Portfolio Sarah Thiel, 2016

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SARAH THIEL

Msc. Architecture TU Delft

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CONTENT 3 RESUME info & curriculum vitae

4 “NEPANTLA”, a village in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico graduation project Border Studio, Complex Projects, TU Delft august 2015 - june 2016 tutors: Stefan de Koning, Suzanne Groenewold 16 ANNEX FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE Public Building Bsc. 4 studio april 2012 - june 2012 with: Astrid Potemans, Suzanne Peet, Shelly Verhoeven & Rozemarijn de Vries 20 SOLOTERDIJK, Msc. 1 studio Studio Amsterdam, Dwelling, TU Delft february 2014 - june 2014 tutors: Jacob van Rijs, Olv Klijn & Pepijn Bakker 24 FLUVIAL PARK, Sao Miguel Paulista, Sao Paulo Msc. 2, FAU-USP oktober 2014 - december 2014 tutor: Alexandre Delijaicov

28 PERSONAL WORK painting & photography


ABOUT Hello! My name is Sarah Thiel. Thanks for taking interest in my portfolio. After my graduation in Architecture, Urbanism & Building Sciences at TU Delft in June 2016, I am working as a volunteer architect in Namibia, to help develop the housing concept of architect Roel Rutgers to improve the living conditions of the local population. I am eager to start my professional career in January 2017. . During my studies I developed skills in architectural research, -conceptualization and -design I like to find architectural solutions for urban problems and I am especially interested in finding new ways of living in cities. I am a good listener, a hard worker and I have a good feeling for detail.

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During my masters I broadened my experience by doing an exchange semester at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. As an architecture student, I learned here how to deal with the differences in building method, climate, culture and priorities on another continent. By doing an internship at Broekbakema I learned how to work within a team of architects, building regulations and detailing. I am socially involved and the aim of this selection of works is to show my constant thrive to create better living conditions for everyone through architectural design.


PERSONALIA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sarah Thiel 05/06/1992, Haarlem, The Netherlands Kruisplein 79 3014 DC, Rotterdam +31 634712278 sarahthiel@live.nl Nationality: Dutch

jan 2015 - jul 2015

internship Broekbakema architects, Rotterdam

jul 2015 - sept 2015

private commission conceptual design, house renewal Haarlem

okt 2015 - present

studentassistent Education and Student affairs Faculty of Architecture TU Delft

COMPETENCES autodesk revit, autodesk autocad, (good) adobe photoshop, adobe indesign, adobe illustrator (good) google sketchup (sufficient) rhino + grasshopper (basic) MS office (good)

EDUCATION sep 2004 - may 2010

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES VWO Praedinius Gymnasium, Groningen

sep 2010 - jan 2014

Bsc. of Science, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft

sep 2012 - jan 2013

Minor urbanism in delta cities Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft

feb 2014 - jul 2014 aug 2014 - dec 2014

sep 2015 - jun 2016

jul 2011 - jul 2013

sailing instructor for children (age 6-14) Sailing school ‘Oer’t hout’, Grou

dec 2011 - jun 2012

organization of a festival for 1000 students, decor and advertisement design D.S.R. Proteus Eretes, Delft

sep 2012 - jan 2013

yearbook committee, chief acquisition and design, D.S.R. Proteus-Eretes, Delft

jan 2013 - aug 2013

introduction week committee, chief external relations, D.S.R. Proteus-Eretes, Delft

aug 2015 - okt 2015

organization study trip US-Mexico Border responsible for contacting universities in the US and Mexico and arrange a program for 16 architecture graduate students. 5

Msc. of Science, Dwelling Studio Amsterdam Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft student exchange Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Universidade de Sao Paulo Msc. of Science, Graduation Studio Complex Projects Faculty of Architecture TU Delft


NEPANTLA, A VILLAGE IN CIUDAD JUAREZ graduation project , complex projects ciudad juarez, 2016 6

Ciudad Juarez / El Paso is a twin city, located on the Mexican-US border. It is situated in the middle of the Chihuahua desert and is the starting point of the natural Rio Grande Border. This specific location deals with very specific issues. There is water scarcity, drug smuggling, human traďŹƒckers, long commuting lines to cross the border for daily work and migration. Because Ciudad Juarez is home to many people who came from other parts of Mexico and Central America, it is no ones native city. People feel on transit in Juarez and not at home. Although there is a recent history of violence present in Juarez, I saw the quality of the city (compared to it’s American counterpart) in the liveliness on the street, the interaction and the informality, that I had seen before in Brazil.

