PORTFOLIO
ROBERT HORN
SELECTED WORKS 2020 -2024
. STUDIOMARTS - Renders 2. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE - Section, Elevation, Plan, Isometric Section
WESLEY REFUGE PLAZA - Plans, Sections, Renders
ABOVE THE PARNA - Plans, Sections, Renders
Æ BUILDING - Plans, Sections, Elevations 6. COMPLIANCE SECTION
NCC Section 7. DETAIL DOCUMENTATION - Detail Sections
SMALL CONSTRUCTIONS ANALYSIS - Hand drawn analysis ; Plans, Sections, Exploded Axonometrics
BURR SYSTEMS - Photos, Construction Drawings
RODULE FENCE SCREEN DESIGN PROJECT - Photos, Parametric Design, Renders
STUDIOMARTS - RENDERS
COURSE : Photoreal Rendering [ARCT5536]
YEAR : 2024
PROJECT : Design and production of Photoreal renders for an off-grid cabin
Design and production of high quality 4k renders for an off-grid cabin design response per a chosen clients requirements through the use of Photorealism in the Autodesk 3D Studio Max environment using VRay.
The client requested a building for refuge and retreat, in the from of a small off-grid self sustaining cabin that nestles amongst the trees of the old growth forrest. At the clients request the building is to be designed utilising the natural slopes and undulations of his Hamelin Bay property and to be built within the sites context, sheltered from the sites climatic conditions.
The design of the refuge within the old growth forrest reflects the natural context of the site and employs overlaping forms across levels to capture the sites coastal views, and allowing for maximisation of environmental conditions in passive design. The form and perforated cladding is designed for specific diffisuion of the sites summer and winter sun conditions for optimal shading, with the lower forms thermal masses sheltered from the hot, morning and midday midday sun, whilst its permabilty allowing the winter sun deeper to passively heat in the cooler months. The cabin nestling into the forrest furthers this diffusion and combines with the intergation of the above pathway overhanging as an eave for the below south west windows.
The cabins design creates view pockets that capture the sites quality and natural views; creating liminal spaces throughout the form. A Studio space for design and contemplation is intergrated with in the cabin, this space is to be designed used as an adaptable living space that allows the client to inhabit the space, with the south east balcony allowing the entire space to open up out and over the the forest, utlising large pivoting glass doors. The cabin features large planes of glazing across its levels to maximise natural lighting and connection to the surrounding environmental context, The glass reflects the trees, further blending the building into its surroundings. Simultaneously, the transparency of the windows allows views through the spaces, extenuatating the cabins openness and flow between the interior and exterior spaces.
Each of the Vitrocsa window and pivoting door systems allow for maximised opening, intergrated with perforated panelling systems the cabin utilises the sites natural coastal winds for full natural ventilation, whilst allowing for protection from the harshness of the coastal conditions. The cabin is orientated and designed to optimise the summer prevailing wind across its upper and lower levels through the south west facading and lower balcony, allowing for maximised ventillation of the through the form. During the winters climatic condition the form is protected across its western faces furthered by the design permeability of the facade systems, and south west balcony.
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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE - ADAYJE ASSOCIATES
COURSE : Constructions [ARCT3030]
YEAR : 2021
PROJECT : Building analysis of construction and structural methodolgies in a large scale project.
Adayje Associates’ National Museum Of African American History And Culture, was selected for a large scale building strucutral analysis. Analysis of the projects construction, facade systems and internal connections was used to produce plans, sections and an isometric detail section. The project consists of circulating under and above ground curated exhibition spaces; with interconnected beam substructures, large glazing panels and a canterleavering facade system with Corona facde panels.
