R. Cox Portfolio 2012

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ROBERT A. COXM.ARCH. COLUMBIA GSAPP

01HOUSING

Site Section

Enlarged Unit Drawing

Level Four Plan

0’ 2’ 6’ 14’ 28’

-10’ DOWNUP

THE CITIZEN-CONSUMER

Two roles, among many, dominate an urban life: that of consumer and citizen. We live in communities ofneighbors and of commerce, as social life and commercial life intertwine. These apartments, sitting atop an existing big-box grocery store, incorporate and reflect the benefits of commerce through focu sed attention to a central market and the ability of residents to gain income from billboard-like screens sur-rounding the building. But residents are also encouraged to interact with neighbors as they fill the terraces overlookign this central market, utilizing this screen as it transforms inside into a flexible framework for courtyard life.

Inside the apartments, residents can transition between two experiences of the city: the glowing, electronic striations of their billboard, or the light and plant-filled terrace of their courtyard.

02LIBRARY

Silence and personal space arecommodities in the city. Librariesare publice places that provide thiscommodity. As patrons ascend fromthe noisy, open street leve, they arefurther and further contained andenclosed by the growing, thickeningwalls that in turn become shelves,seating, and private reading spaces.

Silence and personal space arecommodities in the city. Librariesare publice places that provide thiscommodity. As patrons ascend fromthe noisy, open street leve, they arefurther and further contained andenclosed by the growing, thickeningwalls that in turn become shelves,seating, and private reading spaces.

ENCLOSING PLANES

The increasing thickness of the walls eventually results in a fully-enclosed cloister on the top floor, a removed and still place for writers to work and share their stories.

03PARAMETRIC ADAPTATION

SURFACE AREA: 255.91sq.in.WEIGHT: 13.5lb



THE DAISY CHAIN

The Columbia Building Intelligence Project (C-BIP) is a three-year pilot project designed to explore new forms of technology-enabled col-laboration within and between the various sectors of the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.

Students learn to use parametric software (namely Catia) to recon-sider adaptive reuse in the future of architecture, based on the design of an “element”, a module designed for implementation on a variety of existing buildings.

My element, the Daisy Chain, aims to create a framework for water collection, shading, and green walls using a simple, flexible form. The double-curved surface continues along a variety of facades to bring people to their windows to garden and share a small bit of green space with their neighbors.

The module can be adjusted parametrically to adapt tosunlight, rainwater, and facade conditions.

04LABORATORY

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Science (capital “S”)isn’t a monolithicinstitution, an entitythat brings downa few new articles froma secular Mt. Sinai everyyear. It’s made up ofindividuals, interactingand working with eachother, often messily. It’sa human endeavor, notsomething distant andinstitutional.

This laboratory, situatedat the edge of a largetourist area in New York,aims to communicatethis human personalityof science. The exterioris active, personal, anda bit disordered, creatinga variety of spacesfor interactions with fellowscientists and withthe city.

HUMAN ENDEAVOR

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Scientists occupy unique office spaces within a larger stream of common rooms and gathering points.

With a location along historic Peck Slip, between South Street Seaport and the Brooklyn Bridge, the lab is given the opportunity to communicate with the public, inviting them into and around the building.

labs collaboration areas offices public rooms

05STUDY CARREL

I based this design for a study carrel on the cells in medieval Cistercian monasteries, focusing on a sense of seclusion, thick walls, and the effects of light across robust surfaces.

SILENCE AND LIGHT

06FURNITURE

After a summer working for a small fine furniture company in North Carolina, I was able to build my own piece: a lap desk designed for reading and writing in bed. I included convenient spaces for paper storage along the side, as well as a spot of a coffe e mug. The entire piece was made using only joinery, and was con-structed out of soft cedar and impression-able leather to age as I use it.

JOINERY PLANS AND PRELIMINARY SKETCHES

07CELL LAB

This project asked us to consider a one-man lab to monitor the surrounding environment. Taking the lab as a statement, a way to say that the environment is everywhere around you, this “cell” was placed on the top of a smokestack, a widely-understood symbol of pollution.

Often prominent features in the urban landscape, and today often lying dormant, these smokestacks stand to remind us of the consequences of industry, and now supporting a platform for research in allevi-ating those consequences.

