Undergraduate Portfolio

SARA FULLERSHERROD

PORTFOLIO

//SCHOOL //WORKSelection of recent design work Selection of work from internships

//PLAYSketches + Models + etc.

Skin/Screen/Structure // basswood

Untitled // conte+ink

El Lissitzky : Praun // museum board Column Drawing // graphite

Birmingham // sketches

Building Back Better Birmingham, Alabama

Assests Based Community Planning Perdido Beach, Alabama

Streeterville Children’s Hospital Chicago, Illinois

Guest House Renovation Birmingham, Alabama Krumdieck A+I Design

WELD for Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama Sloss Real Estate

Building Back Better Birmingham, Alabama Krumdieck A + I Design

Table of Contents

//SCHOOL

BUILDING BACK BETTER Pleasant Grove, Alabama // AIA Birmingham

SCHOOL 6

An effort Developed by local architects in partnership with the Birmingham Archi-tectural Foundation and the Birmingham chapter of the American Institute of Archi-tects, Building Back Better is an initiative born out of the devastation of the tornados of April 27, 2011 that swept across the state of Alabama. Several local architects combined their knowledge and talents to develop a broadly applicable solution to the need for high-quality, single-family residences in communities that are typically underserved by the architecture profession.

The concept was an innovative design solution that utilizes similar design elements (components) in a variety of configurations to create unique home plans. The advan-tage of the component based design is that it uses standardized building systems across multiple home designs to improve buildability and predictability in the bud-geting and construction process. At the same time, the system prevents the ‘cookie cutter’ look that often plagues large-scale single family development.

The Building Back Better initiative gives homeowners access to the latest in build-ing design and advanced construction practices at a highly-competitive, well-vetted price point, maximizing quality and value of design and construction in each home.

7 Building Back Better

Garage Porch Public Private

+ + +

SCHOOL 8

2 Temporary living unit built 3 Proposed House 1 Temporary living unit location

4 Temporary unit as building block 6 Completed house5 Additional units built

Building Back Better 9

Completed Temp - Perm Relief HousingTemp Relief Housing

ASSETS BASED COMMUNITY PLANNINGPerdido Beach, Alabama

SCHOOL 10

CAPTURE THE OPPORTUNITIES OF

YOUR LOCATION

PROTECT AND PROMOTE YOUR SMALL TOWN CHARACTER,

SCALE AND STRUCTURE

BUILD ON YOUR STRONG SENSE OF COMMUNITY

+ The generations of families of Perdido Beach have a rich history and a strong sense of community. Record and share your history to reinforce your goals for maintaining a small rural feel.

+ Your historic mixed-income demographic is critical to maintaining the diversity that makes this place what it is. This balance is threatened by the loss of any one group. Embracing all of your residents and promot-ing community involvement from all groups is crucial.

+ Create places and events to gather as a community: such as a community center, library, and recreation areas.

+ The art of boat building is at the heart of Perdido Beach in a very non-intrusive way. Celebrate this industry as it is part of the lifestyle on the coast. Perhaps a wooden boat festival once a year that highlights this history.

+ One of Perdido Beach’s greatest assets is a storm-protected location in Perdido Bay with excellent proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

+ Proximity to larger municipalities allows you to maintain a small town feel, but convenient and easy access to basic goods and services.

+ Explore options to protect your sur-rounding waters, wetlands, and other natural resources as a means to man-age development and maintain your exceptional ecosystem.

+ Encourage and facilitate conservation easements and other management tools that protect your quality of place.

+ Create a plan that outlines goals and regulations for your community to care-fully manage development/rebuilding and growth.

+ Define areas and patterns of develop-ment for “community amenities” such as basic goods and services that are consis-tent with your history as a small rural com-munity.

+ Generate a tax base to support city services for residents. Recruit/incubate select retail services: a small general store, a small café, bait shop, private entrepre-neurship that can serve the needs of the community.

+ Create strong gateway-sense of entry and welcome.

Assets and Opportunities of Perdido Beach, Alabama

EXISTING PROPOSED

11Assets Based Community Planning

Increased Community ConnectionSelectively implementing sidewalks and bike trails will encourage walking and hopefully reduce in-town car trips. This will increase safety along primary routes, such as County Road 97, by slowing down traffic.

