O P E R AT I O N A L D
A
R
I
O
S
A
B
S U B L I M E I
D
Un i v e r s i t y o f Pe n n s y l v a n i a M . A r c h
U
S
S
I
“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.” -Immanuel Kant, In the Critique of Pure Reason
The role of the sublime within architecture is a limitless exploration into the expression of architecture, whether it be literal, historical, symbolic, or subconscious. In this sense, we can understand the sublime as a spiritual and existential idea of space, time, death, and the divine. In an architectural discourse, the manipulation of space, form, light, etc. evoke senses of the sublime. More importantly than the architecture itself, in my opinion, are the operations of meaning involved that create the sensory and spiritual apprehension of the sublime. Following the ideas of Immanuel Kant, the aesthetic of building form analyzes architecture “in regard to form and sensory qualities, its processes of production,” and how operations / symbolic motifs that take place within design create an almost divine meaning to the built world. My interest in design stems in how time and space, meaning and expression, deepens the architectural processes. The dialogue of architectural expression and operations following design intent vs reality is what I attempt to explore through my architectural work and how the sublime finds itself in contemporary society is what I wish to investigate further.
CONTENTS AC A DE M IC WOR K S 01. Living Green Adaptive Re-Use Housing Project M. Arch Year 2 Fall Term, University of Pennsylvania ‘Student Nomination Project” -Pressing Matters 10
02. Urban Misplacement Urban Infill Construction Management Debris Facility M. Arch Year 1 Spring Term, University of Pennsylvania ‘Student Nomination Project” -Pressing Matters 9
03. Ethereal Luminosity Mill Creek Wellness Center HOK Design Futures 2021 Project Submission
04. Views Beyond Penn Museum Archive Extension M. Arch Year 1 Fall Term, University of Pennsylvania ‘Student Nomination Project” -Pressing Matters 9
05. Personal Protective Pod COVID-19 Mobile Testing Station Summer Design Competition, Surface Magazine Honorable Mention, Published in Surface Magazine
06. In Progress Work Central Park Theatre Intervention M. Arch Year 2 Spring Term, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
01
LIVING GREEN
Adaptive Reuse at Gowanus Bay Terminal | ARCH 601 | Fall 2020 | 9 Week Project Studio Leader: Ben Krone Awards: Pressing Matters 10 Publication Nominee
Constructed in 1922, the Gowanus Bay Terminal, or the Red Hook Grain Terminal, was built in the Port of New York to invigorate the underused water way as a state-run grain elevator. Unfortunately, the Grain industry boom in New York City had its peak 7 years prior to the start of construction, leaving the Gowanus Bay Terminal as a “magnificent mistake.” After years of abandonment and neglect following its immediate demise postconstruction, the Grain Terminal now sits as a dead building occupying one of the most beautiful sites for views to Hoboken, the Statue of Liberty, as well as New York City. Recently, Red Hook, Brooklyn has introduced a ferry way transportation route for direct access to and from New York City, resulting in a higher demand to live in Red Hook for ease of access to the city. The sudden shift of demand has created an increased threat for locals living in Red Hook. With new businesses and communities approaching the sought after neighborhood, current Red Hook residents face the threat of gentrification. On that premise, the studio proposes a solution for the relationship between the creative mixed housing and the existing Red Hook Grain Terminal building. Proposing an adaptive reuse low
4
Image: Existing aerial view of the Gowanus Bay Terminal
income housing strategy for the Red Hook Grain Terminal, Living Green seeks to combat the effects of gentrification in Red Hook, Brooklyn through the emergence of a localized and self-sustaining garden market economy. A ribbon typology is introduced in the intervention in order to minimally interfere with the existing grain silo structure, while also providing the opportunity for the introduction of various micro-gardens to be engaged with by the Red Hook residents dwelling within the housing complex. The ribbon operates on both the exterior and interior, creating an organized circulation and moments for shared and intimate experiences on the exterior of the building. Capitalizing on the opportunities of vertical construction within the existing grain silo structure, the intersection of different unit types promotes an ambiguous condition between housing and gardening, as the opportunities for vertical growth becomes available by connecting different unit types. Turning a seemingly “dead” building into an alive one, the design intent is to use gardening as a tool to foster community engagement and interaction to maintain the success of the community market and to promote healthy and active lifestyles.
