Joseph Combs Portfolio

JOSEPH ROBERT COMBS

49 Robinson Street, Narragansett, RI 02882 401.465.6702 [email protected]

JOSEPH ROBERT COMBS49 Robinson Street, Narragansett, RI 02882401.465.6702 [email protected]

Travel Studies

Education Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RIMaster of Architecture, 2010 Alpha Rho Chi

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NYBachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design, 2003

South Kingstown High School, South Kingstown, RI, 1999

Ski l ls ComputerExperienced in AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. PersonalWoodworking and Carpentry, Photography, Well-Practiced in manual drafting, model-making, and free hand sketching.

Work Experience Leslie Architects, South Kingstown, RI 2003-PresentIntern ArchitectProject manager, Computer drafting, Construction drawings and details, Applications (Zoning/CRMC etc.), Model building, Photography

Architectural Drafting Course, RISD Providence, RI 2008/2009Teaching AssistantAided in teaching weekly classes of 15 students, available for questions outside of class

BEB Gallery Coordinator, RISD Providence, RI 2008-2010Gallery CoordinatorMeet with Artist/Architect/Designer to discuss installation of show, lead installation and oversee team

Bob Combs Construction, South Kingstown, RI 1996-2003Carpenters Apprentice

Awards and Honors Rhode Island School of DesignAlpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal Recipient 2010AIAS Forum Minneapolis, MN RISD Representative 2010Graduate Fellow, RISD 2010Alumni Travel Award 2nd Prize 2009Velux Travel Award 1st Prize 2009

Florence, Italy Syracuse University Spring Semester 2002 (concentration: architecture)

Spain Spring 2002- Barcelona, Bilbao (Antoni Gaudi, Frank Ghery)

Peru Fall 2005- Cusco, Ollayantantambao, Aguas Calientes (Inca Architecture, Machu Picchu)

Switzerland Summer 2009- Zurich, Vals, Berne (Peter Zumthor, Le Corbusier)

France Summer 2009- Paris (......)

Leslie Architects Selected Work

The home was designed for a married couple with two children. Broad Rock Road is a straight country road which receives high speed traffic due to its location between URI and the town of South Kingstown. Due to this, the design began to draw on separation as a key generator. It rests within the earth on the edge of a depression on the site. The front entryway is sunken and very few windows exist on the east facade in order to emphasize a divide from the street. In the kitchen, the house opens up to the backyard and the depres-sion acts as a “nest” with the forest at one edge and the house on the other. The home is further separated into three parts: the central program bar, and the two side wings. Where they join, a small vertical window is placed to allow the home to take advantage of west/east cross winds. The two wings are defined in terms of the elements: fire and water. The North wing is used to house fire, which exists in the family room. The South wing is used to collect water and houses the kitchen. On the second floor it is further separated into two worlds: North for the parents and South for the children. The design is modest in size (1,430 square feet total) in an attempt to be as efficient as possible to heat and cool.

RISD - 2009

1380 Broad Rock Road, Peacedale, RI

east elevation

north elevation

west elevation

south elevation

RISD - 2009


First Floorplan

Second Floorplan

RISD - 2009


Program: Vertical Farm

The initial subtractive exercise from the building was a move to bring the community into and through the structure and the program it housed. This creation of an interior street draws off the axis between the park across the river on one end and the main transit hub of Olneyville on the other. The concept models had the intervention woven in and created a symbiotic relationship with the building much like the farm and farmers market would have a symbiotic relationship with the sur-rounding community, needing their collective to fuel the farm. The ground floor of the interior street is farmers market while the upper floors are classrooms and farm. On the inner facades the walls respond to programmatic pressures, movable doors allow the market to expand or contract as needed as well as upper floor window panels are designed to collect wind from the Northwest in order to aerate crops. Inhabitants of the building interact directly with the skin. Much like a farm has a relationship to the hand and the human body, the building also calls on this relationship as the building skin is “worked”.

