DEVIN
LOHMAN

M.ARCH   -   LEED AP BD+C   -   WELL AP





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DIGITAL
FABRICATOR

DESIGNER AT
ALL SCALES

ARCHITECTURAL
ROBOTICIST



ALL 
WORK

DIGITAL
FABRICATION

STUDIO 
WORK

My studio work aims to bridge the gap between theory and praxis, taking the digital fabrication techniques acquired in other realms of my design education and using them to create comfortable and materially efficient structures.

I look up to architects such as Richard Rogers and Flores i Prats for their deliberate expression of elements that other architects would choose to hide, and I aim for my designs to evoke the lessons they teach.  

       


ROUND-   TIMBER
ECODUCT





Speculative

Fall
2022

Designed as part of research to create an optimized balance between embodied carbon and operational carbon, the Roundtimber Eco-Duct is a structurally experimental welcome center for prospective Georgia Tech students. Designed as a research studio project into low embodied carbon structural systems, the structural system takes inspiration from a thesis by Dr. Aurimas Bukauskas of MIT, who acted as a consultant on the design.

Expanding on the work done by Dr. Bukauskas, variations on roundtimber compound columns that geometrically solved the issue of racking, were the driving force of spatial layout as well as the overall structural grid design, and digitally fabricated roundtimber models give experimental credence to the hypothetical embodied carbon calculations.

Cove.tool analysis shows a projected final EUI of -2.98, owing to the large scale insulative and habitat regenerative turf roof, as well as digitally fabricated roundtimber solar carports offsetting energy needs.


Winner of 2023 GT College of Architecture Best Graduate Model

Advanced Studio I:
Howard Wertheimer, FAIA


   

       


FUNICULAR
  FORMWORK



Prototyped

Fall 2023

The transition from 3D modeling data to 2D vector data for many digital fabrication operations require large amounts of specific clean up operations that parametric tools are not made to tackle. Shape Machine, a Georgia Tech created, shape grammars based software, can take the faces of a 3D model and output 2D cut files, alter the tolerances to create functional and buildable products, and finally detail these vectors  in bulk based on further requirements.

Funicular Formwork uses as its example a topologically interlocking funicular pavilion constructed with zero mortar and 1,300 precast concrete elements. Using Shape Machine, each of these elements is rapidly detailed into immediately useable CNC cut files to create formwork, with edits possible afterward.

2024 Georgia AIA Awards 
Faculty Nominee


Design and Research Studio I: 
Dr. Athanassios Economou

   










 ATLANTA
SCHREBERGARTEN





Speculative

Spring
2024

Andrew Bruno’s Design and Research studio, titled “The Homelike City,” aimd to create interventions to Atlanta’s “Pittsburgh” neighborhood to improve the housing stock in a way that did not exclude family types that weren’t a traditional nuclear family. 

The site I was given was on a heavily polluted freight railroad edge, and as such I chose to begin the design with a 5 year bioremediation plan using windrows to slowly and naturally minimise soil contamination. These double as landart and noise reduction rows for the surrounding housing.

At the end of these 5 years, rather than plant housing uncomfortably close to a rail line, this project took inspiration from schrebergartens around Europe to give the nearby public access to an outdoor ammenity.

The land is redistributed into schrebergarten plots, each to be rented out to a local family for a minimal price that covers the tax on the land and the small amount of communal maintenance necessary. Profit is not the goal.

The plots would each have on them a small hut, designed and built by the occupents themselves, and the architectural aspect of this studio is an exploration into the typology of hut, meant as a nod to “One House per Day,” Andrew Bruno’s well known Instagram account and book.


Design and Research Studio II:
Andrew Bruno







AB AQUA
 LIBERTAS




Speculative

Spring
2023

Distributing what was formerly a centralised system of food, water, and energy, Ab Aqua Libertas gives power back to the people. Leveraging the food, energy, water nexus allows this interconnection to create a closed nodal system without waste and allows each community to be independent in the event of any upheaval or catastrophe.

Modular housing blocks are interspersed in the infrastructural elements, creating a truly self-sufficient community with subsidized housing, paid for by the 3 outputs of the system: hydroponically grown produce, water treated by the constructed wetlands, and power produced by the byproducts of the water treatment facility, stored in gravity batteries within the hydroponic towers.

2023 Portman Prize Finalist + Honorable Mention

Partner Project with Caroline McClatchey

Advanced Studio II:
Dr. Ingeborg Rocker


   

   CAMBIUM
PAVILION




Prototyped

Spring 2022

Funded by the Georgia Forestry Foundation, this studio aimed to design a mass timber pavilion to educate the public on both the material itself, as well as sustainable forestry practices used to harvest timber for construction. With a project budget of $250,000, we chose to split this program into 3 parts: Education, Interaction, and Pause.

Utilizing a consistent material palette of 8ft by 16 ft CLT panels and 4 ply glulams, we designed the pavilions to be weatherproof and completely mobile, being able to disassemble in just a few hours to move to a new location and cater to a new population.

The defining element of the project is the wedged connection joint, prototyped at full scale and constructed to be reminiscent of the wedges used in fine furniture making, while using modern hardware akin to that of a wedged machinery leveler to lock CLT elements together.

Partner Project with Mary Hays

Design Studio VII: 
Dr. Russell Gentry
Tristan Al Haddad
Jen Hsiaw








 About
   Devin






Contact:



770.825.6493

devinlohman@gmail.com




 I am an architectural designer and digital fabricator working in the Fabrication Center at IIT's College of Architecture. In my position I focus on managing digital aspects of student and faculty fabrication work and assist with research projects focusing on digital and robotic workflows.

I hold a B.S.Arch and M.Arch from the Georgia Institute of Technology, specifically focusing my studies on robotic construction and CNC workflows. I am extremely passionate about digital fabrication and have experience producing both small scale and large scale, inhabitable installations.

In my time as a design and fabrication intern at Formations Studio, the creative practice of Tristan Al-Haddad, I was exposed to numerous innovative digital fabrication methods as I assisted with the construction of multiple large scale spatial installations as well as producing construction drawings, concept drawings, and client presentations. In my position as Graduate Fabrication Assistant at Georgia Tech's Digital Fabrication Lab I was able to assist with students and faculty at the cutting edge of computer assisted construction as well as improve my own digital fabrication skills in the school's state-of-the-art design lab.

I aim to use my knowledge of fabrication to minimize waste and material usage in my projects, as I believe sustainability and protecting our future is vital. I am a LEED Accredited Professional as well as a WELL Accredited Professional, having used knowledge and concepts from these rating systems to improve both my personal projects as well as my studio and professional work in terms of sustainability.  

In my free time, I enjoy bar trivia, carving wooden spoons, improving my Irish Gaelic language skills, long distance thru-hiking, and reading novels (Knut Hamsun and Kurt Vonnegut, preferably). I have put my bar trivia knowledge to the test as a contestant on Jeopardy! three times, winning once, and I used my winnings to fund a thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in the Summer of 2024 with friends from Grad School.