Cole Von Feldt Portfolio

COLE VON FELDT

Cole Von Feldt is a multi-hyphenate creative that works in the realms of architecture, photography, and graphic design. He is also a published writer and furniture designer.

Cole studied architecture and urban design in Austin and Copenhagen and trained in New York and Houston with nARCHITECTS and Stantec, respectively. He has amassed 2,700 hours of training towards architecture licensure; over seventy percent of the required 3,740.

During his time with nARCHITECTS, Cole assisted on the SD and DD phases of many projects, in addition to an RFP, and was responsible for four stylized drawings that are featured in a current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art – Architecture Now: New York, New Publics.

Cole is interested in design at multiple scales, including the urban scale, and is passionate about architecture’s ability to aid the climate crisis, further social equity, and foster engaging public spaces.

Outside of the office, Cole cares deeply about the architecture community. He is a Fellow of the Urban Design Forum in New York, and served on the 2022 Design Awards Committee for AIA Brooklyn. He is also a LEED Green Associate and a contributing writer for PaperCity Magazine, a Texas-based design publication.

COMUNES VIBRANTES

Creating and Energizing Public Space in Las Cruces

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

Size: 561,000 sq-m.

Typology: Urban Design Interventions

Professor: Juana Salcedo-Ortiz

Designed in collaboration with Temi Osanyintolu and Isabelle Nance, Comunes

Vibrantes proposes a vibrant transformation and revitalization for the Las Cruces neighborhood.

Through community engagement and working with government agencies, a proposal of social interventions were designed that empower the residents and create safer public spaces.

Keypoints (grounded at cultural junctures) and Multipliers (implemented throughout the neighborhood) aim to prioritize pedestrians, encourage economic and social interaction, and strengthen the connection to adjacent places and actors.

The use of color helps to enrich public space and create a more energized connection between the hubs of Las Cruces.

Existing Proposal

NB30 A New Community for

Nørrebro - 2030

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Size: 104,000 sq-m.

Typology: Urban Design Master Plan

Professor: Rasmus Frisk

NB30 increases mobility for cyclists. Bicycle infrastructure is created through wide car-free boulevards and a cycling tower that also acts as a community hub in conjunction to the existing mosque.

Along with cycling mobility, density of housing and walkability are also implemented into the design of NB30.

Comfortable density is created at a humanistic and non-monotonous scale. This provides an attractive living environment on natural and available land in close proximity to the city center.

NB30 also implements adaptive reuse approaches to existing structures, fostering a healthy building and living environment.

Neighborhood Plan - Public Transportation

Commuter Train: F Line

Stop indicated with Danish State Rail logo

Underground Metro: M3 Line

Stops indicated with Metro logo

City Bus: Route 12

Multiple stops along shown route

City Bus: Route 6A

Multiple stops along shown route

TypicalCopenhagen Street Flat

Mixed Use Multi-Story

TypicalCopenhagenHousingBlock

Mixed-UseContemporaryHousingBlock

High-riseHousingUnit

[bus]STOP and PLAY

Location: Austin, TX

Size: 1,700 sq-ft.

Typology: Transportation Professor: Danelle Briscoe

In [bus]STOP and PLAY, the ordinary bus stop is transformed into a designated place to pause, wait, and play, rather than a forgotten part of a monotonous commute.

The colored metal butterfly roof helps to liven the environment and bring excitement to the user during their journey on public transportation.

The colorful and geometric poured-in-place rubber seating transforms the bus stop into a momentary playground for all ages.

The lively seating rethinks ordinary benches and acts as a much needed humanistic transition between the busy street and the public park adjacent to the bus stop.

3 - Steel Beam Supports

4 - Concrete Footings

1 - Folded Metal Covering

2 - 1-1/2” Ø Steel Pipes Elevation

1 - Folded Metal Covering

2 - 1-1/2” Ø Steel Pipes

3 - Steel Beam Supports

4 - Concrete Footings

The series of butterfly roofs mimics the playful landscape of the furniture.

COURT LEONA

Location: Austin, TX

Size: 100,000 sq. ft.

Typology: Graduate Student Housing

Professor: Michael Garrison

Designed in collaboration with Amber Williams, Court Leona serves to provide much-needed graduate student housing to the University of Texas at Austin.

An inviting courtyard strategy is implemented to provide open space for students, their potential families, and community members. The 'Eyes on the Street' strategy, adapted for the courtyard here, helps provide a safe and active environment.

Amenity spaces facilitate vertical circulation while also providing bicycle parking and gyms to the residents, and coffee shops for the entire community.

The brick is a nod to the material of the University's buildings and was chosen for its longevity and sustainable durability.

In order to respect the scale of the adjacent neighborhood, the eastern part of Court Leona remains at two levels. This scale also provides the community with a more welcoming entry.

