Design Portfolio Robert Joseph Schlorff
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Desert Maze
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Dynamic Wind
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2-Views
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Suspended Divisions
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Spring 2014
Spring 2013
Spring 2014
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Arboretum
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The Cave
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The Foundry
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Reclaimed Gable
Fall 2013
Fall 2014
Fall 2013
Summer 2014
Desert Maze Single Residence/Exploration- american desert ARCH 272- Professor Lawrence Hamlin 4 Week Project Fall 2012 Edward C Earl Prize - Honorable Mention
The concept for my design was to take our limitation of two walls and bend those walls to create several similar but varying spaces. The position of the walls and the route and transition between spaces created a maze. This maze reveals each space in a different way with every space having its own specific relationship with the environment around it.
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Dynamic Wind Single Residence in the midewest- champaign Il ARCH 272- Professor Lawrence Hamlin 5 Week Project Spring 2013
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For this project, located in champaign Illinois, I wanted to create a small but effecient home that i could see myself in. Due to the location I decided to focus primarily on blocking prairie winds while still creating usable outdoor space. All Spaces within the structure are open to a courtyard and completely shielded from the south, west, and east: focusing all attention to the North. The screen wall protecting the courtyard is also a kinetic sculpture using the force of the wind to turn and alter its pieces; this creates a union between the wind and structure creating some visual representation of its protective purpose.
Interior view of lower level living space
Kinetic wind wall built model and detail
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Arboretum Support Facility for The University of Illinois Arboretum- champaign Il ARCH 373- Professor Jefferey Poss 3 Week Project fall 2013
This project was to create a support facility for the University of illinois Arboretum. This facility would need to house public restrooms and changing rooms for different events. My approach to the problem was to attempt to limit my impact on the landscape. Tucked into an exsisting hill and out of the highly sought views my proposal was a wall and shading device which would give the facilities needed without excess.
view iterations looking North East
View of canopy from North East
Wall/canopy iterations
Light study of interior subteranean spaces and different wall finishes
The Cave Outdoor Performance complex and artists retreat at alerton Park- Monticello Il ARCH 373- Professor Jefferey Poss 12 Week Project fall 2013
This project called for a performance center and artists retreat on the grounds of Allerton park in Monticello Illinois. My approach was to design a complex that would blend with the existing landscape. My design does not leave the landscape untouched but rather uses the same visual language of the site to create something new but familiar. Within the artist retreat I focused on making the spaces multi-purpose with built in/pullout furniture and appliances. The idea was to connect this space within the rest of the complex but still provide the artists privacy and space to work.
Performance center Artists Retreat
Original Landscape
Interior View of Artist’s Retreat
Built in Furniture exploration within the artist retreat space
2 Views Mixed -use urban structure- Chicago Il ARCH 374- Professor Altaf Engineer 3 week Project Spring 2014
This project was a short, schematic, look at a mixed use urban structure in Chicago Illinois. The program was to create space for commercial businesses and in my case a public gym near street level and an arrangement of residential units above. The orientation and placement of my residential towers gave them ideal light conditions, shelter from the noise of the L train, and allowed for every unit to have a desirable view of the chicago surroundings. Between the two towers would be a semi-conditioned garden space usable all year long.
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Exterior View from South West corner
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Suspended Divisons Urban Library on Southern Corner of Lincoln Park- Chicago Il ARCH 373- Professor Altaf Engineer 12 Week Project Spring 2014
For this project we were asked to design a public library on the southern corner of Lincoln Park in Chicago. During our site analysis it became clear this could be used for far more than a library and would be a major attraction in this growing prospering area. I wanted to divide and separate the different programs within the building. Each program was given its own space and own unique experience. Each floor differs in use and form. A combination of suspended bricks and translucent glass is used to diffuse harsh light on certain floors and certain areas.
lower level childrens library
Exterior facade screen of suspended glass bricks
The Foundry boutique hotel- 502 N. Neil Street, Champaign, Il ARCH 475- Professor Scott Murray 15 Week Project Fall 2014 Edawrd C Earl Prize - Second Place
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This was a semester long comprehensive design project for a new boutique hotel in downtown champaign Illinois. Light shafts spaced between rooms not only spread light through the floors but act as ventilation stacks for the whole building. The First and second floors connect to the pedestrians on the street through large curtain walls and large folding doors in the restaurant. these doors can be opened in temperate weather to help ventilate the building and push restaurant seating out into the sidewalk like many restaurants in the area do. Terra cotta bars hung over metal panels serve to respect the traditional brick buildings in the area while attempting to update that idea. During the semester we had a series of exercises that focused on Life safety, Structural system, enclosure and energy codes, Environmental Comfort, and Interior Development.
