sebastian pierre_portfolio 2015

SEBASTIAN PIERREM. ARCH I CANDIDATE, 2015

New Orleans, LA.

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1942 Fern Street, New Orleans, LA 70118(540) 846-3127 | spierre@tulane.edu

SEBASTIAN PIERRE

EDUCATIONTULANE UNIVERSITY | NEW ORLEANS, LA

THE PANTHEON INSTITUTE | ROME, ITALY

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE I | 2015

STUDY ABROAD SEMESTER | FALL 2014

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HISTORY | 2012

EXPERIENCE

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | SUMMER 2013

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | SUMMER 2014

WOODSHOP WORKER | SPRING 2013

STUDY ABROAD IN VALENCIA | FALL 2011

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT | FALL 2013 - present

RESIDENT ADVISOR | 2009-2012

ARTS WORKSHOP INTERNSHIP | FALL 2011

ERIC COLBERT & ASSOCIATES PC | WASHINGTON, DC

SMBW, PLLC | RICHMOND, VA

TULANE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

TULANE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

TALLER NAO JORDANA | VALENCIA, SPAIN

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PROGRAM IN VALENCIA

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, OFFICE OF RESIDENCE LIFE

Created drawings, diagrams & concept design for clientsAssisted in compiling construction documents for projectsGained on site experience through construction administrationFacilitated communication between contractors and architects during projects

Initiated development of Integrated Building Model for new projectDeveloped schematic design with firm for said renovation projectSurveyed existing building conditions to develop renovation schematic designWorked on interior building details for apartment project

Assisted with use of saws and machines in Tulane’s woodshop

Assisted in design of large installation for the Valencia Fallas festival

Lived, worked, and learned in full language immersionCompleted coursework in Spanish Art and Spanish History

Architecture & Urbanism | Professor Carol McMichael Reese, Ph.D.Architectural History & Theory I & II | Professor Amber Wiley, Ph. D.

Advised residents on personal, professional, and academic issuesFacilitated community development in the living spacemediated interpersonal conflict

SKILLS+HONORSGRADUATE OPEN HOUSE EXHIBITION | SPRING 2014UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HISPANIC STUDIES AWARD | 2012DEAN’S LIST | 2010-2012AUTOCAD, REVIT, RHINO, V-RAY, MICROSOFT OFFICE, ADOBE SUITESPANISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN

TABLE OF CONTENTSSELECTION OF WORK

NEW ORLEANS DANCE ACADEMY

BUILDING ARTS INSTITUTE

BIM: THE SUSTAINABLE HOUSE

VIA GIULIA ARCHAELOGICAL MUSEUM

DIGITAL VISUALIZATION

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BONAVAL VISITORS’ CENTER

EVOLVING URBANISM IN THE CRESCENT CITY

MUSEUM OF THE CITY

DRAWINGS & SKETCHES

COLLAGE & PHOTOGRAPHY

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The project was a dance studio, located in downtown New Orleans. Studies in dance revealed an overlap that translated itself into the building’s design methodology. Program, circulation, and light are the primary agents overlapping throughout the building, both in plan and in section.

Urban Context

Concept Diagram

Core vs. Shell

Distance, Overlap, Distance

Overlap

Separation

Synchronization

NEW ORLEANS DANCE ACADEMYDOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS//SPRING 2014

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Dance Studios are stacked along the triple height auditorium so as to provide a view of the space below. When there are no performances, visitors can enjoy watching dancers practice in the studios above.

Dance Studios are stacked along the triple height auditorium so as to provide a view of the space below. When there are no performances, visitors can enjoy watching dancers practice in the studios above.

Theater Interior

Section A’

LIGHT & DANCE

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Tanzakademie features lightwells that illuminate different regions of overlap, where major spaces including the performative core, dance studios, and shops share the same light source. These spaces also feature views opening onto different program.

Overlap

First Floor Second Floor

LIGHT AND DANCE

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Street ViewSection C

Third Floor Fourth Floor Fifth Floor 10

Combining wood and concrete, the building’s structure holds a series of patterned louvers on each floor. The louvers gradually lessen in density in the most public parts of the building, allowing views from the street front

Section Detail

Plan Detail

Elevation Detail

A. Louver/Sunshading-Slab Connection

B. Mullion-Slab Connection

C. Louver Assembly in Plan

FACADE DEVELOPMENT

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The wood louvers protect the building’s front from western light. Conversely, they cast dramatic shadows on interior spaces when the sun is strongest. Wood and concrete feature prominently throughout, especially in the atrium that houses the public grand stair.

Building Envelope

Upward Circulation

West Elevation

MATERIALITY

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Wall Section Perspective

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The dance academy utilizes a 2 way reinforced concrete structure. The system includ of primary, secondary, and tertiary beams that create ceiling coffers in interior spaces. Air filters through operable louvers, and through the cafe courtyard.

