Archite ctu r e Po r tfo l i o
Dania Babi 2024
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Designer Dania Babi dania.babi@outlook.com
ABOUT ME Architectural designer who enjoys exploring design concepts with a focus on integrating landscapes and cultural features in order to create immersive environments.
+1 (205) 527-1900
www.linkedin.com/in/daniababi/
EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture 3.82 GPA. - Sum of all course grades divided by the total number of credits on 4.0 scale. NAAB-Accredited University Academy of Art University, San Francisco (2019– May 2024) Courses include Mixed Use Urbanism & Research, Architecture Theory, Design Technology: Environmental Controls, Tectonics: Code Analysis and Building Envelope Documentation, Housing and Integrated Design, Climate and Energy Use: Sustainable Strategies, Structures: Systems Investigation - Student Representative Architecture Undergraduate (2022-Present) - President’s Honor List (2019-2023) - Recognizes undergraduate students with a grade point average of 4.00 earned on a minimum of 12 credited semester hours.
- Undergraduate Studio Awards (Fall 2021, Fall 2022) President, National Organization of Minority Architect Students Academy of Art University Chapter, San Francisco, CA (Feb 2022-Dec 2023) Study Abroad Program Florence, Italy (Summer 2022) Used Florence, Italy and its environs as a living laboratory to analyze Renaissance buildings to understand formal principles of architecture. k
WORK EXPERIENCE - Birchfield Penuel Architects Birmingham, AL, Intern (Summer 2019) - Williams Blackstock Architects Birmingham, AL, Intern (Summer 2020) - AMK Design and Build, LLC Atlanta, GA, Intern (Summer 2023)
KEY SKILLS Design Schematic Design Conceptualization Architectural Drafting Sustainable Design Analytical Thinking
Interpersonal Time Management Adaptable and Patient Problem Solver Communication Skills Team Player
Technical Tools Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Revit Rhinoceros 3D Enscape Adobe Creative Cloud
Languages Fluent: - English - Arabic Beginner: - French
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Visitor Center & Mining Museum
Project 1
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Angel Island Visitor Center
Project 2
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Oakland Multi-Family Housing Complex
Project 3
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Fillmore District Youth Rehab Center
Study Abroad Architecture of Renaissance Florence
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Visitor Center & Mining Museum
The Ore Odyssey Globalization
in
Landscapes are often described
architecture
as the physical embodiment of
style that spreads across cities
a city’s memory or history. They
worldwide, threatening the unique
act as a visual archive of the
identity and character of many
place’s development, culture, and
modern cities. The aesthetics
societal changes. A city’s natural
and architectural elements that
and
were once influenced by a city’s
and are shaped by the historical
historic,
economic,
events, cultural practices, and
are
being
societal transformations that have
cookie-cutter
occurred there. The architecture
a
has
homogeneous
and
political,
social
replaced
fabric with
resulted
urban
skyscrapers and urban planning
of
a
layouts.
its
landscapes,
Architecture,
which
place,
landscapes
shape
intertwined then
with
narrates
has traditionally been a form of
its history and helps retain its
cultural expression that depicted
unique identity. For this reason,
the identity of a city and its
maintaining
inhabitants, is becoming more
local relevance of architecture
and more detached from its local
and urban design in a rapidly
context. This growing trend poses
globalizing world is critical for
a real threat to the diverse urban
preserving the history, identity, and
landscape, potentially erasing the
cultural integrity of modern cities.
history and heritage of the city.
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the
diversity
and
THESIS
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SCHEMATIC DESIGN #1 TRAILHEAD CONNECTOR: Architecture acts as straight connection between parking lot, ruins, and Wenonah Connector Trail.
Plan
#2 INTERACTIVE CAMPUS: Architecture is distributed between ruins and landscape, providing visitors an interactive experience.
Plan
#3 EDUCATIONAL LOOP: Architecture is submerged and fragmented based on natural paths and topographic patterns, decreasing disruption of existing landscape.
Plan
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CONCEPT DIAGRAM
Red Mountain Park is a special
makes the park not just a place
of those who worked in the mines
destination as it skillfully merges
for outdoor activities, but also a
and adds another layer of historical
the rich history of Alabama with
heritage site preserving Alabama’s
significance to Alabama’s unique
present-day leisure and recreation.
historical industrial background.
heritage. This strategy effectively
Located on the historic site of
By spotlighting and maintaining
transforms Red Mountain Park
a once-booming iron and coal
these essential ruins, a bygone era
into a symbol of Alabama’s mining
mining industry, this park provides
is rekindled, thus aiding in reviving
history,
an open-air history book with
the
identity.
cultural identity in a way that
significant remnants of mining
Ensuring the remnants continue
educates and captivates present
operations
to endure honours the memory
and future generations.
still
present.
