A R C H I T E C T U R E
portfolio WILLIAM DENDINGER III
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D E S I G N
Education Creighton Preparatory School High School Diploma, May 2015 GPA: 3.99 / 4.0 Class Rank: 15th of 258
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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Expected Graduation: May 2019 Bachelors of Science in Architecture, Product Design Minor GPA: 3.842 / 4.0
Experience
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Student Intern UNO Facilities Management & Planning Updated building plans and used existing plans to create Revit models for future use. Designed small scale renovations and repairs. Obtained construction documents, bids, and cost estimates to facilitate projects. Helped with weekly project update meetings.
Architectural Intern
Carlson West Povondra Architects
Working with pre-design, schematics, design development, and construction documents. Help with design options for clients, detail drawings, renderings, plans, cost estimates, and addenda. Working on numerous projects ranging from new, large-scale construction to renovations on existing structures. Variety of projects including schools, commerical offices, churches, auto dealerships, and correctional facilities. Created and manage company’s Instagram.
Peer Mentor
Summer 2014 & 2015
2016 - Present
UNL Learning Communities 2016 - Present
Student peer mentor to 30 freshmen in the Responsible Design Learning Community majoring in pre-architecture, pre-interior design, and pre-landscape architecture. In charge of program and event planning to build community among students in a way to promote learning and career development. Hold weekly study hours to help students with projects and student well-being along with bi-weekly meetings to discuss status of students with supervisor and additional mentor training throughout the year.
Visitor Services Associate
Sheldon Museum of Art 2017 - 2018
Greet visitors to the museum, walk the galleries answering guests’ questions and ensure the safety of artwork during events. Ongoing training throughout the year learning about history and theory of pieces on display.
2017 - Present
Honors UNL - David Distinguished Scholarship Mary E. Roelfs Scholarship Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Dean’s List - Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017
Contact 402.681.4831 williamdendinger@gmail.com
Certifications
8908 Fairview Rd. Papillion, NE 68046
CLRA Certified Master Mentor
References Mike West, AIA, LEED
Principal Architect
Contact Info: 402.551.1500
Contact Info: 02.472.0698
Interests Sushi
mwest@cwparchitects.com
Jordan Black, M.A. Assistant Director
Carlson West Povondra Architects 5060 Dodge St, Omaha, NE 68132
UNL Learning Communities & Academics
Travel Exercise
jblack@unl.edu
860 N 17th St, P.O. Box 880602, Lincoln, NE 68588
Music
Fu t u r i s t i c
American Society of Landscape Architects
Significance
2016 - Present, Group Leader 2017 & 2018
Autodesk Revit Rhino Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Lightroom
Competition
UNL Big Event
2015 - Present
Achiever
Delta Upsilon Fraternity
Skills
Strategic
Activities
Reforming Distopia
Urban Design School The need to reform architectural education has never been more apparent than it is now. A student survey conducted in 2016 by the Architects’ Journal found that at least 25% of students in the UK currently are seeking treatment for mental health issues due to architecture school, with an additional 25% anticipating to seek help in the future. This project takes this issue and accelerates it into the near future. With context in mind in urban Chicago, the narrative is set in a distopian period in history. The 2030 Challenge for all new buildings to be carbon neutral has failed miserably and Chicago has become a polluted wasteland held under the heavy hand of a totalitarian government. Creating this narrative is a connection to the mental health of the designer. As the negative aspects of architecture school degrade the minds of students who will one day be in charge of designing our physical environments, long lasting impacts will affect our society for decades. My intervention on the site features a 23-storey tower holding an experimental architecture school. The school is able to hold 50 students, with space for dormitories, studios, a digital maker space, a woodshop, gym, library, lounges, dining hall, and faculty offices. The building towers above the surrounding buildings as a landmark element within the urban site. It is to be seen as a beacon of hope within the distopian Chicago setting and within the educational reform of architecture. The building is sliced diagonally as it is carved by the L train passing. The lower portion features vertical precast panelling with voids allowing for windows. This creates a heavy effect, grounding it to the site, while the upper portion floats above made up of hexagonal panels responding to the program. The lower panels are frosted glass to cover the unusable portions of the building, with aluminum panels covering certain areas like the critique and lecture hall, and clear glass panels for the rest. This portion of the building is elevated and floating above the site. The studios located at the top of this floating mass offer students a new perspective to look out upon the world they will be affecting. In my drawings, the site starts out in 2030 shown as a polluted and distopian Chicago, but as it advances through 2040, and into 2050 in the other drawings, Chicago and the surrounding site begin to become a vibrant setting as it currently is today.
