SarahCarpenter_Portfolio2024

sarah|CARPENTER WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | BSA 2025

Architecture Portfolio 2024

INTRODUCTION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Growing Within Fragments Affordable Living for Domestic Violence Survivors and Artists

Dwelling Under the Sky

Helsinki Architecture and Design Museum

03 Integrating the Community O’Bryant High School - Adaptive and Urban Intervention

My name is Sarah Carpenter and I am a fourth-year student of architecture studying at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. This portfolio is a collection of my student projects ranging from conceptual projects to precedent studies. The selection conveys my passion for architecture with attention to the effects on the individual and community.

During my recent studies at Wentworth Institute of Technology, I researched the prevalence of trauma and its influence on how people experience spaces. This quickly became a passion for how architecture can incorporate trauma-informed design principles.

I am continuously drawn to the effect of architecture on human behavior and the mental and physical well-being of the subject.

I am determined to advance my knowledge within this field and to encourage intentional design for the emotional and sensory needs of the occupants. This is how I plan on creating a lasting impact that will point the future of architecture toward inclusive and positive environments.

Architecture is more than just the knowledge of a building but an opportunity to impact and connect the individual, society, and environment through space and structure.

I am confident that I will make an impact by designing inclusive spaces and experiences that empower individuals, break down barriers, and cultivate healing through universal and trauma-informed design principles.

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Tectonic Frequencies

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Purpose and Community

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Visual & Process Studies

Cogan Center for Music

A Wooden Boat Building School

Discursive Images and Process Studies

01 Growing Within Fragments

Affordable Living for Domestic Violence Survivors and Artists

Fall 2023 | Professor Piermarini PROJECT STATEMENT The area of Dorchester, MA is a vibrant community in need of some assistance.

Through deep community research, I discovered two concerning trends: a lack of resources for domestic violence survivors and the displacement of artists due to rising rents in the greater area of Boston.

Inspired by these important challenges, I envisioned a unique affordable housing community where survivors of domestic violence can linger and grow alongside artists, supported by art therapy, community interaction, and mental health resources.

My mission was to foster a place where creative production and art orientation act as a healing process for both artists and victims of domestic violence.

An open studio space where artists of any medium can gather to collaborate and share their process. They are also able to share their art exploration as a healing process for domestic abuse victims who can benefit from a physical medium of therapy.

The building provides an atmosphere safety, growth, therapy, and collaboration.

Landscape Perspective | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Section Perspective - Experiencing Art Through Wayfinding | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Wayfinding

Biophilia

Access to Art

- Stimulation and interaction

- Grounding and restorative

- Expression, empowerment, and collaboration

- Navigation stimulates and repairs the hippocampus (part of the brain) which

- Natural stimuli require lower amounts of concentration, reducing sensory

- Expresses emotions that were internalized, allowing for growth

was damaged by trauma exposure

stimulation

- Exposure and participation in art, music, and dance lowers stress

- Increased movement results in coincidental interactions

- Eases trauma by provoking pleasant memories

- Creating or appreciating art activates different areas of the brain

- Reinforces routines to grow towards reestablishing life activities

- Supports movement which improves physical and mental health

Neutral but contrasting colored floors and furniture as a visual cue to spatial change

Plants provide a calming atmosphere while bright colored flowers promote stimulation and health

Perspective 07 - Sensory Comfort | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Fabric Art boards - textures and changing colors promote brain stimulation and navigation

Perspective 08 - Daylighting as Psychological Comfort | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Fifth Floor Plan

Perspective 04 - Dance Studio Community Space | RHINO, Photoshop

Perspective 05 - Art Studio Space | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Fourth Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

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Second Floor Plan | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Perspective 03 - Wayfinding through Art Boards | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Ability to Healing Through Fragments

Ground Floor Plan | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

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Roof Plan | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

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Section A.2 | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Experiencing Art Wayfinding Biophilia

Perspective 09 - Lingering Between the Layers | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

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South Facade

Planter boxes extend below to provide sun shading for units below

Vulnerable Women Housing

Garden space provide residents with access to biophilia comfort and acts as an extra filter from sound and sight. This provides a way to be outside without feeling exposed

Sliding panels provide ability for the user to define their own environment and level of privacy in an operable environment

Vertical boards provide sun shading and facade cohesiveness

Unit VW-2B.1 Elevation | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Unit VW-2B.1 Section | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Unit VW-2B.1 Plan

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Unit VW-2B.1 Perspective | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

02 Dwelling Under the Sky Helsinki Architecture and Design Museum

Summer 2024 | Prof. Trumbour PROJECT STATEMENT By emphasizing thresholds through layers of an ecosystem, the new home for the Helsinki Architecture and Design Museum begins to follow the organizational patterns of a canopy: a place of both refuge and opportunity while evoking natural systems.

