N PORTFOLIO | NICK RUBINO
NICK RUBINO Architecture Student Jefferson University College of Architecture & The Built Environment PORTFOLIO nick.rubino@jefferson.edu nrubino22@gmail.com 610.999.9747
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EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Jefferson University College of Architecture & The Built Environment
INTECH Construction Construction Management Intern, May - October 2021 Aided project management team on a multi-faceted commercial complex including: AmerisourceBergen headquarters, 127-room hotel, public plaza, two restaurants, and 1,500-space parking garage. Daily tasks included: Submittal review, Punchlist assignment/review, OAC and Subcontractor meeting minutes, MEP coordination, Subcontractor/Manufacturer correspondence, on-site subcontractor coordination, scheduling, bulletin/addendum distribution, and contract/construction document review.
Bachelor of Architecture Minor: Construction Management Anticipated Graduation: May, 2024 GPA: 3.90
SKILLS - AutoCad - Revit - Rhino - Grasshopper - Sketchup - VRay - Lumion - Enscape - Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign - AfterEffects - ArcMap GIS - Revu Bluebeam - Procore - Model Making
D.P. Fuss Builders, Inc. General Contracting Laborer, May 2016 - August 2020 Routinely visited project sites, worked with varying crews for rough and finish carpentry, drywalling, selective demolition, interior/exterior paint, excavation, and concrete/masonry. Katabat Associate Systems Engineer Intern, May 2017 - January 2018 Preformed day-to-day systems administrative tasks including laptop provisioning, kick-start builds, optimization, backup/recovery, and data migration across multiple data centers and database server architectures.
LEADERSHIP + ACTIVITES Alpha Lambda Delta Honors Society, President National Society of Leadership & Success, Member AIAS, Member Habitat for Humanity, Member Students for Historic Preservation, Member Student Organization for Sustainable Action, Member
HONORS + AWARDS Dean’s List: Spring 2019 - Present Jefferson University Urban Equity Competition, Finalist Alpha Lamda Delta Honors
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Resumé Upcycle Francisville | Fall 2021 Knowing Your Nature | Fall 2021 River View | Spring 2021 Evolving Envelope | Spring 2021 Hardanger Retreat | Fall 2020
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UPCYCLE FRANCISVILLE Design V - Fall 2021
“There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.” – Annie Leonard, Proponent of Sustainability
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RIGHT Perspective 1 | Exterior Courtyard
BEYOND WASTE The goal of this project was to create a design for the enhancement of urban inclusiveness that acts as a catalyst for positive change within the dynamic urban landscape of Philadelphia, PA. The architectural intervention was determined to be sited in Francisville; a neighborhood located in North Philadelphia.
Within a one block radius of the site there are a total of 42 vacant lots, predominately owned by private developers, contractors, and real estate groups. These land parcels are being developed into high-end rental properties that generate waste during the construction process and cannot be afforded by the Francisville residents.
Francisville is currently being gentrified, as developers see opportunities within the neighborhood to absorb low-income housing. Matched with about 26% of Philadelphians living below the federal poverty level and the total unemployment level in Francisville being 10-20%, residents cannot afford to stay in their neighborhood and are being pushed out of their own community.
In 2015 the EPA estimated that 548 million tons of construction and demolition debris was generated by the United States alone. This type of waste ties directly into the urban development currently taking place within Francisville. Through Upcycle Francisville residents and community members challenge the “single-use mindset” and create projects that produce a real impact on their individual lives and the community as a whole through upcycling.
Upcycling is the process of taking an item that is longer needed or wanted and giving it a new life cycle as something creative of a higher quality. Partnering with local construction companies and the city of Philadelphia, Upcycle Francisville receives materials that would be discarded as waste and provides the opportunity for residents to generate income by selling pieces they create by upcycling the materials.
LEFT Philadelphia Figure Ground Mapping | Site Location
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ABOVE Interior Perspective Collage I | Main Lobby RIGHT Plans | Basement-Level 3
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ABOVE Interior Perspective Collage II | Upcycle Workshop
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Urban Equity Pop-up Finalist
KNOWING YOUR NATURE Design V - Fall 2021
“We could say that a war is being waged today in the United States … The war is between two fundamentally opposed concepts of the forest. One is the concept of forest as resource; the other is the concept of forest as sanctuary.” –Robert Harrison, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
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RIGHT Philadelphia City Hall | Photoshop Edited Photo
ENVIRONMENTAL EMPOWERMENT Pop-ups are becoming an everyday feature in cities, with their popularity growing annually. They are often viewed as inclusive and responsive to a community’s aspirations or needs while serving as a device to activate an otherwise dormant or underutilized urban space. This project was set up as a two-week charrette competition with the goal of utilizing the urban site surrounding City Hall in Philadelphia and developing an individual proposal for a “pop-up” architectural intervention. Knowing Your Nature was one of five project finalists to be presented at the end of the competition. The concept of ecosystem services has mainstreamed as an interdisciplinary framework in the urban sustainability and resilience agenda. While the uptake of ecosystem services in urban areas is deeply entangled with multiple values, trade-offs, institutions, management and planning approaches, there is still a lack of a comprehensive and systematic frameworks to address environmental justice in urban areas. Climate justice is confronting environmental discrimination through fairness, justice, equity, and inclusion of all frontline communities impacted by climate change, pollution, environmental health hazards, and economic injustice. One of the pieces in moving in a positive direction that presents climate solutions is through education. Being sited in the center of the city provides the opportunity to create an environmental education pop-up where Philadelphia residents and visitors learn about environmental justice tactics to then bring back and employ within their communities.
