SARAH PUMPHREY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PORTFOLIO Harvard GSD M.Arch I 2023 spumphrey@gsd.harvard.edu
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A NEIGHBORHOOD WALKS INTO A BAR (BUILDING)
megastructure defines a new urban quarter for bern, switzerland Critic: Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Harvard GSD Option Studio 1 Partner: Noshin Khan
An urban quarter, to us, is a section of the macro urban fabric which borrows aspects of the city’s identity as a basis for the overlay of its personal character. It is the physical form of an urban community, unified by architectural character and collective behavior. Our site, in Bern, Switzerland, is a 1KM long linear plot of land, a boundary object at the end of an existing urban fabric before a commuter rail line. In this scheme, a circulatory spine (the bar) undulates, making sharp turns along the site. The spine is calibrated to the neighboring south neighborhood, creating a new set of small and large urban blocks in relation to the correlating existing urban objects and space. The structure aims to give its residents generous space to live and play, while inviting the community into the outdoor spaces created from the spine undulation. The urban quarter borrows aspects of Bern’s existing architectural character, but overlays a modern, condensed assortment of program. While insular in programmatic nature, our quarter invites the public in for interaction. It is an amalgam of necessities for daily living, with the intent of becoming more engrained in its own identity with time.
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A NEIGHBORHOOD WALKS INTO A BAR (BUILDING) (above) site plan showing undulations which define interior and exterior program, as well as corresponding development of landscape for public and private exterior programming
A NEIGHBORHOOD WALKS INTO A BAR (BUILDING) The east end condition of the site, which is closest
to the train station, pries the building open to allow for the most public interaction of any section of the project. Commercial and office programming face the train station and street, while residences face the courtyard, with private yards to buffer between public courtyard and private home.
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NOT (SCHTICKY) MAGIC Critic: Michelle Chang Harvard GSD “Not Magic”
group members: Bailey Brown, Ava Violich Kennedy, Marcel Merwin
exploring the gray area of the gimmick in architecture: challenging Frank Gehry’s steel-clad parametric “schtick” in Luma Arles into an antigimmick through the illusion of brick and CLT construction
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NOT (TRICKY) MAGIC Critic: Michelle Chang
Harvard GSD “Not Magic”
group members: Bailey Brown, Ava Violich Kennedy, Marcel Merwin
exploring architectural “fraud” as means of magic-making by utilizing the hyper-specific materiality of Ensemble Studio’s SGAE Central Office (magic of authenticity) into an impossible magic of gravitational fraudulence
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A HOME THAT GROWS
collective housing for growing and changing families Critic: Jenny French Harvard GSD Core IV
Unlike the constant growth of children, our homes are static. A home that expands and contracts for familial needs can become a reactive transitional object for children and families through their waxing and waning needs for space.
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Residents begin with a catalog of anchor units, chosen based on their current family dynamic. ADU’s may be added on beside their unit or elsewhere in the building for personal or rental space. Units are doubleloaded with circulatory space. “Back Yard” space is semi-private in nature, but may be adapted as a completely private space, impacting the community-wide network of circulation. “Front Yard” space is public-facing and more manicured; it works as public circulation for neighbors to move about and meet eachother in passing.
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A single father and his two ch their anchor unit (left), a tw After a few months, the dad more hourse and needs som kids, while his aging mother to downsize. He decides to re “Mother-in-Law” ADU next doo so they can help out while be independent space.
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hildren move into wo-story duplex. d begins working me help with the and father want ent and finish the or for his parents eing closeby in an
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INDEX and figure 7 show the anatomy of units, as well as shared community sheds on each level.
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PUBLIC WORKS MAS NYC Headquarters Critic: Eric Howeler Harvard GSD Core III
A new proposal for the headquarters of New York City’s Municipal Arts Society studies the role of the modern office space, and its’ ability to facilitate inviting Privately Owned Public spaces for the city of New York.
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(Left) In section, the public half of the new MAS NYC holds programming such as public seating and dining, an auditorium, and a continuous circularatory bridge from bottom level to top. As shown in the elevation (right), this circulatory ring connects at each level with sky bridges to the MAS offices, so that employees may enjoy the public programming during breaks, and opt to use these spaces for working if they please. The library bridges the gap, both physically and theoretically, between public space for leisure and private space for working and research.
