SHAPING SPACE + PLACE
Cole Rozwadowski (540) 277-7325
coleroz03@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/crozwadowski
Cole Rozwadowski is a third year BS.Arch student at the University of Virginia with minors in Architectural History and Global Sustainability.
Design Experience
Student Instructor Assistant
University of Virginia School of Architecture Charlottesville, VA
January 2025 - Present
• Assisted with two design fundamentals courses: Prof. Elgin Cleckley’s ARCH 2070: _mpathic design and Prof. WG Clark’s ARCH 2715: Elements of Design
• Collaborated with teaching teams to develop workshops, lectures, and exercises, offer design feedback, and grade assignments
Student Advisory Council Member
Public Arts Pathway - UVA Public Service Pathways Charlottesville, VA
September 2024 - Present
• Developed and led community engagement and service mindset workshops for over 100+ undergraduate students
President sketch@UVA
Charlottesville, VA
April 2023 - Present
• Founded UVA’s only sketchbooking CIO, leading 30+ students, faculty, and community members in creative community
TEDxUVA Design Chair
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
September 2022 - Present
• Led a group of six student designers and marketers to brand TEDx conferences each semester for student and professional speakers
Winter Intern
John J. Burger Architect Fredericksburg, VA
• Drafted construction documentation for multiple process and bid drawing sets, including employee housing for a waterpark and a small-scale office building December 2024 - January 2025
Architecture Team Advisor
National Student Leadership Conference Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
July 2024 - August 2024
• Led groups of 10-15 students through nine-day pre-college summer architecture programs involving a studio project, firm visits, and field trips
• Served as a teaching assistant, resident advisor, and mentor for students
Architecture Intern
Dialogue + Design Associates
Charlottesville, VA
Education
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
BS.Arch
Minors: Architectural History
Global Sustainability
GPA: 4.0
Expected May 2026
Laurel Ridge Community College Warrenton, VA
Associate of Science
Summa cum laude May 2022
Skills
Adobe Suite AutoCAD
Creative Problem Solving Microsoft Office Modelmaking Research
Rhino 3D Sketching SketchUp V-Ray for Rhino
References
Elgin Cleckley
Associate Professor, Architecture elc2n@virginia.edu 434-924-8459
Reed Muehlman
May 2024 - August 2024
• Coordinated with senior associates to draft construction documents for private residential and public interest projects
• Assisted with community engagement and subcontractor meetings
Student Research Assistant
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
April 2024 - May 2024
• Modeled four1:12 scale sectional models for Prof. Stacy Scott’s VA Architecture Fellows Exhibition on spatial memory and belonging
Construction Intern am-cor, inc.
Culpeper, VA
Principal, Dialogue + Design reed@dialogueanddesign.com 434-466-4815
Stacy Scott
Assistant Professor, Architecture UVA Architecture Fellow jyj9ra@virginia.edu
Peter Waldman
William R. Kenan Professor, Arch. pdw7e@virginia.edu 434-924-6464
April 2022 - August 2022
• Constructed a full-scale pre-fabricated steel ferrocement home kit
Pathways: A Center for Those on the Edge
ARCH 3010 | Peter Waldman | Washington, D.C. | Fall 2024
This project proposes a new agenda for a Student Center for Those on the Edge: A Place of Citizens & Strangers in a Changing & Challenging World. The programmatic brief incorporates both student and migrant infrastructure, asking the question of what a truly democratic space would look like for those on the move. Sited on George Washington University’s (GWU) campus at the corner of H and 21st Streets, this proposal challenges conventional notions of Washington D.C. as an out-of-scale, opaque city.
Rooted in preconditions, this proposal seeks to consider the various histories, stakeholders, and underlying tensions present within Washington D.C., which in turn inform the conditions found in Foggy Bottom. Early collage explorations begin exploring the overlapping sociocultural layers at the scale of the region, city, and neighborhood.
2024 Site Block
Situated Between 20 & 21st, I & H St.
Brick Construction
Wood Construction
1903 Sanborn Block Situated Between 20 & 21st, I & H St.
Collaging was an opportunity to physical overlay the disparate stories buried within Foggy Bottom’s relationship to Washington D.C. At the regional scale, tribal lands clash with modern politics, while at the neighborhood scale, Foggy Bottom’s diverse residents struggle to keep their place in the city. The site is a chance to mediate these histories.
Exploratory Diagrams I
Exploratory Diagrams II
Early conceptual models focused on “One Good Window,” opening a portal to hand-drawn layers of Washington D.C.’s past: from rowhouses and the Potomac shad run to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Other models used figure ground plans of the city, folded along L’Enfant’s plan, to explore building envelopes and form. Lastly, massing models sought to compare ways of responding to the Foggy Bottom site’s diagonal.
Responding to the site’s former diagonal alley, site circulation occurs primarily at an angle with orthgonal catwalks connecting to surrounding GWU buildings. The main thoroughfare connects to the existing student center to the West.
