Dario Sabidussi | University of Pennsylvania M. Arch | Graduate School Architecture Portfolio

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CONTENTS AC A DE M IC WOR K S 01. Views Beyond Penn Museum Archive Extension M. Arch Year 1 Fall Term, University of Pennsylvania ‘Student Nomination Project” -Pressing Matters 9

02. P.T. Capture Built Work Installation M. Arch Year 1 Fall Term, University of Pennsylvania

03. Chronicle HD Mix-use, multistory building HOK Design Futures Competition Submission

04. Fuse Pop-Up Installation Design M. Arch Year 1 Spring Term, University of Pennsylvania Schenk-Woodman Design Competition Submission

05. Microscopic Community Pattern Fabrication ARCH 257 Summer Term, Lehigh University

ONGOING STUDIES 06. Form Selected Current Studio Work University of Pennsylvania

07. Texture Selected Current Studio Work University of Pennsylvania

V I E WS BE YON D University of Pennsylvania School | 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 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.

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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.

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

F I L L E T E D B O U N DA R I E S The spacial arrangement of program is reinforced through the formal arrangement of spaces that protrude and extend beyond the Penn Museum boundaries. Program organization against the walls of the form allow visitors to engage and interact within a large lobby space while also creating channels of circulation that open up to the views available in spaces dedicated to social interaction.

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

E D U C AT I O N 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.

EXHIBITION 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.

ARCHIVE 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 form of the building.

AC CE S S 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.

Exploded Axonometric illustrating interior activity and floor-plan layout 10

Worms Eye Isometric Illustration and Section illustrating interior and space beyond 11

Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

Final Physical Model illustrating an implication of the extension within the site context

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Archive Addition - Fall 2019

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

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P. T . C A P T U R E University of Pennsylvania | ARCH 501 Fall 2019 | 3 Week Project Studio Critic: Daniel Markiewicz In Collaboration With: Martin Chen, Neill Shikada, Huichao Dong Project Responsibilities: Diagrammatic Drawings, Steel Bending, Framing, and Painting

Museums display artifacts in frames that - in an attempt to express impartiality and cleanliness - suspend them in de-contextualized frames. These artifacts are composed of information such as geographic origin, age, use, etc that are ignored by the museum display in favor of a superficial framing. The superficiality of the museum display rips these artifacts from their contexts – framing them like a photo on the Internet devoid of information.

Following this tradition, this cabinet suspends each artifact in an enclosed mass and frames them in isolation. The viewer lacks the information necessary to understand that the form is derived from the obscured information contained in each artifact. In plan, each artifact is arranged according to geographic origin while in elevation each is arranged according to temporal origin. The museum groups all these diverse objects together in one unified space and context that lends itself to the singular mass that constitutes the cabinet’s form.

Inspired by Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair, the palette limitation for the project was 1” diameter tubular steel. Welding, steel bending, and various jointing methods were utilized in order to construct the cabinet. The cabinet was displayed for 4 weeks within the Penn Museum Courtyard before being disassembled.

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

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SACRIFICIAL CUP 1400 - 1532 CE Peru

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Within the context of the museum, the stories behind each artifact is dismissed, including their role in history and the cultures they were apart of. The installation aims to criticize the museum by strategically exposing the information the museum dismisses, yet hiding the information for the viewer to decode. The artifacts are located based on a conceptualized map illustrated through dowel “points� as well as organizing them spatially on a vertical plane by locating the objects origin through time. In doing so, the objects are placed logically and symbolically based on their history through place and time, and the artifacts are made visible through a simplified framing system based on the artifacts shape and size.

