Work Sample - Sierra Borsari by sierraborsari

SIERRA BORSARI SELECTED WORKS Architecture + Design Washington University in St Louis M. Arch and MCM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SJB

SIERRA BORSARI

5560 Pershing Ave St Louis, MO 63112 issuu \\ sierraborsari

PROFILE

Through my architectural studies, I have begun to see the world differently. It is a more informed view, a view that allows me to see places and objects and know that there is an innate craft embedded in each. My intent is to provide such crafts with meaning, possibility, and efficiency.

SKILLS

Autocad, Rhinoceros, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, VRay, Vasari, Kerkythea, Sketching, Google Sketchup, Arc GIS, Microsoft Office, Data Entry and Analysis, Model-Making, Wood Shop, Digital and Analog Fabrication, Buildtools Personal Skills Communication, Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, Management, Adaptability, Ambition, Innovative

LANGUAGES

English (Native) French (Limited-Work)

ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER / MINTON HOMES - Ladue, MO January 2016 - Present -

Engaged in all phases of the design and construction process and attended various meetings with designers and owners to provide design guidance and value engineering options

Developed takeoffs and bid comparisons to determine construction budgets

Provided CAD drawings of spec homes and consulted with subcontractors to provide detail solutions for the construction process

Gained on-site experience and construction knowledge by performing punch-list walk-throughs, taking as-built measurements, assisting with the job management

PAID INTERN / CA VENTURES - Chicago, Illinois (www.ca-ventures.com) May 2014 - Aug. 2014, June 2013 – Aug. 2013 -

Performed construction administration tasks such as processing change order requests, reviewing bids proposals and material test reports, composing weekly/monthly construction reports for investors

Assembled and reviewed excel sheets for construction budgets and final construction costs

Interpreted construction documents to perform accessibility, fair housing, and historic preservation building code analysis for each project, providing solutions to the floor plan when needed

Contributed to the closeout punch-list by selecting and ordering appliances, fixtures, and furniture

Assisted Project Managers in bidding and negotiating contracts, preparing subcontractor agreements, permit and approval processes, and preparing an agenda for staff meetings

PROJECT MANAGER / PLOUGHMAN ANALYTICS - Champaign, Illinois September 2010 - 2012 -

Planned, organized, and secured resources necessary for Ploughman to successfully complete its projects

Assisted in the sales and marketing of Ploughman’s products and services, and served as a voice for the client with respect to the usability and quality of Ploughman’s offerings.

Contributed to assimilating and verifying data in response to client needs, executing data management procedures, and producing custom map products using geographic information systems.

EDUCATION MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS - December 2016 Study Abroad: Barcelona, Spain - Summer 2015

t: 217.418.0794 e: sierraborsari@gmail.com

MASTER OF CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT / WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS - December 2016 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES / UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHAMPAIGN-URBANA - May 2014 SAPV -ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D’ARCHITECTURE DE VERSAILLES - VERSAILLES, FRANCE September 2012 - May 2013

CONTENTS I. Homeless Homed

II. McPherson Market & Apartments

III. Transverse Living

IV. The New Library

V. Other Works

HOUSING PROJECT AND COMMUNITY CENTER

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION CENTER

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIBRARY, ST LOUIS

FABRICATION AND SKETCHING

HOMELESS HOMED TYPOLOGY: RESIDENTIAL / BUSINESS LOCATION: JEFFERSON & 20th, ST LOUIS CONSTRUCTION: CONCRETE / WOOD-FRAMING SUSTAINABILITY: PASSIVE SYSTEMS, SOLAR PANEL, RECYCLED MATERIAL

