JONATHAN DAVIS
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Bam 318–503–1244 jedavis503@gmail.com
I was born Jonathan Davis, but I go by Bam. Pursuing a career in architecture has been the most eye-opening and impactful experience in my life. It is a gateway to inquiry, questioning, and possibility. Folding in my diverse interests like carpentry, game design, fashion, and art, the study of architecture has developed in me a sympathy for the process of design. Process draws upon historical, societal, cultural, and other areas of influence that cultivate in me the desire to ask the right questions and solve the right problems.
S.T.R.A.W Published in JSTOR as part of the Landscape Architecture Foundation Green New Deal Superstudio. https://www.jstor.org/stable/ community.30959100 1/10/22, 11:08 AM
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B.Sc in Architecture Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA
Rhino 6 AutoCAD Lumion Illustrator InDesign Photoshop Grasshopper
Experience 2021-22
Architectural Associate M3A Architecture Jackson, MS
2017
Demolition Assistant ICNA Disaster Relief Monroe, LA
2018-20
Assistant Director Southside Economic Development Monroe, LA
Affiliations 2019-21
Vice President NOMAS–Louisiana Tech Ruston, LA
2019-20
Team Member Design-Build Option Studio Louisiana Tech School of Design
2021-22
Member Phi Sigma Theta National Honor Society
17–21 What we chose to do now is undoubtedly crucial, for the future of this planet. Everything matters.
This portfolio covers a range of projects during my undergraduate education at Louisiana Tech University. Atlas and S.T.R.A.W question the disciplinary boundaries of an architecture project, speculating on how design actions of care can spark environmental justice. In this studio, we participated in the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Green New Deal Superstudio. My work is published on JSTOR (link). I received high marks in our integrated design studio for my work on energy efficiency, passive energy strategies, and rainwater collection in a wellness center proposal for Florida Polytechnic University. I also participated in the ACSA steel competition with my entry RC–001. Finally, the SYCON anti-element museum accomplishes thoughtful design while approaching new techniques for cleaner air quality.
Roving City–001 The Anti-Element Wellness Center Atlas S.T.R.A.W
RC–001 Louisiana Tech University ARCH 415 — Fall 2020 Atlas / Operative
The Roving City is an exploration of a semi-permanent and roaming civic space, capable of migrating as needed. It travels from place to place, deploying at distinct sites and under varying circumstances. The Roving City is both of many sites and siteless, mobile and multi-dimensional. The modern urban city is defined by the framework of public realms and open space, creating opportunities for architectural experimentation, challenging convention, and speculation on steel fabrication. The effort to distort the relationship between site specific anchors and individual vessels produces tension, leaving the observer inquisitive about whether or not the anchor is compositional, grounded and stable, or some sort of pre-existing station.
Location will no longer be an obstacle do to the new re-plantable landscape.
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Liverpool Insurgentes Louisiana Tech University ARCH 325 — Winter 2020 Element Studio Tectonic Study
A tectonic study was conducted before beginning the element studio. The Liverpool Insurgentes is an addition to an existing department store. Designed by Rojkind Arquitectos, this annex challenges the notion of the closed box retail unit with a unique rout of circulation mixed in with store fronts. The facade was designed to create a blurred line between inside and out. The design is brought to life by moire patterns and optical art. Essentially, it is a layered facade composed of fiberglass, steel, aluminum and glazing. The addition was designed to bring an urban feel to downtown Mexico City.
Cement board base layer finished in gray color vinyl acrylic paint
2nd hexagons layer of different sizes of steel plate painted in matte white
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SYCON Museum of Pollution Louisiana Tech University ARCH 325 — Winter 2020 Element Studio
The design concept behind the SYCON Pollution Museum is based on the principal of bio-mimicry, a term coined by Janine Benyus. Benyus describes that there are a plethora of benefits within design with a reinforcement of biology. This museum follows distinct rules classifying it to this specific category of bio-mimicry. Benyus goes on to explain the 3 major points of bio-mimicry, shape or form, process and ecosystems. The form of the museum is a derivative of a sea-sponge, natures natural filter. This form in set in place to improve the immediate air quality of its surroundings using a special skin system. Titanium dioxide is capable of attracting high levels of PM2.5, which is a dangerous steel plant emission, which is without a doubt no stranger to the densely populated city of Bangkok, Thailand, where the museum is projected to be built.
The sculptural integrity of the form reinforces the idea of bio-mimicry.
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Sea sponges are multi-cellular organisms with pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them.
Bangkok Air Quality Index (AQI) currently stands at 124 due to steel plant pollution.
Florida Poly Wellness Center Louisiana Tech University ARCH 425 — Spring 2021 Sustainability Studio
In this studio, we were tasked with designing a sustainable student center with a focus primarily on water, energy, economy and community, to be built on the campus of Florida Polytechnic University. We engaged this task first by researching different means of sustainable design applicable to our region, studying precedents that utilize said strategies. We later would test the capability of our buildings with BIM, daylight and energy simulations using Insight 360. My primary focus when designing this structure was the opportunity of community. I wanted to create a sustainable piece of architecture that would connect public and private in a non-invasive way. The product of that research and development was the Florida Poly Wellness Center.
BOUNDARY EXCAVATION Excavate boundary for footprint of form, creating inhabitable relationship between earth and shelter
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The form responds in a modern and precise way in attempt to settle the program under the criteria of functional, ‘flexibility and versability.
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CAMPUS CONNECTIVITY Proposal achieves aspect of total inclusion, for aseembly, improving connectivity of campus community.