The structure clamps onto the top of the smoke-stack, and then can rotate slowly in the air, its shape and mechanics moving with the wind.

08TECHNICAL

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CORTEN STEELPERFORATED SCREEN

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OPERABLEWINDOW

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CL. OF HORIZONTAL MULLION

STRUCTURAL INSULATED PANELXPS R-30

CORTEN STEELSOLID SCREEN

FLASHING

EXTERIOR

AWNING WINDOW

AIR BARRIER

ARGON FILLED LOW-EINSULATED GLASS

MULTIPLE SETTINGS:SEE ELEVATIONS AND SECTIONS


SCREEN (FULLY EXTENDED)

MULLION PLATE

ALUMINUM MULLION

STEEL FRAMING

GYPSUM BOARD

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STRUCTURAL INSULATED PANELXPS R-30

CORTEN STEELSOLID SCREEN

FLASHING

EXTERIOR

AIR BARRIER

ARGON FILLED LOW-EINSULATED GLASS

MULTIPLE SETTINGS:SEE ELEVATIONS AND SECTIONS


SCREEN (FULLY EXTENDED)

CORTEN STEELPERFORATED SCREEN

MULLION PLATE

ALUMINUM MULLION

STEEL FRAMING

GYPSUM BOARD

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Offices

WorkShops

Cafe / Gallery / Loading

Lobby

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WorkShops

WorkShops

Roof Garden Exhibiton

5th Floor60' - 0"

8th Floor (roof)

7th Floor88' - 0"

6th Floor74' - 0"

116' - 0"

4th Floor46' - 0"

3rd Floor32' - 0"

2nd Floor18' - 0"Level 210' - 0"1st Floor0' - 0"Foundation

5th Floor60' - 0"

8th Floor (roof)

7th Floor88' - 0"

6th Floor74' - 0"

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2nd Floor18' - 0"Level 210' - 0"1st Floor0' - 0"Foundation

With this light industrial building, our group wanted to treat the facade with a unique shading system, which would vary according to the program inside. The adjustable panels of perforated corten steel rise and fall with the height and use of the interior space, creating a facade screen that lightly moves across the building.

1/8” = 1’

ROOF PARAPET

GROUND STAINLESS STEEL PANELS

Given a site facing a parking lot, our team proposed a facade that would uti-

lize translucent concrete to block views of the car park yet allow light into the ho-

tel. The undulating surface allows light to come both through panels of translucent concrete as well as through the sides of

these panels. The result is an exterior and interior articulated by varying light

qualities and a distinctive patterning.

09DRAWING

<ANIMATION STILLS: the Valleaceron Chapel, a small structure in rural Spain, is reconstructed via floating, moth-like planes

Using a Roman sar-cophagus frieze as abasis for pattern andlinear arrangement,a series of charcoaldrawings emergedthat abstracted thestone figures first intotriangles, and theninto eroded, organicshapes. I wanted tocommunicate depthand slow movement,like ice fragmentsflowing la yers overwater.

PLAN, SECTION, PERSPECTIVE

IN SITU SKETCHINGat the Met

When Imaginary Friends Come to College

Sheriff Horncorft and Adam Miss Bunnikins and Claire

I saw two buzzards then,gently pushing down around a rotting pinpoint.They saw me, too, I suppose,As I backed back through the briars,Another center for another day.

-R. Cox, 2009

Prayer

These paintings come from a series dealing with the potential ambiguity of images, illustrating a form-less folk tale. Through the use of repeated, mysteri-ous imagery and flexible ordering, these illustrations let the viewer construct his own narrative.

I have been writing and illustrating stories for chil-dren since I was a child myself. It’s a rich synthesis: narrative and image, working together to create an individual world of balancing direct communication with the subtleties of the illustration.

“You see, the cloud didn’t have anywhere to go. His family had sailed over the mountains that night, and accidentally left him behind (it had been dark, re-member, and I hate to say it, but clouds do look awfully alike...)”

“The one problem with the moon, though, is that he really is a pretty vain crea-ture. He’s very proud of his good looks, and the stars are always complaining about how often he asks if there’s anything stuck in his teeth. Usually, though, his vanity is harmless -- except one night, several years ago, when it got him into trouble...”

