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JORDAN DUKE
Jordan always approaches design with curiosity and creativity. Her interest in public spaces began during her undergraduate studies in urban design, but solidified when after traveling for three years after graduation. She completed her Master of Landscape Architecture degree at the University of Toronto in 2016, which complements her degree in urban design. Her graduate level studies and work experience helped cultivate her interest in evidence based design, as well as need to negotiate the line between the scenic and the metric in landscape architecture. Jordan’s thesis project was awarded the American Society of Landscape Architecture’s (ASLA) highest student award in the General Design category for her project The Digital and the Wild: Mitigating Wildfire Risk Through Landscape Adaptions. Her project explores wildfire risk and management in the Adelaide Hills using digital technology and landscape alterations. Jordan has participated in the International 2015 Jardin de Métis Festival, the 2015 and 2017 Grow Op: The Culture of Landscape Exhibition and the Doors Open Toronto Rendering Toronto’s Landscape Exhibition. She frequently is a guest critic at the University of Toronto in both the graduate and undergraduate department. She is inspired by projects in landscape architecture that explore materiality, digital production and are multi-disciplinary in nature. She is in constant search for new knowledge through reading, modelling, drawing and designing.
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JORDAN DUKE e. jordan.duke10@gmail.com t. +61 413 897 348
EDUCATION
VOLUNTEER + LEADERSHIP
2013-16 University of Toronto Master of Landscape Architecture 2016
2015
Don Valley Design Charette at the Evergreen Brickworks || Toronto, Ontario
2015
Canada-Netherlands Resilient Cities Design Charette || University of Toronto
2015
Got Milkweed Volunteer || Friends of the West Toronto Rail Path
2015
Ontario Association of Landscape Architects - Student Representative, U of T
2015-16
Class Representative || Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
2013-14
Landscape Architecture Representative || UTGSU, University of Toronto
2013-14
Class Representative || Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
2011-13
Working Holiday || Worked in Australia
2011
Working Holiday || Worked in Scotland
2010
Certification of UK + Town Planning || University of Oxford Brookes, UK
2006-10 University of Waterloo Bachelor of Environmental Studies, Urban Planning Urban Design Specialization & Business Option
EMPLOYMENT 2020 -
Landscape Coordinator Town of Gawler || Gawler, SA
2019-20 Landscape Architect Oxigen || Adelaide, SA 2016-19 Landscape Designer Janet Rosenberg & Studio || Toronto, Canada 2015
Research Assistant Green Roof Innovation Lab [Grit Lab] || Toronto, Canada
2015
Landscape Intern North Design Office || Toronto, Canada
EXHIBITIONS + AWARDS 2017
Grow Op: The Culture of Landscape Exhibition, Participant - Flight
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ASLA Student Award: General Design Category, The Digital and The Wild
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Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, Award of Merit, Graduating Award
2016
ASLA Certificate of Honour, Graduating Award
2016
Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award, University of Toronto
2014-15 Admin Assistant to Director of the MLA Program Daniels Faculty || University of Toronto
2016
Ontario Association of Landscape Architects - Travel Research Award
2010
Urban Design Teaching Assistant University of Waterloo || Waterloo, Canada
2015
Macro/Micro/Myco installation at the 16th Annual Jardin de MĂŠtis Festival
2015
Jeffery A. Stinson Student Endowment Award, University of Toronto
2010
Heritage Program Assistant Ontario Heritage Trust || Toronto, Canada
2015
Wild for Bees Award, Awarded by Sustainable T.O.
Bus Operations Assistant Metrolinx || Toronto, Canada
2015
Grow OP: The Culture of Landscape Exhibition, Bee Nesting Habitat Analogs
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Co-curator of Doors Open Rendering Toronto’s Landscape Exhibition.
2015
Co-curator Student Work Exhibition at the 2015 TCLF Conference.
