Rosborough Undergraduate Portfolio

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Ophelia’s Home

Third year Rural Studio

Professors: Emily McGlohn, Chelsea Elcott Skill focus: working with a client, varying residential construction skills, working with a large team on a shared file system

This home was a modification of a Rural Studio 20k product line home adjusted to fit the needs of a specific client, Ophelia and her son, and intended to explore how two unmarried individuals occupy a shared space. The student team from the prior semester completed much of the intial design work, solidifying the plan and structural detailing. My semester included working within a team of 12 to complete construction of the vented crawlspace foundation, drainage system, flashing, floor and wall framing, and sheathing of the home. Additionally, interior and exterior elevations were developed further, repeatedly questioning the porch and entry transition through a charrette process. Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the remainder of construction was delayed to a later student team to complete in 2021..

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Millwork for Ophelia’s Home

Skill focus: application of client need to design, fine woodworking, cabinet design+construction

While not completed further than mocking up each unique cabinet component due to COVID-19, myself and a team of five other students designed the storage and process for construction for Ophelia’s kitchen. The goal for designing and building the storage rather than buying standard cabinets, as is typical in 20K homes, was to see if the cost could be reduced while using healthier and more robust materials that could be tailored to fit the needs of the client more specifically. This included material studies, studying cabinet precedents, as well as inquiring about how Ophelia occupied her existing kitchen space and what she needed out of her new space. Noting that Ophelia was an older individual who was already beginning to experience mobility issues, it was important to think about how the storage could be adjusted to make aging in the home easier.

In her existing kitchen, the upper cabinets were rarely used since they were more difficult for Miss Ophelia to access so she hung her spoons, spatulas and pans around the kitchen and had gotten used to being able to see all of her tools at once. Taking this into account, we worked out how to construct a pegboard element that would provide a space to hang her tools as well as some open shelving

Click/scan the link/code below to view more about plans for Ophelia’s kitchen storage

Moundville Archaeological Park Community Pavilion

Fifth year Rural Studio

Skill focus: working with a client+stakeholders, fabricators, manufacterers, and consultants, working closely with a small team

Picking up where a previous student team left off due to COVID-19, a new team of four students took on completing the construction of a community pavilion within a historically and culturally significant indigenous mound civilization site. After analyzing and planning to modify the built structure through a yearlong exploration of the structure and site, it was brought to light that the indigenous people whose ancestors once resided in the park did not approve of more intereference with the site and therefore the design was not constructed as planned in respect to the tribes.

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Site: In addition to the pavilion site being within the archaeological park and on land that is considered sacred to many, it was tucked into a lightly forested area that was a welcome escape from the Alabama sun. Bounded by a denser forest edge, the larger site felt as much a part of the space as directly under the pavilion, so we began to make decisions based on how to best make the pavilion blend with and amplify this existing conditio.n.

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The Existing Structure: Since part of the original design by the previous team had been constructed, this was an opportunity to study what was working and what could be reevaluated in the detailing and construction process After full scale mock-ups, meetings with the structural engineer, and numerous reviews and iterations, it was determined that the trusses and overall form would be reused while the columns and footings were in need of replacement.

Design+Process: Once the concept had been developed and the existing structure was analyzed, a large driver for the project became detailing the pavilion so that there was tolerance built into each step of the construction process. This was not only due to learning from the original design and the challenge that the complex form presented, but knowing that four students would be completing each step which would require a high level of precision.

Moundville Archaeological Park

Detailing: Working closely with metal experts from Zahner, they helped us to develop a system that would achieve the goal of a planar, minimally seamed surface on the underside of the pavilion with a knife edge in a way that we would be able to construct with our given set of skills.

Modular Replication

First year on-campus studio

Skill focus: iterative thinking, model-making, creation of light and shadow with surface depth, plan/elevation/axon hand drawing introduction

Assignment of creating a module out of sheets of bristol paper that contained triangular facets and were both horizontally and vertically stackable.

In an exercise of form and surface depth with a modular component, this wall this wall was an early test of the iterative process to test options through model making with a specified goal. order to create a module that stacked horizontally and vertically, the module had a modified version of two female sides with two male sides to fit with the neighboring modules. The slight stagger of joints and depth at the base of the module creates movement and shadow on the face of the wall when the modules are stacked. With the base of the module spreading to create a wide base, this gave the wall stability.

Montogmery Magnet School

Fourth year on-campus/online studio Montgomery, Alabama

Professor: Jennifer Pindyck

Skill focus: typology and precedent research, custom detailing, digital representation

For this magnet elementary school on a given site in Montgomery, it was required that the school related to an educational philosophy. After group precedent studies of schools that embody a specific philosophy through design, I selected the ReggioEmilia philosophy as a driver due to its emphasis on curiosity and exploration.

In order to study the Reggio-Emilia philosophy, I analyzed the design and function of Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois. Completed in 1940 by Eliel and Eero Saarinen and later added onto by Perkins and Will, this elementary school still stands as a sucessfull example of the Reggio-Emilia philosophy.

the Reggio-Emilio philosophy, the classroom structure often looks different than a traditional classroom. With this in mind, I experimented with how the classroom to hallway relationship could be manipulated with the goal of encouraging more frequent circulation between interior and exterior spaces. This could spark relationships between neighboring classrooms, other year levels, as well as curiosity of the outdoors.

Watercolor

Birmingham Residence Sketched and painted, 2020 Birmingham, Alabama

Snowy Owl Coffee Roasters

Lighting Fixture

2021 Sandwich, Massachusetts

Designed by Scott Feen , Atlantic Workshop

Skill focus: antique materials handling, non-structural welding, plasma cutting, customized electrical wiring

this lighting fixture for the second location of a beloved Cape Cod coffee shop and roastery was fabricated out of steel frames from old airplane wings. Following the design and guidance of artist Scott Feen, steel feathers based on the shape of snowy owl feathers were brushed with an angle grinder and plasma cut before being welded onto the frame. Due to the wing frames being hollow, the wiring was able to be routed through the frame and drop pendant lights in varying locations cut into the frame.

Teams &

Ophelia’s Home

Fall 2019: Adam Davis, Anna Claire Priest, Brenton Smith, Caitlyn Biffle, Davis Benfer, Emily Davis, Gemma Ramon Centelles, Hailey Osborne, Han Li, Ignasi Vendrell Simon, Laurel Holloway, Oliver Higgins, Yi Xuan Teo Spring 2020: Adam Boutwell, Alex Harvill, Daniel Burton, Elizabeth Brandebourg, Elle Whitehurst, Hannah Moates, Jackie Rosborough, Jasvandhan Coimbatore Upendranath, Joo Young Lim, Lauren Deck, Luke Killough, Shijin Ding

Fall 2020: Ann Sheldon, Benjamin Willcockson, Carla Slabber, Christina Devries, Deliang Chen, Ethan Mejia, Mattheas Repsher

Moundville Archaeological Park Community Pavilion Brenton Smith, Caitlyn Biffle, Collin Brown, Jackie Rosborough In collaboration with Joseph Farrugia, Bill Zahner and Dan Gierer (Zahner Metal), Thomas Patterson (Luxpopuli)

Crow Island Case Study Diagrams Jackie Rosborough, Grace Strickland

Snowy Owl Coffee Roasters Lighting Fixture Designed by, and built in collaboration with Scott Feen