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Hopkins Plaza Renovations
Baltimore, Maryland 2013
The detailed structure of the project is faintly seen from the exterior and doesn’t reveal itself till you enter the enclosures, providing a monolithic sculptural feel to the plaza and passerbys.
“the quality of light is very impressive throughout this project” -downtown partnership - client
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CARROLL PARK FIELD HOUSE
Baltimore, Maryland 2013
exposed aggregate concrete
corrugated metal roofing
reclaimed heavy timber
heavy sandblasted concrete
broom finish concrete slab
sandblasted concrete
split face block
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RECLAIMED WOOD TIMBER FIT BETWEEN SIDE PLATES RECLAIMED WOOD TIMBER TO FIT BETWEEN SIDE PLATES
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(2) 3/8" THICK PLATES BUILT UP
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The Carroll Park Field house is a pavilion in between 6 newly renovated ball fields in West Baltimore. In a neighborhood where there is a strong sense of community but not necessarily the best community environments, this Field house will now serve as a new place of gatherings for sporting and community activities. This project came about 3 years ago since the existing Field house was burnt down. Parks and Rec came to us and asked us to design a similar structure to replace what was just a pile of rubble that has been sitting in the middle of the park for quite some time. Through design and working back and forth with the client, exhaustive sketches and model studies, we came to the conclusion that a minimal design would be a simple and modern gesture to the structure that once stood. To be a community space in a park meant to be open an airy, throughout the structure, materials included which were chosen to blend in to the park setting. The oversized tapered concrete columns represent a strong connection to the ground, while the corrugated metal roof seem to float above its heavy legs. The two box structure on either side of the main congregation area, which are 3 restrooms, a rentable concession space, and a work room are constructed of 4”x 16”x 8” split face block nicely fitting into the natural landscapes of the park.
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OCCOQUAN STATE PARK Design proposal
Fairfax Co. VA
Occoquan State Park, through a design proposal, has asked for a new educational and rentable space for visitors and park users. A week long process, through diagrams and rendered perspectives I studied what it meant to put a relatively large, 15,000 square foot building on a site with large specimen trees and steep grades. Choosing to bury the lower portion of the building, not only to reduce the visual impact and programmatically seperating the volumes of the building when not in use, the lower cafe and
kitchen responsibly take advantage of the earthin temepatures by reducing heating and cooling demands on the building. Green roofs, outdoor gathering spaces of varying size, and unihibited view corridors influened the massing and site strategies. Sustainable materials, daylighting control measures, and water conservation efforts are all on display throughout this project to provide an educational lesson to all visitors of this state of the art building.
Mixed used development A new development outside Baltimore, this portion of the site has an office and retail at street level. The client has a finity for industrial warehouse architecture with large windows and traditional openings and my task role has been to take the footprint and sell our client with lively thoughtful imagery. While mostly keeping to a traditional architectural language, the clean lines and material palette brings the rich flavor and street life to the area. Large expanses of daylighting on the interior space and natural plantings and storm water swales attest to the need for a sustainable development along with this style of architecture. Residents of the area will begin to see and experience these lessons in built landscape which will be prominent throughout the development demonstrating our responsible stewardship to the land.
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CONTAINER HAUS
Washington DC
The Container Haus was a unique opportunity brought to us by a client in Washington DC. Looking for a modern upbeat prefab compact live work house, the project team began to look into using shipping containers as the bones of the house. The beauty of using these already built rigid structures is just that, that they are already a built building block. Coupling them together and stacking them gave us the appropriate sq./ft. for a live/work unit as well as a family of four. On the design team, we focused on three options along every step of the way. Being as flexible as the shipping containers are, we replicated that to our relatively tight site with three very different arrangements to providing open space. Three options were also designed into the plans where the resident could ultimately decide whether they wanted two or three bedrooms, a finished basement or an office space, or any combination of those elements.
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The early design charrette included displaying an interactive sketch-up model, where the board could make suggestions and we would model, orbit, and shift elements as we worked through the early concepts. The final site plan include multiple green roofs and storm water treatment areas that became part of the landscape and learning lesson to the kids as they can get up close to the plantings and the bio-habitat that has been created. Hyattsville Elementary was designed from the start to include playful angles and colorful materials to work with the rise and falls of the existing site. We used a lot of sustainable materials and made sure natural daylight was prevalent in the design in order to not only achieve LEED GOLD status but to make sure the occupants and the surrounding community knew what a progressive and sustainable school CAN look like.
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HYATTSVILLE ELEMENTARY
Hyattsville, Maryland
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Farquhar Middle School
2012
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Sustainable education center
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the BARRIE SCHOOL
Silver Springs, Maryland 2009-2013
Barrie school educates students from age 2 through 12th grade. With a Montessori-based Lower School curriculum, and a school-wide commitment to sustainability, the new complex of buildings is designed in concert with the school’s beautiful and dramatic natural setting. While the landscape and natural features present significant challenges, they also offer wonderful opportunities to creatively mesh the built environment with the natural landscape. The building materials respond directly to the heavily wooded landscape and open flowing landscape. The client was very open to new ideas and how the learning space can be flexible to provide for a multitude of learning arrangements focused on interior and exterior spaces. Both active and passive energy strategies were explored in this project, which lead to an intensive design process which ultimately created a beautifully engaging and Eco conscious space.
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Druid Hill Pool House
Baltimore, Maryland 2009-2010
The new pool house is simple in design - two polished cmu block walls, separated by 24 feet, are both used to define an interstitial space and create a threshold. These walls, and the spaces they define within, are capped with a floating roof, formally meant to evoke the nature of waves and add a touch of fun & whimsy to the project. Operable clerestory windows manage light, ventilation and privacy concerns while allowing the dynamic roof form to float effortlessly overhead. The entry sequence is designed to both compress the axial view towards the pool, and manage the flow of people in and out of the pool complex. Through the use of multi-colored glazed cmu block, bold color has been used in strategic locations to reinforce the design parti and create zones around the planned activity spaces. The rolling roof form is comprised of tongue & groove timber decking on glulam timber beams supported by inset steel columns.
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EMBEDED V-GROOVE FLOOR TRACK SOLID COLLAR JOINT 0' - 2 1/4" RAKE MORTAR JOINT, BACKER ROD AND SEALANT
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ONE PIECE - HEAD COMPENSATING RECEPTOR
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Design Renderings
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insulated skylight with operable shades to control daylignting - south facing to maximize capturing daylight and heat in winter months
cementitious panel 5/8� OSB sheathing 5� mineral wool insulation 2x3 furring air barrier
extruded polystyrene insulation insulated glass doors
cedar rain screen paneling
board insulation filtration treatment material downspout connecting to filtration landscape perforated drainage pipe
window into bedroom capturing borrowed light
filtration landscaping reclaimed wood flooring mineral wool insulation water collection tank
open stairs to get daylight deep into space PASSIVEHAUS strategies - stack and cross ventilation drawn through exhaust fan
reclaimed wood bike racks
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shor t section
crawl space with water collection tanks
BEDROOM
long section
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Design sketches
chapel concept
board room design
administration cooridor
rain water collection diagram classroom wing renovation existing school dining hall renovation
residential tower design
existing school entry renovation
church masterplan
the design process from paper to computer, model to digital, digital to construction is an art of itself. A process that takes creative thinking, craft, and determination, and patience. It is, and should never be a linear process to achieve the best and most elegant solution.
Contact_Kelly Krob 785.577.5846 krobkelly@gmail.com