. The city is dramatic because it mimics human characters, consequently, this is why Breton falls in love with Nadja. Her vision of the world provokes Breton, whom is in love with her storytelling and memories of Paris. He despises her as an ordinary being but loves her for her memories. He desires her. Breton quotes, “Don’t I love her? When I am near her, I am nearer things which are near her.” Cities are dreamed up beings, we desire them. Just like how Breton desires Nadja, these desires are memories. Cities are already familiar to us, they are measurements of its space and the events of their past. The rules within cities are absurd, their perspectives are deceitful, and everything conceals something else. In Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, we are taken on a journey through fifty-five fictional cities. But cities do not tell their past. “… but contains it like the lines of a hand… “(Calvino 11). The modern city leads you through it without a story line, a city without being discovered. Marco Polo, the main character in Invisible Cities, who is considered the storyteller, repeatedly tells his experiences throughout the cities. The city of Zobeide, the white city exposed to the moon as if it was built from a dream. The city of Hypatia, a city that Marco Polo considers a trap, is a city surrounded by marigold fields and blue lagoons where crabs bite the eyes of the suicides at the bottom of the lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099617667-32RX11J3LIKN29ZYW685/Proposal.07.png Thesis Proposal Marco Polo quotes, “… in Hypatia, the day will come when my only desire will be to leave. I know I must not go down to the harbor then but climb the citadel’s highest pinnacle and wait for a ship to go by up there. But will it ever go by? There is no language without deceit” (Calvino 48). Calvino quotes, “Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist” (Calvino 19). We see these cities through redundant memories, repeating signs that relive our past experiences. It is all left for Marco, the commuter, the tourist, the voyeur, to create the plot and to create a journey. Calvino’s novel does not critique architectural settings an atmosphere; he critiques how we should live. In the modern city, there is a loss in civility; a loss in humanity, public life, and personality. This is all caused by the overall loss in civility. Sennett defines civility as “… treating others as though they were strangers and forging a social bond from a social distance” (Sennett 328). Incivility is burdening others with oneself. It is the decrease in sociability with others, a burden of personality. People become uncivil when they need others to enter into their daily traumas of their own lives. They invest little interest in others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099727408-SCFHSR74NDYCGYV9953U/Proposal.08.png Thesis Proposal Public spaces are in jeopardy, where can the modern human meet with others? Public transportation is possibly the only place left where people are forced to be amongst strangers. Subways are of another world. You are forced to descend into the depths of the city; the concrete labyrinths that force you to move through the rapid-transit maze, negotiating through the movement of the body. Subways challenge out ability to keep to ourselves; we look around trying to pass the time, but we meet our eyes with someone else; a lost stranger may ask you for directions; we may get up and move so an elderly person can sit; you may even have to push people out of the way to exit. Subway stations have an animalistic atmosphere. No matter how hard we want to keep to ourselves, we are forced to interact with the passengers. It may not happen during every train ride, but it will happen. Subways create this community of passengers, there is a mutual ground that everyone shares, a sense of participation, just like that of the Roman Forum. The essence of the forum has disappeared. Modern society now pressures their citizens to follow a specific moral code; people must follow a certain religion, a specific way of believing. This new interpretation of pubic space has bad associations in modern times.Privatization is on the rise in some areas and in developing, industrialized worlds, these symbolic spaces are translated as repressive political and economic spaces https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099830221-0S9QZQWRFK4KD243RPFO/Proposal.09.png Thesis Proposal This may be hard to wrap our heads around, since most of us grew up in western society, but public spaces can come off as dangerous, especially where activism is shunned. There are so many examples throughout history that shows how public space have turned dangerous for the common citizen. In the eighties, we had the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing that left hundreds dead. In 2014, we saw demonstrations erupt in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, that shook not only the Ukrainian city of Kiev, but much of the world. When people don’t have a space for free speech, we lose our democratic human nature and the values of public space. The deformation of public space has left it hard for the commuter to create an intimate experience. There is a confusion between public and intimate life. Sennett defines intimacy as warmth, trust, and an open expression of feeling. When avoiding eye contact, how are we to gain a trust for the strangers around us? We simply can’t. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547099934413-CYNBC6OQASQ1MXGTB4MT/Proposal.10.png Thesis Proposal We have a need to keep our individualism locked inside our privacy. We dare not show our true selves in public. We don’t experience individualism, but instead we feel anxiety. A nervous quest to find our personality; an adaptive and stable system that absorbs socio-emotional traits. The intimacy in public space has drastically deformed. The most intimate of personal experiences, physical love, has changed the most throughout the ages. Sennett says, “Victorian eroticism involved social relationships, sexuality involves personal identity” (Sennett 7). Sexuality isn’t an act, it can’t be a physical being; instead it is a state of being. A human cannot master sexuality, it is ever changing and expanding the more we experience. The physical act of love only follows as a passive result of two people feeling intimate with each other. Sennett goes as far as saying this sex revelation is a new “slavery” that substituted the old. I’m not saying we all should go out and have sex in public. But Sennett is trying to say is that we should find intimacy and become comfortable with our sexuality in public spaces. You lose yourself in the subway. The sensuous rhythm of the train, the lost track of time, the lost sense of distance, subways bring out the peep show devil in you. But who cares? We may never see these strangers again physically, but our memories may hold onto these intimate events that public spaces create. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547100039214-82YRVMNIMTL6G0ES08FL/Proposal.11.png Thesis Proposal I want people to dream about the subways just like how Poliphilo dreams of Polia through an intimate journey. The cultish book of Hypnerotomachia Polifili is about an obsessive search for love; a false love that is all within a dream. Poliphilo starts his dream, walking through a threatening dark forest and describes all of the monuments he passes: pyramids, obelisks, the ruins of classical buildings, the ornamentations on buildings, and so on. It is important to remember that this was the first narration of architectural intentions through distinctive wood cuts, as shown throughout this presentation. Hypnerotomachia conveys the presence of erotic space, an emotional space. Poliphilo gets nursed back to health with the encounter of five nymphs, depicting the five senses, that sexually arouse him. Walking throughout the forest, Poliphilo chose to enter the gate of love, vita voluptuaria, where he meets Polia. The two “lovers” soon witness a sacrifice to Priapus; the god of fertility. After they witness this sacrifice, Poliphilo and Polia enter the “Temple of Love,” which is a perfect circular building of great beauty. This temple was dedicated to the god Venus, who is the god of sex, beauty, and fertility. They wander together throughout the fairy-tale-like setting. When they embrace with happiness, Poliphilo wakes up from his dream, alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547100124012-K4CD7KMIP3IN4V267RDE/Proposal.12.png Thesis Proposal Alberto Perez- Gómez from his book Polyphilo: The Dark Forest Revisited, quotes “This motion of the poetic imagination allows the modern hero to “inhabit” the diverse works and “deobjectify” them, extracting a philosophical and ethical lesson for the architect of the future.” In Gómez’s interpretation of Hypnerotomachia, his book Polyphilo: The Dark Forest Revisited, he takes us on a modern interpretation of Polihilo meeting his lover Polia. But instead of a forest, we are transported within the vessel of a plane. We are the commuter. The subway rush hour is packed with mysterious and alluring strangers. We wait patiently for our train to arrive as we slowly encroach on the yellow line dividing the platform’s safe space with the deadly train tracks as people push from behind. We see the businessmen on their phones, students with their heavy backpacks longing to go home, the lovers kissing in the corner, and the tired families with their screaming children. We wait. We wait for the train, we seek out our friends, our family, but they’re not with us. We are alone, yet still within a community. Sennett quotes, “The crowd is man the animal left off the leash” (Sennett 369). When we are in a community, we are being real. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547100181292-N2D9333OG40FAHEZ3OCR/Proposal.13.png Thesis Proposal Privatization has ruined a sense of public space, which is clear in the Bloor-Yonge station. When entering this station, you don’t know what you are in. Did we enter a mall? Where is the subway station? Bloor-Yonge focuses too heavily on capitalizing off their commuters. There are six entrances to the Bloor-Yonge station, but only one allows you to directly enter the subway station. Five of the entrances force the commuter to enter either through the Hudson Bay Centre or the Xerox Centre. These two buildings converge into one large shopping mall with offices above the department stores. The merging of public transportation and shopping is nothing new, it isn’t a terrible idea either. But it does disregard the sense of public space. I want there to be a separation between the private and the public. The hallways of a mall cannot be considered as a public space, it is a space for circulation. A space made for movement and nothing else. Gómez quotes, “We interact more with machines than with other human beings, and this results in narcissism, alienation, and the incapacity to grasp a sense of purpose for our actions…” (Gómez 114). We need to interact with humans; if we disregard the human, the result is in violent expressions of nationalism and ethnocentric behaviors. Privatization encourages a narcissistic attitude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547100272942-5ND7NWW44HGWCOLDXJFD/Proposal.14.png Thesis Proposal In contrast, the St. George station is far different than the Bloor-Yonge station. Situated north-east of downtown Toronto, St. George is solely a station. There are no department stores selling the fancy wine or the finest cosmetics. This station sits on the edge of the Annex community and the edge of downtown Toronto. Located near the Bata Shoe Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the University of Toronto, St. George serves a heavy residential, tourist, and student ridership. Technically, this station already serves as a drab public space. It can be heavily improved though, since it still only sees humans as objects, a product of circulation. These stations are the heart of the TTC. When riding the subway in Toronto, you have to cross paths with either the Bloor-Yonge Station or the St. George Station to get anywhere. If you want to get to downtown, Scarborough, or Etobicoke, you have to either change subway lines or pass through them to get to your destination. That is why these two stations are the busiest in Toronto, the Bloor-Yonge with over 350 thousand and St. George’s 250 thousand daily users. These two stations force you to join the other communities of the TTC. I see the Bloor-Yonge station and St. George station as a public spaces. I want to create spaces within these stations to allow the passengers to stop and look around. Have the passengers walk into a completely new setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547100713584-20VGHHEAC0OI11BFTYF8/Proposal.16.png Thesis Proposal Subway stations have the ability to become an urban public space that relieves the anxiety of public transportation. Allow people to wander and explore the subterranean labyrinth. There are a limitless reasons to encourage the use of public transportation. In subways, you are caught in a dialogue; preforming roles that come and go. We are the actors and the audience. We wear masks that represent roles in society; our theatrical outfits create situations. We create these situations through trial and error. Sennett says that in an era that lost religious rituals or transcendental beliefs, we can no longer where “masks” that are not readily made. Thus, these masks must be created by the individual. The development of personality today is the development of the personality as a refugee. Richard