Scale model situated within contextual site mdoel of Chicago’s South Loop.
Reforming Distopia Urban Narrative
ROOS VELT UNIVER I Y
In the near future, 2030, the human population grows exponentially. Wars break out over resources, pollution chokes the air and seas, and governments control citizens through force. The once bright future imagined by designers is now a dark, faded image of the past. The designer is downtrodden in work and education through long hours, sleep deprivation, & rigid hierarchies. The mind is no longer bright & imaginative, but now plagued with depression and paranoia, spreading to the rest of society. The New School in Chicago is an experimental project aimed at elevating and educating the designer with hopes of building a bright new society for the future.
2030
2040
Detailed site axon set in distopian 2030 Chicago. (Above) Rendered narratives 2030, 2040, & 2050. (Right)
2050
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ROOF LEVEL ROOF LEVEL 323’-0” 323’-0”
LEVEL 23LEVEL 303’23 -0” 303’-0”
LEVEL 21LEVEL 289’-210” 289’-0”
LEVEL 20LEVEL 275’20 -0” 275’-0”
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LEVEL 11 LEVEL 149’-0”11 149’-0”
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Retreating From Distopia
Rural Design School
This project takes the narrative from the urban site in Chicago and accelerates it further into the future. Rather than being successful at changing the distopian society from the urban site, the previous tower of the New School in Chicago fails and society collapses. The narrative continues as a retreat away from society for the designer to rediscover the creativity that once existed in design education. When visiting our site, located 12 miles west of Spalding, NE, near the Highway 91 & Highway 281 Junction, a sense of vastness and awe fell over the studio. Looking out from where the two highways intersect, the sandy hills stretched endlessly into the horizon. As we ventured further into the sandhills toward the plot of land our site sat on, the large scale of this site became overwhelmingly apparent. When standing on top of the dunes or hills, one could see for miles, but down in the valleys, the hills towered over making you feel small. Standing behind the dunes and out of the wind, there was almost no sound present and it felt as if you were isolated from the rest of the world. The site had a subtle and quiet, yet strong power to it. It felt as if any manmade object here would be noticeably present and act as a landmark, but after a few years, nature would take control and the windblown hills will creep over and cover it. This slow powerful sense of nature demanded a certain respect and awe for the site that has the power to shift and erase itself over time. Due to the fact that this narrative is set in 2080, the project had the opportunity to utilize future technologies, such as drones, which access the site via several landing pads. As users fly from the nearest population center, they experience the sandhills from a new vantage point being above the land whizzing by at hundreds of miles per hour until they glimpse the massive monoliths emerging from the landscape that are the building. Visitors would begin to descend and slow in flight as they approach until they are hovering above the landing pad with sand flying up in clouds around the drone. As they exit into this cloud they would glimpse the massive monolith before them and process up to the doors
to enter.
Drone landing sequence at site.
Underground critique & lecture space displaying rammed earth walls and high ceilings punctured with skylights to create a “sacred� space.
View from drone flying above the sandhills showing drone pads, rammed earth monoliths, and dwelling units arranged in a ring.
Section cut through grand hall entry, gallery, and sacred critique spaces.
Elevation of monoliths and dwelling units.
Site master plan.
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Archi-Sushi
Sushi, once an exotic form of food only found in Japan is now a wildly popular food in the U.S. and around the world. This project focuses on the research and design behind sushi and how it can inform architecture. The semester long studio project examines the blurred boundary between urban and suburban life. By researching culture, site, tastes, techniques, and history, this project uncovers the disurban tensions in the sushi industry and how these tensions can be resolved in a headquarters for CLUI, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and implemented elsewhere to affect social habits and cultural tastes.
Enactment diagram detail focusing on a “disurban intervention� exploring Capital Beach as a case study. The intervention turns this lake into a fish and seaweed farm to harvest native species of Nebraskan fish to use in local sushi restuarants to change regional tastes.
FRESHWATER DRUM
BLACK BULLHEAD
YELLOW BULLHEAD
YELLOW PERCH
NOMLAS CITNALTA
REPPANS DER
Full enactment diagram exploring research into sushi processes from sea to table. (Rotate page.)
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LIAT WOLLEY ESENEPAJ
HCREP WOLLEY
ANUT NIFEULB
DAEHLLUB WOLLEY DAEHLLUB KCALB
RETAWHSERF MURD
SNAEBYOS
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ECIR
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Disurban Testing Grounds
The design of the new headquarters for CLUI required programs for studio residents, offices, exihibtion space, and a “disurban testing grounds” which takes the intervention from the previous research diagram and modifies it fit within the building as a locally sourced sushi bar using an aquaponics system to grow the ingredients and fish to supply the restaurant. The building’s shape explores geometric folds to resemble Japanese origami and the precision of craft found in both origami and sushi. The building is situated along Antelope Valley with the testing grounds emerging from the hillside to engage the creek’s floodplain as water levels rise against the glass immersing the public in the site.
