SARA MARQUARDT
Sample of Work
SARA MARQUARDT saraellenmarquardt@gmail.com cell: (262) 501 - 0773
Master of Architecture, 2016 University of Minnesota Bachelor of Design in Architecture, 2013 University of Minnesota
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Architectural Intern, Miller Dunwiddie Architects........................................................................June 2016 - Present Designer for project at Minneapolis - St Paul Airport. Contributing to drawing sets, research of materials, and collaborating with team of 15 designers. Adjunct Instructor, School of Architecture...........................................................................September 2016 - Present Secondary instructor for ARCH 1281 Design Fundamentals 1, teaching with Courtney Miller Bellairs Curriculum development, lecturer, and administrative role to course Architectural Intern, Kodet Architectural Group, Ltd.............................................................................Summer 2015 Draft drawings in SD and CD phases of project Contribute to marketing team development and develop office graphic standards Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture Design Fundamentals I, Assistant Professor Lisa Hsieh .............................................................Fall 2014, Fall 2015 Lead studio-based rectiation focused in design thinking Assist professor in administering lectures to 180 students Design Fundamentals II, Adjunct Assistant Professors Adam Jarvi and Abby Merlis..............................Spring 2016 Lead studio-based rectiation focused in making and spatial thinking Design in the Digital Age, Associate Professor Lee Anderson...................................................................Spring 2015 Assist students in learning Sketchup and developing awareness of digital processes Graduate Research Assistant, School of Architecture Architecture & Language Project, Assistant Professor Andrea Johnson...........................................................Spring 2014 Collect, catalog, and synthesize database demonstrating the role of text and syntax in architecture
LEADERSHIP Communications Committee, School of Architecture................................................................................2014 - 2016 Student voice and contributor to school’s blog Contributing to development and vision of school’s internal and external communication
AWARDS Richard Morrill Award, School of Architecture...............................................................................................May 2016 As selected by faculty, Masters Final Project awarded for contribution to the academy through design research that deepens foundations or broadens the impact of architecture. Project done in partnership with Katie Loecken.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BRIDGE 27877................Infrastructural Placemaking | Studio Advisor: Gayla Lindt 30 X 10 HOUSE ............Live Work Artist housing | Studio Instructor: James Garrett LEGACY PROJECT.........Growing Out of History | Studio Instructor: Sharon Roe CITY SCOPE ................. Art Installation for Festival | Studio Instructor: Molly Reichert SPATIAL FACADE ..........Civic Space for the 21st Century City | Studio Instructor: Lance Lavine and Tom Meyer
BRIDGE 27877: INFRASTRUCTURAL PLACEMAKING MASTERS FINAL PROJECT In collaboration with Katie Loecken Awarded Richard Morrill Award, 2016 Faculty advisor: Gayla Lindt University of Minnesota
Our interest in this project begins with the close juxtapositions between the pedestrian, the car, and the train on Bridge 27877. To stand above 35W highway and adjacent to the train is to experience the drama of these traffic flows against your own body. The layered conditions on the site primes Bridge 27877, currently perceived as banal, to become a place for high design, a convergence of activity in the city. We are proposing both a fixed solution and a framework for fluctuating events. This project uses housing as the fixed insertion and public space that serves it immediate community as well as can be programed for broader events. To create a place to be on Bridge 27877, the architecture must respond to the three scales of how the site is experienced: by car, by train, and by the pedestrian. The architectural intervention creates opportunity for public space and places to dwell within the sound, light, and motion that defines Bridge 27877.