Sennett questions, “Is it human to form soft selves in a hard world? As a result of the immense fear of public life which gripped the last century, there results today a weakened sense of human will” (Sennett 323). The past has built a hidden desire for stability in the overt desire for closeness between human beings. The development of personality today is the development of the personality of a refugee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547100378583-9ZW4V2JF7CPWJZP8QHDZ/Proposal.15.png Thesis Proposal W.G. Sebald demonstrates how everyday architecture goes beyond by just being a memento. In Austerlitz, we experience the past through architectural settings, humans have a desire in human nature to make common experiences out of the past, either of one’s own or of others. Austerlitz recalls his own personal experiences through pieces of architecture. These memories and experiences that Sebald mentions are not found in the average person. Today we can see the fall of a prized way of life. We picture the past with a sense of regret, and according to Richard Sennett, “regret is a dangerous sentiment” (Sennett 321). Regret may produce empathy of the past, but regret induces a resignation about the present. This feeling of regret and lost personality is extremely clear in the Toronto subway stations; they show no history, no culture, a complete lack of human interest. Just like most subway stations in North America, these stations have deteriorated to an extent that almost creates a hostile environment for the commuter. In reality, every station I have experienced in Toronto could be improved, even the newest stations lack a sense of public life. https://www.shaunrolfes.com/school-design daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797693964-T99PNTH6ZEWNHWB53AV4/School.12.png School Design - GESTALT SCHULE Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: School Date: Spring 2017 Model Materials: Wood, 3D Printed Material, Yarrow, Paint, Concrete Software Used: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Rhino, Grasshopper, Vray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546791465301-Q8RFD44S3PUT51TE9FCH/BWLibrary.gif School Design This project was focused on creating a building that was structurally sound by using concrete. At this time in my life I was obsessed with the Bauhaus movement, but not just obsessed with the design style, but also the unique teaching methods of the Bauhaus. This teaching method was a multi-disciplinary teaching of design, a way of teaching that is foreign to Fargo. What I created was an art-orientated school following the principles of the Bauhaus movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546796971357-YED8I1964WWO4E1UYLHG/School.11.gif School Design The end result of this project was to create a digital presentation with renderings, a plumbing study of the school, and an optional model. I love making models so I did attempt to create one made out of concrete with 3D printed facades. However, at the time I didn’t understand the casting process of concrete like I do today so my model was a fifty pound mess. I’m happy I made it even though it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to. Creating the GIFs and learning Vray was easily the best thing I took away from this studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797088791-OPJEW7CWL6X51VZ7MC11/School.02.png School Design - Cafeteria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797087061-DT32NRXD134YMF5OMMF5/School.03.png School Design - Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797126176-U3X3CT4JO5KLRL7QENA3/School.04.png School Design - Gallery Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797135548-AT3Z3K7906GJLV1BOMGO/School.05.png School Design - Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797147998-LZG9H6X2LNYNS9WDAFQ2/School.06.png School Design - Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797152701-IARXEU33R17TFZTRAWXL/School.07.png School Design - Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797159734-9BSNL22ATZP5PAPLRGEC/School.10.png School Design - Floorplan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546797157575-TR9R1A4NMKJSQ6LJRXC0/School.09.png School Design - Floorplan https://www.shaunrolfes.com/museum daily 0.75 2019-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546744695994-XEHHH84VJGE3PUN6OTI3/Museum.10.png Museum - WINONA CULTURE AND HISTORY MUSEUM Location: Winona, Minnesota Typology: Museum Date: Fall 2016 Model Materials: 3D Printed Material, Paint, Wood, Yarrow Software Used: AutoCad, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Revit, Rhino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546745523671-QHXQGUY45Z26FPWOUBGM/Museum.06.png Museum This project, similar to the floating home, is also located Winona, Minnesota. Mike Christensen, the professor for this studio class, is a proud Minnesotan who grew up in Winona. Unlike the floating home project, this project focused on renovating an old building in Winona and turning it into a museum. This project focused on masonry as a structural member. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546744840665-ZZPEI03W3F88DFMG8BW1/Museum.01.png Museum - Model https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546744860041-1B7BMHM0ZN0QFKHNOXL7/Museum.02.png Museum - Model https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546744896099-OIU9IDPOLZL1329ATMU6/Museum.03.png Museum - Model https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546744952170-EXX959C4UOAMN457TWEA/Museum.05.png Museum - Model https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546744807979-92TCK74YE6B5G37EQ1T1/Muesum.17.png Museum - Wall Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546745237373-H5S3T71RYLY24SKR5EPP/Museum.17.png Museum - Wall Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546745110402-SCDVKEE4QVQCBADGYM08/Museum.15.png Museum - Wall Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546745113042-B5GVVBZJITQI75U857SU/Museum.16.png Museum - Wall Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546745088194-B196MALDNCS86UHSR7CV/Museum.12.png Museum - Process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546745087112-7WV3ROMDW2UND80XZCTP/Museum.13.png Museum - Process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546745016990-QRHEYK98PZM9TCG2GE8S/Museum.08.png Museum - Model Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546745890975-IMYTSYP3VESBRRFVAOU5/Museum.09.png Museum - Model Photo https://www.shaunrolfes.com/community-dwelling daily 0.75 2019-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546715664253-N2ICO2LSBHG20Y7DBZC6/Marfa.02.png Community Dwelling - COMMUNITY DWELLING Location: Marfa, Texas Typology: Small Home Date: Spring 2016 Model Materials: Cardboard, Yarrow, Wood Drawing Medium: Chartpak Marker, Pen on Velum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716493005-DLY4W67I9N3VICFILTH3/Marfa.14.jpg Community Dwelling This was the only group project I have ever done at NDSU. There were seven people, one town, and seven sites. The objective was to create a small community that focused on creating a sustainable environment. Being in Texas, a state that has far different weather patterns then that of North Dakota, we had to do a lot of research for the city of Marfa. At this time, I was attempting to understand Illustrator and InDesign more so I decided to create a book to hold all of the research we did for the site. The image with the bright cicles and black spots is the cover for the book I created (click on the image to view the “Making of Marfa” book). Being the last assignment of my second year, this would be the last time our professors shunned architectural drawings being made digitally. We were also not allowed to use laser cutters and 3D printers to create our models. I appreciate this method now that I am older; we gained a better understanding of what architecture is, it’s a hands-on craft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716653842-6SRZTQMGY76G7BC5FP2W/Marfa.04.png Community Dwelling - Model https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716679364-RWBXJU346QJTKDVOL85M/Marfa.01.png Community Dwelling - Perspective Drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716670677-SOUJHMUDUMK3GJC9SZC8/Marfa.05.png Community Dwelling - Model https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716637603-VA40ZRGKN4JGUFS69NLP/Marfa.03.png Community Dwelling - Floor Plans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716688369-GYLQK1MN3EGA568FJ9P2/Marfa.06.png Community Dwelling - Section Cut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716693235-ADFKIF0ZBU94NBIPT3OF/Marfa.07.png Community Dwelling - North Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716707309-1MISD7IM71P4SMX8SJ58/Marfa.08.png Community Dwelling - East Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716710515-7L0KWER44O7TG3AQPTBA/Marfa.09.png Community Dwelling - South Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716722602-CABGMXTV3O7P493QAEPP/Marfa.10.png Community Dwelling - West Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716733343-8KHJ6GV1GINKWUTSMCFK/Marfa.12.png Community Dwelling - Exploded Isometric Kitchen Area (Lowest Level) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716721134-26XDV5DJPKRK53HCGBD7/Marfa.11.png Community Dwelling - Exploded Isometric Living Area and Entrance (Main Level) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546716735483-PTPHS31120JE7GV1WRJ2/Marfa.13.png Community Dwelling - Exploded Isometric Sleeping Area and Wash Room (Upper Level) https://www.shaunrolfes.com/tea-house daily 0.75 2019-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546658939660-J7VS1IW0CPR62TRR8YNH/TeaHaus.15.png Tea House - TEA HOUSE Location: Moorhead, Minnesota Typology: Tea House Date: Fall 2015 Model Materials: Yarrow, Wood, Velum Drawing Medium: Chartpak Marker, Pen on Velum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659008689-51I76QALH2FIE06N3H5D/TeaHaus.03.png Tea House This was the first architectural assignment given to me when entering my sophomore year at NDSU. It was extremely comprehensive. Before the design of the tea house, we had to make multiple art projects that expressed our design intent as well as venturing to the site a few times a week. The art included Sumi ink paintings, poems, and we had to create a tea cup that will inspire the form of the building. The overall idea was inspired by a cycle of destruction and construction. A cycle that imitates a triangle; the three points of a triangle meaning to sustain, create, and destroy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659273195-0U5U595R2OL92H4OD723/TeaHaus.01.png Tea House This was my favorite project of second year. I learned a lot from this project; my drawings, physical model, and speaking skills were all new challenges. I am most proud of the drawing that describe how to assemble the aluminum tea cup. It almost looks like a floor plan to a spaceship; there are dimensions, caution signs, directions, and the overall shape even resembles a spaceship. The IKEA drawings that show how to assemble a stool is also a favorite of mine. The amount of work and time that I put into this project really made me realize what it takes to be an architecture student. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659852438-RWQ1B6PM2751YFC5TO00/TeaHaus.05.png Tea House - Tea Cup with Directions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659837068-9LBN3H8F39VLFNV66JH7/TeaHaus.04.png Tea House - Tea Cup Drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659853391-5Z3P2LB92LRCB5FWF94F/TeaHaus.06.png Tea House - Tea Cup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659920890-XUDUGJ0Q45VE0LPK2KLA/TeaHaus.07.png Tea House - Model https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659933389-8R9EHLQS3G4INFXJBY21/TeaHaus.12.png Tea House - Floorplan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659877993-3IVUIT97V8EE4P8B62MD/TeaHaus.09.png Tea House - Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659950781-68N4V4BV7MLAZBBEBIBP/TeaHaus.14.png Tea House - Section Cut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546660007607-RD847BMBKU2J6JHXY1TN/TeaHaus.16.png Tea House - Site Plan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659359077-MLOYFWSAMGLXH66VU04K/Spaces.16.png Tea House - Inspiration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659952452-P1ET06EEF4SBEBU2FTTB/TeaHaus.13.png Tea House - Inspiration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659900470-8XPO1UKBUYWJ74X6UE2C/TeaHaus.10.png Tea House - Ikea Drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546659917189-YIS4OUHZAMHZ36ZZ9JTP/TeaHaus.11.png Tea House - Ikea Drawing https://www.shaunrolfes.com/birdhouse daily 0.75 2019-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546663479177-8H87QSYONTGWG9HGDF1E/Bird.04.png Birdhouse - BIRDHOUSE Typology: Competition Date: Spring 2016 Model Materials: Aluminum, Wood Drawing Materials: Chartpak Markers, Paint, Pen on Paper. This project was very unique when comparing to other projects in the architecture program. It was a good break from working on other projects that revolved around architecture for humans. These birdhouses were on display at the art museum in downtown Fargo, the Plains Art Museum, and a cash prize was offered for the best designed bird house. The design for the birdhouses must be inspired by a Pritzker Prize winning architect. I was assigned Rem Koolhaas and today, I don’t really see the similarities between my design and the architect. If anything it resembles Zaha Hadid more than Koolhaas. However, I did enjoy making this project