SARAH ELSTIEN
SARAH ELSTIEN 201-572-9621
selstien@ku.edu
11 Kentbrook Ter. Kinnelon, NJ 07405
SKILLS
SOFTWARE
PROBLEM SOLVER
REVIT
CREATIVE
PHOTOSHOP
ORGANIZED
INDESIGN
COMMUNICATIVE
ILLUSTRATOR
INDUSTRIOUS
LUMION
PRODUCTIVE
CHIEF ARCHITECT
MOTIVATED
RHINO
ENERGETIC
SKETCH UP
DEDICATED
MICROSOFT
INTERESTS
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DRAWING
TRAVELING
SUDOKU
MUSIC
OFFICE
ROWING
COFFEE
TED TALKS
PLACES I HAVE LIVED AND EXPLORED
EDUCATION 2018
University of Kansas School of Architecture 5 Year Master of Architecture Program 3.38 Architecture GPA AIAS Member Mentorship Program Honors Society Member Division I Varsity Rowing Team 2013-2014
Fall 2015
Danish Institute of Study Abroad in Copenhagen 3.54 GPA
2013
Kinnelon High School Academic Decathlon Track and Field North Jersey Rowing
EMPLOYMENT 06/2013- Current
Lifeguard at Smoke Rise Beach - Lifeguard Kinnelon New Jersey
Summer 2015
Pier 1 Imports - Sales Assosiate Riverdale New Jersey
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MUSEUM OF TIME DENMARK SEMESTER TREKRONER VISITOR CENTER
TULANE UNIVERSITY CULLINARY SCHOOL SECOND YEAR WORK
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ECO LIVING MACHINE MOVEMENT ANALYSIS
KIT OF PARTS / SPATIAL JOURNEY FIRST YEAR WORK WALL SYSTEM
LIGHT BOX 4
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MUSEUM OF TIME The Museum of Time in Copenhagen focuses on creating a new collection of art, bridging the gap between art and education. The museum studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas. The four main galleries are Memory, Action, Matter, and Object, transforming the historic Kastrup Fort into an area open to the public to learn about famous pieces and present public art projects. Arriving at the site was spectacular principally because the site is one of the only areas in Copenhagen with a hilly terrain. I wanted to build in a large gravel area that has gone unused to enhance that area and make it as interesting and spectacular as the rest of the site. The majority of building in sunken in the two large hills to preserve the terrain. I took inspiration from two nearby museums that are the Danish Armory Museum and the Louisiana Museum. I was provoked by the setup of the Armory Museum and how all the glass display boxes were lined up, making it feel like you had the ability to see through time. I enjoyed how Louisiana Museum, guests are encouraged to walk through the landscape and feel a connection to nature. By drawing on these two ideas, I created courtyards that would accomplish both objectives, allowing patrons to walk outside and enjoy sculptures while also giving people hints of what they were to see next, allowing them to see through both time and media. The roofs of the galleries are designed to be a community space. I envision the exterior to be used for outdoor seating on nice days, a sculpture park, and an area for street artists to present their work to juxtapose the formal artwork inside.
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CIRCULATION WALKING CHILDREN PLAYING
PATH GRASSY DIRT PAVED
EXISTING STRUCTURES
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DANISH ARMORY MUSEUM
LOUISIANA MUSEUM
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Dirt Drainage Water Barrior 4” Rigid Insulation Concrete Paver
Water Barrior 2” Rigid Insulation Wood Finnish
Gravel Drainage Zone 1/8” Polythene Film 2” Rigid Insulation Cast in Place Concrete 4” Rigid Insulation Dry Wall
Wood Finnish Cast in Place Concrete 2” Rigid Insulation 7” Screened Sand Contact Grade Vapor Barrier 10” Diameter Drainage Pipe
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Danish Vernacular
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TREKRONER VISITING CENTER
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The Copenhagen Harbor is in the process of evolving from an industrial harbor to a recreational area with harbor baths, living spaces, and culture to the water’s edge. Trekroner is a sea fort at the entrance to the Copenhagen Harbor. It is one of three artificial islands created to defend the entrance to Copenhagen’s harbor. On visiting the site I noticed that there were two very distinct feelings. On the interior I was enclosed and looking in on the island, watching the calm water within. The exterior was exciting and created a feeling of exposure. I was able to see Sweden, Copenhagen, and the development of the new harbor. I chose the location on the south east side of the island for the Visiting Center because it would be easy to access, was visible from Copenhagen, and had great views of both Copenhagen city center and Sweden. For the form I was inspired by the Danish Vernacular, Many of the roofs in Copenhagen have a high pitch. I played with that shape and decided that to fit the forms of the surrounding buildings it would be better to mimic how these buildings looked from the side and I extracted the form to serve as a double program. By pulling certain planes away, I created small and enclosed seating areas inside and the folding on the exterior created a series of platforms for docking, site seeing, relaxing, and jumping into the sea. 15
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DOCKING
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OBSERVING
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TULANE UNIVERSITY CULINARY SCHOOL At Tulane University they are expanding their medical program to include nutrition complete with cooking classes. The University believes the medical practice is expanding to not only treat sick patients but to promote healthy living. For this addition to the school, we to had work within the preexisting fabric of the city and connect it back to the university. The site is near a new residential community, the existing Tulane medical school, and is within walking distance to the French Quarter. When I visited the site, I noticed that right in front of our site there was a trolley stop and decided to create a moment of interest and intrigue from that location so that anyone getting off at that stop would feel inclined to investigate. I also incorporated the use of water in the design to be used both as a cooling mechanism and to promote moments of social interaction. I added to my assigned program, creating a rooftop bar to bring in more foot traffic and I incorporated a gym and a community garden as additional inducements for students and nearby residents to learn about healthy living.
