Sarah Quinn - Portfolio - 2024

SARAH CAPRI QUINN Architecture | Preservation | 2024

Introduction My name is Sarah Quinn. I graduated from Syracuse University in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Minor in English and Textual Studies. A er my 5 years of architectural educa on, I worked for two years at an architectural firm before a ending Tulane University to pursue a Master of Science in Historic Preserva on. Aside from my work as a designer, I have also worked as an architectural researcher on various projects, worked in deed research and historical wri ng, and engaged in various hands-on architectural conserva on projects. Throughout my educa on and professional career, I have cul vated a deep apprecia on for conserva on techniques, architectural heritage, building materials, and social history alongside my love for design and the built environment.

I am deeply passionate about the health of the planet, the equity of all people, and the ability of architecture to enrich people’s lives through sense of place and shared histories. I am commi ed to con nually growing, learning new skills, and challenging myself through my work.

This por olio contains a selec on of work from my graduate and undergraduate level studies, in the realms of preserva on, architectural design, and conserva on. Please visit issuu.com/scquinn for addi onal informa on about me, my resume, and my contact informa on.

Contents Preservation 04: Heritage At Risk, Barbados 10: Historic Auburn

Architectural Design 16: Thesis Work: Spa alizing Erasure 26: Urban Gym 32: Post-Cubicleism

Conservation 40: Evergreen Planta on: Limewashing 44: St. Louis Cemetery No. 2

Miscellaneous 46: Plaster Cas ng, Hand Drawing, Wood Window Restora on

HERITAGE AT RISK,BARBADOS in collabora on with Tulane Preserva on II Studio

From long-term climate change, short-term disasters, and growing developmental pressures, throughout the globe, heritage resources are under increasing external threats. The Heritage at Risk Studio in partnership with the Commonwealth Heritage Forum and Hamish Ogden Founda on, the five-year program, Commonwealth Heritage at Risk, seeks to iden fy threatened built heritage resources, build sustainable management strategies, undertake bricks and mortar heritage conserva on, and training to build heritage capacity.

The first por on of this work included condi ons assessments of all of the buildings on Roebuck Street in Bridgetown, Barbados-the historic commercial street of the island’s capital. Following these assessments, photogrammetry was done of all of the structures in order to allow us to document the historic building eleva ons and map their material condi ons. This documenta on will be a por on of the process of documen ng Roebuck Street as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in order to provide it with more resources and protec on for its historic structures and cultural significance. For one of the buildings on Roebuck Street, proposed renderings were done for the Commonwealth Heritage Forum, reimagining an abandoned historic urban storehouse building as an educa onal facility and Barbados history museum.

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LocaƟon: Roebuck Street, Bridgetown, Barbados Course: Tulane University, MSHP PRES 6042 | Spring 2023 Professor: Brent Fortenberry Programs Used: 3D Laser Scanning Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop ArcGIS AutoCAD Reality Capture ReCap Photo Revit Survey123

EXTERIOR BUILDING ELEVATIONS AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY PROCESSING

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This is an overview of the documenta on process that was undertaken for the en re historic Roebuck Street corridor and surrounding area. Photographic documenta on and a condi ons assessment form for each individual building was completed. Photogrammetric processing created orthographic photos which were used to complete street eleva ons which were mapped over with documented condi ons, such as biological growth, weathered wood, masonry loss, broken glass, or areas of structural concern.

CONDITIONS KEY

CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT FORM

ORTHOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAMMETRY OUTPUT

CONDITIONS MAPPING ELEVATION 6

CONDITIONS PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION

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Over the course of the project, the studio comprehensively documented more than 200 buildings in the Roebuck Street corridor and surrounding historic area. Of the 313 buildings in the iden fied historic areas, their condi ons ranged from Poor to Excellent, and their condi ons were visually represented through eleva onal mapping, photography, and wri en descrip ve research. Of the 313 buildings in the historic site, one was iden fied by members of the Barbados preserva on community to be of interest for a future restora on project as a history museum. Several preliminary renderings were created to depict the proposed use of this space.

