Cathy Moore Address 364 7 th Street, #1 Jersey City, NY 07302 Phone (601) 519-6665 Email [email protected]Website www.catmoore.net Objective To gain experience full-time starting September 2013 Education Masters of Science in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Advisors: Franca Trubiano and David Leatherbarrow Thesis: Sound and Space: Properties, Structure, and Movement Graduation: August 2013 Bachelor of Architecture, Mississippi State University Study Abroad in Italy, University of Florida, Summer 2006 Graduation: May 2008 Related Skills Proficient in Word, MicroStation, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, SketchUp Knowledge of Revit, Excel, Illustrator, FormZ, CSS Experience in the wood shop Work Experience Intern Architect Construction Documents Burris/Wagnon Architects, P.A. August-December 2010 on contract basis Jackson, MS Intern Architect Schematic Design Barlow Eddy Jenkins, P.A Design Development May 2008- May 2010 Construction Documents Jackson, MS Project Management 3D SketchUp Models Photoshop Renderings Intern Architect Construction Documents Mark S. Vaughan, Architect Detailed 3D SketchUp Models May 2007- May 2008 Clinton, MS Intern Architect Construction Documents Joseph Orr Architects, P.A Specifications May 2005- July 2006 Bid Meetings Canton, MS Submittals Site Analysis
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Chapel Defined by Sound- Page 1 of 45th Year Thesis (Academic)Graphite SketchThe view from the stageshowing showing my intervention’s four concrete walls inside an existing abandoned church in central downtown Jackson, MS.
Chapel Defined by Sound, 5th Year Thesis (Academic)- Page 2 of 4In the piece, I am Sitting in a In the piece, I am Sitting in a Room (1969), composer Alvin Lucier re-corded his speaking voice in his living room and then repeatedly re-corded its playback, thirty-two times, “until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce[d] themselves,” The end of the piece is completely unintelligible and very musical, as some frequencies of Lucier’s voice were cancelled and others were reverberated through the room. My research sought to document how architecture affects the sound by conducting his experiment in thirteen theatres and rooms in Jackson, MS and recording the results with the plan and sections as well as the calculated reverberation times as shown above. The chart to the right records the resonant frequencies of the rooms.
Complete Research Chart(rectangle indicates extent of chart above)
Egan #- Corresponds to the material in list in RF- Resonant Frequency Standard- test by Dave Woolworth
Architectural Acoustics by David Egan BG- Background Lucier- Lucier’s piece, reconducted
KEY
KEY
R ResonantQ QuietF FuzzyO Overtone
Adjustable One-string InstrumentI modeled this instrument after my old flower press. It is made from oak plywood, four threaded rods, eight hex nuts, four wing nuts, a guitar wire, two wire clamps, and various containers. The botThe bottom piece of wood can be adjusted up and down, so that I can clamp different containers between the two pieces of wood and test the different sounds of the plucked strings with different materials and volumes.
Stainless Steel Tin One-String InstrumentThis instrument’s pitch varies widely depending on how one holds and presses on the tin.
Wooden Box One-String InstrumentThis instrument’s pitch varies depending on whether the box is opened or closed.
Stainless Steel Bowl One-String InstrumentWhen the string is plucked, the sound of the bowl mixes with the sound of the string.
Bamboo One-string InstrumentThis instrument was interesting in the way it diffused the sound in the front and focused the sound in the back because of its shape
Chapel Defined by Sound, 5th Year Thesis (Academic)- Page 3 of 4I also built several one-stringed instruments to study how the form, material, and surface affects the timbre of the plucked string. Apart from the materials‘ absorption coeficients, I also found that the flimsines of the sound board greatly affected the sound.
Chapel Defined by Sound, 5th Year Thesis (Academic)- Page 4 of 4As I finished my experiments, I chose As I finished my experiments, I chose to renovate an existing, abandoned church in downtown Jackson, MS
First Christian Church. I limited my scope so that I could focus on defining architecture with principles of sound alone. My final design incorporated Lucier’s method the most. The four solid concrete walls which fill the nave of the church act as Lucier filters for one to four female singers in the existing balcony: the audience on the other end hears a less intelligible song with some frequencies cancelled and others resonated, very much changing the original song to a very Lucier-like sound through architecture alone.The smooth concThe smooth concrete walls create a very reverberant and narrow environment, so that the voice bounces
around many times before reaching the audience’s ears and making the words much less intelligible. The walls are distanced so that standing waves are created for certain frequencies. The ceiling between the walls is made of a convex stainless steel sheet, brazed to tiny bronze rods, inspired by Richard Water’s Waterphone. The standing waves hit the brass rods, which sympathetically vibrate, adding another timbre to the singers’ voices.Each Each bay traps a different set of frequencies of standing waves so that a singer can utili ze one certain bay
or all three. A composer might create a song just for this building, knowing which notes resonate and which are cancelled. Each area on the walls are at least four times in height and width of the size of the wavelength that they are designed to reflect. This limits which frequencies the church is big enough to allow. With more time, the concrete walls would also have helmholtz resonators, tuned to absorb certain frequencies and alter the music even more. Each bay is designed to precisely reflect four octaves of three specific notes on a scale.
