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SELECTJESSELARKINS
WORKS
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
EXPERIENCE
OHIO UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior ArchitectureClass of 2012
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIMaster of Architecture
Expected Graduation: April, 2016
CINCINNATI, OH
ATHENS, OHArchitectural Documentation Abroad: Rome, Italy
EDUCATION
Graduate Teaching Assistant: 2013-PRESENT
CLODAGH DESIGNJan-May, 2014ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
• Assistant project manager of site visitation and documentation.
• Assisted in design of Abington House, a featured project in INTERIOR DESIGN magazine.• In charge of material’s submittal for approval on diverse range of projects.
NEW YORK, NY
SKILLS
• Adobe Suite
• Microsoft Office
• Revit
• AutoCAD
• Rhinoceros
• SketchUp
• 3dsMax
• Final Cut Express
• FormZ
• ArcGIS
• Hand Sketching
• Physical Model Building
issuu.com/JesseLarkins
PORTFOLIO
EARL SWENSSON ASSOCIATESSept-Dec, 2014ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
• Led project presentation development and delivery.• Excelled in BIM development on diverse range of project types and design phases.• Consistently engaged in client communications on dynamic laboratory planning and development.
NASHVILLE, TN
• Construction
• Detail Development
VILLAGE LIFE OUTREACH PROJECTMay-Aug, 2015ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
• Displayed knowledge of building construction with adaptability to limited resources.• Managed C.D. set during project Design Development and Construction Administration phases.
• Led communications of project development between U.S. and local Tanzanian teams.
ROCHE,TANZANIA
• Received Rafiki Award for outstanding efforts towards rural Tanzanian Health Center.
UC NIEHOFF URBAN STUDIOMay, 2013-May, 2015ARCHITECTURAL INTERN CINCINNATI, OH
• Actively engaged community members and business owners in design consultation processes.• Performed research, analysis, and visualization methods towards adaptive reuse projects.• Led initial phases of Cincinnati’s Live Healthy Corner Store project.
CONTENTS
ROCHE HEALTH CENTER: STAFF HOUSING
FOUND SPACE
ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER
ATHENAEUM DESIGN CENTER
WASHINGTON RESIDENCE
CINCINNATI WATER BLIGHT
METROLAB: FABRICATING PROTOTYPES
THE NATURAL FORMAT GROCERY STORE
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WATER BLIGHTCINCINNATI, OHIOTHE URBAN CONDITION
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE THESISWhile Cincinnati has been at the forefront of water treatment and distribution over the past century, numerous factors have led to the neglect of the City’s water ecosystem. Many programs have been implemented towards improving the City’s water supply, however, little has been done to connect the City back to its bodies of water in an effort towards environmental stewardship.
To further recover the city’s connection to, and understanding of, its ecosystem, an environmental urban water center will be proposed. Apart from providing a regional headquarters for ongoing water research, the center will provide educational and recreational opportunities for the community.
The primary goal of such an interdisciplinary center is in creating a water research magnet, serving as a catalyst in advancing scientific understanding of urban water ecosystems. In locating along the basin of the Mill Creek Watershed, a historically contaminated and abused waterway, this center will also act as a model towards recovering degraded urban water systems into unique public destinations.
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CINCINNATI WATER BLIGHTTHE URBAN CONDITION
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CONSTRUCTION OFCOMBINED SEWERSYSTEM BEGINS. INITIALSTEPS TOWARDSSANITARY SYSTEMS.
LOWER BASIN OF MILLCREEK SEES INFLUX POP-
ULATION OF FACTORIES& INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING.
FIRST STANDARDS FORTAP WATER SUPPLYSANITATION: SAND FILTRATION.
FOUNDATION OFSEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS TARGETING REMEDIATION
EFFORTS, ALONG WITHATTENTION OF EXISTING
DEPARTMENTS.
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AMERICAN RIVERS ASSO-CIATION LISTS MILLCREEK AS NATIONS #1MOST ENDANGEREDURBAN WATERWAY.
GCWW ONLY FACILITY IN NATIONTO EMPLOY 3-TIERED SYSTEM OFGRANULAR-ACTIVATED CARBON,
UV DISINFECTING, AND SAND FILTRATION.