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Public Restrooms
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Kitchen Exercise Room
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Conference facility
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Restaurant Employee Restrooms
Meeting/ Class rooms
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Locker Room Meeting Room
Public Restrooms
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Western Facade Restaurant Doors
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-Cables and counter Weights are used to open the doors
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Fourth- 49’
East West Section 2 0
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Third- 35’
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3D HVAC and Structure Diagram
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Kitchen
Lobby
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Mechanical room
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View of Lobby looking west Metal Flashing over Parapet
Built up Bitumin Layer Roofing
8” of expanded polystyrene insulation
Roof
1/2” rebar embedded in concrete structure
2-1/2” sqare terracotta tubes
Vapor Barrier
4 3/4” expanded polystyrene
5’ x 3’ composite aluminium panels 1’ 2-way concrete roof slab
Aprox. 5.5” Mineral fiber batt insulation between studs
1/2” Exterior sheathing
5-5/8” Steel studs
1/2” Gypsum Board
Aluminium window frame and interior shading
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Triple glazed Low-E coated glass
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tie backs supporting aluminium panels and terracotta tubes 1’ 2-way concrete floor slabs
Metal vertical bracket supporting aluminium panels and terracotta tubes
7” deep horizontal, aluminium curtain wall mulions
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12” deep vertical, aluminium curtain wall mulions
Wall assembly R1/2” Gypsum board aprox 5.5” batt insulation Exterior sheathing waterproof membrane 4 3/4” expanded polystyrene 1” air space 5’ x 3’ aluminium panel
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5” drainage pipe
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Fourth- 49’ 2’4” concrete foundation footing
Gravel below basement slab
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Back of house Restroom
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Reclaimed Gable Competition: Sukkah City STL 2014 Participants: Robert Schlorff, Connor Chelmecki, Will Stauffer Summer 2014
Sukkah City STL 2014: Between Absence and Presence is an innovative art and design competition presented by St. Louis Hillel and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. The competition proposes a re-imagination of the sukkah, an ancient, temporary structure used by nomads and harvesters, and to suggest dynamic possibilities for traditional construction constraints with forward-thinking design and sustainability.
Our approach to this prompt was to blend the sukkah’s form and materials with traditional american vernacular form: specifically the gable roof. Our material choices came from the idea to reuse and recycle many unused items available in our area.
A GENERAL INTERIOR AREA IS ESTABLISHED WITH THE USE OF A RECTALNGULAR PRISM
A GABLE FORM IS SITUATED WITHIN THE RECTANGULAR PRISM
THE GABLE FORM IS ROTATED WITHIN THE RECTANGULAR PRISM
THE GABLE FORM IS TRIMMED AT THE VERTICAL FACES OF THE RECTANGULAR PRISM TO CREATE AN INNOVATIVE GABLE CONSTRUCTION
ONE ROOF PEAK OF THE FORM IS DROPPED IN ORDER TO CREATE A DYNAMIC SHAPE
ONE EDGE OF THE FORM IS EXTENDED OUT TO OBTAIN MORE USABLE INTERIOR SPACE
Night view through Roof PLANTS ARE ARRANGED THROUGHOUT THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR OF THE SOIL BAGS AFTER CONSTRUCTION.
DIMPLES ARE SEWN THROUGH THE SOIL BAGS IN ORDER TO CONSTRAIN THEIR OVERALL WIDTH.
SEWN YARD CLOTH OR CANVAS BAGS ARE FILLED WITH TOP SOIL AND INSEETED INTO THE PALLETS UPON CONSTRUCTION.
THE SOIL BAGS ARE HUNG IN THE INTERIOR OF THE PALLETS WITH WIRE AND OTHER SIMPLE FASTENERS.
THE BAGS ARE DESIGNED TO FILL THE ENTIRE OPEN VOID WITHIN THE PALLETS TO MAKE THEM IMPERMEABLE TO LIGHT.
Each of the pallets will contain planters containing vines that are both visible from the interior and exterior
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