Cross Section Longitudinal Section
Floor Plan(A) Existing Nave
Interior Elevation for the Wall in the Key of Bb/g Creates standing waves for Bb, C, and G
Interior Elevation for the Wall in the Key of C/a Creates standing waves for C, D, and A
Bb/g
A C/a
10’ 5’ 1’
10’ 5’ 1’
Chapel, Spring 2009 (Professional)- Page 1 of 1
St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, MS
Chuck Barlow and Brian Cabunac at Barlow Eddy Jenkins, P.A.
Among other eAmong other events, the chapel held the Dominican Sisters’
daily services. Their singing voices were recorded and a digi-
tal acoustical model was built to simulate their voices inside
the space. Drawings were created
at different phases in the design
process, so details vary.
North ElevationCross Section
Photo, South Facade (Tom Joynt Photography)
South ElevationCanopy Model10’ 20’
A South Elevation
A
BC
B West Elevation
C Perspective
Plan
Screen Design, Spring 2009 (Professional)- Page 1 of 1
Department of Physical Facilities
University of MS Medical Center in Jackson, MS
Worked with Chuck Barlow at Barlow Eddy Jenkins, P.A.
Schematic Design (unbuilt)
Existing trailoExisting trailors with a new stucco finish and free-standing
screen walls. They are placed in a pin-wheel pattern around
the trailors and are made up of a brick lower wall, steel tube
columns, and an upper wall finished with EIFS.
Private Library Project, Spring 2007 (Academic)- Page 1 of 4
21 1/2” x 14“ Graphite Drawing
Wall/bookshelf made of concrete formed by four different shapes of rotatable metal
formwork, each with a 3x3 grid of 12"x12" wedges. A stainless steel slot for a book
occurs at each valley.
Theatre / Private Library Project- Page 2 of 4Spring 2007 (Academic)Renovation of Ground Floor of 200 North Congress in Jackson, MSUsing certain arbitrary rules, I converted the visual rhythm oof the fenestration (from left to right in the image) to auditory rhythm for both the existing building and each of my iterations using piano composition scomposition software, so that I could test each design. The score shown behind the images is the music for my final design.
Existing Building
Montage
Theatre / Private Library Project- Page 3 of 4Spring 2007 (Academic)The plan shows the existing circulation for the floors above in gray. I designed the north half of the floor as the theatre and the south half as the library, which is where I mostly focused.(A)(A) The concrete wedge bookshelf wall can be seen in every room in the library.(B) The line perspective below shows the lobby as one enters the library. The wall in the background shows the concrete wedge bookshelf wall (A). (C) The other line perspective shows a reading room.(D)(D) I designed another type of bookshelf in which books can be stored optimally: on their spine. The drawing to the right shows its cross section. The book is placed by lifting the lid, pulliing the spring’s handle and dropping it onto the glass below. A lamp underneath shines on the spine, so that the mirrors at the bottom can reflect it onto the translucent paper beside the boobeside the book.(E) The reading room that is rendered on the next slide
The leThe left wall shows the concrete wedge wall. All surfaces shown are made of concrete. Beyond the columns on the right is a daylit lounge area.
Sketches in Panicale, ItalyPage 1 of 1April 2011 (Personal)Via Virgilio Ceppari
“Quasmerelda,” Fall 2007 (Academic)- Page 1 of 1In collaboration with Katie Lightsey and Lara Eley60” Paper Mache Model, 9 viewsAAt the end of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo writes (presumably about Esmerelda and Quasimodo in the crypt), “about a year and a half or two years after the events with which this history concludes...were found two skeletons in a single posture...When those who found the skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held its grasp, it crumbled to dust.”AAfter creating non-literal 18” paper mache models of Quasimodo and Esmerelda, we combined them into one large model, with the intent that they were so visually engaged, that one couldn’t be tor n from the other without destroying both of them, and yet each still had very different readings, depending on angle of view.
Concrete Sign Project- Page 1 of 1Fall 2007 (Academic)In collaboration with Candis Carroll and Kirby Davis24” x 48” x 2” concrete sign and bent hose clampsIt is It is based on my original design. Candis and I bent most of the letters, Kirby and Candis built most of the formwork, and Kirby found a small company to pour the concrete.