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Sarah Q. Meyer
Sarah Q. Meyer 2723 Northview Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19152 sarah1127@gmail.com (858)-353-2691 https://issuu.com/sarahqm/docs/meyer_sarahq_ portfolio_de20
Skills:
Proficient in Auto-CAD 2015-2020 Proficient in Photoshop 2015-2020 Proficient in InDesign 2015-2020 Proficient in Illustrator 2015-2020 Proficient in Rhino 2016-2020 Proficient in Revit 2018-2020 Basic in 3DS Max 2017-2018 Basic in V-Ray 2019-2020 Proficient in Maya 2019-2020
Sarah Q. Meyer is a student currently studying architecture at Jefferson University’s East Falls Campus in Philadelphia, PA. She also holds an Associate Degree of Liberal Arts with Honors and an Associate Degree of Architecture at the Community College of Philadelphia. She has a variety of work experience from 7 years of working in a Financial Aid office as an Office Assistant and Summer internships at Toll Brothers as an Architecture Product Development intern and at NCB Management. When not spending her life focused on school and architecture she enjoys reading a copious amount of books, painting, and indulging in various television exploits. She reads a lot, mostly things that are not structured in this reality. In her mind, she reads and creates places that, as of yet, do not exist. She enjoys the creative aspect of design. Researching a concept or goal and being able to create something from that is what she enjoys most. Providing a design that stimulates the imagination and encourages fantasy and whimsy is her architectural goal.
Table of Contents Dwell-A-Vator
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Branching Boise
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Magnetic Levitation
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Wizards Library
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Mural Arts Philadelphia
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Cherry Pop
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Depth of East Falls
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Dwell-A-Vator 400’ Tall
Redwood National Park
Tall Tree Grove Site
Redwood Forest Sketch
Site Elevation
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Design 8 - 2 Weeks: The Redwood Forest is the home of the tallest trees in the world, the Redwoods. The Tall Tree Grove is where some of the tallest Redwood trees live. My dwelling is taller than the tallest Redwood, reaching 400 feet in the air. The Dwell-A-Vator takes a dwelling to any height along those 400 feet. This allows a person to experience every level of the Redwoods, from their trunks, to their foliage, and to above their crowns. The dwelling is part octagonal so that a person, when taken into the sky is able to view the area with an almost 360 view. That way a person can actually feel apart of that zone of the Redwoods. Underneath each dwelling is a subspace made for the mechanical, water, and waste systems the dwellings would need while up in the air.
Operational Diagrams 1
Operational Diagrams 2
Operational Diagrams 3
Operational Diagrams 4
Operational Diagrams 5
Redwood: 380’ Tallest Redwood
Statue of Liberty: 305’
Operational Diagrams 6
Person: 6’
Scale Diagram
Operational Diagrams 7
Operational Diagrams 8
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South Elevation
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Plan View
Section A
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Wood Finish Air Gap Ridged Insulation
Batt Insulation Plywood Wood Finish 2x4 Wood Stud
Wall Plan Section
Plan View ---
Wall Cavity
Pipes Wood Finish Plywood Corrugated Metal Decking Wide-Flange Louvers Mechanical Systems Subspace Metal Deck
Section B Wall Section B
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Branching Boise
Design 8 - Group Project, 13 Weeks: The challenge was to create a unique library in Boise, Idaho. It is a culturally rich area with a large influx of population annually, but with very little space to accommodate everyone’s needs. Specifically, Boise State University continually sets new fall enrollment records each year. In 2019 there was a nearly 3% increase from 2018 and almost 19% over the past five years. This library will provide the space for social, educational, and interactive possibilities for the community and students off-campus. The addition of this library’s programmatic spaces will service the needs of the students. The design establishes the slipping of public and private with small and large circulation allowing any alternative areas for studying or collaboration.