Adaptive Reuse | Housing | Environment
Isometric Drawing / Model Hybrid illustrating public commons interior and water collection system
5
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
O P E R AT I O N O F C O M P O N E N T S Aiming to capitalize on the opportunities available in reusing the existing grain terminal structure, 4-unit type systems were developed that could be interlocked, left adjacent, and entirely open to one another – promoting the potential for a complex system of public and private, or open and closed, conditions within and outside the existing silos. The development of an exterior access ribbon would serve as a connector to the interior distribution and circulation network. Adjacent to the exterior access ribboning is the “living path” and water distribution network. The living path serves the vital function of not only housing the exterior gardens, but also transporting water to the gardens for nourishment, which is supplied by the rainwater collection system and waterfall, designed as a public park and housed on the roof of the existing silos.
One-bedroom
Two-bedroom
With the goal of each resident participating in the communal gardening experience, Living Green will include 4 one-bedroom apartments, 8 two bedroom apartments, 7 four bedroom dorm style apartments, and 14 studio apartments, allowing for between upwards of 60-70 residents participating and engaging in the garden market.
Four-bedroom (Dorm Style)
02
One-bedroom (Studio)
03
01
04 05
06
07 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
6
Community Market and Storage Rain Water Collection System Interior Circulation / Produce Distribution Network Unit Aggregation /Organization Access / Walkway Path Living Path / Water Distribution Network Communal Grow Spaces
Exploded component diagram illustrating role of layers within the building system
Adaptive Reuse | Housing | Environment
Longitudinal elevation of complete garden / housing intervention
North facing facade ground entry perspective
7
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
8
Adaptive Reuse | Housing | Environment
7th floor plan displaying community activity and unit distribution sampling
9
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
10
Adaptive Reuse | Housing | Environment
Longitudinal Section A illustrating unit interiors as well as communal market / garden activity
11
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
12
Transverse Section B illustrating residential / market entry and interior activity
Adaptive Reuse | Housing | Environment
Section Render Hybrid showing water distribution functionality
13
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
Typical 2 Bedroom Unit Interior and Housing Lobby
14
Adaptive Reuse | Housing | Environment
Living Green at the Gowanus Bay Terminal- Fall 2020
15
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
16
Adaptive Reuse | Housing | Environment
Interior perspective of exterior garden access and garden market
17
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
02
URBAN MISPLACEMENT
Recycled Construction Debris Facility & Market | ARCH 502 | Spring 2020 | 7 Week Project Studio Leader: Maya Alam Awards: Pressing Matters 9 Publication Nominee
Callowhill is a district molded by diverse cultures and people throughout history. The assortment of traditions and people, that compose Callowhill creates the “misfit neighborhood.” These divisions, or seams, in its urban context allows for a new development that embraces the misalignment of the districts components by combining its cultural and historical divisions in a new building form. Preconceived notions of easily understood forms are broken and misaligned in order to create a new “mis-fitting” development. The exploration of “misfit” through eccentric geometry design and market program enables the re-imagination of a city development than can symbolize diversity, and seeming misplacement, of the elements that have created Callowhill.
18
Urban Misplacement will emerge from the seams of Callowhill, in between Spring Garden Street and N. 10th Street, Philadelphia. The district itself is easily recognizable for its vast network of public parking lots built in the 1960’s. As the lots begin redevelopment, a Construction Debris Recycling Facility will prove to be essential for the coming years. As more luxury apartments are being constructed, Callowhill is also in dire need for more low-income housing. Therefore, a hardware market with recycled materials will be created to aid in supplying the community with low income-housing opportunities. Additionally, a communal park will be introduced to connect the public and private sectors of the neighborhood, creating a new market experience where industry and community can co-exist.
