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CONTENTS PAGE SARAH NEAULT

RESUME 1 OBJECTIVE
To attain a teaching and/or research position with an innovative architectural design firm
Highlights
or respected institute of higher learning.
Hilditch Architect 2
Ajax Affordable Housing QUALIFICATIONS
Philip Aziz Children’s Hospice • Three years of work experience as an architectural assistant.
Wigwamen Affordable Housing • Two years of work experience as a teaching/research assistant.
• Seven terms of design studio.
architectsAlliance 5
Terrence Donnelly Centre • Experienced in customer service and public relations.
• Fluent in English and French.
HBEW/ibi 6 • Skilled in model, image and presentation production using AutoCAD,
The Pinnacle Museum Tower Vectorworks, Revit, Archicad, Rhino3D, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Indesign,
Illustrator & Photoshop.
Kasian Architecture Ltd. 7
Safeway
Canadian Tire EDUCATION
BCIT Aerospace Technology University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada:
• Master of Architecture, 2010. (Thesis commended.)
DHA 8 • Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours Co-op, 2008.
Conradi Building
Courtney/Comox Airport
NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
bohmLAB research group and exhibitions
Thesis 9 Three friends and I created bohmLAB—the first student-led research group at
On Walking Waterloo Architecture Cambridge—in order to further research on the topic of
responsive architecture.
Wayfinding 13
Pedestrian Survey Wayfinding book
I am a co-author of this book and my survey, “Mapping the Campus (Using Locative
David Johnston Dinner 15
Barn Centerpieces Media),” revealed previously-unseen patterns in pedestrian movement on campus
which were incorporated into the final proposal.
Research Assistant 16
A+P2 Paper: Sigurd Lewerentz rareSiting: Springbank Commons Ideas Competition
Creative Problem Sovling In the spirit of Musagetes and SIG@Waterloo, the design of this new home for both
groups facilitates social interaction within the building as well as between these
rareSiting 18 organizations and the local community. First Place Team: Liana Bresler, Sarah Neault,
Springbank Ideas Competition Allan Wilson.
Graduate survey
3b - Cultural Institution 20
Aeolian Vessel Fellow graduate student Liana Bresler and I prepared a graduate program “by the
numbers” information document and conducted an anonymous graduate program,
RESUME 21 facilities, and services survey with the goal of initiating constructive student
Employment Experience participation in the present and future directions of the School.
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 HILDITCH ARCHITECT
Oct. 2006 – Aug. 2007 + Jan. – April 2008
Charles Rosenberg, partner, 416.593.6500

Key duties: Design, Research, Competitions, Client meetings, City meetings, Site
meetings, Construction management, Consultant co-ordination, Working drawings,
Costing, Permits, Specification, Tender, MOHLTC reports.

Software used: Sketchup, PowerCad, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator.

AJAX MUNICIPAL HOUSING: AFFORDABLE HOUSING

The Ajax affordable housing apartment building design won the competition put on by
the city of Ajax for funding of affordable housing units. The design is sensitive to the
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guidelines will be based on the long-term care facility
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a. Governor's House - Children's Home� the addition as a light, modern pavilion in the park.��
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Jan. – Sept. 2006
Deni Papetti, associate, 416.593.6500

Key duties: Deficiencies, As-built drawings, Working drawings.

Software used: AutoCAD, Excel.

TERRENCE DONNELLY CENTRE (CCBR)

This is a beautiful building! I did deficiencies and as-built drawings, which allowed me to
spend an extended period of time both looking closely at the recently-constructed building
and at the drawings that got it built.

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May – Aug. 2005
Salim Narayanan, Architect, 604.683.4376

Key duties: Working Drawings.

Software used: AutoCAD.

PINNACLE MUSEUM TOWER

The Museum Tower is the tallest residential tower in San Diego; designed in association with
Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle. I spent my term with HBEW doing tenant improvement
working drawings.

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 KASIAN ARCHITECTURE
Sept. – Dec. 2004
Jason Wexler, Architect, 604.683.4145

Key duties: Graphic design, Design development, Model building.

Software used: Vectorworks, Photoshop.

SAFEWAY: Site Planning.

CANADIAN TIRE: Poster Design.