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ADJAYE ASSOCIATES - THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
ATMOSPHERIC ELEVATION
WESLEY REFUGE PLAZA
COURSE : Architecture Studio [ARCT5101]
YEAR : 2022
PROJECT : Studio Portfolio project : Social centre/Hotel
LOCATION : 12 Market Street Fremantle, Perth, Australia
Wesley Plaza is a hotel of refuge to act as a centre for positive social change in the suburb or Fremantle. Designed through the culmination of research, personal context of Fremantle, analysis of existing surrounding built and natural centres of refuge, and the breaking of thresholds across people of all backgrounds. The plaza is set to allow for unique intersections with the built environment creating spaces and street activated corridors that allow for interaction between patrons and the built environment in a lens that allows for creativity and social engagement, whilst intersecting with the landscape. The built environment is designed in a non-hostile manner, to allow the bottom floor to act as a transient centre of refuge, similar in function to the hotel floors above welcoming transient guests seeking support and shelter. The spaces and utilities reflect this concept throught out the four floors of the hotel, through design adaptable event and engagement spaces; spaces de signed to hold social gatherings; allow for the promotion of nutrition platforms [through soup kitchens for those in need, long table dinners, and an adaptable social kitchen to allow for skill acquisition and support]. This adaptable event space and kitchen is designed to be opened and extend into the street plaza, activating the community into this platform of social engagement. Incorporated into the hotels’ design and support systems are Health, Social, Mental and Disability services - Fremantle Wesley Mission, BLACK Swan Health and 20 Talk. Taking the form of community wellbeing facility on the second floor, with spaces for group and private consultation, as well as secure office facilities for staff of health services. The facility also proposes to facilitate mental health through the utilisation of past models of events and conversations run by 20 talk, to be undertaken in this event space and group consultation rooms.
Corridors of street plaza formed through desired primary paths of movement through the site, to allow for a large open street activated plaza, with the activated social spaces designed to continue as you move up the building, creating zones of social interaction between patrons of the hotel and people of the Fremantle community. The hotel is designed with two room typologies, on floors 3 and 4, designed to house up to 60 guests, whilst providing utilities for health, refuge and servicing the community. The room typologies follow a loft multi level design, with mezanines and varied private and shared spaces. Designed as communial or private places of refuge, the typologie’s form and materiality were formulated from the warehouse/industrial buildings prominent in the surrounding Fremantle site, common hubs of social refuge for the community members the Wesley Plaza Hotel wish to serve and assist. A communial shared (four person - floor 3) room typolgy is targeted towards transient visitors for shorter term stays, to facilitate positive change socially, mentally, and physically; through provided utilities, whilst a private smaller room typoogy on floor 4 is designed for guest needing longer term support or refuge, whilst still transient in there nature, the concept is to house people of all walks of life whilst providing them access to positive support systems, utilising the plaza as a site for perpetual postive change.
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GROUND FLOOR PRIMARY CIRCULATION & ACTIVATED STREET PLAZA
SECOND FLOOR COMMUNIAL SOCIAL PLAZA
WESLEY REFUGE PLAZA
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THIRD FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR SOCIAL PLAZA
FOURTH FLOOR SOCIAL PLAZA
SOCIAL CORRIDOR PERSPECTIVES
WESLEY REFUGE PLAZA
[ROOM TYPOLOGY 2]
Private Loft hotel room typology.
The room follows a loft multi level design, with mesanines for private reduge and open plan kitchen living spaces. Designed as a private place of refuge, that can still facilitate for social interaction the typology’s design was formed through elements from the warehouse/industrial buildings prominent in the surrounding Fremantle site.
Targeted towards transient visitors for longer term stays, when the need for extended refuge is required, or prolonged need to facilitate positive change socially, mentally, and physically; through provided utilities such as computer/study/kitchen and facitlities ( Black swan, 20 talk, skill aquisition programs . Aswell as allowing for extended refuge if needed.
The space is design for 1 -2 guests with ammenities and facilities to adequetly attend for each visitor.
LEGEND
[FLOOR 4]
[1] Bathroom
[2] Kitchen and Living space
[FLOOR 4.5]
[3] Private Bedroom and study
[-] Mezzanine suspended slab
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[FLOOR 4]
EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVE VIEW FROM CORNER OF MARKET ST & CANTONMENT ST
ABOVE THE PARNA
COURSE : Architecture Studio [ARCT5102]
YEAR : 2024
PROJECT : Studio Portfolio project : Bush Herritage Accomodation Precinct
LOCATION : Birriliburu Reserve, 900km NE of Perth, 500km SE of Port Hedland
In the dreaming, of the Martu people, muntarngarku [the greater bilby] was scared of the moon
The project aims to interconnect the Bilby, the moon, and the cosmos with the transfer of knowledge. Furthering the local Birriliburu rangers use of ‘two-way’ learning combining traditional knowledge with western science to generate a cross-cultural exchange.