3 - Detail @ Slab

2 - Detail @ Second Floor

1 - Detail @ Roof

STEVNSGADE CONNECTION

Location:

Copenhagen, Denmark

Size: 4,125 sq-m.

Typology: Urban Design Professor: Rasmus Frisk

Stevnsgade Connection proposes a solution to the existing dangerous bicycle route. Through rerouting of bicycle infrastructure, cyclists then take precedence over the automobile.

The slightly raised path links both sides of Jagtvej in the Stevnsgade neighborhood, allowing for increased safety and mobility for cyclists.

The improved cyclist infrastructure helps to energize the community by providing a safe passage to, and through, the neighborhood square.

The rerouted infrastructure creates more emphasis on the local market and helps to foster a playful environment, while accommodating increased bicycle parking.

Proposed Site Plan

50 meters: 10 seconds

25 meters: 10 seconds

Illegal Bicycle Crossings on Existing Site

Existing Bicycle Infrastructure

Fensmarkgade

The connection increases cyclist mobility, allowing for the space to be used for recreation.

Bicycle parking and seating encourages passersby to shop at the local market.

Proposed Bicycle Parking and Seating

LITTLE FALLS CONNECTOR

Location: Little Falls, NY

Size: 280' length

Typology: Pedestrian Bridge Supervisor: Eric Bunge

Little Falls Connector is a pedestrian bridge landscape architecture project that connects the Empire State Trail to the town of Little Falls.

The bridge uses steel beams and columns to span the long distance. It connects to the functioning, and historic, Lock 17 and serves to reinvigorate the community.

The visualizations were completed for the 100% SD stage and were used as a tool throughout the iterative design of the bridge.

The physical model was created out of basswood, chipboard, and fabric. It was used for both design and presentation purposes.

Seating is offered at the connection to the Empire State Trail while a stair provides entry to Lock 17 from the path below.

The physical model was simultaneously created and altered as the design of the connector was adjusted. When structural members changed size, so did the corresponding pieces on the model. It was used as a tool to inform the design of the project.

JONES BEACH DRAWINGS

Location: Jones Beach, NY

Typology: Exhibition Drawings

Supervisor: Eric Bunge

The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center replaced a Moses-era parking lot and facilitates environmental learning on Long Island.

JBENC was selected to be one of twelve projects in the inaugural Architecture

Now: New York, New Publics exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The elevation and plan drawings were heavily revised from their original status during the design phase, to be more accurate and read appropriately for the exhibition.

The energy systems drawing was created to showcase the geothermal, PV panels, and interior volumes.

Site Plan

The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center sits on a landscape that is partly vegetated and partly sand. This environment lends itself to an educationally immersive setting for such a center.

The photovoltaic panels and geothermal cables provide energy back to the grid after consumption for the Center.

CUSTOM METAL FURNITURE

Location: Rhinebeck, NY

Typology: Furniture Supervisor: Eric Bunge

A new-construction private residence in upstate New York required the designs of a steel kitchen table and coat closet

The house is constructed from Cross Laminated Timber. The furniture is intended to act as a contrast to the environment and be seen as objects that have a movable quality.

The kitchen table's design utilizes metal angles and tubes and uses the contrast in material depth to create illusions of strength.

The coat closet, also from metal angles, uses sheets of folded metal for shelving and is fastened by screws. A veil of fabric, hung from the ceiling, conceals it.

Longitudinal

Transverse Section

Detail - 1

Detail - 2

Typ., table legs: alum. angle 2-1/2"x2-1/2"x1/4"

Typ., table legs: alum. angle 2-1/2"x2-1/2"x1/4"

Typ., edge beam: alum. tube 2-1/2"x2-1/2"x1/4"

Stone tabletop

Typ., alum. tube

Horizontal alum. edge angle

Typ., tube welded to angle

Steel Coat Closet Steel Coat Closet - Section

NOTES:

TITLE:

ENTRY CLOSET

Scale: AS NOTED

DATE: September 21, 2022

Metal Sheet - Unfolded

AF-011

TITLE:

ENTRY CLOSET

Scale: AS NOTED

DATE: September 21, 2022

AF-013

Metal Sheet - Folded

BKDA GRAPHIC DESIGN

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Typology: Graphic Design Supervisor: Lindsay Smilow

A series of graphic designs were created for the annual Design Awards for the American Institute of Architects, Brooklyn chapter.

A new graphic language was created for the revamped program that corresponded with the sustainability minded awards. The powerful circular design relates to the cycles of nature, while

the incompleteness of the circle reflects the harm that the building industry inflicts on the environment.

The designs were displayed on various social media platforms while also being printed and pasted throughout neighborhoods in Brooklyn to promote project submissions.

Posters were hung near high concentrations of architecture offices and in the most popular neighborhoods to attract submissions.