CONDITIONS MAPPING ELEVATION

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PRELIMINARY RENDERINGS

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HISTORIC AUBURN in collabora on with Tulane Preserva on I Studio

In the Fall 2022 semester, The Tulane University Historic Preserva on Program worked in close collabora on with the Historic Natchez Founda on as a part of the program’s Historic Preserva on Studio I coursework. During the studio’s trip to Natchez in Adams County, Mississippi, we as students undertook the documenta on of the main house at Historic Auburn (c. 1812) and its associated kitchen quarter outbuildings. The site is a Na onal Historic Landmark which now operates as a public house museum. This documenta on includes a comprehensive survey of the main suburban villa at Auburn and its rela onship to the kitchen and other structures in order to collect data and cra building surveys for the recorded structures.

During a week-long site visit to Natchez between October 30 and November 5, 2022, the students documented the main house and the kitchen, two of the several buildings on the site. The primary goal for this documentation process was to provide additional context to the site, its architectural qualities, significance, and information about the original construction of these historic buildings. The documentation was done through a combination of archival research, photographic and photogrammetric documentation, on-site hand-drafting to scale, laser scanning, drone footage, and completed AutoCAD drafting with the intention of conforming all of the documentation to the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) standards for the final submittal.

This documentation is currently being used by the Historic Natchez Foundation to reinterpret the site’s use as a house museum and interrogate how the site can best recognize its history of enslavement within the plantation landscape of the south. Alongside the architectural documentation, the students also undertook archival and historical research aimed at reckoning with the violent histories that are intrinsically linked to the site as a part of the history of subjugation and oppression of African American people in the United States.

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LocaƟon: Historic Auburn, Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.A. Course: Tulane University, MSHP PRES 6041 | Fall 2022 Professor: Brent Fortenberry Programs Used: 3D Laser Scanning Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop ArcGIS AutoCAD HABS Standards Hand Dra ing Reality Capture ReCap Photo Revit Survey123

LOCATOR MAPS AND PROCESS SKETCHES

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ON-SITE HAND DRAFTING

Office Left

Library

Dining Room

Gift Shop

Piano Room

Hallway

Foyer FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR PHASING PLANS

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MOLDING PROFILES, FIRST FLOOR

EXTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHS, NORTH AND SOUTH

NORTH

(FRONT) ELEVATION

NORTH PORCH COLUMN DETAIL

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PASSAGE/DINING DOOR PHOTOGRAPH AND PROCESS DOCUMENTATION

PASSAGE/DINING DOOR ELEVATION AND DETAILS

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NORTH DOOR(MAIN ENTRANCE)

PROCESS DOCUMENTATION

NORTH DOOR ELEVATION

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SPATIALIZING ERASURE: Forging a New Commemorative Typology Undergraduate B.Arch Thesis in collabora on with Isabel Muñoz

Spa alizing Erasure is an inves ga on into and a cri que of current tradi onal memorializa on techniques and the erasure of counterhistorical narra ves from the urban fabric. We are seeking to use architecture as a lens to cri que our current socio-poli cal climate by employing techniques of memorializa on, sensa onalism, and certain spa al tac cs rela ng to memory onto the typologies of the courthouse and the archive, ac vely reinforcing memories of trauma, injus ces, and ac vism onto a typology that has historically been negligent towards its contribu on to systemic erasure and oppression of counter-history.

This project aims to impose the collec ve memory of erased narra ves onto the city in the form of a courthouse imbued with commemora ve and sensa onal archive spaces for consuming and imposing forgo en memories. Doing so will provide a lens into the past and demand that un-represented histories are not forgo en or reversed.