Developing a precinct that will nestle into Birrilburu’s sandstone mountain ranges, designed to age with the site and the cosmos; through materiality and its designed inhabitation.
The precinct is to form a research and astrological observation field station that intergrates into the vast barren expansive landscape of Birriliburu, to research and explore the known and unknown above and below the parna [earth].
Above And Below Programmatic Diagram: An above and below designed experience; the Observatory looks above to the cosmos, the accomodation is formed below this observation looking outward to the sandstone mountain ranges, creating a ‘wander’ between the two sites
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AE BUILDING
COURSE : Architecture Studio 3 [ARCT3000]
YEAR : 2021
PROJECT : Studio Portfolio project refurbishing a historical site
1,2 Lincoln Inn Fields, United Kingdom is a refurbished Historical building, refurbished into an architectural exhibition space and museum. Consisting of accomodation for visiting scholars, a exhibition journey from light to dark exhbiition spaces; working from the top floor down to the intement learning exhbition spaces.
Architecture of Light Gallery spaces, beginning an occupants journey thorugh the exhibition spaces as they leave the buildings single use upwards elavator.
Incorporating an adapted version of “Sensing spaces” - Grafton achitects - Large scale architectural representation. It is the culmination of Light and dark explored across the two floors top floors.
Below the initial exhibition floors Offices, working space and Staff area are housed and flow into Reading/ Study Room, then further into an Investigative exhibtion space, where after working there way down through the exhibitions representations of light and dark, via an external rear staircase, visistors are encorraged to view smaller represantations or holdable pieces, and use them for further study/viewing
Bottom floor consists of Scholars accomodation Area (Kitchen, Living and Study), which is externally accessed for privacy. As well as a Cafe/Bar below ground level, and opening into the street courtyard, with access from street level, and utlity of front exhibtion elavator
The First/entrance floor consists of Utility and back of house deliverables including; Deliverys Area, Workshop and Conservation, Storage, Cloakroom, Storeroom, Foyer, front desk, and Shop, and exhbition elevator.
Access to exhibtion spaces is directed through a single way exhbition elevator to take occupents to the Third floor to begin a journey downwards through series of light, dark and explorative spaces. movement down the exhibition is circulated downward utlising the rear external staircase, or rear accessability elavator.
SECTION E 1:50 OF FLOORS 1-3 & Roof Exploring Internal Spaces and Rooms
3. Deliverys Area
4. Workshop and Conservation 5. Storage 6. Cloakroom 7. Storeroom
8. Foyer, front desk, and Shop, and exhbition elevator.
Access to exhibtion spaces is directed through a single way exhbition elevator to take occupents to the Third floor to begin a journey downwards through series of light, dark and explorative spaces
9. Offices, working space and Staff area
10. Reading/ Study Room
11. Investigative exhibtion space, where after working there way down through the exhibitions representations of light and dark, via an external rear staircase, visistors are encorraged to view smaller represantations or holdable pieces, and use them for further study/viewing
12. “Sensing spaces” - Grafton achitectsLarge scale architectural representation. Is the culmination of Light and dark explored across the two floors top floors.
13. Architecture of Dark Gallery spaces : Exhibition spaces exploring the lack of light, its quality and the architectural reppresentaions of dark
14. Threshold Dark exhibition space
15. “Sensing Spaces” exhibit
16. Architecture of Light Gallery spaces, beginning an occupants journey thorugh the exhibition spaces as they leave the buildings single use front elevator system.
17. Threshold Light exhibition space INTERNAL
A SECTION C SECTION C
1. Scholars Quaters and Communial Area (Kitchen, Living and Study), externally accessed
2. Cafe/Bar below ground level, and opening into the street courtyard, with access from street level, and utlity of front exhibtion elavator
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Access to exhibtion spaces is directed through a single way exhbition elevator to take occupents to the Third floor to begin a journey downwards through series of light, dark and explorative spaces
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3. Deliverys Area
Workshop and Conservation
Storage
Cloakroom
PERSPECTIVE
LEVELS 2 & 3
ARCHITECTS EXHIBITION’
DETAIL LIGHTING SECTIONS
Utilising a mix media rendering approach; incorporating digital and physical render techniques layered to demonstrate the duality of spaces created through out the AE exhibition building.