BCIT AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS

The design of BCIT’s new Aerospace Technology Campus posed numerous challenges,
including proximity to highway frontage, its position on an overhead flight path and its
planned location on a sloped, triangular site. I worked on design development, diagrams,
presentation drawings and the 3D model.

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Jan. – May 2004
Tom Dishlevoy, partner, 250.339.9528

Key duties: Design, contract administration, site visits, word processing.

Software used: AutoCAD.

CONRADI BUILDING
I drew the final presentation drawings for this very west-coast style multi-use building
featuring a large, open-plan bakery/cafe on the main floor.

COURTNEY/COMOX AIRPORT
The construction of the airport was already underway when I joined DHA. I drew tenant
improvement drawings as well as helping with contract administration, including CD’s,
CCO’s, CO’s, and site inspection reports.

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CONTENTS
THESIS
On Walking
Waterloo Architecture, 2008 – 2010
a Declaration . . . . I
Supervisor: Donald McKay, associate professor
an Abstract . . . . III
Committee: Robert Jan van Pelt, university professor
Acknowledgements! . . . . V
Anne Bordeleau, assistant professor
List of Figures . . . . IX External Reader: Dieter Janssen

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Key references: Guy Debord, Francesco Careri, Rebecca Solnit, Achim Menges,
MOVEMENT 1: HOMO LUDENS . . . . . . . . 7 Michael Weinstock, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Jaron Lanier, Steven Johnson, James
Suroweicki, Jeffry Kipnis, D’Arcy Thompson, A.N. Whitehead, Giambattista Vico, Gary
INTERLUDE: BOTANIZING ON THE ASPHALT . . 13 Snyder, Walt Whitman, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Henry David
Thoreau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Muir...
MOVEMENT 2: WALKERS . . . . . . . . . 31
The Building as Organism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Software used: Rhino3D, Grasshopper, VBScript, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Arduino,
A Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 MaxMSP, Processing, Keynote, PowerPoint, Indesign, Photoshop, Picasa, Flickr,
Emergence, Self-Organization and Architecture . . . . . . . . . 40 Hindenburg Mobile, TweetDeck, ReelDirector, SketchBook, Google Earth, Google
Another Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Maps, Posterous Blogs, Blogspot Blogs, FinalCut Express, EvoCam, iMovie.
Mountains and Rivers Without End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

INTERLUDE: WAYS OF WALKING . . . . . . . 71 ABSTRACT

MOVEMENT 3: EXPERIMENTS . . . . . . . 101
A Secret Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Imagine the anatomy of architecture as a complex system, where the form is the result
of generative processes, the material properties of the components, and their patterns of
Mapping the Campus (Using Locative Media) . . . . . . . . . . 114
assembly.
The Fleeting and the Infinite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Within this paradigm, surface is that part of the system which exchanges energy,
THE PATH AS ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT . . . 145 information, and materials with the local environment. How does human occupation of
a space offer energy, information, or material to the system-building, and how can the
Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 surface best vector these exchanges?
Walking could represent human occupation in this context. I choose my walker’s
Notes . . . . 159 lineage and declare my interest, as an architect, in empathetic space. I explore the history
Bibliography . . . . 171 of bipedalism, of the path as an architectural object, and of the sciences, philosophies and
poetries of walkers. And I browse through contemporary architectural discourse pertaining
to emergent design methodologies. Along the way, I test my proposal in two experiments:
one complete, and one in progress...

