Thomas A. Squires 102 S. 6th St. Milbank, SD 57252 Education:
thomas.squires@live.com
(605)-467-9764
South Dakota State University 2010-Present Brookings, SD Architectural-BS GPA: 3.0 Lake Area Technical Institute 2007-2009 Watertown, SD 57201 Engineering/Architectural Drafting A.A.S. Degree-May 13, 2009
Awards & Honors: Deans List-LATI Nominated for Don Lindahl outstanding student scholarship National Residence Hall Honorary-Julian/Brookman Hardest Worker-2006 Best Work Ethic-2005 Leadership:
Complex Council President Julian/Brookman Hall Community Advisor-Resident Halls Soccer Coach FFA Chapter Treasure
Organizations:
Complex Council Basketball Referee American Institute of Architectural Students
Employment:
designArc Drafter May, 2013- Present Lowes Windows & Walls CSA May, 2012- Present University of South Dakota CA May, 10-Dec., 2010 Larson Engineering Surveyor June, 08-Aug., 2008 Alco Train new employees & stockroom August, 2003-2011
Qualifications:
Well organized, and able to multi-task while doing a job. Able to work with a team or as an individual on a project, and willing to take on any challenge that may present itself. Helped develop an initial concept with the design for Common Student Center at LATI Skilled in Revit, AutoCAD Adobe Suites, and Microsoft Office. Ten years of work in retail and on a register.
References Available Upon Request
Forth year fall semester we were given a semester long project located in Rapid City, SD. The project was a museum with three specific artist Andrew Wyeth, Alberto Giacommetti, and Nick Veasey. As a class we pick the site in Rapid City, SD and from there researched about the artist and precendence that related to a museum and what makes up a museum.
Once we were allowed to start to explore on our own I worked to delevop a concept to drive my project. After working through many concepts I came up with reveal. I explored what the meaning of reveal was and worked to encorporate that concept in every part of my design.
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The image to the right is what my final presentation looked like as I presented it to a group of Architects and Professors. In my presentation I developed a definition for what the word museum and reveal were and based the project of of my own definition.
Rapid City Museum of Reveal Wyeth
Reveal
Museum Definition:
An institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest or value: also: a place where objects are exhibited.
My Definition:
An instituion that puts artist work on exhibition and in archiveable storage. It also has an area of education and reveal of artist work.
Definition:
To make something known through devine inspiration. To make something (something secret or hidden) publically or generally know. To open up or view.
My Definition:
To show something that was hidden or secret to the public. To show a glimpse into the artist work showing the layers behind the work. These stages of reveal allow the progression and understanding as the spaces are circulated through.
Giacometti Evening At Kuerners Image size 28¾" x 18½"
Ides of March Image size 33" x 20"
The Mill Image size 22½" x 14"
Tall Figure III 1960 Bronze 109 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches
The Sisters Image size 22 1/2" x 13 7/8"
Cold Spring Image size 17 3/8" x 23"
Pennsylvania Landscape Image size 26" x 19½"
Tall Figure II 1960 Bronze 93 x 10 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches
Standing Woman 1947 Bronze H. 60 1/4 inches
Liberty Launch image size 20" x 28"
Veasey Three Men Walking II Bronze H. 30-1/8, W. 13, D. 12-3/4 inches
Walking Man I 1961 Bronze H. 183 inches
Point Man 1947 Clay H. 70 X W. 37 x D. 20-1/2 inches
Woman Walking 1932 Plaster and iron wire H. 59 1/16 inches
Vespa 2009 Size 79 x 47 inches
Headphones 2009 Size 23 x 33 inches
Matchless Motor Bike 2013 Size 90-1/2 x 47 inches
Light Bulb 2006 Size 23 x 23 inches
Robot 2008 Size 33 x 22-1/4 inches
Piano Accordian 2011 Size 47 x 47 inches
Decks 2010 Size 52 x 23 inches
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Rapid City
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Nana Wall
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Corte Madera, Califorina
NANAWALL SYSTEMS, INC.
Perdroso House In The Pines
Mar Azul, Buenos Aires
BAK Arquitectos
Clyford Still Museum
Denver, Colorado
Allied Works Architecture
FRAGILE
Perceiving an unmet need for flexible solutions to Three years later, Nana Wall Systems, Inc. was large architectural openings, the founders of Nana incorporated, with the mission of finding, creating, Wall Systems delivered their first wood-framed, and delivering an ever-broadening array of flexible opening glass wall in 1986. design solutions.
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The house is constructed of three basic materials: The same material was used in the other works in mar azul — the concrete is mixed with h21 exposed concrete, glass, and metal. outdoor fluidizer, a mixture with low amount of water that decks are composed of enclosure beams and when forged has a more compact composition. pine wood boards. the slab-like roofs of the the few internal partitions are made of hollow different volumes are supported by walls and exposed concrete reversed beams with a minimal brick that is plastered and painted. the floors are of concrete screed cloths divided by plates of slope to produce faster rainwater runoff. aluminum. the openings are finished framed in dark bronze anodized aluminum.
One of the singular features of the Museum is its daylight system that includes diffusing skylights and motorized shades situated above a custom-formed, surprisingly delicate concrete tracery ceiling that almost disappears in the scattered light. The intensity of each gallery's light varies with changes in daylight, and electric lighting further enhances the ability to modify the exhibition space. The lower level houses the education, archive and storage spaces. In the upper level galleries, the visitor moves through a series of nine distinct volumes where they encounter the work of Clyfford Still. Overhead, an open lattice of concrete unites the body of the building and offers illumination and connection to the atmosphere of the city.
