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PORTFOLIO Selected works of Robbey Orth Student, University of Texas at Austin
2013 – Present
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Experience Design Team, SXSW, Ongoing Part of design team and studio tasked with designing and building WATNEY, a 12’ x 9‘ x 6’ installation for SXSW through digital fabrication and parametric design. See page 08 for more details. London Maymester, The Bartlett School, Summer 2015 Research paper on advanced, large-scale additive manufacturing within the building industry under the guidance of mentors at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Foster + Partners. Mentor/Designer, TEDxYouth @Austin, Spring 2014 World largest annual TED Talks sponsored event in the world geared toward youth. Served as mentor for interactive, stage, and graphic design areas.
Activities President, Undergraduate Architecture Student Council Representative, UT Senate of College Councils
— About Me.
Dean's Ambassador, School of Architecture Secretary, Alpha Rho Chi, The Architecture & Allied-Arts Professional Fraternity
Education The University of Texas at Austin, Cockerell School of Engineering + School of Architecture, B.S. in Architectural Engineering + Bachelor of Architecture Six-Year Dual-Degree Program; Certificate in Computer Science, May 2019
Representative, Student Engineering Council (2014 - 2015) Member, Architectural Engineering Institute
St. Mark’s School of Texas, May 2013
Member, American Institute of Architecture Students
Honors
Skills
Texas Exes President’s Leadership Award | 2015
Code Grasshopper, Python (basic, learning), HTML, CSS, Javascript (basic), MatLab, Fortran
YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts | 2013 Design Excellence Nominee | Fall 2013, Fall 2015 Named “Best in Texas” Illustrator by UIL | Fall 2012 Works shown in Miami Art Museum | Winter 2013 Works shown in JFK Center in DC | Summer 2013
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Software Rhino, Revit, 3ds Max, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign Languages Chinese/Mandarin (conversational, learning), Spanish (basic)
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— Content. Architecture. Watney
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Design V, Fall 2015
Reading Pavilion
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Design III, Fall 2014
Parametric Frame
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Viscomm III, Fall 2014
Saltillo Urban Plan
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Design IV, Spring 2015
Saltillo Multi-Familty Housing Design IV, Spring 2015
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Miscellaneous. Handkey
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Branding + Web Design, Fall 2014
The Red Thread
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CD Jacket Design, Fall 2013
YoungArts Portfolio
Acrylic Paintings, Spring 2013
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Part 1: Architecture
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DESIGN V
Fall 2015
— Watney.
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hat is Watney? Watney is an installation for South by Southwest, a major art and technology festival in Austin, TX. Consisting of thirteen students, the Design V studio, lead by Professor Kory Bieg, was tasked with creating an interactive, experiential installation as the architectural showcase piece for the weeklong festival. All aspects of a design-build were tackled in this studio, from schematic design to full-scale construction. Further, the studio successfully fundraised for Watney by creating and promoting a blog and Kickstarter, raising over $2500. Additionally, while the project is set to be showcased at SXSW, the entire design was developed disregarding the concept of site. In other words, the site-less project is conceived through other parameters such as inhabitation, constructibility, and portability. Thus, at 9' tall, 12' long,
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and 6' wide, Watney provides various scales of enclosure, further resulting in a wide range of spatial experiences. Using 3DS Max, each member of Design V created a number of forms, each of which was created with the over-riding concern for creating visually, and perceptually powerful spaces that could be inhabited. Overall, nearly 150 forms
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were designed, and from this extensive catalog, three final forms were selected and further developed by their creators. One was ultimately chosen by the studio. The selected form utilized six different booleans between a box and a rotated form. Together, the basic design of Watney was created. After the formal idea was organized, the mass was tweaked and divided into 21
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"chunks" for further ease of construction, fabrication, and transportation. Through the script VooroFrag, plugged into 3DS Max, the chosen solid form is divided according to a three dimensional Voornoi distribution. This system was used in Watney to break a massive object into 21 manageable pieces that could be individually fabricated and joined with each other.
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Tooth Addition
Mesh Offset
Inputs
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Slit Addition
Detail Addition
Endcaps with Tooth Intersections
Offset Holes
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Reveals
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Vertical Waffle Ribs
Horizontal Waffle Ribs
There are four main components of each chunk: Vertical Waffles Horizontal Waffles Primary End Caps Spacers
form an integrated whole. With Rib, Shell, and Spacer elements combined, tectonic pieces begin to act as solids, almost like rocks piled together.