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TOP Section RIGHT Site Plan I| Circulation Diagram
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LEFT Site Plan II | Pop-Up Intervention RIGHT Exploded Axonometric
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LEFT Interior Perspective | Greenery Tunnel RIGHT Exterior Perspective | Kinetic Wind Wall
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RIVER VIEW Design IV - Spring 2021
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; They were, in fact, a symphony of swinging blades.” –Daniel James Brown, The Boys In The Boat
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RIGHT Exterior Perspective| Kelly Drive, Philadelphia
EXPANDING SIGHTS
Rowing has long been a fascinating facet of the city of Philadelphia’s identity. In the late 1800’s Boathouse Row was the sporting capital of the country. Today, Philadelphia and the Schuylkill River remain key players in rowing’s history and River View seeks to engage the sport’s spectators and contribute to Kelly Drive’s legacy. As it is today, when a spectator is walking along the riverbank or the Schuylkill River Trail their view of the river in its entirety is limited. River View aims to address this issue by engaging with the slope of the site across Temple Boathouse located on Kelly Drive. River View is embedded into the hill, offering unique sight lines up and down the river at three cantilevered viewing decks.
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“Boathouse Row” by David Fox
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hrough cantilevering, users have the ability to walk past the tree line where views are unobstructed by the surrounding tree line while watching rowing regattas. Located at a higher elevation over the Schuylkill River provides users the opportunity to see rowers launch out of Temple boathouse and start their races just beyond Strawberry mansion bridge.
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Terraced retaining walls recall the stone of the Schuylkill’s riverbank walls and offer a parallel seating experience at a higher elevation for more expanding views. The form of River View is inspired by the circuitous nature of the Schuylkill river and employs switchbacks to achieve a gradual rise atop the site. The lightness in material for the path embodies the flow of the river and the denser retaining walls tie River View to the site.
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Exploded Axonometric | Site Intervention
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RIGHT TOP Exterior Perspective | Entrance Sequence RIGHT BOTTOM Exterior Perspective | Schuylkill River View
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EVOLVING ENVELOPE Design IV - Spring 2021
“While mourning the number of missed opportunities, we have no reason to abandon a belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better.” –Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
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RIGHT Exterior Perspective| Walking/Bike Path
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trawberry Mansion and AlleghenyWest have been blighted by news reports of violence and drug abuse for years. What many may assume are dangerous areas in North Philadelphia are in reality unique subdivisions with their own rich history, from the Revolutionary War period to the modern era. These neighborhoods hold secrets to the past that enrich these communities’ present and future. Designed in 1905 by Horace Trumbauer, the Strawberry Mansion Music Pavilion was constructed on the site of a simple band platform. The Park’s elaborate trolley system and the opening of the Strawberry Mansion Bridge in 1897 boosted the popularity of many park sites—including this former Music Pavilion.
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The intent of Evolving Envelope is to create a building envelope that encourages user engagement with the Strawberry Mansion Music Pavilion. The design is comprised of a skeletal envelope that is flexible in usage over time while facilitating a variety of different programming. In this way, users dictate how the space is used over its lifetime. One example of how the envelope could facilitate the existing architecture and user engagement is by being used as a green space for the surrounding community. Another, as an art installation with colored light streaming through the envelope openings creating a new experience within the pavilion. The architecture creates an opportunity for flexible design
and allows temporal spaces to be created at any time that would encourage users to experience the pavilion and continue to come back. The North façade remains untouched as to honor the existing historic structure as well as create a dramatic shift as user’s perspectives change while circulating the exterior. The envelope contours to the existing architecture and responds to what is occurring within. There are cutouts and voids in the envelope that provide unique natural daylighting inside and transform the space throughout the day.
RIGHT TOP Interior Perspective I | Community Green Space RIGHT BOTTOM Interior Perspective II | Art Installation
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HARDANGER RETREAT Visualization III - Fall 2020
“While mourning the number of missed opportunities, we have no reason to abandon a belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better.” –Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
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RIGHT Exterior Perspective| Entrance Sequence
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ardanger Retreat, designed and built by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen, is a modest 50 sq ft room captured by its surroundings. Originally built in Norway, the brief of this project was to model the cabin and re-site the design within a Pennsylvania State Park. Choosing to uphold the designers’ vision of Hardanger Retreat being surrounded by lush forest and offering stunning views of its surroundings it is sited on the Erie Bluffs in Northwest Pennsylvania.
The retreat rests on a 50 ft deck, and the encompassing windows extend views within the cabin past the tree lines and out to Erie Lake. Campers encounter the dramatic shift from the dense surrounding forest behind the cabin to the light openness of the lake in front. The minimalism of the interior décor is combatted by the cabin’s curved structure, providing a unique experience both within and outside the retreat. Hardanger does not employ electricity, making it perfect for a true private wilderness camping experience on Erie Bluffs State Park grounds.
Site Plan| Erie Bluffs State Park
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RIGHT TOP Plan RIGHT BOTTOM West Elevation
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Solar Path Entrance Deck Sliding Doors Interior Veneer Wall Finish Interior Plywood Floor Steel Shaft Foundation Milled Dimensional Lumber Siding Custom Window Glazing Recycled Insulation
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Thank you.
nick.rubino@jefferson.edu nrubino22@gmail.com 610.999.9747
