Arch 101, Drexel University, Professor Wolfram Arendt
Visual data extracted from a site visit were first transformed into physical models. Photograph highlighting emergent qualities were then stitched together and unrolled, culminated with an experiential, hand-rendered collage.
The Row House
Arch 201, Drexel University, Professor Rachel Schade
Refining the Philadelphia vernacular row house to better perform as a multi-generational household should include punctured floor plates. The transparency introduced to shared spaces allows for better light and air flow while also creating visual and audio connections that do not infringe on personal privacy.
Foam Substrate Method Growing Screen + Box Method
Shira Saar
Pratt Institute B. Arch, class of 2024
Collective Assemblies: Co-Housing Live-Work
Arch 301, Pratt Institute, Professor Andrew Lyon
Working closely with MEP, facade, and structural engineer co-instructors to propose a 100-bed live-work complex in Bed-Stuy, I stacked residential units to the south and opened up the north facade to the public. The adjacencies between these two programs is seen clearly in section, floating informal stairs connect flexible public work spaces.
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Prone to heavy flooding, we porpose a recreation center also serving the community as a shelter during times of emergency. Raised on stilts above the flood line, the upstairs can accommodate many people sheltering in place at once while still allowing for circulation and easy restroom access. Balconies can serve as boat rescue access points.
Coney Island: Civic Spaces of Exchange
302, Pratt Institute, Professor Thomas Hanrahan (with partner Nastazja Cancellaro)
Shira Saar
Pratt Institute B. Arch, class of 2024 (347)
Super Light-Weight Pneumatic Formwork: The Shape of Air
Arch 402, Pratt Institute , Professor Robert Lee Brackett III (with partners Ceyla Ozkardes, Sitan Zhu, Yichen Liu)
Parametric explorations with process, experimentation, and form- finding led to this pavilion proposal that utilizes pneumatic form works to construct something both easy to replicate, and beautiful, using GFRC.
Understanding how lightweight and materially efficient structures can utilize air pressure to support the casting and spraying of GFRC shells can lead to new building strategies to produce architectural components and small-scale structures that utilize less material.
Flowing Luminance
Arch 211, Pratt Institute, Professors Robert Lee Brackett III
This course focused on V-Ray rendering, Construction Details, Rhino animations, SubD geometries, and introduction us to After Effects and Grasshopper.
Shira Saar
Pratt Institute B. Arch, class of 2024
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Eames House Gallery Addition + Custom Kinetic Sculpture Competition
Winning Entry
Arch 226, Drexel University
This course focused on V-Ray rendering, Construction Details, Rhino animations, SubD geometries, and introduction us to After Effects and Grasshopper.
The gallery carries the Destijl motif into its two large curtain walls, the South facade simplifies the grid to simple to squares, and the North facade compresses and over complicates the original pattern. The kinetic sculpture is a tribute to the Eames’ desire to sustain the natural environment as it, like the bird, are both precious and in constant motion.
Shira Saar
Pratt Institute B. Arch, class of 2024
Degree Project: Resilient Care
Arch 503, Pratt Institute, Professors Lapshan Fong + Karen Bausman (with partner Victoria Bourghol)
Our project aims to address two contemporary crises: an uncared-for community that resides in an urban hinterland, and an ecology that has suffered as a result of urban development. We identified the lack of a connection to the Meadowlands as the ideal catalyst for introducing a new space that not only caters to the programmatic needs of the community but equally considers the ecological needs of the site.
A support clinic to the adjacent Hudson Regional Hospital, we propose a facility for visitors to receive supplemental and preventative care beyond the clinical services of normative healthcare facilities for prenatal, post-partum, and planning families and indivuals. It provides daytime visitors the opportunity to receive specialized physical and mental care, education surrounding wellbeing issues, and social engagement.
Full copy of the project booklet is available upon request!
