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BRANDON WLOSINSKI ARchItectuRe StuDeNt

HERE NOWAND

To provide momenTs of enjoymenT Through The builT form

for boTh The ordinary and exTraordinary.

brandon scoTT Wlosinski

515 n hyland ave, uniT 1ames, ia 50014

(319) [email protected]

WWW.Wlosinski.com

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2 TablE Of COnTEnTs

3 blaCk bOx THEaTER and COmmuniTy CEnTER

9 RElax- Wall CHaiR WindOW sTudy

11 PERfORming aRTisT REsidEnCy

16 sOlaR HOmE dEsign

17 bRaingunk signs

19 musEum fOR innOvaTivE indusTRial dEsign

23 THEaTER PROjECTs

25 bOsTOn CEnTER fOR COnTEmPORaRy musiC

31 REsumE

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blaCk bOx THEaTER and COmmuniTy CEnTER (kansas CiTy, mO)Collaborators: Dennis Leung, Jihee Kim, Scot Schukert

A study into ideas of loose space and com-munity. Around the River Quay area of Kansas City are pockets of abandoned lots, loose space, that is rendered normally use-less. Phase one of this project studied the effects of loose space and proposed several landscape interventions into them. Phase two focused on creating a community cent-er, comprised of a blackbox theater, com-munity garden, and communnity center. My focus and primary contribution was the design for the blackbox theater. The theater uses the ideas of loose space to create a theater that has the ability to transform and fit itself to the communities need, while framing the spaces around it, activating the loose space it creates into pathways and moments of discovery.

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A study in denim. This was an exercise to explore what a wall, a chair, and a window could be, utilizing a material or architectonic idea. I chose to focus on denim, an everyday material made for both work and comfort. Here you see a piece that explores denim as a something that can cover, surround, and comfort, thus encompassing the ideas of a wall chair and window.

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PERfORmanCE aRTisT REsidEnCy

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Collaborators: Chenglong Zhao

A study into folding architecture, the layer-ing of spaces on top of one another and the relationship of these spaces to each other. A proposal for a perfoming artist residency program in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. The form draws on the spirit of the movement of New York and the prospect of street level interaction with the public and the resident’s art form.

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A home designed for a specific, fictional client, Herbet “No Jump” Baler. A 7’ tall ex-basketball player who was looking for a home around Storm Lake, Iowa. The design of the home incoporated client driven infor-mation (a love of movies and music, ceiling heights) as well as site boundaries (large slope, water access) to create a soalr effi-cient design. At the end, this simulated an annual heating cost of $28 by utlizing a heat pump and the lake.

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bRaingunk signs (blaCk ROCk CiTy, nv)

A design and build art installation as part of a summer course. The project took place in Black Rock City, Nevada as part of the Burn-ing Man Festical in 2011. Currently, Iowa State University is the only university in the world that offers credit for designing and building for Burning Man.

The studio covered three projects: a sand mandala, a natural intervention and the Burning Man art installation

The art project consisted of 10 uniquely made signs that were transported and set up in a specific arrangement and location in the Black Rock City Desert. The theme for the year was Rites of Passage.

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musEum fOR innOaTivE indusTRial dEsign (COlumbus, in)

The Columbus Museum for Innovative Industrial Design aims to celebrate Colum-bus’s industrial history from Cummins Inc. and arhitectural innovation from architects such as IM Pei and Eero Saarinen in a sin-gle cultural institution

The museum aims to combine form and function utilizing a simple, three part parti. The two long sides of the building act as support and gallery spaces, framing the larger, main industrial gallery in an exhibi-tion hall style. Here, members of the com-munity can come and interact with large, full scale industial objects that defined their town’s past

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COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Columbus is a city whose industry has acted as a foundation for a community steeped in art and architecture. The design is therefore threefold. First, the museum will celebrate the industrial roots of the city through an extensive innovative industrial object exhibit. Second, it will explore the unique learning process that can occur in this city through an educational and research area. Finally, it will participate in architectural dialogue with the rest of the city.

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dOg sEEs gOd: COnfEssiOns Of a TEEnagE blOCkHEad

Directed by Caleb WoodleyListed as Set DesignerCollaborators: Nick Veenstra, Brooke Berg, Libby Schriener

A story about the Peanuts crew after they have grown up and the world has moved on without them, Dog Sees God is an emotion filled piece touching on the loss of innocence and childhood.

Inspiration is drawn from the material of newspaper itself, as the characters inhabit a world of a newspaper that has been crum-pled and tossed aside, left to dissolve in the rain. The back drop was originally designed as a cloud of newspaper that hangs about the characters and then melds into the back wall and finally into the ground, completely encompassing the world of the play.

The newspaper was specially coated with a homemade fire retardent and made to spec-ify with strict code compliance for the unu-sual space of the Maintenance Shop at the Iowa State University Memorial Union.