Program | Dwelling + Public Space
Facade | Sidedness + Scale
Linear Condition | Passage + Place
Structure| Bearing Planes
Volume + Void | Pushing. Lifting. Fragmenting
Approaching the eastern plaza of the site
Sequence moving through the site east to west
Winter carnival on west plaza
30 X 100 HOUSE ARTIST LIVE + WORK HOUSING Site developed with Laura Moericke and Xin Chang Housing designed individually Studio Instructor: James Garrett University of Minnesota, GDI
Working with three local artists, students developed a proposal for a shared housing site. Houses are designed individually to suite each artists’ needs, each center centering on the shared courtyard. The 30 x 100 House is designed for artist, Nate Young, and his family of four. An introverted family who enjoy private socializing, a flexible living space that could be pulled back from the rest of the site was critical. The artist studio hinges off of the living space, and has separate access to the street for transporting large artwork. Significant entries for both the family and guests were considered individually, each coming into the core living space of the house.
DEN LAUNDRY
BATH FAMILY ROOM
MASTER BEDROOM
BDRM
BDRM
BATH
ENTRY GARAGE
ARTIST STUDIO
DINING/ LIVING KITCHEN
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CITY SCOPE Work done in collaboration with 13 graduate students Installed for Northern Spark 2015 Studio Instructor: Molly Reichert University of Minnesota, GDII
Beginning with the elemental geometry of the cube, CityScope creates a field of whimsical follies that invite participation and new ways of seeing. The structures recall the mechanical histories of the site through their imagery and material construction. The cubes can be lifted and entered, creating intimacy amidst the spectacle. Looking in and looking out, the cubes present a new lens of observing the built environment. The structures were designed and built during an eight week design-build course. In June of 2015, the structures were installed for a one-night art festival in the Minneapolis’ Mill City District.
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31”
Velcro Muslin Fabric
23” 18’ 4”
Above: Fabric sewing template and assembly to structures
Top: Concept diagram Bottom: Structures as realized at NS event
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Above: Fabric assembly, wrapping over tube and connecting to itself with velcro
LEGACY PROJECT ADDITION AND RENOVATION FOR WEST BANK SCHOOL OF MUSIC Studio Instructor: Sharon Roe University of Minnesota, GDI
Rooted in Cedar-Riverside’s music scene since the 1970s, West Bank School of Music is a nonprofit organization located in an old boarding house. While nostalgia ties the school’s members to the house, the space is no longer suitable for their needs, nor does the house project their identity to the surrounding community. In order to re-establish themselves in the neighborhood, a renovation is needed to remain an economically viable organization, while also staying rooted in their traditions and culture. The Legacy Project is an exploration in finding a tectonic language for growth. The project tackles the questions: how can a renovation and addition grow with respect and relevance to the organization and community?
Opposite: Study of balloon framing as facade Above: Exploring joints and logic to grow out of existing framing structure
SPATIAL FACADE
CIVIC SPACE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CITY Design Partner: Molly Dalsin Studio Instructor: Professor Lance Lavine and Adjunct Professor Tom Meyer University of Minnesota, GDIII
The civic conditions of Minneapolis are becoming increasingly privatized and sterile. Based on a volatile market environment, these spaces are almost immediately outdated and quickly become irrelevant to the vibrant Minneapolis population. Because of this disconnect between the urban population and the built environment, civic space needs to be able to adapt and evolve to the ever changing relationships between people and place. The proposed civic space is a strategy of voids through which the city and its inhabitants can be represented and reinterpreted. As the city structure is governed by the grid, the voids that remain between building, street, skyway are typically neglected, but offer a new way to inhabit the interstitial spaces of the city. This project brings the city into the site through the voids and embraces the complexity of urban life. By not focusing on the building’s themselves, but on the people, their behavior and connections to architecture.
Above: Voids of site can be viewed against IDS Center, not being formed by commercialism but by the diversity and vibrance of the library
Above: Model of proposed buildin on corner of 4th and Nicollet Ave, bringing energy of Library and Nicollet Mall into organization of inerior
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Above: Plan showing logic of site’s public space growing out of library Left: Study to define urbanism as movement, motion, and density Right: Proposed Skyway and view corridors along Nicollet Mall
Opposite: Facade seen as specatcle at night, illuminating interior activity Left: Daylighting studies exploring quality of light over day and year Upper Right: Section through main event space Lower Right: Polycarbonate facade system