SEAN FLAHARTY ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2008-2012
Mar 25, 2016
SEAN FLAHARTYARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
2008-2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Boston Cardiac Children’s HospitalBoston, MAPg. 3 - 10
Courthouse for Bessemer, AlabamaBessemer, AL
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Alabama Impact Crater and Science CenterWetumpka, AL
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Musician’s Lake HouseLake Martin, AL
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Other Built WorksPg. 25 - 28
Drawings and Film PhotographyPg. 29-32
ResuméPg. 34
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BOSTON CARDIAC CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
This proposal focuses on fitting in to the surrounding context of a historic residential district (Boston’s North End) in a respectful yet contem-porary manner, and also addressing a new public urban greenway (The Big Dig) which is at the larger scale of the city. Along Fulton Street, the first three sto-ries of the hospital retain the scale of the North End’s streetscape; the terrace and patient care floors above are stepped back from the street. The doctor’s offic-es on the southern corner of the building on the second and third floor continue the rhythm of residential buildings along Rose F. Kennedy Parkway. The hospital typology is one that typically attempts to keep the public from openly occupying and entering the building. The front facade of the proposal
addresses an extremely urban space in the Big Dig, where the public plays a very important role. In order to address this challenge, the proposal places its in-terior circulation towards the front of the hospital, in a three story atrium space. The facade is shifted at an angle in order to face both Quincy Market, Fanueil Hall, and the primary approach along the Big Dig from the south. The interior public space is focused around three internalized court-yards that allow for public gathering within the hospital seperated from the public exterior. A fourth floor terrace level is situated to alllow for views across the rooftops of the North End, and allows for doctors, staff, patients, and family to oc-cupy any of three courtyard spaces that serve the users of the hospital.
Location - Boston, MA Professor - J. Scott Finn
Intent: To create a responsible, contextual building within the fabric of the Boston and to engage an active public space from a private typology
Size - 200,000 sq.ft. Fall 2012 - 18 weeks
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Above: Interior Perspective of atrium and primary public space
Overleaf: Exterior Perspective from the south along the Big Dig
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Floors 5 - 6 Nursing Units
Floor 4 Community Services, Dietary Services
Floor 3 Cardiovascular Services, Prep/Hold/
Recover, Diagnostics, Doctor’s Offices
Floor 2 ICU, Radiology, Lab, Pharmacy,
Administration/Business, Medical Records, Doctor’s Offices
Ground Floor Emergency Room, Visitor Entrance
BasementCentral Sterile Supply, General Storage
Above: Site Plan Hospital lies along Big Dig that weaves through the city, occupying a site on the North End, while facing the opposite financial district.
Upper Left: Stacking Diagram Public spaces are pushedtowards the front facade. Three PCU floors lie above less public spaces on the bottom three levels.
Upper Right: Ground Floor Plan A central atrium allows for public gathering, and a 3 story space for circulation along the front facade gives an implied public presence
Lower Right: Typical PCU Floor Plan 3 courtyards allow natural light to enter into all patient care rooms
Patient Care Room Plan:
Patient care room is divided into several different spaces based on the userFrom Left - exterior patient family space, hallway, staff spaces, angled patient space for privacy, and family space
Patient Care Room Section:
Light enters through a lou-vered system, and the ceiling plane rises to allow for more natural light to enter
Patient Care Room Elevation:
Varie spacing and angles of louvers provide different lev-els of privacy and allow for views to the city
Upper Right: Section through atrium and
courtyard
Lower Right: Section through two public courtyard
COURTHOUSE FOR BESSEMER, ALABAMA
Location - Bessemer, AL Professor - Doug Burleson
Intent: to create a new core for the city of Bessemer with a contemporary proposal that will become a catalyst for future expansion
Size - 120,000 sq. ft. Fall 2011 - 18 weeks
fine it as a city looking towards the future, instead of attempting to hold onto its past legacy. Instead of focusing on tra-ditional courthouse design, We focused on new ideals of civic orchitecture. The entire facade is transparent allowing the public to see into the building. Diffused light enters each courtroom space and atrium providing an ominous yet calming light in each space.
The courthouse is an exten-sion of the masterplan for Bessemer propososed by Auburn’s Urban studio, in which a new urban park is placed across the street from the courthouse; the site becomes an extension of this new greenway.
Group Project with: Cody Bryant and Kari Lawson
The main goal of this project was to create a courthouse that re-sponded to the cultural needs of Bes-semer. Bessemer grew rapidly due to a thriving steel industry in the area. Be-cause the town was largely industrial, the core of the city was formed around six steel manufacturing facilities instead of around a standard city center. Since this time, Bessemer has shifted away from its identity as an industrial city and has been left without an identity to grow upon. The proposal focused on cre-ating a courthouse that would become the new epicenter for expansion in the town of Bessemer, attempting to rede
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Above: Exterior View of courthouse from new public greenway
Central staircase circulates visitors to the courtroom floor
A eggcrate layered skylight in the atrium allow soft filtered light to fill the space
Entry sequence into the courhouse and view into the second floor
Right: Exterior View from along the perimeter around the courthouse
ALABAMA IMPACT CRATER & SCIENCE CENTER
The path takes a sharp turn towards a dead end where a light well punctures the ceiling giving a faint glow at the end.