The Vertical and Horizontal Ribs intersect at right angles to form a structural waffle; around the structural waffle is the Primary Shell, a wrapper that stiffens the waffle and allows a point of attachment from one chunk to another. Each chunk is separated by two alpolic spacers that accentuate the idea of separate solid pieces coming together to ARC H I TECTU RE
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End Cap - Waffle Interface
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DESIGN III
Fall 2014
— Reading Pavilion.
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he South Congress Reading Pavilion is an outdoor, urban reprieve from the hustle and bustle of Austin's South Congress district. Sited on the Northwest corner of Gibson and South Congress, the pavilion further acts as a portal between the quiet, quaint residential neighborhoods and active Congress street-scape.
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urban landscape while maintaining a constant, level ceiling. Additionally, the roof of the pavilion is painted a cobalt blue for contemplation, lifting the overall mass up towards the aether.
Within the pavilion, different types of reading are accommodated. Closest to South Congress, loud reading and poetry slam take place while quiet, more meditative reading occurs towards the neighborhood end of the site.
Four major live oak trees exist on the site - three shade the poetry slam and high-usage areas near S. Congress. The fourth, with a long, bent-over trunk located in the rearmiddle of the site, defines the inner reading courtyard. Here, the directionality of the grid is briefly broken as concrete extrusions for seating follow not the frames but the overall curvature of the tree.
A series of concrete frames define the pavilion and portal, giving an air of permanence and gravitas to the project. Starting from the residential side of the site, the frames slowly descend into the
Lastly, in accordance with the grid of the frames, several other concrete extrusions surround the portal and courtyard to further create natural, implied spaces for gathering and resting.
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South Congress
Site Gibson
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Blue ceiling lifts mass and imbues contemplation Restrooms
Peaceful reading courtyard
Series of frames create a portal between South Congress and the neighborhood
Stage & frame for poetry slam and live performances
Concrete extrusions for seating, resting
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VISCOM III
Fall 2014
— Parametric Frame.
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n this Grasshopper definition, two divided surfaces are piped, creating a parametric frame. Further, the nodes connecting the various ‘bars’ are defined in such a way that their radii are proportional to the distance between the two surfaces at their respective points. In other words, a thinner frame is created when the surfaces are close together, and a thicker frame is created when the surfaces are far apart. These nodes increase and decrease in size accordingly. The two variations here on the right show this dynamic exactly.
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DESIGN IV
Spring 2015
— Saltillo Master Plan.
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ustin's Saltillo District, located just east of downtown across I-35, is a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Historically a shunned, low-income, lowsocioeconomic neighborhood in Austin, the area is undergoing major transformations as development spills over from downtown Austin. Further, the neighborhood is not only culturally divided between the new and historic residents but also physically as the light rail line splits the community in half. As such, this urban plan sets out to achieve two major goals: Reconnect the neighborhood to the rest of Austin and Rebuild the community within while
Taking the original form of a box, each block envelope is then modified to facilitate the creation of wind flow and breezeways.
Next, the envelopes are trimmed according to specified solar angles to guarantee daylight into the street-scape.
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Lastly, the envelopes are adjusted for existing and planned capitol view corridors.
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Trail continues under I-35 and connects into Waller Creek
Concrete retaining walls provide mural space for local artists
Landform bridges over rail reconnecting the district while providing views of the Capitol and downtown
accommodating both the current and future mixes of residents. This master plan is developed for the neighborhood in 10-15 years in the future. To accomplish these goals, the urban plan focuses on three major aspects: First, the plan is form-based, utilizing block envelopes determined through environmental controls to encourage activity on the streets. Second, a major land-form park is to be constructed on the current Capitol Metro land, bridging across the light rail. And third, the plan dictates a streetscape plan with various width adjustments and realignments to further make the area livable. With the block envelopes, buildings are encouraged to maintain a unified street-front. Further, the envelopes and blocks are formally adjusted to facilitate breezeways and windflow to improve ventilation during Austin's hot summer months. Additionally, each envelope is trimmed at calculated solar angles to guarantee daylight into the street-scape.. Lastly, the forms are further modified to respect the existing and newly created capitol view corridors.