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Hospitals Theaters Cinemas Groceries Zoo Schools Mail Service University
Interior Render From Main Entrance
Interior Render From Hallway to Cafe
Interior Render From Main Hallway
Interior Render From Cafe looking towards the Entrance
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Interior Render From Cafe in the Sitting Area
Interior Render From Southwest Positive Corner
Interior Render From Second Floor Lounge above the Cafe
Interior Render From Second Floor Elevator Lounge
Kitchen Storage Cafe Elevator Lounge
Lounge
Bathroom
Cafe Lounge
Bathroom
Hallway Seating
Technology Room
Second Floor Plan
Solo Rooms
Office Group Rooms
First Floor Plan
Reflected Ceiling Plan
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West Elevation East Section
South Elevation North Section
East Elevation
North Elevation
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South Section Perspective
Axonometric Plan
Structural Axonometric Plan
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Column Detail
West Wall Plan Detail
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Skylight Detail
East Wall Section Detail
South Wall Section Detail
West Wall Section Detail
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Magnetic Levitation
Design 6 - 8 Weeks: For this project, we were tasked with creating 3 new transportation hubs in Manhattan, New York. The Transportation Hubs use Matter Transportation as its form of movement throughout New York City. The three spots were chosen for there need or use of transportation. Matter Transportation is a quick and efficient form of Transportation. It converts matter into energy and moves that energy through time and space to another platform. To leave each platform one must use a key, like a “phone number�, to send yourself from one platform to another. Once at your destination you will be reassembled and on your way. The tectonic system is a system of magnetic levitation. One module is a steel casing wrapped around two neodymium magnets. The magnets can be set up to either repel or attract one another to form a structure. Steel or iron can act as a temporary magnet. When a magnetic field is applied to it (stick a magnet to it or near it), the field channels through the steel, making the steel act as a magnet as well. With this, the magnets are able to levitate as a full system. The system uses electromagnets with ferromagnets to create the magnetic field.
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Underground
Site
Attached
Spanning
Maglev- Electromagnets on the guide-ways levitate the car, electromagnets on the cars lift the cars, or permanent magnets levitate over passice coils
An experimental investigation of multiple horizontal diamagnetically Stabilized levitation with Permanent magnets
Steel Casing
Neodymium Magnets
Maglev Magnetic Diagram Precedents
Scaffolding with C-channels for the magnets to be placed into. For a particle to be in a stable equilibrium, small pushes on the particle in any direction should not break the equilibrium; the particle should “fall back� to its previous position.
Maglev Plan Diagram
Place the magnets into the frame according to the design. The structures are made from electrically charged Neodymium magnets from electromagnets. A magnet is positioned in the magnetic field of another magnet, oriented with like poles facing each other so that the force between magnets repels the two magnets.
Place electromagnet and charge the magnets withing the frame to initiate a state of equilibrium. Unlike a permanent magnet, the strength of an electromagnet can easily be changed by changing the amount of electric current that flows through it. The poles of an electromagnet can even be reversed by reversing the flow of electricity. An electromagnet works because an electric current produces a magnetic field.
Turn on the Electromagnet and Remove the frame, so it can be reused at another site. The electromagnets create a magnetic field to create a stable equilibrium between the Neodymium magnets. If two magnets are electromagnetically constrained along a single axis and arranged to repel each other, this will act to levitate one of the magnets above the other.
The final structure is a levitated space that remains in place with the assistance of the electromagnet.
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Spanning The Spanning Transportation is located in Grand Central Station’s Concourse. This is the main transportation hub in and of itself. Having the new form of Matter Transportation also located in this already heavily used space is the best option as people will already be accustomed to this area and the flow of transportation in and out. Since my tectonic is levitating having it above the main Concourse where all can see and access fit well with the mode of transport. The modules are repelling against each other leaving large gaps where light and views can be seen.
Process Models
Top Plan
Back
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Base
Force Diagram
Render of the Full Spanning Transport
Render Looking Across the Concourse
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t Str ee 6th
The Underground Transportation is located at Herald Square. It is a smart place to add an underground transportation area since it is located between 6th Ave and Broadway, a high traffic area. Herald Square itself is a high foot traffic area as well. Underground the magnetic modules attract to each other rather than repel. The modules create egg-like domes to hold back the earth. The earth is able to be seen through the gaps between the modules as they turn. This way it is as if the Earth is coming into space.
Broadway
Underground
Process Models
Cut @ 1’8”
0’0”
Cut @ -5’4”
Cut @ -9’0” Elevation Plans
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Force Diagram
Interior Render
Section Perspective
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Underground The Attached Transportation is located at the New York Public Library. This place is filled with local and tourist traffic. The Library is a high foot traffic area, due to its central location in the downtown area. The Transportation Hub is attached to the side of the building directly over a window. On the interior, the window opens like a door and allows passage in and out of the hub through the library.
Plan
Elevation
Connection Diagram
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Connection Render
Force Diagram
Interior Render
Exterior Render
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Wizards Library
Animation Design - 3D Modeling: We were to create a 3D Animated room using the Maya program. Our room had to tell a story. We had to have 4 large objects. These objects should not have been too detail-oriented. Also, we needed 5 smaller objects ranging in detail quality. Lastly, we needed a Hero Object. This object should be the center of our story. The pictures should tell the story of what happened or what is happening in that room.
