Drake Schaff

Ever since elementary school, I have been interested in 3D modeling. I've worked a lot with 3D printers and CNC Machines, and I've accumulated experience and skills over my 4 years in the engineering programs at Milford High School, of which I was in the capstone class my senior year. I also spent a week at Ohio Business Week, where I and 9 other students were tasked with designing and selling a product to investors, in which I was the lead designer for our product.

I've always enjoyed finding new solutions to problems, and weaving art into those solutions really inspires me to make something great that can be analyzed and appreciated for its utility and creative use of space. A more specific inspiration is Petrichor, the earthy aroma after rain. I've always found intense emotions and feelings within petrichor: calm, happy, satisfied, at peace, and this warm fuzzy feeling inside. I seek to capture these feelings in my future architectural works, winding nature and emotions with functional physical designs that cord together to give a sense of petrichor.