Clerestory

Clerestory

Sara E. Cheikelard

Clerestory -n.- from clere “clear,” in a sense “light, lighted,” and story

The following projects embrace the lightness and delicacy that architecture can take on so that the structure does not overpower what’s around it. It can even tell its story, as well as the the story of its surroundings.

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Spring 2009

Anderson Outreach, Anderson, SC

Spring 2010

Sonic Bridge, Genova, Italy

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Hydro-Purification, Asheville, NC

Fall 2009

Field Sketches

Fall 2009

Digital Manufacturing

Gradient,

Retro-Fiber, Digital Manufacturing

Greenville, SC Fall 2010

Clemson, SC Fall 2009

A Gateway for Greenville,

A Social Intersection,

Fall 2009

floorplan designed for Habitat for Humanity

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Sonic Bridge

Revitalizing downtown Genova while respecting its rich culture and medieval and historical contexts

Spring 2010 Location: Piazza Campetto, Genova, Italy Program: Mixed use commercial and residential Considerations: Context, Revitalization, Sunlight, Sound, Communication & Connection Team: Sara Cheikelard, Evan Leinbach, Jeffrey Pauling Professors: Bernhard Sill, Allessandro Rocca, Luca Rocco 004

Structure

Site Plan

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Columns and Elevator shaft

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Piazzett

Piazza Campetto

Beams

Floor Plates

Glazing

Program Skin

To use sound to connect Piazza Campetto with Piazzetta Tavarone while the side streets and apartments remain sonically isolated.

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The perforated metal skin unifies and blends together the public and private spaces while controling privacy and light penetration. The missing panels in the skin act as apartment windows and are derived from a musical score.

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Ground Floor, Music Bar

First Floor, Clerestory level and residents’ lobby

Second through Sixth floors, Apartments 008

The skin glows from the interior at night, reflecting the light out, the reverse of its daytime function.

View from Piazza Campetto, showing the context reflected by the heavy walls

Interior of the Music bar from the stage, looking back towards Piazzetta Tavarone

View from Piazzetta Tavarone, looking through the stage to Piazza Campetto

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Residents’ rooftop terrace accessed by elevator and central courtyard stairway

The windows occur more frequently as you move down the building because more light is needed due to the narrow streets.

The skin wraps the private areas of the building, including the apartments, residents’ entrance, elevator, and lobby.

Clerestory level for light, ventilation, and buffering the sound

Rustic walls reflect context and provide exterior sound barrier and interior acoustics

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Section model showing the structure of the floors and central stainway

The section perspective cuts through the grand stairway and central courtyard typical of historic Genova. The clerestory and “floating� lobby are also shown.

Massing section showing the building in the context on both sides of the piazzas

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Gradient Creating a three-dimensional diffusion of light

Fall 2009, Digital Manufacturing Location: Clemson, South Carolina Program: Lighting Device Considerations: Light Diffusion Professor: Doug Hecker 012

Precedents of Bending light occurring at Antelope Canyon, Arizona

Digital model of the overall shape derived from the canyons, designed to hold a standard light bulb fitting

The model was created using a modeling program and a 3-D printer.

The formwork created was solid so the layers of cornstarch and glue would create a structural object. This project tested the properties of light through a 3-D object and through space. The limits of 3-D printing were also tested, pushing for the thinnest members possible.

Light This 3D structure is designed to split the light into different striations at varying intensities, much like natural rock formations.

The bending faces change in thickness and have a gradient of lines that become closer together as they move away from the light source, creating an interesting gradient of light.

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Pause: A Social Intersection Clemson’s bicycle network that reaches out into the community

Fall 2009 Location: College Avenue, Clemson, South Carolina Program: Bicycle Share central hub Considerations: Context, Community outreach, Sustainability, Accessibility Professor: Doug Hecker 014

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Location In order to keep with the context of downtown Clemson’s small town vernacular, the eastern edge of the site facing the street is broken down to smaller facades as the building is pulled back, creating public spaces off of the street.

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The Bicycle System The Clemson bicycle station serves as the central hub to a community-wide bicycle system. Auxilliary hubs are located at popular areas surrounding Clemson University, including apartments complexes, surrounding cities, and on-campus locations, such as the centrally located library.

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The basic geometry was created by vectors from the surrounding buildings and the ideal pathways through the site.

Materiality The walls are made of channel glass with steel beams running through them for support. The translucent quality of the glass allows you to see movement on the interior of the building. You can see bicycles moving from the ground level to the raised street behind on the vector path. This translucency draws people to the building, as it is only partially visible from the main street. The interaction of the interior and exterior happenings of the building creates a unique experience for the users of the space.

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Bicycle Traffic The bike path that runs through the site is suspended on steel cables, so that the moving traffic of the bikes through the building does not interfere with the other functions occurring on the ground floor.