Image: Programmatic still life render designed to illustrate proposal interest
Urban Infill | Industry | Community
Public Commons Park view with integrated lofted debris machinery
19
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
FORMAL LOGIC Through a variety of programmable opportunities displayed, the marketplace will provide not only multiple uses, but also a variety of experiences that can be explored throughout the spaces developed. Floor heights shift and change to create feelings of private vs. public, pathway ramps circulate to give direct access to multiple levels of market, outdoor spaces begin to engage with the surrounding environment and existing viaduct and future viaduct park. Spaces for entertainment, food and beverage, recycling, and shopping are introduced physically through seams and slippages, but are experienced collectively in one cohesive form. Geometrically, four sequences of formal manipulation are utilized in creating the overall massing. The sequences, depending on program, are sheared, split, and combined in order to create a dynamic form with distinctive opportunities for a variety of programs. The communal public space is carved from the massing in order to allow for the opportunity for direct public integration within the overall recycling process. The divisions of program also serve as ties for interaction between the community and industry. The Callowhill community will begin to understand and experience the process of regenerating the materials that once defined the district in building form and will begin to re-imagine the future of the district that celebrates the beauty and dynamism of Callowhill.
20
Recycling Debris Facility (Additive)
Tool / Material Retail Market (Additive)
Community Gathering (Subtractive)
Industry, Commercial, Public Integration
Transverse Section Perspective illustrating formal arrangement and program variety
Urban Infill | Industry | Community
2nd Floor Plan view illustrating various programs and activities
21
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
P U B L I C I N T E G R AT I O N Curvilinear vs linear elements are used to activate new and lively spaces within the building form. Public space and private industrial space are directly linked and begin to overlap through dynamic walkways and passages that open into different programmable spaces. A central communal space is carved from beneath the form and into the earth to provide for public access and engagement, while the debris recycling process directly engages with the public through a lofted conveyor system for recycled materials.
22
Urban Infill | Industry | Community
Longitudinal Section hybrid / elevation render illustrating facility operation and community engagement
23
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
02
Educational Theatre
03
01 Recycled Debris Market Entry
Taper Slot Screen to Manual Sorting
24
Urban Infill | Industry | Community
01 Taper Slot Screen to Manual Sorting 02 Rail Park Intervention 03 Observation Terrace 04 Public Cafe & Educational Theatre 05 Hardware Market Lobby 06 Public Park
04
05
06
Axonometric section model with plan overlay illustrating site context and interior activity
25
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
03
ETHEREAL LUMINOSIT Y
Mill Creek Wellness Center | HOK Design Futures 2021 | Spring 2021 | 1 Week Project In Collaboration with Miguel Matos
Currently, there is a growing interest within the healthcare industry to design community to reevaluate the impact of their work to benefit communities on both urban and rural as well as small and large scales. A new focus in healthcare design is community-based health, justice and wellness. This idea of individual health being a direct outcome of a deeper influence of place, community, and collective experience allows for a deeper imagination of what the future of healthcare and community based design can become. This project begins to investigate the intersection of localized healthcare, access to healthy food, urban open space, and the synergies resulting from the careful planning of disparate
26
Image: Aerial Vinette capturing landscape intervention
uses on a specific site in the Mill Creek Neighborhood of West Philadelphia Aiming to capitalize on the studied health benefits that link neighborhood greening spaces to reduced negative cardiovascular outcomes in pregnancy (Urban Health Lab), Ethereal Luminosity aims to explore the use of light and landscape as architectural motifs. The proposed intervention not only fosters community engagement, but also promotes a healthy and welcoming environment that integrates itself within the existing landscape. Taking into consideration the neighboring Philadelphia Masjid organization and the symbolic role light plays within traditional and historic Islamic architecture, the design proposal investigates the duality between light and built form to create a spiritual experience that promotes civic participation.
