Eli Lurie Candidate for Architecture MA
Architecture & Historic Preservation BFA Savannah College of Art and Design e| elilurie5@gmail.com w| www.elilurie.com
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Table of Contents Design Philosophy
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Lawton Mausoleum
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Hong Kong Immersion
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Chapel of Ease
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La Campesina
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Private Residence
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Trustees Garden
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Kehoe Ironworks
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Nunez House Tax Credits
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Nunez House Field Work
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Harper Fowlkes House
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Design Philosophy
Ink Drawing of Telfair Square
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I am avid about architecture and historic preservation and have substantial experience working on projects involving both of these disciplines. My passion for architecture began when I was only a small child, and my desire took me to a high school where I was trained in both mechanical and architectural drafting. Travel has yielded much of my inspiration; exposure from going to Lacoste and Hong Kong has changed me as a person, as well as a designer. I was taught at a young age to be a life-long learner, and I sincerely feel that I have lived my life with that axiom in mind. I have recently completed my BFA in architecture and historic preservation (dual major), which has enabled me to showcase my potential to the fullest. I had taken classes each summer; as well as additional courses each quarter, to complete both majors within four years. My rigorous course load has helped me to become more efficient and pragmatic when working on projects. I am attending graduate school in the fall, with the end goal of gaining my architectural license. I would love to then open my own firm, specializing in adaptive reuse for low- income families. My experience has shown me that there are numerous families in low- income housing living in unfit conditions, and I want to make it my mission to better serve these people utilizing my architectural and preservation background.
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Lawton Mausoleum Along the ridge of the faรงade there are decorative crenulations that reference the onces seen on medieval castles for defensive purposes, here they are just a revival.
Lawton Mausoleum Eli Lurie Spring 2014 Professor Keller
Today there are signs that the structure has started to fail. By most of the corner joints where the wall meets the buttress there are large cracks in which organic matter is building up causing the cracks to grow progressively worse.
The door of the mausoleum is a very intricate and is full of rich tracery detail. The pointed arched door hood has an interior cusped arch. Which are very common for gothic revival architecture. Simple columns flank the door supporting the arch.
The corners of the mausoleum have turrets that act as a structural flying buttres, holding the corner joints together. Topped by a finial of a flower bud, these gotic inspired turrets are almost eighteen feet tall from the ground all the way to the finial.
On the rear wall there is the worst damage to the structure. Here the marble laminate has started pulling away from the brick structure behind. The wall has become wavy which hascaused thecrestcrenulation pieces to start to slide off the building, the gaps can be seen.
The finials are clearly that of a flower bud, but what is not that clear is of what kind of flower. Throughout history similar elements have been used and have depicted poppyheads, which this could very well be. This also shows the fine marble carving.
Historic American Building Survey Laurel Grove Cemetery Professor Keller The Lawton mausoleum is important because it shows a very elaborate and unusual architectural style. This Gothic Revival mausoleum is the only one of its kind in this specific cemetery, and one of the best examples of Gothic mausoleum architecture in the state. The mausoleum has exceptional marble work, that can be seen in the door and the turrets. The door and surround are very intricate with a cusped arch that is very detailed. The turrets in the corners act as buttresses that tower over the roof, creating a beautiful and structurally necessary component. The Lawton Mausoleum is very important because it shows a time in architecture that was a revival of the Gothic cathedrals in Europe that inspired Americans in the mid -19th century. Along the ridge of the faรงade there are decorative crenulations that reference the once seen on medieval castles for defensive purposes, but here they are just a revival. On the rear wall there is the worst damage to the structure. Here the marble laminate has started pulling away from the brick structure behind. The wall has become wavy which has caused the crest crenulation pieces to start to slide of the building, the gaps can be seen.