View showing the transparancy of the wall

The vectors cut into the site to create outdoor seating areas, the apartments, and a bike path that passes through the site making the raised street behind the building accessible.

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The light roof structure is the basic plan of the vectors spanning the site’s entire footprint, thereby unifying the site.

Apartment Levels

Ground Floor

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Bicycle Ramp Details

Bicycle entrance from College Avenue

Under the bicycle ramp at its highest point

Exterior/Interior view from Sloan Street

View from Clemson Avenue

Bicycle entrance from Clemson Avenue

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Anderson Outreach A train station that connects the old and the new

Spring 2009 Location: Anderson, South Carolina Program: Multi-use train station Considerations: Context, Community outreach, Circulation, History, Natural Light Professor: David Lee 022

Location The site for this project is in the historic district of downtown Anderson, South Carolina. The circulation of the area greatly influenced the design of the bulding, not only as a transitional area but also as an important city marker for Anderson.

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The elevator is inside on the street level, opens to the exterior as it travels to the upper and lower levels, and is always covered due to the cantilevers.

Upper Level, private offices, conference room, and cafe

Street Level, ticket offices, restrooms, balcony access

Lower Level, train platform, waiting area, news stand 024

Materiality Due to the unique geographical placement of the site and the location of the surrounding buildings, shadow studies determined the materiality of the three-level station to optimize light intensities throughout the building. The perforated metal wall on the west side blocks the intensity of the setting sun. A picture window is located on the east side and funtions as an overlook to historic Main Street.

Perforated metal swatch

The balconies are located at street level, but overlook the train tracks 24’ below

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The cross section shows the vertical distribution of spaces.

The upper floor has the lowest ceiling, creating a more intimate environment away from the trains.

At street level, the double height creates the grand entrance typical to train stations.

The platform is the tallest and most open area due to the 24’ drop from the strreet to accommodate the trains.

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The perforated metal is oriented to the west in order to block out some of the direct harshness of the setting sun, while still letting in natural light.

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RetroFiber Re-purposing fiberglass into window systems

Fall 2009, Digital Manufacturing Location: Clemson, South Carolina Program: Window System Considerations: Context, Materiality, Connection, Sustainability Team: Sara Cheikelard, Daniel Hutcherson Jason Tenenbaum Professor: Doug Hecker 028

Build Process

Materiality The project’s focus is to explore the limits of fiberglass, testing its transparency, durability, and thickness.

Working with the company Fiber-Tech, techniques were discovered to use fiberglass in new ways, such as in a window system.

Fiberglass, raw material

Make a template

UV Print or spray paint

Let the coloring dry

Create and prepare a mold

Apply the resin and catalyst

Study model of the overlapping effects of layering on transparancy Dry for 24 hours 029

Translucency Once the material properties were explored, they were applied to a new window system that supported “life vessels� for water, animals, and plants.

The surface becomes interactive from the inside of the building out.

By applying only 2 layers of low density fiberglass with clear resin, the structure is sturdy and remains translucent.

This favors a window system because light penetrates, but privacy is preserved.

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Hydro-Purification Revitilizing the River-Arts district and purifying the French Broad river

Fall 2009 Location: Asheville, North Carolina Program: Mixed-use residential and Community Center Considerations: Context, Community outreach, Circulation, Water Purification, Flood plane Team: Sara Cheikelard, Kyle Goebel, Logan Harrell, Jason Tenenbaum Professor: Doug Hecker 032

Site Map

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Recycle the Site This 13- acre site along the French Broad River is a Brownfield site due to the pollution of the river that connects North Carolina and Tennessee. The main focus for the project is to clean up the river by reducing the runoff from this site. By altering the topography and adding a water-filtering canopy across most of the site, 300,000 gallons of water can be filtered per year.

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Canopy The canopy is transparent and lets enough light through to support small vegetation.

Holes are cut in the canopy for larget trees to stretch through. The light aluminum structure supports the weight of the water pushing down. The canopy is shaped so that the water runs to the funnels using gravity and so it doesn’t pool on top.

The figure ground drawing shows the future expansion that the project can take on, further cleaning up the river.

The canopy actively harvests and funnels rainwater for use in the canals and residences

Single-use residential units and dual-use with artists’ studios follow the pattern of the canals

Public greenspaces encourage engagement with the river and showcase water filtration systems, while private greenspaces allow the residents to interact with each other

A system of canals filters the surface water as it runs to the river

Vehicular circulation is around the edges, only entering for direct access to residences

The topography has been altered to encourage surface water to flow to the river

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Site Plan

Mixed-Use housing

Residential Housing

Public Plaza and market

Canals

Greenway

Water Feature

Stage Balconies

Deltas

Courtyard

Roadway

Riverwalk

parking

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First floor and private gardens

Second floor

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Feed Cha Optional third floor

Housing The housing units are 2-4 stories, each with a rooftop terrace and ground floor garden. About 1000 people can be housed on site.

