Shiva Abbaszadeh, Art & Architecture Portfolio

SHIVA ABBASZADEH ART & ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2022 - 2024

SHIVA ABBASZADEH New York, NY M : (631)624-2309 E : shivaabba1739@gmail.com

Work Experience

Education

Ravenswood Generating / CCNY Model Maker January 2024 - March 2024

CUNY City College of New York Architecture, General Architecture Art, Studio Art GPA: 3.92 August 2019 - May 2024

Adrienne Arsht Internship at the MET Exhibition Design Intern September 2023 - December 2023 Accessibility in Lisbon History / Theory Travel Fellowship April 2023 - Present

The Fontainebleau Schools of Music & Fine Arts Architecture Program July 2023

BKSK Architects LLP Architectural Intern June 2022 - August 2022

Stony Brook University Civil Engineering Art, Studio Art GPA: 3.77 August 2017 - December 2018

Terjesen Associates Architects Architectural Intern October 2019 - December 2021

Kings Park High School Mastery in Science Class of 2017

Mancini Mui Architecture Full-Time Architectural Intern February 2019 - August 2019

Academic Roles

Honors & Achievements

Curatorial Head Spitzer School of Architecture THE WALL Exhibition Fall 2023 - May 2024

Metropolis Future 100 Spring 2024

Research Assistant Clay/Robotics/Lichen With Professor Frank Melendez Spring 2023 Teaching Assistant 2nd Year Undergrad Arch Studio 3rd Year Undergrad Arch Studio Fall 2022 & Spring 2023 Member of WX Women Executives in Real Estate 2024 - Present Member of PWC Professional Women in Construction 2023 - Present Member of AIAS American Institute of Architecture Students 2023 - Present Member of The Architectural League 2023 - Present

WX Scholarship Recipient Spring 2024 CCNY/AIA Bronx Hunts Point Competition 1st Place Spring 2024 Dezeen Article Feature Ten architecture projects by students at City College Fall 2023 CCNY/AIA Bronx/Kingsbridge Armory Competition 1st Place Spring 2023 PWC Scholarship Recipient Professional Women in Construction Spring 2023 Frank Wayde Hall Travel Scholarship Recipient Spring 2023 Castagna Scholarship Recipient Spring 2023 Bernard L. Spanier Scholarship Recipient Spring 2022

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BRONX COLLECTIVE ECOLOGY

ACCESSIBILITY IN LISBON

P.A.T.H.S.

GENERATIVE LANDSCAPES

RAVENSWOOD GENERATING MODEL FABRICATION

ARTISTIC EXPLORATION

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BRONX COLLECTIVE ECOLOGY PROFESSOR FABIAN LLONCH

The Bronx Collective Ecology (B.C.E.) is an adaptive reuse of the Kingsbridge Armory. Held as a competition with CCNY/AIA Brox/Kingsbridge Armory, this project took first place and was also featured in Dezeen. Completed in collaboration with Wyatt Kuebler and Kingsley Chong, the B.C.E. tackles complex social, economic, and environmental challenges faced by the Bronx community through sustainable agricultural practices and modular design.

Implementing vertical farming alongside ecological programming (the relationship between organisms and their surroundings), the BCE transforms the Armory into a nurturing space; housing a dynamic marketplace, a rooftop garden, poultry farming, makerspaces, recreational spaces for the community to inhabit, and educational spaces to nurture the minds of the students within the extensive network of educational facilities in this vicinity.

By reimagining this expansive site (~22 million cubic feet) through a systematic modular organization based on preexisting conditions, we create productive spaces while still fostering individual experiences made within a community.

Scale : 1/8” = 1’-0”

Existing Armory Column Grid

BCE Column Grid

Broadway Inclusion

The site begins with the existing armory column grid. Extruded upwards 5 stories, these blockings create spaces sized 30’x30’. Once our Broadways are implemented, we incorporate our cores, the only source for accessible vertical movement. These cores are connected to programmed spaces and these spaces are then interconnected as well, creating a variety of single height and double height spaces bleeding into each other. Vertical farming remains a vital base for virtually all blockings, set on a vertical conveyor belt and returning back to basement level -2 where collection occurs.

