Nabil Davidson Portfolio

Nabil Davidson Architectural Portfolio

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Resume

Education M. Arch. | UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles B.A. in Architecture | UCB - University of California, Berkeley Awards and Honors Metropolis Future100 Class of 2026 Carlin Glucksman Fellowship | Design Excellence Welton Becket Scholar Award | High-Achieving Student The Franklin D. Israel Memorial Fellowship | Excellence in Design The John V. Mutlow Scholarship Fund | UCLA AUD Design Process | University of California, Berkeley CED 1st Place at the Living Community Challenge | CCC Architecture Program Architectural Experience LADG (The Los Angeles Design Group) | Project Intern 2024 - Present Neil M. Denari Architects | Project Intern 2025 Architects Local | Summer Intern 2024 Pressey & Associates | Intern Designer 2021 - 2023 Employment with UCLA UCLA AUD | NAAB Exhibition Prep Position 2024 - 2026 UCLA AUD | Teaching Assistant 2024 - 2026 Teaching Assistant Appointments: 123 Studio III. Benjamin Freyinger. UCLA AUD, BA Architecture. Spring 2026.

222 Architectural Mediation. Rancourt, Copp, Ayata. UCLA AUD, MArch. Spring 2024.

141 Technology I. Mohamed Sharif. UCLA AUD, BA Architecture. Fall 2024.

TeenArch Tech Seminar. Katarina Richter. UCLA Summer Sessions 2024.

TeenArch Tech Seminar. Katarina Richter. UCLA Summer Sessions 2025.

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Table of Contents

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Lincoln Art Collective

Instructor Project Year Collaborators Location

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: Kutan Ayata (AUD Vice Chair) : 2025 : EmaLee Davidson : Santa Monica

Upon visiting the site, we recognized the existing structure as one yearning for completion not an unfamiliar condition in LA. Our project seeks to engage with this incompleteness, re-imagining the building in its urban context through a strategy of temporal ambiguity. While maintaining the existing profile, the addition consists of two wavelengths pushing through one another, sliced with the sloped edge of the existing roof. At the heart of the project, a sunken courtyard presses into the ground from which the basement plan radiates, encircled by the ground floor, and crossed over by the upper floors.

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Lincoln Art Collective

Corner Image

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Building Section

Exporatory Rendering Reflecting a Wendey’s

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Back of house, Alley Side Jorn Utzon

Precedent Jorn Utzon

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Lincoln Art Collective

Ground Floor Plan

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Main floor exterior covered plaza

The project does not adhere to a singular reading: is it one building, three tubes, or many sawtooth profiles? Rather than a mere extrusion, the design embraces a multiplicity of forms. Mirrored profiles in plan and section create shifting volumes of light, defining a middle ground between texture and spatial experience.

Under the tubed galleries Proccess rendering

Under the tubed galleries

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Lincoln Art Collective

Top Floor Plan

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Shared Parking with Wendy’s

Santa Monica’s mild climate allows the project to blur boundaries between interior and exterior. Above, three galleries are organized into three distinct volumes that hover just below the roofline. Each gallery is enclosed, with northfacing skylights ensuring soft, diffused illumination.

Google Maps of the Lincoln Arts Collective

Building Model MODEL SCALE: 1/16”=1’-0”

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Lincoln Art Collective

Inside a Gallery

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Enlarged Detail Section

Enlarged Detail Model MODEL SCALE: 1/4”=1’-0”

Building Model

Enlarged Detail Model MODEL SCALE: 1/4”=1’-0” 15

Lincoln Art Collective

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Street Front, Pulled Chain Entrance

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Santa Monica, Ocean Park Tower

Instructor Project Year Location

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: Neil Denari (Previous Chair of AUD & Sci-Arch) : 2025 : Santa Monica

Density continues to increase; the studio posits that Santa Monica will have to become a beach front tower city. Rio de Janeiro is the core precedent for the studio as it is the cities urban fabric pushed right up to the edge of the ocean.

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Santa Monica, Ocean Park Tower

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2nd Street Entrance

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Santa Monica, Ocean Park Tower

Walkable Ground level stairs at the back side MODEL SCALE: 3/32”=1’-0”

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Santa Monica, Ocean Park Tower

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Frank Ghery’s Edgemar

Santa Monica is the genisis of far out design. Main street is dotted with several projects from Ghery and is now home to a high population of world renouned architecture firms. This city is primed for explorations that become normative. An LA Generic.

How do we select a color?

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Santa Monica, Ocean Park Tower

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Enlarged Elevation

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Santa Monica, Ocean Park Tower

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Six Houses, Two Walls

Firm : LADG Project Year : 2025 Competition : Small Lots Big Impacts Exhibition : The House Transformed Collaborators : Margaret Balich, Brian Bradley, Samantha Radice, Jack Raymond, Claire Rosenberg

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Six houses, two walls is a proposal for residential infill development in Los Angeles. Although specific to a parcel, the project indicates a repeatable strategy where dense, flexible mixtures of housing can at the same time create landscapes that are specific to their neighborhood terrain. The primary units are like a conventional three-story house that has been sheared laterally, so that two stories are under the pitch of the roof instead of one. There are six units in total. Two primary residences, each with an ADU and JADU that can be separated or joined to the primary unit.

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Six Houses, Two Walls

Walkable Ground level stairs at the back side MODEL SCALE: 3/32”=1’-0”

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Six Houses, Two Walls

Elevations

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The building expressed as just two slanted walls MODEL SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0” ADU B

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Half the model MODEL SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”

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Six Houses, Two Walls

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Each unit has a distinct layout MODEL SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”

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REBUILT HOUSE POOL

Trino Way

BASEMENT ADU

REBUILT HOUSE POOL BASEMENT ADU

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REBUILT HOUSE

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BASEMENT ADU Firm : LADG TERRACE Project Year : 2025 Project Type : Fire Rebuild Palisades Collaborators : Jack Raymond and Adam REBUILT HOUSE Cardenas POOL BASEMENT ADU

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Trino Way is a Fire Rebuild in the Pacific Palisades, post the Palisades fire. The region has strict regulations on floor area to prevent mansionization. The city allowed basement to be built without counting against the FAR. This phase of the project is about exporting what options the client had to build back their home to higher saftey standards and gain a sizable portion of interior floor area.

BASEMENT ADU

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Trino Way

Double Frontage Facade MODEL SCALE: 3/32”=1’-0”

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Program Diagram

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Post Fire Rubble Drone Photo

Post Fire Rubble Drone Photo

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Pre-Fire Floor Plan

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Preliminary slope-band-analysis

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Low hedges, perserving the clear view to the ocean MODEL SCALE: 3/32”=1’-0”

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