more than I was anticipated. I used the intimidating lathe in the wood shop which was surprisingly fun. I really wanted to push my graphic ability since my birdhouse didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to; I created three satirical posters depicting the murdering of birds. Channeling my inner Lichtenstein, I created some bold posters to be hung up in the art museum with my birdhouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546663560294-PHH4F1OQ9WM5680KWJ4R/Bird.01.png Birdhouse - Birdhouse Graphic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546663563958-YMZDPZ99IQD9X5VBEMP0/Bird.02.png Birdhouse - Birdhouse Graphic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546663582983-OJISMFEF32PNCWNKO8YC/Bird.03.png Birdhouse - Birdhouse Graphic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546664314439-V5B1WS27Z6BWWLFV12IL/Bird.05.png Birdhouse - Birdhouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546664260002-06VS9LHBU179DHA075GE/Bird.06.png Birdhouse - Birdhouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546664322470-Z04SJOBA0ZUPPFMMKLK2/Bird.07.png Birdhouse - Aluminum https://www.shaunrolfes.com/monument daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546978238247-164SY3PD622SLNYG0PGI/Monument.02.png Monument - RED SUN FARO Location: Sicily, Italy Typology: Monument Date: Spring 2017 Model Materials: Wood, Concrete, Glass, Paint Software Used: Illustrator, Photoshop, AutoCad, Rhino, Lumion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546980011517-UG7LBJA4N9X3ESNJD33R/Monument.07.png Monument After attending the Women’s March, standing with Planned Parenthood supporters on the streets of Fargo, and protesting against Donald Tr**p whenever he came into town, I started to see the world differently as well as architecture. This is when I understood how architecture can become political. At the time of this project, I was hearing a lot about the refugees entering Europe. Some fleeing to Germany, others being trapped in Mediterranean and Baltic countries., and most of all, the ones dying on their journey to Europe. I then created a refugee memorial in Sicily, since this small region experiences a heavy flow migrants and I don’t believe there is a memorial in honor of those fleeing hardship. In a time where nationalism and populism have become this dangerous normality, it is important to be moral when being an architect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546751868645-TC10QG2Y6AZSXNK3P84N/Monument.03.png Monument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546751972799-ZTPE2TYW0A981825TKY7/Monument.04.png Monument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546752053651-9BXVELV0EVWBR0BYG1SQ/Monument.05.png Monument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546752142948-EVKPQ7CT06I44YDGFQYE/Monument.06.png Monument https://www.shaunrolfes.com/drawing daily 0.75 2019-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619459952-TQBPTCEBHB0YCN349PUZ/Master.01.png Drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619531804-WUR5DBVCG92F3YHOYGZV/Master.02.png Drawing - MASTER COPY Date: Spring 2015 Medium: 8B Pencil on Paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619624342-NB0SO9RSLGYYMMMWLQ4B/Master.03.png Drawing This assignment was a dreaded assignment for every freshman entering the architecture program. The class was directed to pick on famous painting from a stack of 8.5 by 11 inch printer paper. There was a huge variety of artwork; from fourteenth century wood-cuts to modern, dystopian photographs. None of the given artworks seemed interesting, except for the spooky painting by Odd Nerdrum. His painting titled “Sleeping Twins” was the perfect choice. It was within my drawing ability, it was extremely unique, and it would look good in my apartment. Overall, this master copy wasn’t as dreadful as I expected. However, working with the oily, 8B pencils that we had to use we extremely difficult to work with. When drawing large pieces like this, it is important to protect the white spaces because 8B pencil doesn’t erase. Unsuccessfully sharpening pencils and accidental smudges were far too common. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546618819782-JPCV7ICVUZ03V55E6RW0/image-asset.png Drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546618933741-15KZMICUXQ60HZCE3T5P/Skull.02.png Drawing - STILL LIFE Still Life Subject https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619003894-XIS0DD9B2MSEA2CCG2RL/Skull.03.png Drawing Similar to the master copy, the still life was assigned a subject and a type of pencil. Our subject was a large skull sitting on a small platform draped with a dark red fabric. This was surrounded by tall, dark, blue, glass bottles and small ceramic vases with one lonely plant. We had to draw this set-up with charcoal pencils, which I will never use again. My class of twenty bought up every charcoal pencil found in the Fargo-Moorhead area because these pencils would not sharpen at all. Also, if you were to accidentally drop a pencil from your desk, the charcoal lead inside the pencil would completely shatter, making the pencil useless. Even though I went mad making this drawing, I really enjoy the way it turned out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619790193-BRHONQJ75W5DNWOITXKO/Drawing.01.png Drawing - Plant Drawing (I) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619798792-O8LAWVCNA1J50O4KT66M/Drawing.03.png Drawing - Plant Drawing (II) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619792771-OECEU35O1V1H7KGQRA6C/Drawing.02.png Drawing - Plant Drawing (III) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619799042-5FBQ0MF7JY8GP288EM48/Drawing.04.png Drawing - A Friend (I) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619805299-DK4ZFAI9256Z52FCWSUK/Drawing.05.png Drawing - A Friend (II) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546619806435-556CAMS5WU4MZMP2R6NC/Drawing.06.png Drawing - A Friend (III) https://www.shaunrolfes.com/eames-case-study daily 0.75 2019-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546651164954-APIGL9YJGGE712EV4EJB/Eames.01.png Eames Case Study - EAMES HOUSE Typology: Case Study Date: Fall 2015 Model Materials: Wood, Yarrow Drawing Materials: Chartpak Markers, Pen on Velum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546651286750-MZU0NISA3VWLV5ALUNV0/Eames.02.png Eames Case Study This project was an assignment given to us in a drawing class that paired with studio. Usually this class was run by an NDSU professor, Darryl Booker, but instead was taught by a Fargo architect, Chris Hawley. Everyone in the class was given a historical house know to the architecture community. With this given home we were directed to recreate the drawings for the Case Study 8 House (Eames House), which was the building assigned to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546652012575-N7CE3APSZDUG94MPMKQS/Eames.05.png Eames Case Study - Model Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546651993863-V1IMC6AQOXVPGP1VCFQL/Eames.06png.png Eames Case Study - Model Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546651934814-0RO8KFX3BGO10JNHZAQH/Eames.04.png Eames Case Study - Elevations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546651934715-BCIWQ9F5N268NJYKXFHL/Eames.03.png Eames Case Study - Section Cut https://www.shaunrolfes.com/first-studio daily 0.75 2019-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546541531865-UJ1D9FMN5WX8YE17KOIX/Opera.Model.03.png The First Studio - FIKA SKÄRVA Location: Västerås, Sweden Typology: Opera House Date: Fall 2014 Model Materials: Plaster, Ceramic, Sugar Glass, Paint, Wood Drawing Medium: Chartpak Marker, and Pen on Velum. Inspired by the Swedish “Fika,” essentially a coffee break, this opera house was inspired by the movement of coffee. Fika is coffee culture. You would take a break from work of school in the afternoon and enjoy a break featuring coffee and pastries. This break is often celebrated with others but it isn’t uncommon to see people celebrating fika alone. This opera house is a cultural space for Västerås, a city lacking a space for live music. People can meet up for coffee, enjoy a performance, or simply explore the venue. As a child, my family and friends would often venture to the Gutherie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This huge blue theater serves more of a public space than a performance venue. You are forced to ascend the depths of the big blue venue that is iconic to Minneapolis. This is what I wanted to achieve with FIKA SKÄRVA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546540791046-HBSKNN0ZNBVXH7X4ROCB/Opera.Model.02.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546540765998-FE5OMGQJQZKVY0YJK4H7/Opera.Model.01.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546540768591-46SSC2STV5INP2M9RAFR/Opera.Elevation.01.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546540786808-5X5RBSF6N8CG7QHV7PBG/Opera.Section.01.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546565059649-KIKC8XWFKQV81872UPJ2/Block.05.png The First Studio - VOID STUDY Typology: Exercise Date: Fall 2014 Materials: Wood, Paint Being one of the first studio assignments of my architecture career, this void study was intended to understand how to create complex “spaces” through voids created by small, wood cubes. We were only to use one inch by one inch and half-inch by half-inch cubes. From there, we would glue them together, sand the blocks as best as we could so they would be even, and then paint them white once the glue dries. The end result was a large white cube clearly made up by smaller cubes that created these internal spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546565012284-45T6DBHKKLOP9J6CDFFN/Block.01.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546565021058-GB5OK6MOB4LN0MMECY4N/Block.04.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546565012179-8IP340Z3ONIEDZZVD81Q/Block.02.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546565018167-5Q405F5HRZWOO8JDX3D1/Block.03.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546582258224-3AM0NZJHQ85P9YVERQ2U/Spaces.06.png The First Studio - SPATIAL STUDY Typology: Exercise Date: Fall 2014 Materials: Wood, Paint, Paper Drawing Materials: Acetone, Chartpak Markers, and Pen on Velum. This was the second assignment assigned to me. The goal was to create a model and drawings that depicted a floor plan that influenced movement throughout a given space, or spaces. I remember titling this project “Lofticries” which is a song by a band I really enjoyed back in 2014 (Purity Ring). This song is very dark and mysterious, which is probably why I created a black, glossy model with painted edges and granite-looking paper. Drawing this model was a new challenge, being the first assignment that required architectural drawings. The goal was to express depth through line-weights and making floor plans and elevations understandable to the viewer. My favorite part of this project is actually the exploded isometric drawing. After seven huge sheets of velum tossed into the garbage and multiple bus trips to downtown running around looking for velum and Staedtler pens. The granite on the isometric was a photo transfer thanks to acetone and a black and white photograph of the granite. This was a very challenging assignment at the time; it was a small taste of what the future holds as an architecture student at NDSU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546581432395-U4HBQWWV2P1VRXYH79Y9/Spaces.01.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546582320255-R0P7NK3SD3BZWC1D2N90/Space.03.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546581439310-7829U65Z0C641KY0HVMQ/Spaces.04.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546581468274-MHH9FM20JGO54H0MNQD9/Spaces.05.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546586636291-PY4OB1T3PV3FDQQ5ZWZD/Movement.05.png The First Studio - MOVEMENT Typology: Exercise Date: Fall 2014 Model Materials: Wood, Plaster, Paint, Aluminum, Steel Wire Drawing Materials: Chartpak Markers, Water Color, Pencil, and Pen on Velum. Our goal for this assignment was to create a model that shows movement through vertical and horizontal motion. Verticality can be shown through a variety of mediums and intentions. Two structures, the aluminum cave and the plaster walls, show vertical motion while the black path that enters the plaster walls and the ombré bridge, which creates the horizontal motion. Even the steel-wire trees represent a vertical and horizontal motion. A coexistence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546586546222-NZSOK1UI0YVJ0X8S64GO/Movement.01.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546586544181-DH9NBVXBHYPOHE6TTPY4/Movement.02.