Mill Creek Waterway
Lick Run Watershed
Lick Run Alternative
Mill Creek Greenway Extension
Mill Creek Greenway Extension
Vacant Lots/ Brownfields
University of Cincinnati Main Campus
Impervious Waterfront Surface
WATER BLIGHT
In locating the Urban Water Center, numerous factors pointed out an appropriate area of intervention. South Fairmount, located in the Lick Run Watershed, is home to the highest concentration of annual Combined Sewer Overflows. It comes as no surprise that this stretch of Mill Creek consistently turns out the highest concentrations of affluent, pollution, and hazardous water quality. Several city master plan projects focused on Mill Creek remediation efforts are projected to impact this region, strengthening this area as a prime location for a center of environmental stewardship. Due to an adjacency to Mill Creek, as well as complementary proximity to master plan strategies, existing research organizations, educational, and recreational opportunities, a stretch of land just north of Western Hills Viaduct has been chosen to house the Urban Water Center.
CINCINNATI, OHIOTHE URBAN CONDITION
A CRITICAL POINT
NATURAL INFILTRATION
COMBINED IMPLICATIONS
PREDOMINANTLY PAVED CONDITIONS IN-CREASE POLLUTED RUNOFF & OVERFLOWSDIRECTLY INTO WATER COURSE.
UNALTERED SETTINGS ALLOW WATERTO PERMEATE GROUND, RECHARGINGAQUIFERS, WHILE POLLUTED RUNOFF ISMINIMIZED THROUGH LEACHING.
MIMIC NATURAL SETTINGS WHILE MAIN-TAINING SENSE OF LOCATION WITHINURBAN FABRIC.
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In observing the site, one of the major features that stands out is the stark concrete embankment, running the entirety between Hopple St. and Western Hills Viaduct. While this functions in flood control, it’s highly unsightly, and, with basic knowledge of the hydraulic cycle, one can deduce that a predominantly paved setting channels contaminated runoff and sewer overflows directly into the watercourse.
Just south of the Western Hills Viaduct is a pocket of bank that is closer to a natural setting, in which one may forget the urban surroundings if navigated. This brings to mind the benefits of healthier waterways, which allow permeation to recharge the water table, aquifers, and a leeched, or cleansed runoff.
These observations lead to a stance of the Urban Water Center that takes inspiration from where these embankment scenarios meet, a transitional bank scenario that may apply the benefits of water quality and beauty from the natural, while maintaining a sense of the urban setting that this investigation is addressing.
Site-generated investigations seek organization to building functionality. Investigations were driven by circulation, collaborative setting for various professional entities, public integration.
Numerous iterations took shape from specific studies as follows:
The Meander (Top Center): a series of cutbacks allowing fluid movement of professionals and public.
The Braid (Middle Center): Research and Public components intertwine around a single datum.
The Straight (Bottom Center): Channeling both components from a single point.
The Fan (Left): Both components spread out, to and from a single datum line.
These investigations led to a stance that the building should not only provide a place of collaborative research towards cleaner waterways, but should in itself play a functioning role.
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SITE OBSERVATION & INSPIRATION
The hillside draining directly into Mill Creek (Top Left) provides an opportunity for the building to intercept a large portion of runoff. With the public aspect in mind, this collected runoff is channeled through a series of galleries that act in cleansing the water before it is released into Mill Creek.
The Hydraulic Cycle inspired the organization to the sequence of galleries.
The Rain gallery (Top Center), where water drips at intervals from the ceiling where it is channeled through course flooring medium, moving onward as a stream.
The Runoff gallery (Middle Center), passing over a series of gabion-like filter beds. From course to fine aggregate, one sees the water become clearer as they pass through the gallery.
The contemplation gallery (Bottom Center), where the water is aerated in the form of a waterfall before entering into the Creek. This fall provides a powerful sound of water hitting water, while allowing a filtered view of the Queensgate Trainyard.
The Greenway Gallery (Below), where a constructed filtering bank replaces the stark concrete embankments. This gallery spans both sides of the stream for professional and public components.
CURATING EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCING WATER ECOLOGY
A materials investigation is conducted in order to ultimately lend both to the experiential gallery component, and to gain an understanding of the innate properties of water in the built environment. The overall theme of this materials study is that certain materials have properties made visible by water. Exploring ways to create a building block that visibly responds to water have been the primary focus in accentuating this theme.
The first step came in creating a block made from recycled brick. Using a rubbish pile of deteriorated brick came as inspired by the site at South Fairmount, in which numerous masonry and industrial materials of the built landscape have crumbled over time.
An observed phenomenon in nature led to further investigation. Obtaining shale stone to create a block initially failed, as the block cracked in half upon curing. Again, in a gesture to the deteriorated state of the site, being littered with broken glass both in many of the vacant buildings and strewn on the sidewalks, an aggregate of shattered glass was then used in attempt to hold the shale stone block together.
