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Caitlin Stevens

Paris, France
Phone: +33.651.03.6377
Fax: +001.479.575.5218
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Caitlin has been with CAST since 2006 when she began working as a student in the University's School of Architecture. Upon graduation, she moved into the position of the Building Information Researcher, exploring how modern building systems and various technologies can work in the life cycle of a site. In addition to researching modern environments, Caitlin also collaborates on heritage and preservation projects as one of the Center's Laser Scanning Specialists. She has assisted in the development and instruction of field schools, workshops and a website with both heritage and modern agendas.

 

Research Interests: Modern Buildings & Environments: 

 In an ongoing collaboration at CAST, we are working with the University of Arkansas Facilities Management (FAMA) to combine research topics with “real life” situations at a campus scale. Laser scanning, photogrammetry and GIS are being used to record modern and historic buildings and landscapes to meet daily maintenance and management needs as well as to digitally preserve older areas on campus. Goals in this work include a better understanding of the professions and types of data involved in urban environments at this scale, making the data accessible and available to be repurposed by those personnel who need it and developing guidelines and standards for the future use of technology and 3D data.

See the current high density survey of Vol Walker Hall. Also check out the digital documentation of the University of Arkansas FAMA Plant Buildings and the close-range photogrammetry survey of Senior Walk. Other urban projects include the multi-disciplinary CI-Train Field Schools (2010-2012), and the 2006 CRATE/CADIS Project.

 

Research Interests: Heritage & Digital Preservation :

Caitlin has combined her architectural interests with heritage projects since her involvement in the Ostia Antica 3D Scanning Project in 2006. In the resulting course Visualizing the Roman City, the 3D data and information acquired in the field was utilized with computer-aided design (CAD) and classics histsory instruction to model and interpret the ancient port city. In these and subsequent projects, Caitlin explores how high density surveying techniques can be combined with traditional methods of recording a site in a holistic process. More recently, she participated in The Diadrisis Romiri Project. This pilot international workshop for graduates and young professionals of Heritage Sciences set out to execute an entire architectural conservation project with full participation from each discipline. Caitlin assisted in collecting and interpreting the laser scanning data in tandem with the traditional surveying and documentation that took place.

 

In the Historic Preservation at Rohwer WWII Relocation Center Cemetery Project, CAST collaborated with the University of Arkansas Landscape Architecture Preservation class to survey and historically document this site. Caitlin and fellow CAST researchers collected laser scanning, photogrammetry and GIS data and then instructed the class in utilizing and interpreting this type of information. The class created and submitted the Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS) documentation and drawings to the Library of Congress in 2012.

 

Education:

Bachelor of Architecture, University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture, Arkansas USA, 2010

Associate of Science, Pima Community College, Arizona, USA 2005

Teaching Experience

Recording, Analyzing and Visualizing the Urban Setting, CAST and University of Arkansas Summer Field Schools, 2011- 2012
Historical Landscape Preservation, University of Arkansas School of Landscape Architecture, Spring 2012
 Introduction to Designing with CAD, Short Courses for the EAST Initiative (grades 2-12), 2011-2012

 Architectural Experience

Architectural Intern, deMx Architecture, p.a., Arkansas USA, 2010-2012
Intern Designer, Nanning Design Consultants, Nanning, China, 2011
Draftsperson, Psomas Engineering, Arizona, USA, 2004-2005

Publications

Cothren, J., D. Frederick, W.F. Limp, T. deNoble, A. Barnes, C. Goodmaster, C. Stevens (2008). Visualizing the Roman City: Viewing the past through multidisciplinary eyes. Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Budapest, Hungary, April 2-6, 2008. Page 88.

Recent Presentations

Cothren, J., B. Culpepper, C. Stevens (2012). How Adding HDS Capabilities Has Impacted Our Digital Campus Initiative. Hexagon International Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, Nov 2012.