+ Robert I. Mothershed REGISTRATION EDUCATION
2611 Vallejo Street- Unit 11 - Los Angeles, CA 90031 USA Phone : 310.972.0973
Email : rob@robmothershed.net Website: www.robmothershed.net
NCARB Certificate California Architect C34114 Total Career Experience: 14 years (plus/ minus) LA USCAD - Revit 2009 Parametric SoftwareTraining - Certificate (2008) Clemson University Graduate School of Design & Building (May 2002) Master of Architecture (2001)Study Abroad Opportunity: Charles E. Daniel Center of Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy Clemson University College of Art, Architecture, and Humanities (December 1996) BS in Design Midland Technical College, Columbia S.C. AEC Program (1992-1994)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS
Submitted Entries / Proposed Projects >DAT[A] >>>Digital Atelier Terrafirmative (ANARCHITECTURE) Director and 2014 Guggenheim Museum , Helsinki Finland Founder 2014 Budapest , National Gallery and Ludwig Contemporary Museum 2014 Lucas Museum, Chicago 2013 Taichung Cultural Center, Libray and Fine Arts Center 2013 House of Pink Floyd, 1st place , Second design phase series 2013 Kinmen Passenger Ferry Terminal 2012 KCRW - Mobile Recording Studio, Los Angeles 2011 Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial , Washington D.C. U of F - Prosthetic digression- Plexus r+d 2011 Hong Kong Hotel Tower - Kowloon District 2011 HSR LA - High Speed Rail, Master plan Union Station, Los Angeles 2008 eVOLO - High Rise City Skyscraper Tower - Los Angeles 2008 Taiwan Performing Arts Center - 3 Theaters 2009 MJ Forever - 9th place (230 entries) 2007 SCION- Automobile Showroom, Anywhere USA 2006 LAp Dancer - 1st place, Call for LA Times Entries, Model @ USC Annenburg C.O.C. 2005 Sun Chair - Metropolis magazine , 4th place, 1300 entries. 2004 Chicago River Stations, AIA Chicago 2004 Tittot - Museum of Glass, Taipei City 2003 Chi Chi Earthquake Memorial, Landscape Design 2002 Library of the Future - Annual Japan Architect Issue 2002 New York Highline - Top 50 ( 800 entries ) Masterplan SCI-ARC-office team memember - J:PA
CONSTRUCTED INSTALLATIONS
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COMPUTER SKILLS
SCI-ARC Gallery Installation - J:PA (Office team member 2004) Digressions : University of Florida - (Plexus r + d ( spring 2004) MOD-01- Willow Street, 200 sf Temporary gallery/ studio - Fabricator / Builder Cafe - The Last Bookstore, Historic Spring Arts District - Fabricator / Welder / Wood work RED -Downtown Main Street Art Gallery Showing for Painted Brain - Models and Drawings
SCIARC - Active Mentor / Intern Supervisor - 3 undergraduate students, Summer 2014 AIAS Chapter President / Board of Directors, AIAS South Carolina, 1994,1995, 1996 Clemson Advancement Foundation,CAF - University President’s Student Committee The American Academy in Rome-Los Angeles Chapter membership Cal- Poly Pomona - PHD Thesis Advisor - Regenerative Studies 2011 Anderson College - Anderson , South Carolina (Spring + Fall 2000) --Adjunct Professor for two undergraduate courses : Art 353 (Architectural Materials and Methods) --Art 151 (Introduction to Architectural Drawing) Clemson University - Clemson, South Carolina (Fall 2000 + Fall/Spring 2001/2002) --Teaching Assistant for second year design studio for Professor Maureen Zell and Dr. Jane Hurt
Harrison and Anne Forrester Travel fellowship – One semester of all academic/ travel expenses paid at the Charles E. Daniel Center of Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy First Place HOK (Hellmouth, Obata, and Kassabaum) Award – Senior Exit Thesis Project (1996) Allen Thompkin’s Scholarship Award for Outstanding Professional Leadership (Chapter President AIAS, 1996) AIACC Interior Design Award- Merit Award- Brightleaf Cosemetic & Holistic Dental Office- Charles Bernstein Architect- Project Design team member
AutoCAD 2014 / FormZ 6.5 / Revit 2014 / Rhino 5.0 / Fryrender / Dreamweaver 3.0/ Bentley Microstation 8.1/ Various Adobe Programs
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE NAC Architecture 2013- Current
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: LOHA 2012 – 2013
Long Beach High School Number 2. LBUSD, $52 Million USD 2D + 3D BIM Drawing Exterior Model Manager / Office BIM Coordinator. Project just gained DSA approval. Construction to begin this year. Santa Monica Boulevard - SMB20 http://www.loharchitects.com/work/smb20 SMB20 - $18.5 Million.Project Manager position for 1.5 years. Wrote all Contractual agreements and took the SD project thru DD and CD’s. Coordinated all project activities for Building Permit. Negotiated consultants fees. Worked directly with national client and local developer. Lead project team staff through schedules, cost estimates, details, BIM collision, and material specification. Site Demolition was started. Project is placed on indefinite hold.