The city of St. Louis maintains a significant homeless population, despite their attempts to decrease this number and as vacant lots continue to mark the city’s landscape, there is an innate need to understand how these social and physical urban issues may be transformed to benefit each other. Vacant brick properties are targets for brick thieves, but with a proactive means to sort and reuse these materials, there is opportunity to create a system addressing both homelessness and vacancy. Most cities provide resources that solve someone’s housing status temporarily, or only work to address a small percentage of those without a home. However, instead of assuming there is a defined program that would work for any given population, the Homeless Homed project understands the diverse nature of homelessness and provides a system that would allow adaptability for users of the space to feel invested in part of the construction process. The system allows for adaptability to occur in three ways –on the site through landscape walls and pavers with the use of recycled materials; through the expansion of a unit provided as shell spaces; and within the unit’s themselves with plywood material to construct interior furnishings and temporary structures. Public buildings on the site, include a brick warehouse and a library; paired with 46 units of housing, the project aims to provide the opportunity for reintegration to occur through transition, support, phasing, and interaction. Software: Rhinoceros, VRAY, Photoshop, Auto-Cad

SIERRA BORSARI

HOUSING / COMMUNITY CENTER ST. LOUIS, MO

SELECTED WORKS

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Brick The discovery of clay deposits in the 1830s gave St. Louis a distinct building material, allowing brickwork in the city to be inventive in the architectural style, usage and application of it. Old manufacturing methods produced soft and hard bricks, using the softer brick for interior construction since it cannot withstand the exposure of harsh Midwest winters. Currently there is no way to deconstruct buildings and sort the brick without it being too costly. The brick warehouse provides a space for residents to sort the brick, selling the softer brick to the Sunbelt states and using the hard brick for expansion of units or by through landscaping on the site.

TEERTS TEKRAM

SIT E

TEERTS22 N

TRANSITION

TEERTS 12 N

TEERTS TSUCOL

TEERTS 02 N

vacancy VACANCY

TEERTS 91 N

TEERTS 81 N

homeless HOMELESS

SIERRA BORSARI

HOUSING / COMMUNITY CENTER ST. LOUIS, MO

SELECTED WORKS

Initial concept collages show the ability to provide a framework that promotes continuous development and adaptability for the users, as well as opportunity to use the framework as a means to interact.

TRANSITION

SUPPORT

Not everyone who needs a home needs therapy, however many homeless could benefit from a support network. The support part of the program is there for those who wish to gain assistance beyond being provided a home. Support is the assistance or help to hold things together, whether by means of new-found peers and neighbors, or a counselor, or the support that residents give back to the site.

PHASING Phasing is the process of development. For those experiencing homelessness, phasing provides further resources to build up their dignity and develop intellectually. For the site, phasing happens as the buildings and the people start to fill the pre-existing void between two denser neighborhoods. And it will continue as the program activates more infill to take place around it.

INTERACTION

Interaction is the last step of reintegration. Interaction is the transfer of energy between two objects, and is promoted throughout the program to provide opportunities for positive encounters, mutual respect, established communication, and shared interests among both residents, residents and the community, and the program and the site. The brick sorting facility creates an interaction between vacancy and homeless issues within St. Louis. XSIZE YSIZE

Brick is used on the residential units because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a local material and is infill which changes over months. Corten steel is used to show change throughout the day. Plywood has warmth and is more tactile so it can allow for the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary adaptability.

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Materials: Materiality embraces the different programs. Boardformed concrete is used on the exterior of the public buildings because it shows constructability and permanence - the facades of these buildings are not expanding.

Studies have shown more effective rehabilitation by providing people who experience homelessness with permanent housing - and then provide voluntary support as needed. This transition is the process of change: change in lifestyle, change for the community, change for the site. The importance of such incremental change, is that it considers a process necessary to help something get from Point A to Point B - a process which takes time. Instead of offering a clear-cut defined program, users will be able to be a part of the process and create the spaces that they actually need.