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EMERGENT MATERIAL METHODOLOGIES
Kudless has established himself as a prominent figure in a new generation of
architectural researchers whose investigations traverse physical “self-organized”
production and computational processes; their material systems use pattern and
surface differentiation to produce gradients of performance that transcend the
atelier tradition of experimentation with arrangements of materials stressed to
produce stable organizations.
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Michael Weinstock, “Surfaces of Self-organization,” 2006.
“p_wall,” Andrew Kudless, 2006.
From top to bottom, left: initial pattern, array of points (density correlated to
grayscale value), panel distribution; right: dowels to restrain fabric located at points
from step 2, plaster poured into elasticated fabric mould, final form.
WALKERS.................................48
AS I CONSIDER THESE EXPERIMENTS ... These examples offer a
toolkit of potential methods through which to investigate how a build-
ing can gather and release information, material or energy (the possible
inputs/outputs of the building-organism), but I find myself wondering
how human occupation of a space offers energy, information, or mate-
rial to the building-organism, and thus how the surface can best vector
these exchanges.
I think walking is a good place to start looking for occupant offerings
of energy, information, and maybe even material. Walking is already
our tool (we, the members of crowd-organism) for bringing spatial or-
der to a shifting territory—we used it once, long, long ago as we walked
the spatial order of the path into existence, and it must remain embed-
ded within us. The message is not new but we are developing new ways
of sending and receiving and organizing our architecture, ways of de-
stabilizing it. And so, to bring occupants back into this unstable place,
I imagine coordinating the place’s instability with the innate ability of
the occupant to construct a new order.
My point, for the purposes of this wander, is this: we (architects)
should figure out how to design our buildings to sense walking, or
speak walking, so that the occupant and the building can start to have a
useful conversation (via matter and energy photons, turbulence, and the
“tone” of vibrations emanating from ox-breathing?).
I WALLOW HAPPILY in the thinking part of design—as I imagine
do other architects who work in the building-organism paradigm—the
working-through and arguing-for, and I suspect that I (and they?) se-
cretly want to preserve this muckiness past the point of diagrams and
construction drawings, oozing uncertainty through actual construction
and into the lives of the occupants, the people – into the real world!
EMERGENCE AND ARCHITECTURE.....49
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“HEELS DOWN” I REMIND MY PUPILS, six little girls trotting
around on fat lazy lesson ponies, unwittingly asking them to take ad-
vantage of the formidable form of the talus in their efforts to adapt their
bipedal bodies to the motion of their quadrupedal mounts. The ball of
the foot is balanced on the stirrup, the heel pressed down to stabilize
the ankle joint and free the hip and knee joints to absorb the energy of
the horse—those joints being much better-suited to that purpose than
the ankle.
“FIG. 290— Skeleton of foot. Medial aspect,”
Gray’s Anatomy, 1973.
MY LONG, STRONG, STRAIGHT, AND SLENDER TIBIA, the
weight bearing bone of my lower leg, accepts the force of the ground
via my talus by widening at its base, and transfers it to the largest and
longest of all the bones in my body, my femur, with another enlarge-
ment at its head.114 According to Maurice H. Herzmark, author of “The
Evolution of the Knee Joint,” this joint between tibia and femur, my
knee, is the largest and most vulnerable joint in my body.115 Despite
being uniquely adapted to be weight-bearing at full extension, shaped
for stability and protected by the patella, my knee is inherently prone to
injury.116 It accepts a force four times the weight of my body at every
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step117, transferring that force from my vertical tibia to my angled femur,
angled such that it brings my knee under my centre of gravity—a cru-
cial structural development in my ancestors’ ascent to bipedalism.118
The declaration of Owen Lovejoy, functional anatomist and expert
on human locomotion, that Lucy’s knee “is like a modern knee joint.
This little midget was fully bipedal,”119 became the accepted verdict120
confirming the little Australopithecus afarensis as the great-great grand-
mother of my impotent ancestor Abel the Wanderer, and unofficially
ordaining Lucy as the Mother of all walkers.
Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton
found in Ethiopia in 1974 who, it has been theorized, retained her pri-
mate ancestors’ ability to climb trees—a talent long since selected away
in favour of the copious advantages of walking—but had the wide, shal-
low pelvis and the adducted knees of a Walker.121 I wonder about the
shape of these adducted knees; about the contradiction between a shape
which is so powerful as to permit a characteristic which defines the
hominid genus, bipedalism, while being so vulnerable as to expose an
individual member of that genus to the risk of being unable to par-
ticipate in the basic human act of walking. Is the shape unfinished?
Still being moulded by the forces acting upon it? And I wonder at the
marvellous side effect of bipedalism, human consciousness122, which
permits that disabled individual to compensate for the vulnerability re-
sulting from the adduction of the knee—which Mother Lucy accepted
in exchange for the Walk—through knowledge, wisdom, and imagina-
tion. I will return to Lucy, and the unintended side consequences of
selection in favour of bipedalism in due time; for now let us rejoin our
wander along the path of the force of the ground against my heel as it
continues to travel upwards, from knee to pelvis.
The valgus angle—the angle of my femur out from knee to hip which
brings my knee under my centre of gravity—has changed the shape of
the head of my femur compared to that of my quadrupedal ancestors,
making mine shorter, broader, and more obliquely angled than theirs.
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THE DESIGN OF THE TENTACLES involved a (somewhat) system-
atic exploration of the material properties of readily available (i.e., at the
local hardware/dollar/surplus store) and affordable components which I
imagined—I was regularly proven wrong—would assemble into flex-
ible hanging columns capable of both occupying a minimal amount of
space and inscribing a relatively large architectural volume. As I ex-
perimented I tried to understand the principles of kinematics pertain-
ing to continuum robots in order to both choose appropriate prototype
components and describe the material properties of those components
mathematically in Grasshopper.
Though not yet tested, the latest incarnation of the tentacle is based
on a prototype constructed of small bevelled rubber washers originally
manufactured for plumbing applications. Of all of the prototype materi-
als I tested (poker chips strung on bungee cords, flexible dryer ducts
and detachable swivelling faucet heads, to name a few) these washers
offered the best combination of a simple form, easily replicable at full
scale using the resources available in the school’s traditional and digital
workshops, which, when assembled into a tentacle, inscribed relatively
predictable (and rather pleasing) shapes in space. I fabricated a scaled-
up version of the rubber-washer-tentacle using cylindrical polyethylene
foam pool noodles (which are lightweight, suitably dimensioned, and
easy to cut and shape). The form of the components has since been
refined, described to Grasshopper and fabricated, now awaiting yet an-
other round of—increasingly rewarding—testing, checking, and revis-
ing.

