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Sarah Etwaru

Portfolio l 2022 - 2024

July 2024- Present

Sarah Etwaru

Vegas Builds Inc.

Architecture Drafter

• Project drawings from SD, DD, CD

• Code Research

• Project Submissions

• Participate in Consultant/Client Meetings

June 2023-July 2023

June 2023-August 2023

June 2021-August 2021

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Architecture Intern

• 3D Rendering in Enscape

• 3D Modeling

• Project Submissions

• Project Portfolios

• Coordinated Shadowship Program

SoCAL NOMA Summer Camp Camp Intern

• Refined Middle School curriculum

• Led the Middle School sections classrooms

• Instructed volunteers on the curriculum

• Coordinated Shadowship Program

April 2023

ABOUT ME

Email: sarahetwaru2001@gmail.com

Phone: (510) 552-9969

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-etwaru

References: Kristin Akin-Zimmerman SOM Associate Design Architect kristin.akin-zimmerman@som.com

EDUCATION

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Bachelor of Architecture

Minor: Regenerative Studies

Study Abroad at CSU Florence, Italy Architecture Coast2Coast Workshop Week Long Architecture Workshop

• Designed a project with a group of Italian students

• Work published in Mappe 19 Magazine

VOLUNTEER AND RECOGNITIONS

June 2020-August 2022

Daily Bowl Volunteer

• Organized fruits, vegetables, dairy and bakery products

• Redistributed food to the local neighborhood

Spring 2024

Spring 2022

Spring 2021

Fall 2019-Spring 2022

Interim Student Exhibition Semester Student Project Exhibition

Dean’s List & President’s List

Recipient

CLUBS

Tau Sigma Delta (TSD) Architecture Honor Society

• Fall 2023- Present President

• Fall 2022- Spring 2023 Secretary

• Fall 2021- Spring 2022 ENV Rep.

National Organization of Minority Architect Students (NOMAS) Architecture Club

• Fall 2023- Present Member

• June - October 2023 Student Competition

Design Graphics Processing

• Revit

• Rhino3D

• AutoCAD

Student Work

Library and Learning Resource Center

Citrus Community College, Glendora, California

Silver Lake Mixed-Use Housing

Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California

San Donnino Incinerator Master Plan

San Donnino, Florence, Italy

Agri-Teca

Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, California

Professional Work

SOM Work

Lighting Studies and Presentation Layout

Additional Work

Hand Sketches

Jewelry Making

• Adobe Suite

• V-ray for Rhino

• Enscape

• Microsoft Office

• BlueBeam

Library and Learning Resource Center at Citrus Community College

Fall 2023 l Partner: Francesca Evangelista l Professor: Sarah Lorezen

This partner project aims to create a new library and learning center at the Citrus Community College. Unlike traditional libraries which focus mainly on learning from books and other physical materials, this library brings importance to learning through collaboration with other students. Focusing on community college students’ needs of food, rest, study spaces and help areas, this library includes a food street and multiple areas for collaborative study, quiet study and outdoor experience areas.

In this project I worked on plans, diagrams, elevations, models and some of the renders.

Program Diagram

Silver Lake Mixed- Use Housing

Spring 2022 l Professor: Barry Milofsky

This project is a mixed 10 unit residential with commercial spaces on the bottom located in Silver Lake Blvd, Los Angeles. Designed for recent college graduates to young couples, this project features mostly studio and one bedroom apartments with one two bedroom apartment on the podium level. Creating a sense of connectivity and community within the building and with the larger community, different sized outdoor terrace spaces are featured on each level to enable residents to get outside and connect with their neighbors. The main terraces feature the main street of Silver Lake Blvd. allowing people to connect to, hear and be a part of the larger community.

SECOND

3D Wall Details

The main material used for the exterior is tan aluminum composite siding with red and bronze aluminum composite siding as accent colors. This material was chosen for its excellent durability, lightness, as well as its wide variety of colors.

DRAINAGE

BATT

ALUMINUM SIDING

WEATHER BARRIER

PLYWOOD

CLIPS

BATT INSULATION

GYPSUM BOARD

HEADER

FLASHING

WINDOW SILL

DOUBLE PANE WINDOW

ALUMINUM SIDING

QUADREPLEX

CLIPS

ALUMINUM GUARDRAIL GUTTER MESH FLASHING

FLASHING

DRAIN BODY

DOOR HEADER DOOR

REFRIGERATOR

Recessed Balcony to Guardrail Detail

WINDOW

GYPSUM BOARD

San Donnino Incinerator

Master Plan

Spring 2023 l Partner: Lucie Bill l Professors: Marco Brizzi, Paola

Giaconia, Achille Michelizzi

This partner project aims to create a better connection and relationship between the San Donnino Village and the nearby incinerator. This relationship has previously been a negative one with the incinerator causing many problems for the village including health, smell and pollution. Pollution along with the negative connection that the incinerator brings has left this site unused, unvisited and unenjoyable. By focusing on the ideas of restoration and connection, we hope to turn a once polluted and waste filled land to one filled with greenery, plants and life.

In this project I mainly worked on plans, diagrams and renders.

Form work Diagram

Agri-Teca

Spring 2024 l Professor: Mitchell DeJanett

This project focuses on providing the neighborhood of Lincoln Park with much needed resources. Like most of East Los Angeles, Lincoln Park is in a food desert where most of its residents are unable to easily access fresh produce within 1 miles of their residents. Most of the residents also have a lower education rate despite there being many educational resouces within the neighborhood. Agri-Teca looks to start addressing these two issues by partnering with two organization, the LA County Branch Library and Homeboy Industries, to provide a library, food distribution and intensive agricultural growing spaces to provide the community with fresh produce and an enlarged place of study.

Large Context Plan

SOM Lighting Studies*

Summer 2023 l Supervisor: Carlos Madrid III

This study was for an installation at the LMU campus in Los Angeles. Using a pre-existing sign design and specific lighting types, I modeled out the sign in Rhino and used Enscape to test different lighting colors. This study specifically looked at which colors would work best at night on the red reflective metal material.

SOM Presentation Layout*

Summer 2023 l Supervisor: Carlos Madrid III

Working closely with my supervisor, Carlos Madrid III, I worked to update project submissions for LMU SFTV and LMU Drollinger. I also worked to update the booklet for the LA’s New Bus Shelters project. Using Blurb, I tested different book and paper types to see which worked best.

* credits to SOM for design