Spaces are created to utlise light; forming interactive spaces with the use/lack of use of natural light sources to expand displayed pieces inate qualities and to allow furth circulation of patrons to explore this duality throughout the exhibition spaces.
SECTION E 1:20 FLOORS 1-3 & ROOF
Exploring Internal lighting and its variation across floors
COMPLIANCE SECTION
COURSE : Architectural Technology, Structures and Services [ARCT4430]
YEAR : 2022
PROJECT : Redesigning past project to be compliant per Australian NCC standards
The AE Exhibition Building was used as the base for a redesigning project bringing the design upto Australian national construction codes, producing a compliance section and working documents to a 1:20 scale with annotations for areas requiring further revision, detail or non compliance.
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DETAIL DOCUMENTATION
COURSE : Project Implementation and Documentation [ARCT4440]
YEAR : 2024
PROJECT : Detail documentaion drawings, schedule, project book and specifications for the design of a facade system.
This project explored the process and stages that an architectural project must go through to be implemented up until the commencement of construction. This includes; the understanding of response to urban design parameters through planning regulations; a sensitivity to passive design principles in order to comply with energy efficiency requirements; an introduction to working with consultants is explored; an understanding of how to communicate the construction of a project with building contractors; and ensuring that this will comply with building regulations.
The project entailed the design and detailing a new facade system for 1 Station Street Cottesloe. Detail documentaion drawings at 1:5 were produced at A2 and included a materials and finishes schedule, through the design process the design intent was documented with a project book incorporating hand drawn details and a specification for the design of the new facade system.
SMALL CONSTRUCTIONS ANALYSIS
COURSE : Small Constructions and Built Environments [ARCT3030]
YEAR : 2020
PROJECT :Building analysis of construction and structural methodolgies in small scale projects
Small scale architectural strucutres were selected across varied construction typologies to undertake an analysis of each buildings. The unique projects were chosen to explore their different construction techniques and structural systems that coincide with each materiality choice.
The project was undertaken as a research project with drawings, details and structural techniques being individually sourced to allow for curation of personal understanding of the techniques found and used across the differing construction typologies. This research and structural detailing was presented with ink drawings and diagrams on A4 trace to form a concise folio of structural systems.
CONSTRUCTION DIAGRAMS TIMBER TYPOLOGY
CONSTRUCTION DIAGRAMS MASONRY TYPOLOGY
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CONSTRUCTION DIAGRAMS STEEL TYPOLOGY
BURR SYSTEMS
COURSE : Furniture Design [ARCT5589] in collaboration with B2 STUDIOS
YEAR : 2024
PROJECT : Design and manufacturing of task lamp/lighting product and corresponding furniture piece.
A rotating task lamp for a small table.
[Task: illumination of smaller scale table top activities + soft lighting of space]
The BURR Canopy Lamp utilises recycled materials constructed out of Blackbutt Timber, Hamlin Bay Mallee and Brass A canopy lighting system connected through a natural base. Designed as a two part system to allow for dissasembly and further expansion.The Lamp is designed for Tactlity in feel and function, for user experience. This is intergrated into the design and construction of ON/OFF functions, rotation systems, interlocking/interchangable features and the quality in finish of materials.
“Formed in natural tessellation the undulated recyled timber task lamp features a 360 degree rotating removable canopy with snap in magnetic system, housed within a unique Hamelin Bay Mallee Burl”
[Burl, Undulating, Rotating, Recycled]
RODULE FENCE SCREEN
COURSE : Active Matter [ARCT3050]
YEAR : APRIL -JUNE 2021
PROJECT : Design and construction of modular systems; utlising parametric design.
The Rodule Fence Screen, is a parametically designed, robotically constructed modular screening system for a Colorbond fencing system, acting as a hanging garden system or a simply as a screen.
The system has been developed and 3D modelled through Rhino3D & Grasshopper programming, intergrated with gh[galapogos] evolutionary solving systems & gh[Rabbit]. The system is an optimised delevopment of form and distribution. Utlising the celluar automation and intergrated logic from Conways Game of Life, with systematic tiling logic and material testing. The Rodule Fence Screen is constructed out of 6.3mm alluminium rod, aluminium sheeting, and infilled perspex of varied colours. The system is joined together with Tig welded joints for its intra connections, and is inter connected with intergrated bolt systems.