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SIERRA BORSARI SELECTED WORKS

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

BRICK WAREHOUSE ELEVATION

HOUSING ELEVATION

HOUSING / COMMUNITY CENTER ST. LOUIS, MO

MCPHERSON MARKET & APARTMENTS TYPOLOGY: RESIDENTIAL / EDUCATION LOCATION: CENTRAL WEST END, ST. LOUIS CONSTRUCTION: STEEL AND CONCRETE SUSTAINABILITY: ROOF GARDEN, RAINWATER COLLECTOR

This mid-rise housing and education center aims to promote transit-oriented development while maximizing net rentable space for a developer. The program targets boomers and smaller families moving back into the city, offering 1-3 bedroom apartments with easy access to nearby universities, hospitals and parks. The site is an old Buick auto mall. Though the facade itself is not protected by any historic ordinance, the given site parameters and community linkage led to the preservation of the original faรงade. The first two levels serve as mixed-use programs - an educational facility for continued education, retail and restaurant spaces extending the Euclid street life, and a market space which takes advantage of the large original garage door openings. The floors above were positioned at the back of the site to increase the maximum height allowed and provide exterior community space at the corner of Kingshighway and McPherson. With the existing neighboring conditions, the form was stepped back to allow light deeper into the floorplan. This also elongated the faรงade to allow for more units with exterior exposure. Software: Rhinoceros, VRAY, Photoshop, Auto-Cad

SIERRA BORSARI

RESIDENTIAL / EDUCATION ST. LOUIS, MO

Bus Rte 95

SELECTED WORKS

Kingshighwa

ers

Av e Bu

ers

Av e

Kingshighwa

Bus Rte 95

Bus Rte 1

Site: Located at North Kingshighway and McPherson Street, the site demographic targets boomers and BJC hospital workers with its pedestrian-oriented streets and close proximity to the Euclid Street services, shops, Forest Park and BJC campus.

1 1 1'-921"

4'-1"

34'-3"

SCALE :

STUDY ROOMS

ATRIUM SPACE ROOFTOP GARDEN CLASSROOM 4

UNIT X12 850 SF

UNIT X03 1325 SF

CLASSROOM 5

AUDITORIUM

UNIT X11

GYM

1350 SF

CLASSROOM 2

BIKE ROOM

RESTAURANT KITCHEN

12'-6"

RESTAURANT 2ND FLOOR

12'-6"

UNIT X01

UNIT X10

904 SF

830 SF

UNIT X04

UNIT X02

695 SF

1210 SF

CLASSROOM 6

CLASSROOM 3 MECH.

76'-4"

134'-4"

1 8

UNIT X06 1325 SF

134'-4"

UNIT X08 1570 SF

650 SF

76'-4"

UNIT X07 1210 SF

LEVEL TWO

LEVEL ONE SCALE :

UNIT X09

LOADING DOCK

= 1’-0”

SCALE :

1 8

UNIT X05 1040 SF

81'-6"

= 1’-0”

51'-6"

LEVEL 1

LEVEL THREE

LEVEL 2

SCALE :

1 8

80'-6"

= 1’-0”

ROOFTOP GARDEN

UNIT X12

UNIT X06

UNIT X12

850 SF

1000 SF

850 SF

UNIT X03

1325 SF

UNIT X06

UNIT X11

1000 SF

1350 SF

ROOFTOP TERRACE UNIT X01 1090 SF UNIT X10

UNIT X01

UNIT X02

830 SF

UNIT X04 695 SF UNIT X02

904 SF

1210 SF

UNIT X06 1000 SF

695 SF

UNIT X06

1325 SF

UNIT X06

UNIT X08 1570 SF

UNIT X09

650 SF

S: LEVELS 4 - 12

UNIT X04

1210 SF

UNIT X06

UNIT X09

1000 SF

UNIT X08 1570 SF

650 SF

UNIT X07

UNIT X05 1040 SF

1210 SF

LEVEL THREE SCALE :

1 8

= 1’-0”

LEVEL 3

1210 SF

UNIT X05 1040 SF

81'-6"

ROOFTOP TERRACE

81'-6" ROOFTOP GARDEN

51'-6"

51'-6" 80'-6"

81'-6" UNIT X07

80'-6"

LEVEL 13 - 15 SCALE :

1 8

= 1’- 0”

LEVEL 15

1'-9"

2'-3"

1'-7"

16'-721"

BEDROOM 1

A06

A08

19'-121"

19'-1"

16'-721"

10'-6"

13'-8" BEDROOM 2

2'-7"

3'-9" 3'

A05 6"

BATH 2

2'-1121"

A04

A05

A02

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN (LEVELS 4-14)

1 16

= 1’-0”