The main areas of research that culminated in the decision to design a theore cal archive and courthouse began with a case study of 3 historical events that exemplify the nature of collec ve memory and the tradi on of counter-history being erased from the dominant narra ve of American culture, each of them centered around years of the 1960s and 70s--an era for social change and civil rights-and they became the genera ve factor in the decision to design a courthouse. The 3 events--the existence of the Jane Collec ve from 1969 to the passing of Roe v Wade in 1973, the 1968 Democra c Na onal Conven on Riots, and the 1963 School Segrega on boyco s-- began as means to study and spa alize narra ves of protest and resistance and how they are wiped from our understanding of dominant history, but their common factor of stemming from the faults and systemic failures of the American Jus ce System.

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LocaƟon: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Course: Syracuse University, B.Arch ARC 508 | Thesis Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Thesis Advisor: Yutaka Sho Programs Used: Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Rhinoceros VRay for Rhino

PRELIMINARY CONCEPTUAL SECTION COLLAGES

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HISTORICAL RESEARCH NARRATIVE DIAGRAMS

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What is Jane?

The Jane Collec ve created by the Chicago Women’s Libera on Union at the height of Second Wave Feminism was a covert organiza on run by women for women seeking abor ons before the passing of Roe vs. Wade. Apartments, rented out two at a me, served as an alterna ve network of abor on spaces for women during a me where women’s bodily autonomy was legally regulated. This process of ren ng out spaces for alterna ve use that contested abor on laws created a network of feminist memories that existed outside the typical linear patriarchal narra ves of Chicago’s history. By using urban planning and mapping of contested feminist spaces during the Second Wave of femism, we speculate on Chicago’s current urban condi on as a way of proposing new spaces where memories of intersec onal women’s libera on can be reconstructed.

School BoycoƩs of 1963 On October 22, 1963, one of the biggest and least known events in Chicago’s history took place as hundreds of thousands of people boyco ed and protested the over-crowding of black schools. Instead of moving black children from over-crowded schools to white schools, students were moved to aluminum, portable classrooms called “Willis’ Wagons.” About 400,000 people boyco ed schools and took on the streets of Chicago. Benjamin C. Willis, the Superintendent of Schools, was approved to purchase 150-200 20 x36 mobile classrooms to be placed in the vacant lots of over-crowded schools. Willis avoided combining white and black students because public school a endance depended on the neighborhood. Neighborhoods were very segregated.

Chicago was a very segregated city, and it s ll con nues to be today.

Chicago Eight The 1968 Democra c Na onal Conven on in Chicago is most remembered for the arrests and trial of the “Chicao 8”. Before the conven on began on August 26, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley refused protest permits to most an -war demonstrators and deployed 12,000 police officers, 5,600 members of the Illinois Na onal Guard and 5,000 Army soldiers on the streets to prohibit protest. These police and military forces violently clashed with Vietnam War protesters, resul ng in hundreds of injuries and 668 arrests during the conven on. The Chicago Eight were tried in one of the three federal buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe. These 8 became figureheads for the brewing an -war sen ment of the 60s that culminated in the violent display of police forces on the day of the conven on.

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Archive Circulation

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Archive Technique

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Technique Narratives

Gradation of Surface

Above Surface

shelving plastering etching

Below Surface

burying

TECHNIQUE-CIRCULATION RELATIONSHIP

TECHNIQUE PERSPECTIVES

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LOGITUDINAL SECTION

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PERSPECTIVAL SECTION

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URBAN GYM in collabora on with Aditya Surrendrah

The Urban Gym, located in Culver City, Los Angeles, is designed to explore the intersec ons between health and exercise by combining fitness-oriented spaces with educa on programs. These programs are purposefully mixed, related, but clearly separate. As the site is confined, the program is stacked, as it is situated within a mul modal confluence of transit infrastructures and has been chosen to confront the numerous challenges which arrive from an autocentric built environment: increased carbon emissions, poor air quality, sedentary lifestyle, isola on, and lack of public space.