The galleries respond to the evolving character of Still’s art, changing scale and proportion, while varying the intensity of light. A cantilevered canopy of concrete leads visitors into the first-floor lobby, and glass walls allow visitors to see into the conservation studio and collection storage. An open corridor includes educational materials, and its two-story expanse provides views from below of the second-floor galleries and views from above into the library and study areas on the first floor. The Museum’s open design embodies the founding principle of the institution, the revealing to the public of this once-private and very personal collection.
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Third Year was focused on stacking units and how they can be used to make different buildings. In third year spring semester it was broken up into two projects, one was a libray at the University of Minnesota, the other project was a milking parlor in Brookings, SD. The project that is being presented in the portfolio is the milking parlor.
The first part of of the project was creating our own brick that was to be used for creating the milking parlor. After doing research on milking parlors and visiting one we started to design our own milking parlor that had to meet specific requirements set by the instructor.
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After developing a scheme and brick I pushed through diagrams showing how each of the areas overlapped and corrolated to one another. After working through these diagrams I then used the brick that I design to construct the building.
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Cows Employees Public Holding Pen Barn
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Second year studio dealt with a John Hejduk design in Berlin Germany. The site that was chosen was between two buildings and had a cemetery at the back and a park across the street. The project has set requirements that were to be followed, one being that the building could only touch the ground as minimal as possible. The front gate that lead into the site only opens once a year so there has to be another way to access the building.
After getting these guidlines and I started to research about John Hejduk work and the site that the building was to set on. The cemetery had several trees in it that had a long history behind them. WIth that concept I used it as my building block and created a building similar to how a tree is created with the trunk and then branching branches off of it.
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I n third Year we were introduced to our first building technology class. This class taught us how to use different digital tools to push are projects to the fullest extent possible. The main digital tools used were the adobe suites and rhino.
After taking pictures of different things we were asked to create orthogonal, tension, architectonic and then extrude and cut them. After working with the digital tools to learn how to edit and push drawings to the furthest point. The page after this shows how it started and the stages it went through to get to the final image below.
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Third year building project was dealing with different forms of vaulting. The first part of the semester was dealing with gothic vaults. The first thing we learned was the components that make up a gothic vault. After this I drew up a 3D digital model on rhino. After this as a class we built a physical model.
The second part of the semester we used rhino vault and created a contemporary vault learning how the different forms work and how to create a contemporary vault. Contemporary vaults use equallibrium to create and design the vault.
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In the image to the right me and several of my classmates worked on constructing the gothic vault. Each one of us had a different role assigned for us to design. After each one of us created are part we came together as a whole and construcked the gothic vault.
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In Second Year at Lake Area Technical Institute we were assigned to design a firehouse that had specific requirements. After doing some research on what a firehouse has for components.
After working through a couple of scheme I developed a layout that met all the requirements and learned how to fully develop a plan and elevations and wall sections to create a full set of documents.
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Date: March 12, 2014 To South Dakota State University After attending Lake Area Technical Institute I realized that architecture was where my real passion lied. I went to South Dakota State University to get my BS in Architecture Studies. Knowing I want to become a licensed architect and wanting to further myself in the field I looked at graduate schools that had healthcare and urban design because those are where my passions are in architecture. Starting out at South Dakota State University in its undergrad architecture program I am please with the progress and knowledge I have gained as the program has developed. Knowing what the program offers I feel it will help me to achieve my goals and get me to where I want to be in life as an architect. Having attended here and knowing the faculty and fellow students that have went through this program I feel a stronger connection and feel I can achieve anything I put my mind to with the help of our great professors SDSU has in the architecture program. After I graduate with my masters degree in architecture I have set goals to achieve where I want to be in life with architecture. I have been working on getting IDP hours while in my undergraduate degree and plan to get them while in graduate school as well. I figure after 3 years of having my masters degree I will have all the hours needed and will take the test to get licensed. Once licensed my goal is to move up into an office and become a project manager overseeing the project as it comes together. Once I have made it to this point my long term goal is to be either a owner or a partner in a firm and to try push the field of architecture using the knowledge I have received from my undergrad and from the masters architecture program at SDSU. The courses I have taken in my undergrad and will take in my graduate degree will all enhance my knowledge in architecture and helps to push me to be the best at any challenge I face. Studio courses have really helped me develop as an architect and using the history courses taught me I can look at precedence studies to help me push my projects and designs to the furthest point possible. I have learned that in order to be the best at something you have to work hard and efficiently. My college education is something I take very serious and am willing to face any challenge in my academic career to be the best that I can and I am always wanting to learn more because you can never know to much information. I am hoping with to finically be able to afford my schooling by applying for assistantship that is available and teacher assistant position. I would be more then happy to assist in either of these to positions because I know it will only enhance my education I am receiving. I am also counting on the funds I get from finical aid and applying for scholarships to help pay my way through school. I will also use what I have earned while working to be able to afford my college education at SDSU. After being in college and working as an intern at designArc I have grown even more passionate about the architectural field and plan on making this the career I do the rest of my life. I am hoping with the education I receive from the master program at SDSU that I will be able to share my passion to the world and leave a great impression to my classmates and professors. Sincerely, Thomas Squires
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