The most important organizational strategy we implemented was mapping the surrounding site lines to connect to the context reflected in the interior and exterior layout. The facade is pulled apart using nearby roof angles and is organized to create visual connections to the context determined by the program.

By pulling apart the layers of the building, the spatial experience changes to one that can be focused on the human scale.

Arcades, skylights, and sun-shading designs create thresholds that soften the changes of sky, land, and sea.

I had the opportunity to collaborate with my classmate, Megan Leger, on this project. All of the following work was produced by me unless noted otherwise.

Gridlines Reflected on Site

In order to create a more cohesive integration with the surrounding context, planes and edges were taken from buildings and ground conditions and mapped on the site.

Planes and Edges Extruded

Extended to Site

Landscape Strategies

In order to incorporate our massing with the landscaping, we identified street views and pedestrian walkways that would need to be maintained while integrating primary gathering nodes.

Mapping Street Views and Pedestrian Walkways Connect to Quay and direct views towards bay

Gathering Nodes Skylights follow site lines while allowing for interior daylighting Seaside space allow for harvesting wind energy

Clear Entry Condition Respond to site organizational lines to reflect the context

Promote accessibility and recreational areas

Landscape acts as filter from noise and poor air quality

Public Pedestrian Infrastructure Supporting the community through expanded green-space | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Landscape Organizational Objectives

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Pathways are oriented toward primary views of the harbor, marketplace, and surrounding roads while supporting an exterior ecosystem that integrates to the interior.

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The organization reflects our concept of the varying shadows of a canopy that is strengthened by a linear system.

Made using RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

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Perspective 04 - Learning and Discovery Space | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop Gaps in the facade system highlights views of the bay while creating a sheltered feeling

Full Coverage Panel System

Perspective 02 - Seaside Landscape | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, ClimateStudio (shadows)

1-Story Arcade

3-Story Arcade

Elevations made using RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Section Perspective on Public Pathway

Refuge in an Ecosystem Thresholds of Discovery

Connecting the public street to the harbor | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Roof Plan

Third Floor Plan

Section A.1 | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Second Floor Plan

Perspective 01 - Museum Entrance | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, ClimateStudio (shadows) Foundation Plan | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Section Model - 1/2” = 1’-0” | Collaborated with Megan Leger

Made using RHINO, Laser cutter, Hand-modeling tools

03 Reorienting the Approach O’Bryant High School - Adaptive Intervention & Urbanism Project

Fall 2024 | Professors Carol Burns & Mark Pasnik PROJECT STATEMENT The O’Bryant High School, located in Roxbury, MA, is in need of an intervention.

The studio class was invited to interview students and staff to prioritize important features and necessary updates.

It was found that the eastern side of the site was underutilized and isolated the building from the community. The intervention provides classrooms for 500 more students, two new entries, a cafeteria, student resources, community hall, student library, community plaza, and student plaza.

The public plaza gestures towards nearby Nubian Square, provides a community plaza, a safe drop-off zone, and invites the community to interact.

The brutalist facade, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1970, remains as an important experience. An analysis of the existing facade was conducted and a design was created to be restrained but formally assertive.

View of Community Plaza Section Model | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

I had the opportunity to collaborate with my classmate, Megan Leger, on this project. All of the following work was produced by me unless noted otherwise.

Improving Student and Community Resources After conducting site visits, doing community research, and communicating with students, an opportunity was found to create additions off the eastern side of the existing building. This portion of the site was underutilized and isolated the school from the vibrant community of Nubian Square.

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Classrooms

Student Resources

Community Flex Spaces

Existing - Restricted Community Access Pedestrian Access

Street-Level Plan

3rd Floor Plan

Ground-Level Plan | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

2nd Floor Plan Classrooms

Resources

Flex Space

Vehicle Access

Intervention - Restoring Public Interaction

Facade Experience

Gesturing to Nubian Square | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator Existing

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Flex Space

Flex Space

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Library

UP Media Center

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Student Dev.

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Restoring Historical Street

Community Hall

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Flex Space

Flex Space

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Connecting Nubian Square to Entries

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Flex Space

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Site Plan at Street-Level | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

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Extending Existing Urban Fabric

Landscape Strategies - Spatial Conditions After talking to students, they expressed the need for outdoor gathering spaces where they could socialize before and after school. There was also a need for community gathering spaces that could be utilized when not being used by the school.

There was a discussion about the relationship of prospect & performance were students could hold outside events while still providing places of refuge and curiosity where students can feel safe to have private conversations while supporting a sense of discovery.

