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SARAH NEAULT
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604.353.7210 smneault@gmail.com
Key duties: Design, Research, Competitions, Client meetings, City meetings, Site
meetings, Construction management, Consultant co-ordination, Working drawings,
Costing, Permits, Specification, Tender, MOHLTC reports.
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
surrounding context, a mix of industrial, commercial and civic insitutions, while adhering
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in close collaboration with one of the partners at Hilditch, Charles Rosenberg. Aside from
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the new addition into the heritage landscape was the most challenging aspect of the project.
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particularly aboriginal seniors. The principles of design included bringing ample natural
light into the units and facilitating the development of a strong community within the
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building through well-placed and well-organized communal spaces while being sensitive
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so that nature and the outdoors add a sense of well-being and of the �
passage of time and cycles of things are made tangible. This can be � �
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skylights so that movement and presence of the sun and the stars � �
buildings through living walls that filter air and water, and contribute to a �
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and resources, and to reduce the impact of building on human health and �
the environment. These goals can be achieved through many means, � 2nd Floor
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from better siting, design, choice of materials, and selection of � At this time, the section of the Hospice Association of
Ontario (HAO) How to Develop a Community Residential
Hospice Handbook has not been drafted. �
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The following (section 4.5) is excerpted from the
1. Connection between living/dining and gardens� Health and Long-Term Care, May 1999. It is our
understanding that the architectural section of the HAO
guidelines will be based on the long-term care facility
design guidelines.
Each Resident Home Area must be a self-contained, clearly defined unit...�
Every Resident Home Area must include bedrooms, washrooms, bath and shower �
2. Rear porch - kids playroom� rooms, dining area, lounge area, program/activity space, staff work space and �
storage space for that area. �
benefits, including reduced operating costs over the life cycle of the � 3. Front porch - quiet area� �����
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The resident bedroom is the centre of the resident�s personal space where �
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building, improved occupant health, and reduced environmental impact. � 5. Life-limiting room porch�
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must meet each resident�s need for comfort and safety, promote resident �
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independence and dignity, and provide for resident privacy. Each bedroom �
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9. Study room/lounge skylight� contains, at a minimum, a sink and a toilet. The entrance to the �
• Memory can play an important role in the way the gardens are designed. � b. North-west corner - tripled paned, argon-filled, low-e glazing�
hang clothes. �
• Each bedroom door must be a minimum width of 44 inches. �
• In each bedroom, there must be sufficient space to provide access by �
c. East elevation - minimal glazing� caregivers and specialized program equipment to three sides of the bed,
Flower, herb and vegetable gardens often carry memories but also � d. Permeable paving and memory gardens (flower/vegetable/herb)�
that is, to both sides of the bed and the foot of the bed.�
spending time smelling herbs or looking at beautiful blooms, watching � f. Green roof
� people pick fresh vegetables for dinner can be a way for residents to feel � ���
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“The Governor�s House is adaptively re-used for community uses...The landscape is restored �
with new plantings that supplement existing significant and healthy trees and provides a �
connected, meaningful and part of the world. The metaphor and the reality
landscaped connection from Riverdale Library to the Governor�s House and new public park. �
The landscape highlights views of the Governor�s House from Gerrard Street East, the public �
park and the new North-South Street connecting Don Jail Avenue to Bridgepoint Drive. ” �
(Bridgepoint Health - Don Jail Site Master Plan Design Guidelines; October, 2005; Urban Strategies, Inc.)�
of tending one's garden at the end of life emphasize primal connections ���
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the new addition and preserving (and restoring) its appearance from Gerrard Street.� �
3.4.3 We've necked the connection between the addition and the Governor's House in �
order to allow it to be read as�independent both from the south and west views (the �
views from Gerrard Street.� �
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one's own well-being and feeling part of larger systems and cycles. �
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stair and elevator core on that side.� �
From the north, currently the rear of the Governor's House, we've strived to create a �
new front, better orienting our building to the new development.� We are particularly �
interested in making a beautiful termination to the proposed new street.�We envision �
a. Governor's House - Children's Home� the addition as a light, modern pavilion in the park.��
b. Gatehouse - PAC administration�
c. Historic Don Jail - Bridgepoint Health� �
d. New Building 'D' - Mixed Use�
e. Riverdale Library� 3.4.7 Our goal is to provide an additional use within the new development that is �
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individuals and society as a whole" - while ensuring the continued preservation of �
two important historic buildings by re-occupying them.�
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architectsAlliance
Jan. – Sept. 2006
Deni Papetti, associate, 416.593.6500
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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HBEW/ibi
May – Aug. 2005
Salim Narayanan, Architect, 604.683.4376
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
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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DHA
Jan. – May 2004
Tom Dishlevoy, partner, 250.339.9528
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
CONTENTS................................VII
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EMERGENT MATERIAL METHODOLOGIES AS I CONSIDER THESE EXPERIMENTS ... These examples offer a
toolkit of potential methods through which to investigate how a build-
Kudless has established himself as a prominent figure in a new generation of ing can gather and release information, material or energy (the possible
architectural researchers whose investigations traverse physical “self-organized”
inputs/outputs of the building-organism), but I find myself wondering
production and computational processes; their material systems use pattern and
surface differentiation to produce gradients of performance that transcend the
how human occupation of a space offers energy, information, or mate-
atelier tradition of experimentation with arrangements of materials stressed to rial to the building-organism, and thus how the surface can best vector
produce stable organizations. these exchanges.
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Michael Weinstock, “Surfaces of Self-organization,” 2006. 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?).
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Key duties: Survey design, Proposal, Presentation, Survey co-ordination, Data
management, IT support, Survey report.
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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
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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.
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Methods: I hired twelve graduate students from the Waterloo School of Architecture, se-
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media, to explore the UW main campus and record their experiences using iPhones.
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THE GOOGLE EARTH FILE 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
Here is a link to the Google Earth file containing all of the links to the available on the increasingly ubiquitous smartphone. This map is immediately accessible to
media generated during the “Mapping the Campus Using Locative Media” the public and can be actively promoted by the University as a method of wayfinding. This
pedestrian survey. 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.
“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 Google Earth image showing all GPS tracks collected during
view all but the GPS tracks). 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
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.
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Jan. – Sept. 2009
Fred Thompson, professor emeritus, 519.546.6773
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.
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.
4 In System Preferences:
Under M-Audio MobilePre USB, check 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)
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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.
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Software used: Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, VectorWorks.
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16 17 BUILDING SOCIO_ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
In order to harness the sun’s energy for daylighting and heating, the building is carefully
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oriented and openings are located precisely. A geothermal system also draws and releases
ADDITIONAL OFFI C E S P A C E S T O B E 10 storage 1
LOCATED IN FUTU R E W I N G “ B ”
FIRST_FLOOR 1:100
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energy from the surrounding soil for additional heating and cooling requirements. Planting
( F U T U R E E XP AN SI ON ) 7 8 9 10
1 4 O P E N P L AN O FF IC E
1 5 O F F I C E SU PP LI ES /C OP IE R
1 6 U N I S E X WC _ WI TH S HO WE RS
of native species in and around the building minimizes site maintenance and supports the
1 7 O B S E R V A TI ON T OW ER E NT RA NC E
FLOO R TO CEIL ING
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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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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
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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
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AEOLIAN VESSEL
3A Studio, 2005: Cultural Institution
Group members: Dea Blaghoeff, Sarah Neault, Lisa Rajkumar-Maharaj
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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ACADEMIC SARAH NEAULT 604.353.7210 smneault@gmail.com
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