SENDING/RECEIVING/ORGANIZING (LIFE?) For a moment or

two twenty-five tentacles will hang lifelessly from the ceiling, inscrib-
ing a cube in the centre of a gallery (the setting, I expect, for a modern
promenade). There will be, provisionally, a half a meter between them
—making them far enough apart to invite occupation of the field and
close enough together to incite physical interaction with it—and the
“Tentacle Prototype 7.6.” Constructed using components formed from polyethylene
foam “pool noodles” strung on bungee cord with Nitinol “muscle” wire “tendons.”
Dimension of components: 107mm high x 65mm diameter, 15o bevel, total length of
tentacle: 1924mm. Full scale model.

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PEDESTRIAN SURVEY
Jan. – Jun. 2010
Wayfinding Project, University of Waterloo
Project Director: Donald McKay, associate professor 416.458.9675
Key duties: Survey design, Proposal, Presentation, Survey co-ordination, Data
management, IT support, Survey report.
Software used: iTunes, iPhone, Picasa, Flickr, Hindenburg Mobile, TweetDeck,
ReelDirector, SketchBook, Google Earth, Google Maps, Posterous Blogs, Photoshop,
Indesign, OpenOffice, Keynote.
MAPPING THE CAMPUS (USING LOCATIVE MEDIA)
Proposal: People are always working out ways of walking through campus, skirting around
new buildings, towards a faculty not yet visited. So, rather than a map of the asphalt and
paver paths already installed on campus, and rather than (or in addition to) adding names
to these paths to orient users, or providing addresses or branding with fonts or colours or
what have you, what I envision is a map of the paths people use, persistently updated and
tagged with text, photos, audio, and video (all searchable, of course).
The goal is to shift from a top-down map to a bottom-up map: in lieu of (or in addition
to) a map measured and drawn and organized with layers of names and map icons, the Pe-
destrian Survey will generate a map which traces/tracks the space that is occupied, and col-
lects some record of the things that happen in that space. With a good interface, this cloud
of user-generated data will revolutionize wayfinding in a persistently changing place.
I proposed using iPhones to collect GPS and accelerometer data in order to trace in 4d
(x, y, z, and t) the paths of people exploring main campus while taking photos, sketching,
and writing about what they sense and what “senses” them (imagining the campus as an
organism: sending/receiving/organizing). The paths followed were then collected into an
online Google-Earth-based database and annotated with geotagged information (tweets,
photos, sketches and video and audio recordings).
Methods: I hired twelve graduate students from the Waterloo School of Architecture, se-
lected for their expertise in spatial narrative, photography, place analysis and/or social
media, to explore the UW main campus and record their experiences using iPhones.
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THE GOOGLE EARTH FILE
Here is a link to the Google Earth file containing all of the links to the
media generated during the “Mapping the Campus Using Locative Media”
pedestrian survey.
“uwmaphowto.posterous.com/uwmapped-the-google-earth-file-0”
uwmapped.kmz (22-05-10)
Instructions: Download and install Google Earth and open the “uwmapped.kmz”
file. This file contains hard copies of all of the GPS files as well as links to photos,
audio files, videos, Photosynths and more (an internet connection is required to
view all but the GPS tracks).
Results: The pedestrian survey produced a new kind of map. The University of Waterloo
now has a prolific (1747 unique, 4724 total posts) geo-located web presence on popular
social networking and image/video sharing websites, exploiting this popular new feature
available on the increasingly ubiquitous smartphone. This map is immediately accessible to
the public and can be actively promoted by the University as a method of wayfinding. This
digital presence has been produced by carefully selected graduate students in architecture,
who have produced high-quality work likely to generate some popular interest and hopefully
initiate further participation by the university community.
Google Earth image showing all GPS tracks collected during
Mapping the Campus (Using Locative Media).
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 DAVID JOHNSTON EVENT
Aug. - Sept. 2010
Rick Haldenby, O’Donovan director, 519.888.4567 x84544