FUNERAL VASE

1868 - 1944 CE China

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

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CHRONICLE HD HOK Design Futures Competition Winter 2020 | 1 Week Project Group Partner: Hadi El Kebbi Project Responsibilities: Floor Plan, Section, Renderings

Chronicle HD is an homage to the classical architecture that defines Philadelphia. Rising above, a mass high rise re-frames the understanding of classical architecture as an urban asset. HD reconfigures the public-private relationship and misreads familiar typology to optimistically re imagine a Philadelphian Market street. By reinterpreting the rich history of Market Street, this project explores the implementation of new material and form reminiscent of the classical essence of building design, once dominating the proposed site and beyond.

Having its form derived from mapping public circulation throughout the city, particularly in relation to Market Street, HD serves as a monument standing representative of the city’s never ending dynamism. It proposes a fantasy for a new life on market street, integrating private and public spaces and activating the program through a series of networks connecting both residents and pedestrians.

Thus, circulation is a necessary element in the experience of HD. With its many circulatory forms and networks dispersed throughout the building, it enables the inhabitant to experience HD through different moments newly activated. This one-week project was used for submission in HOK Design Futures Competition, requiring a multi-use building for commercial, residential, and office usage.

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania Floor 16 +231’-0”

Floor 15 +218’-0”

Floor 14 +205’-0”

Floor 13 +192’-0”

Floor 12 +174’-0”

Floor 11 +174’-0”

Floor 10 +156’-0”

Floor 9

+138’-0”

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+123’-0”

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+110’-0”

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Floor 6 +97’-0”

Floor 5 +73’-0”

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Floor 4 +55’-0”

Floor 3 +35’-0”

Floor 2 +15’-0”

C I R C U L AT I O N A S E X P E R I E N C E The spacial arrangement of program is introduced as a systematic split between the various uses: residential, office, and commercial. The atrium system in both the commercial space and residential serves as a unifying unit for the programs, creating a unique architectural experience including visibility to multiple floors as well as bridges and stairs connecting tying the program together.

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PROGRAM KEY 1) 1a) 1b) 1c)

Residential Lobby Residential Apartments Res. / Office Restaurant Res. / Office Gym

2) Commercial Space 3) 3a) 3b) 3c)

Office Lobby Office (Business 1) Office (Business 2) Office (Business 3)

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

Locate Public Transportation to rationalize form

LO GIC DERIVED FROM MAPPING Understanding the public relationship to market street is essential in developing a new typology that will not only be seen as a radical change to the classical architecture in the area, but also stand as a monument of change. The massing strategy of HD is derived through a series of analysis. By locating points of public congregation at bus stops and subway entrances, a complex network of points can be created to derive a shape that will dictate the form.

Understanding the surrounding theme of classical arches allows the form to integrate the traditional style of the local architecture in a new and dynamic way, while still maintaining elements reminiscent of the architecture Philadelphian’s have grown to love. Curvature can be understood through the arches dominating the local architecture, but also through the transportation networks that control public movement.

Analyze surrounding architectural language using arches

Residential Office Commercial Follow Public Transportation routes to reinforce form curvature

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

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FUSE Schenk-Woodman Design Competition Winter 2020 | 1 Week Project In Collaboration With: Meera Toolsidas, Jasper Luo Project Responsibilities: Design Conception, Mapping, Rendering, Section

North of Race Street between 9th and 13th Streets is an area of Philadelphia commonly known as Callowhill/Chinatown North, an indecisive label indicative of the conflict the region represents. Since the 1960s, urban development and expanding transportation infrastructure has been eating away at the borders of Philly’s Chinatown, displacing and fragmenting deep-rooted communities.

Chinatown residents, motivated by both a historical claim to land and economic urgency, have since formed a movement resistant to further gentrification of the area. The group hopes to reclaim a larger area of the city in order to ensure the longevity of small businesses and promote the construction of affordable housing that would allow the community to remain intact. The current state of Callowhill/ Chinatown North is indicative of where the dispute stands today; developers have proposed a plan that involves the construction of high-income housing and modern industry, while Chinatown representatives have countered with a plan that would reestablish the traditional, small-scale community north of the Vine Expressway.

