Sarah Q Meyer Portfolio by SarahQM

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Sarah Q. Meyer Portfolio

Sarah Q. Meyer 2723 Northview Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19152 sarah1127@gmail.com (858)-353-2691 https://issuu.com/sarahqm/docs/ sarah_q_meyer_portfolio

Skills:

Proficient in Auto-CAD 2015-2021 Proficient in Revit 2018-2021 Proficient in Photoshop 2015-2021 Proficient in InDesign 2015-2021 Proficient in Illustrator 2015-2021 Proficient in Rhino 2016-2021 Basic in V-Ray 2019-2021 Proficient in Maya 2019-2020 Basic in 3DS Max 2017-2018

Sarah Q. Meyer is a Graduate of Architecture from 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 with Honors from 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 a Summer internships at Toll Brothers as an Architecture Product Development Intern, and work experience at BRR Architecture firm. 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

Garden Residential Tower

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Branching Boise

...13

Street Parks

...21

Dwell-A-Vator

...25

Magnetic Levitation

...29

Wizards Library

...37

Cherry Pop

...43

Garden Residential Tower

Design 9 - 8 Weeks: The challenge was to create a highrise downtown around the Jefferson Center City Campus. I chose to make a vertical city focused on dorm space for students and apartments for those who work at the hospital. I used a combination of interior green spaces with public areas that can be enjoyed by those living in the tower.

Jefferson Center City Site

Site

Residential Green Space Residential Use Office

Tower Massing Diagram

Structural Diagram

This massing shows the uses of each floor.

The columns also match the apartment layout. There are six core structures. Four elevator ones and two fire stairs at either end of the building.

Structural Diagram 3D

Structural Diagram

How the structure would be layed out in the building.

The beams are layed out in a grid matching the apartments.

Residential Massing Diagram This massing shows how the residential floors are broken up.

Green Massing Diagram This massing diagrams shows how the green spaces connect and move through the building.

Exterior Glazing Closed

Air Flow Massing Diagram This massing shows how the air can openly and freely flow throughout the building.

Garden Floors

Green House

Circulation Massing Diagram This massing diagrams shows how the circulation flows throughout the building. Through the use of elevators, green floors, green towers, and the outer residential halls.

North Section

Exterior Glazing Open

Circulation Seating Private Seating

First Floor Plaza Plan Enter through the main front doors on 8th street leading into a curved mezzanine. The openings are placed in such a way that you can enter and look straight down towards the open green path at the back of the building. The building designed as a glass structure all the way around. A coffee shop and bakery are on either end of the front of the building to allow for pedestrian interaction. The rooms on this floor are made for conferences and group private spaces. The ones closest to the back have glass on either side to allow light to reach the rooms behind them.

Circulation

Sixth Floor Green House This is the Green House in the building. It is to the height of the windows in the Rehab building at the back of the Tower. This was done so that the people who stay in the rehab facility can have a green, vibrant, and active view. This Green House is 5 floors tall so that the plants have room to grow and can be as tall as it is needed.

Circulation Green Space Seating Apartments Dorms

Thirteenth Floor Residential - Garden Tower The floors were designed with 6 residence spaces on either side. Then one residence on either side was taken and opened to create a green usable tower that goes up on another garden floor. Like the other floors the exterior is completely glass. On the residential level it is a two facade system. The apartments and dorms are surrounded by glass on there outer walls. This allows for light to penetrate all the way into the living spaces and for free air flow in the entire residential section of the building. Each bedroom has a sliding door that opens to the outer spaces. The Dorm rooms have vestibule for their work space with glass on both walls to allow light and community through the floor. Each residential section has a different floor layout. They are set up in a similar way to each other. The only thing that changes is where the Garden Tower is located. These Garden Tower are almost adjacent to each other in this section.

Circulation Green Space Seating

Twentieth Floor - Garden Floor This floor is an open floor plan that is separated by stairs. The stairs from the Garden Tower lead up to this floor and then there is a new set of stairs that lead up to the new set of towers on the next section of residential levels. The seating is also given semi private space by green fencing that allows people to see around the spaces but not intrude on those seating there. Each Garden floor is the same premise but set up a little differently because the stairs for each floor come up and exit at different locations each time.