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THEaTER PROjECTs

aliCE in WOndERland

Directed by Matt FossListed as Puppet DesignerCollaborators: Davalyn Stepzinski, Andre Johnson, Taylor Clemens, Bri Baltes

By utilizing inspiration from discarded found objects, this reinterpretation of Lewis Car-rol’s children’s classic creates a new aesthet-ic of Wonderland, one that casts the charac-ters into a world that has been forgotten by the normal world, but which lies only just beneath the surface.

The Cheschire Cat was created by molding newspaper around a skeleton made of PVC, trash cans, and water jugs. This design al-lowed for the cat to appear and dissappear around the stage in a dance like movement.

The Jabberwocky, the villain of the play, was designed to be a larger than life adversary. With a wingspan covering over thirty feet and over twenty people puppeting it, it cer-tainly accomplished this. Made of shoopping carts, hula hoops, black tarp, trashbags, Fun Noodles, and scaffolding.


bOsTOn CEnTER fOR COnTEmPORaRy musiC (bOsTOn, ma)Collaborators: Daniel Siroky

The Boston Center for Contemporary Music was a project that explored both an innova-tive and comprehensive design.

It envokes the idea of the promenade, the idea of seeing and being seen. The building expresses its major circulation as a winding track along the exterior, while the structure expresses the theather form. The ground plane engages passers-by with this display and channels the momentum of the foot traffic into itself.

The project explores the use of Grasshop-per and Rhino not only as form generators, but as tools for generating seating patterns, checking sightlines, and checking sound design via Ecotect.

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REsumEWORk ExPERiEnCE:

5/2012-Present

Client DeveloPment inter

BerkilBile nelson immenmuCh mCDowell ArChiteCts inC. kAnsAs City, moupdaTing projecT informaTion in vision, neWforma, and openasseT

suggesTing sofTWare sTarTegies for Tracking projecTs

become versed in business pracTices of bnim While dealing WiTh clienTs

miscellaneous Tasks (redlining, documenT preparaTion, skeTchup modeling, eTc)

9/2007 – Present it serviCes solution Center helP Desk AssistAnt level iii, kCs level ii intern

informAtion teChnology serviCes, iowA stAte university, Ames,iAcall cenTer, in-person help desk, and e-mail supporT for over 27,000 users

sole, direcT managemenT of The knoWledgebases and faQs used by all employ-ees and users (heaT plus knoWledge, kbase)personally checked validiTy of over 6000 knoWledgebase arTicles and amanged The floW of informaTion from deparTmenT To cusTomer

mainTenance of hardWare and sofTWare used by employees

8/2010-12/2010 , 1/2013 - 5/2013Peer mentor of Design stuDies 102College of Design, iowA stAte university, Ames, iAhelping freshmen in The college of design in one of Their core reQuired classes

providing assisTance To The professor

advising sTudenTs on choices concerning Their major.providing feedback and criTiQue over sTudenT Work

8/2009-5/2011College of Design stuDent rePresentAtive on the ComPuter ADvisory Committee

iowA stAte university, Ames, iAaTTending monThly meeTings To regulaTe sTudenT compuTer funds ThroughouT The universiTy, ToTaling To over $7 million.aWarding moneTary funds To Technology-relaTed programs, based on innova-Tion, need, and scope of The projecT.responsible for making decisions represenTing The enTireTy of The college of design’s sTudenT populaTion.

EduCaTiOn:

currenT 5Th year undergraduaTe, lisTed senior

pursuing bachelor’s degree in archiTecTure

cumulaTive gpa : 3.49college of design, ioWa sTaTe universiTy, ames, ioWa

skills:

design programs: auTodesk reviT, auTocad, skeTchup, rhino, grasshopper

adobe programs: phoToshop, illusTraTor, dreamWeaver, flash, indesign,premiere

able To Work in WindoWs (xp, visTa, 7), mac os x 10.2 and up, and linux

able To Work in a varieTy of media: digiTal, Wood, clay, glass, plasTer, fabric

able To communicaTe and TranslaTe complex maTerials in undersTandable Terms.oraTory skills developed Through speech and performance arT

experience in seT design

Trained To use laser cuTTer

Web page design languages: hTml, asp.neT, javascripT

proficienT in microsofT office suiTe

mEmbERsHiPs and HOnORs:

member of ioWa sTaTe universiTy chapTer of aiasWinner of The hanson prize design compeTiTion 2010ioWa aia chapTer scholarship aWard 2013seT designer lisTed for kcacTf 2011

REfEREnCEs:

corry arranTs iT cusTomer services

sysTem supporT specialisT [email protected]

karen bermann

associaTe professor

archiTecTure

[email protected]

cal leWis

professor

archiTecTure

[email protected]

Tom leslie

professor

archiTecTure

[email protected]

keri maginn

markeTing

bnim, [email protected]

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