Health Care | Retail | Public Park
Second Floor Maternity Clinic intervention with views to pharmacy and integrated vegetation
27
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
P R O G R A M VA R IAT I O N Through the curation of program, the proposed design attempts to maximize its uses while producing a radical change to traditional healthcare and wellness building design. Situated along Lancaster Avenue adjacent to The Philadelphia Masjid and Clara Muhammad Square, the site affords the opportunity to front onto a major commercial corridor, in which case we have proposed a new Community Based open-air market and Cafe for the promotion of civic participation and community wellness. Additionally, a privately run Maternal Health Clinic is proposed in order to offer the residents of Mill Creek prenatal clinical services that is convenient, comfortable and familiar. The design approach attempts to camouflage the commercial intervention within the existing site landscape in attempt to capitalize on the studied positive health outcomes of pregnancy when surrounded by greenery. To reinforce the concept of using greenery to promote health and wellness, therapeutic spas are penetrated within the programmable spaces in order to allow for a deeper level of community engagement as well as allowing green spaces to exist both beyond and within our intervention. By minimally intervening with the existing landscape, the intervention creates a public park space as an additional program to promote public integration and community engagement, where two radically different programs (maternity clinic and market) can exist cohesively within one overall system linked by greenery and wellness.
28
01. Carved Mass
02. Void
03. Sloped Landscape
04. Penetrations
Longitudinal section illustrating theraputic gardens penetrating programmable spaces
Health Care | Retail | Public Park
23 22
21 16 20
18 17
19
Level Two Plan
Level One Plan 1
Food market entry / Cafeteria
7
Cafe seating area
13
Pharmacy
2
Open food market
8
Demonstration kitchen
14
Storage room / Janitor closet
3
Market storage
9
Full-service kitchen
15
Community park
4
Service access
10
Educational library
16
Standard exam rooms
5
Corridor to community park
11
Waiting area
17
Exam rooms with ultrasound
6
Cafe entry / Take-out counter
12
Maternal clinic reception
18
Patient self-care room
19
Private offices
20
Open office area
21
Conference Room
22
Supervised children’s area
23
Multipurpose room
First and Second Floor Plan
29
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
Image (above): Interior perspective of Cafe | Image (below): Public park ground perspective
30
Health Care | Retail | Public Park
First floor Maternity Clinic lobby
31
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
32
Health Care | Retail | Public Park
Aerial perspective of proposed intervention within site context
33
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
04
V I EWS BEYON D
Penn Museum Archive Extension | ARCH 501 | Fall 2019 | 5 Week Project Studio Leader: Daniel Markiewicz Awards: Pressing Matters 9 Publication Nominee
In this three-part assignment, this project uses experimentation of spatial engagement as well as framing as a tool to explore architectural opportunities and experiences beyond the existing Penn Museum. The Museum is, in many ways, currently being treated as an artifact itself. It serves as an architectural relic with its own history, its own story. Tucked away and engulfed by the vertically modernized developments, the museum and the views created by the museum are entirely hidden like the artifacts in museum archives, stored and kept away from public engagement. Ultimately, the formal dialogue between the existing and the beyond is non-existent. This project explores the relationship between the new extension and the existing urban context of Philadelphia
34
surrounding it. The new system serves as an initiator for the many dialogues between urban space and architecture itself by blending both historical and modern design into one cohesive structure. It acknowledges not only the views available to the museum, but abstractly reinvents the museum to be a view in its own way. It directly competes with the vertical construction surrounding the museum, offering a new architectural experience both within and beyond the museum. The extension questions what is beyond the existing and explores how architecture can engage with the artifacts kept within the museum. Through the exploration of floating space and vertical development, the extension attempts to expand above the existing and exploit the new and beyond.
