Philip Roberson Design Portfolio

1PHILIP ROBERSON ////// PORTFOLIO

2Proficient: Adobe Creative Suite Sketchup Rhinoceros VrayIntermediate: AutoCAD 3ds Max Revit Maya Grasshopper

Master of Architecture + Certificate in Historic Preservation University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA May 2015 Bachelor of Science in Architecture Cum Laude Portland State University August 2011 GPA: 3.74

Intern: Lazor Design Philadelphia, PA June - August 2013 + June - August 2014Extended Stay Hotel Design: Suite Layout Surveying VisualizationMulti Family Housing - Historic Church / Loft Conversion: CD Redlines High End Single Family Residence: Visualization Custom Stair Design Built-In Design

Intern: THA Architecture Portland, OR March - August 2012Competition Preparation: Physical Model production Board Layouts Site Analysis Construction Document and Pricing Set Production: SD and DD PhasesMaterial Research: Coordinating On-site Material Mock-Ups Anti-GraffitiTestingHigher Education Design: 3D Modeling Facade Development Visualization

Intern: William C. Tripp Architect Portland, OR June - August 2011Urban Design: Visualization Space PlanningIterative Site Model Construction: Infrastructure Planning Multiple Massing Options

- Recipient of the PennDesign Deans Diversity Scholarship 2012 -2015- Student work featured in Pressing Matters 2: Selected works from the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design- Student work featured in Pressing Matters 3: Selected works from the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design- Fall 2012 Studio Work featured in the Green Urban Glocal Architecture and Design Exhibition at the AIA Philadelphia

Brennan Buck Architect + Professor (347) 263 8476 [email protected] Peter Lazor Architect + Mentor (215) 646 5546 [email protected] Annette Fierro Architect + Professor (215) 898 5728 [email protected]

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Student Housing at Gallaudet University

Stitching Walls

Scrubway

Fissure Theater

Fabric + Figure

Stressed Skin

Grasso Residence

Chestnut Street Hotel

PCC Cascade Campus

ARCH 601 University of Pennsylvania Fall 2013

ARCH 401 Portland State University Spring 2011

ARCH 602 University of Pennsylvania Spring 2014



Professional Lazor Design August 2014

Professional Lazor Design August 2013

Professional THA Architecture August 2012

ARCH 702 University of Pennsylvania Spring 2015

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4Gallaudet Student Housing In order to accommodate Gallaudets deaf student body, this new housing typology deploys a continuous ribbon of shared space in support of sign language communication. Removing communicative impediments (such as manual doors, stairs and unnecessary partitions) allows students to engage one another and interact with the neighboring community at the Union Market Restaurants.

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Typical Housing Unit: Compartmentalized

Continuous Ribbon: Disbursed + Shared Program

Wrapping Material: Visual / Tactile Way Finding

Rotated Volumes: Support Visual Communication

Massing Model

Communicative Interruptions

7Rotated Volumes: Support Visual Communication

Cross Section: Gallaudets Porous Urban Edge

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8Dorm Room

Elevational Perspective

9Shared Space (Visual Connection)


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Section A

Stitching Walls/////////////////////////////////////A new material library wall becomes a veil through which material production, education and exhibition are all connected to the urban community. Strategic placement between the new stormwater treatment park and Portland State Universitys architecture building allows the landscape to remain paramount while activating the library as a suture in between the two previsouly disjoined buildings.

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Figure 1

Each stitching wall takes on

a unique appearance par-

ticular to its contents. the

material library wall demon-

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zational scheme to contain

rectilinear material samples

while the growing walls form

responds to its organic con-

tents by becoming a fluid, vertical, landscape feature.

a cut sheet and assembly

diagram were devised to

explore potential methods of

fabricating the growing wall.