10PHOTOGRAPHY

The following photos are about shape, line, motion, and arrangement, captured in the everyday and the discarded. Chaotic flow, stylized exuberance, and vibrant decay resonate throughout these works and many of the pieces I develop in my home darkroom.

These decaying machines lie in the woods near my home. The forms of these objects echoed classi-cal statuary in my mind, prompting me to digitally pair them with the Nike of Samothrace and The Sleeping Hermaphrodite from the Louvre.

EDUCATION COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York, May 2013 (expected)Master of ArchitectureWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, May 2009 Bachelor of Arts in Art History with a minor in Studio Art and a study concentration in Architectural HistoryHONORSCum Laude graduateOmicron Delta Kappa National Honors Society: Inducted Fall 2007Robert P. Holding Scholar: Awarded on the basis of exceptional leadership and academic promiseMary and Elliot Wood Scholar: Given for leadership in cultural, civic, and ecological affairsEagle Scout

WORK Lab Assistant, Columbia University Laboratory for Applied Building Science, NYC, 2011-present• Assistedfellowstudentsinuseofwoodshoptoolsandtechniques• CollaboratedinrenovationprojectsfortheschoolIntern, Skram Furniture, Hillsborough, NC, Summer 2011• Builthandmade,contemporarywoodenfurnitureinasmallworkshopsetting• Designedandproducedmyownpiecesoffurniture

LEADERSHIP Tour guide, Asheboro Downtown Sculpture Initiative, Fall 2009• Ledweeklytoursthroughanoutdoor,publicsculptureinstallationBoard Member, Student Government Sustainability Commission, Fall 2007 – Fall 2008• Studiedtheuniversity’senergyusageandproposedprogramstoreducewasteandcostCo-Chair, Wake Forest University Traditions Council, Spring 2006 – Spring 2008• Edited,compiled,printed,anddistributedbooksofWakeForesttraditionsandhistoryforstudentsandalumni• Plannedandcarriedoutatwo-monthexhibitofWakeForesthistoryfordisplayoncampus

TRAVEL-STUDYStudent, Falmouth, Jamaica: University of Virginia’s Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation, Summer 2008• Recordedthreatenedanddamagedstructuresthroughdetailedscaledrawingsandsurveys,depositingworkinacomprehensivescholarly database of Falmouth’s colonial architecture• ParticipatedincarpentryandmasonryworkonhistoricstructuresResearcher, Rome, Italy, Contemporary Religious Architecture in Italy, Summer 2008• ConductedresearchonthecurrentstateofreligiousarchitectureinItaly,concentratingonfourrecently-constructedchurchesinBergamo, Rome, and San Giovanni Rotondo, through observations and interviews with Italian architects, priests, and congregants • Presentedfindingsataresearchsymposium

SKILLSComputer skills: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, 3dsMax, Adobe Creative Suite, Google SketchUp, GIS, MS Office, basic knowl-edge of BIMForeign language: Proficient in Italian and Spanish Other: Hand drafting, watercolor, photography

LEADERSHIP Tour guide, Asheboro Downtown Sculpture Initiative, Fall 2009• Ledweeklytoursthroughanoutdoor,publicsculptureinstallationBoard Member, Student Government Sustainability Commission, Fall 2007 – Fall 2008• Studiedtheuniversity’senergyusageandproposedprogramstoreducewasteandcostCo-Chair, Wake Forest University Traditions Council, Spring 2006 – Spring 2008• Edited,compiled,printed,anddistributedbooksofWakeForesttraditionsandhistoryforstudentsandalumni• Plannedandcarriedoutatwo-monthexhibitofWakeForesthistoryfordisplayoncampus

TRAVEL-STUDYStudent, Falmouth, Jamaica: University of Virginia’s Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation, Summer 2008• Recordedthreatenedanddamagedstructuresthroughdetailedscaledrawingsandsurveys,depositingworkinacomprehensivescholarly database of Falmouth’s colonial architecture• ParticipatedincarpentryandmasonryworkonhistoricstructuresResearcher, Rome, Italy, Contemporary Religious Architecture in Italy, Summer 2008• ConductedresearchonthecurrentstateofreligiousarchitectureinItaly,concentratingonfourrecently-constructedchurchesinBergamo, Rome, and San Giovanni Rotondo, through observations and interviews with Italian architects, priests, and congregants • Presentedfindingsataresearchsymposium

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