Key duties: Design, Graphic design, Presentation, Budget, Fabrication (laser-cutting

and printing).

Software used: Sketch-up, Rhino3D, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Indesign.

DAVID JOHNSTON THANK-YOU CELEBRATION

Three members of bohmLAB (Abe Galway, Sarah Neault, and Tyler Walker, plus an
additional friend, Ian Huff) were hired to prepare installations for the dinner celebrating
David Johnston’s accomplishments as president of the University of Waterloo. The
theme of the evening was “barn-raising,” so I designed and fabricated laser-cut plywood
centerpieces composed of nine pieces which were assembled collaboratively by guests into
small “tab-and-slot” barns.

Taken together, these goals put a new spin on a very old idea
that is familiar to anyone who lives in this region – helping
your neighbours raise their barn. It is a tradition of working
collaboratively to accomplish what an individual cannot; in coming
together as a community, with each doing his or her part to raise
the barn, whatever that barn may represent, without regard to
personal benefit. Adding value through community efforts.

- David Johnston, 2009

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 RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Jan. – Sept. 2009
Fred Thompson, professor emeritus, 519.546.6773

Key duties: Editing, Proposal writing, IT support, Graphic design, Course

management.

Software used: Photoshop, Indesign, OpenOffice, Keynote, EvoCam.

A+P2:SIGURD LEWERENTZ’S VISION OF FUNERAL ARCHITECTURE

During the first term I worked for Fred Thompson, I assisted in the preparation of a paper
on Lewerentz’s funerary architecture for the 2009 A+P2 architecture and phenomenology
conference in Japan.

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING

For the second term as Fred Thomson’s RA, I proposed and organized the revival of his
two-part Creative Problem Solving course (Basic and Advanced) and developed a new
wireless webcam set-up to replace an obsolete video-camera/VCR configuration.

Course Description: When we react we very often do so to establish our individual point
of view or, better still, to protect it. To do this we become sensitive to the problem and
aggressive to others. A child psychologist made the statement that each time a child reacts
she loses the chance to increase her intelligence, and each time she transforms a situation
she increases her intelligence.
... The Japanese very often approach problem-solving through being sensitive to others
and aggressive to the problem. This could be called a creative approach to problem solving
in which: more innovations are possible, nobody is a loser, and the community of people
can enjoy the results.
Creativity isn’t something that can be taught. What we can learn is how creativity is
discouraged until we don’t notice it any more.
The basic course is a five day full-time course which introduces a maximum of eight
people to the practice of group problem-solving using the techniques developed by G.M.
Prince and W.J.J. Gordon and their associates who are devoted to invention, research in
inventive process, and teaching.