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546586571107-PGW8LHP1306AOEPRPF7S/Movement.03.png The First Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546586566652-XIIRGZAQMEPTLSZQU17R/Movement.04.png The First Studio https://www.shaunrolfes.com/larsen-c-lamp daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546889422643-MZB2T4TOE6E647B2DLQF/Lamp.05.png Larsen C Lamp - LARSEN C LAMP Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: Gift Date: Fall 2017 Model Materials: Light Bulb, Paint, Wood Software Used: AutoCad, Rhino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546889495602-R49CC7WJELP5KC5XZWFE/Lamp.06.png Larsen C Lamp After high rise I still had a strange urge to create something, even though I was burnt out. Fascinated by the design of vintage Scandinavian lamps, I wanted to create a lamp as a Christmas gift for my cousin. Living in the Midwest, I am constantly in fear of global warming. I grew up with the generation that saw the decrease in snow during winter, warmer temperatures bringing droughts in the summer, and harsher storms that bring blizzards in the winter and tornadoes in the summer. Global warming is terrifying in the Midwest, but it is even scarier at the poles. When coming up with inspiration, I remembered reading an article about huge Icebergs crumbling in Antarctica. I decided to create a lamp that almost imitates a melting iceberg. Larsen C, a huge ice shelf located on the peninsula of Antarctica, broke from the peninsula in July of 2017. When this ice shelf melts, it is expected for sea levels to rise ten centimeters, or four inches. I created a lamp that symbolizes as a memorial to Antarctica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546889544519-6LLO3UK3E00D3H23TY3P/Lamp.01.png Larsen C Lamp - Isometric https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546889542524-JO00QYBU7PXU0XZSGU7W/Lamp.02.png Larsen C Lamp - Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546889547604-8PVWKUPCCIJS56P5SIOS/Lamp.03.png Larsen C Lamp - Elevation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546889555298-CVT1OKN9ES9IMCC31FP1/Lamp.04.png Larsen C Lamp - The Lamp https://www.shaunrolfes.com/creative-writing daily 0.75 2019-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546891279330-SPNZQWVA7SGUDIUA2EPL/English.04.png Creative Writing - MASK Typology: Assignment Date: Fall 2018 Materials: Acrylic Software Used: Rhino, AutoCad, Vray I always try to push a design element in generally non-architectural classes. In my creative writing class, I was given a variety of opportunities to use my architectural instruments. This assignment was to merge two of your most inspirational people and create an object that is inspired by these two humans. Björk and Alexander McQueen are easily the most influential artists in my life. With this merging of music, fashion, and technology, I decided to create a mask for Björk who often DJs in New York City wearing crazy disguises. In the past, Björk has actually held tribute parties to Alexander McQueen. This mask was a challenge to make. Molding the face in Rhino was a new challenge for me, but assembling the mask went smoothly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546891334408-3TKT7H93DPA7D4ZE3IO8/English.02.png Creative Writing - The Mask https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546891348506-VJZDUAM68CSPMN2N5SPS/English.03.png Creative Writing - Process Rendering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546891363412-TPWLUK7ORMBT72J6U5Y2/English.01.png Creative Writing - The Mask https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546894921930-C52J1XQFVSMX0XKBY9O1/English.05.png Creative Writing - TEE SHIRT Typology: Assignment Date: Spring 2018 Materials: Fabric, Paint Along with my creation, I had to produce a booklet of poems. Sadly, after re-reading the poems, I disliked the poems I wrote. With the poetry, we were suppose to create an object that parallels with the poetry we created. The teacher was pushing for drawings, collages, and other types of mediums. I saw this as another opportunity to further my sewing ability. I laser cut pieces of card stock with the poems that I made to be used as tags for the shirt. The shirt has a high collar where I screen printed a line from one of the poems I created; the line says “I don’t think that I like you anymore.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546894986118-MAR5GDVWBRYJWQ6KIVNK/English.08.png Creative Writing - Tee Shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546894993418-53EAZ8GN5K3H52CBKMA3/English.07.png Creative Writing - Tee Shirt Tag with Poem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1546895004284-VIDE5RLQJOZH9QDLUUZ4/English.09.png Creative Writing - Tee Shirt https://www.shaunrolfes.com/photography daily 0.75 2019-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547167877572-5YE1JRV3O11SI765XB6H/P8177322.JPG Photography - Toronto, Ontario (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547167875200-3BRZ5LBKK6B7T5QTU9R2/P8187387.JPG Photography - Toronto Ontario (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168044836-D29SM4TX8RQ337F4YYPH/P3175043.JPG Photography - Toronto, Ontario (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547167904916-88O2ZT4WSFVHEVDUGEHN/P8197702.JPG Photography - Toronto, Ontario (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168064183-KYE6GZSYUCDE1UE64332/P5055137.JPG Photography - Fargo, North Dakota (2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168003302-BXVNX63MIOZOZOQ8BRQU/IMG_5750.jpg Photography - Montréal, Québec (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168110009-S9Z88FZ0QVTV6J9HP06T/P9026938.JPG Photography - San Francisco, California (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168865471-RTWGNNZ9RH2GGM6WCJUY/P4231835.JPG Photography - Chicago, Illinois (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168112002-WQNU1YZA4QNU0WWN1267/PB165949.JPG Photography - Fargo, North Dakota (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168254496-3L3QAX0DWM1KXPRI0GQM/IMG_5751.jpg Photography - Montréal, Québec (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168284718-7VOQ4XRGZ9QP4HH1PB25/P3175044.JPG Photography - Toronto, Ontario (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168305175-HYKCGJPBXQZF3BNYRENX/P6152750.jpg Photography - Tulfes, Austria (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168347192-J7DBEAQIB4OQTEYE795O/P9026955.JPG Photography - San Francisco, California (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168361124-DIA4C1FUY2HTMOUN3YTU/PC143825.jpg Photography - Fargo, North Dakota (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168665817-3TZDF2GWQRJP169ZDV8X/IMG_5753.jpg Photography - Montréal, Québec (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168866769-41BB1WVJ6MEKVH6B49R1/P1074520.JPG Photography - Minneapolis, Minnesota (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168662594-7RITTX9LPUVIJUQB6XPX/P4231750.JPG Photography - Chicago, Illinois (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168679724-3CT99I77739UIXP8D7MB/P8163365.jpg Photography - Duluth, Minnesota (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547169078841-XC2JABFZ6ISQ5X598AM3/P3164834.JPG Photography - Toronto, Ontario (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168899366-HQHNDGC0ZZ8AGXR0OCS9/P9295559.JPG Photography - Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168706921-5ENYO8ZXM3QZ122HW5JQ/P9026978.JPG Photography - San Francisco, California (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547169615110-WPM4GS2WC89W6UQ8WX3E/P8197716.JPG Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547168692712-WWH4A7TVF5Z7AO8XYXVP/PC203950.jpg Photography - Brainerd, Minnesota (2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547169085086-34R37NPT0S4GWH7DSB8F/P8316851.JPG Photography - San Francisco, California (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547169106361-UFPQSZODODMGYS1QSOKB/P9295589.JPG Photography - Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547169517286-TVTM2KGN5DDUXMOG10RK/IMG_5749.JPG Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547169557238-RVL9PC7W5KGWFHUANEN9/P8177311.JPG Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1547169661894-1CG73XIKQANDCQQARPTL/P8187422.JPG Photography https://www.shaunrolfes.com/thesis daily 0.75 2020-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1557759590515-TL377MEDSAWCK2605IE3/Thesis.01.png Thesis - THESIS PRESENTATION Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: Thesis Presentation Date: Spring 2019 Software Used: AutoCad, Illustrator, Lumion, Photoshop, Rhino, Vray Site number one is Bloor-Yonge, a subway station that collapsed under the pressure of capitalism and privatization, which is a common theme in the neighborhood of Yorkville. A well-known commercial district in Toronto. This station is the entrance to downtown Toronto, a gateway to the cosmopolitan city. Bloor-Yonge stands as the busiest station in Toronto, moving 350 thousand passengers a day. A station that harassed their commuters, bombarded with advertisements and flashy goods; forcing each rider through a maze of mall hallways and empty storefronts. The station of Bloor-Yonge is carved out of the bay centre that once existed on the site. Highlighting the verticality of the site by bringing the skyscrapers into the depths of the subway. Blurring the underground with the above ground. The shops that once existed were pushed to the sides of the site, making the shopping experience more of a choice, less forced than what it was before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1557759621645-TG6WTB1Z0QDACHUAJVI5/Thesis.02.png Thesis Site number two stands with great contrast. Built in the shadows of Bloor-Yonge. St. George was a station built as a relief. Located on the edge of the Annex, a progressive neighborhood known for its gable roofs and lush streets. This station is hidden, forgotten in the eyes of the commuter and the eyes of the city. St. George is considered the second busiest station in all of Toronto. But the users don’t experience the station for what it is, nor even consider the historical neighborhood of the Annex, a neighborhood where Jane Jacobs spent her last years of her life. Two stations connected by the streets of the city and the subway trains that keeps the city moving in the underground. Two stations stuck in a tension, a tension of near and far, fast and slow, up and down, self and other. The self-conscious body enters the subway. Longing to get to their destination, or to meet with someone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565999497244-LRP0K54BBC1CZ5LNK35Z/Thesis.03.jpg Thesis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565999530808-LIVKUXW60M6MGWHYWVSP/Thesis.04.jpg Thesis https://www.shaunrolfes.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2020-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1549335307205-M1RCQ63LXXHP4NAR18BR/Resume.05.png Portfolio 2020 (click image above for portfolio) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1549335337284-8RUGTQXPNIC7U7BF9KJQ/Resume.05.png Portfolio 2018 (click image above for portfolio) https://www.shaunrolfes.com/lecture daily 0.75 2020-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023146014-UJXMI9APJIO8JCUUXU2Y/Teaching.01.png Lecture - LECTURE Location: Albany, Minnesota Typology: Guest Speaker Date: Spring 2019 Model Materials: Glue, Wood Software Used: Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Rhino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023180673-U1UAK7BY0QITLV6XC2OM/Teaching.10.png Lecture At the beginning of the spring semester of 2019, I received an email from a former art teacher, Ridel Curtis, asking me to come in and give a presentation to her students; the goal was to show the importance of art in the professional field. Architecture is possibly the best career that merges the arts and business. Ridel Curtis was an art teacher whom I respected highly back when I went to Albany Senior High, so when she contacted me I wasn’t surprised. During this semester I was seeing architecture as more than just buildings, so having an opportunity to teach students the meaning of architecture was something I was excited to do. At the end of February, I prepared a presentation that introduced myself and architecture as well as creating a small assignment that allowed the students to see the beginning stages of the architectural design process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023433068-0HPY1ACO8JELXFRXBUSY/Teaching.gif Lecture The assignment I created was a simple activity inspired by one of the first projects I had during my freshman year. Part one was to create a client. I wanted the students to design around a human or a being and give a little backstory to that occupant. Being an ambiguous activity, any client was possible. Once they created that client, the next step was to create a space using one inch by one-inch cubes. The diagrams given to the students showed them to stay within a four inch by four-inch diameter, showing the restrictions within architecture whether it comes from the client or by code. At the end of the class, I realized how much time was needed to complete the activity. But the students worked hard to try to finish. Some students created dog houses, fish aquariums, garages for their snowmobiles, and abstract dream homes. The student who create a spa for Zac Efron was easily the highlight of the lecture. Teaching the students what architecture is was very exciting even though it was traumatic walking through the high school that I graduated from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559022775725-HOBCGVGHOOP91BTUU3JV/Portfolio.46.jpg Lecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559022786303-8PRYJ77T5FGGJL0ODDOM/Portfolio.47.jpg Lecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559022885943-XLBWR1KXFM23TM9GXY5X/Portfolio.48.jpg Lecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559022884946-72A0479WSNH8D30IXTDW/Portfolio.49.jpg Lecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559022959652-B7KVUZW1HLCL3WFP637L/Portfolio.50.jpg Lecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559022954094-T199NWKGJ35F1MKB3CHI/Portfolio.51.jpg Lecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023001457-2N6LTTRSFOCM494WBQ0J/Portfolio.52.jpg Lecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023014981-P6I2K9RSL92B502QYKI3/Portfolio.53.jpg Lecture https://www.shaunrolfes.com/concrete-sampling daily 0.75 2020-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559015628584-DJW0I9W61DSWME9RJDMW/Concrete.14.png