Selected Works 2010_0412

Ross Galloway therossgalloway@gmail.com University of Texas at Austin M.Arch I Candidate 2010

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Selected Works 2010

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Academic Work Glover Park House

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Marfa Live/Work Art Gallery

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Migrant Worker/Thinker

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Pronghorn Tracking Center

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Environmental Dormitory

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Professional Work Microsoft Mid-Atlantic

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Reston Heights East

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425 Eye St.

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Drawings/Sketches Sketchbook: Italy

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Process Work

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Hand Renderings

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Digital Renderings

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contents 3

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Academic Work

Personal University of Texas M.Arch Program University of Maryland BS.Arch Program

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Glover Park House Fall 2008 Personal Project

I have a certain fascination with the townhouse typology that exist in many of the older cores of America’s eastern cities. In a society where everything new that we create comes with a built-in obsolescence, these houses have stood for centuries, often weathering abuse and neglect.

As a design exercise, I searched the neighborhood I was living in for a suitable site to design a speculative townhouse that could incorporate many of the inherently sustainable and functional elements of the type while updating it to a contemporary design language.

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site amenities

building site

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West Elevation

North Elevation

Solar gain is minimal as the broad face of the house faces north. The energy efficiency of house is kept high by maintaining a high degree of solid area on the skin and using Zinc panels and a Prodema panel rain screen system. These materials, while possibly having a higher embodied energy due to fabrication and transportation requirements than more local “green� materials, are extremely durable and will not need to be replaced and thrown out. Ideally, this house will weather as well, or better than its older neighbors.

East Elevation

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2nd floor

The floor plans draw on the basic rowhouse layout type but eschew typical partition walls for an open floor plan in order to increase the perceived size of the house. On the first level, sliding and pivoting glass doors allow ventilation and open the house up to the outside. Natural light, let in from a skylight above the stairs, penetrates through the house and filters down into the basement. Upstairs, bedrooms have 2 sets of windows to maximize airflows and daylighting, and the stairwell skylight is operable to allow heat produced throughout the house to escape as it rises.

1st floor

green roof

basement

zinc panels

prodema rain screen

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view toward living room

view toward dining room

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Marfa Live/Work Art Gallery Fall 2009 Critic- Russell Krepart

This project is a live/work art gallery in Marfa, Texas, in which a portion of the proceeds of sold art go toward grants and micro loans for local residents. Its aim is to create a direct connection between the economic stimulation of Marfa’s art scene and the native residents of Marfa.

Residents would apply for loans or grants, and those chosen would get to choose, or commission, a work by one of the 2 resident artists who live and work on the site. The funds for the loan would be a portion of the revenue generated by the sale of the art.

The program only occupies a portion of the site, in line with an existing concrete ruin. The rest of the site can be sold or developed and leased to raise funds for the gallery. The program is split into 2 parts, the public gallery space and the private residence and work spaces. They are separated

existing site condition

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by a public yard and event space, and the existing concrete structure, which could serve as a work space or exterior display space.

The concrete structure defines a number of parameters for the buildings on the site including their maximum width as well as height. Taller elements on the site draw from the proportions of the existing tower; The gallery skylights are solid copies of it, while the second floor of the residence is an extruded version of it. Appropriate ceiling heights are maintained by excavating into the site. This move, along with the exterior walls, serves to define and ground the space as it exists in a somewhat nondescript and flat landscape.

Materials used are simple. Stucco, concrete, and cor-ten steel. A cor-ten steel wrapper announces the public entry to the gallery space. The gallery space then opens into a rear yard that can be used for a variety of events. The cor-ten steel language of the entry reappears to create and wrap the bar and service area. There is an opportunity to project video or images onto the back wall of the gallery. Past the existing structure is the artists’ residence. It is separated into working and living spaces, both in plan and section, with a sunken private courtyard providing light to the sunken living spaces.

concept diagram

site analysis

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second floor plan

outdoor work space

outdoor work space

private court

studio

private court

studio

C

section C

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event/display space

gallery

event/display space

gallery

A bar

kitchen

mech/elec

office

bar

kitchen

mech/elec

office

B first floor plan

section A

Section B

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gallery space

gallery entrance

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artist residence/workshop

entry to artist residence/workshop

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Migrant Worker/Thinker Fall 2009 Critic- Russell Krepart

Located a on a rural site, a few miles northwest of Fort Davis, Texas, on Limpia Canyon Cattle Ranch this project consists of housing for up to 4 migrant workers or 2 migrant families during calving season at the ranch. When migrant workers are not needed on the ranch, the buildings function as a retreat for “migrant thinkers.”

The site is defined by a large number of cottonwood trees, which were originally spread across the area by early American workers/settlers travelling west to secure a brighter future and fulfill America’s “manifest destiny”. Cottonwoods are often grouped in circular patterns that originate from where seeds fell to the ground from settler’s wagon circles.

conceptual rendering

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conceptual site model

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design studies

The organization of the camp directly references the protective nature of these tree and wagon circles.