As numerous blocks will be created and tested as contrasted to water exposure, it is inferred that the investigation will lend insight into the atmospheric, and memorable experience of the Urban Water Center.
CURATING EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCING MATERIALITY
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ROCHE HEALTH CENTERSTAFF HOUSINGROCHE, TANZANIA
Phase two of the Roche Health Center, the Staff Housing, accompanies a health care facility that services 20,000 villagers in rural Northeastern Tanzania. Opened in 2011, the outpatient clinic has provided access to a permanent healthcare facility for the first time in the region’s history; however, it only operated part-time for several years due to the need to recruit full-time staff.
The Roche community, Village Life Outreach Project, and affiliated partner Shirati Health Education & Development Foundation, identified the construction of staff housing as a critical necessity to expand the clinics operations. Beginning construction in 2015, the 3000 square foot duplex will be move-in ready in early 2016. Utilizing collaboration with a local team of contractors and residents of Roche Village, hundreds of men and women of the community have worked on the RHC Staff Housing Project. A major goal of the project has focused on revolutionizing local building practices in order to identify strategies towards safer, durable, and easily maintained buildings.
On behalf of VLOP, I was presented the opportunity to oversee a large portion of the ongoing design and construction of the Staff Housing. Apart from building upon my understanding of the complexities within the design and construction process, my involvement with Roche Health Center proved to be essential in further developing my adaptability in collaborating with numerous teams of diverse sizes and cultures. The critical values of communication and teamwork were reinforced each day, not only as applied to design and construction, but in everyday life throughout the culture I was fortunate to become submerged in.
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STAFF HOUSINGROCHE, TANZANIA
COMMUNITY BUILDING
BUILDING COMMUNITY
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A UC/KROGER COMPANY COLLABORATION
THE NATURAL FORMAT GROCERYPARK PLACE MARKETCINCINNATI, OHIO
PPM: Park Place Market’s mission is to create an informed understanding and appreciation of grocery shopping. This is accomplished through revealing honesty in the grocery industries business practices and physical store characteristics.
PPM strives for customer trust that is embodied in a connection through main contact points. These points include interaction of local vendors, education and participatory opportunities, and a public component that connects the surrounding users to PPM even while enjoying the outdoors.
Natural format grocery, to PPM, is reflected in clarity of physical materiality, interaction with sales associates, and knowledge of the processes behind getting food from point A - Z. Together, these traits establish user trust, and are essential in creating the natural grocery shopping experience.
As teamwork is quintessential to the design process, the following Park Place Market imagery is a collaboration between colleagues Ross Battoclette, Andrew Vichosky, and myself.
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Natural Format begins with the site. The site is the place by which a first a last impression is made. Yet everyday thousands of people arrive at their destination by car, enter a typically bare and monotonous asphalt lot, park their cars, struggle to find a safe walking route, to finally arrive at a “welcoming” lobby. The effective use of green space, public space, shading, vehicular flow and pedestrian flow will determine how successful the arrival will be.
THE SITE An area of ecological respect is defined by informative landscaping. In areas capable of being planted, educational and participatory opportunities connect food processes from the community to PPM.
PARK Nearby groups and organizations, such as the Civic Garden Center, Urban Farm Hub, and numerous schools are provided the chance to have a plot in their community to engage gardening and ecology classes. This participation extends to the store interior in the form of recipe, cooking, and dietary classes.
PLACEPark
MISSION
PlaceMarket’s
ppmpark place market
PPM has a space designated for local vendors that blends interior and exterior. Local vendor interaction enhances the customer experience through a sense of understanding and awareness of where food is coming from, how it is sourced, and why buying local recharges the local economy.
MARKET
ppmpark place market
ppmpark place market
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DESIGN CENTERCOLUMBUS, INDIANA
ATHENAEUM
The Athenaeum is a Design Center that seeks a regional take in continuing the long history of renowned architecture within Columbus, Indiana. A program calling for facilities to house exhibit space, an auditorium, and live-in artisans capable of accessing the vast catalog of the city’s design, results in the meshing of functional space. Acknowledging the flexible needs of sculpture artists and fabricators alike, along with the history of mid-west industry, a twist is applied to a maker-space that allows sculptors and fabricators to influence the buildings layered composition.
A fabrication space not only acts as the primary work space for the live-in artisans, but becomes an active auditorium to visitors and the general pubic. The public may interact with this space in numerous ways, from observation at the street level, to circulating the building and its premise that structurally allows for artist creations to become part of the building through numerous display mechanisms. A visitor may find the buildings experience change over time due to flexibility in allowing sculptors to make, test, and ultimately alter the buildings layered experience.