Website Banner

WOODEN TRAJECTORY

Location: Austin, TX

Size: 3.375 cubic-ft.

Typology: Wood Working Exploration

Professor: Rasa Navasaityte

Wooden Trajectory explores the use of robotic tools to generate three dimensional compositions.

Often used as a means of production, robotic tools can function as an apparatus of architectural design.

Cutting at an angle creates grooves on each piece of wood,

enabling them to slide past and clasp into each other.

The two larger pieces are joined at 90°, acting as the static member, while the third acts as the dynamic piece.

Upon arrival at the apex of the conjoined pieces, the dynamic auxiliary piece seamlessly pivots to the other static face.

The computational code instructs the router to cut the grooves at an angle. This angle then allows the independent pieces to clasp into one another.

1 - Curvatures for Sliding

2 - Dynamic Auxiliary Piece

3 - Static 90° Members

PLY TABLE

Location: Austin, TX

Size: 60”x24”x21”

Typology:

Furniture Design

Professor: Mark Macek

Ply Table’s intention is to simultaneously display and store books in an unsuspecting way. Its shelf is incorporated into the table, reducing the number of publications stacked on top of each other, while still providing visibility to the titles.

The bent lamination creates an engaging form that emphasizes the stacked plywood layers while walnut sliding doors

always allow a portion of the book collection to be displayed.

Each door is one-third the width of the opening, meaning that the book collection always fluctuates between one-third and two-thirds exposure.

This dynamic flexibility helps incorporate the displayed book spines into the design of the table.

Concept Sketch

Door Section Drawing

The thinness of the doors were cut to an exact measurement to maximize the book volume stored within the table.

Deconstructed Layers

The magazine rack enhances the bent lamination form while providing another displayed storage for print media.

A divider protrudes vertically through the middle of the tabletop, exposing the geometries of the wood's cross section. This creates a beautiful interruption in the tabletop grain.

COLE VON FELDT, LEED Green Associate

ncvonfeldt@gmail.com

+1-832-459-4186

EXPERIENCE

2700 NCARB Hours

nARCHITECTS

Brooklyn, New York

June 2022 - December 2022

Architectural Intern

• Executed design ideas, graphic presentations, model-making, and visualizations for various SD and DD stages and an RFP submission.

• Consulted with fabricators to design custom furniture for a private singlefamily residence.

• Created and edited four stylized drawings to be included in an upcoming exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.

Stantec

Houston, Texas

Summers 2020, 2021

Architectural Intern

• Edited project elevations, wrote field observation reports, assisted on client presentations, and reviewed and filed RFIs, ASIs, PRs, and Submittals.

• Worked both remotely and in person, on a team across three time zones and disciplines to generate proposals for both a non-profit organization and school-district-based intern projects.

Highland Homes

Plano, Texas

Summers 2018, 2019

Architectural Intern

• Modified and reviewed plans and elevations on the Specials Team. Responsible for timely and accurate enhancements to 150 clients’ houses.

• Communicated with outsourced engineering firms and in-house purchasing department for each home to gather building information for the tradesmen.

EDUCATION

B. Architecture

The University of Texas

Urban Design, Adaptive Reuse

DIS Copenhagen Study Abroad

HONORS

Domestic Independent Research Travel Scholarship

Dean’s Design Distinction University Honors x4

ACE Mentor Program Grand Prize Scholarship

PUBLICATIONS

PYLON: BKDA Special Edition

Guest Editor, Contributor

Architecture Now: New York, New Publics, The Museum of Modern Art

ISSUE: 017

Annual UTSOA Book of Student Work

ORGANIZATIONS

Urban Design Forum Fellow

American Institute of Architects, Brooklyn Chapter Design Awards Committee Member

CREDENTIALS

LEED Green Associate

Awarded January 2022

REFERENCES

Eric Bunge, FAIA

eric.bunge@narchitects.com

+1.917.312.4341

Co-Founding Partner, nARCHITECTS

Adjunct Associate Professor, GSAPP

Juana Salcedo-Ortiz

juana.salcedo@austin.utexas.edu

+1.959.929.8867

Assistant Professor of Practice

UT Austin School of Architecture

Lindsay Smilow

lsmilow@gmail.com

+1.516.996.2536

Former Executive Director

AIA Brooklyn Chapter

Rasmus Frisk

rf@arkilab.dk

+45.2628.0303

Associate Professor, DIS Copenhagen CEO, Urban Designer, Arki_Lab

SKILLS

Design:

Rhino, AutoCAD, Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lumion, Enscape, ArcGIS

Fabrication:

Sketching, Laser Cutting, Wood Working

Additional:

Microsoft Office, Zoom, Bluebeam, Adobe Acrobat

RESOURCES

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-vonfeldt/

Photography

https://www.vonfoto.net/