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Hong Kong Immersion
Laser Scanning Yuen Mansion, Kowloon Professor Keller “1949, only about 11 percent of China’s 542 million people lived in cities. 1980, only about 19 percent of China’s 985 million people lived in cities. Today, however, te urban share of China’s 1.4 billion population is about 51 percent.“ - Weiping Wu Hong Kong is the fourth densest cities in the world, with a stuning population of almost seven million people. The urbanization of the city has been influenced through many different empires that took hold of the city. It has elements left from early dynasties of Imperial China to the reign of Great Britain. Development from the British was very regulated and most of the buildings build during the British rule are declared monuments protected by law today. Traveling to Hong Kong offered an insight into a way of development in the eastern world which is not widely taught in the United States. For instance learning how southern exposure relates to Fengshui which is believed to relate to the energy of yang. Exposing oneself to different cultures and climates can really make ones design much more anomalous including elements not normally seen.
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Chapel of Ease
Laser Scanning St Helena Island, SC Professor Keller During the fall of 2015 I took a class called digital communication for historic preservation in which I learned about different documentation strategies as well as the justification for documenting historic structures and landscapes. Throughout the course I was introduced to new technologies in which made documentation easier, as well as more accurate. Historic preservation is often thought of as a thing of the past, an outdated assemblage of people and technologies. But the fact is that preservation is becoming a highly technical field, involving many new technologies. One of the first technologies in which I was edified in was the process of laser scanning. We had to learn the fundamental aspects of how to laser scan a structure. It was quite interesting to find out how detailed this technology actually is a single scan, which can capture millions of points, making a detailed record of the structure.
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A question many peope ask about laser scanning is twofold, why spend all of this energy and time documenting a historic structure, and why use this type of technology to do it? This type of question has a very rational and simple answer: our history matters. Every day that passes, structures are losing their original fabric, and may become lost altogether. This type of technology makes it possible to quickly and accurately document structures. Laser scanning specifically can capture many details not able to be captured with traditional methods of documentation.
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La Campesina
Araptive Rehabilitation Plan 1020 East Broad St. Savannah, GA Professor Abraham Working as part of a student team, I contributed to an adaptive reuse plan for the property at 1020 East Broad Street be adaptively rehabilitated to a self-sustaining Mexican restaurant, La Campesina. 1020 East Broad Street is located on the corner of East Broad Street and Park Street. The property is on 1.6 acres on land. The building is made of 16” x 8” x 8” CMU and sits on a poured concrete foundation. The entire structure will be revitalized to accommodate a commercial restaurant and a fresh market. The surrounding property will also be revitalized and converted to the restaurant’s garden. In addition to the garden, a parking lot will be added on the southwest side of the property. The main structure will house the commercial kitchen, an ordering counter, and bar seating. The market will be located at the rear of the main structure. Restaurant seating will also be located in the middle room and the open side structure. The CMU half walls of the side structure will be replaced with mid-century concrete breeze blocks, which will reflect the mid-century aesthetic of the structure. This project required working with different tools from the field of preservation including, a building assessment, project planning, cost estimation, and a pro forma analysis. This project required using all of these tools and creating a comprehensive reuse plan of the selected structure. 10
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1020 East Broad Street Adaptive Rehabilitation
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5/19/2015 7:33:23 PM
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Private Residence
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Rehabilitaiton Drawings 205 W 41st St. Savannah, GA A professor I have worked with in the past was in the process of writing up historic tax credits for 205 W 41st Street, when he approached me about doing rehabilitation drawings for the property. I worked with the owner, contractor, as well as the MPC in Savannah to make sure that the drawings met with the city’s guidelines. In doing this project, I had to teach myself how to create electrical plans, since I had not done them previously and was not directly working under an architect. I had to also go out on site and take field measurements of the existing conditions, and put them into CAD. Then I had to work with the owner to figure out what they wanted to change on the existing structure, and draw the changes in rehab plans. This project gave me many real-world experiences.
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CAD Drawing of Front Porch Rebuild
CAD Drawing of Interior Alterations and Electical Plan
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Trustees Garden
This map shows the buildings surveyed. Map Derived from Google Maps.
