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INFO.
Date of birth: May 26, 1999
Place of birth: Miami, Florida
Residence: Miami, Florida
CONTACT.
786.280.4310
SikaffyDesign@gmail.com
SikaffyDesign.com
ABRAHAM SIKAFFY
Graduate Student
EDUCATION.
Master of Architecture: 2020-2023
Florida International University
Associate in Art of Architecture: 2017-2020
Miami Dade College
High School Diploma: 2013-2017
Doral Performing Arts & Entertainment Academy
High School
EXPERIENCE.
E&K Engineering: 2022-present
Project Coordinator, Designer, Drafter, MEP
Engineering Designer
Sikaffy Interiors: 2014-2022
Assistant in Interior Design, Drafter, Installer
LANGUAGE SKILLS.
Native proficiency: English
Proficient: Spanish
SOFTWARE SKILLS.
AutoCAD (2D, 3D + MEP)
Maya Revit
Rhinoceroses (3D Modeling + Grasshopper)
Twinmotion
Adobe Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, InDesign + Acrobat)
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access + Outlook)
FABRICATION SKILLS.
CNC Router
Laser Cutting
3D Printing
Woodshop
Metal Working Model Making
Visual Arts + Photography
01. Self Sufficient Colony On Stilts – Graduate Seminar 02. The Bridge Community Center – Comprehensive Design 03. The Mangrove Tunnel – Design 9 04. Artist Pavilion – Design 8
Project – Studio
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SELF SUFFICIENT COLONY ON STILTS
Graduate Seminar
Prof. Marcelo ErtorteguyThe project is established in the Florida Keys. With the intentions of opening conversation for the future of a sinking city. What would it take for self sustainable communities to evolve along side sea level rise. If the only things connecting these long-lost islands was a road, how could native architecture morph into new uses. In 1929 Monroe County built a Bat cave that no longer stands. This project works with many architectural features of the historic structure to create a self-sufficient community plaza and boardwalk. The structure reacts the the change in tides and sea level rise while respecting the topography to foresee the future of Sugarloaf Key in the Florida Keys.
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DIAGRAMATIC PLAN
DIAGRAMATIC PERSPECTIVE #1
DIAGRAMATIC PERSPECTIVE #2
DIAGRAMATIC PERSPECTIVE #3
MODULE STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE
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THE BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER
Comprehensive Design
Prof. Juan Alayo
The following project is inspired by the ground that once was ran straight through the marshes of Florida but now divides between high end commercial and low-income residences. Located at the edge of Miami’s Design District lies an abandoned scaled Livingroom sculpture that now demarks two different worlds. The community center that is being proposed is aimed to merge the condition between both sides of North Miami Avenue. Depicting the outlandish facades and designs of the east with the vivid overgrown greenery of the west. The spaces found inside are art exhibitions and auditorium with performance spaces. The curriculum involved complete plans including structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and reflected ceiling plans with a full study of the site withing the constraints of a shortened summer semester.
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NW 40 STREET NORTH MIAMI AVE 11 GROUND FLOOR PLAN FOURTH FLOOR PLAN FIFTH FLOOR PLAN
EAST ELEVATION WEST ELEVATION SOUTH ELEVATION 12
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THE MANGROVE TUNNEL
Design 9 (Sustainability)
Prof. Alice Read
The goal in this studio was to create self sustainable community center for North Bay Village that gives back to the people of the island and for is coastlines. The project proposed is a community library with kayak rentals and a mangrove tunnel boardwalk with solar powered charging ports throughout the park. The landscape is layered with and interviewing boardwalk that inlays with mangroves and a river for kayakers that changes based on the tides. The mangroves provide a live coastline and shelter for recovering native Florida species and sound mitigation from the loud city life for readers trying to get away. Lastly, the skin of the building is tailored to the solar orientation of the building. The perpendicular louvers mimic the movement of the mangrove roots as it provides a passive cooling system. The louvers become dense and wide in areas with higher exposure to sunlight.
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MANGROVE CANOPY LAYER #1
WALKABILITY
LAYER #2 (HUMAN/LAND CIRCULATION)
MANGROVE CANOPY
LAYER #1
LAYER
(HUMAN/LAND CIRCULATION)
HIGH TIDE
CANAL SYSTEM
LAYER #3 (KAYAK/WATER CIRCULATION)
WALKABILITY
LAYER #2 (HUMAN/LAND CIRCULATION)
CANAL SYSTEM
LAYER #3 (KAYAK/WATER CIRCULATION)
CANAL SYSTEM LAYER #3 (KAYAK/WATER CIRCULATION)
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#2
HIGH TIDE
LOW TIDE
16 BUILDING PLANS BUILDING PROGRAM Abraham A. Sikaffy Sikaffy Interiors 1845 NW 112th Miami, FL 33172 Sikaffyinteriors3@att.net Abraham A. Sikaffy Interiors 1845 NW 112th Miami, FL 786.280.4310 Sikaffyinteriors3@att.net DWG: Abraham A. Sikaffy Interiors 1845 NW 112th Miami, FL 33172 Sikaffyinteriors3@att.net A-1 TITLE 1' = 1/8" SCALE DWG: Abraham A. Sikaffy Interiors INSERT PROJECT NAME A-1 OFFICES LOUNGE LIBRARY BUILDING PLANS BUILDING PROGRAM Sikaffy Interiors Sikaffy Interiors A-1 Sikaffy Interiors A-1 Sikaffyinteriors3@att.net TITLE 1' 1/8" SCALE INSERT CLIENT NAME INSERT PROJECT NAME A-1 Abraham Sikaffy TITLE INSERT CLIENT NAME INSERT PROJECT NAME A-1 OFFICES LOUNGE LOUNGE LIBRARY KAYAK RENTAL SITE PLAN
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THE ARTIST PAVILION
Design 8
Partner: Suselmis Pereira
Prof. Albert Elias
The Artist Pavilion is a project that hosts a space for an artist to live in, a studio for the artist to work at, and a gallery or exhibition area. Our pavilion consists of five masses. Two out of the five masses are semienclosed spaces for the artist: comprised of the living space and the workspace/gallery. The other three masses display repetition of form throughout the park as variation of the structural masses. The pavilions are tailored to Kinetic artists like Theo Jensen. The art is displayed in the open grass courtyard created by the pavilions and the trees of the Miami Beach Botanical Garden.
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Research + Concept Design – 50% ////////// Design – 80% ////////// Visualization – 50% //////////
MODULAR ASSEMBLY
TRADITIONAL STONE PLINITH FOUNDATION
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