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 Quick Start Guide
Opening EvoCam 3 Under the Recording tab, click Stop on all three windows (EvoCam 1, EvoCam 2, EvoCam 3).

From Finder double-click on Crea�ve Se�ngs in the Crea�ve Problem Solving Session x folder on the
external hard drive - this will open EvoCam with the saved se�ngs for this course.

Note: Some�mes four EvoCam windows open (instead of three). Simply click on the red circle in the
top le�-hand corner of the EvoCam 4 window, choose Discard and click Ok.

Note: All three movies will open automa�cally in QuickTime.

4 In System Preferences:
Under M-Audio MobilePre USB, check Mute in the Direct Monitor column.

Playing Back the Movies

Follow these steps to playback the recorded problem-solving mee�ng
Recording a Mee�ng
Follow these steps to record a problem-solving mee�ng In QuickTime:
1 Click on all three movie windows to pause the movies.
1 In System Preferences: 2 Drag each window over its corresponding EvoCam window.
Under M-Audio MobilePre USB, uncheck Mute in the Direct Monitor column.

3 Click and drag on the �meline of each movie un�l the �me indicated in the bo�om le� of all three
2 In EvoCam: movies is synchronized.
Under the Recording tab, click Start on all three windows (EvoCam 1, EvoCam 2, EvoCam 3).

Tip: When synchronizing the movies, leaving a five-second delay between movies is typically enough to
Recording will appear in the top-le� corner of each Evocam window. permit synchronized play. (ie., set movie 1 to 12:00:00, movie 2 to 12:00:05, movie 3 to 12:00:10)

4 Click on each movie window to play the movies.

[Mee�ng]

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 rareSITING
Jan. – Sept. 2009
1st Place Team: Liana Breseler, Sarah Neault, Wes Wilson

Key duties: Research, Conceptual design, Design development, Site plan, Text.

12 11 11 11
Software used: Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, VectorWorks.

SPRINGBANK COMMONS IDEAS COMPETITION

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16 17 BUILDING SOCIO_ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

The new facility for Musagetes and SIG@Waterloo at Springbank Commons is an

opportunity to build an environment which encourages social innovation through social
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interaction and connection with the natural world.
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The integration of the building’s floor plates into the slope creates a visceral topographical
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experience for the occupants. The flow of water over and through the building integrates the
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facility into the site’s hydrological systems, while raw thresholds between site and building
at secondary entrances articulate the edge between the built and natural environment.
4 kitchen
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6 storage
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In order to harness the sun’s energy for daylighting and heating, the building is carefully
( w a t e r co ll ec ti on a nd
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oriented and openings are located precisely. A geothermal system also draws and releases
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energy from the surrounding soil for additional heating and cooling requirements. Planting
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complexity and sustainability of the micro-environment allowing local flora and fauna to
flourish.
SECU RITY LIN E

A viewing tower emerges from the hinge between the exhibition and research wings
above the main entrance. Accessible from the both the exterior and interior, the tower is
both a beacon to local residents and passers-by and a platform from which to view the Rare
Charitable Reserve and its place within the local community and environment.
CONTROLLED PUBLIC ACC E S S T H R O U G H G R O U N D / F IR S T F L O O R
p ote nti al
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both groups facilitates social interaction within the building as well as between these
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organizations and the local community.

Encouraging random encounters and paying attention to your neighbour are two
cistern techniques for fostering complexity and emergence in social groups. The exhibition space
does double-duty in this regard, acting as both lounge space anchored by the fireplace and
t o f ron t
m ars h a rea
kitchen and as exhibition space for viewing one another’s work. The design also privileges
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cross-views between the organizations’ work areas and between the work areas and the
public areas of the building.

