DANTE BALDASSIN PORTFOLIO
Syracuse University School Of Architecture
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130 Gerritsen Ave, Bayport NY, 11705 +44.770.490.6314 I dabaldas@syr.edu
Dwelling as Identification Fall 2015
Site: Northern Roosevelt Island. Program: Mixed-Use Urban Housing Sq. feet: Approx. 37,000 sq. ft The construct of dwelling in the urban fabric aims to create identity both in the context of its local environment and the larger framework of the city. A dweller’s connection with the community is situated on their adjacency to the public network around them. This urban social housing project is nestled between both the East River (off the eastern shoreline of Manhattan) and a communal field in the center of the island, essentially making the site an active bridge between the local community of Roosevelt Island and the larger construct of the city. Primary circulation fashions itself parallel to the river, focusing movement along the prominent features of the site that resemble community, where tertiary circulation serves to move out from this core to either field or city.
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Core Wall Diagram: Core walls are stacked vertically for optomization. Articulation of frame emphasizes the idea of living between structure.
Micro Unit: 360 sq feet. Mirrored core wall allows for utility efficiency. Apartment functions as an adaptable space allowing users to influence and manipulate space.
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Central corridor activates the public sphere allowing access to bar and lounge from exterior.
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Terrace provides alternate public circulation. Access through slotted structure of facade.
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Layout of residential plan is determined by stuctural spacing. Operable core walls serve to construct view and connection to the community and city.
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Alternating residential floor plans shift orientation and view providing a contrast in the understanding of identity. The adjustable screen facade allows occupants to construct experience.
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Mies RE-imagined Fall 2014
Site: Chicago IIT Campus (Crown Hall) Program: Installation/Exterior Skin Sq. feet: Approx. 3,600 sq. ft Partners: Thomas Kuei, Stephanie Li, Tabitha Hoag
In Mies’ Crown Hall, he celebrates the idea of a free, universal space, able to change to every need while maintaining a visual connection to its outside environment. While acclaimed for his approach to minimalism he is widely criticized for his building being void of context. To challenge this principle, we proposed an intervention that would both contextualize Crown Hall and provide multi-programatic usage for the occupant of the building. The proposed skin’s interior functions as seating for gathering where as the exterior produces both a covered walkway and protection from the elements such as sound pollution and excessive southern sun. Mies’ rigorous planning grid was the compelling organizational frame work for the skin, as for his three-tiered system of opacity motivated the density of the patterned facade. These components would allow for a variety of connections with the environment in which it resides, from a minimal and referential experience at the base to an explicitly direct relationship with the skyline of the IIT campus and the surrounding natural environment.
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Landscape as building spring 2015
Site: Southern Roosevelt Island. Program: Ferry Terminal Sq. feet: Approx. 62,500 sq. ft This project was formulated on the idea that buildings become in themselves artificial landscapes.The undeveloped southern portion of Roosevelt Island proved to be the perfect location for the fusion of building and landscape. Here there is a conceptual proposition to organize building form along a continuous boulevard, starting from below street level, then rising to its peak at the pier. This inherently creates a transition between landscape and the urban fabric, framing views of the surrounding cityscape. Interior landscapes provide seating for lounge areas, thus cementing the coexistence of nature and the built environment. As users occupy the interior, the roof becomes active as an observatory space. The roofs include openings that correspond to the interior landscapes below, creating relationships between the above and below. The proposal’s ambition aims to blur the lines between landscape and building, and interior and exterior, merging the constructs into a single entity.
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There is an extensive walkway that cuts through the entire site, connecting both the eastern and western prominades. The path’s procession submerges users into the landscape culminating in an extension out over the water becoming the ferry dock.
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The roofs of the buildings act as observation decks for the surrounding skylines. The forms grow out of the larger mounds, towrads the center of the island, and acts as an extention of the natural landscape.
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Transverse Section: Interior landscapes provide seating for lobby areas.
Longitudinal Section: Procession of the primary passageway, connecting both sides of the island .
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DANTE BALDASSIN 130 Gerritsen Ave, Bayport NY, 11705 1.631.357.2528 I dabaldas@syr.edu