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SARAH PUMPHREY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PORTFOLIO M.Arch Application Portfolio
C: 804.385.7399 sarah.m.pumphrey@gmail.com
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Designer’s Statement As my architectural education has progressed, it has become clear that the architecture I wish to spend my life engaging in is sociologically driven and globally responsible. Sociological theory and research have recently become strong interests of mine and have begun to influence my responses to architectural design studio prompts. It is important that we seek opportunities to study how we can instill better connections between people by being more conscious of social implications as we design. During the Master of Architecture program, I hope to continue sociological research in a more formal manner in order to carve out a niche of architectural design informed by societal inquiry and experimentation.
Futures for Fukushima Abuse // Resilience
Spring 2018: Studio IV Living_Lot Fall 2017: Studio III Spiritual / Physical Pause BURUHouse Spring 2017: Studio II (DIS)Comforts of Home Wunderkammer Fall 2016: Studio I Rethink: Nakagin Capsule Tower Summer 2016: Japan Studio Abroad Cultural Hyphens
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Architectural Design Fall 2018: Studio V Studio Work Pre-Thesis Populating Bhasan Char
POPULATING BHASAN migration for political and CHAR vertical environmental refugees 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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Critic: Jori Erdman: Pre-Thesis Studio Final of five projects
POPULATING BHASAN CHAR
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process collages The form-making process I engaged in for this project was paper collage of previous, and often famous, works of architecture as well as landscapes and agriculture specific to Bangladesh. The use of Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Building became important in the political and formal narrative of the new structure.
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FUTURES FOR FUKUSHIMA
radioactive mitigation & human preservation through surrogate architecture Critic: Jori Erdman
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. PUMPHREY_FALL 2018_STUDIO V
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PHOTOCOLLAGE + FINAL ELEVATION
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PHOTOCOLLAGES
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ABUSE / RESILIENCE material study through functional facades Critic: Jori Erdman: Pre-Thesis Studio
In three categories, I explored what wood, historically, does not “want” to do. Through exploring wood’s reactions to fire, wind, and water, I researched how these phenomena can actually strengthen wood to provide sustainable options for cladding and barriers for buildings in rural, suburban, and urban areas. Three explorations emerged: Yakisugi, Molded Plywood, and Charcoaled Concrete.
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YAKISUGI
MOLDED PLYWOOD
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Living_Lot: Uber Community Critic: Wanda Dye (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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asking more of the existing parking garage typology
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SPIRITUAL x PHYSICAL PAUSE
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SPIRITUAL x serving the soul PHYSICAL Critic: Ronn Daniel PAUSE
of the passerby
first semester junior studio
The studio started in New York City, between Manhattan and the Bronx, on the High Bridge. After walking its length and documenting its social, historical, and spatial conditions, we were given seven programs and a brief on “Ad-Hoc Urbanism”. I landed on the final program of a church. By the end of the semester I had developed a six-foot wide church which was built into the side of the bridge. I contemplated light intensely, developing louvred screens based on lines found in my initial site exploration drawing that would swivel on a ball joint, altering the light that entered the space. During this studio, I was able to consider light, spirituality, and cultural-religious demographics to create an intimite setting in which members of two communities could congregate in worship and find solitude in prayer.
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Critic: Ronn Daniel first semester junior studio This spread contains one of four competition boards I designed in response to a competition brief that were chosen to be submitted to the Amber Road Trekking Cabins international architecture competition by faculty jury.
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hiker havens on the Latvian coastline
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(DIS)COMFORTS OF HOME studies of refuge + the fight for freedom at home through memorial Critic: William Tate 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. Architectural_Design 18
Our work as a studio was compiled into one large project, which won a distinction award in the competition.
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DRAWING / MODEL
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WUNDERKAMMER creative play and studies of self
Critic: William Tate 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
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.
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Critic: Evelyn Tickle first semester sophomore studio
CAPSULE TOWER RETHINK
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MEASURING & LEARNING exercises in tools and systems Critic: Evelyn Tickle first semester sophomore studio While learning to use architectural drafting tools, each of us chose an item to devise a measuring system for.
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CULTURAL HYPHENS processing culture through mapping
During our month-long study in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo), we were asked to contemplate encounters with society and landscape that created tension physically, emotionally, or culturally. While travelling, we kept a sketch book and completed collaged drawings each week. In this specific drawing, I address the hyphen I experienced in Hiroshima between the present peace and thriving modern culture, which sits upon land that was once barren, devastated by the bombings of Hiroshima. Visiting this site as an American citizen created tension internally, as we struggled with the weight of historical conflict.
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Critics: Ronn Daniel, Evelyn Tickle, & Jack Fanning Japan Studio
While in Japan, I exercised my passion for photography, creating a photo journal of the people, architecture, and culture of various Japanese cities and towns. Some of these photographs can be seen on the following spreads.
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Research + Case Fabrication Assistant Study Work 2017 GROW Oyster Reefs, LLC.
Concrete Rope Tangles
Spring 2018 Learning Revit Casa Bianchi Case Study Fall 2017 Materials and Methods Kengo Kuma Case Study Model
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GROW OYSTER REEFS researching & fabricating for environmental healing
Designer + Inventor + Owner: Evelyn Tickle research assistantship in fabrication & PR During my junior and senior years, I had the opportunity to work under Evelyn Tickle to fabricate and promote her design for the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Underwater Museum of Art. This underwater art museum is the first of its kind in America, and Evelyn’s design was chosen to become realized as a part of this project. Evelyn has invented “scalable concrete oyster substrate products poised to dramatically improve oyster reef restoration efforts globally” (Tickle). The concrete was used in her design to serve as ocean-healing artwork. I was able to partake in steel and concrete fabrication with a team of students to build several of Evelyn’s “Concrete Rope Tangles” for the museum. The museum was recently named as one 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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(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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learning software by re-drawing & re-imagining classics Critic: Sidney Griffin CAD 3-D Modeling
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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.
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KENGO KUMA CASE STUDY materials & methods of building Critic: Evelyn Tickle 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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Art, Design, + 2016 3D Design Photography Spring Cardboard Chair Spring 2016 3D Design Bagel Sculpture Spring 2017 Materials and Methods II Insulation Studies Summer 2016 Japan Studio Abroad Photographs
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TWO-SEATED CARDBOARD CHAIR
Critic: Stephanie Williams Partner: Tanner Leslie
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BAGELS & CHOCOLATE MILK
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Critic: Stephanie Williams 3-D Design floor to ceiling installation based on childhood memory. bagels nailed to wall.
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memory translated into installation
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INSULATION STUDIES
visual representation of inventory taken of insulation at a hardware store, combined with inventory and research about denim; a mundane material which can be used for insulation.
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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM JAPAN The following photographs are my own and depict several works of japanese architecture.
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