Dobbie
Chris
Melvin’s Scrub-A-Dub Hub
Activity Room
Bike Rest Stop
Charrette
3 ISOMETRIC VIEW
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Oak Leaf Library
Adaptive Reuse
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VA Soldier Grounds
Site Intervention
A human scale washing machine for all
The Scrub-A-Dub Hub features a main tumbler, auxillary sprayers and basins, dyers, The structure is made of corrugated metal sheet, functioning as a washboard.
Precedent Diagrams - “Washing”
and seating.
Here you can see the inner functionings of the Bath-Mobile
This thing is twiddling its thumbs!
Iterative Models
3 Oak Leaf Library
The front elevation features a glass tube installation that mimics glacial fractals
A landscraping hypostyle hall of inhabitable rammed earth columns inspired by Wisconsin’s geological history. Houses community programs including a theatre, cafe, and technology lab, as well as storage for 100,000 books.
The building slopes down to connect to the Oak Leaf trail, supporting outdoor programs year round.
The new library is supported by the skeleton of a former beer warehouse, retrofitted with mass-timber elements, rammed earth, glass, and shading systems.
3/32" = 1'-0" Section 1b1
Reception + Grand Staircase
Exterior @ Night
Collaborative Spaces
VA Solider Grounds
These projects spanned a semester long investigatino into the remediation of Milwaukee’s VA campus. Showcased are a memorial park, Behavior Health healing center, and columbarium addition.
The first project is focused on remediating a portion of the Hank Aaron Trail that runs through the site. The design creates a war memorial for veterans and families to visit and enjoy, as the site desparately needs a family-centric recreation area. The adjacency to a renovated theatre futher supports the program.
The final plan supports the memorial walls, an art gallery, cafe, ampitheater, and rentable lots for families. Additionally, there is a medicinal garden as a land ackowledgment gesture to Native American Nations
The length of each wall corresponds to the amount of causialties in each major American conflict.
The walls are made of lapstone similar to that you might find raking the landscape of a weathered battlefield
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The Behavioral Health - Healing Center at the V.A. Hospital is a holistic healing center with a design that encourages both privacy and openness, with opportunities for trauma survivors to work with staff, the community, and each other in non-traditional healthcare settings. The site houses the healing center, apartments for veterans and former patients, and a healing garden with native plantings.
The welcome center, healing unit, impatient unit, and therapy center are housed within one building, allowing for a seamless transition for patients and staff between stages of healing or work stations.
Welcome Center
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The final project consisted of designing the addition of 5,000 columbarium units, a chapel, and welcome center on the site of a renovated church. My role in this group project was site design, which was an iterative process that changed courses many times while building design changes and project goals were refined. The finished site is reminiscent of an Olmstead memorial that you might find in D.C., with an axis sprouting from the renovated church. The landscape is populated with columbarium ranks and anchored by the 4 staple programs of the site. Within the site design are multiple plazas, shading trees, groups of plants, heriarchal pathways, parking solutions, and rainwater management strategies.
These diagrams illustrate how different elements of the site design were influenced by former findings.
Thank you I hope you like what you see
Chris Dobbie