Concrete Sampling - CONCRETE SAMPLING Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: Seminar Date: Spring 2019 Model Materials: Cork, Portland Cement, Sand, Screws, Steel Mesh, Vinyl, Wood, 3D Printed Material Software Used: AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559021466838-KYKIN1M2JD0MU1I5VDUD/Concrete-min.gif Concrete Sampling Concrete sampling was a major assignment to the concrete seminar that NDSU offered in the spring semester of 2019. Taught by professor Regin Schwaen, a professor whom I worked for during the accreditation process in the springtime of 2018; he is known to be crazy for concrete. The sampling assignment was intended to experiment with concrete by making molds, laser cutting, and fabric forming within a strict dimension of 12 inches by 12 inches with a one-inch thickness. In the end, I created twelve concrete samples. All of them casted against different surfaces, such as cork, 3D printed structures, and vinyl. The fabric texture from the vinyl turned out the best, nearly appearing as if the concrete could warp with just a touch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558988359345-5EJMAL9R4JYL11YY0QOE/Concrete.13.png Concrete Sampling The first part of the sampling assignment was to create the wood frame to be used and reused throughout the class. A simple frame that allowed me to create two concrete samples at once. Creating the frame from leftover scraps from the wood shop, it was important that the frame was able to be disassembled. The construction of the mold is made up of a plywood base, the frame made of five wood boards screwed together, two layers of wire mesh to strengthen the concrete mixture, and two plywood covers. Since Renaissance Hall doesn’t allow us to cast in our studios, the majority of the class was on our own time. Using a friend’s garage, me and two other students collaborated on the sampling process. The three of us created over 20 concrete samples, allowing us to create a consistent ratio of water, sand, and cement as well as an understanding on how to create a successful mold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558987781352-ALG2WZNCGBV6O3U2BQA4/Concrete.01.png Concrete Sampling - Fabric Form 001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558987794374-6JS1HJZ09JP3CJQ0DCXE/Concrete.02.png Concrete Sampling - Fabric Form 002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558987837776-H8P3GCJ3TBL1V2YOSFA2/Concrete.03.png Concrete Sampling - Fabric Form 003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558987838005-QHL7SANCQBK6OXUCUN15/Concrete.04.png Concrete Sampling - Fabric Form 004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558987932773-GS23B190F0MCA82BY334/Concrete.05.png Concrete Sampling - Vector Laser Etch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558987953478-7GYHO1JCIKFBES6LW34N/Concrete.06.png Concrete Sampling - Cork Sample https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558988007995-QFG918AEO6IDVACW9OA4/Concrete.07.png Concrete Sampling - 3D Printed Form https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558988053213-WCAFYXC285Y6A16RWIEH/Concrete.08.png Concrete Sampling - Raster Laser Etch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558988091488-DYNXXTKJOHKWJYIYT8F3/Concrete.09.png Concrete Sampling - Concrete Frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558988147725-T7TPMXN75M1KM7G5U9OC/Concrete.10.png Concrete Sampling - Concrete Frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558988204246-N4Q1SQCP4Q902QUWH1DX/Concrete.11.png Concrete Sampling - Concrete Frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1558988220446-7CW3NZV71OCOQI4PDBJS/Concrete.12.png Concrete Sampling - Concrete Frame https://www.shaunrolfes.com/concrete-final daily 0.75 2020-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559024624849-HM0FOO914UF4NNK8BH35/Door.11.png Concrete Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559025214532-E75MB70VUQ4S7SZ27KGJ/Door.10.png Concrete Final - CONCRETE FINAL Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: Seminar Date: Spring 2019 Model Materials: MDF Board, Portland Cement, Sand, Screws, Steel Mesh Software Used: AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559024826369-3AOZ6MCAMBOENKZB6VC1/Door.09.png Concrete Final The last assignment for the concrete seminar was very open-ended. It was left up to the students to create an art piece made out of concrete to be placed in the lobby of Renaissance Hall. Me and two other students teamed up to create a concrete sculpture of the door named “Dave,” that sits at the entrance of Renaissance. The goal was to duplicate the antique door and mimic it with concrete at full scale. It was a crazy assignment, especially compared to the rest of the class who made projects barely exceeding two feet tall. Many failures were made when creating the door, especially with the mold and estimating how much cement and sand to purchase. But in the end, the three of us maneuvered the three-hundred-pound door from outside our studio, where it was curing, to inside the lobby to be placed by the door named “Dave.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023775035-3R8E756DPYNSMRDDL0LD/Door.01.png Concrete Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023761276-SNR79WKJVD78EC11V8U4/Door.02.png Concrete Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023829465-RY26VDONXXDJLYO4Y5AO/Door.03.png Concrete Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023870761-Y325FVAS3TQ6VCVIQBF9/Door.04.png Concrete Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559023912876-QR7Y2UZHSYZ2BOCJLPF0/Door.05.png Concrete Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559024052624-VKBKVBC9U9Y9B8ITD42V/Door.06.png Concrete Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559024210386-EXCWJ7B4WP5YZ0T0JT0N/Door.07.png Concrete Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559024505010-CYH3E59QPT2AG7IKB5IS/Door.08.png Concrete Final https://www.shaunrolfes.com/accreditation daily 0.75 2019-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996645246-04U3I9OT3TNC6KT92KY3/Accreditation.02.jpg Accreditation - ACCREDITATION Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: Exhibition Date: Spring 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996617025-XCC4VE6XJQW161V6HMYI/Accreditation.01.jpg Accreditation During the Spring semester in 2018, I was asked to be an exhibit assistant for the upcoming NAAB accreditation visit. At first, I thought it was going to be easy. But as the deadline approached in April, the stress greatly increased. The job first started with setting up the foam core that lined the fifth floor of Renaissance Hall (the architecture building). Once the 4’X8’ foam core lined the walls and separated the years, my next task was to design and print the professors’ posters that described the coarse that taught. This was a major task, needing a great deal of time and collaboration with the professors and students. Charlott Greub and Regin Schwaen were my supervisors during this exhibition., keeping me on track while teaching me how to curate. After the NAAB team finished their work, we received our score which ended up being the highest score a school can achieve. This means, instead of coming every four years, the team extends the visitation to six years. A lot of work was done for this accreditation process, which is why I decided to document and create a book on this experience. Click on the image to view the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565995740032-CFZ5W6Y2J6L3M386UWZ5/Accreditation.04.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565995739987-LZDY3XRKNRXGRI71JHVQ/Accreditation.03.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565995762474-XHPM54SW000GG53NE28I/Accreditation.06.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565995995706-ACYJSW2R17WJAW1YPB46/Accreditation.05.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996452470-3DXXBIWZ0UT6SD4QZRZ5/Accreditation.07.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996482736-3ECH0L72JVAET43OLEYP/Accreditation.09.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996452579-5ODXR3CO1ALA9KSW1JIY/Accreditation.08.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996484385-YYXGWXKMK51D6O2VR7FR/Accreditation.10.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996500708-8XJSVF0DAXJOUUK1NBM5/Accreditation.11.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996518975-R18HKAH94JACK7FG5L3U/Accreditation.14.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996500062-DRC1RVSVM8D7FLISWIPI/Accreditation.12.jpg Accreditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1565996518297-EVZYVH0MYEGGFG8X2W8Q/Accreditation.13.jpg Accreditation https://www.shaunrolfes.com/persona-3 daily 0.75 2019-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573222432320-PHFWO0SVZ38KCWIQQUAC/Persona.01.png Persona - A HOUSE FOR PERSONA Location: Fårö, Sweden Typology: Theoretical Home Date: Summer 2019 Software Used: AfterEffects, AutoCad, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, PremierPro, Rhino, Vray Click the rendering to view “A House for Persona” book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573224191835-IMYGP4M0PT9X6Q9JPNPC/Persona.02.png Persona Shot at Ingmar Bergman’s home in Hammars, Persona is possibly Bergman’s most abstract film. Known as poetry through images, we follow Liv Ullmann as Elisabet, and Bibi Andersson as Nurse Alma fall into a modernist despair. A home for Persona focuses on isolation, a place separate from society and allows its users to explore their own persona through a movement of spaces. Like the movie, the occupants are constantly moving inside and out, blurring the interior with the exterior. Bergman refuses to interpret the film. He suggests that everyone will have a very different interpretation, keeping it ambiguous and dynamic. Throughout the film, he reminds us that the drama of Persona is still a film. Keeping the duality between fact and fiction. Fiction being the story and fact that it is a film. We can see this in the beginning of the film where the story flashes to burning of celluloid filament, with spools and film reels running, and at the end of the film when we see the production set, featuring cameras and their operators. This tension between fact and fiction is a common theme throughout the film and creates a duality that is expressed throughout the house of Persona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573223897985-J26LARUOATOCQRNIZ8FU/Persona.03.gif Persona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573226556182-H8W1LHX3TJ2GAW410OP8/Persona.07.png Persona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573226187062-Z1OV8AUZZPQ1TOF45X4M/Persona.06.png Persona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573226551601-7O6A04P49R0F5JKCRFOB/Persona.08.png Persona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573226212326-WIXE8Z9LJMRG8F8OIWU6/Persona.04.png Persona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573226131848-SM0RBDIOP0IP62IF4PMF/Persona.05.png Persona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1573226054143-CFHDSNBKMC5BRIRUNZEF/Persona.03.png Persona https://www.shaunrolfes.com/artefact-1 daily 0.75 2021-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556821550849-UK26APQW7CKVQ1TMFY66/Artefact.01.gif Artefact - TENSION IN PUBLIC SPACE Location: Fargo, North Dakota Typology: Performance Date: March 2019 Staircase Material: 3D Printed Material, Paint, Screws, Wood Bondage Material: Elastic Bands, Metal Hinges, Thread, Wood Garments Material: Elastic Bands, Polyester Sheer, Thread, Vinyl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556823529251-NAIQSWL7AGU7BVB74I1V/Artefact.02.gif Artefact The “Cultural Artefact” is an iconic project that every student is expected to create as part of their architectural design. My artefact soon becomes the architecture, it is architecture seen as a performance. Exploring the lost intimacy in public spaces, my artefact brings people back together in a surreal experiment that explores the tension in public spaces through a theatrical performance. To fully understand my architectural design and process, my cultural artefact creates the temporal quality and experiences that public space has the ability to do. I want to bring people together, expose the human in ways they might not be used to. A clear acrylic mask acts like a social barrier, preventing the touch of skin that the average commuter is scared of. Similar to the smudged, dirty glass windows of the subway care, where faces sleep uncomfortably as the train brings the passenger desired destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1559052306134-2J8SF4EX7NYI0DQGSI42/Artefact.03.gif Artefact The stairs interpret the negotiation of our bodies with the given space. Moving up and down, constantly in a state of decent and ascent. A labyrinth that exists in the subways, encouraging the commuter to wander while still offering faster ways to travel. The constricting outfits reveal how the modern human feels in public space, naked. We are afraid to enter the public domain. When avoiding eye contact, how are we to gain a trust for the strangers around us? We simply can’t. We have a need to keep our individualism locked inside our privacy. We dare not show our true selves in public. We don’t experience individualism, but instead we feel anxiety. The constriction of my garments is intended to eroticize this anxiety, to play with this feeling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556827737732-I2WD6UDB2DX1GTSY18GQ/Artefact.03.