Once inside the museum, there are very few windows and light is brought in from above focusing the viewers eye upwards. Visitors circulate through the main gallery space, which has a louvered system throughout and terminate at a cafe, event space, and an exit towards the outdoor space. A sculptural tower aligns with the main cir-culation of the building and provides a feeling of what the meteor strike felt like
Location - Wetumpka, ALProfessor - Robert Sproull
Intent: To create an environment in which a visitor can understand the experience of a meteor strike and to draw tourist to Wetumpka, AL
Size - 50,000 sq.ft. Spring 2010 - 18 weeks
The Alabama Impact Cra-ter and Science Center is a proposed museum in Wetumpka, Alabama that serves to commemorate a crater caused by a meteor strike in the area. The site is located along one of the main high-ways leading to Wetumpka at an exit currently used as a rest stop. The cra-ter is now covered largely by residential housing and small developements now. The main goal of this project was to capture the feeling of being within the crater shortly after impact within the museum. Visitors enter through a sloped path that descends into the museum. millions of years ago.
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Above: Exterior View looking into interior circulation of the museum
space
Above: Ground Floor Plan
Upper Right: View of approach se-quence
Lower Right: View of series of clere-story spaces
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MUSICIAN’S LAKE HOUSE
This project was a study at attempting to design a lake house for an overly specific client; this proposal uses a travelling bassist that uses the lake house as an escape from a busy tour schedule as a client. Additional pro-gramatic elements demanded by a trav-elling bassist included a studio space, open areas for performance and prac-tice, and a space to display instruments
The proposal splits work spac-es and living spaces down the middle with bedrooms located on the east side and more public spaces located along the west side. The main living space all glazing and is enclosed by a supershed that allows for both light to enter in dur-ing the winter to warm the space and for wind to enter cooling the house during hot summer months.
Location - Lake Martin, ALProfessor - Robert Sproull
Intent: This proposal seperates work and private space for the musician, allowing enhanced creativity within an environmentally conscious shell
Size - 2,500WW sq.ft. Fall 2012 - 10 weeks
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Above: Exterior View from lake
Above: First Floor Plan Above: Ground Floor Plan
Upper Left: View of exterior terrace and super-shed
Lower Left: View of entry room
MISC. PROJECTS
Location - Auburn, ALProfessor - Michael Hein
Size - 4’ x 2’ x 2.5’Summer 2012 - 6 weeks
ZIP TIE SHELTER
CONCRETE COFFEE TABLE
The concrete coffee table was an attempt to weave two differ-ent materials together in a visually pleasing way at a point where a book is left open for display.
Although the wood does not intersect the structural concrete pieces at points other than the end pieces, it is meant to look as if the two materials are seamless.
Location - Auburn, ALProfessor - Robert Sproull
Analytical Study Fall 2010 - 2 weeks
The zip tie shelter was an investigation into the unique quali-ties of a found material relating to architecture. The structure could only be fastened by itself and could only touch the ground at three points.
During the project I dis-covered that zip ties could be used creatively as a structural piece but only in one direction. Fastening sev-eral together allowed for the creation a patterned louver system.
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Above: While the ties are flexible in the horizantal direction and can be
warped to create patterning, they remain structural in the veritcal
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End condition where each of the wood pieces sits on the concrete structure
Books can be stored below in the concrete section while the wood slats provide a surface above
An endpiece contiues through the structure of the concrete and allows for storage of books / magazines
Right: the coffee table allows for the open display of a book
concrete and wood pieces interect at the point where the book bends
Group project with: Chloe Schultz, Abby Waldo, and Lucas McCarrell
DRAWINGS AND FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
Location - Houston, TXProfessor - Cara DeBusk
Photographic Prints Fall 2008
VIA PAPALIS ANAYLITICAL DRAWINGS
FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
Work from a series of high quality photographic prints through-out highschool using medium for-mat film photography and printing
techniques. The following two pieces of work are samples of a set of iconic small-scale architectural pieces with-in the Houston area.
Location - Rome, ItalyProfessor - J. Scott Finn
Analytical Study Spring 2012 - 4 weeks
During the first several weeks of being abroad, teams of three were assigned to study and an-alyze different parts of the Via Papalis (a route taken from the Vatican to St. John the Lateran when a new pope is appointed). This study goes from
L’Argo Argentina to the steps of the Campidolio. In a composite drawing, we studied different urban planning responses, how building’s facade’s responded to the path, different framed views, etc... that shaped the experience of this path.
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Above: analytical drawing of Via Papalis route in Rome
Group project with:Chloe Schultz and Jeff Bak
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Above: Buffalo Bayou Staircase Regional Schloastic Gold Key AwardNational Scholastic Silver Key AwardPrinted 20” x 20” on Ilford photo paper
Right: University ParkPrinted 18”x18” on Ilford photo paper
6111 Rutherglenn Dr.Houston, Texas 77096
Sean Flaharty
Auburn University - Auburn, AlabamaSchool of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape ArchitectureBachelor of Architecture GPA: 3.36Study Abroad: University of Arkansas Rome Center
Episcopal High School - Houston, TexasGPA: 3.45
2009 - present
(2014)
2012
2009
Brookstone - Houston, TexasSales Associate
Bellaire United Methodist Church - Bellaire, TexasYouth Intern / Interim Youth Director
summer 2011
summer 2009
American Institute of Architecture Students
AwardsHonorable Mention Alagasco Design CompetitionFrank J. Sindelair ScholarshipDeans ListBest Community Design Award - Boykin Community CenterAuburn University Charter Scholarship
2010 - 2012
fall 2012fall 2011
fall 2011 & spring 2012 2010 2009
General: model making, drafting, sketching, watercolor, writing, & photography
Proficient In: Autocad, Adobe Creative Suite, & Microsoft Office SuiteWorking Knowledge of: Rhinoceros, SketchUp, & Podium Renderer
REFERENCESRobert Sproull Visiting Associate Professor, Architecture
J. Scott Finn Associate Professor, Architecture
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