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University of Miami School of Architecture, B.Arch, Class of 2022
Robin Crowder
Resume
Robin Crowder
1527 Albenga Ave. Coral Gables, FL 33146
313-400-4405
crowderrrobin@gmail.com
Education: Bachelor of Architecture
Minors: Urban Studies, Spanish University of Miami
Expected Date of Graduation: May 2022
Dean's List: Fall 2017-Present GPA: 3.75
Coral Gables, FL
Skills: -Microsoft Word -Adobe Indesign -SketchupPro -Microsoft Excel -Adobe Illustrator -AutoCAD -Microsoft PowerPoint -Adobe Photoshop -Intermediate Revit -Advanced Spanish -Adobe Camera Raw -Beginner Rhino -Photography -Lumion -Enscape
Experience: Dover, Kohl, & Partners – Intern May 2021 - curremt
- Assisted with base 3D models in preparation for charrettes.
- Simple code writing for web page.
- Composed line drawings and illustrative site plans.
- Shadowed project managers at municipal meetings.
- Learned basic company programs (SquareSpace, Mapbox, GoogleMaps).
-Attended various company training sessions.
- Assisted in presentation preparation for future projects
City of Detroit Building Safety Environment and Engineering - Intern May 2018 - Aug. 2018 May 2019 - Aug. 2019
- Reviewed plans in process of site plan review submissions.
- Validated that plans met with ordinance requirements.
- Attended weekly plan review meetings to address non-compliance issues.
- Attended special land use meetings with citizens and developers.
- Assisted in research and launching of new Land Use Project (2018).
- Shadowed project managers at construction sites of future businesses within the city.
- Learned basic company programs (Smartsheet, Q-Less, ProjectDox, Accela).
Awards and Achievements:
Dean’s List (Fall 2017-Present)
Cane’s Achievement Award (Fall 2017-Present)
Owen Washington Scholarship (Fall 2017)
John A Childs Scholarship (Fall 2018)
Ferguson, Glasgow, Schuster, Soto Award (Spring 2019)
Costas G. Lemonopoulos Scholarship (Spring 2020)
James Ames Steffian Scholarship (Fall 2020)
Extracurricular:
Women In Architecture - Member Sept 2017- Dec 2017
-Attend networking events, workshops, and professional events for career opportunities
Tunnel of Oppression - Volunteer Feb 2019 – Feb 2020
-Assisted with creating of oppression rooms
American Institute of Architecture Students - Member, Mentor August 2020-Present
-assist undergraduate students when necessary
-attend networking events
Table of Contents
Interactive Project Map
Program: Squarespace
Company: Dover, Kohl, & Partners
This project map displays the completed projects for Dover, Kohl, and Partners. The program, Squarespace, allows for an interactive map to be placed on the firm’s website whereas, a potential client or an eager individual can use this to find the locations of all projects. As one finds a project that interests them, clicking on the project redirects the individual to the project’s summary page. This project map has been used for Dover, Kohl, and Partners for a year.
PROJECTS
SOMI Gardens
Location: South Miami, FL
Professor: Frank Martinez
Collaboration with: Sheinya Joseph Samantha Ramos
South Miami has a history of a population that augmented within 40 years. However, the impacts of Hurricane Andrew left the city to redevelop a hometown plan. This project closely examines the influence of Marshall Williams Park on the surrounding urban environment. The plan of existing the park illustrates intent to divide and segregate a community that once had a connected street network. This hypothetical project’s main focus was to relocate the park and create a mixed-use neighborhood.
South Miami Gardens Site Plan Proposal 1/32”=1’0”
Professor: Frank Martinez Spring, 2021
Project designed by: Robin Crowder, Sheinya Joseph, Samantha Ramos
Master Plan
3
4
2 Bedroom @ 1,110 sqft.
Bedrooms @ 1,200 sqft.
Bedrooms @ 1,560 sqft.
Plan Designed by Sheinya Joseph
New Horizons School
Location: Coconut Grove, FL
Professor: Charlotte Von Moos
Material Focus: Wood, Concrete
Focus: Adaptive Reuse
Gas stations on the axis of SW 27th Avenue in Miami were closely documented and analyized to understand the worthiness and beauty of these everyday structures. After documenting these gas stations and selecting the sites with the most potential, a concept was formulated with the intent of mutating the site to something new. With the programs of a learning center, a terrace, and eatery, the project faces the challenge of addressing the programmatic layout and composition as it responds to the site’s urban context.
Existing Shell Gas Station Coconut Grove, Miami
Longitudinal Section (west)
Render of West Elevation
R&M Apartments
Location: Miami Beach, FL
Professor: Roberto Behar
Collaboration with: Max Speziani
Material Focus: Concrete
Located in Miami Beach, the urban district includes historic, tourist, recreational and social uses. Historic, new, modest, luxury, low and high-rise residential buildings coexist within the area in a unique combination of functions, building types and formal approaches. This project uses a 550 foot by 300 foot site to address the concept of social housing in a manner that encourages social interaction and demonstrates an affordable housing strategy.
South East Elevation
North Section
Drawing by: Max Speziani
3/32” Scale Model
Urban Composition
Location: Homestead, FL
Professor: Adam Bonosky
Collaboration with: Larah Garcez Biondo Alexia Lohken
This project studies an area of 82 arces of land in Homestead, Florida. In a team of three, a master plan of an urban city was conposed. This plan includes the making of contemportary housing and urban programs that respect the environment and surroundings Individually, each team member had the role of composing drawings of a specific architectural element in their urban city that was closely studied at a larger scale.
Existing Site
PHOTOGRAPHY
Still Life
Still life is a work of art that artists have used for thousands of years. This technique is used to tell stories and convey a specific scene. It was the period of the Renaissance that allowed still life to become artwork that also brought drama to ordinary objects. This project glorifies still life with a personal and passionate intent.
Professor: Steven Brooke
Water to Wine
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
Location: 11291 S.W 142 Avenue Miami, FL 33146
After construction completed in 2002, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church opened for ministry. This set of images conveys basic photography techniques such as on-axis photography and compositional layout. With permission from the church, this project’s intent is to introduce the church with photos that tell its story.
Front Entrance
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
Donna E. Shalala Student Center
Location: University of Miami Coral Gables, FL
This set of photos presents one building’s interior and evening shot of its facade. The photos display the way a glazed building uses natural light in the day and glass facade at night. Twilight and evening photography has been studied dating back to early painters. The purpose of this kind of art is to create a timeless image of what cannot be seen during the day.
Third Floor Student Center Interior
Evening Exterior Shot
ART PROJECTS
Color has been one of the most powerful visual elements. Color is subjective, using influences from culture and space. This project’s intent is to understand visual elements and representations in built spaces. A banana is used to study its physical aspects showing how it can be representended in differentent forms of art, including turning the fruit of choice into a tropical tile design as illustrated to the left.
Tropical Tile
Focus: Color
Professor: Oscar Machado
Color Grid: used to explore colors of the banana
Elevation, Section and Plan of Banana