PORTFOLIO MA R Y BET H ROBB I NS | 2020
ABOUT
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MA R Y B E TH ROBBINS 302.242.5396 marybeth1798@gmail.com www.marybethrobbins.space Instagram / marybethrobbins.space LinkedIn / marybethrobbins-space I am a passionate, hardworking individual who loves to engage creativity and problem-solving in everyday life. In the spring of 2021, I will graduate with my bachelor’s in architecture. Born and raised on my family farm in southern Delaware, I was always ingrained in agriculture. I showed pigs and dairy cows at the state fair and took interest in environmental science in school. In college, I wanted to pursue a career that would allow me to channel innovation, and architecture felt like the right fit. Over my past few years of architecture school I have worked on projects of various scales from schools and high-rises to art installations and urban farms. I love to work on projects that involve my agricultural background. Overall, I am always looking to challenge myself and to beautify the world, one design at a time.
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RESUME
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EDUCATION University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN Candidate for Bachelor of Architecture | August 2016 – May 2021 University of Arkansas Rome Center | Rome, IT Study Abroad Semester with a focus in Architecture | Spring 2020 Lake Forest High School | Felton, DE Focus in Computer-Aided Design, Environmental Science, and Art Class of 2016
EXPERIENCE StudioJAED | Bear, DE Architecture, Engineering, and Facilities Solutions Firm Architecture Intern | Summer 2019, Winter 2019 – 2020 Peninsula Acoustical Company | Smyrna, DE Sub-Contractor Intern | May – August 2017
INVOLVEMENT SKILLS Adobe Creative Cloud: Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom 3-D Design: Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino 3-D Rendering: V-Ray, Enscape Photography Microsoft Office Suite Non-Digital: Hand Drafting, Hand Sketching, Watercolor
Alpha Rho Chi | Theodorus Chapter Fall 2019 Pledge Educator 2019 National Convention Secretary 2018 – 2019 Worthy Scribe Dean’s Student Advisory Council 2016 – 2019 Student Representative Design Living and Learning Community 2017 – 2019 Community Peer Mentor 2016 – 2017 Community Ambassador 4-H 2015 National Congress Representative 2014 Outstanding 4-H’er Award Technology Student Association 2015 National Officer Candidate 2014 – 2015 Delaware State Secretary MARY BETH ROBBINS | 5
C O N TENTS
8 ELEVATED EDUCATION AUTOMATIC MILK MANAGER FOR ROUTINE COWS
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24 SYNERGY
30 PHOTOGRAPHY
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ELEVATED EDUCATION
FALL 2019 MONTREAL, QC, CANADA PROFESSOR MARK DEKAY PARTNER: MICHELLE BLACKWELL
Elevated Education is the idea that education can be elevated - literally, as well as figuratively. Using the sky as “elevation”, the teaching world can be greatly improved upon - or elevated - if the space around them encourages discovery, learning and joy. Biophilia is the love life and nature itself, in its climate, environment and inhabitants. The intention of this studio is to promote biophilia in educational institutions within cold climates. Given the site of an existing school, all aspects of integration are expressed via accessibility, LCA, natural daylighting and more. Cold climates generally suggested to be unwelcoming and harsh, especially in locations where snow can pile up to over 3 meters each year. Snow is a great part of biophilia and the intentions of this studio because biophilia can attest to many different factors: the sky, the sun, stars, the wind, rain, trees, grass, animals and humans alike. For this particular project, many intentions were considered. Firstly, biophilia; second, sociability; thirdly, perception. These three factors were crucial to producing an effective design that connects the existing school to the proposed addition that was designed in this project.
NORTH COURTYARD CAFETERIA
GYMNASIUM
CENTRAL COURTYARD LIBRARY
CLASSROOM
PRESCHOOL COURTYARD
PRESCHOOL CLASSROOM
ADMIN SUITE
EXISTING SCHOOL
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FLOOR PLAN
Metal Finish Roof Roof Rafters Plyood Sheathing Metal Roof Decking
Truss System
Gypsum Board Vapor Barrier Spray Foam Insulation
Direct LED Luminaire
Structural Steel I-Beam Column
EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS
Air Barrier Wood Sheathing Air Gap Brick Ties
For this project to be truly imagined, the project was considered under the five senses and the perspective of the child as well as teacher. This school needed to be seen, touched, smelled, heard and tasted in every room to completely understand it. Most importantly, the school needed education at its forefront- that meant understanding what a teacher requires and how they achieve the necessary requirements to teach children. However, the students there also make an impact. This school houses pre-school and elementary school children who see the world dierently than teachers and designers. There was careful consideration of safety and guarding those who go to the school and use the facilities within the building.
Brick Veneer
Steel Channel Window Header
Gym Window
Window Sill
Exterior CMU Block Wood Finish Floor Floor Decking Concrete Floor Base Gravel
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September: 7 AM
September: 12 PM
September: 4 PM
September Wind
February: 7 AM
February: 12 PM
February: 4 PM
February Wind
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This project was submitted to the AIA COTE Top 10 competition for students. This competition awards to the best projects designed for environmental performance based on a series of measures. A few of those measures include: Design for Integration, Design for Community, Design for Discovery, and Design for Change.
Design for Integration: Integrating education is not the only component for this school, but also community, perception and biophilia. Community supports education by providing friendliness and enthusiasm to children. Using perception, schools are able to teach in different methods, whether children are listeners, readers, doers or thinkers. Lastly, biophilia is a strategy in which nature is the ultimate teacher: through climate and weather, through plants and animals, and through the natural cycle of the seasons.