HNTB Architecture 2009-2012
HNTB : San Diego International Airport Terminal 2 West Building and Airside Expansion - San Diego, California - $300 Million USD Digital designer for the SD, DD, and CD project phases of the Terminal 2 West Building and Airside Expansion Project. The terminal expansion will consist of 430,000-SF of new public and non-public areas, providing 10 additional contact aircraft gates, while the airside pavement expansion will incorporate an area of 1.5 millionSF including aircraft parking, aprons, taxiways and taxi lanes. This project was delivered using the designbuild delivery method. HNTB Northern County Transit District, Oceanside Transit Center – Oceanside, California Project Architect for the development of new shelters on the existing west platform. The shelters are designed to relate to existing commuter rail shelters in other stations on the system. Researched Eco-sensitive materials that were cost viable. Organic PVs and custom 3M Resin poured canopies were designed. Design went to a local fabrication manufacturer for bid. SR99- Seattle - HNTB BIM/CAD Project Architect for Tunnel Operations Buildings ( North and South). Provided QAQC for project submission. The tunnel will be the biggest in diameter ever built. The TBM tunnel has 57.5 FT diameter and 9273 mining. The interior tunnel will contain two stacked roads (North Bound and South Bound) with two lines each: Tunnel ventilation duct and egress corridor and utilidor. Sophisticated electrical and mechanical systems: ventilation, CO2 monitoring, drainage and pumping, fire suppression, security, communication and SCADA. The main two operations buildings will have the following dimensions: North:78,205 SF and South: 52,339 SF LAX: Los Angeles International Airport, Tom Bradley Int’l Terminal Expansion – Los Angeles, California Vertical Transportation coordinator between HNTB and Fentress Architects. IM designer for planning and design of $1.3 billion expansion of the Tom Bradley Terminal. The one million-SF project involves two new concourses with A380 capable gates; a five level addition to the existing terminal core providing new concessions, airline lounges and expanded Customs and Border Protection facilities; and provisions for a people mover connection to a future midfield satellite concourse. Watson II Programming, West Los Angeles College - Culver City, California Design manager for development of programming documents as the basis of design for design-build procurement of an 18,000-SF facility for the college’s Motion Picture and Television Production School. The facility will include a 10,000 SF studio-grade sound stage, production /set dressing shop and a prop house. The project will be designed to achieve a LEED Silver rating. P.E. II Programming, West Los Angeles College - WLACC Design manager for development of programming documents as the basis of design for design-build procurement of 17,000-SF of new athletics and physical education/dance department facilities. The facilities programmed include a new dance rehearsal studio and a dance performance studio, new athletics team rooms, locker rooms, showers and restroom facilities, as well as improvements to the baseball stadium dugouts, spectator seating/ spectator experience and a new baseball storage/field maintenance facility. The project will be designed to achieve a LEED Silver rating. Facilities, Maintenance & Operations Programming -WLACC Design manager for development of programming documents as the basis of design for design-build procurement of 14,000-SF of new administrative, shop, storage and warehouse spaces for the campus facilities department.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE COArchitects 2008-2009
Health Sciences Education Building, Phoenix Biomedical Campus University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University - $280 Million USD Assisted the lead principal Architect in all 3D massing, rendering, plan, elevation, material studies. Lead the digital BIM Model management. Worked SD and DD phases for 13 months. This was a GMP project that initiatly had 700,000 SF of assignable program. The building was reduced three times to fit budget. Future phases include 2 more 12 storey lab buildings. he HSEB contains flexible classrooms, simulation laboratories, gross anatomy facilities, pre-clinical training facilities, learning resources center, student services, faculty offices and administrative space. Inspired by Arizona’s iconic canyon formations, the façade meets objective criteria for thermal performance and durability, while creating an architectural expression specific to the building’s place and time. CO Architects: Executive & Design Architect; Ayers Saint Gross: Associate Architect. Transolar was contracted to assist in the SD phase and their data was implemented at various charettes. Jonathan Kanda was the PM in charge.