In this context, the Urban Gym emerges as a means for healthy living. The educa on and exercise programs become mixed in between a stacked program that opens up the site space for various public ac vi es housed in sunken landscape pockets, providing spaces for farmers markets, vegetable gardens, picnic spaces, and public sea ng. The circula on through the building is driven by the raised bridge that is a ached to the 3 elements of the building: the corridor-shaped market and food court, the smaller classroom core, and the larger exercise space where various sports courts are housed. The shi ing of the volumes in the larger exercise volume allows for public pa o spaces that facilitate the merging between the 3 elements, combining market ac vi es, classroom spaces, and exercise spaces, allowing people to set up vendor sta ons, teach classes, and socialize.

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LocaƟon: Culver City, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Course: Syracuse University, B.Arch ARC 409 | Spring 2019 Professor: Ryan Ball Programs Used: Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Laser Cu ng Physical Modeling Revit Rhinoceros VRay for Rhino

PROCESS STUDY MODELS

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DIAGONAL SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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STRUCTURAL AXON

FLOOR PLANS

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DETAIL CHUNK AXONS

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POST-CUBLICLEISM in collabora on with Peter Maffei

“Post-Cubicleism”: defined as an architecture that recalls, uncovers, and sa rizes the underlying methods of capitalist space used to design the contemporary office. Situated within the site of the now-booming consumerist district of Hudson Yards, New York City, Post-Cubicleism is comprised of 2 parts: the larger rail yard plinth, underneath which the former rails of Hudson Yards sit and emit heat while also being u lized as public space, and the mixed-use tower, housing the programs of a fashion HQ, a tech start-up, an accoun ng firm, and a hotel.

The plinth that sits atop the rail yards is strategically cut into and chipped away at to ven late the underlying heat and open it up to pubic programs such as markets and public sea ng and auditoriums while simultaneously crea ng entrance-points to the tower above.

The tower itself, as it houses a mul tude of programs, is designed to reimagine the tradi onal look and feel of the midcentury modern office tower while serving as a cri que for the subversive tac cs that capitalist powers use to organize, serveil, and control their workers.

While all of the floor plans appear radically different depending on their program, they all conform to the same modular tendencies and hierarchies that allow capitalist structures to oversee their labors, thus revealing the underlying methods used in cubicleist architecture.

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LocaƟon: Hudson Yards, NYC New York, U.S.A. Course: Syracuse University, B.Arch ARC 307 | Fall 2017 Professor: Lori Brown Programs Used: Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Grasshopper Laser Cu ng Physical Modeling Rhinoceros VRay for Rhino

EXPLODED AXON

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PERSPECTIVE SITE PLAN AND SECTION DIAGRAMS

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TRANSLUCENT MODEL

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SECTION

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NIGHT RENDER

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EVERGREEN: LIMEWASHING for Architectural Conserva on Laboratory, with PRES 6210 Class Members

Evergreen Planta on is a NHL planta on site located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. John the Bap st Parish, near Edgard, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was mainly constructed at the end of the 18th century, and was renovated to its current Greek Revival style in 1835. Evergreen is dis nguished by its double row of twentytwo historic slave cabins, which are now incredibly rare to have been preserved. More than 400 enslaved individuals resided in these cabines at Evergreen Planta on over the course of 150 years. A er the Civil War, the cabins remained occupied by emancipated Africans and sugarcane workers un l 1947. Today, Evergreen Planta on supports research into the stories of the people that were enslaved there, including but not limited to ancestral records, estate inventories, succession records, bills of sale, bap sm and funeral records, and other primary source documents. The research remains ongoing, and the work of this class is a miniscule piece of preserving the complete history of this site, which aims to tell the full story of the U.S.’s history of enslavement and exploita on.

The inten on of this work was to limewash two work sites on the grounds of Evergreen Planta on-- the historic Greek Revival privy at the southeast of the site, and the back passage inside the main planta on house. The two work sites were in varying condi ons prior to the beginning of the work; the privy had been exposed to the elements, causing the previous limewash coa ngs to be weathered away, leaving it in need of new coa ngs.