Image: Courtyard view looking up to the proposed intervention
Museum Archives | Education | Art
Street view of intervention situated within the site context
35
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
I N T E G R AT E D P R O G R A M S Upon entry to the intervention, two main access points are created based on the original placement of the gateways that greet visitors upon courtyard entrance. The form not only serves as support for the building, but also as direct vertical circulation to the programmable spaces above. The first floor serves as the primary space for archive storage and protection. With direct access to the Exhibition space, artifact mobility is made possible and with ease. The form allows for dynamic storage opportunities organized by halls created by the extended armatures of the building. Formally interlocked between the 3rd and 1st floor, the Exhibition space serves a space to connect education and storage. The exhibition space not only acts as a catalyst for education and learning, but also as a space to store and protect artifacts. The Third and Fourth Floor are spaces for social engagement as well as educational opportunities. With spaces dedicated for classrooms, study rooms, offices, as well as lounge areas and Cafe, dynamic opportunities are created though the merge of education and social interaction.
36
Worms Eye Isometric Illustration and Section illustrating interior and space beyond
Museum Archives | Education | Art
3rd floor plan showing educational spaces and spaces opening to views beyond the museum
37
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
E L E VAT E D O P P O RT U N I T I E S Lofted above the existing Penn Museum, Views Beyond stands as a monument paying homage to the existing conditions and history of the museum itself. By keeping the existing virtually untouched, the archive extension provides a separate, yet dynamic opportunity for a new architectural language and experience both within and beyond the museum.
38
Museum Archives | Education | Art
Front Facing Elevation and Section illustrating height transition from existing to intervention
39
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
Final Physical Model illustrating an implication of the extension within the site context
40
Museum Archives | Education | Art
Penn Museum Archive Addition - Fall 2019
41
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
42
Museum Archives | Education | Art
Museum extension interior showing views beyond the competing adjacent high-rise structures
43
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
05
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE POD
COVID-19 Mobile Testing Station | Surface Magazine | Summer 2020 | 4 Week Project In Collaboration with Miguel Matos and Beikel Rivas
The effects of the unsurprisingly fast development of the pandemic have created immediate difficulties for the US Healthcare System, which is now dealing with rapid increases in hospitalized patients and a numerous amount of people waiting for an opportunity to be tested and vaccinated. According to the Association of Medical Colleges, their 2020 report projected a shortfall of physicians between 54,100 and 139,000 by 2033. With the US facing a physician shortage prior to COVID-19, the circumstances have led to an even steeper drop in physicians available to help treat the sick. According to the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development), America currently has 2.61 physicians per 1000 people. The intense focus on hospital-based care for patients with COVID-19 has shed light to the fact that America is in dire need for more medical specialists. With the current physicians available, 14.4% of doctors were between the ages of 65-74 and more than 2 of 5 active physicians will be 65 or older within the next decade. As the number of doctors will continually decrease over the next
44
decade, doctors are beginning to look to technology to help solve the national shortage. The Personal Protective Pod serves to provide a safehaven for current and potential healthcare workers that are able and willing to participate in fighting the virus. The Pod is designed as a prefabricated structure with modular components that can be assembled on site and then become mobile via the unused trolley network circulated across Philadelphia. The pod not only serves as a sanitary station for an individual healthcare worker to test patients, but it also actively engages with the public through its screen-usage and versatility in transporting itself to various locations. The modular components allow the physician to customize the pod to their comfort level and allows the pod to serve multiple functions post-COVID due to its interchanging interior components. In a time of so much turmoil, the Personal Protective Pod will triumph as a symbol of health, hope, and eventually a home.
Picture: Diagrammatic illustration considering how protective masks can become architecture
COVID-19 Relief | Mobile Design | Health and Housing
Close-up render of prefabricated structure
45
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
PHASE 1: C OVID-19 RELIEF By analyzing a respirator mask commonly used for the prevention of the transmission of disease, including the Corona-virus, the mask can be seen as a symbol of protection and safety. When looking at how to design a new COVID-19 testing station, it is essential to understand the multiple functions of the parts that compose the mask, including the filter, the membrane, gasket, screw, etc. When looking at how this logic can be implemented into building form, he design process starts through the exploration of how multiple components of building form can connection together in order to achieve a single goal: a COVID-19 Testing center that protects the doctor. To begin designing the kit of parts, the essential functions of the testing center must be understood. The Personal Protective Pod includes several “parts” that come together that each serve a specific function. Each piece will be prefabricated modules that are cast to join together within the pod, and can be removed when disassembling the testing station.
