DESIGN PORTFOLIO SARAH CASADAY
WORK EXPERIENCE
North Carolina State University
NC State College of Design
[Raleigh, NC]
Masters of Architecture
history + Theory concentration [May 2018]
[Releigh, NC]
Teaching Assistant •
Clemson University
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[Clemson, SC]
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BA Architecture Minor: History [May 2015]
Charles E. Daniel Center [Genoa, Italy]
off-campus program
Wright Design LLC [Greenville, SC]
Intern Architect •
[Spring 2014]
Noble McDuffie Travel Scholarship [Spring 2017 Recipient]
Kamphoefner Honor Fellowship [Spring 2017 Honoree]
Clemson University President’s List [Spring 2014]
Clemson University Dean’s List [2011,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015]
SKILLS Adobe creative suite [Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign] Auto cad [Mac / windows] revit architecture sketchup Rhinoceros [Mac / windows] Architectural + academic research microsoft office Photography Freehand illustration Physical architectural modeling Graphic design Website design
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May 2015 - May 2016 Produced architectural drawings for single family homes in North and South Carolina. Generated construction documents and accessed construction costs for projects. Participated in client meetings. Involved in projects from schematics through construction. Performed red line changes and revisions. Visited active construction sites. Performed construction administration duties.
INVOLVEMENT AGSA NCSU Chapter [member / treasurer] National Trust for Historic Preservation [member] Alpha Rho Chi Arostobulus Chapter [founding brother] AIAS Clemson Chapter [member] 2015 Solar Decathlon Indigo Pine - Clemson [team member] Habitat for Humanity Clemson Homecoming Build [volunteer]
CONTACT sarahlcasaday@gmail.com slcasada@ncsu.edu 704 472 0889
S A R A H C AS A D AY
HONORS
Aug 2017 - May 2018 Assisted professors of architectural history and theory in both graduate and undergraduate settings. Assisted professor with classroom instruction material, exams, grading, and record keeping. Lead discussions of course readings. Conducted review sessions for exams.
RESUME
EDUCATION
CONTENTS
GENOA:REFLECTED SPRING 2014
genoa, Italy
Window on innovation SPRING 2017
RALEIGH, NC
HEALING URBAN WOUNDS FALL 2017
Durham, NC
THEMATIC AXIS SPRING 2015
Greenville, sC
#HALIFAXISMOVING FALL 2016
HALIFAX, NC
PHOTOGRAPHY + SKETCHBOOK
GENOA : REFLECTED A museum of war + peace
SPRING 2014 Genoa, Italy Prof. Nick Ault Collaborators | Emily McGowan + Bryan Ruby This project was the culmination of a semester abroad in Genoa, Italy. We were to design a museum of war and peace with a memorial component. Our project brief stated that these needed to function as two separate museum spaces, however, we argued that war and peace are by-products of one another making them inherently connected. It was this statement that drove the design of our museum’s fractured experience. The project wanted to incorporate some sort of barrier that not only prevented traffic noise from causing unwanted experiences, but also gave a waterfront view back to the people of Genoa. After revisiting the site it became clear that the wall was historically associated with a sense of protection in times of war and peace. By deciding to preserve the wall and incorporate it into the design, the project became a diagram of our concept. It uses a cantilever as the dividing piece between the two exhibits and shifts the bottom side of the wall to the east. The decision to cut and shift the bottom piece of the wall recalled the notion of solid and void from a previous phase of the semester and drove material decisions within the plan. The roof of the newly shifted spaces was then flattened, creating the opportunity for rooftop terraces.
site analysis analytiques
form development
Adding a twelve meter structural grid informed programmatic solutions within the project. Anything involved with the museum’s facilities moved towards the north of the plan. This allowed the circulation of users within the museum to imitate the newly created planar movements. Users pass through the existing wall at important transitions within the program to inherently keep a consistent language within the circulation. A ramp was chosen to bring users between the exhibitions of war and peace to counterbalance the angle of the cantilever. This symbolic gesture would allow users to physically cross between the two exhibition spaces by crossing through the blade that separated them.
plan level
museum second level
museum ground level
The cantilever was the most important gesture of the project. It is angled at seven degrees and reaches past two lanes of traffic at fifteen meters. This angle was chosen for optimal perspectives of the sea once users enter the public space stop the museum. This cantilever is also the memorial component of the program: allowing users to step out onto its black granite reflective surface and be on the object that separates war and peace. The monument is programmatically at the end of the journey through the museum, and its surface is reflective because in the end, it is man who is the object of war and peace.
