Mary Beth Robbins | Design Sheets | Fall 2016 - Spring 2019

DESIGN SHEETS

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Project: Automated Milk Manager for Routine Cows Term: Spring 2019 Professor: Mark Stanley 33°37’36.4”N 84°23’00.9”W Forest Park, GA This project was to challenge the current workings of dairy farms today. As farming increasingly becomes a more difficult profession, farmers are looking towards automation to save time in their daily operation.

My approach was to design in a way the appealed to the natural behaviors of the cows, with play with lights, contrast, scratchers, etc. The cows are also equipped with RFID tags that collect data, and help keep track of milk production, consumption, and movement. This data not only helps the farmer keep track of his herd, but the data is used on a constant updating twitter feed, adding a direct connection to the consumer. The farm is set up to be a profit/benefit system to those who play in part: the farmer, the distributor, the consumer, and most importantly, the cow.

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Project: Digital Reciprocity Term: Spring 2019 Professor: Nate Imai “During Spring 2019, students in the Architecture seminar ‘Digital Reciprocity’ led by 2018-2019 Architecture Fellow Nate Imai designed and created Mobile T House that responds to changing temperature, humidity and air currents to teach visitors about the local climate and weather. The T House also allows visitors to contextualize the difference between interior and exterior conditions via lighting.”

-UT College of Architecture and Design My fellow classmates who participated in the seminar: - Nicole Capps - Roni Feghaly - Christopher Rubio - Jessica Shremshock - Zachary Standley - Akshata Dusa - Tyler Forsberg - Diana Kraczkowska - Mary Beth Robbins - Anastasiya Skvarniuk - Izabela Szumniak

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Project: Synergy Term: Fall 2018 Professor: Nate Imai

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1 T.O. Parapet EL. 252’-0”

20th Floor EL. 240’-0”

19th Floor EL. 226’-0”

350 S. Gay St. Knoxville, TN

18th Floor EL. 214’-0”

17th Floor

This project is a high-rise building located in downtown Knoxville. It was designed for the Knox County Public Library in conjunction with the University of Tennessee to provide upperclassmen and graduate housing with a Living and Learning educational experience. This building alternates library and dormitory floors. The floors are organized by discipline and are connected with a large atrium and smaller atriums to connect the joining library and atrium floors. The project emerged from research about libraries and student housing, finding a connection between collective spaces and interactive spaces to create a new student living experience.

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16th Floor EL. 190’-0”

15th Floor EL. 178’-0”

14th Floor EL. 166’-0”

13th Floor EL. 154’-0”

12th Floor EL. 142’-0”

11th Floor EL. 130’-0”

10th Floor EL. 118’-0”

9th Floor EL. 106’-0”

8th Floor EL. 94’-0”

7th Floor EL. 82’-0”

6th Floor EL. 70’-0”

5th Floor EL. 58’-0”

Dormitory C

Library C

Dormitory C

4th Floor EL. 46’-0”

Library C

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Library C

3rd Floor EL. 34’-0”

Dormitory B

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2nd Floor EL. 12’-0”

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Library A

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Project: Hidden Truths Term: Spring 2018 Professor: Hansjoerg Goeritz The Lawn, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA This project was designed to honor the slaves who built the historic University of Virginia’s campus, known as the Lawn, or Thomas Jefferson’s Academic Village. The design prompt noted to imagine the south end of the lawn to be drastically ruined by a fire, with only certain remains still hanging. Through the cleaning of the fire, there was bodies and artifacts found of the slaves. The challenge of the prompt was to design in a way that honored the slaves.

When I think of honoring, I think of leaving things untouched, yet protecting them at the same time. For my design, I used walkways that covered the graves from weather elements, but are “floating” just above the ground. The walkway then leads down the hill as a lookout for all the artifacts found along the way. The walkway then ends at a A-Frame like gallery to display some ruins that have been properly cleaned and also serves as an education center for the history behind the historic UVA site and the role the slaves played in building it.

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Project: _GLitCH_ Term: Fall 2017 Personal Exploration Series: Photoshop This series emerged from an assignment for my representation course where we had to create compelling images using Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or V-Ray. Through that assignment I knew less about Photoshop, so I took it upon myself to practice with the program and create a series of images. I was attracted to making my images look glitchy and error-like, and I admired the different colors that came about in the process.

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Title: Celestial Shadow Term: Spring 2017 Professor: James Rose Team Furniture Project with Austin Gawrys and Kenny Jung Celestial Shadow was a 1:1 digital fabrication furniture project using the CNC mill and limited to only 1 sheet of plywood. My team and I designed a bench out of 3 cut pieces, that added a pop of red color where you sit, and the cut circles provided light to shine through in an interesting pattern.