This
state’s
cultural
rekindling
a
profound
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JUXTAPOSITION DIAGRAMS
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Courtyard Entrance
Entryway within Ruin A
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Tunnel leading to Ruin B
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Interactive Mining Exhibit
Ruin B + Native Garden
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SUSTAINABILITY
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STRUCTURE
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Visitor Center
Angel Island
A visitor’s center attuned to Angel Island’s natural habitat and historical context. Physical site
environments
opportunities synthesis
and
for
provide design
responsible
energy use. Passive design principles were incorporated in response to climate, orientation, topography, vegetation, views, building
materiality,
constructability.
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PROJECT 01 Hope Light
Obstacle
Stream
Angel Island
Obstacle
Angel Island
1910-1940 Served as a port where immigrants
The
stream
entering the US were detained and
immigrants’ consistent progress
interrogated.
as
they
symbolizes
repeatedly
the
overcame
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
obstacles. This watercolor painting My
personal
interpretation
of
the site was greatly affected by
revealed the relationship between prevention and persistence.
the stories of those held at the immigration station.
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CONCEPT The
main concept is to
repeatedly disturb (prevention) and
redirect
the
natural
waterflow along an existing swale. After flowing downhill (persistance), the water unites and escapes into the San Francisco Bay. This pattern of uniting then separating then uniting
again
becomes
an
important theme in the design process.
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WALL SECTION
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The orientation of the building
and shifted to avoid disturbing the
directly relates to the general
swale which guides the water’s
formation of existing contour
path downhill. This encourages
lines. The structures are divided
and celebrates the water’s journey.
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PLANS
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Room Key
1) Interactive Exhibit 2) Roof Deck
Third Floor Plan
Room Key
1) Multi-Purpose Room 2) Conference Room 3) Interactive Exhibit 4) Classroom 5) Roof Deck
Second Floor Plan
Room Key
1) Parking 2) Rotating Exhibit 3) Lobby 4) Retail Space 5) Offices 6) Picnic Area 7) Cafe 8) Restrooms 9) Library 10) Storage Space 11) Mechanical Room
First Floor Plan
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Eastern Elevation
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View from Interactive Exhibit
Eastern Elevation
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Arriving from Ferry
Rotating Exhibit
View of Picnic Area from Cafe
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Multi-Family Housing Complex
Oakland
Housing is an essential function that architects provide. Collaborating as a team, we designed a multi-family housing complex for an urban site including an architectural proposal that integrates building systems and sustainable strategies. Input from expert architects, engineers, and consultants was incorporated along the process.
Building Program Inspired by Oakland’s lodging and food services sectors, which were the city’s fastest-growing job and revenue
generators,
between
2010
and 2021.
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Conceptual Massing Diagram
CONCEPT
Community Garden
Teaching Kitchen
Living Unit
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UNIT 3
PLANS
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Youth Rehab Center
Fillmore District
This project embraces how contemporary culture is full of conflicts which invite innovations. It’s important to question preconceptions to find outdated modes of inhabiting space and discover new program relationships, spatial conditions, and rich tectonic expressions.
Notation Model
Site Mapping
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PROJECT 03
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1/4” Sectional Model
San Francisco is experincing a
inhumane and ineffective.
major decline in youth crime rates,
This proposal is for an afterschool
and yet the cost of operating the
mentorship program for youth
San Francisco Juvenille Justice
who don’t need to be detained.
Center continues to increase.
Community-based
The punitive practices used at
mental health support services,
this facility have proven to be
and academic aid will be provided.
PROPOSAL
programs,
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STRUCTURAL BAY DIAGRAM
1st Floor
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2nd Floor
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Psychiatrist Office
PROGRAM DIAGRAMS Exit to Hamilton Park
3rd Floor
4th Floor
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SECTIONAL MODEL
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Study Abroad
Florence
Used Florence, Italy and its environs as a living laboratory to analyze Renaissance buildings to understand formal principles of architecture.
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Dania Babi Selected Works: 2021-2023