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RE-FRAMING OFFICE
collage studies for understanding the office of the past, present, and future Critic: Eric Howeler, Harvard GSD Core III
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HOUSE SEEING HOUSE SEEING meeting house for Harvard HOUSE inward-looking students, visitors, and employees Critic: Jeffry Burchard Harvard GSD Core II Project 2 House seeing house seeing house is a multi-programmatic facility for institutional and public use. The building is an organism whose visitors can view differing programs from that which they stand in, supporting use of all of its’ programs by returning and new visitors.
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a multi-level sports shed and community hub for downtown Boston Critic: Jeffry Burchard Harvard GSD Core II Project 1
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interior/exterior miscongruence Critic: Elle Gerdeman Harvard GSD Core I FALL 2019
I suppose that the appeal of the hidden room project is its ability to confuse, to deceive, to misguide, all while innately holding one characteristic of a “bad building”: that one cannot navigate its interior in its entirety without moments of confusion. For my scheme, I chose to translate the hidden room prompt in perhaps its simplest definition of miscongruence between interior and exterior schema. One’s brain might expect to encounter a specific procession of spaces based on exterior language. However, in my hidden room (or hidden level, rather) project, the interior organization becomes completely separate. By strategically inverting exterior spatial forms and offsetting traditional floor-tofloor sectional relationships, my scheme creates hidden-ness with the phenomenon of interior exterior mis-registration. To be hidden, in this scheme, is to create a rudimentary formal organization through the exterior of the building which is broken by the insertion of a 5th room. This insertion is hidden as it slips the seemingly clear logic of crescent to square, begun by the exterior form and repeated through the interior of the building.
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JUMP-CUT: SECTIONAL UNDERSTANDING hiding sections : a mismatch puzzle Critic: Elle Gerdeman Harvard GSD Core I FALL 2019
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intersecting the collective and the triple decker for socioeconomic variety in cambridge neighborhoods Critic: Elle Gerdeman Harvard GSD Core I FALL 2019
This project pries open and (alternately) physically forces together the historical Cambridge/Somervillian home to address socioeconomic disparities within the modern neighborhood and its’ family types. Using in-between space to insert the collective into the private.
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HOW IT’S MADE
the what and the how of the Nakagin Capsule Tower Critic: Yasmin Vobis Harvard GSD Construction Systems 1
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intelligent cladding for a classic Critic: Eric Howeler Harvard GSD Construction Systems 2
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vertical migration for political and environmental refugees Critic: Jori Erdman JMU Pre-Thesis Studio Final of five projects
Muslims in Myanmar, the Rohingya, flee to neighboring Bangladesh for safety from political violence and oppression, however the refuge they seek brings overwhelming poverty and new risks. The Bangladeshi government actively seeks to relocate these refugees to an island described by the Dhaka Tribune as a “a muddy islet that emerged from the Bay of Bengal in 2006”. This project seeks to understand the needs of this group of individuals in order to establish a safer, more comfortable, more future-minded plan for their new home in contrast to the dormitories being constructed by the Bangladeshi government. If this community is established as a vertical conglomerate, the Rohingya can establish the types of communities that will be necessary globally as sea waters rise and weather becomes more severe due to climate change.These mega structures will serve as the ground on a site that promises to fluctuate constantly, creating a permanence for hypermobile or displaced individuals and a new typology for urban living.
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LIVING_LOT: UBER COMMUNITY asking more of the existing parking garage typology Critic: Wanda Dye JMU Second Semester Junior studio Competition: ACSA Designing Healthy Places Competition entry
In Los Angeles particularly there is an alarming population of ride share drivers that are becoming homeless. These drivers are forced to live in the cars that they work out of. The intention of my research and design is to create a home base and a landing place for homeless ride share drivers to sleep comfortably, store belongings, foster community, and to maintain their own cleanliness and the cleanliness of their cars. I believe that as our relationship with transportation evolves, parking garages must offer more. This design is intended to work as a prototypical condition for additional Living Lots to be built on a need-based timeline. I have designed a microcosm which surrounds, tops, and permeates through an existing and trusted parking garage typology, in order to promote sustainability, cost efficiency, and repeatability.