Columns & Primary Beams Mechanical System Airflow

Secondary & Tertiary Beams

Structural Section Perspective

STRUCTURE & MECHANICAL

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The building’s atrium passes directly through the site, connecting both sides of the block. A cafe, bookshop, and views of program spaces above feature prominently into the space.

Atrium View

CIRCULATION & PUBLIC SPACE

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West Elevation

Section BSection A

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The Building Arts Institute was the first holistic design project in which practical concerns were addressed alongside site parameters. A neighborhood suffering from prolonged decline, Saint Roch maintains rich local traditions. Project design sought to reactivate the site’s existing and active corners in order to revitalize the once vibrant neighborhood.

Parti Model

Circulation Public vs. Private Service vs. Served

Growth Patterns and Block Corner Activity

BUILDING ARTS INSTITUTEST. ROCH, NEW ORLEANS//FALL 2013

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Parti Model

Exterior Approach

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The parti included several bars of program that aligned programmatically with preexisting program across the street, including a school and a church.

ADA Residences Below First Floor (Parking Below) Public Space Below

Second Floor

PROGRAMMATIC BARS

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The complex’s program included residences public gathering & educational spaces, workshops & an exhibition hall. The program centered on a raised platform complete with stepped seating that overlooks the park beyond.

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION

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The exhibition space above overlooks the shop and studio spaces below, creating a collaborative environment where visitors can see art in the making.

LIVE, WORK, LEARN

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The site is situated along a developing public corridor, stemming from the river. Passed the complex, however, the promenade ends abruptly at Interstate 10. The proposal would allow passage through, gesturing to redeveloping the industrial corridor beyond.

South Elevation

North Elevation

AXIAL PASSAGE

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A key design component of the studio was to incorporate masonry thoughtfully and provocatively. The Building Arts Institute features brick walls running parallel to the block and defining each of the strips of program. In the entry, the brick pattern is punctured more frequently to let light filter into the circulatory atrium.

Wall Section Model

Final Model

MASONRY IN DESIGN

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Atrium View

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Completed in BIM education course, the sustainable house was the first project designed wholly in Revit. The project called for a sustaibable home in New Orleans’ ecclectic Uptown district.

Site Plan

Floor Plan*Group Project w/Helen Lummis & Stephanie Mears

BIM: THE SUSTAINABLE HOUSEUPTOWN, NEW ORLEANS//SPRING 2014

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The home has a simple but effective palette of materials. The roof, made of water resistent steel panels, cantilevers out in order to offer sunshading and water management. The form underneath consists of simple clapboard siding.

Exterior View

MATERIALITY

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The cantilevered roof channels water down to a bioswale situated adjacent to the house. It is filtered and pumped back through the building for usage by the residents within.

Rainwater Handling

Interior View

WATER MANAGEMENT

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As part of the project, the teammates utilized a central model in order to make changes independently of one another. close collaboration was required in order to give a realistic feel to the project’s workflow, found in architectural practice.

Austerlitz Street Elevation

Camp Street Elevation

Section 1

Section 2

Airflow

COLLABORATION & MODEL MANAGEMENT

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As part of the project, teammates developed a parametrically informed shading device. The screen features triangular apertures that cast dramatic shadows on the porch underneath the cantilevered roof.

Screen Pattern

Geometric ShiftsPorch View

PARAMETRIC DESIGN

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The canted roof creates higher ceiling heights in spaces that would benefit from simple cooling & ventilation. The project called for detailing standard for residential projects using Revit.

Screen Pattern

Geometric Shifts

Transverse Section

Public vs. Private

STRUCTURE & DETAILING

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Located atop the ruins of Roman stables, development of the site has stalled, as officials decide how to proceed. The precinct, Ponte, was one of many shaped by Pope Sixtus V in his efforts to make Rome more axially linear and convert it into a thriving seat of power.

Light Permation Circulation

Bridging City & Nature

VIA GIULIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITEPONTE, ROME//FALL 2014

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The museum design features gradations in level that bridge the dense urban corridor along Via Giulia & the tree-lined Tiber River along the Lungotevere. A central bridge passes through the building, linking the two street fronts.

Bridging City & Nature

Gallery Space

Section B

MITIGATING NATURE AND URBANISM

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The design strategy features a grand stair that encircles one of the building’s load bearing concrete walls. On one side, visitors overlook double heigh gallery spaces. On the other, they process through a large atrium that opens up to the Lungotevere, & the ruins below. The atrium features thin copper panels that cast warm light throughout the space.

Entry

Atrium

Section A

VERTICAL CIRCULATION

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The museum continues the urban wall along Via Giulia in its elevation. As it moves through to the Lungotevere, the facade becomes more free-flowing, gesturing to the casual and porous city scape along the Tiber River. Program also included residences & educational spaces.

