DANTE BALDASSIN Design PORTFOLIO
Syracuse University School Of Architecture Shoreditch, London
Under the Lights
Roosevelt Island, NY
Landscape as Building
Roosevelt Island, NY
Dwelling as Identification
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Dante BALDASSIN
Florence, Italy
Sketches
Manhattan, NY
Professional Work
Florence, Italy
Facade Factory
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Architectural Design PORTFOLIO
309 E 83rd St, New York NY, 10028 1 . 631 . 357 . 2528 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 optimization. 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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Layout of residential plan is determined by structural 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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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 promenades. 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, towards the center of the island, and acts as an extension 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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Under the Lights Spring 2016
Site: Shoreditch, London Program: Mixed-Use Urban Folly Sq. Feet: Approx. 35,000 sq. ft Partner:
Deena Darby
This project maps the city through light, using the lightscape that is produced through illuminants from both private and public sources. The individual lighting infrastructures of Shoreditch come together and create an entirely new landscape that can only be seen at night. This project attempts to create an atmospheric public space though combinations of pooled light that create choreographed connections and separations between programs. It illuminates the distinction between the activators of the space; those whole live, work, and interact with the environment. As the roof isolates, unifies, and personalizes the connected courtyards covered by the lighting infrastructure, it offers a flexible nightscape allowing different ways to see and experience this internalized city.
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Facade Factory Fall 2016
Site: Florence, Italy Program: Facade Fabricator Sq. Feet: Approx. 90,000 sq. ft Partner: David Heinrich
This project provides a critical reflection on the mindset of Florentines and their apprehension to alter and amend historic buildings in an attempt to preserve nostalgia and history. Florentines foster a hesitation and resistance to alter these historic buildings in any way, other than to preserve what has already been established, even if it means completing a historical landmark to its original intension. This project boldly makes the choice to update and complete these facades that have been left plain for so many years. This thickened facade wrapper is now seen, first and foremost, as a large scale facade production factory”. It serves all aspects of production from importation of materials to assembly to exportation of the final product. The continuous fabrication of these “Authentic Facades” exaggerates the acknowledgment of something that has already happened due to the blind replication that already occurs. The Facade Factory demonstrate a trend that already exists, exaggerating it through imagining alternative forms of replication which deal with mass production of architecture.
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Professional Work FR-EE I Latin American Art Museum
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Professional Work FR-eE I FREE City
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London Mixed -Use Housing, Unknown
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Ca d’Oro, Giovanni Bon
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San Giorgio, Andrea Palladio
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Tempietto di San Pietro, Donato Bramante
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San Lorenzo, Filippo Brunelleschi
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DANTE BALDASSIN 309 E 83rd St, New York NY, 10028 1 . 631 . 357 . 2528 I dabaldas@syr.edu