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University of South Florida School of Architecture and Community Design Advanced Design Portfolio Robert Rubley
Robert M. Rubley 1462 S. Hillcrest Ave. Clearwater, FL 727.239.2374 rubleyr@mail.usf.edu
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Port of Tampa Addition: Design Development Tampa, Florida.......................................................9
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Holzmarkt Theatre: Analyzing Claude Debussy Berlin, Germany..................................................37 A Museum for Amalgamated Art: Logan Center Extension Chicago, Illinois.................................53 Depoliticizing Verticality: Localizing Legacies London, United Kingdom......................................73 St. Armand’s Residence: Tropical Architecture Sarasota, Florida................................................101 Reimagining a City: Centro Havana Havana, Cuba.....................................................................129
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Design Development
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Located on south Westshore Boulevard, the original incarnation of the Port Tampa City Library opened in 1926. Georgian white Italian marble was imported and used to construct the historical facade of this Neo-classical structure. The building sat vacant until February 1993, when the Port Tampa City Women’s Club began raising funds to turn it into the Port Tampa City Library.
Working with such a monolithic structure calls for strategic design decisions. Preservation of the existing is imperitive. The proportions of the Neo-classical structure are used to mass out the addition. The same dimensions are used to create an effect of a floating extension and to provide intimate reading spaces connected to the urban setting.
Port of Tampa Addition: Core Design III Professor Mark Weston, Design Development Professor John Mckenna Summer Semester 15 weeks
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PROGRAM - Housing the public program in the center of the construct is a double height atrium lobby. The private functions are pushed towards the perimeter of the building away from the public for sound consideration.The public to private organization is conceived through precedent; studying how program can transform and effectively change the way a building works. Through site analysis it was discovered that more than eighty percent of the people visiting the existing building are children. To accomodate that demographic, the main focal point of the building is the children’s library and play area.
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Site Photographs
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Site Analysis
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Site Plan
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East and West Cross Sections
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East and West Elevations
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North and South Cross Sections
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North and South Elevations
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Structural Axonometric
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Exploded Cladding Axonometric
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Vertical Fin System
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Detail Drawings
VERTICAL FINS - A vertical fin system is implemented to strengthen the experience of the private reading spaces. Thirty aluminum blades are suspended outside of the curtain wall system connected by horiztonal, hollow tubing. This system broke up the opaque envelope of the PT+ extension. Also, this window will provide an intimate vantage point of the neighborhoods context. An elevated sense of height is apparent while reading in the silent nooks. 1. Mullion Curtain Wall 2. Glass 3. Floor Finish 4. Floor Support 5. Floor 6. Insulation 7. Opaque Glass 8. Suspended Ceiling 9. PVC piping 10. Aluminum Blade 11. Metal Clips 12. Blade Attachment System
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Detail Drawings
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Curtain Wall System
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HVAC System
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HVAC SYSTEM - A heating, ventilation and air conditioning system is implemented for the PT+ addition. The HVAC room is located in the south end of the building and branches a supply and return to the floors above in a U shaped branch.
1. Trane Condensor Air Conditioner 2. DX Split Air Handling Unit 3. Variable Air Volume Box 4. Return Diffuser 5. Supply Diffuser
Zoning Diagrams
In order to enhance the comfortability in the building, thermostat based zoning is installed. Many factors can change the temperature in the building, such as wind chill, solar heat and shading. Zoning solves these problems by allowing each zones’ thermostat to make the demand.
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Plumbing System
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Plumbing Diagrams
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On the east side of the PT+ addition is the plumbing and water piping aparatus. Water comes in from the city line and is carried on to the top of the existing building. It is then heated by solar panels and carried back down into a water filteration sytem to become potable. Rain water harvesting is also used, and is located on the east side of the building as well.
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This part of the river Spree was the boundary between East and West Berlin during the years of the Berlin Wall. As a result, this area became an undeveloped ‘no man’s land’. Since the wall was demolished after unification in 1989 the area has developed slowly with a number of large new corporate buildings further to the east. In recent years the ‘Holzmarkt’ site, which sits between the river and a railway line, has been occupied by a co-operative. They have erected a number of low cost temporary buildings and structures and use the site as a place for young Berliners to enjoy the
Holzmarkt Theatre: Professor Stanley Russell Fall 2015 7 weeks
river, eat and drink and hold cultural events and parties. The co-operative have recently won a bid for the development of the site with the support of a Swiss sustainable pension fund. On the opposite bank of the river is the ‘Eisfabrik” a 19th ice-making factory and a squatters’ campsite. The Holzmarkt is the center of the neighborhood – physically and spiritually, the market, creative village, club and restaurant invite, surprise, inspire and entertain. Artists, artisans, musicians and hedonists create with and for each other.