UNIT TYPE A SCALE: 1/4” = 1’-0”

6'-221"

18'-321"

6'-4"

UNIT TYPE A SCALE: 1/4” = 1’-0”

A03 2'-3"

4'-

2'-221"

2'-1121"

11'-621"

6'-421"

HALLWA

2'-10"

A04

KITCHEN

CL A08

A06

BATH 1 A04

6'-221"

KITCH

A02

2'-7"

BATH 1

4'-2"

2'-221"

A05

2'-3"

A03

A01

2'-421"

A04

2'-3" 2'-221"

BATH 2

2'-1121"

2'-10"

3'-1"

LIVING

CLOSET 2 A07

HALLWAY

A05

8" 8"

13'-8"

1'-821"

2'-6" 3'

A08

3'-1"

A07 2'-6"

A09

A06

6'-121"

3'-1"

8" 8"

1 7'-10 7'-7"2"

3'-1"

CLOSET 1 A09

1'-821" 2'-3" 2'-1121"

6'-421"

2'-221"

NORTH ELEVATION

YOGA ROOM

47'-10"

2'-421"

2'-1021"

UNIT TYPE D

RETAIL SPACE

LEASING OFFICE

3'-7"

1 1

A01

GLASS DOORS LOWER IN THE EVENT OF INCREMENTAL WEATHER

125'-8"

A08

6'-4"

MARKET / ATRIUM SPACE

RESTAURANT

11'-621"

4' 7'-521"

16-17 Housing: 1Bd, 2Bd, 3Bd (4,170sf)

CLASSROOM 1

BEDROOM 1

A06

D01

721"

1'-1021"

4'-421"

2'-9"

SCALE: 1/4” = 1’-0”

Educatoinal facility, restaurant, gym (10,300sf)

CAFE

19'-1"

12'-8"

3'-3" 921" 3' 2'-821"

521"

3'-421"

D06

= 1’-0”

D01

D06

2'-6"

LIVING

1 16

KITCHEN

7'-521" 2'-1021"

6'-821"

2'-121"

4'-421"

SCALE :

D01

HOUSING LOBBY

BEDROOM 2

A07

CLOSET 2 A07

NORTH ELEVATION

3-15 Housing: 1Bd, 2Bd, 3Bd (15,248sf)

47'-10"

2'-9"

1 4'-1"

10'-6"

7'-7"

3' 6'-6"

5'-621"

1'-1021"

Educational facility, transportation hub, retail, restraurant, housing lobby (23,400sf)

1' 1'

2 2'-1"

4'-8" 4'

2'-9"

28'-2" 2' 2'-3"

12'-8"

3'-3"

921" 3' 2'-821"

521"

3'-421" 2'-121"

D06

D04

BATH 1

D01

2'-9"

LIVING

BD 1 CLOSET

KITCHEN

D06 2'-6"

6'-121"

D02

D05

10'-8"

LIVING

D03

D05

UNIT TYPE D

ADMIN. OFFICES

1'-9"

2'-3"

2'-2"

4'-8"

13'-521"

10'

13'-521"

D05 6'-6"

13'-7"

D04

D02

SCALE: 1/4” = 1’-0”

LEARNING CENTER ENTRANCE

4'-1"

1 1

ENLARGED FLOOR PLANS

34'-3"

2'-1"

10'-8"

D03

LIVING

BATH 1 D05

125'-8"

2'-2"

3'-8"

4'-1"

13'-7"

2'-9"

28'-2"

4'-1"

10'-8" 10'-8"

2'-3"

1'-921"

3'-8"

BEDROOM 1

Old Façade: The original exterior was not protected by the D03 historic district, D04 but brought opportunity to beBDreused 1 CLOSET with a new structure behind D04it.

5'-621"

2'-621"

4'-1"

New Façade: The materials used on the exterior were chosen to emphasize the old and new structural differences while 1 maintaining the BEDROOM proportions of the original façade D03 glazing.