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PROGRAMMING VOLUME
The industrial character embedded within Columbus, Indiana, is a direct result of Midwest industry, and more specifically, that of Cummins Inc. Material and structural make-up, along with a program organized to display sculpture fabrication, all pay homage to mid-west industrialization.
COLUMBUS, INDIANA
Approach to a design strategy initiated with a series of spatial studies generated in section. The notion of sculptural screen systems to clad the building, to showcase fabrication, and to serve as sculptural artwork in their own right, were developed further in pursuing a sculpture studio that’s interactive from the street level and from within.
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A series of materiality, structural, and spatial explorations shape experiential investigations. Each study is led by a dominant site response, including pedestrian circulation, site forces, daylighting strategies, material layering, and a search for functioning structural mechanisms to display in-house generated sculpture.
PROGRAMMING VOLUMECOLUMBUS, INDIANA
Structural Grid Shear Walls Determine Volume
ATHENAEUM
“Lace-Frame” structure to suspend/display “Lace’s” Interaction Within/Out Strategies Combined
DISPLAYING ART
A lofty industrial plan supports the creation and installation of sculptural panels that layer to blend movement of air, light, shadow, and people from inside to out.
The Design Center’s outermost layer consists of a screen installation inspired by regional Midwest industry. This acts as a sculptural investigation comprised of chain link to lightly veil its backdrop, functioning as a large screen that imposes slight visual shifts.
COLUMBUS, INDIANA
ATHENAEUM
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THE BROWUC METROLAB COLLABORATION
MetroLab is an investigative studio exploring the notion of hands-on prototyping in order to influence the realities of design possibilities. As many contemporary architectural education institutes provide skills necessary to develop conceptual and digital visualization of the built world, MetroLab provides emphasis not only in the act of building through diverse fabrication methods and material explorations, but through real world problems involving the engagement of various neighborhood organizations, committees, and community members.
In rapidly producing prototypes and gathering community feedback, the reality of problems and solutions are continuously critically examined through a back and forth process.
The process is not viewed as providing permanent solutions, but pushes the strategy of designing with and for a specific place through physical manifestation, rather than merely providing imagery and theorizing about possible outcomes.
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THE BROWUC METROLAB COLLABORATION
Formwork was meticulously assembled prior to assembling and transporting a glass-fiber reinforced concrete surface slab. The glass fiber enables a thin yet structurally sound edge condition.
Due to the sloping nature of 5-Points Alley, a series of terraces were incorporated into the site’s master strategy. The Brow is the first prototype, experimenting with materiality and form of a space defining terrace. The Brow is intended to be read as an element in the landscape, a line that transitions slope, accented by soft integrated lighting.
THE BROWUC METROLAB COLLABORATION
Charcoal pigmented concrete was an aesthetic response to site factors. Speaking to this further, the steel plate patina of the Brow was accelerated through the application of muriatic acid. Immediately following the acidic application with water produces an instantaneous corrosion.
THE BROWUC METROLAB
LED lighting modules are concealed in a recessed channel cast into the glass-fiber concrete edge condition. Conduit runs behind the Brow’s steel panel, and under piled earth to conceal the electric supply.
THE BROWUC METROLAB
A Biergarten was held as a cumulative event to both celebrate, and further test, the successful installation of built prototypes’ exhibited at 5-Points Alley.
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THE LANTERNUC METROLAB COLLABORATION
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THE LANTERNUC METROLAB
After assessing the needs of the 5-Points Alley site in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, it was determined that a light installation would benefit the sites circulation and demarkation.
The Lantern was installed as a preliminary prototype, serving as a beacon to hint to passerby’s the hidden nature of the site.
Opposite Page: Test mock-up of the Lantern prior to transportation to its intended site.
Assembly Diagram:
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6 Frame wrapped in industrial grade white mesh.
Suspend acrylic ornaments from frame.
Triangular cap allows pivoting for easy transfer.
Foot allows pivoting ankle for diameter range.
Cut & bend pieces as necessary for assembly.
Shou Sugi Ban lumber, steel, bolts, washers.
THE LANTERNUC METROLAB
Paying homage to the Walnut Hills neighborhood, laser-cut acrylic ornaments, styled after common crown molding patterns of the area, were centrally strung to project colored shadows onto the lantern’s mesh.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CENTERURBAN WATER RENEWAL
The Environmental Center, targeting a location within Cincinnati’s Clifton Neighborhood, was developed through a vigorous design charrette. The over arching theme developed involves a strategy to functionally display two juxtaposed water systems. In providing a sequence of comparison and contrast of the water cycle, specifically accentuating cleansing processes, as it occurs in nature versus that of human civic methods, the visitor is able to draw upon an insightful experience.