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Site Context
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Process Diagram
PROCESS - When begining the project, a piece of classical music was used as a generative device. Claude Debussy’s Reflections in the Water was the selected work. A series of diagrammatic tonal studies followed to derive a conceptual theme to continue the process. The outcome led me to a structural pattern with a strong hierarchial gesture that would merge in to the latter stages of development.
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Cross Section Perspective
There are two stages, one in the structure (b), and one floating (a). However, when the floating portion is docked, the land construct houses the floating stage and creates a grand venue, unifying the construct that offers elevated vantage points from 360 degrees. It is also important to consider how the space would be imagined when the theatre is not docked. The building emphasizes important sight lines, which create a transparent assembly. This grants the view through the cafe onto the stage from outside the promenade.
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Exterior Perspective
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Cross Sections
CONCEPT - The conceptual driver for this project is interchangeability through transparency. The key is to contrast between temporary and permanence and show reciprocation between the inhabitant and the river. An extended dock is used as a way finding to navigate the gathering spaces as well as a space that creates unique perspectives upon entering the lobby. The platform then guides the public out to the water before entering the floating stage The approach to the venue is just as important. The terraced, sculpted ground becomes a versatile platform with incremental partitions for the local artisan, musician or painter. The idea behind this is to give back to the community while providing a public venue for local mixed arts performances (i.e. plays, poetry, comedy, etc.).
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Final Model
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Context Map
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The site for the Museum of Amalgamated Art is located in Near North Side Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago River and Lake Michigan form three edges of the Near North Side. To its east is Lake Michigan, and its northern boundary is the 19th-century city limit of Chicago, North Avenue. The different uses that Chicagoans made of these bodies of water divided the Near North into an expensive residential strip in the east and an industrial, low-income area in the west. A residential and commercial corridor grew up around Clark Street, serving as a
buffer between the two. In the 1950s, the city turned to urban renewal. It cleared and sold the central strip between Clark and LaSalle Streets to developer Arthur Rubloff for Sandburg Village. Rubloff also spearheaded the revitalization of North Michigan Avenue under the banner of “The Magnificent Mile.� The success of these developments spurred the erection of more high-rise apartments and new investment in the Near North Side. In the 1980s, the River North area became a center for art galleries.
Museum of Amalgamated Art: Professor Mark Weston Spring 2015 7 weeks
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Process Massing Model
The Museum of Amalgamated Arts’ project criteria called for a strict program. The construct would be used as an extension for the Logan Art Center located at 915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637. Within the building, there are to be carefully designed spaces for a selected seven pieces of art from the Logan gallery. In addition, each designer would select one piece of largescale artwork as a focal point for an expansive space in the building. The function of the building would be similar to the Logan’s, housing spaces for instructional uses, gallery observations, and curator studio dwellings.
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Draft Model
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The Museum of Amalgamated Art’s project criteria called for a strict program. The construct would be used as an extension for the Logan Art Center loCONCEPT -cated The initial approach at 915 E 60th St, to organizing the buildings proChicago, IL 60637.Within grammatic needs was to divide the building, are to be the buildingcarefully into manageable, designed spaces yet functional The7parti forsections. a selected pieces of model that Art wasfrom derived the galthe in Logan early stageslery. of In schematic addition, deeach design helpedsigner work out a cohesive would select one program envelope. ‘leg’ artpiece of Two large-scale like structures areasholding a work a focaluppoint for monolithic mass. Each ‘leg’focal will point an expansive house a separate gallery, The the funcin the building. students gallery thebuilding Logan’swould tion and of the extension. The concept be similar to behind the Logan’s, the situationhousing of these spaces masses isfor inthat the work produceduses, by thegallery structional students and artists were and ‘hold-curator observations, ing up’ thestudio educational mass dwellings. by these two ‘stilts’ or ‘legs’, implying that without a space to house the work, there wouldn’t be any studios.