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556827670557-KLTJR7HFYXSO1OV26OSY/Artefact.01.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556827681763-8F6EYMFC52E7LJTETKBE/Artefact.02.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556827727849-Z2NOK5LAK2VEOT7UHCC6/Artefact.04.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556828344795-M2VPNJS0HVETW2L07DGY/Artefact.05.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556828331558-AXVEK5IN4P4G0CEJHI5L/Artefact.08.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556828326508-MUCU0R6PQD9Z567QUTVW/Artefact.07.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556828321428-ROZB328OJGXG1QD3ANWX/Artefact.06.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556830106364-RXB0A51CAHRXRKJVFHY4/Artefact.12.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556830025659-4TNVT1F0TCXD6JZ2NABH/Artefact.11.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556830025514-SP3K0NO9Y1JTJQG31IGK/Artefact.10.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556830106907-31EWRG60VK3S3BVS8CH2/Artefact.13.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556830286824-873U4H0UTHCTFX6ZS2UF/Artefact.14.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556830291300-P705TZRSS46C9SFKXC7S/Artefact.15.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556830360499-FOEHPYFID0SJVZOMIIVF/Artefact.16.png Artefact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1556830363346-G8G0785B3FKVTOJHV8QN/Artefact.17.png Artefact https://www.shaunrolfes.com/osseo-hls daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/2a3ba191-c9ab-4744-8c36-ff3696526297/Artboard+1.png Osseo High School - OSSEO HIGH SCHOOL - ISD 279 Location: Osseo, Minnesota Typology: Health Life Safety Upgrades (Interior Only) Date: June 2020 - December 2020 (Issue for Bid) Software Used: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam, Photoshop Project Role: Architectural Support My first professional project at Wold Architects and Engineers was a Health Life Safety project, focussed on upgrading ADA accessible restrooms and a handful of electrical upgrades (fire alarm visuals and speakers, pull stations, etc.). A small project but the perfect projects as a young professional. Client: Osseo High School - Independent School District 279 Architect: Wold Architects and Engineers (St. Paul, MN Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/a9f246ed-35a4-4e11-bad8-e84acfd9a103/Artboard+2.png Osseo High School - DEDICATED TASKS - Field Verification: For two months during the Summer of 2020, I visited this school every Friday. Counting fixtures, measuring existing casework to be replaced, measuring toilet rooms and fixture placements, were just some of the items I verified. Long range planning was also a factor, focusing on non-project areas for future work. - Code Plans: Since no interior walls were being affected by this project, plumbing counts was the main task. - ADA and IBC: Reviewing the International Building Code and the Minnesota Accessibility code was a daily task. Since we were heavily remodeling the restrooms, triple checking code was a new learned skill as a young architect. - Demo Plans, Floor Plans, Reflected Ceiling Plans, and Roof Plans: Pulling together a complete Construction Document Set (CD), from Code Plans to Casework Elevations all through the CD phase, till Issue for Bid. - Day to Day: The average day consisted of modeling Revit components, while reviewing existing drawings and photos to create a successful document set. Giving updates to my Job Captain, who would send back redlined-drawings that I would pick up, was a typical task. (Desktop View Photo Left/Above: Pages from the construction set.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/587542c4-1822-4a91-9687-5d7076ded5b7/OSSEO+GIF02.gif Osseo High School - PROJECT CHALLENGES Being my first professional project, learning the ways of the office and ssetting up construction documents were foreign to me. Coming from a university that used Rhino heavily, I had to learn Revit fast and efficiently. Working late to understand Revit better, as well as asking questions to my Job Captain and Project Manager made this project successful. Adjusting to COVID protocols was also an unexpected challenge. Starting this project in Summer 2020, the firm was all working from home seven days a week, every task was very isolated. Field verification visits were solo, learning over Zoom was the only way to connect with coworkers, and creating a strict schedule were new, learned skills during COVID lockdown. (Desktop View - Photo Left: Three levels of corridor, reflected ceiling plans.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1487854c-d1b8-4887-a81e-1d59d0b07073/OSSEO+WORKING+PORTFOLIO%28GIF04%29+copy.gif Osseo High School - PROJECT SUCCESSES Once this project was issued in the Winter of 2020, I was taken off of this project and switched gears to focus on the Design Development (DD) of the new Mora High School. The biggest success of this project was setting up my first construction drawing set, as well as learning lots of new Revit skills that will help me with future projects. Osseo High School became a reoccurring client as well, picking up a handful of projects over the years at the same school. Building that relationship with the school and the district, in 2025 Wold was granted a new elementary school project in the same district. The brand-new Maple Grove Elementary School is expected to be completed in 2027 as design work continues. (Desktop View - Photo Left: Three levels of updated restrooms.) (Desktop View - Photo Below: IFC Drawing Set with overlapping field verification photos.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/d5f34f8c-712e-4d9a-81b8-4a0dd0f5c195/GIF02.05.31%28GIFREADY%29copy.gif Osseo High School https://www.shaunrolfes.com/thesis-copy daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/c37b1dde-01b0-4bf3-99e4-65de9ed3eb20/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside - MacArthur Middle School and Sunnyside Elementary School Location: Berkeley, Illinois Typology: New School Building Date: Summer 2021 - Summer 2022 (Project Completion) Software Used: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam, PhotoShop Project Role: Architectural Support My second, large scale project at Wold was the new Sunnyside and MacArthur school, also known as the ‘New 3-8 School’ in the Palatine office. Starting in the Spring of 2021, I was added to this project to assist with the Construction Document phase of the project. This was my first project located in a Illinois, under my new project manager Jessalyn Kelly, and continued working out of Minnesota. Client: MarArthur Middle School and Sunnyside Intermediate School - Berkeley SD 87 Architect: Wold Architects and Engineers (Palatine, IL Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/db6cbabe-787e-421a-803c-072055fc65bf/Image01.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside Exterior Rendering of Sunnyside / MacArthur Schools (Wold Architects and Engineers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/ee07beb2-e05d-4091-94af-8aab964654f7/Interior+Rendering_08.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside - DEDICATED TASKS - Floor Finish Plans: Drawing the carpet patterns, gymnasium striping, and LVT patterns was a large task, given the complex lines and angles that the team created. In fact, these complex angles and lines were inspired by the nearby Metra and industrial train tracks. - Interior and Casework Elevations: Understanding the firm’s interior standards, I was tasked to clean up the proposed elevations by detailing and addressing any issues. Each school had a distinct look, where yellow - Reflected Ceiling Plans: Similar with the interior elevations, because I have experience with ceiling work from previous projects, I got tasked to detail and layout the proposed ceiling plans and coordinate with our electrical engineers. We were using in-house engineers, so it was a great opportunity to meet the other trades at our firm. - Construction Punch-List: In the Summer of 2022, I was given the opportunity to start attending construction meetings, I only went to a few but it was a great introduction to the cadence of those meetings. I was also involved in the punch-listing this school when it was completed. Working with my Job Captain, Adam Moore, we were able to punch-list this school within a day. Luckily, the Construction Manager for this project, Gilbane, uses the Procore software which speeds up the punch-list process greatly. (Photo: Finished photo of the Cafeteria) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/a7137841-7373-4b9b-b272-f00050f56665/InteriorGIF04.gif MacArthur and Sunnyside - PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS This was the project where I felt my Revit skills and knowledge of the firm’s standards started to come together. Using my knowledge from the Mora project, I understood the expectations in detailing, as well as how construction documents should look like. Implementing those skills in this project, allowed me to start working on tasks that were new to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/cf46f7cf-f953-44f6-811e-921047af69a2/Interior+Rendering_04.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside - PROJECT CHALLENGES I was very lucky in my early professional years getting new building construction projects, mainly because there are far less issues in general. The main challenge with this project was dealing with COVID and working with a team out of state. It was an acquired skill, learning how to communicate with a team hundreds of miles away and getting an answer at a reasonable speed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/3802cd87-3605-4628-a9ea-d9e954450b74/Plan_01b.gif MacArthur and Sunnyside - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1b2d2865-e072-41f9-a908-e37249e97019/Exterior+Rendering_01.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside Being a newer employee, at this time I was less than one year into my career, this was an exciting new project that allowed me to learn company standards and progress my detailing skills. Detailing the Learning Commons was a memorable task; when Adam and I went to take professional photos, it was pleasant to see how each space was being used by students and teachers. Specifically at Sunnyside, where we witnessed students creating art projects in both the STEM Labs, Art Rooms, and the Library. This was our design goal, integrating classroom teaching in collaborative settings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771786951331-JRFETAUIICA9C1HN3J4Z/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771786946315-YB4EFZPEHOZBUI4U5O2D/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771786956772-EB9VH42ZOGA8A70XWU9I/Interior+Rendering_02.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771786960103-2CAVK0IC2WF5L3SW4N4B/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771786959552-ME1AT52C6CVVHZ6QPVAY/Interior+Rendering_04.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771786961612-HLLMNVY6XYZRHIYASO95/Interior+Rendering_05.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771786962451-S3NZ34F91KCO3WRKEMPE/Interior+Rendering_06.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771786963199-DR6OL74NPL1IPF5C6GVH/Interior+Rendering_07.jpg MacArthur and Sunnyside https://www.shaunrolfes.com/macarthur-and-sunnyside-copy daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/7448f13d-8454-42ba-b107-6b5f609fa858/Exterior+Rendering_11.jpg Riley and Northlake - Riley Intermediate School and Northlake Middle School Location: Northlake, Illinois Typology: School Additions and Renovations Date: Spring 2021 - August 2023 (Project Completion) Software Used: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam, PhotoShop Project Role: Architectural Support Following the new 3-8 School in Berkeley, I transitioned to a different project just across the train tracks, in Northlake IL. Riley Intermediate and Northlake Middle School was a much different project, where both existing schools received renovations, but we connected the two schools with a large multi-use space and gymnasium. Acting as the middle school cafeteria for Northlake, this addition was intended to be used for after school activities and community events. The team size for this project was very small, consisting of Jessalyn Kelly (PM), Adam Moore (Job Captain), and I with some temporary support staff that were on and off the project. Due to this small team size, I was able to work on tasks both new and familiar to me. Client: Northlake Middle School and Riley Intermediate School - Berkeley SD 87 Architect: Wold Architects and Engineers (Palatine, IL Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/9df86654-b2c2-4958-be0f-38cc366d65e1/Exterior+Rendering_01.jpg Riley and Northlake - Make it stand out Exterior Rendering of Riley Intermediate and Addition (Wold Architects and Engineers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/9eee7e43-c5ed-474b-805d-131b64ff11bc/ISOMETRIC_GIF.gif Riley and Northlake - DEDICATED TASKS Existing Drawings: Reviewing existing drawings was a large task of mine, whether it was double checking existing modeled elements or modeling in items that were missing. Vertical Circulation: One fun thing about this project is are the grade changes that take place. The two existing buildings are at different elevations, and with the addition, that creates another elevation, we had to connect these different heights with both stairs and ramps. (Photo: Isometric Exterior GIF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/99088dfd-29a0-4db3-98c7-9741ac257385/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Riley