This project aims to illustrate the divide between the viewpoint of Callowhill and that of Chinatown, while also suggesting their ability to merge and coexist. While both groups call for different approaches to the transformation of Callowhill/Chinatown North, they are also both in favor of a cleaner, safer neighborhood. The proposed pop-up structures, one for each perspective, will serve as a circuitous exhibition, guiding visitors through the histories of Callowhill and Chinatown. Mural-covered bridges unite the two distinct structures, with artwork representative of the communities’ common goals and interests.

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

B R I D G I N G A C U LT U R A L D I V I D E The two pop-ups, one each to represent the Chinatown and Callowhill communities, are inspired by the symbolism of the Chinese lantern and the efficient modularity of modern industrial architecture, respectively. Drawing from the overlap of two divergent proposals, the project highlights the urgent need for street lighting in the increasingly dangerous and crime-ridden area, incorporating lighting as a means of uniting two dissimilar forms. Each pop-up contains art and photography that tell the story of it’s respective community, while the bridges that span between them contain murals that begin to merge two entirely different art styles. Visitors are able to enter either pop-up structure and travel easily both within and between them, absorbing knowledge about the claims of both communities to the land in question and understanding how both might compromise.

Merged Art

Callowhill Pop-Up

Chinatown Pop-Up

History of Chinatown Site Location Callowhill

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Section View illustrating connection between two pop-ups 32

History of Callowhill

Second Floor Interior View of Chinatown Pop-Up

Top Floor Interior View of Callowhill Pop-Up

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Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

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MICROSCOPIC COMMUNITY Lehigh University | ARCH257 Summer 2017 | 1 Week Project Studio Critic: Hyun-Tae Jung

Nature provides an endless series of patterns and structures from a visible to a microscopic level. The patterns visible from a microscopic level, when captured, possess rhythm and logic that can be utilized in architectural design. This project seeks to understand the rules and principles found in natural systems. By analyzing a microscopic wool fiber, the material organization of high complexity and beauty can be studied and visually represented 3-Dimensionally.

This parametrically controlled system demonstrates the opportunities that rise when applying architectural design to pattern logic found in nature.

Adaptive modeling techniques are used to re-conceptualize pattern logic within a material that is seemingly simple to the naked eye, yet highly complex and continuous at a microscopic level.

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Undergraduate | Lehigh University

MOVEMENT Diamonds allow for linear flow aggregation as well as the capability to interlock.

CONNECTION

Inspiration

Units not only emphasize directionality, but the points allow for a system of attachment.

VA R IAT I O N

Initial Trace

Height of individual units are gradually varied throughout the composition to create pattern landscape.

Use Quadrilaterals

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Accentuate Curves

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Height Analysis

Final Flow

Units are hand cut and placed strategically based on system mapping to create the pattern landscape.

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Microscopic Community Final Model - 16�x16�

In order to capture the organization and motion of the fibers density and pattern, the image was broken down into its basic elements. Through repetition and interpretation, the fiber pattern was re-conceptualized in three dimensions, ultimately resulting in a logical parametric landscape.

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ONGOING STUDIES: FORM University of Pennsylvania School | ARCH 502 Spring 2020 | In Progress Work Studio Critic: Maya Alam

This project is an experiment about giving form to design methodology based on design operations. Shape logic can be derived through a series of operations, creating an “Operative Design.� Through this methodology, a series of objects can be created using various steps and procedures in order to create an eccentric form.

Using this idea of eccentricity throughout the formal design process, the forms are activated using light and materiality while manipulating scale, foreground and background in order to create various aesthetics. When framing the objects, they can be perceived in various ways. The geometric study of the form provides a clear series of operations taken to create the form, and materiality allows the form to be expressed differently.

The eccentric nature of using a landscape derived from a photogometric scan allows the highly articulated forms to appear misfitting within their context.

The project is a play on randomness vs intentionality, pristine vs disfigured, and interior vs exterior. This exploration of eccentric forms will be used as the foundation for ARCH502 Design Studio.