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The initial approach to organizing the buildings programmatic needs was to divide the building into manageable, yet functional sections. The parti model that was derived in the early stages of schematic design helped work out a cohesive program envelope. Two ‘leg’ like structures are holding up a monolithic mass. Each ‘leg’ would house a separate gallery, the students gallery and the Logan’s extension. The concept behind the situation of these masses was that the work produced by the students and artists where ‘holding up’ the educational mass by these two ‘stilts’ or ‘legs’, implying that with out a space to house the work, there wouldn’t be any studios. The intent when considering design decisions was to re-think the buildings orientation, divert from near north side’s repetitive grid and grant the building with site lines parallel to Chicago’s main transportation line, the L. The ‘L’ would go on to influence the corresponding façade. The façade would be a light translucent material giving the opportunity to project artwork on to the interior side of the façade visible from the outside. This would allow local commuters and passersby to get a glimpse of the illuminated façade showcasing silhouettes of the gallery’s artwork in attempts to draw the inhabitant inside.
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Selected Art Works
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Interior Perspective
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Program Diagram
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The Royal Docks is an area and a ward in the London Borough of Newham in the London Docklands in East London. The area is named after three docks, the Royal Albert Dock, the Royal Victoria Dock and the King George V Dock. The three docks were completed between 1855 and 1921 on riverside marshes in East Ham and West Ham. Because of their distance and remoteness from central London and poor transport links, the redevelopment of London’s docklands has proceeded more slowly in the Royals than in the other former docks. Thousands of new homes were built at Beckton, just north of the Roayl Docks. A search began seeking
Depoliticizing Verticality: Professor Josue Robles Fall 2016 15 weeks
programmatic opportunities and challenges working with different interest groups in the area. This is a housing project that addresses the “poor door” condition that is affecting many big cities, including NY, Chicago and London. The challenge was made to house users from different economical groups without creating friction, but generating a creative spatial solution that is fair and desirable. We delved in to constructing analytical assemblages conveying relationships of market rate housing, attainable housing, and third space. These were used as a catalyst to begin the process development.
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Using an architectural language a synthesis of urban regeneration began by using third space. This third space in urban and community design is the social surroundings separate from the two usual social enviroments of home ‘first place’ and the workplace ‘second place’. These third places are ‘anchors’ of community life and facilitate and foster broader, more creative interaction.
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CONCEPTUAL SECTIONS - A series of crafted character section drawings were done to illustrate the architectural character of the design. Main programmatic components were issued throughout the building’s section. Then, ideas that were retrieved from the summerLab were included to help influence design decisions. Public, residential, market rate, third spaces and streetscapes were revealed through illustrations showing the interrelationship between programmatic components.
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PROGRAM - This project is about creating a public promenade unifying the residential building structures and allowing public garden spaces to create gatherings on both large and small scales. The intent is to create an urban thoroughfare that changes in programmatic function as its directionality moves towards the water of the Royal Docks. Starting before the units, a sprawling hardscape intended for performance and terraced gardening observation, will cater to the public passersby. This space is much more public and more fitting to people not living in the units. After passing under the building, a series of whimsical internal courtyards will be offered for the playful residents. As an extension of the public realm, floating glass cubes are ordered in the center of the lobby’s atrium space. These ‘stair stepped’ communal garden spaces will merge the classes in a unique way. The market rate housing will be situated with views towards the water and the affordable units will be arranged facing the city. Sandwiched between these flats is the ‘gel’ between the classes, floating cubic communal volumes.
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Our goal was to create an interdependent framework of new sustainable resources and infrastructure within the ruins of Centro Havana. We also wanted to generate a new social unit and socioeconomic platform to provide alternatives for a better way of living for the people of the community - the courtyard. The rooms in the courtyard homes are interconnected with one another; residents must pass through one room in order to get to the next, forcing social interactions within the resi
dents of the home. This idea was transposed onto the urban context, proposing the nodes to be interdependent of one another and all of them comprising of a green space park – the courtyard. We also wanted to incorporate a mass transit and to convert some transit streets into Eco routes – pedestrian paths – that connect Centro Havana with its surrounding neighborhoods and by creating communities that educate the community and its visitors. Also, to reduce crime, there are assigned walls for freedom of expression.