and Northlake Exterior Elevations: Being that I started this project in the CD Phase, the initial design phase was nearly complete, so detailing and double checking brick coursing(s) was left to clean up. This is where I started creating exterior wall sections, understanding parapets, and fire walls. Code Plans: Creating Code Plans showing egress routes, updating room occupancies, and determining door widths. At this time, Code Plans was a fresher skill of mine. Only working on code plans once before, specifically the Osseo Project, I had many plan review meetings with the team before project issuance. Construction Administration: The Riley Northlake Project was my first introduction to the CA process. Before construction began, I was in charge of reviewing product data and shop drawings. (Photo: Addition Construction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/07215a60-6234-4334-8a46-6e45d6d9325b/Exterior+Rendering_023psd.jpg Riley and Northlake - PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Construction Document(s): Working on this project right after the DD estimate, I was mainly in charge of detailing, creating plan, detail, section views, etc.. At this era in my career, I was experienced in both the profession but also company standards; reviewing work and making updates, changes, and adding drawings was my main task. This was rewarding when seeing the documents become a reality on when visiting the Job Site on the few trips I made to Illinois. (Photo: Addition Construction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/128e49ba-b4a7-4dbb-9fc4-883c1a01c98b/Exterior+Rendering_05.jpg Riley and Northlake - PROJECT CHALLENGES Bidding: Following issuing the 100% CD Set for Bid, the next step was reviewing contractor questions through the Addendum process. When we went out for bid, we ended up being over budget and had to remove scope from the project. I remember removing some interior finishes, such as tile work, and some curtain wall locations. It was a new process for me, just finishing the addendum process before bidding, we basically had another addendum following the bidding phase to reduce costs. I wasn’t in the loop regarding costs at this time, but after going through additional bid openings, relying on your cost consultants helps keep projects on budget. (Photo: Addition Construction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/dd1d2700-747d-49bd-bcb1-893a79ed72d7/PlanGIF2.gif Riley and Northlake - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/19a50854-f549-4560-b392-413a16a7e919/Interior+Diagram_10.png Riley and Northlake Photo: User Group furniture meeting minutes following the Riley Northlake Project being issued. Alongside reviewing submittals and RFIs, I was working on a furniture package for the Berkeley School District with our IL interior design Monica McCrory. This was a great opportunity to not only meet the district but also perfecting my meeting minute skills. With this furniture package, we’d spatially plan, create renderings, pick colors, fabrics, and heights. We essentially issued a drawing set, showing tagged furniture and schedules, along with hundreds of excel spreadsheets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281551-7Y0IDLPVQNOPW4KLXOTG/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281459-4WNEMQN1E0EYSBCT1Q91/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800285099-BNRBOIZGQPRKJCGIS9RR/Exterior+Rendering_023psd.jpg Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326784-954X4PBCJDRAF7BZNKGO/Interior+Rendering_04.jpg Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800287173-BUIKVW4A7EMTJOH9OZ4K/Interior+Diagram_01.png Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800293552-N7MK8WOVBXRW84346T7H/Interior+Diagram_03.png Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800303776-GI53Y3MRQYEWALCWJPVG/Interior+Diagram_04.png Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800312002-A6SB8MD8LYK321PKB23O/Interior+Diagram_06.png Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800323579-CRRPE0JR9YJG8TD9YPUL/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326679-1S2355A73YFEBIFXYSZV/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800329751-LZOAKIFJYH0AQZD4F7JL/Interior+Rendering_05.jpg Riley and Northlake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800332322-NRL1WSW59O7PDSKG96XV/Interior+Rendering_07.jpg Riley and Northlake https://www.shaunrolfes.com/mora-high-school daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/26a8804e-07ff-4075-9fed-367ac20a038a/Exterior+Rendering_04.jpg Mora High School - Mora High School - ISD 322 Location: Mora, Minnesota Typology: New Building Date: August 2020 - August 2023 (Substantial Completion) Software Used: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam, Photoshop Project Role: Architectural Support Beginning late Summer of 2020, a few months into my profession, I was added to the CD Phase of the Mora High School project. This was a massive school addition, to serve as their new 7-12 grade high school. This was a big transition, going from a team of four to growing to a team over a dozen people, staying on task and communicating often. With a project having 170,000 square feet and cost nearly $62 million dollars, a large scale team was necessary. Client: Mora High School - Independent School District 332 Architect: Wold Architects and Engineers (Minneapolis, MN Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/5eeb840f-8717-42ba-9046-958e3e177de4/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Mora High School - Make it stand out Exterior Rendering of Mora High School (Wold Architects and Engineers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/aab41fb1-73c3-4486-9844-4bea33cb8a50/InteriorGIF.gif Mora High School - DEDICATED TASKS - Interior Elevations: Working with the interior designer for this project, Sam Epping, I was tasked to detail and research product data for the proposed elevations from the Design Development Phase. The curved Learning Commons was a highlight of this project, using large format porcelain tile, wood accents, and way-finding signage to create a very sophisticated corridor that highlights the Auditorium. - Casework Detailing: This project had numerous types of casework that spans from educational to coffee bars. Not only was it a fun challenge, but I was given lots of freedom with this design. Specifically the new Learning Commons, where we had built-in tech counters, lockers with integrated counters, reception desks, etc.. The Maker Space casework was notable, with built in ventilation and glass for 3D printers to be safe from the elements, but also put on display to show it how they work. - ADA Toilet Rooms and Showers: Another task of mine was detailing out the proposed toilet room layouts and shower rooms. Being a school this size, there was a variety of toilet room types. Locker Room Toilets with showers, Multi-User Toilet Rooms, Nurse Toilet Rooms, are just some of the rooms I worked on. - Reflected Ceiling Plans: The highlight of the Learning Commons and the Cafeteria were the tall ceilings, accented with linear LED light fixtures and wood accents. These ceiling materials were then replicated throughout the school. Specifically in the Commons Spaces and Corridors. (Photo: Rendering and construction photo of the Learning Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/f3e2cadd-14b1-4b76-afab-5527fc57a02e/InteriorGIF03.gif Mora High School - PROJECT SUCCESSES Working on this project from the CD phase to the early Bidding and Addendum timeline, this was a fun project and learned a lot about interior finishes. Using terrazzo was a highlight of this project, especially seeing it during the construction phase, since today we avoid it due to costs. When this project was under construction, I was fully integrated in the Illinois Office, working from Minnesota still but flying to the IL Office weekly; so when the Mora CA Team kept me updated, whether it was reviewing custom wall coverings, or carpooling to the construction site, I’d happily tag along. (Photo: Cafeteria and Learning Commons interior elevations) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/d92de797-4a85-4f88-a8b3-452efdc30ce9/InteriorGIF02.gif Mora High School - PROJECT CHALLENGES Learning new ways to communicate was a huge hurdle, at least in the beginning, with a project this large. Due to COVID, we were all working from home for the whole duration of this project. Quickly adapting to using chat and video tools was essential when keeping a team on task. Now, it’s common practice to help new employees learn the firm’s software, but COVID really highlighted it’s usefulness. Overall, the size of this project was a big learning challenge. To this day, this was one of the largest projects I’ve worked on (in square-footage). Daily check-ins, such as letting your team know what area of the building you’re working on to avoid overlapping work, or simply setting up a quick call. (Photo: Rendering and construction photo of the Cafeteria) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/197163f9-7826-495c-a0f9-c405b566af74/PlanGIF.gif Mora High School - Make it stand out Project floor plans and reflected ceiling plans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/669eac80-6f92-4930-9b1e-b5c327df521b/Interior+Diagram_01.jpg Mora High School Photo: Ground breaking Ceremony in August 2021. Other than myself, Michael Klauss (Project Manager), Jacob Cherry (Job Captain), and Brian Hicks (Architectural Support) represented the Wold team. The notable reading at this event was from the students that advocated the ‘Yes’ vote for this school referendum. I didn’t realize there was a school club that lobbied for this project. Civic action like this is great to see, especially for younger people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1772321377284-PS6WO77PDWNOQ4GWNCLY/Interior+Rendering_04.jpg Mora High School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1772321377848-NOL2HNGEEQAXSHYX8BI9/Interior+Rendering_07.jpg Mora High School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1772321379595-VHLHKW9R3T65YWRCQV5C/Interior+Rendering_08.jpg Mora High School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1772412518730-3Q2FQHTAKWRP9T0GUEKL/Interior+Rendering_05.jpg Mora High School https://www.shaunrolfes.com/plum-grove-middle-school daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/dd70ff2b-7162-4298-b3af-b1c8d73f8349/Exterior+Rendering_01.jpg Plum Grove Middle School - Plum Grove Middle School Location: Rolling Meadows, Illinois Typology: School Additions and Renovations Date: Summer 2021 - August 2024 (Project Completion) Software Used: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam, PhotoShop Project Role: Architectural Support As part of the Community Consolidated District 15 (CCSD15) Referendum in November of 2022, approved a $93 Million Dollar construction package across the 20 school district. Each school received a different form of renovations, and only select schools received renovations. At Wold, we completed construction across seven of the district’s schools. Broken up into three phases, phase one consisted of the $20 million dollar project, focussing on the two, three story additions at Plum Grove Elementary School. This was my first project, where I started in Design Development (DD) and continued till Project Completion. This was an incredible experience, seeing every detail from design, permitting, construction meetings, community events, and closing out. I claim this project as the first project where I felt like a true and well-rounded architect. Client: Plum Grove Middle School - CCSD15 Architect: Wold Architects and Engineers (Palatine, IL Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/bd599da7-17b4-453f-8b4f-64084dc6082d/Exterior_01.gif Plum Grove Middle School - Make it stand out Exterior Construction of Plu (Wold Architects and Engineers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/9dc67c1a-c66a-487c-89e0-626b3c3b0114/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Plum Grove Middle School - DEDICATED TASKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/68c72b70-e1db-4585-81fd-9af27d6e584e/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/029eb109-28e0-4cd1-9bb7-44464c164c59/PlanGIF_01.gif Plum Grove Middle School - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/304c9f99-f762-43e5-9640-2c2d4451d5c5/Exterior_02.gif Plum Grove Middle School - PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/892d8866-a3b4-4299-88a4-bc4f0846d6be/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Plum Grove Middle School - PROJECT CHALLENGES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/8625acd2-181d-4ba5-b919-c2a3be4317b0/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Plum Grove Middle School Photo: User Group furniture meeting minutes following the Riley Northlake Project being issued. Alongside reviewing submittals and RFIs, I was working on a furniture package for the Berkeley School District with our IL interior design Monica McCrory. This was a great opportunity to not only meet the district but also perfecting my meeting minute skills. With this furniture package, we’d spatially plan, create renderings, pick colors, fabrics, and heights. We essentially issued a drawing set, showing tagged furniture and schedules, along with hundreds of excel spreadsheets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281551-7Y0IDLPVQNOPW4KLXOTG/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281459-4WNEMQN1E0EYSBCT1Q91/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800285099-BNRBOIZGQPRKJCGIS9RR/Exterior+Rendering_023psd.