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B U IL D I NG S OC I O _ EC O L OG I C A L I N FR A S T RU C T UR E
Th e n ew f aci lit y f or M usa get es and SIG @Wa ter loo at Spr ing ban k C ommo ns is an oppo rtu nit y t o b uild an
en vir onme nt whi ch enco ura ges so cia l in nov ati on thro ugh so cia l i nter act ion an d co nne cti on wit h th e
1 bicycle parking (20 ) na tur al w orl d.
2 car parking (10)
3 private terrace 5 Th e p ropo sed bu ild ing is emb edd ed in a hi ll ove rloo kin g t he Gra nd R ive r a nd the fut ure si te of t he Rar e
4 water collector tro ug h In ter pret ive Ce ntr e. T he int egr ati on o f t he bui ldin g’s fl oor pl ates in to the slo pe cre ate s a vis cer al
5 native plant specie s wet lan d 4 to pog raph ica l e xpe rien ce for th e o ccup ant s. Th e fl ow of wat er over an d t hro ugh the bu ild ing int egr ate s
6 ramp to tower th e f acil ity in to the sit e’s hy dro logi cal sy ste ms, whi le raw th resh old s b etw een sit e a nd bui ldin g a t
13 se con dary en tra nce s ar tic ula te the edg e b etw een the bu ilt an d n atur al env iro nmen t.
7 native plant specie s for est g ard en 10 3
8 permeable pavers
9 public terace (unde r ove rha ng ) 9 2 In or der to har nes s th e s un’ s e ner gy f or day lig htin g a nd hea tin g, t he bui ldi ng i s c are ful ly orie nte d
10 geothermal field an d o peni ngs ar e l ocat ed pre cis ely . A geo the rma l sy ste m a lso dr aws and re lea ses ene rgy fr om the
11 existing well 12 su rro undi ng soi l f or a ddi tio nal he atin g a nd coo ling re qui rem ent s. P lan tin g o f na tiv e s pec ies in and
12 public 3 season pav il ion ar oun d th e b uil din g mi nim ize s s ite mai nte nan ce and sup por ts the com ple xit y a nd s ust ain abi lit y of th e
13 existing septic tan k 1 mi cro -env iro nme nt allo win g l oca l f lora an d f aun a to fl our ish .
14 water remediation p on d
15 creek Th e e xist ing fa rm hous e, str ipp ed of i ts roo f a nd i nte rio r f ini shes be com es a pu bli c p avi lio n, w her e
14 th e ru ins of th e ho use ser ve a s i nfra str uct ure for a ne w sm all eco -sy ste m. V iew ed f orm the new fac ili ty,
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6 th e f arm hou se bec omes an ar tef act in the la nds cape re cor din g t he p ass age of tim e a nd the co ntin ued
re hab ilit ati on of the Rar e s ite .

A vie wing to wer em erge s f rom th e h inge be twe en the exh ibi tio n a nd r ese arc h w ings ab ove th e m ain
15 en tra nce. A cce ssi ble fro m t he bot h th e e xte rio r an d i nte rio r, the tow er is both a bea con to loc al
7 re sid ents an d p ass ers- by and a pla tfor m f rom wh ich to vie w t he Rare Ch ari tab le R ese rve an d i ts p lac e
wi thi n th e l oca l c ommu nit y a nd env iron men t.

In th e sp iri t o f M usag ete s a nd SIG @Wat erl oo, th e de sig n o f t his new ho me for bot h g rou ps fac ilit ate s
so cia l in ter act ion wit hin th e b uil ding as we ll as b etw een th ese org ani zat ion s an d t he loc al comm uni ty.
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 AEOLIAN VESSEL
3A Studio, 2005: Cultural Institution
Group members: Dea Blaghoeff, Sarah Neault, Lisa Rajkumar-Maharaj

Materials: Beeswax, Copper wire, Plaster, Wire, Cloth mesh.

A SCULPTURAL RESPONSE TO A SHORT SELECTION FROM

SCHUBERT’S DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

ʻDeath
and the
This piece is raw and organic. It is Light and glowing ecstasy at that moment of splendor

Maidenʼ
– where dark woos light and light teases dark – both rising and falling in encapsulating
agony and euphoria.