Being located in a major flood plane, the housing is elevated 10’ and allows resident parking underneath.

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Filtration System The funnels that collect the rainwater from the canopy filter it as it travels down through layers of permeable filtration membranes. The cleaned water flows into the channels and eventually back into the river. Water features and small fountains occur where the funnels meet the canals to celebrate the water.

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A Gateway for Greenville Changing the skyline and creating a connection

Fall 2010 Location: Greenville, South Carolina Program: Mixed-use residential, hotel, retail Considerations: Context, Natural Light, Circulation, Skyline, Reedy River Professor: Yuji Kishimoto 038

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Respecting Greenville This site is located at one of the main entrances to Greenville, next to the Bi-Lo Center that holds concerts and large events. A parking garage is located adjacent to the site, providing public parking and access to the site over the road. This site is also the highest point in Greenville, providing spectacular views to the Blue Ridge Mountains, downtown Greenville, the Reedy River, and Falls Park.

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Views diagram

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Hotel

Hotel

Residential and Retail

Sun-path diagram

Residential and Retail

Site Plan

The fluid nature of the site is inspired by the motion of water through the site. The water’s motion carves out a pedestrian corridor between the buildings, influencing the placement of the apartment buildings and hotels, pathways and bridges, and greenspaces.

Typical floor plans for the residential buildings and the hotels. There are over 300 hotel rooms and 230 apartments on site.

Structure The typical floor plans for the apartment and hotel levels use the elevator shafts, stairwells, and columns as the main supports.

Residential units feature 1-3 bedrooms, den, and kitchen and dining areas.

Both the hotel and apartment buildings have underground parking.

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Plan detail showing the bridge across North Church Street, connecting to downtown

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Plan detail showing the bridge connection to the parking garage, providing parking for the public greenspaces

Plan detail showing the water sculpture at the entrance to the site and the beginning of the fluid pathway

Massing section showing the changes to Greenville’s skyline

The View Downtown The two residential buildings located on the east side are the main focal points as you enter Greenville through Highway 385. These buildings are notched out in order to move the eye through the site and into downtown. Open floor plans are located on these levels that feature the carved out portion, being enclosed in glass only on three sides. The space overlooks the main passageway through site, exhibiting the fluid pathway.

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Ground floor plans showing lobby and pools in the residential buildings and the hotels’ lobbies and cafes.

Site Pathway Details

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Model Details

Dual Topography The section perspective shows the dual topography of the site. The translucent first layer of topography separates the retail floor from the main functions of the buildings, while the existing topography separates the underground parking.

Both have separators where they meet the building for light penetration.

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Field Sketches 046

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1 Story House Rendering

2 Story House Rendering

Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County Internship 050

Conditioned Area: 1131.8 s.f.

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Closet

Bathroom 1

Bedroom 2

Egress Bathroom 2

Egress

Bedroom 1

Air Handler

Closet

Dryer Washer

18” Draw 24” Dish

Pantry

Closet

36” Ref

Bedroom 3

Garage 36” Sink

Great Room

Kitchen

24” Draw

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30” Stove 30” Egress Porch

Dining Area Tempered Glass 3 Bedroom House plan, construction, and completion

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Sara E. Cheikelard

1843 Peters Place Clearwater, Fl 33764

Education

Clemson University, Clemson, SC BA in Architecture; Environmental Science and Policy minor Current GPA: 3.80 Expected date of graduation: May 2011 Related course work: AutoCAD Google SketchUp Rhinoceros

Professional Experience

Honors

Activities

saraelizabeth89@gmail.com

Graphic Organization Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Public Speaking

Summers 2009-2010 Worked on : LEED and Florida Water Star Gold certifications; application for Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Community Education, and solar energy grants Designed: Monument sign for a townhome development, three bedroom house for a narrow lot, several spatial modifications for different houses, renderings for houses in their new development, and signs for display in their model townhome to showcase the environmentally friendly technologies present Prepared: construction documents including HVAC, plumbing and electrical Calhoun Honors College at Clemson University President’s List 2007 and Spring 2009 Dean’s List Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, Spring 2010 Awarded Out of State Tuition Scholarship from Clemson University Awarded $8000 Trustee Scholarship from Clemson University Board of Trustees Awarded $2000 George C. and Kathleen Wright Scholarship American Institute of Architecture Students: treasurer 2009, fundraising director 2010 Freedom By Design team member Habitat for Humanity volunteer Study Abroad Spring 2010 in Genova, Italy

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