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326784-954X4PBCJDRAF7BZNKGO/Interior+Rendering_04.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800287173-BUIKVW4A7EMTJOH9OZ4K/Interior+Diagram_01.png Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800293552-N7MK8WOVBXRW84346T7H/Interior+Diagram_03.png Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800303776-GI53Y3MRQYEWALCWJPVG/Interior+Diagram_04.png Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800312002-A6SB8MD8LYK321PKB23O/Interior+Diagram_06.png Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800323579-CRRPE0JR9YJG8TD9YPUL/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326679-1S2355A73YFEBIFXYSZV/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800329751-LZOAKIFJYH0AQZD4F7JL/Interior+Rendering_05.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800332322-NRL1WSW59O7PDSKG96XV/Interior+Rendering_07.jpg Plum Grove Middle School https://www.shaunrolfes.com/plum-grove-middle-school-copy daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/dd70ff2b-7162-4298-b3af-b1c8d73f8349/Exterior+Rendering_01.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 - Phase 2: CCSD15 Project Scope Location: Hoffman Estates and Palatine, Illinois Typology: School Additions and Renovations Date: Spring 2023 - August 2024 (Project Completion) Software Used: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam, PhotoShop Project Role: Architectural Support As part of the Community Consolidated District 15 (CCSD15) Referendum in November of 2022, approved a $93 Million Dollar construction package across the 20 school district. Each school received a different form of renovations, and only select schools received renovations. At Wold, we completed construction across seven of the district’s schools. Broken up into two phases, phase one consisted of the $20 million dollar project, focussing on the two, three story additions at Plum Grove Elementary School. This was my first project, where I started in Design Development (DD) and continued till Project Completion. This was an incredible experience, seeing every detail from design, permitting, construction meetings, community events, and closing out. I claim this project as the first project where I felt like a true and well-rounded architect. Client: Plum Grove Middle School - CCSD15 Architect: Wold Architects and Engineers (Palatine, IL Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/bd599da7-17b4-453f-8b4f-64084dc6082d/Exterior_01.gif Phase 2 CCSD15 - Make it stand out Exterior Construction of Plu (Wold Architects and Engineers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/9dc67c1a-c66a-487c-89e0-626b3c3b0114/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 - DEDICATED TASKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/68c72b70-e1db-4585-81fd-9af27d6e584e/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/029eb109-28e0-4cd1-9bb7-44464c164c59/PlanGIF_01.gif Phase 2 CCSD15 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/304c9f99-f762-43e5-9640-2c2d4451d5c5/Exterior_02.gif Phase 2 CCSD15 - PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/892d8866-a3b4-4299-88a4-bc4f0846d6be/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 - PROJECT CHALLENGES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/8625acd2-181d-4ba5-b919-c2a3be4317b0/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 Photo: User Group furniture meeting minutes following the Riley Northlake Project being issued. Alongside reviewing submittals and RFIs, I was working on a furniture package for the Berkeley School District with our IL interior design Monica McCrory. This was a great opportunity to not only meet the district but also perfecting my meeting minute skills. With this furniture package, we’d spatially plan, create renderings, pick colors, fabrics, and heights. We essentially issued a drawing set, showing tagged furniture and schedules, along with hundreds of excel spreadsheets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281551-7Y0IDLPVQNOPW4KLXOTG/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281459-4WNEMQN1E0EYSBCT1Q91/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800285099-BNRBOIZGQPRKJCGIS9RR/Exterior+Rendering_023psd.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326784-954X4PBCJDRAF7BZNKGO/Interior+Rendering_04.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800287173-BUIKVW4A7EMTJOH9OZ4K/Interior+Diagram_01.png Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800293552-N7MK8WOVBXRW84346T7H/Interior+Diagram_03.png Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800303776-GI53Y3MRQYEWALCWJPVG/Interior+Diagram_04.png Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800312002-A6SB8MD8LYK321PKB23O/Interior+Diagram_06.png Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800323579-CRRPE0JR9YJG8TD9YPUL/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326679-1S2355A73YFEBIFXYSZV/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800329751-LZOAKIFJYH0AQZD4F7JL/Interior+Rendering_05.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800332322-NRL1WSW59O7PDSKG96XV/Interior+Rendering_07.jpg Phase 2 CCSD15 https://www.shaunrolfes.com/phase-3-ccsd15 daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/dd70ff2b-7162-4298-b3af-b1c8d73f8349/Exterior+Rendering_01.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 - Plum Grove Middle School Location: Rolling Meadows, Illinois Typology: School Additions and Renovations Date: Summer 2021 - August 2024 (Project Completion) Software Used: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam, PhotoShop Project Role: Architectural Support As part of the Community Consolidated District 15 (CCSD15) Referendum in November of 2022, approved a $93 Million Dollar construction package across the 20 school district. Each school received a different form of renovations, and only select schools received renovations. At Wold, we completed construction across seven of the district’s schools. Broken up into two phases, phase one consisted of the $20 million dollar project, focussing on the two, three story additions at Plum Grove Elementary School. This was my first project, where I started in Design Development (DD) and continued till Project Completion. This was an incredible experience, seeing every detail from design, permitting, construction meetings, community events, and closing out. I claim this project as the first project where I felt like a true and well-rounded architect. Client: Plum Grove Middle School - CCSD15 Architect: Wold Architects and Engineers (Palatine, IL Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/bd599da7-17b4-453f-8b4f-64084dc6082d/Exterior_01.gif Phase 3 CCSD15 - Make it stand out Exterior Construction of Plu (Wold Architects and Engineers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/9dc67c1a-c66a-487c-89e0-626b3c3b0114/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 - DEDICATED TASKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/68c72b70-e1db-4585-81fd-9af27d6e584e/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/029eb109-28e0-4cd1-9bb7-44464c164c59/PlanGIF_01.gif Phase 3 CCSD15 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/304c9f99-f762-43e5-9640-2c2d4451d5c5/Exterior_02.gif Phase 3 CCSD15 - PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/892d8866-a3b4-4299-88a4-bc4f0846d6be/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 - PROJECT CHALLENGES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/8625acd2-181d-4ba5-b919-c2a3be4317b0/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 Photo: User Group furniture meeting minutes following the Riley Northlake Project being issued. Alongside reviewing submittals and RFIs, I was working on a furniture package for the Berkeley School District with our IL interior design Monica McCrory. This was a great opportunity to not only meet the district but also perfecting my meeting minute skills. With this furniture package, we’d spatially plan, create renderings, pick colors, fabrics, and heights. We essentially issued a drawing set, showing tagged furniture and schedules, along with hundreds of excel spreadsheets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281551-7Y0IDLPVQNOPW4KLXOTG/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281459-4WNEMQN1E0EYSBCT1Q91/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800285099-BNRBOIZGQPRKJCGIS9RR/Exterior+Rendering_023psd.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326784-954X4PBCJDRAF7BZNKGO/Interior+Rendering_04.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800287173-BUIKVW4A7EMTJOH9OZ4K/Interior+Diagram_01.png Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800293552-N7MK8WOVBXRW84346T7H/Interior+Diagram_03.png Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800303776-GI53Y3MRQYEWALCWJPVG/Interior+Diagram_04.png Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800312002-A6SB8MD8LYK321PKB23O/Interior+Diagram_06.png Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800323579-CRRPE0JR9YJG8TD9YPUL/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326679-1S2355A73YFEBIFXYSZV/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800329751-LZOAKIFJYH0AQZD4F7JL/Interior+Rendering_05.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800332322-NRL1WSW59O7PDSKG96XV/Interior+Rendering_07.jpg Phase 3 CCSD15 https://www.shaunrolfes.com/phase-3-ccsd15-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/dd70ff2b-7162-4298-b3af-b1c8d73f8349/Exterior+Rendering_01.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades - Plum Grove Middle School Location: Rolling Meadows, Illinois Typology: School Additions and Renovations Date: Summer 2021 - August 2024 (Project Completion) Software Used: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam, PhotoShop Project Role: Architectural Support As part of the Community Consolidated District 15 (CCSD15) Referendum in November of 2022, approved a $93 Million Dollar construction package across the 20 school district. Each school received a different form of renovations, and only select schools received renovations. At Wold, we completed construction across seven of the district’s schools. Broken up into two phases, phase one consisted of the $20 million dollar project, focussing on the two, three story additions at Plum Grove Elementary School. This was my first project, where I started in Design Development (DD) and continued till Project Completion. This was an incredible experience, seeing every detail from design, permitting, construction meetings, community events, and closing out. I claim this project as the first project where I felt like a true and well-rounded architect. Client: Plum Grove Middle School - CCSD15 Architect: Wold Architects and Engineers (Palatine, IL Office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/bd599da7-17b4-453f-8b4f-64084dc6082d/Exterior_01.gif Flossmoor Upgrades - Make it stand out Exterior Construction of Plu (Wold Architects and Engineers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/9dc67c1a-c66a-487c-89e0-626b3c3b0114/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades - DEDICATED TASKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/68c72b70-e1db-4585-81fd-9af27d6e584e/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/029eb109-28e0-4cd1-9bb7-44464c164c59/PlanGIF_01.gif Flossmoor Upgrades - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/304c9f99-f762-43e5-9640-2c2d4451d5c5/Exterior_02.gif Flossmoor Upgrades - PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/892d8866-a3b4-4299-88a4-bc4f0846d6be/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades - PROJECT CHALLENGES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/8625acd2-181d-4ba5-b919-c2a3be4317b0/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades Photo: User Group furniture meeting minutes following the Riley Northlake Project being issued. Alongside reviewing submittals and RFIs, I was working on a furniture package for the Berkeley School District with our IL interior design Monica McCrory. This was a great opportunity to not only meet the district but also perfecting my meeting minute skills. With this furniture package, we’d spatially plan, create renderings, pick colors, fabrics, and heights. We essentially issued a drawing set, showing tagged furniture and schedules, along with hundreds of excel spreadsheets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281551-7Y0IDLPVQNOPW4KLXOTG/Exterior+Rendering_02.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800281459-4WNEMQN1E0EYSBCT1Q91/Exterior+Rendering_03.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800285099-BNRBOIZGQPRKJCGIS9RR/Exterior+Rendering_023psd.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326784-954X4PBCJDRAF7BZNKGO/Interior+Rendering_04.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800287173-BUIKVW4A7EMTJOH9OZ4K/Interior+Diagram_01.png Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800293552-N7MK8WOVBXRW84346T7H/Interior+Diagram_03.png Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800303776-GI53Y3MRQYEWALCWJPVG/Interior+Diagram_04.png Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800312002-A6SB8MD8LYK321PKB23O/Interior+Diagram_06.png Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800323579-CRRPE0JR9YJG8TD9YPUL/Interior+Rendering_01.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800326679-1S2355A73YFEBIFXYSZV/Interior+Rendering_03.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800329751-LZOAKIFJYH0AQZD4F7JL/Interior+Rendering_05.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2d0d8c2714e521cd5c9822/1771800332322-NRL1WSW59O7PDSKG96XV/Interior+Rendering_07.jpg Flossmoor Upgrades