PARKing Day
Recycled Tetris PARKing Day, an annual event during September, is a day to promote awareness about sustainability. Designers across the nation take public parking stalls and transform them into small, urban parks. My group’s design focused on using recycled materials to create multi-use furniture modules in order to engage pedastrians passing by. The modules were differently shaped cubes, rectangles, L-shapes, and T-shapes made of recycled pallets, clothes, and a massive art installation’s printed canvas. The clothes and art installation were cut and stretched over the wood to create work surfaces and seating on each piece. These modules became a usable tetris of recycled materials. Throughout the day, users arranged the cubes in any way they could imagine, creating infinite possibilities for configurations
Detailed exploded axonometric.
Product Design Duality Stool
The design of the Duality Stool stems from the idea of creating a single form with mulitple uses and changes in persona. Users can easily transform the stool by simply rotating the chair to create a secondary seat. As the chair is rotated, the personality of it changes as well. When situated with the seat back upright in a high position, the stool takes on a formal, elegant personality. As it rotates and transforms into the horizontal position, the curves become more vivacious and animated creating a fun, casual persona to sit on. The dramatic curves of the stool, combined with the soft wood entice users to touch the stool and explore its dual personalities.
Formal, upright seat.
Casual, relaxed stool.
Kruger Gallery Envelopment UNL’s Kruger Gallery is home to one of the nation’s largest collections of miniature furniture pieces. My group and I were tasked with designing an exhibition piece to highlight a miniature of Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair. The concept behind the Womb Chair is that it would conform to users’ bodies and absorb them in its form. Our design for this exhibition uses over five hundred 3D printed modules which were then assembled in a form that appears to grow and envelope the exhibition pedestal.
Detail of modules.
Womb Chair and pedestal enveloped by 3D printed form.
CORNER v CORNER
FFA mission and bull head graphic which wraps corner into alcove.
Interior Graphics Wayne FFA Mural
While working on a renovation/addition for WayneTO HighLIVE, School,LIVING TO SERVE. RNING TO DO, DOING TO LEARN, EARNING
AG SHOP Wayne FFA Mural v. 2 | 1/4 SCALE: 3 in = 1 ft
AG SHOP
CWPA’s interior designer, graphic designer, and I collaborated to create a graphic mural stretching down a corridor of the school to the agricultural shop. The graphic spans floor to ceiling in the hallway as it ramps down toward the classroom and wraps the corner into the classroom alcove. The mural focuses on Wayne’s Future Farmers of America chapter by utilizing the FFA motto, crest, and graphic elements representing harvesting and cattle judging. It was my responsibilty to design options for text layout and the cattle judging graphic.
THE FFA MISSION:
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
WAYNE FFA CHAPTER ESTABLISHED 2017
LEARNING TO DO, DOING TO LEARN, EARNING TO LIVE, LIVING TO SERVE. FFA motto hidden behind corn stalks.
THE FFA MISSION CORNER v CORNER
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives students by developi their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success throug agricultural educatio
LEARNING TO DO, DOING TO LEARN, EARNING TO LIVE, LIVING TO SERVE.
Wayne FFA Mural v. 1 | 1/4 SCALE: 3 in = 1 ft
THE FFA MISSION:
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
WAYNE FFA CHAPTER ESTABLISHED 2017
AG SHOP
CORNER v CORNER
WAYNE FFA CHAPTER
I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds — achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years.
THE FFA MISSION:
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
ESTABLISHED 2017
Wayne FFA Mural v. 4 | 1/4 SCALE: 3 in = 1 ft CORNER v CORNER
AG SHOP Wayne FFA Mural v. 1 | 1/4 SCALE: 3 in = 1 ft
WAYNE FFA CHAPTER ESTABLISHED 2017
LEARNING TO DO, DOING TO LEARN, EARNING TO LIVE, LIVING TO SERVE.
THE FFA MISSION:
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
CWPA Internship
Misc. Renderings As an architectural intern working at Carlson West Povondra Architects, one of my responsibilities has included creating renderings of multiple projects. These are created for client visuals and may be used for promotional uses, construction document title pages, and site signage.
West Dodge Point, new corporate headquarters for Baxter Auto Group.
Nebraska City’s First Presbyterian Church, renovation and ADA upgrades.
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