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ECO LIVING MACHINE An Eco Living Machine processes black water into grey water using filtration by plants. This project incorporates a storage tank for the black water, a sand filtration and three tanks of plant life to filter the water. After the purification process the filtered water can be used to water plants and as toilet water. This assignment was to design a living machine on the University of Kansas to educate the students about the difficult, time consuming process of filtrating water and to promote awareness about water conservation. The site is a highly trafficked area on campus in between Wescoe and Buidig hall with a southern facing slope and a proximity to the underground where students go to eat and grab coffee between classes. It was important to me that the tanks to be set up to demonstrate the filtration process to the people walking through. Tours of the facility can be taken to the classroom which overlooks the tanks in order to get a view of the filtration process while being set in a traditional learning environment. This area can also be used for guest and informational lectures. In order to promote water conservation, I designed the roof to drain to one location and into a collection tank so that it could then be efficiently filtered by the machine.
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Jayhawk Boulevard Main street on campus Will be the dropping off point for student coming to the pavilion
The Underground Many people walking in and out Lack of seating
Wescoe Beach
Most trafficked bus stop on campus Booths regularly set up to promote campus 29 activities
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RAIN DIAGRAM
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MOVEMENT ANALYSIS I was presented with the task of analyzing a movement that I encounter frequently. I immediately knew that I wanted to analyze the motion of rowing because I am a rower. I have spent a significant amount of time analyzing my stroke and trying to perfect it. I thought that it would be an interesting task to analyze it from the perspective of an architecture student. I filmed a video of myself rowing and developed an understanding for graphic conventions and fluency by diagraming the motion from the video and separating it into three main segments in a stroke which are moving my arms forward, then my back and then my legs. Learning to think spatially, I noticed that these motions did not factor in the movement of my oar and body around the oar lock or pivot point. By extracting the two dimensional image and forming a three dimensional model I was able to incorporate the entire motion that I would make in the stroke. The triangles represent the different body positions that I am in with each point representing the location of my hands, feet and seat. My feet are a constant while my seat and hands move forward creating different shaped triangle. The curve in the model represents my body rotating around the oar lock.
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ARMS
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LEGS
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KIT OF PARTS / SPATIAL JOURNEY This was the first project that I was assigned that aimed to create an experience for a person. Everyone in my studio had the same list of parts that they could use to create this spatial journey. The only parts that were different in our process was one massive wall that we were allowed to only pierce with one hole. I started this assignment by creating a series of partis. I had to learn to adapt to what I was given to work with to accomplish my goals of framing views and orchestrating movement. I focused on forming interesting light qualities by lifting the massive wall slightly to allow a sliver of light to penetrate below, connecting the two sides. By lifting the wall it created an airiness to the massiveness of the wall. I used the pieces to create interesting shadows and points of enclosure and exposure. During this project I learned the valuable skills of how to hand draft and how to create perspective drawings. I think that this knowledge has enhanced my ability to create compelling images in Photoshop as well as fix the inaccurate line weights that software uses in my drawings.
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WALL SYSTEM This assignment used a previous folding paper project and challenged us to manipulate it to create a wall system that does not rely on glue. I made a series of small envelope shapes and skewered them onto dowels that are connected to a frame. I warped the frame to give it more of a three dimensional element with texture.
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LIGHT BOX My studio was asked to bring in an image that we found to have and interesting light quality. I loved this image of floating lanterns over a lake. We were then tasked to transform these images into light boxes, using a series of layers. I found that by connecting the points where the lanterns were located it created dynamic shapes and I incorporated those shapes into the layers. I discovered how light could enter a space and once it entered how the layers of foam core affect it. Since my layers were complex, I quickly learned that adding sides to hold them together would create too dark an atmosphere. Instead, I opted for having two members of foam core pierce each layer, creating a dynamic element to my light box. I found that it also allowed me to take interesting photographs of the interior of the light box, exterior of the box and highlight the shadows that were created by the layers.
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