Window on innovation NCSU innovation lab + community center SPRING 2017 RALEIGH, NC prof. Susan cannon This project was the culmination of a semester long comprehensive design studio. Our program was an innovation lab for North carolina state university with a community center component. My site was located along hillsborough street, which forms the northern border of NC state’s campus with the city of raleigh. the goal for Our design was to achieve the goals of the living building challenge. We progressed through a comprehensive design of our building, including structural and mechanical plans, as well as considerations for solar and rainwater collection. throughout this investigation, I discovered the behind closed doors nature of innovation industries. You hear about the discoveries made by innovators but you do not hear about the process. My design attempts to flip the script and reverse this mind-set by having the innovation labs on display at the street edge. My building embodies this new concept or definition of innovation through putting innovators at work on display to the public, both from the street and from the public program of the building. My building form attempts to define the street edge, which breaks down at this point along hillsborough street. Visitors enter the building through a public plaza at the corner of the site. They enter into an event and assembly space that serves the community, not just the university. From this space, all of the public and private components of the building can be accessed. The space opens out onto a semi-private courtyard space for use by the students and community alike. The top level of the building provides a community garden space. The skin of the building consists of solar louvers in support of the living building challenge goals. the create a rhythm to the facade and provide visual cues for entry since it is somewhat hidden from the street view. they also provide shading and prevent heat gain from the southern sun. The glass walls on the east and west facades has fritting for additional sun control.
site plan
3/8” - 1’ chunk model final 1/16” - 1’ building model
massing 1/32” - 1’ site model
concept 1/32” - 1’ site model
W I N D O W O N I N N O VAT I O N DEFINING THE STREET EDGE
3 INNOVATION LABS ON DISPLAY
VISUAL CONNECTION BETWEEN STREET + LABS COMMUNITY CONNECTION THROUGH EXHIBITS + EVENTS
PUBLIC PROGRAM
CONNECTION POINT BETWEEN LABS + COMMUNITY THRESHOLD BETWEEN C O M M U N I T Y + I N N O VAT I O N
2 PUBLIC PLAZA
EXTENSION OF PROGRAM + GREEN SPACE
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STRUCTURAL DIAGRAMS
MECHANICAL DIAGRAMS
FALL 2017 Durham, NC Prof. kofi Boone + zena Howard This project was the culmination of a semester of research on the effects of urban renewal on the fabric, development, and citizens of the city of durham. Working with landscape architecture students, we spent half of the semester researching the effects of urban renewal on american cities, specifically the urban south. as a studio we prepared a comprehensive framework plan for durham, EXPLORING THE POSSIBLE OPTIONS IN DEALING WITH THE EXISTING FREEWAY. In teams we then prepared a master plan with our proposals for mitigating the damage of the freeway and restitching the two halves of downtown durham. This proposal was a response to our COLLECTIVE framework plan. THE GOAL OF OUR MASTER PLAN WAS TO CREATE A LIVING WORKING COMMUNITY THAT WEAVES DURHAM’S HISTORICAL PAST WITH ITS PRESENT DAY EXISTENCE. ONE DESIGN GOAL WAS TO DECREASE THE ON-OFF FREEWAY TRAFFIC AT THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN DURHAM, REPURPOSING THE FREEWAY AS A “THROUGHWAY” AND FUNNELING DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC ONTO MAJOR DOWNTOWN STREETS. ANOTHER GOAL OF OUR MASTERPLAN WAS TO RESTITCH DOWNTOWN DURHAM WITH THE FORGOTTEN AREAS SOUTH OF THE FREEWAY WHICH WERE HISTORICALLY THRIVING AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS AND RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS. WE CREATED A DENSER URBAN FABRIC THROUGH THE ADDITION OF SIDE STREETS AND BUILDINGS SOUTH OF THE FREEWAY. THESE NEW AREAS WERE CONNECTED THROUGH GREEN CORRIDORS AND AN EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING AMERICAN TOBACCO TRAIL. TWO STRATEGIC CONNECTION POINTS BETWEEN THE AREAS NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE FREEWAY SERVE AS THE STITCH BETWEEN THESE ONCE CONNECTED AREAS. The last portion of the semester was dedicated to REFINING THE master plan INDIVIDUALLY, as a further response to our semester long research. This master plan was to contain further development of program and public space. My design was centered around the future durham light rail line. My design intent was to create a new gateway into downtown durham centered around a light rail transit hub. THIS AREA, consisting of office space, COMMERCIAL SPACE, and housing, WAS INTENDED TO CREATE A THRIVING LIVING-WORKING COMMUNITY FOCUSED ON ALTERNATIVE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION. These program pieces are interconnected through an elevated landscape that transverses the freeway, RECONNECTING THE AREA SOUTH OF THE FREEWAY TO THE DOWNTOWN CORE AND THIS NEW TRANSIT ZONE.