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Underground parking
Trail follows rail to Saltillo Station
The land-form park sits at the center of the Saltillo District. As it bridges across the intersection of the rail line and Waller Street, the park's purpose is two-fold. First, it literally bridges and reconnects the divided neighborhood, and second, as it rises 25 ft above the existing ground level, it serves to visually reconnect the area with downtown views. Additionally, the park features a hike and bike trail that runs parallel to the rail from the Saltillo train station through I-35 and onto the existing Waller Creek trail in downtown. Lastly, the street-scape aspect of the project completes the plan's overall goals by implementing complete streets safe for pedestrians, bikers, and vehicles. Existing alleyways would be closed off to only pedestrian and bike traffic while several underutilized neighborhood streets would be closed off for pedestrian malls. Additionally, the proposed redo of these alleyways would feature rain gardens for stormwater treatment and discharge as the area is historically prone to flooding. Mural and graffiti walls would also be scattered throughout
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the streets for local artists to help develop the district's identity. Crosswalks would also be creatively painted. Overall, the plan as a whole would not only reconnect the neighborhood to the rest of Austin but also rebuild the community within by creating a livable streetscape that encourages resident interaction.
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Existing Sidewalks
Existing Traffic
Existing Transit
Proposed Sidewalks
Proposed Traffic
Proposed Transit
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Waller East 5th Site
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East 4th Waller DESIGN IV
Spring 2015
— Saltillo Multi-Family Housing.
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nder the guidelines dictated by the previous project, the Saltillo Urban Masterplan, this housing multifamily housing project was developed to further encourage a lively, diverse and wholesome community within the Saltillo District. Bounded on two sides by the light rail and one side by the land-form park, the site
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of the project is in the nexus of the neighborhood. As such, the massing takes cues from both the rail and park with a tower bar rising above. With a target demographic of early retirees and empty-nesters, the building would fill a gap within the current demographic make-up of the neighborhood, further diversifying and encouraging a lively community. The bottom plinth of the building features a train-watch, community center bookstore/coffee shop, and a neighborhood art info center. Each of these designated programs are geared toward engaging residents with the community.
Block Envelope
Street-cut + Breezeway
Train Watch
Park Access + Community Decks
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Above, the tower and community decks connect to the land-form park, offering views toward downtown and the capitol. All circulation is unconditioned on the north side of the building wrapped in a large, wooden, operable screen. This screen allows the residents to interact and set their own levels of desired privacy into the circulation corridors. On the south side of the tower, each unit features an over-sized outdoor living space with a smaller operable screen which can slide to help shade the unit's fenestration or further enclose the unconditioned living space. View patios are located at the end of the tower corridors, encouraging residents to engage not only with each other but also with the city and community.
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Saltillo Connection
Resident View Patios
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Large screen wraps building for privacy; also operable to encourage resident interaction & community
Tower rises above park plinth and leans toward downtown and the capitol for views
Community Deck connects to land-form park; doubles as community garden
Operable screens double for privacy and solar shading
Breezeway frames tracks, creates portal between front and back
Train-Watch patio for residents and public Bottom base acts as an extension of the abutting land-form park
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Part 2: Miscellaneous
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WEB DESIGN
Spring 2015
— Handkey.
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randing and identity for concept start-up Handkey, a company specializing in smart watch technology. Web design done as well for the startup during a hackathon at UPenn.
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CD DESIGN
Spring 2015
— Red Thread.
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lbum cover, CD, and booklet design for a one-act chamber opera on China's One-Child Policy, adoption and two mothers' love by up-andcoming composer Rene Orth.
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PA IN T IN G S
Spring 2013
— YoungArts.
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nitially, this series started as a combination of Roy Lichtenstein's Pop Art and El Greco's portraitures. However, by sewing various objects onto the canvas to accentuate each portraiture's unique oddities and characteristics, these figures are then transformed into a grotesque of themselves, if not of persons today. This series was exhibited in January 2013 in the Miami Art Museum as part of a YoungArts Exhibit. Further, this first piece, COOTIES!, was shown in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of another YoungArts exhibition in July 2013.
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