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Recent WorkFall, 2012

Studio Project in Copenhagen, Denmark

Row Houses on Holmen

The project was to design a block of 12 rowhouses, where a single house design is repeated on a site next to a canal in Copenhagen, Denmark. The maximum size of each home was set at 8 meters wide, 10 meters deep, and 10 meters high, with a 4 meter yard in front and back. I decided to explore the idea of a light well, which would allow for an open ground floor plan. The ground floor combined the kitchen, dining room, living room, and a small bathroom. A staircase provides vertical circulation to the office, bedrooms, and roof terrace while keeping a visual and audible connection to the ground floor. Staggering the buildings increased the privacy of the roof terraces for each house, compared to having them all in a straight line. It also created areas for a public park space in the front, and a community garden in the back.

Programs Used: AutoCAD 2012 (Design / Linework), Revit 2012 (3D Modeling), Photoshop CS5 (Post Rendering), InDesign CS5 (Layout) Sheet Printed at 1 Meter x 1 Meter

Recent WorkFall, 2012

Studio Project in Copenhagen, Denmark

Future City Research Lab

This project called for the design of a place for 3Dt design work and art of the present and future. The program called for a large plenum space for exhibitions, significant outdoor space, a variety of work spaces and two apartments for visiting artists. The project sat on an irregular site with an old industrial building on the face that met the street, and as students studying abroad, we were asked to look to the city around us for inspiration. My design idea was to create public spaces on the outside that would be a positive for the surrounding area, and use the interior space as a flexible and durable backdrop for creative design of all types for years to come.

Programs Used: AutoCAD 2012 (Design / Linework), Revit 2012 (3D Modeling), 3DS Max Design 2012 (3D Modeling/Rendering), Photoshop CS5 (Post Rendering), InDesign CS5 (Layout) Sheet Printed at 1 Meter x 1 Meter

Inspiration Map

emer[GE]nerationThe structural tendency of the past has been a very simple, rectilinear one. That traditional style has evolved into a more complex system. The Diagrid, complex in appearance, functions on a simple concept of modular triangles arranged in a diagonal grid. it has emerged as an innovative way to create morphological building structures with great strength and open floor plans. The current generation has seen a transition from very traditional buildings to more amorphous shapes taht are more appealing and interesting to experience. This culinary institute represents the opportunities created by the diagrid structure and helps represent the future of steel construction.

Traditional rectilinear educational buidling Structure of building form emerging to form administration building shape

Final form with educational building bridged to the amorphous shape of the administration building

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Studio Project/Competition at University of Miami

ASCA Competition - Culinary School in Brooklyn

The 2012 ASCA competition called for the design of a culinary academy in Brooklyn, NY, that highlighted the use of steel in its design. The program called for lecture halls, culinary and academic classrooms, a library, various administrative functions, and a restaurant. The concept was to build an academic building, as well as an administration building that each highlighted a different use of steel. The academic building used a steel column and beam system, with a curtain wall system for the skin. The administration building used a 6 foot diagrid frame system that allowed for an open interior plan. The traditional structural beams in the academic building twist over the restaurant and become the structural members of the diagrid frame.

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Programs Used: AutoCAD 2012 (Design / Linework), Revit 2012 (3D Modeling), 3DS Max Design 2012 (3D Modeling/Rendering), Photoshop CS5 (Post Rendering), InDesign CS5 (Layouts), Illustrator CS5 (Diagrams) Sheets Printed at 20” x 20”

Spring, 2012

Studio Project at University of MiamiLamson Art Colony -

The Lamson Art Colony was a studio project that called for the design of a community of artist living spaces atop a quarry in Vermont. The program called for 10 living spaces and 5 communal work spaces for a variety of creative arts. There was also the need for 2 living spaces for curators, an educational pavilion/memorial, and a cafe. The site was a very large quarry space, mostly filled with water that had a spine of rock running through the center that has excellent views looking out in both directions. The concept was to raise the entire community up above the uneven ground of this spine and create a singular pathway that connected all of the elements of the community and provided a series of views for the people there. The large program functions were placed on the ends of the paths, with all the the residences and studios looking out from the path, each with a unique, unobstructed view of the beautiful Vermont landscape. The design is meant to be one that provides a model for the community to continue to grow upon itself and create a unique place to live and be creative.

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Programs Used: AutoCAD 2012 (Design / Linework), Revit 2012 (3D Modeling), 3DS Max Design 2012 (3D Modeling/Rendering), Photoshop CS5 (Post Rendering), InDesign CS5 (Layouts) Sheets Printed at 11” x 17”

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Summer, 2011

University of Miami Summer Study AbroadOpen City Studio - St. Petersburg, Russia

The Open City Studio at University of Miami is a studio program that takes place in a different city every summer. The program happens over about 40 days, on location, and a city-specific project is assigned. In St. Petersburg, a city of grand prospects and avenues, we were given an assignment to take a view of the city and draw each building in that view orthographically. We chose the canal view of the Church of Spilled Blood, and gave proper scale to each element to gain a new way to understand the space. Prepared by a group of three by hand-measuring each of the buildings in the project, and studying their geometry and structure, while refrencing books and drawings found in the library, we constructed the drawing entirely in autocad 2012. Six different buildings appear in the view, as well as a section cut through the canal.

