[5] After working by day (as director of admissions at the Seattle Art Museum) and by night (in the studio) for several years, Sabin returned to school,[6] completing a master's degree in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.
[2][10][11] Using the organizational structures of cells as inspiration, Sabin designed networks of sheets, tubes, and larger forms based on simple mathematical rules, to explore the aggregation of parts in greater wholes.
[5] “Digital ceramics” classes explore the generative fabrication of a wide variety of materials, and interest students from biology and biomedicine as well as architecture.
[14][15] Sabin's hanging structure PolyMorph (2013), on permanent installation at the FRAC Centre in France, is made up of 1400 hollow ceramic modules held together with stainless steel cables.
[12] Modules, molds and drawings from the process and design stages of the work were part of the exhibition A Tipping Point: Technology in Ceramics, at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
[20] The knitted structures making up the installation were made of solar active yarns that absorb light during the day and release it at night.
[21] In 2018, Sabin and collaborator Mariana Bertoni received a Frontiers of Engineering grant from the Grainger Foundation to explore the emergent design and fabrication of solar panels.