46
Exterior detail rendering showing Pod usage and structural components / functionality
COVID-19 Relief | Mobile Design | Health and Housing
Patient registers to Online appointment
Physician receives sample from behind protective barrier
Sample is tested
Test result submitted
Pod plan and section during Phase 1 of Pod use showing testing process and interior space
47
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
PHASE 2: POST C OVID-19 As the vaccine for the Coronavirus becomes more readily available, the need for testing will be reduced. Therefore, in a future where the world is vaccinated, the Personal Protective Pod will no longer be used as a resource to test patient health, but rather, it will be used as a resource to combat another threat to America: homelessness and poverty. The existing Pod’s interior kit of parts will be disassembled, and the pods will be turned vertically with a new kit of parts readily available to be installed to create personalized homes. The Housing Pod will fit comfortably as a modular home between existing structures or serve as a monumental tower when stacked upon one another. The new kit of parts allows for complete interior customization for the low-income housing units. The screen function will also shift, once from being a mechanism to share COVID-19 related information / statistics, and now being used as an advertisement screen, allowing for Pod resident’s to maintain low-rent housing in their privatized homes, with the non-obtrusive advertisements existing on the exterior of the homes. What was once a sanitation mechanism, now becomes space for a bed or water heater. The pod, initially designed as a safe haven for physicians, now becomes a safe haven for healthy residents in need of an affordable home.
48
Exterior renderings showing future pod usage when functioning as a housing unit
COVID-19 Relief | Mobile Design | Health and Housing
Tower plan and pod variation section when assembled vertically as housing units
49
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
50
COVID-19 Relief | Mobile Design | Health and Housing
Final exterior winter rendering of Testing Pod
51
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
06
SPRING 2021 IN PRO GRESS WORK Central Park Theatre Intervention | ARCH 602 | Spring 2021 | (3 Weeks - In Progress) In Collaboration with Diego Ramirez
Each year, burials in the United States use 30 million board feet of wood (each board foot is 12 inches by 12 inches by 1 inch), more than 104,000 tons of steel, 1.6 million tons of concrete for burial structures, and 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid, according to an article in the Berkeley Planning Journal. The wood alone could be used to build 4.5 million homes. With modern day advancements in ecological research, an alternative to traditional burial methods has become using the human body as a biodegradable substance that can be used as a fertilizer to promote organic and vegetative growth. Ecological justice does not cease to exist when human life does. The Seneca Growth Complex attempts to incorporate and diminish the impact humans have by posthumously incorporating donators into new organic materials that will be used to grow, monitor, and sustain the native natural ecology of Seneca Village and of Greater Central Park.
52
The building is cyclical in nature, taking in and giving back what it receives: organic matter. As is nature, the complex is composed of different storage sectors dealing with the processing and storage of remains, to the analyzing and germination of plant and tree growth, to its final nursing stages befor becoming incorporated into the landscape. In the growth complex humans are secondary, with the greater ecology being the primary focus. During the early stages of this project development, we have explored design through drawing. Using a “big box” methodology, we have been able to create spatial configuraitons and atmosphere that we wish to explore further 3-dimensionally. The images shown are preliminary drawings used in order to not only describe atmosphere, but also human and nonhuman qualities and the ranges of motion or reconfiguration over time. The use of simple geometries has allowed us to explore the internal worlds available in theatre design through drawing.