HSEB
San Pedro High School, John & Muriel Olguin Campus Los Angeles Unified School District - San Pedro, CA Worked with lead office designer Dennis Macfadden with the Gymnasium, Library, and Multi-Purpose spaces. I added interior options for seeing how daylight worked against glare. The assignments to coordinate spaces was entered into the BIM model by the BIM team. My CD responsibilities were to model and render only. Life Sciences Center Loyola Marymount University- Los Angeles, CA
LAUSD
Worked on SD directly with Bob Steel ( team designer) to win this short list competition. I supported the project team with digital content, printed 3D models, and 3D renderings to win the work. We developed over 14 schemes in the 4 months. The new building designed under the LMU Campus Master Plan, the science center establishes new campus aesthetic standards in a modern, interdisciplinary facility for biology, chemistry and natural science. The science center contains teaching laboratories, lab support space, faculty offices, classrooms, shared public spaces, a 300-seat auditorium serving the entire campus, and a 300-vehicle subterranean parking structure. HSEB
HSEB
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Lookinglass Architecture and Design 2007-2008
East Valley Adult Center - Sherman Oaks, CA Executed working CD drawings for the 17,600 SF project. LGA was the executive architect to RCHS. We performed final exterior CD drawings and specifications. Project was $625 per SF in 2008. Emil Mertzel was in charge of contract development. My assigned task coordinated working specs and engineering systems. There are three main planning blocks for the site. Exterior materials were standing seam metal, CMU, and Portland cement plaster. Prepared DD documents for Private Residential Cleints - 2 different houses
Carrier Johnson Architects Costa Mesa and San Diego, California, USA (Sept 2004-Jan 2005, July 2005-Feb. 2006) CSU Dominguez Hill Learning Resource Addition and Renovation (DD) Assisted with overall design development and State Board Chancellor Approval Various task components included building physical pedestrian bridge models, electronically mapping natural sun path movements through the primary exterior entry courtyard, material area estimate takeoffs, documenting existing site conditions, and updated campus project site plan. Claremont University Master Plan- Graduate School Housing (DD) Modified and updated site plan with new floor plan configurations. VCCCD Fire / Sheriff Academy (SD) Assisted with client power-point digital presentations CIM Housing I-Hope Tower- Downtown LA- (DD) Developed new rooftop penthouse/loft units (live /work style). Newport Office Building – (DD) Coordinated all design-build drawings for all team disciplines, building department official, construction contractors. Westin Hotel Study – Ontario, CA (SD) UC-Irvine-Social and Behavioral Sciences Building (SD) Project design assistant, printed and fabricated scaled digital study models, constructed physical site models and program massing studies. Worked closely with manager to resolve working schemes that provided efficient building solutions. Attended all client project kick-off user group meetings and presentations. Managed current design drawings for campus director approvals. Mariner’s Church Chapel (SD) Prepared interior digital model renderings. Actively involved throughout the entire design charette iteration process. Oaklawn Masterplan – Chula Vista (SD) Created with project manager’s direction, a new viable urban design solution for new non-traditional housing neighborhood. This complex planning development framed a local vernacular of building with modern placemaking. Finished a full schematic design package that integrated over 700 residential units. Designed six complimentary prototypical town home unit types that were flexible and feasible. Established presentation graphics and clarified concept models with program scope.
CSUDH
Mariner’s
Liberstudio Architects 2007-2008
Project Coordinator - Lead Project Supervisor: Gregory Hathaway, 310-467-4292, Sheldon Liber Submitted Professional Proposals / Fee Estimates – RFQ/RFP Aerospace Corporation Headquarters + Town of Apple Valley ( New Public Works Facility) Santa Clarita Sports Complex- Phase 4 Gymnasium Facility + Rock-it Cargo at LAX. Lead al field documentation drawings for both active buildings and executed overall building furniture drawing. New Gymnasium Addition at the Fiore Teen Center –Thousand oaks, CA (DD) Updated site drawings, floor plans, sections, elevations and roof plans for client approval. Coordinated digital model renderings with outside resources. Beverly Hills Unified School District – Modernization school projects for Hawthorne, Horace Mann, and El Rodeo (CD). Job captain position. Three different urban campus locations that primarily included Auditorium and Toilet facility upgrades. Created all reference plan, section, elevation drawings for entire building project. Managed all electronic file distribution, format, information for DSA review and submission. Generated accessible sign package. Met with all educational user client groups for program scope development and assisted with finalizing summer maintenance items.
