DILIA TABORA
B. Arch, Selected Works 2012-2015
ISOLA TIBERINA piazza + cultural center 01 year
2015
place
Rome, Italy
collaboration
Ahmad Jawdat
The proposal for this project includes the creation of two well defined piazzas and the creation of a cultural center to increase the value and use of the site. The island is home to Rome’s hospital and to the church of San Bartolomeo, both of prominent historical significance. The additional program, a Museum and a Medical Library, enhance these existing functions. Similarly, the parti seeks to enhance the urban fabric by enclosing public spaces in a way that is more typical of the Roman piazza.
EXISTING PIAZZA
PROPOSED PIAZZAS
EXISTING BUILT STRUCTURE
PROPOSED BUILT STRUCTURE
south elevation
View from Hospital Entrance
View from San Bartolomeo Church
Approach from Hospital to Church
ORIGAMI PIXELS kinetic facade 02 year
2014
place
Wynwood Design District, Miami FL
The digital design studio encouraged students to propose devices that could enhance the Wynwood district. It is currently a mix of empty lots and warehouses, but it is rapidly growing as an urban arts center, especially with the annual Art Basel events. To improve the relationship between buildings and public, I designed and built a prototype for a kinetic facade made of origami modules that open and close according to digital input. The screens made of hundreds of these modules will act as art displays (to maintain the character of Wynwood), but will also provide the opportunity to open the spaces for increased public exposure.
Horizontal Tracks Wheels Glazing Frame Origami Panels
digital programming I how it works The origami pixel prototype model can be opened and closed using a basic programming code designed to receive sensory input through motion sensors or through a button. Using an Arduino Uno microcontroller board, I was able to design the system to simulate a small portion of what could become a kinetic facade.
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Rendering showing the implementation of Origami Pixels on a prototype building in Wynwood. TOP RIGHT Rendering demonstrating the sliding facade to create a public room. BOTTOM RIGHT Rendering showing the facade as a potential canvas for art and marketing.
PICO VERDE hotel + urban planning 03 year
2014
place
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
The project begins with the re-zoning of the district of Porto Maravilha in Rio de Janeiro. The area is currently an array of warehouses and low density structures. The new zoning incorporates new construction that will revitalize the area, the addition of public parks, and the reactivation of the pier and waterfront area. A lot has been designed as a hotel, showing the potential of the site for the neighboring community and Porto Maravilha’s tourism. ***building blocks used to study the proposal’s main idea: to imitate the favelas with units that pop in and out to create interesting edges and openings.
New Zoning Proposal
Public Parks for Community
Reactivation of Water Front
Section A
Section A
TOP Rendering of the interior BOTTOM Rendering from the
courtyard/lobby. hotel’s pool deck
DUO-O mixed use complex 04 year
2013
place
New York City, NY
collaboration
Aky Fernandez
The DU-O is an affordable and luxury residential hybrid building located on tenth avenue between 18th and 19th street in West Chelsea. The building shares a border with the Highline, a pedestrian promenade that provides significant potential for a public program in the project. The duality in form is driven by the idea of point and counter-point. These contrasting towers engage in a dialogue that enhances their surrounding urban space.
Southeast Section
PRIVATE SPACES
Typical unit in the affordable housing tower.
PUBLIC SPACES
the connection to and
PRIVATE SPACES
Typical unit in the luxury tower (2 units per floor)
PUBLIC SPACES
indoor swimming poo
d extension of the highline park
ol with skylights towards the public park
PARTI
STRUCTURE
SUN PATH
HighLine Connection Art Gallery
PUBLIC SPACES
THE LOOP competition entry 05 year
2012
place
Miami, Florida
collaboration
Melodie Sanchez
The bridge proposes a pedestrian oriented connector in a predominantly vehicular intersection in Miami: Biscayne Boulevard. The 331’ bridge spanning from the American Airlines Arena to the Exhibition Pavilion is designed to have no vertical supports directly carrying the load of the bridge so that the experience for vehicular traffic is not affected negatively by the addition of dark areas or underpasses.
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3. 1. Project Site 2. American Airlines Arena (Concert Venue) 3. Freedom Tower (Historic Site)
ABOVE rendering of the eliptical courtyard in the proposed RIGHT view walking across the pedestrian bridge
pavilion
The project aims to create a structure that is light and suspended from the air, as if floating. This feeling of weightlessness is reinforced through a minimal use of carefully selected materials in every aspect of the bridge, from the railing to the glass floors.
KEY WEST preschool + garden 06 year
2012
place
Key West, FL
This project is a two part development that takes advantage of under utiliized lots in a residentialneighborhood, Solares Hill. First, a public pavilion that embraces the geographical concept of Key West as an island to provide the neighborhood with a water garden. Second, a small preschool that meets the programmatic and traditional style of the city. The architecture in Key West is shaped by the area’s climate. It consists, predominantly, of wood-frame construction of one to two-and-a-half story structures set on foundation piers, peaked metal roofs, horizontal wood siding, pastel shades of paint, louvred shutters, covered porches, and wooden lattice screens.
Canary Date Palm
Chilean Wine Palm
Grid Layout
Christmas Palm Cabbage Palm
Island Concept
Parlor Palm
Florida Thatch Palm
Proposed Landscape
Axonometric of proposed school house (ink on mylar)
Longitudinal section (ink on mylar)
Actual Model Size: 5’-6” x 3’-6”
assisting the interior design for the main lounge area in the Claridge Hotel.
Cover design by ORO publishers.
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