Its overall size, modular cell dimensions, connective logic and parameters are based from a colorbond fence panel and defined parametric equations. Allowing for the full parametric control of each module and piece division, to be input into further Grasshopper coding that controls a UR5 Robot linked with developed tooling systems for bending, forming and movement of the alluminium rod.
The full Rodule Fence Screen is designed as hanging system produced to hang from this colorbond panel. The built Rodule Fence Screen is a segment of 6 modules from the full assembly and is still constructed as a hanging system for this colorbond panel, as smaller screen/system.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
UTILISATION OF GRASSHOPPER + PARAMETRIC CONTROL
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[03][3.3] OPTIMIZATION
The modules for the screening system were generated and optimised throguh definition of surface areas. Each module required differing surface areas, for required purpose
The systems and selection of surfaces was optimized using each modules total surface area input into a greater than function, and input into the fitness of the genetic evolutionary solver gh[Galapagos], gene pools for the surface selection were input as the solvers genomes.
gh[Galapagos]
Evolutionary solver ran to create optimised varient forms
[03][5.1] MODULE DIVISION
SAVED (ALIVE) MODULE
Moular forms are required to be divided into Aluminium rod pieces.
To allow for the rod; to be bendable robotically, weldable to create connections and logically correct to be able to generate the form without overlaps and interference with other pieces.
This process is generated through the application of evolutionary solving for a 8 divided pieces of aluminimum rod with varied greater than and less than and equal pieces. These equalities, or functions are fed directly into the fitness of the gh[Galapagos] solver, with the gene pools allowing for selection of rod surfaces fed into the genomes. The solver ran and visually showed the differing path options as each rod division was previewed in differing colours, allowing for easy viewing as the solver trended towards creating paths fitting the fitness required.
gh[Galapagos]
Evolutionary solver ran to create optimised and parametric division of rod paths. (8 DIVIDED PIECES)
[03][5.2] TOOLING DEVELOPMENT
BENDING ISSUES
Due to Aluminiums, higher rigidity and strength, this method of bending failed to produce bends of sufficient angles. The force being applied through the robot ic arm and the toolhead was to great, to allow for the rod to be bent, as the moment arm length and aluminum strength produced a larger resultant force in the negative direction of bend then the force output (max 5kg) of the positive motion of the robot.
Pins set on the same plane, and inserted into bending arm
External rotating pin is the primary mover rotating around Internal Axis finger (that is against rod). To grip the rod rotat ing pin rotates until it is gripped against rod. Allowing for the toolhead and robot to Pull the rod x amount of Length, and Bend the rod robotically.
[03][5.2] TOOLING DEVELOPMENT
Initial Toolhead: Developed as a toolhead for all rod bending purposes. Acting with two fingers/pins an EXTERNAL ROTATING PIN and a CENTRAL AXIS PIN; to Grip, bend and pull the aluminium rod x lengths
To BEND; the robot rotates its 6th axis, to rotate the tool heads external pin, around the central pin applying a force onto the rod, around the central axis. Rotating the angle of the desired rod bend plus springback
Bending Arm: After testing multiple variations of bending with the toolhead and testing the UR5’s force capacities, A system involving a bending arm extention to allow for the robot to successfully achieve TOOL 3 BENDING ARM
Rotating bend pins and a central axis pin are fed through the bending arm and apply force to the rod
Radius
To overcome the large resultant force created by the aluminium rods; bend resistance and strength, the moment arm of bend, and relative bend arc needed to be increased. To achieve this a bending arm extention tool was used. Two external rotating bend pins are situated on the desired front or back of the rod, and an internal central axis pin on the opposite side of rod. The UR5 robot pushses this bending arm from a further from axis moment, along the bend arm, to generate maxmium force loads. As the robot arcs its radius of bend the Rotating bend pins apply a greater force to the rod around its central axis pin, achieving the desired bend angles thorugh varied arc lengths (angle percentage out of a full circle radius + springback to achieve bends)
BENDING PROCESS; using the bending arm extension tool, UR5 robot lowers two toolhead pins into lock holes in the bend arm[1]. The robot then runs a bending arc [2-4] with radius relative to desired bend angle + material springback
Rotating