Image: Concept diagram of biodegradable “Capsula” regenerating the human body into foliage
Ecology | Theatre | Ritual
Initial plan drawing studies illustrating two theatre spaces to celebrate both life and death
53
Graduate | University of Pennsylvania
54
Ecology | Theatre | Ritual
Initial section study illustrating the opportunities for new vegetative growth within Central Park
55
DA R I O B E N J A M I N S A B I D U S S I
122 Rock Rd West, Lambertville, NJ 08530 dariosab@upenn.edu | (908)894-4473
E D U C AT I O N 2022 2022 2019
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DESIGN Master of Architecture | Philadelphia, PA GPA: 4.0/4.0 THE WHARTON SCHOOL Certificate in Real Estate Design and Development | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania LEHIGH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with Honors (Summa Cum Laude) | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
E M P L OY M E N T 2020-2021
2019-2020 2019 2017 -2018 2017-2018
EWINGCOLE | Philadelphia, PA | Summer Architectural Design Intern, Part-Time Architectural Design Intern (Fall Semester & Spring Semester), Winter Architectural Project Manager Intern UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DESIGN | Philadelphia, PA | Laser Cutter Operator MOHAWK CONTRACTING AND DEVELOPMENT | Allentown, PA | Summer Construction Management Intern GARY R. O’ CONNOR - ARCHITECT LLC. | Lambertville, NJ | Summer Architectural Design Intern LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | Bethlehem, PA | Apprentice Teacher for ARCH 002 (2 Dimensional Design) with Jason Travers, Studio Assistant for ARCH 243 (Undergraduate Studio) with Nikolai Nikolov
I N V O LV E M E N T 2020 2020 2019-2021 2019-2021 2018 2017-2019 2016-2019
PEER MENTOR | Selected Weitzman School of Design student mentor BABBLE | Student-run architecture publication, Editorial Team Member PENN DESIGN REAL ESTATE CLUB | Club Member ZELL LURIE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | Mentorship Program Member CLASS OF 2022 ORIENTATION | Summer Orientation Leader AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS | Lehigh University Chapter Co-Founder / VP ART ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN CLUB | Executive Board Member
AC A DE M IC HON OR S 2019-2022 2020 2019 2019 2015-2020
MERIT SCHOLARSHIP | University of Pennsylvania WARREN POWERS LAIRD AWARD | University of Pennsylvania PHI BETA KAPPA | Member of oldest Academic honors society PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR | Lehigh University DEAN’S LIST | Lehigh University, University of Pennsylvania | Awarded all semesters
COMPETITIONS & EXHIBITIONS 2020 2020 2019 2019 2015
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE POD | Surface Summer School at Penn - Honorable Mention SHIFTING TIDES | BLTa Architects Student Design Competition - 1st Place P.T. CAPTURE | PennDesign Archive Exhibition COLLIN’S FAMILY REAL ESTATE COMPETITION | 1st place in year long practicum competition SHAD FESTIVAL ARTS COMPETITION | Competition Winner
P U B L I C AT I O N S 2020 2020 2019
SURFACE MAGAZINE | Website feature for ‘Personal Protective Pod” PENNDESIGN PRESSING MATTERS 10 | “Living Green” & “Personal Protective Pod” project nominations PENNDESIGN PRESSING MATTERS 9 | “Urban Misplacement” & “Views Beyond” project nominations
PROFICIENCIES Software
Fabrication
56
Rhinoceros 6/ 7, ZBrush, V-Ray with Rhinoceros 6, KeyShot 8, 3D Scanning, Enscape, Revit, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe AfterEffects, Bluebeam Revu, ARGUS Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, CNC Milling, Physical Modeling, Hand Drawing
TO MY PARENTS Who have shared in all my joys and struggles, my failures and achievements; and whose interest in my work, as in all my ventures, was never less than my own, this book is affectionately dedicated.
O P E R AT I O N A L
S U B L I M E
D A R I O
S A B I D U S S I
B E N J A M I N
Un i v e r s i t y o f Pe n n s y l v a n i a M . A r c h