Buildings are clustered around a central yard and the integrity of the circle is created by a combination of building and cottonwood.

The buildings themselves are simple concrete boxes that sit off the ground on a wooden deck that both creates social spaces and keeps out critters.

This decking serves as a second, man-made site topography, where furniture and spatial barriers are formed through augmentation of the surface.

kit of parts diagram

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axonometric

floor plan

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view of fire pit

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view of dining space and caretaker residence

The decking and buildings are sliced by vertical planes, which break up massing, separate building function, and provide privacy where required.

The camp is designed to be used similarly by both the migrant worker and the migrant thinkers.

conceptual model

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Pronghorn Tracking Center Fall 2009 Critic- Russell Krepart

This project began with a vague and open-ended program defined simply as “a place for the storing of maps and tracking of objects.� The site is a bluff north of Alpine, Texas which overlooks a large plain of high desert frequented by the threatened pronghorn antelope, which is indigenous to the region. It is an ideal location for tracking the migration patterns of the pronghorn.

The center commands the edge of the bluff, organized around a central tower that houses the scientific functions of the complex and a lower one story bar with temporary and permanent living quarters for the staff.

The tower consists of 2 pieces; The concrete structure and an outer perforated skin of weathered steel that acts as a sunscreen and space defining element. The steel and concrete building materials aim to reflect the rugged nature of the landscape in which the building is set.

I was interested in exploring the creation of space through the combination and overlap of different architectural elements, as well as how a second skin could fold and react to different programmatic conditions. The sunscreen folds and contorts to allow entry, circulation, and views as needed.

conceptual study models

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view of entry

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3rd floor plan

2nd floor plan

1st floor plan

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Environmental Dormitory Spring 2007 Critic- Courtney Miller-Bellairs

“...the average college graduate would flunk even a cursory test on their local ecology, and stripped of technology would quickly founder”

-David Orr The pedagogical intent of this project was to create a “building within the landscape.” The landscape here consisted of a site at the north edge of the University of Maryland, that is bounded on the north by Paint Branch Creek. This creek had been completely cut off from the campus by a fence running along its entire path. By removing this fence and creating a new dormitory and teaching complex that celebrates

early study renderings

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the existing ecosystem, students are re-introduced to a natural world that many have long since given up in favor of television and strip malls.

The arrangement of buildings serves to facilitate interaction and connectivity between the built and natural environment, as well as the student and nature. Large portions of the northern buildings are raised off the ground to allow permeability and for visual and physical axes to form down to the creek. The dining room in the academic building on the site cantilevers out onto the trees, bringing students as close to the creek as possible while maintaining a 100 foot buffer between the buildings and the creek.

Daylighting and energy efficiency were incorporated into the design of the dorm rooms, with operable windows and “light chimneys” used to bring daylight into rooms and allow each room to naturally ventilate without compromising privacy.

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3rd Floor

3rd floor plan

1st floor plan

2nd Floor

2nd floor plan

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south academic elevation

South Academic Elevation

North Academic Elevation

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Residential Elevation

section through dining room

Section A

Section B

View of dining room environmental dorm 31

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Professional Work SmithGroup

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Microsoft Mid-Atlantic Headquarters SmithGroup - 2009

SmithGroup won the commission to complete the interior design and build out of Microsoft’s new 120,000 sf MidAtlantic Headquarters just outside of Washington DC. The project schedule was very aggressive in order to correspond with the expiring lease that Microsoft held for their current space.

I joined the team in January of 2009, near the end of the design development stage of the project, and worked on the

pantry/lounge space under construction

conference room under construction

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project through its substantial completion in July of 2009. I worked on all parts of the project, from design, construction documents, millwork design, finish selection, construction administration, contractor and client meetings, consultant coordination, and quality control and punchlisting. Near the beginning of construction, almost half of the project team was laid off, including the project architect. Working with the project manager and design principle, I picked up many of the responsibilities left vacant by the personnel losses.

I was charged with the design of a number of millwork pieces for the space. The largest of these was a bar/hub piece that would serve as a focal point in the lounge spaces on each floor. Different colored backlit glasses was used as identifying elements for each floor.

photos courtesy of Max Mackenzie

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bar/hub detail

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bar/hub

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Reston Heights East SmithGroup 2007-2008

Reston Heights is a one million sq. ft. mixed use office and retail development in Reston, Virginia. The biggest complications of the project were the developer’s desires to create architecture that works at 2 scales. The scale of the highway needed to be addressed along the north of the site, which backed up to the Dulles Toll Road, a major artery serving Dulles International Airport. On the interior of the site, the project needed to address the human scale and create a destination for retail.

To further constrain the site, suburban parking counts required parking for over 3000 cars. We overcame this problem by utilizing the slope of the site and continuing the ground datum from the west over the service road and onto the green roofs of the retail component.