SCHOOL 12

Protected Wetland PreserveBy combining private land from a willing owner with protected state land, a wetland preserve can be created along Soldier Creek. The wetlands can attract visitors such as birders and naturalists, that support the resident’s respect for the environment and will help to build a strong lobby for carefully managed development/building in the area.


Defined & Maintained Water AccessCreate a well designed and well maintained beach area that serves the community and promotes civic pride, as well as safe and appropriate use of the public areas.

SCHOOL 14

Appropriate Retail & Civic StructuresCreate civic structures that display community pride and encourage and foster interaction of residents. Consider, long-term, a more “civic” looking city hall to reinforce a sense of pride and identity for the community.


Reinforce/encourage local entrepreneurs and businesses, particularly those that reinforce local history of businesses built around local opportunities of place.

STREETERVILLE CHILDREN’S HOSPITALCHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Our initial perception of a person, place or thing is oftentimes the truest and most defining impression. The adage “you only get one chance to make a good first impression” is not only accurate in its relevancy to people, but to places and things as well.

For children, first impressions are genuinely lasting impressions and the emotion sensed by a child upon approaching and en-tering a hospital greatly contributes to their perception, and thus their initial level of comfort or concern. The complexity of design-ing for children such an institutional structure presents a truly paradoxical challenge. The outward appearance of the building must work within the fabric of the neighboring community, and yet speak to the purpose of its being. Through structural and spatial perception, sensory orientation can influence both mood and physiology.

Both the exterior structure and interior spatial concept must be welcoming to children of all ages and backgrounds, and con-vey to their family both a sense of strength and comfort. Hospital

SCHOOL 16

STACKING DIAGRAM // 1.5 MILLION SQ FT

PATIENT BED FLOORS

SKY LOBBYMEZZANINE

MECHANICAL

INTERMEDIATE FLOORS

EMERGENCY LOBBY

PUBLIC LOBBY

MECHANICAL

Streeterville Children’s Hospital 17

North Elevation

Sky Lobby

Sky Lobby Mezzanine

SCHOOL 18

Ground Floor

Lobby Perspective

19Streeterville Children’s Hospital

Patient Room Section

SCHOOL 20

Typical Patient Bed Floor


FLOOR PLATE MANIPULATION

Vertical CirculationStructure

Public lobby

Emergency lobby

Intermediate floors

Sky lobby

Mezzanine

Typical patient bed floor

SCHOOL 22

Floor Plate Manipulation


Bird’s Eye View View From Lake Michigan

South Facing View

//WORK

GUEST HOUSE RENOVATIONBirmingham, Alabama // KRUMDIECK A+I DESIGN

A small guest house renovation was a great opportunity for me to see a project through every phase at a scope that was comprehendable in a short amount of time.

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Guest House Renovation 27

WELD FOR BIRMINGHAM Birmingham, Alabama // SLOSS REAL ESTATE

A new tenant in the FixPlay Building on 1st Ave North in Birmingham required reconfiguration of an existing space.

The new tenant, a start-up weekly newspaper with a publishing launch date set, required a quick turnaround on everything from design to permit which we achieved on a very limited budget.

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WELD 29

BUILDING BACK BETTER Pleasant Grove, Alabama // AIA Birmingham & Krumdieck A + I Design

WORK 30

Moving from a concept to an actual delivery method, the Building Back Better initiative began developing construction documents to be able to present to potential clients and lawmakers in hopes of reforming disaster response. This entailed developing a series of floorplan options beyond the original components. A detailed construction budget including appliance packages, interior and exterior finish options and an in-ground tornado shelter was com-piled allowing the project to move into the deliverable phase.