Reimagining a City: Professor Jan Wampler Spring 2016 16 weeks Group: Veronica Garcia, Olga Lombana, Robert Rubley
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The terrible living conditions were the most shocking aspect of Havana. The idea of introducing and creating a new ‘home’ for the people was the initial driver for the project. A detail study of a specific feature of Havana, the courtyard homes, was done in order to understand the function and the connection between each space in the home. The reality of the people of Havana is lamentable. The people have been oppressed and have been living in terrible conditions for many years. It is our responsibility as architects to create better alternatives that introduce a new and more suitable way for living.
“We know what the threats and challenges are, and what we need to do is create architecture than manages to transform and adapt.” –Arturo Bada Gonzalez [Cuban Architect]
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CONSTRUCTION - One of the challenges when working with such a large, expansive site was how to address the existing buildings. Our approach involved a technique that was considerate of the ordered grid of Havana. Three separate construction methods were used. We wanted to delicately intervene within the existing facades, as well as construct on top of the roofs and carve away, preserving as much of the building as possible. These methods, in theory, would begin a process of redevelopment, without wiping out such a richly historic city. 112
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CULTURAL CENTER - When carving away at the existing building blocks, we needed to give the people of Cuba a place to learn about where they came from, where they are now, and where they are going. A cultural center along the main strip of Galeono was implemented as the solution. This cultural center would offer a place for gathering, dance, and education. Artisans would be able to bring their goods and offer commerce for the local tourists. 114
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ECO ROUTE - A pedestrian network was implemented throughout the site of our neighborhood. Three roads were re-thought to provide a green path, called an eco route. These eco routes would offer pocket courtyards off of the main path giving the people a sense of pause in their every day living. These paths would be flooded with green vegetation, colorful flowers, and places to implement sustainable growing. A source for growing food will be one of the key components to a sound sustainable design.
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ELEVATION - A series of elevation collage studies were done to help resolve issues of materiality and space. Through these exercises we wanted to convey our ideas on our construction method techniques. For the low density model, preserving the existing facade was crucial. Sun shading devices were used to give an intimate setting upon entering the public spaces. A suspended pathway bridges the gap between the old and new, programmed with reading stacks to cater to the intervention’s function.
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LANDMASS MARINA - Protection and preservation of the beautiful Malecon coast line was imperative. A landmass extends outwards to cradle the precious edge. This marina then creates two separate harbors, one for docking of residential house boats as well as swimming. Energy production was also implemented. Along the edge of the marina are wind turbines, taking advantage of the harsh offshore winds. Also, tidal energy is collected by the structure holding up the land mass. 124
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Overtime, architecture throughout the United States took on a distinctly modern look, showcasing optimism for a new era of peace and prosperity. New ideas of space, form, and technology were influenced by the European international style, as well as by the organic modern architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. In Sarasota, Florida these modern influences were adapted to fit our semi-tropical environment through the use of wide roof overhangs for shading. Thin structural lines, large expanses
St. Armand’s Residence: Professor Michael Halflants Summer 2015 10 weeks
of glass were used to ease the transition between indoors and outdoors. Site placement was used to take advantage of prevailing winds. A sound passive cooling strategy was paramount for this residential project. Using this strategy, the inhabitants of the home will fully benefit from Florida’s subtropical climate. Efforts were made to satisfy the senses and limit the need for conditioning while encouraging the use of outdoor spaces.
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PARTI - A programmatic massing exercise was done to solve program relationships and address wind considerations. The rectangular mass was bisected and rotated ninety degrees, creating a conditioned space in the back and a non-conditioned space in the front. In plan, the conditioned spaces were compressed towards the center of the construct. This allowed for bedrooms with breezeway balconies along the perimeter. 130
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APPROACH - A modular scheme was taken for the spatial layout of St. Armand’s residence. Glass curtain walls were used to define the edge and corner upon entry. Horizontal sun shading louver systems were used to provide a unique office setting. The balconies to each bedroom were carefully placed along the edge of each construct. This would create a social connection between each of the family members, while still maintaining their respected privacy. A visual connection from the kitchen and living space to the outdoor terrace was important. The approach to the back yard and dining space offers a terraced level inclining as you make your way to the outdoor pool.
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1. Garage + Laundry 2. Entrance Foyer 3. Kitchen 4. Dining 5. Living Room 6. Reading Space 7. Patio 8. Elevated Patio 9. Personal Library 10. Office 11. Loft
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