Green House Rendering: 6th Floor

Residential Hallway Rendering

Outer Circulation Corridor Rendering

Garden Tower Rending

Garden Floor Working Area Rendering

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.

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

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

West Elevation East Section

South Elevation North Section

East Elevation

North Elevation

South Section Perspective

Axonometric Plan

Structural Axonometric Plan

Column Detail

West Wall Plan Detail

Skylight Detail

East Wall Section Detail

South Wall Section Detail

West Wall Section Detail

Street Parks

Design 9 - 2 Weeks: The challenge for this project was to create a invention for a smart city. The problem I chose to solve was that is 2050 cars will be automated and will not have need to use parking spaces that we allocate now for people who need to be downtown. Right now most cars spend all their time parked taking up a lot of space, that will soon be empty. The solution would be to use these now empty spaces for the public. Because not every car will be automated at the same time this process will happen slowly in parts. Therefor the product must also. A kit of parts will take over the parking spaces piece by piece. This will allow for movement and changing of pieces whenever needed. If something is no longer needed on that block then it can be swapped out with something that is. Also if the street is needed at the Street Parks need to be removed, they can be taken away for the event and put back afterwards. Parking spaces can be used for many things; Public seating like benches, restaurant outdoor seating, bike parking, garden/ green space with some permanent trees, and even children’s play areas

Parking Use Diagram

These changes will happen over time and as things are no longer needed. If more seating is needed for a restaurant it can be added, like in the summer when people will want to be outside, and in the winter it can be reduced since people will not want to be outside. As more bikes are being used bike parking will need to be increased and if less cars are coming to that area then there will not need to be car dropoff zones. If children are playing outdoors then there will need to be seating for parents to watch them, a water fountain, and bathrooms. Depending on what is happening in the area and what is needed at any given time all of the components can be moved around.

Temporary Module 6” tall structure to the curb

7’-9”

1” top layer 3” Water retention mat between the precast concrete frame 3” Precast concrete frame 2 ½” Cable chase - for electrical wires to be passed through the modules ¾” Feet to raise it off the ground

Permanent Module 7’-9”

The precast concrete is made with a cable chase through it to allow for wires for the power to get to the Street Park modules. The feet are able to be raised and lowered that way the modules are level with the sidewalk are the roads are slanted slightly.

Top 6” above ground to match the sidewalk and other modules height Filled with dirt Made of wood so that eventually it degrades and allows the tree to continue to grow

6’-5”

The top layer is to be interchangeable between grass and wood planks to allow for green walkable spaces and firm stationary spaces.

7’-9”

Birds Eye View Render

Car View Render of the Street Park

Render from the Top of the Street Park

Render at the Temperary Cafe

Dwell-A-Vator 400’ Tall

Redwood National Park

Tall Tree Grove Site

Redwood Forest Sketch

Site Elevation

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

South Elevation

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Plan View

Section A

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

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.

Underground

Site

Attached

Spanning

An experimental investigation of multiple horizontal diamagnetically Stabilized levitation with Permanent magnets

Maglev- Electromagnets on the guide-ways levitate the car, electromagnets on the cars lift the cars, or permanent magnets levitate over passice coils

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.

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

Base

Force Diagram

Render of the Full Spanning Transport

Render Looking Across the Concourse

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

Force Diagram

Interior Render

Section Perspective

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

Connection Render

Force Diagram

Interior Render

Exterior Render

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.

Room and Stairs

Bookcase

Hourglass

Candle

Hero Object Objects in Process

Scroll

Right Side of the Room

Right Upper Level

Left Upper Layer Looking Down

In Front of Work Desk

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.

Cherry Street

19th Street

Day Circulation Diagram Cherry Street

19th Street

Different Lighting for Booth

Primary Secondary Night Circulation Diagram

Frosted Acrylic Glass Acrylic Dark Steel

Dark Stained Wood

Steel

Rubber Tile

LED Strips 3 PM

8 PM

Material Diagram

Solar Study Diagram

View from Cherry Street looking at Vending Area

View from 19th Street looking South