BUILDING BACK BETTERan Initiative from the Birmingham Architectural Foundation

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Penny’s House :: 1 Penny’s House :: 2

Penny’s House :: 3 Penny’s House :: 4

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//PLAY

view

watch

scrutinize

examine

spy

peek

surveyinspect

investigate

gazeglimpse

observe

record

scan

study

discover

perceive

HANDWORKModel Making + Drafting + Sketching + Mixed Media

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Handwork 39

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SARA FULLERSHERROD

3965 Forest Glen DriveBirmingham, Alabama 35213

[email protected]

EDUCATIONAuburn University Auburn, AlabamaCollege of Architecture, Design and ConstructionBachelor of Architecture, May 2012

Mountain Brook Hign SchoolBirmingham, AlabamaAdvanced diploma

Pratt InstituteBrooklyn, New YorkPre-College program, Focus in Architecture

HONORSUrban Studio Thesis Candidate, 2011-2012

Board of Trustees Scholarship, 2011-2012

Ecuador Study Abroad Program, 2010Quito, Ecuador,

3rd Year Studio Book Award

CADC Student Ambassador, 2007-2008

Rural Studio Design/Build Program, 2007St. Luke’s Church Project Team

AIA R/UDAT Pratt City Charette Team MemberBirmingham, Alabama, October 2011

Research AssistantProfessor Sheri Schumacher

American Institute of Architecture StudentsMember, 2006-201120th Annual Pumpkin Carve Chair, 2008Urban Studio Representative, 2011

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to ArchitectureProfessor Tarik Orgen, Fall 2007

Sigma Kappa social sorority Member, 2004-2008Auburn Panhellenic Council, Director of BenevolenceLaps for Cystic Fibrosis, volunteer organizer

Auburn Parks and RecreationVolunteer Youth Soccer coach, Spring 2005 and 2006

INVOLVEMENT

SKILLS Computer Aided: Experienced with Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, SketchUP, Kerkythea, Microsoft Of-fice, Mac OS, Windows

Hand Media: drafting, graphite/Prismacolor hand ren-dering, sketching, model making

WORK EXPERIENCE REFERENCES

Krumdieck A + I DesignBirmingham, Alabama The internship component during my thesis year at this small archi-tecture and interiors firm provided invaluable experience for me. I was given tasks including construction administration for a lake house on Smith Lake; design development, construction documents along with finish selections for a guest house renovation. I designed the project competition boards for the State of Alabama AIA Awards in which we won the top two awards. The ma-jority of my internship was spent working with a group of architects through the Birmingham AIA chapter to produce a prototype of housing for disaster relief following the April 2011 storm that ripped across the state. This particu-lar project entailed site visits, weekly team meetings, client meetings, produc-ing marketing materials, design development, & construction documents.

Sloss Real EstateBirmingham, Alabama A summer internship with this community development firm allowed me to have my hand in a number of different projects. I designed a weekly newsletter for the Pepper Place farmer’s market that would reach 5,000 + readers weekly along with producing other marketing and promotional mate-rials. I prepared construction documents and interior finish selections for new tenant buildouts. I assisted in the planning of two large receptions including a fundraising event for Mayor William Bell’s re-election campaign as well as performing general office clerical duties.

IE Designs, LLCAuburn, Alabama While working part-time as a design and office assistant at this small interior design company, I prepared materials for client presentations; assist-ed with trips to market and design showrooms; communicated with clients and other design representatives; process orders through fax, phone and email.

Alex Krumdieck, AIAPrincipal, Krumdieck A+I [email protected]

Cheryl Morgan, Professor and Urban Studio DirectorAuburn University School of [email protected]

Rhea Williams, Executive DirectorAIA [email protected]

Catherine Sloss Crenshaw, EmployerPresident, Sloss Real [email protected]

Sheri Schumacher, Associate ProfessorAuburn University School of [email protected]

//RECOMMENDATIONS“Fuller is a very detailed oriented person that would go the extra mile to get things done. She would often see a need and find a way to solve the problem. She is definitely a TEAM player!” - - Wanda Gilmore, Office Manager, Sloss Real Estate (Colleague), June 14, 2012

“It is a pleasure to provide this endorsement for Fuller Sherrod, a mature and responsible individual as well as a talented designer. She took a history & theory class with me and her writings consistently displayed the search for, and construction of logical structures of reasoning. She sought to identify the meaning of architectural components, and to understand the relations among the constituent parts of design. Fuller is endowed, in addition, with a sunny predisposition and a sense of humor that make her, at the same time, an excellent team member and a skilled team leader. She was a pleasure to work with, and I cannot more highly recommend her.” - - Carla Keyvanian, Assistant Professor, Auburn University (Academic), June 14, 2012

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