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D_Green Wall The ‘Green Wall’ Is assembled from the outside as such; ‘Hanging’ vegetation, Vine | Root housing mesh screen, Soil pods, with rain water collection pipes and finally the attached glazing.
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Atlas Louisiana Tech University ARCH 415 — Fall 2020 Atlas / Operative
The theme of this atlas is mainly deforestation, it explores the topics of pollution, natural disasters, old growth declination, fracking and replenishing through the aid of the groundwater. This atlas also specifically seeks insight on wildfires, fracking, pollution, aquifers, habitat destruction, land clearing, global warming, water pollution, natural disasters, mining and logging. The specific target region is the south east region of the US. The future this atlas leads us to is among the enlightened basis, understanding the severity of our presence, influencing changes, to suppress our inevitable fate. This atlas will benefit those seeking the information that will inform them on what lies ahead if we continue to molest the land, and what could happen if we made changes. The everyday human is the immediate beneficiary of the expected performed tasks, propositions if changes are made, “everydays” will enjoy the benefits of an improved environment. Within the focus of decarbonization this atlas will seek to invent possibilities for the health of our ecosystems and the regeneration of dense biomes, habitats and natural environments. Focusing on different scales of affected areas of the US to create solutions.
Jonathan Davis, The Cost of Deforestation. 2020.
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The theme of this atlas is mainly deforestation, it explores the topics of pollution, natural disasters, old growth declination, fracking and replenishing through the aid of the groundwater. This atlas also specifically seeks insight on wildfires, fracking, pollution, aquifers, habitat destruction, land clearing, global warming, water pollution, natural disasters, mining and logging. The specific target region is is the south east region of the US. The future this atlas leads us to is among the enlightened basis, understanding the severity of our presence, influencing changes, inefforts to suppress our inevitable fate. This atlas will benifit those seeking the information that will inform them on what lies ahead if we continue to molest the land, and what could happen if we made changes. The everyday human is the immediate beneficieary of the expected performed tasks, propositions if changes are made, “everydays” will enjoy the benefits of an improved enviroment. Within the focus of decarbonization this atlas will seek to invent possibilities for the health of our ecosystems and the regeneration of dense biomes, habitats and natural enviroments. Focusing on different scales of affected areas of the us in an attempt to explain the severity of our actions. We take a look into the potential critical health of our world and seek to provide serious speculation and critique to this serious problem at hand, driven by the economy minded and “progressive” US. This atlas will take a strong stance beside decarbonization, again in attempt to subdue some of the damages we continue to blindly promote.
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Deforestation refers to the long-term or permanent loss of tree canopy cover and the conversion of this land for other purposes. A 10 percent loss of canopy qualifies for this term. United States deforestation has caused the destruction of virgin forests by 75% percent since 1600.
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Early populations likely used a land-clearing method that involved burning forests, then planting crop seed among the dead stumps in the enriched soil. They would use a large plot until the yield began to decline, and then would burn off another area of forest for planting.
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In this map we see the amount of land area populated by hydraulic fracturing in purple, and in grey we see the number of fracking accidents resulting in human death.
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This map exempts the total area of aquifers in this region of the us, excluding the perimiter underground water not shown by state lines.
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This map isolates the specific aquifers in the area, seperating them by land mass. These aquifers will individually target the area of land that they encompass.
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Today’s old-growth forests developed along multiple pathways with many low-sverity and some high severity disturbances along the way. And, scientists are learning, the journey matters, old-growth ecosystems contribute to ecological diversity through every stage of forest development. Heterogeneity in the pathways to oldgrowth forests accounts for many of the differences among old-growth forests.
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Also termed primary forest or virgin forest, is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance. Old growth features include, diverse tree related structures that provide diverse wildlife habitat that increases the bio diversity. Old growth forest store enormous amounts of carbon in their trunks and allow even more to be stored in forest soil carbon in the atmosphere is one of the main causes of climate
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In this map we see the progression of the virgin forests over time, the lighter green representing the original forests in full, while the darker green shows us where the forests are as of 1920, since then deforestation hasnt ceased, forest declination still poses a serious threat to the health of the enviroment. This atlas will investigate the faults of human interaction that have caused massive destruction to this vital part of our ecosystems, in an attempt to invent useful ways of solving this problem.
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As humans our relationship with water is essential. Without it we shall surely perish. In my research for this thesis on the basis of utilizing the water table, I have come to understand the importance of water to every human. As we speak, hundreds of thousands of families are without clean water in Flint, MI. Many are forced to shower, cook and clean with bottled water. Corroded pipes in the state’s water system caused a harmful amount of lead to contaminate the drinking water. In 2015, it was recommended that the state declare the water unsafe for consumption. My thesis proposes an individual, modular well and filter system. Nicknamed STRAW, this concept-object has the sole purpose of replenishing life to the land. With the focus on deforestation and decarbonization, the straw is designed to access bed rock aquifers for its potable water. In a simple and feasible way, my thesis address the issues of decarbonization and justice. Published in JSTOR as part of the Landscape Architecture Foundation Green New Deal Superstudio. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.30959100
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Inadequate treatment and testing of the water resulted in a series of major water quality and health issues for Flint residents, issues that were chronically ignored and overlooked by government officials.
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imagine a device whose sole purpose is to provide a life source to those in need of it
Imagine relinquishing your right to the single most valuable source on the planet
In just eyes, water should be seen as a constitutional right
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To be without water is to be without life Utilize the water table
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Figure 2.5_ In home straw concept showing crawl space filter acces along with in home water supply access.