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Drop Into Place Pin Connection (2x) Fold Arm Fold Second Arm Place Second Sheet Pin Connection Repeat

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Burlap Backing

Plant Material

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Upper Level Seating / Lateral Support

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Drop Into Place Pin Connection (2x) Fold Arm Fold Second Arm Place Second Sheet Pin Connection Repeat


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S c r u b w a yThe urban ecological condition is in need of assistance through a recalibration of architectures potential. Rather than just acting as a programmed container, it can become infrastructure. Utilizing the subway tunnels and the piston effect generated by passing trains, Scrubway directs polluted air through three planted treatment terraces and four large biological treatment chambers before returning the cleaned air to the subway platform and city beyond.

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Project in Collaboration with Brian McVeigh

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The urban ecological condition today is in need of assistance thorough a re-calibration of architectures potential as more than a programmat-ic container, but a piece of infrastructure. Our health and that of our planet are in severe disrepair. Architecture, which is a leading cause of environmental degradation, must shift its focus away from the current preoccupation with mere architectural form and programmatic poten-tials and begin to engage with site in a more dynamic and potentially.way.SubScrub attempts to answer this question of architectures future po-tential by reimaging the ubiquitous nature of the living wall. The pri-oritization of air treatment over typical program allowed us to create a large scale and ecologically rich response to the specific nature of the site. Subway air has been found to contain harmful amounts of heavy metals, CO2, CO, and particulate matter. Utilizing the subway tunnels and the piston effect created by incoming trains, SubScrub directs pol-luted air through three biological treatment terraces and four large biological treatment chambers before returning the cleaned air to the subway platform. This clean air is forced through the subway platform providing clean air for subway riders. After mixing with dirty subway air it is then recirculated at the end of the platform through the systemThis system has the capability of handling large volumes of air and during off peak and night hours can be coupled with neighboring buildings HVAC systems, enabling a clean air economy.With the potential deployment of this system and its variants across ur-ban fabric, SubScrub has the capability of replacing obsolete mechan-ical systems while addressing public health at an urban scale; some-thing often consider as out of the realm of architecture.

MORNING PEAK HOURSDELIVERY TO SUBWAYSALL CHAMBERS ACTIVE

NONPEAK HOURSDELIVERY TO SURROUNDINGBUILDINGS

EVENING PEAK HOURSDELIVERY TO SUBWAYS

LATE NIGHTSYSTEM FLUSHED WITH SURFACEAIR TO RELIEVE PLANTS

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UNDERBELLYUNDERGROUND LIGHTING WATER COLLECTION

UNDERSIDEDRAINAGE ANDSKYLIGHT TRAY

NOSTRILSAIR INTAKE ANDFILTRATION

APERTURESWATER INTAKE ANDAIR COLLECTION

NEUTRALAIR COLLECTION SOLAR:INCREASED SURFACE AREAFOR PHOTOCATALYTIC PANELS

SOLAR:INTERIOR LIVING WALL

WATER COLLECTION

H20 FROM PHOTOCATALYTIC SUR-

WATER COLLECTION SOLAR ACCESS + SURFACE AREA

AIR INTAKE WARM AIR FROM

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6.LARGE BIOLOGY TREATMENT WALLS7.TERRACED TREATMENT WEDGES8.PUBLIC STEPS TO ROOF TOP LOUNGE9.PLANT RESEARCH LABS10.RESTROOMS11.THEATRE

1.PERFORATED SKIN WRAP2.CLERESTORY WINDOWS3.EAST WINDOW WALL4.DROP CHAMBERS5.TERRACED ROOF WEDGES

13.SUBTERRANEAN LEVEL14.SUBWAY ENTRANCE AT WEST15.MAIN FLEXIBLE EVENT SPACE16.NE ENTRY TO THEATRE LEVEL17.OBSERVATION DECK TO TREATMENT CHAMBER

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OPERATIONS AND CIRCULATION LEVEL 2 PLAN1/8 = 1-0

