SHEA MENZEL

Architecture Portfolio
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 EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
California Polytechnic State University Designer 2018-2019
San Luis Obispo Architecture Design Collaborative
Bachelors of Architecture • Assist project leads on all levels of retail projects
Expected graduation June 2018 • Produce design development exhibits and construction documents
Thesis : Aiding in the development of a rural • Coordinate with consultants, clients and material representatives
Rwandan village
Humanitarian Designer September 2017-Present
Danish Institute for Study Abroad Journeyman International
Copenhagen • Design of Karambo River Master plan - design of a micro industrial park and
Study abroad 2016-2017 school year community center for a rural Rwandan community
• Working with a real client and collaborating with Architectural Engineering and
Construction Management students to create a buildable design
ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Experience working with budget and feasibility restraints
Cal Poly Dean’s List 4 times
GPA: 3.3 Summer Architecture Career Workshop, Resident Advisor
2 Projects selected for NAAB accreditation Cal Poly Corporation Summer 2015, 2016
• Supervised 70 high schoolers interested in architecture
• Mentored students and shared perspective on higher education and architecture
SKILLS school
Photoshop • Planned and coordinated activities and field trips
Illustrator
InDesign INTERESTS
Rhino
AutoCAD Cooking and Baking
SketchUP Volunteering
Model making Traveling
Digital and hand drawings Tennis
Interior Design
KARAMBO MASTERPLAN Micro-industrial complex
and commmunity center
RWANDA
Project: This project aims to give this community spaces that are able to serve as flexible
workspaces and a library to grow their knowledge. The people of the community will be able to ex-
pand upon their skills and gain knowledge through collaboration and education.

FORM DIAGRAM

Learning
Individual

Learn
ni ng
Group Lear

Create Covered
Enclosed

Split Program Divide learn by individual and group Align with topography Add roofs above walls to create covered
Divide Create by outdoor and indoor outdoor spaces
 Site Axon

Learn
Window Seats in Library

Screen to Divide and Connect Space

Store
Book Storage in Classroom

Play area integrated into landscape

Create
Flexible Workspaces
 Floorplan

Librar
y

Classr
oom
+ Ga
therin
g Area

Classr
oom
+ Grou
p Wor
Play k Area

Learn

Open Work Area

Enclosed Work Area

Create
DOWNTOWN WOMEN’S CENTER Supportive housing for
homeless women of skid row
LOS ANGELES, CA

REFLECT
GROWTH | EMPOWERMENT | COMMUNITY

Adam Newton
Project: This is the second stage of my double quarter group project with Juliet Luty and Adam
Newton. My roll in the project was collaborating on the concept and working on schematic design
drawings and creating detail visuals to explain our concept and how it would function.

FORM DIAGRAM

COMMUNITY ROOM

LOBBY
STORAGE

PACKAGING ROOM

BAKERY AND PREP KITCHEN MEAT PREP/BUTCHER

PLANT/SEED SHOP
COURTYARD
Juliet Luty

SAN PEDRO ST
DAYCARE

BUILDABLE AREA TRANSPARENCY AT CENTRAL ATRIUM CREATE CORNER CREATE FURTHER

STREET LEVEL FOR DAYLIGHT CONDITION/ TRANSPARENCY THROUGH
CAFE/COFFEE SHOP
WATER TREATMENT COMPOST ROOM
ROOM

EDUCATION CENTER

CONNECTION TO EXTERIOR WALKWAYS CAREER CENTER

STREET AND AREAS OF GLAZING

FIFTH
AVE.

Street 4 5 6

COMMUNITY ROOM

COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY

LOBBY OUTDOOR COMMUNITY ROOM OUTDOOR
OUTDOOR ROOM ROOM ROOM
STORAGE COMMUNITY COMMUNITY OUTDOOR
COMMUNITY
AREA AREA COMMUNITY
AREA
PACKAGING ROOM AREA

BAKERY AND PREP KITCHEN MEAT PREP/BUTCHER

PLANT/SEED SHOP
COURTYARD
SAN PEDRO ST

GREENHOUSE
DAYCARE

CAFE/COFFEE SHOP

EDUCATION CENTER
OUTDOOR
CAREER CENTER
COMMUNITY
AREA COMMUNITY
ROOM
OUTDOOR
COMMUNITY
AREA

FIFTH
AVE.
Shea Menzel
 Screen/Facade Detailing

PERFORATED STEEL PANELS

EXPOSED STRUCTURE

ALUMINUM SCREEN FRAME

STEEL STUD FRAMED WALL W/ BATT

INSULATION

COMPOSITE DECKING

DROP CEILING

OPERABLE IGU

C C
L L C
C L
L

6” 6” 6’-6” 6’-6”

EXPOSED
EXPOSED STEEL STEEL
COLUMNCOLUMN

T/ SLAB T/ SLAB
56’-0” 56’-0” COMPOSITE
COMPOSITE DECK DECK RADIANT
RADIANT FLOOR FLOOR
3’-6”
3’-6”