Design for Community: The level of a child’s eye is a critical view to understand and investigate. Along with that, there are teachers, nurses, administrators, cooks and other adults who make the school work to the best of its abilities. All of these people need opportunities to make a difference not only in the educational field, but also to give back to the earth. Almost everyone already moves to and from the school on food, but to further that notion, the school’s expansion includes a large, open entrance that welcomes all those who enter inside.
Design for Discovery: This school provides learning for 31 preschool and 165 school children. But this is only a single moment in time. The people flowing through the building will fluctuate, and this school will most likely do the same. The expected amount of growth for this school and its addition is at least 150 students. It is important to value the experience in the building beyond all other aspects, because a school is one of the most valuable buildings of the future.
Design for Change: The original school was first built in 1902, then required two additions: in 1922 and 1960. Change is not foreign to the teachers that work in the building as well as the families that send their children there. It expects a revision if it is meant to remain resilient. This time, these additions bring more than just a code update and some classrooms. It encourages the outdoors as a beautiful and proactive place where plants, like kids, can grow.
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AUTOMATIC MILK MANAGER FOR ROUTINE COWS
SPRING 2019 FOREST PARK, GEORGIA PROFESSOR MARK STANLEY This project challenges the current workings of dairy farms today. As farming increasingly becomes a more diďŹƒcult profession, farmers are looking towards automation to save time in their daily operation. My approach was to design in a way that 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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Collaging helps to discover truth, relations, and information about a certain subject. In order to understand the daily process of producing milk, I started to compare the cow to the machine. The first machine to producing milk is obviously the cow - the udder as the main mechanism. In order to produce milk, the cow must be fed to produce energy, and must regularly calf. The milk is then pulled from the udders to holding tanks, then goes through a series of processes like pasteurization and homogenization before bottling and being shipped to the store. Collaging also helps layout the workings for my design, as in what triggers “Bovine Behavior”, the different functionalities in “Routine Milking”, and using technology as a “Automated Manager” for this new farm.
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In the section perspective, you are able to see the different “tiers” or roaming spaces for the cows. Each tier has rows of automatic-filling food and water troughs, an outdoor pasture, automated manure clean-up, and brush scratchers. Each cow is RFID chipped to control eating times, movement, milk production, and “reward” system. The slanted “core” connecting the levels features a lift that will host pipage that serves to food, water, and waste. The ramp that circulates around the core are for ease of movement for the cows when it is time to milk. The majority of the milking cows live on the second and third levels. The fourth level hosts sick or separated cows (cows who may be treated with antibiotics for a certain time) and the calf huts are on the top level. Located on the first level is the automated rotary “rotating” milker, and processing machinery to pasteurize and bottle milk. The aim of this project is to have the entire milk cycle exist in one location, and pushing boundaries to elevate this experience.
CONSUM CONSUMPTION
TROUGHS CO COVERED WITH SENSORS TRACK AMOUNT AMOU OF FOOD + WATER CONSUMED
PROCESS
ON-FARM PASTURIZATION, BOTTLING + DISTRIBUTION
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REWARD
SCRATCHERS RELAX COWS HAPPY COWS = MORE MILK PRODUCTION
MILKING
50-HEAD ROTARY MILKER EASE OF FLOW
FEED
BLENDED FOR HEALTH + PRODUCTION OF HERD DELIVERED BY ELEVATOR
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SPRING 2019 KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE PROFESSOR NATE IMAI DIGITAL RECIPROCITY, a seminar lead by University of Tennessee’s 2018-2019 Architecture Fellow Nate Imai, focused on responsive architecture in terms of temperature, humidity, and air. The 84-square-foot Mobile “T House” reads live data and sensors placed at each corner to display lights in an array of colors between Blue and Red. The color the house glows tells the difference between the interior and exterior conditions. This built project explored many skills and design techniques by taking inspiration from Japanese Tea Houses to modern digital fabrication. This project was on display at the Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum in May 2019 and is now on display in the gardens of the College of Architecture + 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
DIGITAL RECIPROCITY
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ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN
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FALL 2018 KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE PROFESSOR NATE IMAI SYNERGY is a combination upperclassman housing and library located in downtown Knoxville. Partnering the Knox County Public Library and the University of Tennessee, this design for a new housing complex challenges “Living and Learning”. The floors of this high-rise building alternate between Library and Dormitory, with connecting central atriums. Each “set” of floors are separated by discipline, and the floor plan gradually changes as the building rises. This complex also looks at a “gradient” of programmable spaces on a spectrum of “collective” to “interactive”. In plan, you will see the most collective spaces (bookshelves, study rooms, dormitory rooms) are located towards the exterior and the interactive spaces (open air spaces, circulation, lounges) are located towards the center. SYNERGY emerged from research about libraries and student housing, finding a connection between collective spaces and interactive spaces to create a new student living experience.
SYNERGY
AUDITORIUM / LOADING DOCK PLAN
LIBRARY LEVEL A
ENTRY LEVEL PLAN
DORMITORY LEVEL A
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LIBRARY LEVEL B
LIBRARY LEVEL C
DORMITORY LEVEL B
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Florence, Italy January 2020
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Pisa, Italy January 2020
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Acropolis Museum Bernard Tschumi Athens, Greece February 2020
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Renzo Piano Athens, Greece February 2020
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Acropolis Athens, Greece February 2020
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Bracciano, Italy February 2020
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