Architecture
PORTFOLIO
JOSH WAGNER 2010-2014
DAKOTAH PRAIRIE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
Instructors: Tad Bradley, Jessica Garcia-Fritz, & Federico Garcia-Lammers
Spring 2014
ARCH 452 Architectural Studio III Downtown Aberdeen, South Dakota 24 massing models and sectional drawings were created in five weeks to present new ideas for a children’s museum to be located in the parking lot north of the Dakotah Prairie Museum in downtown Aberdeen. The project deals with the organization of spaces within the boundaries of an urban site, as well as the historical implications of an preserved building on location. The main concept formulated within the final four models evolved into a specific questions. How does an design promote nested levels of space with in the site that allows visitors a diverse place of event.
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GATEWAY MUSEUM
Instructor Tad Bradley
Fall 2013
ARCH 451 Architectural Studio II
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GATEWAY MUSEUM Adjacency diagram sketches
Rapid City, South Dakota
Instructor Tad Bradley
Fall 2013
ARCH 451 Architectural Studio II Nick Veasey - X ray imagery of the material world. This gallery is presented as the face of the building. It is the initial gallery to be experienced by the visitors, yet the layout saves the gallery for the end of the visit. This foreshadowing is intentional so the first impression is significant; yet the final gallery experience is what the visitor remembers about the work of Nick Veasey.
Andrew Wyeth painted people nestled within the landscape that signified an interaction between humans and nature. The central gallery is designed to work as the transitional gallery to where a visitor will have a visual connection to the urban surrounding. Another connection is made to the context of the city through a programmed scale shift. This space is designed to allow for visual, and audible connections to other visitors and activities, reminding the visitor of the larger scheme of life.
The final gallery features sculpture from Alberto Giacometti. His work deals with humanism in a introverted manner. Close observation of his work reveals a level of intimate craft. The gallery provides a seclusion for the visitors in order to spend time with the sculpture. This intimate setting is further elaborated during the noon hour where direct light floods the gallery space and shows the work in a completely different perspective.
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SEED HOUSE
Professor Charles MacBride
Spring 2012
ARCH 252 Design Practice IV
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SEED HOUSE
The Seed House project was designed to utilize the natural flow of student traffic through an undeveloped quad on campus. A design charrette with a few current visual arts students was conducted. The students were asking for ideas that would allow privacy for students to work, yet incorporate a connection with the faculty to foster a prosperous academic environment. The cut of earth activates the path through the quad allowing for private interiors spaces to flank the main public corridor. Each side of the trenched corridor will serve the two main occupancies, the faculty and the students. The perpendicular bridging of the gap promotes a communal center to the quad where these two programs can meld together.
Professor Charles MacBride
Spring 2012
ARCH 252 Design Practice IV
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HEDUK ARCHIVES
Professor Brian Rex
Spring 2012
ARCH 252 Design Practice IV This vertical urban infill project was commissioned to provide archives for architect and educator John Heduk. This project is located where the gates to the historical Judengang, or “Jewish path” close off the cemetery from the city that surrounds the area. The Judengang was said to have been created in order to keep the Jewish mourners away from the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III.
With the intense contextual fabric of the this site, it became evident how important barriers are in architecture. The separation of space drove the idea for the articulating floors that occupy the same planar space yet have the freedom to move independently from each other. Because the site is only open on one day a year to the public; the second Sunday of September, the buildings facade will shift into the a mutually agreed form choreographed by the archive’s resident care taker and a visiting curator in a battle between old and new technology. 11
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9X9 CUBE PROJECT
Professor Charles MacBride
Fall 2011
ARCH 251 Design Practice III The Cube project started with the exploration of cardboard planes with two dimensional cuts made to the planes based of the graphic content of the cardboard surface. The next step was to create a box with the two planes and the joining structure is created by connecting the cutouts in each plane. These 4” x 12” x 12” extruded boxes were arranged into axial conditions to generate a three dimensional cube. The cube design was further studied through organizational schemes. Solid and void, Horizontal and vertical, as well as added or subtracted. As the cube was developing the project focused heavily on the hierarchy of space.
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9X9 CUBE PROJECT
Basic circulation schemes were developed trough the process of drawing plans and axonometrics of the cardboard cubes. This final design features two axial cores that serve as the primary structure of the cube. The solid masses are cut away to create spaces adjacent to the framed spaces of the planer levels. The stairs are designed to either suspend from the centralized cores or cut from the solid mass of the dense tiers made from stacked cardboard layers.
Professor Charles MacBride
Spring 2011
ARCH 251 Design Practice III
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MOIRONOI SKIN WALL
For the first half of this design build project our class worked together to erect a 3’ x 3’ aluminum frame that would act as a frame for the two most popular individual skin designs. The skin wall design was inspired by two naturally occurring parametric patterns. The Moire and Voronoi patterns were layered with a logical hierarchy which allowed a user to adjust the grid rotation of the system. The singular control variable was intentional to allow for a highly orchestrated event based on simple user decisions. As the user defined the variable of rotation the Voronoi pattern was defined through the location of Moire grid intersections. The result is a symbiotic system of dueling patterns, one linear and the other cellular, interweaving together to create the skin wall pattern. In order to fabricate the skin wall, our team utilized CNC technologies and other fabrication tools to create 12 infill modules.
Instructors: Jessica Garcia-Fritz & Geoff Graff
Fall 2012
ARCH 351 Collaborative Design Studio Grid Rotation | 52° - 83°
Grid Rotation | 30° - 15°
Grid Rotation | 45° - 45°
Grid Rotation | 15° - 15°
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JOSH WAGNER 1515 Calumet Rd. Brookings, SD
605.291.9008 joshua.wagner@jacks.sdstate.edu issu.com/Josh Wagner.html
Education South Dakota State University -- Brookings ,South Dakota Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
2010 - Present 3.11 GPA
Glendale Community College -- Phoenix, Arizona Undergrad Course Work - Language, Math, Arts, and Science
2008 - 2010 3.82 GPA
Baltic High School -- Baltic, South Dakota Internship with Sioux Falls Community Playhouse Stage Production
1998 HS Diploma
International School of Brussels -- Brussels Belgium Student theater apprenticeship focused on lighting and sound.
1995-1997
Experience SDSU Department of Architecture -- Brookings ,South Dakota Teaching Assistant and Special Projects Manager Daktronics -- Brookings, South Dakota CNC sheet metal punch & metal break operator Tag-Davis Cabinetry & CabTek -- Tempe, Arizona Designer and Prefab Technician
2011 - Present 2010 - 2011 2006-2009
Kiesler Enterprises -- Glendale, Arizona Designer and Engineering Production Manager
2001 - 2006
Fast Signs -- Phoenix, Arizona Regional Store Manager - Tempe & Mesa
1998 - 2001
Skills Technical Abilities CNC operations in point to point, nest based and 3-axis fabrication Cabinetry and mill-work carpentry and installation Large scale sign-age and vehicle graphics technician Software Proficiency Adobe Creative Design Suite, Auto CAD, Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper & Audrino Processing, Microvellum Database Management, Office Suite
Awards Fast Signs NOT Sponsorship Franchisee operational training and certification
2000
TSP Academic Scholarship $1000 Tuition Award
2011
Ritz Gallery Exhibition Kinect Interactive Control System
2014