Enlarged Temporary Unit Plan I
Temporary units serve migrants who have fallen on hard times, offering them a chance to get back on their feet while building community. All of the units are penthouses in a sense, deliberately reframing views of D.C. as they adjust.
Enlarged Temporary Unit Plan II
While the triangular tower functions primarily as an educational hub and the square tower focuses on reorienting migrants with interview kiosks and office space, the temporary units are consistent across the two structures.
Capitol: Act II
ARCH 2020 | Tom Knight | Richmond, VA | Spring 2024
This project, sited in the Fan District of Richmond, Virginia, focuses on urban dwellings with collective amenities by incorporating a secondary programmatic element linked to existing institutions, organizations, or services. The existing institution in this case was a forgotten performing arts legacy tied to Richmond’s identity. By engaging the city’s past to chart a new course for the future, Capitol ACT: II begins to explore the question: What does it mean to dwell in the city?
The site, a parking lot across Broad St. from the Virginia Science Museum (formerly Broad St. Station) was once home to the first theatre in Virginia to show “talkies” or sound films. The Capitol Theatre, along with the W.M. Byrd Hotel, was once known as the “Gateway to Richmond” post-WWII up until the decline of the railroad through the 1980s. The 1952 Sanborn Map (left) shows the grain of the block’s former urban fabric.
(Ground) Plan
Theatre
Elevated Park Plan
Tower Plan
A robust public scene that includes multiple references to the performing arts history of the site is integrally tied to the domestic zone. An elevated pocket park makes spaces for impromptu performances, visually connecting Capitol: ACT II to the Virginia Science Museum’s Greenspace across West Broad Street. Underneath the park is a theatre built on the former footprint of the Capitol Theatre, acting as the foundation for the residential and public spaces that rest on top of it.
Theatre Longitudinal Section Perspective
Heron’s Pass
ARCH 2010 | Stacy Scott | Charlottesville, VA | Fall 2023
This project, sited along the Rivanna River in Charlottesville, Virginia, focuses on designing a series of nodes along a broader network of design interventions along the riverbank. Designing with existing ecologies in mind, the project promotes interactions between human and non-human users, expanding on existing nesting grounds for riparian bird populations. With an urban foraging program and a focus on landscape, this intervention is meant to expose the site instead of imposing upon it.
The Rivanna serves as prime nesting ground for Great Blue Herons, Green Herons, and Ospreys, and the wooden framing of the curving pathways serves as prime territory for perching. The river at the site is not particularly deep so by repurposing felled trees into thin point supports the bridge is able to effectively navigate the rocky habitat preferred by these birds of prey.
Early conceptual collages exploring precedents, diagrams, and the relationships between formal elements and non-human users. These focused on the sectional moves relating to the river and site’s steep hillsides.
Section B-B’ Section
Section C-C’
Section D-D’
Professional Work
Dialogue + Design Associate | Charlottesville, VA | Summer 2024
Dialogue + Design Associates is a multi-disciplinary, public-interest design firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia, focusing on helping citizens, localities, and organizations build a stronger future through collaboration, architecture, environmental design, and community planning. All work shown in this section was performed under the supervision of Reed Muehlman, principal of Dialogue + Design Associates, for an adaptive reuse project in Southwest Virginia.
LICKCREEK(TRIBUTARY)
LEFTFORKLICKCREEK
Due to the historic nature of the steam plant, parts of the concrete slab foundation and one of the exterior walls requires demolition. This meant a variety of specific details had to be developed to try and explore the ways in which waterproofing would fit at roof connections with both existing and new wall assemblies
There are a variety of existing window openings in the current steam plant that required different details depending on the type of sill specified and the imagined use of each (whether that be purely visual or as a seat or place to lean). These details had to navigate the same complexities of new and existing wall assemblies.
Drawing as Seeing: Freelance Illustration
Personal Projects + Commissions |2019 - Present
For me, drawing has always been more than a hobby. Instead, drawing has been a way of processing moments of joy and moments of loss, of helping recenter myself and appreciate my surroundings, and of developing a visual language through which I can express myself. Drawing is a large part of what drew me to architecture as a possible career. My explorations have manifested in a variety of media and have led to several commissions, both for individuals interested in my work and small businesses.
Mathew Street, mixed media, 9x12”
In 2023, was approached by Kuusi Modern Mercantile, a small business in Phillipsville, Michigan, for a commision focused on the work of a local artisan on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Tom Manniko was a local spoonmaker who made over a thousand hand-crafted wooden spoons over his lifetime. Kuusi hoped to capture his generosity and creativity in a commissioned piece based on his work. Kuusi retains the rights of this piece of artwork, selling it as prints at their brick and mortar store.
Baldwin, ballpoint pen, 11x17”
Good Trouble II, graphite, 5x7”
Victrola, graphite, 12x12”
Springsteen, graphite, 11x17”
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