Historic Structures Report Trustees Garden Professor Keller Trustees Garden is one of the original wards in Savannah’s historic district. It was historically a commercial and industrial area. Today, it is mainly residential so it was selected to survey, and twenty-five buildings in this ward were selected. The southwest corner of the ward was deemed most appropriate since this is where most of the buildings in this ward are clustered. In doing this on-site survey, a pencil, iPhone, and grid paper were used to document observations of the buildings. This included making notes of different materials as well as the locations of elements on the building. Quick sketches proved beneficial to describing where the chimney and porches were located. Photos of the front facades of the buildings were also taken on an iPhone. Details recorded were the number of bays, materials used, foundation type, roof type, porch type and location, window types, architectural style, and chimney placement; each photo was tagged and logged with its corresponding survey.
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23. Foundation Type: Continuous Foundation Material: Brick Latitude/Longitude: 32.077554, -81.084207 8. Date of Construction:1830
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26. Physical Description: (write-in) The front façade is symmetrical with a door in the center and one window on each side, the door has a two light transom. The second floor has two windows on each side. It is constructed of wood with clapboard siding, and a medium sloped side gabled roof with metal standing seam roofing. The 4 windows are 6 over 6 double hung. The front façade has a small entry porch that has simple square columns with simple capitals. There is a small eave with a closed soffit. The foundation is made from brick and is a continuous wall around the building.
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Kehoe Iron Works
National Register Nomination 656-660 East Broughton St. Savannah, GA Professor Keller The Kehoe Iron Works building is located at 656 East Broughton Street in Savannah, Georgia. The four-story brick building stands representing the industrial era that Savannah lacks remnants of. Built over a period of years, the west wing is the oldest portion of the building dating to 1873, while the center and east wing were built in 1883 when the complex was expanded. The west wing, constructed by James Monahan as the Phoenix Iron Works is notable for its Italianate-style bays that would have once been open for ventilation. The central tower is in the Second Empire style with a flared straight mansard roof and segmental arches windows with cast-iron hoods and sills, making it the most stylized portion of the building. By 1888 William Kehoe built the central tower and east wing when the foundry changed hands. The east wing is similar to the west wing but it is two floors, as well as having segmental brick arches. Off of the east wing on the east side is a corrugated metal building that almost doubles the floor space of the brick structure. This building was originally an open shed with an iron structure, that was later closed in with the metal siding; the metal columns and structure rest on brick piers. The building was in constant use up until the Great Depression when steel had flooded the market. The site that this building sits on is large and highly sloped for the area, containing 2.5 acres. Behind the building is a grass-covered slope that goes down to below sea level where water can be seen. 16
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900
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Kehoe Ironworks
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Second Empire architecture. It is also notable since industrial buildings of the time were not as highly embellished. The mansard roof and iron details really set this building stylistically on another level from a standard Second Empire structure. This building also uses an iron structure on the eastern wing of the building, which is highly unusual for this time in construction. This type of construction was not used regularly till later in the 20th century when steel construction had become prominent. ______________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Statement of Significance (Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.) Historic Background: William Kehoe was an Irish immigrant who came to America when he was only 8 years old in 18501. He was an ambitious man, who was well liked by the owner of a foundry where he had worked for in 18792. James Monahan was the owner of Phoenix Iron Works, which is what Kehoe later inherited from Monahan. Then in 1880 Kehoe is listed with the Iron Works which shows that he had a large share of it at this point3. According to the deeds for the property Monahan’s widow and Kehoe were equally left the foundry at James Monahan’s death. In 1879 the deed shows that Kehoe purchased her share of the property for $1,100, this is when he changed the name to Kehoe Iron Works4. The Ironworks building seen today was very different when James Monahan was alive. The western wing of the building is original to what was on the site from Monahan’s days; there were also another few buildings on the site that were removed when Kehoe took over. These included the “Old foundry” which is where the metal shed on the east is today as well as, patterns, B. 1
