Autozone

PROJECT 

This Autozone store in Minneapolis is an 11,000 sf building on East Lake Street. The structure, made possible by the coordination with Engelsma Construction, provides ample retail floor area to be used for the needs of the business. Where the building shines is on the exterior. Staggered red bricks extend to the horizontally-oriented, bright metal paneling capping each facade. The sleek, large storefronts that open up the interior environment provide an attractive, orderly pattern to the building enhanced by the smooth metal awnings above each. The building, though small in scale, boasts a top-grade design while also providing flexibility for the operations of Autozone. 

Client

Engelsma Construction

Services

Architecture

Location

Minneapolis

Square Footage:

10,866 SF

Jocelyne Dougan

Project Coordinator

During Jocelyne’s formative years she spent a lot of time with her grandmother painting, drawing, and making all sorts of crafts. As a child she watchedher dad, helpingwhere she could, renovatetheir home from the ground up. Theylivedin a constant cycle of demolishing and rebuilding,to make something new andbeautiful. As a teenager she began taking advanced art classes and making pottery whenever she had free time between classes and after school. Looking at Jocelyne’s childhood, architecture seemed like an obvious choice, but it was not so clear when Jocelyne entered college. She began her post-secondary education studying accounting due to her interests in business throughout high school.However,she quickly realized that creativity was a necessity for her future career. Jocelyne changed her major to architecture and transferred to the University of Minnesota. It was there thatshe grew her knowledge of architecture as well as, interior design, history, and art. In 2018 she graduated with her Bachelor of Design in Architecture and began working at a firm in Saint Paul, gaining experience in both government and educational design. She soon returned to the University of Minnesota to complete her Master of Architecture degree with the hopes of pursuing licensure. Now that Jocelyne has completed her master’s degree, her professional goals aim to experience as many opportunities as possible both for the sake of learning as well as the need to feed her inner child’s love of art and exploration. Jocelynehopes to apply a wide range of knowledge and skills to better inform an all-encompassing design practice.

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