Via Giulia Elevation

Lungotevere Elevation

GRADIENT OF DENSITY

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Precedent study called for close examination of a famous work of architecture, in this case Louis Kahn’s First Unitarian Church. The studies informed architectural language used in the subsequent design project.

DIGITAL VISUALIZATIONKAHN PRECEDENT STUDIES//SPRING 2013

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Physical models accompanied diagrammatic analysis of Kahn’s Unitarian Church. The exercize stressed the usage of different materials to convey archintecture principles relating to the building’s composition and spatiial development.

MATERIAL EXPRESSION

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First Floor

The project called for a site intervention, synthesizing lessons learned in the Kahn precedent study and conditions presented by the site. The site- Santo Domingo de Bonaval- an old monastery complex in Santiago de Compostela- features Alvaro Siza’s museum, added in 1994.

Second Floor

Site Model

BONAVAL VISITORS’ CENTERSANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA//SPRING 2013

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First Floor

Second Floor

The proposed visitor’s center & gallery is a museum to the pilgrim, honoring the site’s connection to European pilgrimage. Pilgrims filter through the site before arriving at the city’s famed cathedral in the valley Bonaval overlooks.

Processional Approach

PILGRIMAGE & CIRCULATION

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The site also included Roman and medieval walls that work to frame the approach. The proposed building is directly hinged on the existing walls, incorporating thlem into the overall design.

Site Model

Library+Gallery

SITE INTERVENTION

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Longitudinal Section

Transverse Section

Existing Walls Compression+Release

Sectional Model

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URBANISM IN THE CRESCENT CITYNEW ORLEANS URBAN ANALYSIS//FALL 2012

Urban analysis of New Orleans preceded design in order to develop an awareness of site sensitivity. Growing from a planned urban core and along the Mississippi River, new neighborhoods formed within former plantation plot lines, oriented toward the River. This movement shifted the city grid while providing for rapid demographic growth.

1819: The Idealized City

Population Spread: 2010

Urban Fabric Population Spread: 1910

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DEURBANIZATION

1862-1925: Rapid Expansion 2010: Uncertain Direction

Studies showed that public transit declined with the growth of the automobile industry and large fragments of the city were no longer consilidated within the framework of the urban core.

Population Spread: 1910 Population Spread: 2010

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PRECINCT ANALYSISFocusing on the Marigny, a vibrant New Orleans neighborhood, revealed patterns of early urban expansion along the Mississippi River and the development of the city’s first exclusively residential district adjacent to the intial urban core.

Marigny Topography

Local Grid Shifts

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PRECEDENTS OF SUBURBANIZATIONThe precinct study revealed the site to be a part of an urban system in which dense fabric downtown spreads out along the river to form progressively less dense, residential blocks in the Marigny fan, revealing a tradition of suburbanization.

Model: A Gradient of Density

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MUSEUM OF THE CITYLocated in the Marigny at one of the city’s grid shifts, the project called for the development of a museum catering both to lessons learned from urban analysis and local precinct studies. The scheme consisted of programmatic walls, including a Wall of Books, a Wall of the City, a Wall of Light, and a Surveyor’s Wall.

Parti Models

Gallery: Inside the Cube

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THE ART OF CRAFTThe studio called for a great degree of model making in order to develop a strong familiarity with materiality and craft. 1/64” parti models informed the final design, which itself was built at 1/32” scale several times.

Front Elevation

Model Detail: Wall of Books

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A WALL OF BOOKSThe wall of books is located in a the tower, situated at the end of the circulatory sequence. At the top of the staircase, a visitors can see the view of the city beyond.

Precinct Model

Wall of the Books

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WALLS OF THE CITYSeveral exterior walls serve as urban faces, directly engaging the Marigny precinct. Visitors can spend time on the raised terraces along the street face or can internal glimpses of the courtyard as they ascend the tower.

Wall of the City

Final Model

Wall of the Books

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ON-SITE SKETCHINGSTUDY ABROAD IN ROME//FALL 2014

Campidoglio Side View

Campidoglio Entry

Campidoglio Side View

Brugges, Belgium

Sant’Ivvo alla Sapienza Court

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CAMPIDOGLIO ANALYTICAL SEQUENCE

Composite Sketch

Threshold+Passage

Abstracted Geometry

Bay System

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Foot Traffic Enclosure + Axis

Interstitial Space Compress + Release

Composite Sketch

Rhythm+Threshold

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MIXED MEDIA: COLLAGE & PHOTOGRAPHYNEW ORLEANS URBAN ANALYSIS//FALL 2012

Abstracted Still Life Collage | Modes of Representation | Spring 2015

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Experiential Sequence 1 | French Quarter, New Orleans | Holga Photography | Summer 2012

Experiential Sequence 2 | French Quarter, New Orleans | Holga Photography | Summer 2012

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