The office building design reflects both the desire to maximize rentable space and market desirability while trying to create an iconic architecture highly visible to the “river of cars” flowing directly by it. Color became the team’s tool for creating a striking architecture without playing significantly with the building footprint. Different colored glasses and treatments of shadow boxes differentiates the three office towers, but at the end of the conceptual design phase, the appearance of them remains up in the air.

conceptual sketches

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site plan rendered by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

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One of the main tasks that I was charged with was developing an architecture for the retail component of the project. An environmental theme incorporating geological ideas drawn from the landscape design by Nelson Byrd Woltz, and a desire to transition to a sleeker corporate architecture above, created the juxtaposed use of wood, stone gabian wall, and metal panels.

retail elevation

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retail elevation

early massing model

pavilion studies

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full retail elevation

view from highway

office drop-off and retail

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425 Eye St. SmithGroup 2008-2009

425 Eye Street is an existing office building about two blocks from the Convention Center in Washington DC. The client chose SmithGroup to renovate the building, update finishes and mechanical systems, and re-skin the south and east facades.

This was the first project in the Workplace Studio to be completed entirely in Revit. I worked on or assisted with most aspects of the project in one capacity or another. These include conceptual sketching, Revit Model management, bathroom finish selection (the layouts were, for the most part, existing) modelling in Revit, redlines, detailing, elevator cab design, and miscellaneous rendering. I was the main contact on the team for managing and troubleshooting the Revit model I was one of 4 people working on this project. I joined the project team at the beginning of the implementation of Revit.

A preliminary schematic design had been completed in 2006.

Many features of the original schematic package were changed when the project was revisited.

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preliminary lobby rendering

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after professional rendering

elevator cab refinishing studies

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1' - 3 1/2"

1' - 3"

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CONC. PAVERS ON SETTING BED EXISTING CONC. CURB TO BE REMOVED MP-1

VARIES - COORD W/ WINDOW SCHEDULE

NEW SLAB ON GRADE

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COMPACTED GRADE PROTECTION BOARD

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EXIS

curtain wall at grade detail

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3' - 1 1/4" 1' - 9"

WRAP SHEET MEMBRANE FLASHING UNDER ALUM. COPING

MTL PANEL COPING LAP 2" MIN.

SLOPE

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T.O. PARAPET

CONT. CLEAT SHEATHING STL. CHANNEL. SEE STRUC.

MEMBRANE FLASHING

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3' - 6"

ALUM. CURTAINWALL SYSTEM

CANT PT WD BLOCKING

6" METAL STUDS W/ 1/2" EXTERIOR SHEATING ON BOTH SIDES

PREFORMED ALUM. SILL

ROOFING OVER TAPERED INSULATION

ALUM. INFILL PANEL - PTD

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ROOF 125' - 6" ALUM. INFILL PANEL - PTD

2' - 4 1/2"

BOND BEAM. SEE STRUC.

EXIST. CONC. SLAB

INS-1

3-5/8" METAL STUD W/ 5/8" GWB W/ INS-1

2' - 6"

INS-3

L SUPPORT AND KICKERS SEE STRUC. STL. ANGLE SEE STRUC. ALUM.CLOSURE PANEL BY WINDOW SUPPLIER

PREFORMED ALUM. BLIND POCKET

REBAR. SEE STRUC.

column cladding detail

CMU ALUM. SILL EXTENSION BELOW

INS-1

E.O. CMU WALL BELOW

5/8" GWB ON 3-5/8" MTL STUDS W/ SEMI-RIGID FOIL FACED INSULATION.

1ST FLOOR 46' - 6"

WW-1

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MP-1

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NEW CONC. SLAB OVER INS-5

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5/8" GWB ON 2 1/2" METAL STUDS

AIR/WATER BARRIER

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1' - 0"

ST. CONC. SLAB AND FOUNDATION WALL

SEAL ALL AIR BARRIER PENETRATIONS 1' - 6"

1' - 6"

FRAMING AS REQUIRED TO SUPPORT METAL PANEL

curtain wall detail

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Drawings,Sketches,etc.

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Sketchbook: Italy

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These sketches and studies were completed in Florence, Rome, Vicenza, Venice, and Como on a 6 week trip during the summer of 2006.

Emphasis was placed on the use of sketching to better understand and diagram the experiences of spaces and buildings.

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Process Sketches

windmill sketches for prongorn tracking center - 2009 academic

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sketches for a mixed-use apartment building in Baltimore - 2006 academic

process sketches 53

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migrant worker/thinker sketches - 2009 academic

sketches for a civic building - 2006 academic

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Hand Rendering

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hand rendering 57

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hand rendering 59

Digital Rendering

ipods

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apartment building

sunlit room

digital rendering 61

conceptual building hybrid render and line

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digital rendering 63

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