The back passage of the main house, part of which has been painted with latex paint and part of which was previously limewashed, suffered water damage over me. The sec on of the passage that we worked on was the sec on that had been previously limewashed. In both cases, limewash is intended to be a sacrificial coaƟng-- one that is reapplied regularly over me with the knowledge that it will eventually wear away. However, it also protects the structure from weather damage, and makes the surfaces appear cleaner, and overall more aesthe cally preferrable. The work that we undertook over the course of our 3 work days at Evergreen le the work sites with new sacrificial coa ngs, giving a visually cleaner and refinished appearance, and also preven ng future effects from wind, rain, and other types of conserva on concerns.

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LocaƟon: Evergreen Planta on, Edgard, Louisiana, U.S.A. Course: Tulane University, MSHP PRES 6210 | Spring 2023 Professor: Jane Ashburn ConservaƟon Skills: Archival Research Limewashing Structures Mixing Limewash

EVERGREEN PLANTATION MAIN HOUSE, ENTRANCE TO BACK PASSAGE

(SITE OF WORK)

INTERIOR PASSAGE BEFORE LIMEWASHING AND DURING WORK

INTERIOR PASSAGE AFTER LIMEWASHING, PINK TO MATCH ORIGINAL COLOR

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GREEK REVIVAL PRIVY, BEFORE LIMEWASHING

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GREEK REVIVAL PRIVY, AFTER LIMEWASHING

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ST.LOUIS NO.2 for Architectural Conserva on Laboratory, with PRES 6210 Class Members

In New Orleans, though in-ground burial is a part of the landscape, aboveground tombs are a significant part of the city’s French and Spanish roots, and their con nued use was likely caused by periodic flooding. In the early nineteenth century, frequent disease outbreaks caused high numbers of fatali es, and city officials procured addi onal land, a er the 1789 establishment of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1; this new burial ground site was more removed from the se led areas of the city, which was then consecrated for use in 1823. St. Louis Cemetery 2 is comprised of 3 city blocks, bounded by North Claiborne Avenue and St. Louis, North Robertson, and Iberville Streets. The 3 blocks of the cemetery are divided by Bienville and Con Streets cu ng through. Today, St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 is s ll an ac ve burial ground.

The inten on of this work was to complete a variety of conserva on objec ves in order to improve the appearance and condi ons of a number of tombs in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, Square 2. This work included: cleaning tombs with water and ORVUS, removing biogrowth, cleaning tombs with D/2, cleaning tablets with water and ORVUS, and removing rust from iron fences. The work that we undertook over the course of our 3 work days at St. Louis 2 le the work sites in be er physical condi on that they began in; the tombs were in varying condi ons prior to the work, including a wide range in the degree of biological staining, plant growth, mold, water damage, cracking, breaking, rust, discolora on, and other common conserva on issues related to physical damages over me. Much of the tombs suffer from the effects of water damage and neglect, resul ng in many of them to be in varying degrees of disrepair. Over the 3 days of cleaning and various conserva ons efforts, the chosen tombs were cleaned of much of their staining and biological growth.

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LocaƟon: St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, 300 N Claiborne Ave, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. Course: Tulane University, MSHP PRES 6210 | Spring 2023 Professor: Jane Ashburn ConservaƟon Skills: Archival research Biogrowth Removal D/2 Cleaning ORVUS Cleaning Stone Tablet Restora on

TOMB BEFORE CLEANING AND REPAIRS

TOMB AFTER CLEANING AND REPAIRS

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MISCELLANEOUS Model-Making + By Hand To display a variety of my interests and experience in inves ga on of materials and conserva on work, the following is a combina on of work not rela ng to any one project, but an array of experiences and personal endeavors. Included in this sec on are photographs of volunteer work in historic wood window restora on, small plastercasted models for the beginnings of thesis research and experimenta on, hand drawings and diagrams of buildings explored during my semester abroad in Florence, Italy, and s ll life drawings done in past art classes.

HAND-DRAWINGS: ROME, ITALY

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WOOD WINDOW RESTORATION

PLASTER CASTING

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STILL LIFE DRAWING: PENCIL

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HAND-DRAWINGS: ROME, ITALY

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Contact +1 315.534.9751 squinn3@tulane.edu