RISD - 2009

Skin Deep Velux Studio

Existing conditions

Symbiosis Model

RISD - 2009


Woven Model Details

RISD - 2009


Interior Street SketchesInterior Street Facade Detail

RISD - 2009


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Ground Floorplan

1. Interior Street/Market2. Vendor Stands3. Offices4. Aquaponics5. Composting

South Glazing Reflection Study

RISD - 2009


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1. Lobby2. Administrative Offices3. Classrooms4. Incubator Kitchens

Second Floorplan

RISD - 2009


Program: Scuba Training Facility

The design began with an exploration of the metamorphosis required to dive, manipulating anatomy by way of adding extra skin and fins as well as applying compressed air tanks and regulators in order to breathe. All of this to inhabit an environment one is not physiologically designed for. This installation of mechanical SCUBA organs is where the initial studies began. The Facility itself became an organ and depended on exterior systems for its function. The siting was important in that it had to exist on the coastline in order to operate as a gateway between two worlds. Most important was embracing an idea of entering something drastically different from the realm we inhabit as humans on land.

The dive facility exists a few hundred feet away from a constructed coastline on the inner bay of Rhode Island in Providence. It contains a pumping station as well as filter field to intake seawater for the facility. The structure itself is pneumatic with HVAC and electrical running through piping running through the external skeleton.

RISD - 2008

Architectural Design Studio

Organ Studies

RISD - 2008


Insertion Study

RISD - 2008


Rendered Floorplan

RISD - 2008


Longitudinal section

RISD - 2008


RISD - 2009

Captain Hunt School, Central Falls

Program: Reggio Emilia School

Central Falls, RI is one of the densest cities in the North East, for this reason the project began with an attempt to relieve this density or pressure by placing the school’s main floor one story beneath existing grade. Also, the roofs of the structure blends seamlessly with the surrounding landscape allowing for a visual break in the density and providing a much needed green area within the city. The school was designed to provide for the Reggio Emilia method of teaching, which is an emergent curriculum approach. Mini ateliers accompany every classroom which is also where the skylight allows zenithal light to enter. The classrooms then have direct access to the surrounding gardens, amphitheatres etc, while security is provided by the perimeter wall which encompasses the classrooom level of the school. The upper level is used for administration, Student drop off, and a Main Atelier which is where school wide projects are executed and provided to the surrounding neighborhood.

RISD - 2009


Mini Atelier Section

Amphitheatre Section

RISD - 2009


Amphitheatre

Entrance

Main Atelier

RISD - 2009


Lower Floorplan

RISD - 2010

Rebuilding Port au Prince, Haiti

Program: Self Reliant Living

During the recent and devastating earthquake in Port Au Prince, Haiti, much of the urban fabric was destroyed, and much of the infrastructural systems failed. Central government collapsed as well as residents abandoned the remaining structures. People responded in many different ways, many tent cities sprang up as well as a mass exodus into the countryside to live a life that was in a way more independent and self reliant. It is projected that 20,000 new pit sewers will have to be dug, as well as a massive overhaul of the building culture that exists there today. Throughout this investigation I have been interested in providing a decentralized, self reliant living situation within the city as well as designing in such a way as to prevent catastrophic failure in the event of an earthquake. Instead of pit sewers, large composting toilet towers are constructed in vacant lots acting as stabilizers and neighborhood amenity. Bamboo is employed as building material due to its ductility and ability to be locally grown eventually. The project is merely a prototype, being a seed from which a solution could grow and flourish. For centuries the people of Haiti have been exploited and deceived by the centralized powers, foreign aid has not reached them, the promise of urban utility an illusion. In this proposal my hope is to incite a cultural change and provide a method to rebuild and repair the existing fabric with a concept of self reliant block and neighborhoods, a decentralized vision of Port Au Prince.

RISD - 2010


Composting Toilet Bay

Water Collection Bay

RISD - 2010


Toilet Tower with Failure Structure

RISD - 2010


Antique Window Desk - 2006This project began with an antique double hung window I found on the side of the road. The table was built around the sashes of the window over a period of nine months. The structure of the table is dependent upon the sashes.

Bedside Tables- 13” x 13” x 26” Clear Cherry, Spalted Maple, Aluminum Pull

2011

Piano Bench- 15” x 60” x 18” Sycamore, Maple

2011

Bedside Tables- 13” x 13” x 26” Spalted Sycamore, Curly Maple, Aluminum Pull

2011

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