SUBTERRANEAN PLAN1/8 = 1-0

PROGRAM CAPACITY

AIR TREATMENT AND DELIVERY SCHEDULE

PRELIMINARY WALL ASSEMBLY

SURFACE FOLD STUDIES STUDY MODEL

SKIN ARTICULATION STUDY + SECTIONS

TREATMENT CAVITY

PERSPECTIVE SECTION B THROUGH TREATMENT CHAMBERS AND EAST FLEX BAR

The urban ecological condition today is in need of assistance thorough a re-calibration of architectures potential as more than a programmat-ic container, but a piece of infrastructure. Our health and that of our planet are in severe disrepair. Architecture, which is a leading cause of environmental degradation, must shift its focus away from the current preoccupation with mere architectural form and programmatic poten-tials and begin to engage with site in a more dynamic and potentially.way.SubScrub attempts to answer this question of architectures future po-tential by reimaging the ubiquitous nature of the living wall. The pri-oritization of air treatment over typical program allowed us to create a large scale and ecologically rich response to the specific nature of the site. Subway air has been found to contain harmful amounts of heavy metals, CO2, CO, and particulate matter. Utilizing the subway tunnels and the piston effect created by incoming trains, SubScrub directs pol-luted air through three biological treatment terraces and four large biological treatment chambers before returning the cleaned air to the subway platform. This clean air is forced through the subway platform providing clean air for subway riders. After mixing with dirty subway air it is then recirculated at the end of the platform through the systemThis system has the capability of handling large volumes of air and during off peak and night hours can be coupled with neighboring buildings HVAC systems, enabling a clean air economy.With the potential deployment of this system and its variants across ur-ban fabric, SubScrub has the capability of replacing obsolete mechan-ical systems while addressing public health at an urban scale; some-thing often consider as out of the realm of architecture.

MORNING PEAK HOURSDELIVERY TO SUBWAYSALL CHAMBERS ACTIVE

NONPEAK HOURSDELIVERY TO SURROUNDINGBUILDINGS

EVENING PEAK HOURSDELIVERY TO SUBWAYS

LATE NIGHTSYSTEM FLUSHED WITH SURFACEAIR TO RELIEVE PLANTS

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Level 2 PlanSubterranean Plan

Air Treatment Wall Assembly

The prioritization of air treatment over typical program allowed us to create a large scale and ecologically rich response to the public transit oriented site. Subway air has been found to contain harmful amounts of heavy metals, CO2, CO, and particulate matter. Using the piston effect generated by passing subway cars, polluted air is forced through a series of layered growing walls. The air cleaning vegetation removes pollutants passively on the interior of the structure while photo-catalytic surfaces clean air on the exterior. Innocuous salts and water are generated as by products from the photo-catalytic process, providing a crucial water source for the vast plantings.

Spring 2014 //// Philip Roberson in Collaboration with Brian McVeigh

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Fissure TheaterThe performance halls design principles are rooted in the study of two furniture pieces: the Noguchi and Reis tables. Each of these crafted pieces of furniture provided operative terms based on rotation, secondary rotation and folding which were carried through the design. The resultant space offers a range of intense exposure and extreme privacy through a modulated envelope.

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Reis and Noguchi Tables: Folding / Rotation Patterns

Surface Plan 1

Light Study 1

Fenestration Study 1

Surface Plan 2

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Fenestration Study 2

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Designed as an aggregation of inflated wall panels, the Fissure Theater rotates and flexes to create public space internally and externally. A primary study of chorus line dancers provided the guiding relationships and kinetic patterns for spatial development.


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Fabric + FigureAtmospheric testing is a growing field of research which simulates air quality on behalf of the urban population. As a public amenity relating to Mexico Citys Bosque Del Chapultepec Park, the research facility and grand simulation labs are flanked by a lush plaza, punctuacted with vegetated atria and dissolved at ground level with program aimed to generate public interest.