framework plan
durham fabric | pre-freeway
reimagining the Durham freeway
durham fabric | post-freeway
HEALING URBAN WOUNDS
master plan proposal
strategic intervention concept diagrams
strategic intervention site plan
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THEMATIC AXIS
South Carolina children’s theater
SEPARATE ARA PROGRAM PIECES
SPRING 2015 Greenville, sC Prof. Julie Wilkerson
AXIAL RELATIONSHIPS CONNECTING PASSAGEWAYS
primary city grid
The premise of this project was to try and express critical regionalism by repeating something that is local and familiar in an effort to be contextual and to oppose the large scale density of current development. From my figure ground study of the city of Greenville, I found a pattern of circulation that moves in and around the built solid of the city. This pattern of movement and circulation proves to be more abstract and less sentimental than repeating the appearance of a local form. The process I have used to discover how a solid void relationship can work in a building environment is to create an experience of separation versus connectivity. By layering two major city grid patterns that inform the major programmatic decisions and circulation strategies, I have inserted the program solids into the grid fabric and translated circulation as separation. Circulation as separation becomes a day lighting strategy that volumetrically connects the program pieces and orients the experience of the building. The building performs as an urban theatre. It is a metaphor for the extension of the street using scaled volumes and day lighting to create a functional, theatrical, and educational program. The new SCCT will cultivate and support self discovery and will encourage the user to become unified to the thematic design of the building.
case study analysis Parco Della Musica, RPBW PROGRAMMING
secondary city grid performance - education axial relationships
parti studies
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performance - education separation v connection
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programming diagram
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lower level main floor plan
site plan
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transverse section
north elevation
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#HALIFAXISMOVING
movement diagrams
[re]connecting history+COMMUNITY FALL 2016 HALIFAX, NC Prof. Juan Coll-barreu This studio was centered on the town of halifax, nc, which was historically important throughout colonial american history. the town was founded along a bend in the roanoke river in 1757. it was the site of the halifax resolves of 1776, which was the first formal call for independence from England. Ever since its time in the spotlight, Halifax has been in a continuous state of decline. Today, It boasts the highest murder rate per capita in north carolina. this led to the creation of a program that would provide healing to a hurting community and help to boost tourism and revenue for its residents and business owners. the intent of my program for Halifax was to reconnect the river with the city and to give it a new importance in the city’s future. This path becomes a means to interact with the pieces of the program: The experimental theater, the wedding room, and as a means to access the dwellings along the river. The shape of the path was influenced by the organic patterns found while creating a figure ground site model as a class. The circulatory patterns created engage both the natural and built environment, creating an experience of both landscape and space. One aspect of the program was to incorporate movement into the design of the structures. this was an effort to harken back to the history of halifax, where several colonial structures still stand, but have been moved several times over the years. I incorporated the idea of movement into the structures by creating flexible spaces to suit a variety of needs. The moving parts create these buildings that become machines for performing, living, and experiencing. This creates a sense of possibility and flexibility. The theater is the first building you encounter along the path. there are operable doors on all four sides, allowing for the forest to become the background for performances. There is also a modular moving floor to allow for flexible performance and seating spaces. The second structure you encounter, which is actually part of the path itself, is the wedding space. here, the moveable parts create a flexible event space. the “walls” when down offer seating AND viewing spaces, but when folded up they create an intimate semi-enclosed space for passing through or for small gatherings. the wedding “room” is really an open space to again stress the connection with the natural environment. the dwellings are not located along the path to offer a sense of privacy for visitors. the sleeping volume offers four separate rooms that can become one larger space with the movement of sliding partition walls. the bath house and kitchen are separate volumes so that the visitors must experience the environment while moving between the three dwelling structures.
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wedding space
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PHOTOGRAPHY + SKETCHBOOK
Spring 2014 | Venice, Italy gondolier navigates canal
Spring 2014 | Venice, Italy Fondazione Querini Stampalia - Carlo Scarpa
summer 2016 | kakheti, Republic of georgia alaverdi monestary
summer 2017 | bangkok, thailand illusive buddha
Spring 2014 | Pavia, Italy Certosa di Pavia - cloister pen sketch
Spring 2014 | Santorini, Greece Ink + watercolor
Fall 2014 | Angkor Wat - Cambodia pen + ink freelance work
Spring 2014 | Lucca, Italy Villa Reale pen sketch
Spring 2014 | Vicenza, Italy Villa Rotunda pen sketch
Spring 2014 | Genoa, Italy Chiesa del GesĂš cupola + clock tower pencil sketch
Fall 2014 | Castle Vecchio - Verona, Italy pen + ink