SUMMER INTERNSHIP - MODEL MAKER
2026
Y S D M studio is currently looking for a summer intern for the modeling of housing concepts with a focus on modular, mass-timber, healthy & sustainable materials and methods both for new construction and adaptive reuse.
We are seeking a design-minded individual with architectural background and experience in both digital and physical model making to work alongside us in our studio. Y S D M has a long standing relationships with local non-profits, developers, architects and engineers that we are collaborating with to push forward a vision for sustainable affordable housing within our community. We live in a region with talented crafts people, fabrication shops, and resources for historic work that we draw upon and collaborate with. We strongly believe in learning through experience and are open to guide and mentor the individual through these projects.
The internship will be held at our studio (with the possibility of remote work for digital modeling). Access will be given to our model shop, materials library, and workspace. The position requires the ability to work fluidly between drawing and making—utilizing both digital skill sets in drafting and 3D modeling software and translation to physical models using methods such as wood-working, casting, routing, laser-cutting etc.
Most importantly, we seek someone who can contribute to a positive work environment, who maintains professionalism and patience in high-level work. The right candidate is willing to work as a team, follow instruction carefully and attentively, and be a good collaborator. While the focus of internship will be drafting, rendering, and modeling — research and design are integral to our process—we devote time for R&D, reflection, and celebration of the work in progress.
Application Period: Open until filled
Internship dates: June 1, 2026 - August 31, 2026
Hours per Week: 20-25
Hourly Rate: Commensurate with experience, starting at $23/hr
Apply: See Below
Our ideal candidate possesses:
• Minimum 1 year working experience in a design office
• Experience making/reading architectural plans, drawings, models
• Strong design intuition
• An energetic and attentive attitude
• Exceptional critical thinking and initiative to solve challenges as they arise
• Professionalism and patience to contribute to a positive work environment
Requirements:
• Fluency in drafting software: AutoCAD/Rhino
• Demonstrated proficiency in rendering software: D5/Twinmotion
• Knowledge and experience making things by hand
• Knowledge and experience with shop tools—ie table/band saw, drill press, planers, grinder etc.
• Transportation to get to/and from work site
To Apply:
Please email a single PDF to info@ysdm.studio containing both your CV and Portfolio.
Please label the PDF with your Name as follows:
SummerInternship_ModelMaker_FirstNameLastName.pdf
Subject line of email:
Summer Internship - Model Maker - FirstName LastName
Thank you!
2026
Y S D M studio is currently looking for a summer intern for the modeling of housing concepts with a focus on modular, mass-timber, healthy & sustainable materials and methods both for new construction and adaptive reuse.
We are seeking a design-minded individual with architectural background and experience in both digital and physical model making to work alongside us in our studio. Y S D M has a long standing relationships with local non-profits, developers, architects and engineers that we are collaborating with to push forward a vision for sustainable affordable housing within our community. We live in a region with talented crafts people, fabrication shops, and resources for historic work that we draw upon and collaborate with. We strongly believe in learning through experience and are open to guide and mentor the individual through these projects.
The internship will be held at our studio (with the possibility of remote work for digital modeling). Access will be given to our model shop, materials library, and workspace. The position requires the ability to work fluidly between drawing and making—utilizing both digital skill sets in drafting and 3D modeling software and translation to physical models using methods such as wood-working, casting, routing, laser-cutting etc.
Most importantly, we seek someone who can contribute to a positive work environment, who maintains professionalism and patience in high-level work. The right candidate is willing to work as a team, follow instruction carefully and attentively, and be a good collaborator. While the focus of internship will be drafting, rendering, and modeling — research and design are integral to our process—we devote time for R&D, reflection, and celebration of the work in progress.
Application Period: Open until filled
Internship dates: June 1, 2026 - August 31, 2026
Hours per Week: 20-25
Hourly Rate: Commensurate with experience, starting at $23/hr
Apply: See Below
Our ideal candidate possesses:
• Minimum 1 year working experience in a design office
• Experience making/reading architectural plans, drawings, models
• Strong design intuition
• An energetic and attentive attitude
• Exceptional critical thinking and initiative to solve challenges as they arise
• Professionalism and patience to contribute to a positive work environment
Requirements:
• Fluency in drafting software: AutoCAD/Rhino
• Demonstrated proficiency in rendering software: D5/Twinmotion
• Knowledge and experience making things by hand
• Knowledge and experience with shop tools—ie table/band saw, drill press, planers, grinder etc.
• Transportation to get to/and from work site
To Apply:
Please email a single PDF to info@ysdm.studio containing both your CV and Portfolio.
Please label the PDF with your Name as follows:
SummerInternship_ModelMaker_FirstNameLastName.pdf
Subject line of email:
Summer Internship - Model Maker - FirstName LastName
Thank you!
INDEX
TEA HOUSE
Manitoga
Spring Street Garden
Woods Gerry
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
Lake Cabin
Rowhouse
Live/Work
Studio 2Q
CURATORIAL
Artist In Vacancy
Ann Street Gallery
EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
Dia: Chelsea
Bauhaus Dessau
Dia: Beacon
Arts Letters & Numbers
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Codas
Dance Platform
Winter Solstice Bells
Hako Sushi
Bubuto
Salo
TEA HOUSE
Manitoga
Spring Street Garden
Woods Gerry
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
Lake Cabin
Rowhouse
Live/Work
Studio 2Q
CURATORIAL
Artist In Vacancy
Ann Street Gallery
EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
Dia: Chelsea
Bauhaus Dessau
Dia: Beacon
Arts Letters & Numbers
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Codas
Dance Platform
Winter Solstice Bells
Hako Sushi
Bubuto
Salo
Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.
Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.
Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.
By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.
As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.
Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.
Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.
By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.
As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.