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Room and Stairs
Bookcase
Hourglass
Candle
Hero Object Objects in Process
Scroll
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Right Side of the Room
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Right Upper Level
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Left Upper Layer Looking Down
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In Front of Work Desk
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Mural Arts Philadelphia
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Design 5 - 10 Weeks: The new Mural Arts Headquarters will be a collaborative expansion of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Free Library, and Mural Arts. This will provide an educational space for Environmental Art Installations for the city of Philadelphia. The design is created with these historic structures in mind so it takes on the likeness of the neo-classic style that the buildings on the Parkway are styled after. On the Ground Floor is where the collaboration between these three organizations will for the most part occur. The exterior stairs and the outdoor space is for Exhibition as well. Going up from there to the second floor is the office space for Mural Arts. From the second floor and up the building is pushed back. The Second and Fifth Floor has access to the exterior balcony areas. The top three floors are Educational/Studio spaces. Each floor is its own type of art form; The Third floor is the physical/tactile with the Woodshop and Foundry, the Fourth floor is the digital/electrical with the Digital Studio, Tech Lab and Cutting Lab, and the Fifth floor is the clay/ sculpture with the Clay Room, Sculpture Room and a Kiln Room. On each floor is a classroom for lecturing about the subjects and required materials, with little lab work done in these spaces.
Site
View from Gallery Space
View from top of Exterior Exhibition Space
View from Second Floor balcony
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Sculpture Room Bathroom
Cutting Lab Bathroom
Library
Office
Woodshop Bathroom
Conference Room
Bathroom
Bathroom
Exterior Exhibition Space
Storage Room
C
Reception
B Gallery
Material Storage
Tech Lab
Clay Room
Office Office Office
Office Office Office
Classroom
Bathroom
Ground Floor D 0 5 10 20
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Classroom
Storage Room
Office
Gift Shop
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Classroom
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Foundry
Digital Studio Kiln Room
Mechanical Room
Second Floor
Third Floor
Fourth Floor
Fifth Floor
Program and Circulation Program Spaces Public Private Educational Studios
Occupation Circulation Organization Staff Tourists Students Artists
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Structural Grid
Section A
Section D
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Section B
Section C
East Elevation
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20
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Cherry Pop
Design 5 - 2 Weeks: Located on the corner of 19th and Cherry Street in Center City Philadelphia. This Pop-up would enhance the area by supplying a visually interesting evening display to attract people who would otherwise leave the area after working hours, give space to local food vendors to sell, and supply a space for relaxing and interaction between commutes, local residents, and tourists that frequent the area. To better interact with the daily shifts in the usage of the area, the modular seating booths are designed to be movable as well as color customized.
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Cherry Street
19th Street
Day Circulation Diagram Cherry Street
19th Street
Different Lighting for Booth
Primary Secondary Night Circulation Diagram
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Frosted Acrylic Glass Acrylic Dark Steel
Dark Stained Wood
Steel
Rubber Tile
LED Strips 3 PM
8 PM
Material Diagram
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Solar Study Diagram
View from Cherry Street looking at Vending Area
View from 19th Street looking South
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Depth of East Falls
Design 6 - 2 Weeks: The new development “1 Kelly Drive� is in need of a privacy wall to separate its parking area from the view of passer-Byers on Kelly Drive and the building’s green space. With all the athletics that go on in this area around the River and as the river is the most prominent feature in the area, the design of the wall represents the Schuylkill River. To bring people to the wall there are challenge boards at either end of the wall so that athletes can post their times and compete with others.
Site
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Site Map
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Concept Diagram
Glass to Cement
- Alcolin Waterproof Glue is used to connect the glass to the cement. It is great for outdoor use and is industrial strength to hold the weight of the wall.
Precast Cement
Electronic Board to Wall - Anchor a meal grid to the cement part of the Wall and anchor that to the back of the electronic board.
Electronic Challenge Boards
Layers of Cement
Layers of Glass
- Topographic layers on the Schuylkill river that are precast cement and than laid on top of one another and glued together by Quikrete.
Material Diagram
Exploded Axonometric of Wall
Layers of Glass
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Wall Topographic Diagram
- Layers of the depth of the water in the Schuylkill river carved from glass. The glass is layered and are held together with a resin which has the same refractive properties as glass.
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