Elizabeth Carpenter. Piechocinski, "William Kehoe," in Men of Iron, Men of Stone, Feet of Clay (Savannah, GA: Oglethorpe Press, 2006), pg. #32. 2 Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, City Directory, City of Savannah, Georgia, 1879, s.v. “William Kehoe, John Monahan.” 3 Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia, City Directory, City of Savannah, Georgia, 1880, s.v. “William Kehoe.” 4 Chatham County Courthouse Records Room. Savannah, Georgia. Deed Book 7-S. Folio 20. Section 8 page 12
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Nunez House Tax Credits
Conditions Assesement 1704 Jefferson St. Savannah, GA Professor Abraham The floors in the hallway and both parlors need to be sanded and re-stained. In the downstairs utility room and kitchen, the subfloors need to be re-stabilized. The peel-and-stick tile in the kitchen needs to be removed, and both rooms will receive new tile floors. In the downstairs bathroom, the hardwood floors will be taken out and replaced with a tile floor. The floors in the upstairs hallway and bedroom will be sanded and re-stained. The new bedroom that will be created from the existing laundry room and porch will receive new hardwood floors that are compatible with the original flooring. Like the downstairs bathroom, the upstairs bathroom’s hardwood floors will be replaced with tile flooring. The trunk room next the the front bedroom, is going to become a bathroom, and its hardwood floors will also be replaced with tile flooring. Replace asbestos shingle siding; stabilize porch; replace porch balusters; re-glaze and re-hang windows; sand and stain hardwood floors; install tile floors in kitchen and bathrooms; patch plaster walls (demo and replace with dry walls where needed); sand, strip, and repaint trims; sand and repaint doors; put pocket parlour doors back on tracks; replace back door; replace broken glass on front door; stabilize kitchen subfloor; replace glass in broken transom windows and make hardware operable; sand and repaint stairs. 18
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Nunez House
Field Work 1704 Jefferson St. Savannah, GA Professor Abraham All of the upstairs rooms had transom windows that were non-operational. The front bedroom had all of the hardware to make the window operable. I removed all of the hardware by hammering out the paint from the screws and unscrewing the pieces. Then to get the window out I had to pop the left side out because one hinge has a groove to slide the window through. I used sandpaper to clean up the hardware. I then took the glass out of the transom by using a utility knife and cutting it out. Since the glass was preiviously broken I threw the glass out. I started sanding the transom, it took time because there were so many layers of paint. I also went around the house removing nails and screws. This door jamb had a hole filled with nails and screws. It took a while to remove them all because there were layers of them. I primed the transom window, not before using a tack cloth with a little paint thinner to finally prepare the surface for primer. I also started working on the panels in the door by using a small scraper at an angle to get into the small crevices. I glazed the primed window. Then with a glazing knife I created a smooth line of glazing on the exterior side of the window. Finishing both the door and transom window with two final coats of paint, and finally installing the original hardware back, making the door and transom operational again. This project taught me a lot about working with my hands, both the tecniques, and the tools. 20
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Harper Fowlkes House
PastPerfect Harper Fowlkes House, Savannah GA Internship I had an internship at the Harper Fowlkes House in the summer of 2014. During this I learned how to work in a house museum setting, and the day-to-day activities that go on. My job was to mainly catalog the museum’s collection with the PastPerfect software. PastPerfect is a database software which is specifically to museums specifically. Doing this required creating a numbering system for all of the items in the house, creating a locating system in the house, photographing all of the items in the collection, and filling the database with all of the collection. The museum had an appraiser come in the 1980’s so that was the basis for much of the information about each piece, but a lot had changed in the collection since that time. So many pieces had been moved or had been changed, so keeping up with each piece was difficult. By the end of the internship I had completed the entire database of all of the pieces in the collection, including photographs, descriptions, estimated value, and location within the house. This database now can be used for making an updated appraisal, or be used in keeping better track of the large collection.
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