6'-821"

2'-621"

4'-121"

10'

4'-121"

1021"

TRANSVERSE LIVING TYPOLOGY: RESIDENTIAL LOCATION: DONGDAEMUN, KOREA CONSTRUCTION: STEEL AND CONCRETE SUSTAINABILITY: PASSIVE SYSTEMS

This housing project is intended to provide living and work spaces for the young artists that were displaced from the Cheonggyecheon area for the construction of Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Plaza. The cultural and social agendas of the city require the experimentation of a site that is within the infrastructural strategies, using the 30-unit housing project to act as a bridge in the in-between spaces. The main principle was to provide an adaptable living space for the artist which complimented the already existent liveliness of the Dongdaemun creek. The creek’s section was very important to the design to understand the connection between the housing, street, and creek. Thus, the structural system was designed to reflect the site’s topography and allow the building to become part of the site. The circulation between the housing serves as green gardens with views to the creek, and continued space for artist to work. Software: Rhinoceros, Maxwell, Photoshop, Illustrator

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SIERRA BORSARI

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SEOUL, KOREA

SELECTED WORKS

The structure minimizes the impact on the site below by providing the opportunity for light to pass through voids. It also provides artists with a place to hang their art and textiles.

Pre-fabricated Units

Circulation Platform

Steel Structure

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

MODEL PICTURES

THE NEW LIBRARY TYPOLOGY: RESIDENTIAL / LIBRARY LOCATION: SAINT LOUIS, MO CONSTRUCTION: STEEL SUSTAINABILITY: DOUBLE-GLAZED SKIN NATURAL VENTILATION CORRIDOR

The “Delmar Divide” was published on the cover of the New York Times in 2014, recognizing Delmar Boulevard as a physical barrier between racial differences and inequalities. With the understanding that a single program alone could not attempt to resolve the tension along this line, the studio premise was to explore programs that could be interweaved together to promote interaction and begin to blur the line by encouraging Delmar to be crossed. Knowing that racial division is something that is learned, the New Library promotes a blend of programs that focuses on uniting people through learning, play and experiences. The program is divided into three parts - art, shelter and education which allows these interactions to occur through normal everyday activities such as studying, grabbing coffee, going to daycare, after-school programs and housing with equal opportunity. The floor plan is organized to continue the existent park to the North towards Forest Park, four blocks south from the site. Software: Rhinoceros, VRAY, Photoshop, Auto-Cad

SIERRA BORSARI

RESIDENTIAL / LIBRARY ST. LOUIS, MO

SELECTED WORKS

auditorium restrooms

atrium

housing

computer lab

A A A A

A A A A A

communal area

daycare

garden

library

restrooms

studio 1

offices

after-school art center exhibition space

daycare atrium

book exchange

housing

market

plaza library

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

Roof

Interior Partitions

studio 3

after-school art center

Second Level Circulation

studio 2

Glass and Mullions computers

The transparent facade connects the interior and exterior and uses the spacing between vertical louvers to become minimal where more privacy is required. The most private spaces are behind wood-paneled exterior walls, with the more public spaces exposed behind double-skin curtain walls with an intermediate cavity to condition naturally ventilated air. Steel framing is used to support the prominent roof line.

Louvers

open to below

communal area

Exterior Plaza internet cafe

After-school Art Studio Atrium Space Daycare Library

auditorium

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

OTHER WORKS

TYPICAL APPLICATIONS: FOOD PROCESSING, INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS, HVAC, BUILDING FACADES AND CEILINGS, SCREENING, STAIRS FABRICATION METHODS: CNC PRESS

SIERRA BORSARI

OTHER WORKS

SELECTED WORKS

“Distance of Fog” diagram

FABRICATION

Peters, Sierra

Piano Hinge

Le Moiré Porte

Perforated 4.5”x84” Panel

Drawer Slide

Piano Hinge

Perforated 6x84” Panel

6'-11 1/2"

Section

Scale 1:3

4 1/2" 4 1/2"

5 3/4"

SKETCHING

30°

4 1/2" 4 1/2"

2 1/2" 6"

5 3/4"

2'-11 3/4"

Plan View Scale 1:6

Back Elevation Scale 1:6

Front Elevation Scale 1:6