Architecture Portfolio - Sean Devlin

SEAN DEVLIN ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

FILLING IN THE GAPS

GRADUATE THESIS

02 Philadelphia, PA | Graduate Thesis Studio

Committee: Huy Ngo, Michael Hill, Joshua Arcurio | Savannah College of Art & Design | Sept. 2024 - June 2025

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2 over 1 housing on a community land trust diversifies density, provides economic opportunity & quality affordable homes

Rehabilitate the vacant Ford Motor building to utilize existing structures & minimize impact

New station canopy gives the station identity and welcomes riders to a clearly marked entranced

Mixed-use, mixed-income buildings take advantage of the site’s busy perimeter

Public transportation, a tool created for connection, has often been used as a tool for division throughout the history of the United States. In Philadelphia, the division created by public transportation is on full display in the city’s mass transit network, SEPTA, particularly the SEPTA Regional Rail. Physical, social, economic, and political barriers throughout the SEPTA system and Philadelphia’s history have resulted in division throughout the city.

This division separates the city from its surrounding suburbs and neighborhoods from one another, while enforcing arbritrary divisions based on race and income during the mid-20th century.

More than half of all SEPTA rail transit lines intersect in the heart of North Philadelphia, a historically black, low income area of the city, with residents who are highly dependent on public transportation. These rail lines pass through three stations in a three block radius, and none of them connect to allow convenient transfer between them. Furthermore, SEPTA Regional Rail, originally designed to be the system’s commuter rail, can be 2x-5x more expensive to ride than the other SEPTA systems. The result is an inequitable, outdated system in which the people who are most dependent on public transportation are those with the least access to it.

My thesis challenges the way we approach transit oriented development, which has often been criticized for resulting in gentrification and displacement of local residents. By taking an equitable approach that focuses on increasing access to transportation for existing Philadelphia residents, particularly those who need it the most rather than hypothetical new ones, a truly convenient, intermodal, lifestyle network can be achieved to create a better connected city.

Historic Pennsylvania Railroad station building will be rehabilitated

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Rehabilitated historic station building provides necessary civic services to the neighborhood

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Event space provides quality space for the neighborhood to gather

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Below-grade transfer point provides flexibility and options to travel

New bus pick-up & drop-off facilitates equitable access to station

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Former Ford industrial building rehabilitated into apartments

New mixed-income housing populates the site

Chestnut Hill West Line redirected to feed into below grade lines

Historic station building rehabilitated into new civic services building Community center with community gardens and playground

PHYSICAL & SOCIAL SOLUTIONS

7 Regional Rail lines utilize the old Reading Railroad lines

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Ground floor commercial spaces create economic opportunity for the neighborhood

Submit historic station building to Philadelphia Register of Historic Places

Establish a community land trust to help neighborhood residents build equity

New infill 2 over 1 rowhomes on vacant lots

POLITICAL & ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS

Existing Regional Rail lines are capped, allowing vehicular & pedestrian mocement across the site

LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH INTERMODAL STATION

New pedestrian connection facilitates transfer between SEPTA systems

New canopy creates an easily recognizable landmark in the neighborhood

New commercial tenant spaces provide economic opportunity in the form of new jobs and businesses

The Trenton Regional Rail and the Amtrak Northeast Corridor utilize the old Pennsylvania Railroad tracks

Existing historic waiting rooms are preserves for continued use

A new subway spur is created for direct connection to other SEPTA systems

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CYCLE

08 19 Atlanta, GA | Interdisciplinary Studio

Professor Aaron Wilner | Savannah College of Art and Design | Fall 2023 20 09

The Chattahoochee Brick Company in Atlanta, GA has a controversial history that has been buried physically and metaphorically. Chattahoochee Brick Company was a large participant, contributor, and enabler of the convict lease system in Georgia following the end of the Civil War. The convict-lease system was a “re-enslavement” of Black Americans following Emancipation. Despite its widespread use in the American South and the lasting impacts it has had on black people, most Americans are unaware of the practice and the true horrors endured by those victimized by it.

The convict-lease system is just one example of how civil rights for Black Americans have been cyclical in nature.

Black people in America have endured oppression in various forms, have overcome those opressions through protests, and have had to earn their emancipation to achieve a level of “equality,” only to become oppressed again by the same oppressive systems and people, starting the cycle anew.

Cycle aims to educate people through the construction of a new memorial and museum on the grounds of the old Chattahoochee Brick Company about the oppressive systems integral to America’s development that have been buried. Cycle will be a part of the City of Atlanta’s larger redevelopment of the Chattahoochee River for a new Greenway. The goal is combat the ignorance people have about these systems that have been watered down or relatively ignored in typical educational settings.

Through education, the cycle may finally break.

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LEGEND A. MEMORIAL MUSEUM B. MEMORIAL C. EXISTING BRICK D. ENTRY PLAZA E. WATERFRONT PLAZA F. GREENWAY PLAZA G. SCULPTURE GARDEN H. RECREATION FIELDS I. PLAYGROUND J. WALKING TRAIL AREA K. RETENTION POND L. VEGETATED NOISE BUFFER M. WATERFRONT ACCESS

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PERRY LANE CARRIAGE HOUSE LOMINACK KOLMAN SMITH ARCHITECTS

37 14 Savannah, GA | Perry Lane Carriage House

Lominack Kolman Smith Architects | June 2023-October 2023

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While working at Lominack Kolman Smith Architects, I had the opportunity to work on a carriage house addition to a residence CARRIAGE on East Liberty Street in Savannah’s HOUSE FLOOR PLAN Historic District. The carriage house would provide an enclosed parking 1/4" = 1'-0" garage with a short-term vacation unit on the upper floor that look out facing Perry Lane toward the colonial cemetery 30' - 0" across the street.

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