Programs Used: AutoCAD 2011, InDesign CS5 (Layout) Sheet Printed at 36” x 55”

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Лето 2011Санкт-Петербург, Россия

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Miami Maritime MuseumThe design calls for a modern, sustainable museum that speaks not only with maritime tradition, but with both Miami and tropical architectural styles, that fits in the context of the park and of the region. The idea for the Miami Maritime Museum was to build the museum as a floating glass border at the south side of Museum Park. The design started with the site. Bicentennial Park, an important part of Miami with a rich history, is undergoing a 21st century makeover and will become Museum Park in the next few years. The Miami Art Museum and the Miami Science Museum will be on the northern side of the park, and will serve as an important border between the park and the highway which connects downtown and Miami Beach. The location of the Miami Maritime Museum was about framing the other important corner of the park, the corner shared with 888 Biscayne Boulevard and the American Airlines Arena. The t-shaped Maritime Museum, built of steel and skinned with wood, would have a minimal ground floor footprint and contain three distinct parts. The first part is a service and administration wing, which would contain a lecture hall, a library, and a roof garden, along with all the necessary service spaces required to run a museum. The second part, the main gallery level would be 25 feet above the ground, allowing both the park and cool ocean air to flow underneath it. This floor would include a gallery space which runs almost five hundred feet, two stories high and clad in glass which serves as a border between the park to the north and the slip to the south. Finally there would be a main exhibition space, which cantelevers out over the water displaying the exhibits not only to the museum goers but to the city as well.The Museum is designed with sustainibility in mind. Considering the amount of sun in South Florida, any glass structure needs to take strides to keep the sunlight out as much as possible. To keep the sun out of the gallery space, exterior walkways run the length of the south side extending 15 feet out, keeping the curtain walls of the south side cast in shadow the majority of the day. The main exhibition room would exist within a wooden superstructure, which would drastically reduce the direct sunlight entering

the space while not disrupting the visual connection between the outside and inside.

Prof. Jose Gelabert-NaviaDesign By Robert Allison

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Spring, 2011

Studio Project at University of MiamiMiami Maritime Museum -

The Miami Maritime Museum is a project located in downtown Mtiami on the southern side of what is currently becoming Museum Park, which will have the Miami Art Museum and the Miami Science Museum on the north side. We were asked to use a steel structure, and keep the design of the future park in mind when designing our own. I did this by raising up the majority of the building 20 feet and having only the main lobby, the restaurant and the lecture hall on the ground level. All three have access to vertical circulation. Above there is a gallery that protrudes over the inlet, as well as a long series of galleries that run along the inlet, shaded from the sun by walkways on the southern side.

Programs Used: AutoCAD 2012 (Design / Linework), Revit 2012 (3D Modeling), Photoshop CS5 (Post Rendering), InDesign CS5 (Layouts) Sheets Printed at 24” x 36”

Fall, 2009

Studio Project at University of MiamiSchooner Bay Apartments

The project was to design and hand-draft a small apartment building in a housing development in Grand Abaco Island, Bahamas. We were to consider vernacular architectural styles, materials, and scale in our design. We were asked to design the building to contain 8 apartments - 4 one bedroom and 4 two bedroom. Those apartments also needed to be designed and drafted to include furniture.

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Fall, 2008

Studio Project at University of MiamiHometown Map

The hometown map project is a first year tradition at the University of Miami. The project is the first one students are assigned when coming to school first year, and it is used to teach students the rules of composition as well as the various techniques of inking on mylar. The purpose of the map is to show the hometown of each student, and to highlight significant architectural features of each city. The project was a huge learning experience, and took about 24 hours to ink in several sessions. The perspective view at the bottom sheet illustates a view of the San Francisco Bay from the Berkeley Hills.

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PhotographyIn Fall 2011, I took architectural photography at the University of Miami, and learned how to shoot architecture using a DSLR and manual settings. In the process I gained a love of shooting long exposures at night. In my free time, and when I am traveling, I love exploring cities and urban situations to shoot images, sometimes more abstract than the architectural photography that my knowledge is based in. The first photo below was taken on the upper west side of New York City, is a 30 second exposure on manual settings where a friend rode by on a skateboard and moved flashlights up and down while pointing them at the camera. Very little post production was done in photoshop.

Fall, 2008

Studio Project at University of MiamiWinter Garden Atrium Study Model

This was a project where groups of two were asked to choose a building with an interesting use of steel in its structure and to build a model out of wood that displays that system. We studied our precedent, the Winter Garden Atrium in Battery Park, New York and drafted construction drawings. The curved trusses were built and dried while the base was being constructed. After a lot of sanding the pieces were all added and connected. The entire project took two weeks.

Fall, 2012

Furniture Design Project in CopenhagenTension Chair

Furniture Design was a class taken at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen. The class was given half the semester, meeting twice a week for 4 hours, to design and build a chair or small table. Our lumber was donated by a Norweigan company called Kebony that takes woods that are not good for outdoor use and pressure treat them with a by-product of sugar production. The result is a strong, brittle wood with a 25 year outdoor warrenty, but considering its water resistant nature, we were not able to glue the wood in any way. We were each given 2, two meter long pieces that were approximately 2” x 4”, and we did not have the option to get more if we were to mess up. I decided from the beginning that given the brittle nature of the wood, I wanted to eliminate the wood from being a part of the seat. After a lot of project development, I arrived at what I thought was the most elegant and simple design. The chair is a total of 10 pieces of wood, with 2 lap joints on each side and 50 meters of rope. At the end of the semester the chair was easily disasembled and sent home.