Rebecca Salsburg-Frank
Design Portfolio
[email protected] (510) 342-6157
Campus Address: Campus Sq., Bethlehem, PA 18015
Home Address: 5736 Chelton Dr., Oakland, CA 94611
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Contents:
AutoCAD Drawings . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hover Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Interactive Sculptures . . . . . . . 6-7
Restricted Wooden Sculpture . . . 8
Story Sculpture . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18
Miscellaneous Sculptures . . . . 19-21
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AutoCAD Drawing for Engineers Without Borders
As a member of Lehigh University’s Engineers Without Borders, I have helped
with our current project of creating and implementing a water distribution system in
the town of Cebadilla, Nicaragua. Up until now, the locals have had to collect
water from one pump and many must walk up to a couple miles just to get clean
water for their home. I am part of the Water Distribution Group, which is designing
the distribution section of the system. We create detailed plans marking each house
and location of taps, and calculating the booster pump requirements. This year, we
considered the possibility of monitoring the system and analyzing risk in addition to
creating a system that is easily accessible and easily managed by the locals. I
personally created the AutoCAD sketches of the water tanks and base along with a
possible fence design. In addition, I helped create an installation and maintenance
manual.
Front View of Tanks and Base
Isometric View of Tanks and Base
Isometric View of Tanks, Base, and Fence
Top View of Tanks and Base
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Hover Board
As a Junior at Head-Royce High School, I was given the opportunity to create
a month-long project for the end of my AP Physics class. I decided to make a hover
board with one of my friends. We started from scratch, cutting out a large circular
piece of ply wood. We cut a small whole in the top for the leaf blower to blow air;
and attached a plastic sheet with small holes around the sides to the bottom of the
wood to maintain air pressure under the hovercraft.
This picture is not the exact board, but is a very similar design.
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UC Berkeley Pioneers in Engineering Robotics Competition
Every spring, UC Berkeley hosts the Pioneers in Engineering Robotics Competition in which teams of high-school students design and construct robots that can perform a challenge task. The robots compete in two rounds to test both autonomous and manual (remote control) operating models. Our task required robots to move whiffle balls onto the opposing side of the field and into goals with four teams working against each other in pairs. As a student at Head-Royce High School, I participated as part of our team. There is a basic robotics kit that builds the frame and then each team embellishes for the best design to complete the tasks. We created our design with a sweeping mechanism attached to the end of an arm that could lift the balls and drop them into the goals and onto the other teams’ side. We had a limit on the size of the robot and the amount of money we could spend on extra materials. That year, my team came in first, beating 20 other teams.
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Interactive Packaging Tape Sculpture
Following the influence of Mark Jenkins, I created this packaging tape
sculpture. I added an interior kinetic sculpture like those created by one of my
favorite artists, Rube Goldberg. I started the sculpture by wrapping my friend in
plastic wrap then tape, cutting the shell off, then taping it back together. I wanted
my piece to be an interactive part of the community, so I built a pathway from the
opening of the cup for a marble. The marble would be dropped into the cup, and
then flow through the semi-translucent tubes inside the body. Finally, they would
collect in the feet as they were split to go down own leg or the other. As more
people added marbles, the feet would fill up with all the different colored marbles.
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Interactive Descriptive-Word-Based Sculpture
For this project, I was given three random words from which to create a
sculpture. These words were immersion, alternating, and exception. I built this
sculpture with a wave-like declining top and sides of posts with a snaking figure
going between. The topmost part consisted of posts on each wave with a crank
going between. Attached to the crank dowels are three pieces that alternately
immerse themselves in the waves and one placed vertically that is the exception to
the immersion.
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Restricted Wooden Sculpture
For this project, I had to create a sea creature using only a single block of
wood (12in x 4in x 4in). I made an octopus using a band saw and the rotary chisel.
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Story-Based Sculpture
I was given the story of a city called Zobeide from Italo Calvino’s Invisible
Cities. This story discussed the founding of the city. It is said that ten men in different
cities had a dream of a beautiful woman running through a city. As they followed
her along different paths, each one eventually lost her. They set out to find this city
and woman of their dreams. When they came to the city, each man built his part of
the city by creating the path he had followed. The paths, however, became jumbled
up and eventually a city was built, but no woman was found. I created a model of
the city out of cardboard, string, and wire mesh. Using a laser cutter, I made the
buildings and ladders. I built a replica of this dream-city and drew pastel
renderings of specific areas of the city.
City of Zobeide
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Pastel renderings of specific areas of Zobeide
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Drawings
Chuck Close-inspired grid portrait from 8”x10” photograph to 32”x40” pencil drawing
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Two-Point architectural rendering of Bethlehem Steel Stacks
Multiple Point perspective of boxes
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Diagrammatic Study of a bottle
Diagrammatic Study of a skeleton
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Ink wash of nude figure
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Still Life white charcoal on black paper
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Still Life white charcoal on black paper
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Drop cloth value study in charcoal
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One point perspective observed hall interior
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Miscellaneous Sculptures
Edgar Allen Poe ceramic head bust
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Ceramic sculpture inspired by M.C. Escher’s Drawing Hands
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Wire sculpture of a camel
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