HVAC +HVAC + PLUMBING

PLUMBING
2’-0”

SLIDING OPERABLE
2’-0”

SLIDING OPERABLE
GYPBOARD
GYPBOARD
WINDOWWINDOW
METAL METAL
STUD STUD
STUCCOSTUCCO WATER WATER PROOFING
PROOFING
BACKERBACKER
BOARD BOARD
6’-6”
6’-6”

BATT INSULATION
BATT INSULATION
GYP BOARD
GYP BOARD

WOOD LAMINATE
WOOD LAMINATE FLOOR FLOOR
T/ SLAB T/ SLAB
44’-0” 44’-0”

SCREENSCREEN
CLIP CLIP
ALUMINUM
ALUMINUM FRAME FRAME
PERFORATED
PERFORATED METAL METAL
SCREENSCREEN

RESIDENCE
RESIDENCE AND AND HALLWAY
HALLWAY
Living Building Challenge and ECS

SUMMER

ENERGY
-PV PANELS ON ROOF
-NET POSITIVE ENERGY

HEALTH & HAPPINESS

-OPERABLE WINDOWS
ALLOWING FOR CROSS
VENTILATION OF LIVING
SPACES
-HUMAN/NATURE CONNECTION WINTER

EQUITY
-COMMUNITY SPACES
-ADA ACCESSIBLE
APARTMENTS
-ACCESS TO NATURE AND
PLACE

BEAUTY
-DESIGN FEATURES
MEANT FOR HUMAN
DELIGHT

WATER
-RAIN WATER COLLECTION
-GREY WATER SYSTEM
-ONSITE WATER MANAGEMENT
PLANT

PLACE
-URBAN AGRICULTURE
-HUMAN POWERED LIVING Evaluation of Living Building Challenge = Group Visual Representation = Adam Newton
-BICYCLE RACKS
-ELECTRIC CAR PARKING
 FOOD CULTURE HOUSE Combine food market, exhibition
space and cooking school.
KOBENHAVN, DK
PROJECT: This Project was the second project during my spring semester in Copenhagen. The
assignment was to create a food culture house that combines the program elements of a pubic food
market, an exhibition space that can be used for demonstrations or exhibitions, and cooking school
where people can take classes to learn cooking skills.

FORM DIAGRAM SITE + BUILDING FORMATIONS

Bar
Seating Exh
ibi
tio
n
ol
S cho

CREATE ENCLOSED ADD VOLUMES WITH MARKET HALL CREATE OUTDOOR

MARKET HALL FOOD CULTURE ENCLOSED IN SPACES ON
PROGRAM GLASS VOLUMES ENCLOSED FOOD WALLS OPEN UP ON ABILITY TO MOVE SOME
MARKET HALL NICER DAYS STALLS OUTSIDE
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EATING AREA

FOOD MARKET

EATING AREA

EXHIBITION

COOKING SCHOOL

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 2ND+3RD FLOOR PLAN

1:200 1:200

Cook
 STUDENT HOUSING Create modular small scale student
housing that connects students and
KOBENHAVN, DK harbor life.

UNIT FLOORPLANS
FORM DIAGRAM

SLEEP
LIVE EAT
START WITH A ADAPT TO CREATE TEST ARRANGEMENTS TO CREATE STACK APARTMENT UNITS TO CREATE PATHWAYS
TYPICAL MICRO MULTIPLE AREAS WITHIN DIFFERENT EXTERIOR AREAS AT MAIN SITE ACCESS POINTS, UNITS WITH
UNIT LAYOUT STUDIO (PATHWAYS,PATIOS, ROOF DECKS) PATIOS, AND BUILDING GROUPINGS AT
DIFFERENT SCALES
UNIT SECTION

View From Opera House

UNIT AXON

FACADE MOVEMENT
 INTERLOCK
MODULAR | STUDENT HOUSING | HARBOR LIFE

PROJECT: This Project was the first project

during my spring semester in Copenhagen. The
assignment was to create small scale modular
student housing with a major wood element. There
is a huge housing crisis in Copenhagen so we
used an empty space on the developing harbor
near a few universities to place student housing.
The idea was to create a system, that could be
arranged in multiple ways and eventually used in
other places to combat the housing crisis.

ELEVATION
 VELLUM FURNITURE Design furniture inspired
by thesis project
DESIGN COMPETITION

These cushions and frame take inspiration

from the Rwandan culture and the needs of a
community in the Karambo River Region of
Rwanda. The can be rearranged to meet whatever
needs they have at the time. Allowing them
to sit, carry, read, relax, lounge, write, gather,
socialize, and even sleep during or after a hard
days working to improve the living conditions.

The textile was created using a technique called

wax batik which is used in Rwanda. Most simple
the process involves stamping or painting wax
on to fabric the dying it. The wax prevents
the dye from bonding to the fabric in those
specific places and when the wax is removed
a pattern is left through the voids in the dye.
Store Sit Lounge Write
MODELS AND
SKETCHES