Studio Drum Collaborative

Studio Drum Collaborative is an architecture, design, planning and fabrication studio. Fabrication and experimentation are essential to their practice; through these undertakings they develop understanding of materials and abilities of craftsmanship and discover moments that might have otherwise missed. They believe in an interactive and collaborative design process that is structured around collaborations/partnerships with local and international professionals in the industries of design, planning, building, art and culture. They create architecture that is sustainable to its inhabitants through functionality, structural integrity and long-term viability.
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Critical to their approach and thinking is a dialogue about the value of design within society, the quest for sustainable measures, high performance buildings, and innovation in terms of materials, systems, and construction methodology. All these goals are framed within an ongoing search for how one works within a contemporary context but also remains true to a regional and local character (HYPER-LOCAL).

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Hervé Sabin served various architectural practices in New York as both Project Architect and Designer. His portfolio includes projects of varying scale including churches, schools, and private residences. Some of his experiences lie in the top tier luxury residential market having spent five years in the office Cicognani Kalla Architects working on houses and apartments in New York City, Long Island and Greenwich, Ct.

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He received his professional degree in architecture from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in 1998 wining the Robert Jensen Memorial for design and theory and earned Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design in 2001 with outstanding merit award. His studies have also led him to Columbia University where he completed courses on infrastructure in developing countries with a focus on facing challenges in squatter settlements.
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Hervé started engaging back with Haiti in 2006 with the founding of the Rural Haiti Project to work with children in rural communities as leaders and ambassadors for change.  He returned to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and since he has designed several projects such as Ecole de Choix, Ecole La Dignité in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity which were published in the March 2012 issue of Architectural Records. In addition, he has through his leadership of Studio Drum Collaborative designed several masterplans for the development of Ecole St Trinité, Couvent St Margret and Centre d’Agriculture St Barnabas in Terrier Rouge, Northeast Haiti, St Vincent’s center for the Handicap’s residential campus and He has served as the local architect for Cathedral St Trinité with Kerns Group. He is currently designing the design of their medical clinic in downtown Port-au-Prince, kay Tita; a community learning and co-working space anchored in the culture off coffee and residential projects that strive to marry the client’s wishes with local resources, building systems addressing seismic and hurricane activities which Haiti is prone to. In addition, those projects incorporate sustainable design measures along with a goal to use local crafts and materials (hyper-local) in creative and efficient ways to achieve a wholistic system.
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His architecture practice spirals into woodworking, furniture and painting.  His work has been exhibited in Miami and New York.