Zachary Robinson
Undergraduate Portfolio
131 10th Avenue Chelsea, New York
This project allowed my partner and I to research and answer the question of what work meant to us. We created site analysis diagrams as well as diagrams for the precedents that we chose. For my partner and I’s office building, we decided to reconnect the urban landscape of new York to the natural, organic landscape that has retaken the highline.
Y-Beach Bathhouse
This was the first project where I had to explore form and function in a building. The wave form was created from one word, Noise. I was told to think of a word that would describe the site. Noise came from the waves along the shore which is where I got most of my inspiration.
Imagining Space
Below is the object geometries and parti of a compass. I wanted something to challenge myself when it came to using the object for creating a hypothetical building collage.
Object Geometries and Object Taxonomy
Experiential Drawing
Wall As Gallery
In this project I was able to experience how to place a build or project on a site. This included learning how to connect the build to the site and learning how people would interact with the build and how it was placed.
Site Section Wall Elevation Wall AxonometricWall Renders
Field, Figure, and Ground Analysis
This project was used to help determine what would be figures and what would be good as a ground and fields. It also helped me realize what models like this can do to help an architect visualize what an area is going to look like. The oblique on the left is a final idea for one quadrant of the final model.
Model Photos
For this pavilion, i really wanted to create some kind of mimic of nature. At first, it started with the mimicing of the tea leaves directly and then slowly evolved into mimicing the movements of the trees as the wind blows. This pavilion is made up o flightweight carbonfiber that sways, like tree branches, when the wind blows
Lazarus Pavilion
Paddle Section
Floor Plan
Roof Plan
Sections
Iteration Diagram
Joint Diagram