Exterior Programming

Interior Grid with Broadway Extension

Core Inclusion

Core Extension

Program Extension

Concept Blocking

Core Vertical Farming Single Height Double Height

The concept blocking depicts the origin of program organization. With a succinct division of space between vertical farming, core towers, and other various ecologically-oriented spaces, this blocking provides a basis to apply to the entirety of the armory. Due to the intricacies of our “Broadways”, creating irregularities within our program, the concept blocking must adhere to this. Visually, this can be understood in the series of diagrams above.

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Vertical Farming

Family Unit

Joined Single Unit

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Recreational

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Vertical Farming Venue Space

OfficeSpace

Arboretum

Tech Space

Lounge/Cafe

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Rooftop

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Fourth Floor

Third Floor

Second Floor

Ground Floor

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Scale : 1/8” = 1’-0”

ACCESSIBILITY IN LISBON HISTORY & THEORY TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP

This is a study of the accessible walkways along the streets of the Historic District in Lisbon, Portugal. This research contributes to the available knowledge of traversable routes at a hyper-specific, street-by-street level of documentation. This is beneficial to not only the elderly and disabled, more specifically wheelchair-bound residents, but to tourists as well. With a consistently growing population of elderly residents in this city, access to this branch of information would be most beneficial. This study also brings awareness to the lack of accessible streets of European cities such as that of Lisbon. This analysis creates a series of maps which highlight the accessible routes in relation to slope of the sidewalk, paving material, and sidewalk width. These maps will devise a color-coded key, displaying a range of accessibility for each street based on the collected on-site data.

06.12.23; Santa Maria Maior

On-Site Mapping The following series of maps contain the scope of this project and the entirety of the collected on-site research study. Each street within this scope was measured with the most priority towards sidewalk presence and width, along with street slope and street materiality. The sidewalks were majority cobblestone, unless notated otherwise in areas typically located towards the shoreline. Depicting locations of stairways was also a vital aspect of this research. It was these series of unexpected stairways that would span whole street lengths that seemed to provide to most difficulty towards accessibility. During my on-site studies, I also noted that this accessibility issue extended towards those who pushed around strollers for children, and any items that moved on wheels such as suitcases or trolley bags.

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Zone 2 In order to obtain this data, I divided the entirety of the area of study into 50 8.5” x 11” sheets, grouped by district number. Using these sheets, I walked, street-bystreet, and individually measured all existing conditions of note within the time span of 3 weeks.

Key Slope Angle

Red Text

Sidewalk Width

Blue Text

Cobblestone Street Paved Street Stairs

Zone 1

Zone 2

Slope Analysis In order to increase comprehensibility of the gathered data, I began digitizing the study area, beginning with this portion of Historic District 1. This area was the most challenging to document because of its slew of stairs oriented in a maze-like way. This map displays the set of slope data obtained, maxing out at 14 degrees in 3 separate streets.

The majority of streets in this portion were between a slope of 0-2 degrees and 3-6 degrees. This map also reinforces that the most accessible streets, in regards to slope, were located closest to the water.

Sidewalk Analysis This map analyzes sidewalk widths, organizing the data from each street into 3 categories: Streets that have sidewalks on both sides of the street that are both equal to or greater than 3’ in width, streets that have sidewalks on one side of the street that is equal to or greater than 3’ in width, and streets that either do not have sidewalks at all or have sidewalks that are less than 3’ in width or streets that are made up entirely of stairs. This portion of the Historic District of Lisbon was majority streets made up of entirely stairs, and so not having sidewalks of at least 3’ in width.

Road Materiality Analysis I also studied road materiality. It is safe to say that the sidewalks, unless specifically mentioned, are all cobblestone. As a result, I thought it beneficial to document the materiality of the roads as well since inhabitants of the city would tend to walk on the road itself because there were many streets that the sidewalks were either non-existent or insignificant. With this specific portion of Lisbon, the paved streets were all located adjacent to the shoreline.

0-2 Degrees 3-6 Degrees 7-12 Degrees 13+ Degrees Private Road Stairs

Both Sides 3’ ≥ Width One Side 3’ ≥ Width No Sides 3’ ≥ Width Private Road Stairs

Paved Road Cobblestone Road Private Road Stairs

Digitized Data Location Range

ON - SITE SKETCH STUDIES

P.A.T.H.S.

PROFESSOR FABIAN LLONCH

P.A.T.H.S., Providing Assisstance Through Holistic Services, located in Hunts Point in the Bronx, seeks to create a space that nurtures its residents from the time they enter to the time they reach a point of holistic comfortability.