To unite the people of different origins in a city where they feel stranded, I tried to come up with a design solution that is familiar for everybody from the continent, yet serves the local purpose: The outcome is a dwelling concept, combined with a practical construction and catering school. Catering, to learn from each others similar habits and sell food to the local citizens and construction, to learn a building method people are familiar with but which is standardized and optimalized. The project is situated in the city center of Juarez and makes use of the irrigation canal for agriculture on site and re-uses the abandoned bullring as a sports stadium for the school.


cyclist in juaraz abandoned bars

bordercrossing abandoned bullring

autoconstruction

JUAREZ

streetfood

location irrigation canal

EL PASO

CONTEXT

The municipality of Juarez is investing in cycling paths, as cycling is a cheap alternative to public transport and cars. The irrigation channel runs through the city center, and although it is one of the only places where green can grow, it is now highly neglected. The city center deals with a lot of abandoned entertainment buildings, but is still lively because of it’s local and informal market economy.

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location in city fabric

main routing and bullring

vacant lot

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INTERVENTIONS

The city center of Juarez is highly divided by the main road towards the central border crossing to El Paso. It is hard for slow traďŹƒc to cross this road. To make it easier and more attractive to cycle, a bicycle path is designed along the irrigation canal that crosses the busy road. On this crossing there is an vacant lot with the abandoned bullring. This will be the site for the master plan. The urban grid is extended on the site and translated into a building grid for the master plan. The bullring is partly demolished to create a route that connects the two banks of the irrigation canal.

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directions urban grid

translation into masterplan


TIME The concrete units that are detached from the main school building are flexible in usage. First, when there are few dwellers living on site and thus little need for classrooms, they can be used as building material storage.

primary school classroom material storage

Dwellings can be constructed following a standardized, familiar system and can be attached to these concrete units. Dwellers can build as many modules of 3500 x 3500 as they want and can build around and on top op the concrete units. Once more dwellers start to live on site and there is less demand for material storage but more need for education, the concrete units can be transformed into classrooms.

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PUBLIC FUNCTIONS roofgarden

auditorium

playground

vegetable gardens kitchen

workshop exhibition route restaurant

sportsďŹ eld

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dressingroom


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groundfloor catering school

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WORKSHOP

CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEES

GARDENS CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL

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MIGRANT DWELLINGS

A G R I C U LT U R E SCHOOL

EDUCATION

LOCAL CHILDREN EL PASO / JUAREZ

CATERING SCHOOL

EXHIBITION R O U T E

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C U LT U R A L AWARENESS

LOCAL CITIZENS EL PASO/JUAREZ

The educational facilities are designed following the same structural principles as the smaller anchor buildings and consist of 4 volumes and. They are arranged in a way that they are accessible for students as well as for local citizens: The kitchen, where students can learn how to cook, is connects both with a restaurant on a public square next to the irrigation canal and a canteen for students to enjoy their lunch. This canteen is again connected to a fourth volume that contains a small auditorium and a staffroom. An elevated walkway towards and outdoor exhibition route that starts on the roof of the restaurant can be accessed from the auditorium and the canteen.

groundfloor catering school

section B

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DWELLINGS The method to construct the dwellings is similar to the informal building method in Latin American slums: the load bearing structure consists of concrete columns and beams, the facade is made of hollow ceramic bricks and additional floors are made of secondary beams and ceramic hollow floor bricks. In this design the columns and beams are not cast in place like usually is done in slums, but are prefabricated on site following the master plan grid of 3,5 x 3,5 m. This makes it easier to construct dwellings against each other, since all dwellings have the

ground floor 1:200

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axonometric same span. The dwellings can also be attached to anchor buildings and can make use of the bolts in the casting holes of the concrete to connect load bearing beams to. Pallets can be used in various ways to create lighter facades, openable facades and louvers.

first floor 1:200


CONSTRUCTION

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IMPRESSIONS

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ANEX OF TU DELFT FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE library, auditorium and study spaces 2012 16

The form of the annex of the faculty of Architecture extends the structure of the existing faculty building and connects two wings. The new buildings consists out of two tube shaped volumes: one on the ground flour with functions accessible for all TU delft students, such as a library and exhibition space. On top and perpendicular to this ground floor volume there is a second volume with functions specifically for architecture students with an auditorium and student work spaces. At the crossing of the two volumes, a big staircase is created to connect the two parts of the building. In the void of the staircase, the chair-collection of the TU-Delft is hung on cables, to give it a prominent place in the new building. The bookshelves of the library are constructed in the exterior walls and form a pattern with the window openings in the facade. A metal mesh is wrapped around the facade to create a smooth exterior look.


ELEVATIONS

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FLOORPLANS

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SECTIONS & DETAILS

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SOLOTERDIJK msc. 1 dwelling, studio amsterdam, 2014

Amsterdam is lacking affordable housing for single households. In the first quarter of the studio research was done into this target group and possibly affordable areas in Amsterdam For this project the area of Sloterdijk is chosen, an office park that isn’t very successful: It is an area with many empty spaces and vacant buildings. Today, few people want to live there because there are almost no facilities yet, but the area has great opportunity, since it's highly connected to the city of Amsterdam , and other Dutch cities, because of the proximity of the intercity train station.

The units from the 2d to 6th floor are 26m2 with a balcony of 6 m2. And there's a variety of duplex and single floor apartments. Due to the perpendicular floor plan configuration, a clear distinction between living and sleeping area can be made, so it feels like a house and not like a regular student box.

Since the area of Sloterdijk is huge and without any human scale, and the area isn't Larger apartments for the growing target very popular yet, the strategy was to first urbanize only one street that can serve as a group of students that need an office for their start-up are situated on the ground catalyst for the entire area. floor. These are duplex apartments of 40 m2 Therefore I created a very wide and slim and have a workspace and kitchen on the -only 2,5 m- temporary building on an ground floor, and a living and sleeping area empty field along the street so that the on the first floor. least amount of dwellings and the highest feeling of urbanization on street level.

plan groundfloor

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Among the singles, the chosen target group in specific was the older students, because they prefer to live alone, but can't afford housing in other parts of the city and have less high living standards. They won't mind living in a less developed area, as long as they are still connected to the city. These older students can be the dwelling pioneers of Sloterdijk.


ground floor student-startup studio 40m2

student studio 26 m2 2500

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duplex student studio 26 m2

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SECTION AND FACADE

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DETAILS

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vertical detail

horizontal detail wooden sliding door

gyproc cross laminated timber ceiling160mm vaporlayer pressureproof insulation 160mm waterproof layer vertical timberframe wooden terrace tiles

horizontalwooden timbercladding 25x200x1500 mm wooden strokes 38mm water repellant layer rockwool insulation 200 mm between multiplex vapor layer plasterboard 2x12.5 mm

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timber facade cladding

turn and tilt window

25 mm plasterboard window shutters

tilt and turn wooden windowframe

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PUBLIC PARK floodzone Sao Miguel Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2015

The fluvial park is located in Sao Miguel Paulista, one of the many expanding suburbs in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The wetland is now occupied by temporary dwellers and doesn’t provide any protection to the water. To connect two existing neighbourhood better and to provide public amenities an elevated promenade, inspired by the Dutch dikes, is designed. A museum, a sports center, a theatre and a library are created along this promenade. There will also be space reserved for elevated, flood-proof housing.

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The two main water reservoirs to control the wetland are connected to the river ‘Lajeado’ and to a network of canals that allows the surplus of rainwater on the roads and squares to enter the reservoir.

floodzone + connection

proposal B

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sportscenter

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museum

theatre

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library

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museum

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Two water-squares are situated on both sides of the elevated promenade: One surrounded by dwellings and one in between the theatre and the library. The water-squares function as a buffer for rainwater before it will be pumped into the water reservoir. From there, the water can be used in households to flush the toilets with. Grey water from the dwellings will be pumped into an aquifer where it will be purified by a helophyte filter and pumped into the water reservoir again.

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PERSONAL WORK painting / photography / illustration


Besides architecture, I am also interested in capturing daily life and buildings with photographs. This has become a passion during my exchange semester in Brazil, where I came across so many ways of living. Next to that I also like spending my time drawing and painting.

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