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Site Section: Rendered Linework

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Precedent Study in Plan

The projects architectural language was discovered in an analysis of Charles Vs Palace in Grenada; one of Robert Venturis Complexity and Contradiction precedents. A succession of independent layers gives way to an interrupting circular void, establishing hierarchy and spatial distinction. The process was abstracted and intensified to create an extruded grid juxtaposed against a fluid, geometric solid from which the grid is subtracted. The continuous fabric provided a spatial type suitable for open plan research while the figural counterpoint was deployed as simulation and adjacent mechanical space.

Precedent Plan Figural + Scalar Interruptions:Circle vs Square

Figure Re-inserted with Inverted Grid Pattern

Implied Secondary Figure

Solid vs Void Inversely Patterned FigureOriginal Image; Charles Vs Palace in Granada, Pedro Machuca


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Ground Level Plan: Porous and Public Second Level Plan: Continuous Research Level

Site Section

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Second Level Plan: Continuous Research Level


Open Plan Office with Planted Atrium

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Stressed SkinThis project is a study in two opposing forces; active solids and a containing envelope. Objects within the tensile fabric translate and rotate, providing variable spatial formations and fluctuating glimpses into the culture park within. As a new type of kinetic architecture, the volumes in motion create high levels of visual interference through layered fabric and a striated paneling system.

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Contraction and Expansion Study Model

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In order to heighten the sense of transformation, unique conditions are developed for the open and closed positions. The prototype begins as a monolithic cube but pivots open to reveal a striated series of triangular solids and voids. Reflective surfaces, transparency and moire patterning emerge as material characteristics in the generative model. An index was used to catalog volumetric formations of the subdivided cube within a non-colliding range of motion. The plan demonstrates the kinetic architecture which expands and contracts to accommodate performance oriented program in the culture

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Index of Volume and Skin Formations (Left)Plan at Upper Entry Level (Below)

Concept Model (Position A) Concept Model (Position B)

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Material Studies: Detail


Tectonic Section Model

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Aerial Exterior View


Flexible Performance Space

Promenade Facing Downtown Montreal

View From the Saint Lawrence River

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Grasso Residence3D modeling was used to test material, interior massing and furniture options for a high-end single family residence in Northern Liberties. Significant interior features, such as a blackened steel hearth and a custom staircase, were iteratively rendered and presented to the client to carry the design into the CD phase. My role in the project was to aid the principal in the design of interior spaces, present material options and manage furniture layouts while preparing the 3D file for client presentations and animation.

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Work Produced at Lazor Design August 2014

Iterative Staircase Renderings

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Master Bedroom

Master Bath

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An office tower constructed in 1922 served as the site for an extended stay hotel in the heart of center city Philadelphia. The renovation project would introduce updated retail space and a new lobby at the ground level with 36 rooms above. Primary tasks for this project included surveying, orthographic drafting, interior layouts and rendering production for approval with the Philadelphia Historical Commission.

Work Produced at Lazor Design August 2013

South and East Elevations

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One Bedroom #2787 Gross sq ft663 Net sq ft

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One Bedroom #1787 Gross sq ft663 Net sq ft

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Studio #1442 Gross sq ft355 Net sq ft





Penthouse #11882 Gross sq ft1348 Net sq ft




Penthouse #11882 Gross sq ft1348 Net sq ft


Plan Options for Client Meeting

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The new Student Center and Academic Building at Portland Community College continue the Cascade Campuss progression to the west with a new outdoor plaza along the existing mall. The buildings have an east-west orientation to maximize solar control and encourage natural ventilation strategies. 3D modeling was used to test material, daylighting strategies and facade composition. My specific role in the project was managing the Sketchup model of the new academic building to reflect design changes made during the Schematic and design development phases. The images produced were then released for community engagement and served as discussion points for client meetings. Additional tasks included the management of on site material mockups, coordination with material vendors and pricing set production.

Work Produced with THA Architecture August 2012

Site Plan Diagram

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Masonry Color Studies


Masonry Color Studies North Facade StudyRenderings produced with Shawn Glad at THA

South Facade and Plaza

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