Completed in collaboration with Nily Baratian and Leora Santoriello, this building allows its users to move through the designated programming as you would move through life. Considering needs from birth to retirement we provide facilities to advance each member’s growth relating to mental health, physical heath, and career.

This is in tandem with affordable housing where residents will have the opportunity to work within the building, both income-based and communityoriented sustainability-based, taking care of their building. We strive to create an ecosystem of self-sufficiency where users are guided to obtain an independent, sustainable, and comfortable life.

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Cutaways

Set Backs & Fill-Ins

Public Circulation

Private Program

Housing

Facade Diagram

30’-0”2

20’-4”

3 BED2

2 BED

1 BED

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39’-8”

Unit Diagram

Mural Design by Local Artist Mark

Lower Ground Floor

Pinckney

Ground Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

Fifth Floor

Sixth Floor

Seventh Floor

City Water Greywater Storage & Treatment

City Sewer

Treated Water

Rainwater Storage & Treatment

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GENERATIVE LANDSCAPES PROFESSOR GORDON GEBERT

Creating a new conversation bewteen the manual and digital, this study looks into creating three-dimensional landscapes on a small scale using treated sand and grasshopper coding. Building on top of previous research completed with grasshopper’s image processor, existing topographical LIDAR mapping is converted into x, y, z coordinates. This data is then converted to form a language which the robot will then use to tamp down a contained box of treated sant, recreating the inscribed landscape. This process creates a loop where the physical landscape can be manually altered and input back into grasshopper’s image processor to create a technical code for this manually altered form. This study becomes a discussion of the boundaries between the digital and physical, blurring the lines and creating a hybrid.

Another portion of this project is exploring the use of treated sand as a recyclable mold-making material. The inverted LIDAR map is inverted into the code to be inscribed into the sand. Then, using plastic wrap as the barrier, resin is poured into the treated sand mold and a 3-dimensional model of the topographical image is made.

Topographical LIDAR Map Fiji Basin Seafloor LIDAR Map

Hendrickson Canyon, WA LIDAR Map

Fairfax County, VA LIDAR Map

Inverted Topographical LIDAR Map

Fiji Basin Seafloor Inverted LIDAR Map

Hendrickson Canyon Inverted LIDAR Map

Generated Planar Surface From Image Processor

Generated Points From Image Processor

Fairfax County, VA Inverted LIDAR Map

Robot Integration Series 6” x 6” Container

Robot Integration Series 5” x 5” Container

6” x 6” Resin Model

5” x 5” Resin Model

Axon View

Axon View

Plan View

Plan View

Fiji Basin Seafloor

Hendrickson Canyon, WA

Robot Integration Series 12” x 12” Container Fairfax County, VA

RAVENSWOOD GENERATING MODEL FABRICATION Completed in collaboration with Mateo Penafiel, this project was a commission to design and build a 28” x 40” site model for Ravenswood Generating Power plant under Dean Marta Gutman and Fabian Llonch at CCNY. Its purpose is to highlight the proposed building represented in blue and gold, which will allow the plant to run on renewable wind energy, connecting to a nearby wind farm.

This model was created using a CNC for the base topography, a 3D printer for the buildings, and resin for the river.

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2 2’X2’ Panels; Acrylic on Wood Panels

ARTISTIC EXPLORATION My study of art revolves around greco-roman figures and architecture, mainly its sculptural elements. I find beauty in the contradictory quality of the representation of figures and fabric in stone. The juxtaposition of the softness of skin and fluidity of fabric against the rigidity of rock becomes a challenge in creation, and I deeply admire those before me who have undertaken this challenge. I, in turn, have created a new challenge for myself through my art: representing these sculptural figures 2-dimensionally. Whether this be the one-directional hatching I am constantly drawn to, or my move towards realism in gray-scale using the flatter consistency of acrylic paint, I strive towards displaying depth and effortlessness.

8”x10”; Ink on Bristol

8”x10”; Ink on Bristol

12”x36”; Acrylic on Canvas

4”x4”; Acrylic on Canvas; Sketch Painting Series

THE WARMTH OF ROME AND THE VATICAN

FINE LINES AND STRUCTURE

SHIVA ABBASZADEH THE BERNARD AND ANNE SPITZER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE