Undergraduate Portfolio Bret J Holt

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South Dakota State UniversityAugust 2011 - December 2016Bachelor of Science in Architecture

Mitchell Hight SchoolAugust 2002 - May 2006Diploma

SDSU Department of ArchitectureMay 2013 - PresentShop Manager -Manage employees and shop functions along with day to day opera-tions.

South Dakota Army National GuardMarch 2005 - PresentSection Chief / E5 Sargent - Lead section is communication operations varying from radio commu-nication to networking and satellite operations.

Gamestop Inc.May 2011 - August 2012Assistant Manager -Game advisor managing, store promotional materials design. Event coordination for game releases.

Operation Iraqi Freedom Campaign Medal(2008)Operation Enduring Freedom Campaign Medal (2014)Army Accommodation Medal (2014)Army Achievement Medal (2008)Army Good Conduct Medal (2010)Global War of Terrorism Service Medal (2008)Army Service Ribbon (2006)Army Overseas Service Ribbon (2008)

Rhinoceros 3D modeling - Advanced KnowledgeAdobe Illustrater - Advanced KnowledgeAdobe Photoshop - Advanced KnowledgeAdobe InDesign - Moderate KnowledgeSketch-up 3D modeling - Moderate KnowledgeAutodesk AutoCAD - Moderate KnowledgeAutodesk Revit - Beginners Knowledge

Darin Huwe / E6 Staff Sargent115th Signal Unit Training NCO605.696.5410darin.m.huwe.mil@mail.mil

Masters of ArchitectureLicensed ArchitectUS Army OfficerUS Army Commanding Officer

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Above: Super imposed grid system used to design program and movement in space

Right Top: Axonometric view of final model with color assigned to program

This project originally assigned by the architect and educator John Hedjuk, to explore the spatial qualities of a gridded system when superimposed onto a separate grid and projected into three dimensional planes.

Studies were completed into superimposing separate grids two dimensionally at first to define spatial qualities of gridded systems in a plan view. Pushing a gridded system into the third dimension of axonometric views allowed for another plane to emerge and be manipulated through iteration drawings that challenged the views on separation of space and movement from one to another. When conditions of the nine by nine grid were set color was introduced to add program of the space. The color condition on the x plane was to program the spatial usage and clearly define each space, while the color on the y plane was to introduce the program of movement throughout the space and add direction to the flow of the model. With the added ability to control movement and space systems with the color superimposed with the grid system the project allows for multilevel depth in each space.

View of main entrance from a raised perspective. Illus-trates the equal parts open, semi opened, and closed wall conditions as the blue condition pulls traffic through the main axis of the design. Green objects support breaking of space and creation of separate internal conditions.

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Above: Site (in green)and surrounding neighborhood in plan Right: Axonometric view of final model, large view from view with small alley facing view

The John Hejduk Archive is located on the Judengang entrance to the Schonhauser Allee Cemetery in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany. According to legend, King Frederick William III, on his journeys to and from Niederschonhausen palace, was disturbed by the frequent sight of Jewish mourn-ers, who were then ordered to enter from the rear (the Judengang). It is closed and inaccessible to the public now except on rare occasions. The archive proposal must be designed to include spaces for four characters; the mourner, caretaker, scholar, and the tourist. Each one has their own space in the tower, the cen-tralize core holds space or the scholar with storage for texts and readings, while the labyrinth contains models and works of John Hedjuk for admiration from the tourist character. The last two characters inhabit the very bottom and very top piec-es of the labyrinth. The overseer or caretaker finds housing and work space on the very top of the tower overlooking the spaces below and the mourners of the deceased can follow the bottom of the labyrinth through the site to the entrance of the judengang.

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When combining media across platforms such as collage, grid systems and superimposition of relief diagrams a system of layers emerges that combine the organic nature of collages with the systematic grid. These layers give way to relief diagrams that can provide guidelines for programs of design.

Collage rubbings provide an organic backdrop to a project, and gridded system then provides the framework. Combine these systems into relief diagrams allows the design to protrude and extrude from the two dimensional page. Pulling these reliefs further from the original planes moves these diagrams in a model style project to examine space in three dimensions. Setting a index for future programs allows di-vision of space along set lines; axial, marginal, repetitive, ceremonial, crossing, thresholds, movement, and sequential spaces. Which dictate the feature of the armature on the surface of the plane. Using the series of relief diagrams the plane of the collage is to be seen as landscape and the armature placed within the x and y planes intersecting and protruding through each plane while clearly defining in program.

Circle to square relationships have been a cor-nerstone of architectural theory since architec-tures inception. Proportion, symmetry, and rep-etition can be used to classify categories which many combinations of these two may fall into. Using these as set programs for iteration models there is a moment to transcribe the paper form into model forms using projection and three dimensional manipulations. Defining modularity as: the degree to which you may disassemble a systems components and reassemble them into a separate configuration.

The modularity project forces the designer to design a component which not only separates from the original but must reconfigure with the same component in a different avenue of approach. The modules themselves must func-tion as a whole, and a part to whole, to achieve desired program. Using movement diagrams and movement precedent studies it is able to push the module into multiple arrangements of vertical and horizontal movement schemes.

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Above: Modularity precedent study modelLeft: Modularity precedent diagrams

Let this letter serve as a formal request to continue my education with the South Dakota State University Department of architecture in pursuit of a Masters of Architecture.

In my military career I have been trained in many tasks and duties including; leadership, problem solving, direct and indirect commu-nications, and last but far from least a strong confidence in my accomplishments and self-worth. This skill set has allowed me to accel-erate in managerial situations and a focused work ethic which has carried over to my civilian work both educational and job driven.

A Masters of Architecture degree will continue to advance my knowledge in spatial recognition and programmatic design. The continu-ing education will also move my career towards licensing and practice as an architect. Continuing to hone spatial design and problem solving skills, as an architecture student one relies heavily on the ability to recognize and solve problems in program and detail design.

As many architects start out to solve, this advanced degree will prepare me to look into the future or architecture and the arising prob-lems of an ever increasing population and an ever finite source of landscape. The problem ever architect faces is the ability to balance these issues; to create and design solutions.

Sincerely,Bret Holt