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FUTURES FOR FUKUSHIMA
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igation & human preservation ate architecture Critic: Jori Erdman JMU Pre-Thesis Studio Group Members: Sarah Pumphrey, Kalen Johnson, & Sam Goodwin
This scheme would allow volunteer humans to live in and power creatures of mitigation in order to clean up their former hometown from earthquake and radioactive destruction. Each creature has a specific purpose informed by radioactive cleanup research. When Fukushima is again inhabitable, the human will be released back into the architecture of Fukushima to reenter the human world.
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material study through functional facades Critic: Jori Erdman: JMU Pre-Thesis Studio
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In three categories, I explored what wood, h exploring wood’s reactions to fire, wind, and can actually strengthen wood to provide su for buildings in rural, suburban, and urban a Molded Plywood, and Charcoaled Concrete.
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historically, does not “want” to do. Through d water, I researched how these phenomena ustainable options for cladding and barriers areas. Three explorations emerged: Yakisugi,
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hiker havens on the Latvian coastline Critic: Ronn Daniel JMU First Semester Junior Studio
This spread is one of three competition boards that were chosen to be submitted to the Amber Road Trekking Cabins international architecture competition by faculty jury.
(DIS)COMFORTS OF HOME studies of refuge + the fight for freedom at home through memorial
Critic: William Tate JMU Second Semester Sophomore Studio
My sophomore studies reside in Gdansk, Poland, where our studio entered an “International Competition of Spatial Forms” called Crossroads of Freedom. Each student has wrestled with the ideas and stories of international civil rights activists and refugees, as well as Polish activist Lech Walesa, in order to design an architectural installation to enter into the competition. The landscape I have designed allows for human interaction and discovery, while paying respect to those who have faced discrimination and violence. Our work as a studio was compiled into one large project, which won a distinction award in the competition.
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Critic: William Tate JMU Second Semester Sophomore Studio
A drawing-model and axons of layers that would be realized into a multi-layer model. Responds to questions of a site that would convey the message of my creative fear: being held back creatively by becoming too comfortable.
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RETHINK: NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER
making relevant: reviving a classic Critic: Evelyn Tickle JMU First Semester Sophomore Studio
These living spaces would push out or retract based on the time of day and amount of light being received by the space. This idea was inspired by airplane windows that I observed, which change tints in order to reduce the effects of jetlag. As the original Nakagin Tower was inhabited by somewhat nomadic businessmen, my new design would act similarly to these airplane windows, allowing for visitors to recover from long journeys and escape the bustling city around them.
GROW OYSTER REEFS researching and fabricating for environmental healing
Designer + Inventor + Owner: Evelyn Tickle research assistantship in fabrication & PR
During my junior and senior years, I had the opportun to fabricate and promote her design for the Cultural A Underwater Museum of Art. This underwater art mus America, and Evelyn’s design was chosen to becom project. Evelyn has invented “scalable concrete oyster dramatically improve oyster reef restoration efforts g was used in her design to serve as ocean-healing art steel and concrete fabrication with a team of studen “Concrete Rope Tangles” for the museum. The museu of Time Magazine’s Best Places to Visit in the World. Sentences in quotations are from Evelyn’s Grow Oyster Reefs website.
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nity to work under Evelyn Tickle Arts Alliance of Walton County seum is the first of its kind in me realized as a part of this r substrate products poised to globally” (Tickle). The concrete twork. I was able to partake in nts to build several of Evelyn’s um was recently named as one
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(above) detail photograph of one of the tangles, taken by teammate Amber Pearce. The underwater photograph shows one of the Tangles in place, and was taken by Spring Run Media.
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CASA BIANCHI CASE STUDY learning software by re-drawing & re-imagining classics
Critic: Sidney Griffin JMU CAD 3-D Modeling
Displayed to the right is a portion of the project board I designed, which includes a rendering, plans, and exploded axons I created in Revit based on original drawings for Mario Botta’s Casa Bianchi.
CASE STUDY: KENGO KUMA SUNNY HILLS materials & methods of building Critic: Evelyn Tickle JMU Materials and Methods I
For this assignment, partnerships of two were instructed to research and build a scale section model of an existing structure and its building processes. My partner, Kara Hannibal, and I chose Kengo Kuma’s Sunny Hills Cake Shop in Tokyo, Japan.
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Critic: Stephanie Williams JMU 3-D Design Partner: Tanner Leslie
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