SARAHDJANE MORTIMER// Pratt Institute School of Architecture
SARAHDJANE MORTIMER
200Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY sarahmortimer101@gmail.com 929.293.4185
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
EDUCATION SKILLS AND STRENGTHS
Young and determined architecture student at Pratt Institute. Eager to learn and put skills to the test through challenges and exposure to new experiences. Interested in urban as well as landscape design and the effect that architecture has on social conditions worldwide. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Expected May 2019) Bachelor of Architecture Proficient in: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Office Working knowledge of: AutoCad, Revit, Maxwell Interests: Photography, Psychology, Dance Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole
EXPERIENCE
Will’s Color Lab, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Fall 2015 Worked with head of printing business to prepare architectural plans, elevations, and sections of existing building on site and designed additional floor to be implemented for construction in 2017 Pratt Precollege Program Administrator Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Organization of administrative materials and processes (rosters for professors, student IDs, responding to e-mails on behalf of the Precollege program....)
Design 102 Studio TA Fall 2017 Working with Professor Gonzalo Lopez and first year students to help with understanding of studio material as well as design techniques and processes
SELECTED PROJECTS
Freshmen Dormitory Design Fall 2016 Designed eight story dormitory which keeping in mind environmental aspects (building orientation, green roof, strategically placed public spaces) as well as integration of MEP, structure, and facade systems Wave Hill Academy Fall 2015 Academy focused on horticultural exploration and curation with great focus on structural and programmatic aspects for an academy
HONORS/AWARDS
ACTIVITIES AND WORK
Merit Scholarship Recipient Fall 2014- Spring 2017 Dean’s List Fall 2014- Spring 2016 President’s List Fall 2016 Keys of the Heart Incorporated (Non-Profit Organization) Board Member, Long Island, NY Focuses on helping children of Leogane, Haiti to get proper education and health care that they need
Contents 4........ Social bridgning (Fall 2016)
9........ Tumbling Thresholds (Spring 2015)
10........ Architectural Folley (Fall 2014)
12........ Ridge Rider (Spring 2016)
16........ Metallic Waterfall (Spring 2016)
18........ Distributed Deconstruction (Spring 2015)
19........ Dormitory Analogue (Fall 2016)
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Occupant 1 resting space Occupant 2 resting space
TUMBLING THRESHOLDS S The main shape (in which ch the iterations were made from) is used to creat both extreme and mild angles of EENCLOSURES to point out the varying levels of public and private. Walking through the sstructure, we can begin to imagine two occupants who inhabit the space. One is in tuned ne to fitness activities and the other’s activities are shifted towards relaxation. Due ue to the various hidden spaces, both occupants can use the space as the same time without th being aware of one another, this is due to the level of privacy even within the pu public spaces SPRING 2015
Main Plot Escalating modules interlock to create ascending continuation as they extrude selectively to form new enclosures FALL 2014
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“Depth Through Dynamic Enclosure” Multiple levels of interior enclosure closing off space and creating boundaries that define inside and outside Subplot 2 “Interlocking Extrusion” Intersecting solids forming extrusive surfaces while creating framed views and keeping interlocking system in tact
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1 Glyndor gallery 2 Main structure- acts as retaining wall 3 Underground bathrooms
4 Main Gallery space- research finds and exhibitions are displayed here 5 Lab 6 Retaining wall
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7 Central circulation path- also serves as general sitting area 8 Galery entrance render 9 Plan notation
RIDGE RIDER
The main focus of this project is creating a multitude of habitable spaces that correspond with the programs related to Horticultural exploration. This would include Laboratory spaces in which users, mainly students, and researchers, may conduct their experiments as well as scientific research. This space would therein be a medium sized space able to contain between 40-45 students at once. Next, the classrooms, where students as well as professors spend a quarter of their time in, is the same size as the Labs. Here instruction and discussion may take place, and may even sometimes be facilitated in an outdoor classroom. In between classes and flexible times during the day, the cafĂŠ (a much smaller space) includes a few places to sit and an outdoor courtyard where most people enjoy their meals. The gallery is the main space in which research is exhibited and specimens, as well as experimental conclusions are curated and displayed for all to see, this space is bigger than the cafĂŠ but smaller than the lab. Finally, the auditorium, which is the largest space within the academy is the space for summer concerts, lectures and large public discussions to take place all year round.
THE PROCESS The topology of the original site is modified based on the placement of four spaces. The final shapes are based on four points within each circle that intersect with the topology. Ridges are, this time, aimed at being more controlled within the interior spaces that in the previous drafts. In the previous draft, there was more of a focus on creating the new topology around main circulation paths, creating a more uniform pattern where people were most likely to pass through. This draft however is more in tuned with the interior spaces, where more regulated patterns are produced. Four main views are named facing: the Hudson River, existing buildings on site (2), existing outdoor gathering space, in which I would like my four spaces to be facing.
These projections will determine the framed views that the spaces produce. Some point at the center whereas others turn from the center, their main focus varying throughout the site. Circulation patterns across the academy grounds are pointed out with multiple variations of getting to different locations. Prototypes were used to experiment with what the final forms wre going to be. using various modular components, aned repetition, along with __ following along the contour lines, the structure of the ridge riders took form throughout these explorations. SPRING 2016
METALLIC WATERFALL
With the use of Grasshopper for form generation and VRay rendering, my team of three designed a life sized folley to be installed on the fifth floor of Higgins hall. We hand cuz the strips of metallic mylar and added the paperclip joints to hook onto the perforated steel grate walking platform. The installation allowed for human interaction and various visual perspectives with the reflctive surfaces. The renders below show our earlier design involving the voronoi pattern.
DISTRIBUTED DECONSTRUCTION We took the unfinished OMA project, the distributed House, and reconstriucted it with the documents we were able to find. I began to focus on the asemble as well as the distrubution throughout the house (this was composed of thrtee different houses, the master bedroom, guest room, and the dinning room). Throughout my analysis of this project, I focused on the guest room as well as the master bedroom and further analyzed them through the deconstruction of theor parts. i later on assembles the varying components of both ouses, and put them together in order to create a “hybrid house� form that i would further look into as one structure. SPRING 2015
DORMITOY D ORMITOY PPROJECTROJECT- A ANALOGUE NALOGUE