– Schubert
In the seconds before the clip we selected, there is in the music a distinct differentiation
between the cello and the violin; the cello is more seductively legato and the violin is
a flirtatious staccato. At the moment our clip begins, however, the instruments reach a
disorienting climax where the preamble is over and the conclusion of the music is ambiguous
as the cello and violin alternate rhythm and tone - most aptly captured by the idea of
‘bittersweet seduction.’ The instruments escalate and precariously balance on a precipice
of immediacy and resolution.
Our form responds to this music by suspending a hollow beeswax form of a female torso
with the plaster cast it was formed in also suspended around it to give the idea of tearing
and release. It is positioned with the idea of falling and disorientation. Beeswax was used
for its overpoweringly sweet scent that is seductive and organic. An important aspect as well
of the sculpture is its view of interior and exterior of the body and this suggestion of the
experience and a sultry external one that is simultaneously tumultuous and dripping on the
interior. The copper wires that suspend the form were embedded in the layers of bees wax
and then strung out taut to invoke the sense of being stretched and agonized in a rapturous
manner. Another element of the piece is its positioning to allow light to flood the beeswax
form and make it glow in parts from the inside out accentuating the all-encompassing and
explosive experience.
To form the beeswax sculpture a nude plaster cast was taken of one of the group
members. Then layer-by-layer the beeswax was poured into the plaster mold. Thick wire
ribs were added halfway into the beeswax sculpture, to which the copper wire was attached.
A layer of cloth mesh was also added for additional rigidity within the form. About 15
pounds of beeswax later the form was left to solidify and cool finally and then the plaster
cast torn off. It was then hung with its plaster counterpart and light studies carried out.

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
ACADEMIC
Aug. - Sept. 2010: David Johnston Thank-You Celebration Centrepieces
University of Waterloo (Rick Haldenby, O’Donovan director 519.888.4567 x84544)
Three members of bohmLAB (Abe Galway, Sarah Neault, and Tyler Walker, plus
an additional friend, Ian Huff) were hired to prepare installations for the dinner
celebrating David Johnston’s accomplishments as president of the University of
Waterloo. The theme of the evening was “barn-raising,” so I designed and fabricated
laser-cut plywood centerpieces composed of nine pieces which were assembled
collaboratively by guests into small “tab-and-slot” barns.
Jan. – Jun. 2010: Research Assistant
University of Waterloo (Donald McKay, associate professor 416.458.9675)
Designed and executed “Mapping the Campus Using Locative Media,” a pedestrian
survey for “Emerging Responsibilities: A Signage and Wayfinding Strategy at the
University of Waterloo.” Research, mobile technologies, graphic design, presentation,
small-group management.
Jan. – Sept. 2009: Research Assistant
University of Waterloo (Fred Thompson, professor emeritus 519.546.6773)
Proposed and organized the revival of the Creative Problem Solving course and
developed a new wireless webcam set-up to replace an obsolete video-camera/
VCR configuration. Assisted in the preparation of a paper on Lewerentz’s funerary
architecture for the 2009 A+P2 architecture and phenomenology conference in Japan.
Sept. – Dec. 2009: Teaching Assistant (Arch 100: Introduction to Architecture)
University of Waterloo (Donald McKay, associate professor 416.458.9675)
Jan. – Apr. 2009: Teaching Assistant (3rd year Studio)
University of Waterloo (Philip Beesley, associate professor 416.766.8284)
SARAH NEAULT 604.353.7210 smneault@gmail.com
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
PROFESSIONAL
Oct. 2006 – Aug. 2007 + Jan. – April 2008: Architectural Assistant
Hilditch Architect (Charles Rosenberg, partner 416.593.6500)
Design, research, competitions, client meetings, city meetings, site meetings,
construction management, consultant co-ordination, working drawings, costing,
permits, specification, tender, MOHLTC reports, Sketchup, PowerCad, Photoshop,
Indesign, Illustrator.
Jan. – Sept. 2006: Architectural Assistant
architectsAlliance (Deni Papetti, associate 416.593.6500)
Deficiencies, as-built drawings, working drawings, AutoCAD.
May – Aug. 2005: Architectural Assistant
Hancock, Bruckner, Eng and Wright (Salim Narayanan, Architect 604.683.4376)
Working Drawings, AutoCAD.
Sept. – Dec. 2004: Architectural Assistant
Kasian Architecture Ltd. (Jason Wexler, Architect 604.683.4145)
Graphic Design, Vectorworks, Photoshop, design development, model building.
Jan. – May 2004: Architectural Assistant
Dishlevoy and Hagarty Architects (Tom Dishlevoy, partner 250.339.9528)
Design, AutoCAD, contract administration, site visits, word processing.
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