This strategy enables the architecture and landscape in themselves to become crucial elements in an experiential portrayal of the mechanical and plumbing systems. The spaces provide for pass-through pedestrian circulation, a meandering spatial sequence for more engaged visitors, classrooms positioned at various stages amongst the different intervals of water cycles, and a reflection space in the form of a street front parklet and reading volume.
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URBAN WATER RENEWALENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER
RAIN GARDEN
WATER COLLECTED AND FILTERED FOR RE-USE
WATER DIRECTED TO BIO-SWALE
BIO-SWALE
PROMENADE ITERATIONS
The Urban Water Renewal Center is designed as a catalyst in demonstrating the human process of gathering and treating storm water. Responding to site drainage and an established parcel grid, appropriate landscaping and roof systems move water through the building and site.
Functional water filtration may be observed at various stages in order to provide a fun and educational experience.
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FOUND SPACEA SITE RE-PURPOSED
The creative hub amongst Ohio University’s Eastern campus is shared between the School of Fine Arts and the School of Music. Of particular note is the brutal void-space in and around the School of Music’s Robert Glidden Hall. Upon closer inspection, the series of vacant spaces have been riddled with graffiti, street art, and other “left-behinds” from an obvious diverse population of exploration groups.
This area on campus is also notorious for its high concentration of crime alerts, common cases of theft and harassment. In an effort to bring attraction and activity in hopes of dwindling the petty crime strewn about this lot, a series of programs have been identified to fill the voids.
The programs are complementary to the diverse range of creative activity on this part of campus, ranging from a flexible rehearsal hall, a multiform theater to house both professional events and spontaneous breakout acts, to a impromptu cafe to encourage a range of events to take place as they may develop and occur naturally.
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FOUND SPACE
GLIDDEN HALL
MULTI-FORM THEATER
PARKING GARAGE
ARTS, DANCE & EDUCATION FACILITIES
ISSUES IDENTIFIED
Located at Ohio University, Robert Glidden Hall and its surroundings exhibit abundant amounts of unused, run-down space. This creative core of campus, dedicated to the School of Fine Arts, maintains a high rate of Campus Crime Alert activity that may directly correlate with the unharnessed potential of its spaces.
Utilizing the sites unused spaces to encourage activity by providing multi-functional spaces, in theory, will reduce the areas crime rate and build a stronger sense of community.
Due to the sites artistic nature, the proposed spaces consist of a recording studio, an indoor/outdoor performance cafe, and a multi-form theater.
RESOLUTION PROPOSED
VOID SPACE
RENOVATED GROUND FLOUR
RECORDING STUDIO/REHEARSAL HALL
IMPROVISATION AREA WITH MODULAR WALLS
INDOOR/OUTDOOR ADA AMPHITHEATER CAFE
FOUND SPACEPROPOSED USEADA AMPHITHEATER CAFE
An amphitheater for planned performances and spontaneous improvisation acts brings a crowd from any background. Slicing a terraced, planted amphitheater with an ADA accessible wheelchair ramp creates universal access while establishing a grid.
The Performance Cafe will encase the sites existing coating of graffiti, offering an inspiring and creative atmosphere. Cafe customers, performers, and spectators are all welcome to add a fresh coating of creativity, keeping the space ever changing and welcoming to the creative and performance arts.
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WASHINGTON RESIDENCEENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIESSEQUIM, WASHINGTON
Located 2 miles from the Dungeness Spit, this unique home is positioned between Puget Sound and the Olympic National Park. With a desire to utilize regional materials, the home-owner was also determined to apply an earthen method of insulation and stucco that was familiar from his Midwest background.
After further investigation, it was determined that a method of straw-bale insulation with an earthen stucco would be applicable, however, was strongly recommended for only portions of the home protected from the moisture coming from the Spit.
This led to the opportunity in developing a hybrid home, that comprised of both regionally conventional methods and materials, and insulative methods most commonly found in dry, arid climates. Completed in 2011, the insulation has consistently performed to the highest standards, while the earthen stucco has remained firm without maintenance.
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WA RESIDENCESTRAW BALE INSULATIONSEQUIM, WASHINGTON
Construction experience is essential in gaining an understanding of a building’s complexity. As an environmental response to the rain-shadow effect of the Olympic Mountain Range, this residence emerged as a hybrid of timber-framed construction and straw bale insulation with earthen stucco. This fast-paced project provided insight into regional materials, while utilizing an unconventional application.
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