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ONGOING STUDIES: TEXTURE University of Pennsylvania School | ARCH 502 Spring 2020 | In Progress Work Studio Critic: Maya Alam

Continuing the exploration of eccentricity within architectural form, this project began introducing texture as another level of resolution to form. By extracting data generated from digital mediums including Google Earth, multiple levels of resolution become available to be analyzed and explored in relation to form.

Profiles found from both digital mediums and natural elements were manipulated and stretched in order to portray the flawed and geometries developed through digital mediums in a new and eccentric way.

By analyzing the natural and artificial state of form and material, textures were derived that can begin to be studied in a three-dimensional lense. The texture not only assumes a three dimensionality through its contrast in color and shade, but when generating a bump map using the texture, another level of resolution can be added to the form.

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Texture used as facade treatment for form study

Texture derived from glitching and distorting image of concrete 45

DA R I O B E N J A M I N S A B I D U S S I

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E D U C AT I O N

HONORS / MERIT

UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DESIGN Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Master of Architecture with expected graduation May 2022 GPA: 4.0

UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA MERIT BASED GRANT Fall 2019 - Present Merit Based grant awarded due to undergraduate achievement

UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA WHARTON SCHOOL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Certificate in Real Estate Design and Development with expected completion May 2022 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Arts in Architecture- Summa Cum Laude

PHI BETA KAPPA Initiated Spring 2019 Selected to join the oldest academic honors society in the United States for undergraduate academic performance LEHIGH UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR Spring 2019 Full Tuition Scholarship awarded for fifth year after maintaining GPA <3.80

EXPERIENCE

DEAN’S LIST 2015 - 2019 - Lehigh University, University of Pennsylvania Awarded all semesters

MOHAWK CONTRACTING AND DEVELOPMENT Internship - Summer 2019 - Allentown, Pennsylvania Was able to effectively facilitate communication between client, architect, and subcontractors while gaining experience in estimating and overseeing projects

SHAD FESTIVAL ARTS SCHOLARSHIP Summer 2015 - Lambertville, New Jersey Awarded $5,000 scholarship in Lambertville, NJ / New Hope, PA regional art competition

GARY R. O’CONNOR - ARCHITECT LLC. Internship - Summer 2017 / 2018 - Lambertville, New Jersey Worked for Professional architect to develop architectural rendering, design, and construction documentation skills APPRENTICE TEACHER FOR JASON TRAVERS 2D Design TA -Spring 2018 - Lehigh University, Pennsylvania Helped aid and teach students 2-Dimensional Design Software

AWA R D S / P U B L I C AT I O N S VIEWS BEYOND Fall 2019 - University of Pennsylvania Nominated to be published in 2020 Pressing Matters 9

STUDIO ASSISTANT FOR NIKOLAI NIKOLOV ARCH 243 TA - Fall 2018 - Lehigh University, Pennsylvania Helped teach students design process and visual representation

INTEGRATED REAL ESTATE PRACTICUM COMPETITION Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 Awarded first place in year-long Real Estate Competition, performing comprehensive research analysis to value a 235unit apartment complex located in Maplewood, New Jersey

I N V O LV E M E N T

SKILLS

PENN DESIGN REAL ESTATE CLUB Fall 2019 - Present - University of Pennsylvania

SOFTWARE SKILLS: Rhinoceros, 3D Scanning, Revit, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Office, Adobe Suite, BIM, Bluebeam Revu, ARGUS, V-Ray, Keyshot

ZELL LURIE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Fall 2019 - Present - University of Pennsylvania AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS Fall 2017 - Spring 2019 - Lehigh University Chapter Co-Founder / Vice President ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN CLUB Spring 2016 - Spring 2019 - Lehigh University Executive Board CLASS OF 2022 ORIENTATION Summer 2018- Lehigh University

MAKING SKILLS: Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, CNC Milling, Physical Modeling, Hand Drawing

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