FER Architects 2006-2007
Project Coordinator - 3D modeler Garfield House - Single Family house in La Canada San Marcos Housing- Hillside Development - 88 new townhomes M.U.D. - Louisville Kentucky, Mixed Use development
Gehry Partners, LLP 2005
Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Master Plan, New York (SD) 4 Hotel/ Residential Towers, NBA Arena, underground parking with renovated Subway station- 4.3 billion dollar construction project. Schematic design team member responsibilities included: Maintaining current arena floor plans with actual program scope areas. Coordinated client presentation drawings with digital parametric model and various physical Masterplan design models. Assisted structural engineering consultant with locating cantilevered columns with underground parking entrances, storage docks, freight elevators, delivery stations, and utility connections. Weekly task assignments helped resolve vertical and horizontal circulation issues with media security, private team and public area access concerns. Lead Project Manager, Tensho Takemori
Callus- Shortridge/ MCBA 2005
Hardrock HQ - CAD architect / 2d designer
Dentist office in Santa Monica - 3D designer - DD/CDs
Jones,Partners:Architects El Segundo, California 2004
Plexus r + d Atlanta March 2003-Sept. 2004
Temporarily Contracted as a Project Assistant for meeting current design/build project deadlines. Responsibilities were focused on steel fabrication and material assembly. Construction projects include: SCIARC Gallery Installation - LA / Jaunita Townhomes - Hermosa Beach (interior stairs, balcony screens, metal deck ceiling, guardrails) / Spotwelder’s 4 + 6 20’ Metal Container Addition (structural joists/ beams/ girders )- Venice Beach. I reported to Doug Jackson as field fabricator. Built digital 3D models for commissioned and competition projects. Managed construction document drawings for building permits and pricing. Researched and specified new building materials and practices. Assisted with institutional client presentations. Prepared project portfolios and workbooks. Coordinated and drafted design details along with generating door, window, and finish schedules. Helped assemble and design 2 gallery design exhibitions (1 academic /1 museum). Various Projects include: SPSU Identity Tower, Student Lawn, and Pedestrian Plaza / SPSUCompetitions Laboratory / Mooreland Avenue Live/Work / Ponce de Leon Townhomes / University of Florida Exhibition /Chi-Chi Earthquake Memorial / Memorial Street Train Depot / Little Azio’s /
FJCI Frank J. Clark 1999-March 2003
Lexington County Judicial and Administrative Center l Lexington, SC Completed digital model and generated three-dimensional visualization for county government presentation, drafted Schematic Design and Design Development Drawings for the 239 K facility and prepared Conceptual Design Document for Press Release ASD5 Children’s Learning Center - Worked directly with school district facility director . Modernization project Oconee County Courthouse - Walhalla, SC Assisted in master plan study for new 68k SF center, aided in schematic design, design development phases and constructed 3D renderings for government client Watkinsville High School - Oconee, GA Built digital models and assembled illustrations for education client and team consultants worked on CDs construction document permit/ bid set (2002) Feasibility Survey l School District of Pickens County, SC Analyzed, documented, and researched 12 public elementary, middle, and high schools at different rural locations that would incorporate a new model program for various core student populations Developed company website in August of 1999
HOK Architects, Inc. Greenville, SC (May 1998 – June 1999 : Arch. Dept. was closed)
Littlejohn Coliseum Renovation/Addition l Clemson University Field verified existing facility, revised Design Development drawings, administered material research, coordinated construction documents, and participated in SD and DD phases with Sports Group Greenville History Museum l Greenville, SC Assisted in Pre-schematic Programming Phase and formulated building footprint location Medical University of South Carolina - Operating Room Expansion l Charleston, SC Coordinated schematic interior design into a construction renovation drawing set and performed document details for record files *IPTAY- Avenue of Champions Project l Clemson University Constructed scalable stadium site model for design presentation that promoted public outdoor ceremonial for new athletic spaces
REFERENCES
Emil Mertzel ,AIA : Owner of Lookinglass Architecture and Design Ron Lee : Structural Engineer - Principal Saifil Bouquet Engineer Ray Varela ,AIA: Design Partner - Carrier Johnson Architects / Planners Andrew Wilson : Master Spec Writer - AWC Stephen Rhoads AIA: past Vice President of FJClark, Inc. Dr. Jane Hurt: Full Professor at Clemson University Arshia Mamoodi: past owner of Null.Lab Erik Lewitt, AIA: owner of Plexus r + d
Helsinki Museum - Design by Rob Mothershed 2014
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