Prospect & Performance

Refuge & Curiosity

- Elevated views of opportunity, a place to observe

- Sheltered and secure while maintaining sight lines

- A place to express and share activities

- Sparking wayfinding through unique spatial conditions

- Stimulation and interaction

- Movement results in coincidental interactions

View of Student Plaza - Refuge, Performance | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

View of Landscape Pod on Plaza | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

View of Nighttime Activity on Plaza - Performance | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

View of Approach from Nubian Square | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

East Elevation of Student Resource Intervention and Community Hall | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Intervention

Existing

Horizontal Organizational Lines

Vertical Proportion

Existing and Intervention Facade | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Interactive Units Independent Units Made using RHINO, Adobe Illustrator

South Elevation of Student Intervention and Existing | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

04 Tectonic Frequencies Cogan Performance Center

Spring 2023 | Professor Ellis PROJECT STATEMENT Inspired by Robert Cogan’s music, the design began by translating a piece of his music into a physical interpretation that reinstated a dynamic relationship between two frequencies of sound.

Additionally, inspired by Juha Leiviskas’s approach to music and architecture, my design captures tectonic frequencies and displacement between rhythms.

Through modulation and using spatial depth, the building creates space to allow the exterior landscape to interact with the facade and interior.

The performance space is designed to be adaptable for both traditional and nontraditional performances, allowing for casual community gatherings to occur at the same time as productions.

Interior Perspective | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

The space imitates a wooden music box that can be opened by using the pivoting doors and windows to control the acoustics depending on the performance.

Overall, the Cogan Center was an exciting project and I enjoyed discovering the similarities between music and architecture.

Fourth Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

First Floor Plan | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

West Section | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Adaptable Performance and Spectator Space | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Section Perspective | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Indirect Spectator

Direct Spectator

Direct Spectator

Performer

Performer

Indirect Spectator

Exterior Perspective - Approach | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

South Section | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Interior Perspective - Performance Hall | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

05 Movement and Rhythm A Wooden Boat Building School

Fall 2022 | Professor Ben Hait PROJECT STATEMENT Students were encouraged to discover the relationships between purpose and community while engaging in the intricate craftsmanship of boat building. The use of structure systems becoming a dynamic relationship with other systems was encouraged.

After creating a site analysis and several study models I began my journey toward discovering a relationship between the movement of the sea and the rhythm and control of the boat-building process.

The building is broken into segments that provide an exterior procession towards the ocean. The sawtooth hyperbolic paraboloid roof creates motion in both horizontal and vertical planes that reverse every roof plane.

The sawtooth roof provides seaside sunshine while directing the interior perspective to be toward the ocean. Part of the second floor is removed to allow for contact between floors and allow sunlight to access the first floor.

East Elevation | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

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West Section | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Vertical Movement to Create Increased Direction

Roof Movement - Hyperbolic Paraboloid

Reaction to the Site

South Section | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Hyperbolic Paraboloid Roof

Glulam Structure System

North Elevation | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Walls

Wooden Cladding

Structure and Envelope | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Interior Perspective | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

06 Visual & Process Studies

Discursive Images and Conceptual Design Summer 2024 - Fall 2024 PROJECT STATEMENT These projects were used to capture the concept of a project through visually stimulating graphics. The use of color, shadows, and people were intentionally placed to convey the message that the designer intended.

Some are used to convey emotions while others promote tectonic relationships. Often these images established concepts that were used throughout the project.

Prospect - Elevated Views of Opportunity

Refuge - Layers of Canopy

Dwelling on Earth - Natural Thresholds

Biodiversity - Gathering Under the Sky

Conceptual Design Study - Biodiversity & Gathering Under the Sky | Summer 2024 | Hand-model tools, Photography, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

O’Bryant School Transect Study- Beneath the Surface Soil Study | Fall 2024 | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Existing

Intervention

Experience

The Hedmark Museum- Elevating Above Memories | Summer 2024 | Adobe Photoshop, Collage

Metropolitan Storage Warehouse - The Influence of Industrialization | Summer 2024 Made using RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

The Hedmark Museum - Visualizing Effects of Time | Summer 2024 | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Library- Tectonic Ecosystem | Summer 2024 | RHINO, Adobe Photoshop

THANK YOU Thank you for taking the time to review my design work. It is my hope that you enjoyed this compilation of my academic work while studying at Wentworth Institute of Technology. I am constantly learning and am happy to share with you what I have discovered.

EMAIL ADDRESS carpenters1@wit.edu

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Please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions.

I am happy to discuss anything of interest.

Happy discovering!

Sarah Carpenter, Fourth-year at Wentworth Institute of Technology Major: Architecture Minor: Business Analytics Concentration: Adaptive Interventions