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Teaching Assistant Site Engineering; How to Design Anything; Undergrad Workshop Daniels Faculty || University of Toronto
Assistant Project Manager Public Works Government Services Canada || Ottawa, Canada
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 2015-
Member of American Society of Landscape Architects
SKILLS Design Adobe Creative Suite | InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator Sketch Up Pro Rhino 3D AutoCad Microsoft Office Physical model making Laser Cutting & Digital Fabrication Other
Fluent in French, urban design background, comprehension of planning regulations, plant identification
PUBLICATIONS 2017
The Digital & The Wild featured in The Annual, University of Toronto. June 2017
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Macro/Micro/Myco featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine. Aug 2015
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Mimesis featured Landscapes/Paysages. Jul 2015
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Backyard // Forward featured in The Annual, University of Toronto. Dec 2015
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Something to Grow On featured in The Annual, University of Toronto. Oct 2014
GUEST CRITIC - REVIEWS 2018
Arc 364 Landscape Architecture Studio IV, Undergraduate. University of Toronto
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Arc 200 Drawing and Representation, Undergraduate. University of Toronto
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MLA 1, Landscape Architecture Studio, Graduate, University of Toronto
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Arc221H1 Representation, Undergraduate. University of Toronto
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ACADEMIC WORK The Digital & The Wild
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PROFESSIONAL WORK Janet Rosenberg & Studio
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BUILT WORK Macro/Micro/Myco 20 GRIT Lab 24
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THE DIGITAL & THE WILD
STRATEGY 1 // WEATHER MODIFICATION
MITIGATING WILDFIRE RISK THROUGH LANDSCAPE ADAPTATIONS
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA THESIS PROJECT, 2016
Fire plays a critical role in the ecological processes of the Australian landscape. But when wildfires become uncontrollable, human lives and infrastructure are put at risk.
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WINNER OF 2016 ASLA STUDENT AWARD CATEGORY: GENERAL DESIGN
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Rising temperatures and fewer rainfall days resulting from climate change is extending the wildfire season, making wildfires even more difficult to contain.
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STRATEGY 2 // EROSION ACCELERANTS
Using Cleland Conservation Park in South Australia as a testing ground, this thesis hypothesizes mitigating wildfire risk through digital environmental monitoring sensors paired with short and long term landscape adaptation strategies. An ongoing feedback loop of data compresses our reaction time to outbreaks from reactionary to preemptive. On a longer timescale, data processing can help adapt landscapes by tweaking ecological processes on site to generate fire breaks, windbreaks and reduce fuel loads.
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STRATEGY 3 // ARTIFICIAL WATERING HOLE
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These didactic devices employed across the site register environmental phenomena previously invisible to the eye, triggering human behaviour changes while generating new approaches to fire management and a new park typology.
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Short-term Artificial watering holes moisten surrounding soil and provides refuge during fire events for small animals.
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Long-term By activating the watering holes at times of water scarcity on sit, animals migrate towards the available water, subsequently bringing down fuel loads in the nearby area.
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FIRE CONTRIBUTION TIME SCALES OF MODIFICATION DOCUMENTING ON-SITE ELEMENTS WITHIN OPERATIONAL ELEMENTS ON SITE Short-term OF LANDSCAPE Contributes to fireARCHITECTURE THE AGENCY
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remote sensing and drones to Fire managementsatellites, systems use and monitor forests. satellites, remotetrack sensing and drones to track and monitor forests. 2
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Planes monitor the region daily and respond in emergency situations.
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Planes monitor the region daily and CLIMATE AND WEATHER respond in emergency situations. Hot, dry summer seasons are
contributing to increasing fire occurrences in the Adelaide Hills region.
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CLIMATE AND WEATHER 4 Hot, dry summer HUMAN seasons are INFRASTRUCTURE Hydrolines andfire roads cross the site. contributing to increasing occurrences in the Adelaide Hills region. 5 EUCALYPTUS TREES
Stringybark and blue gum eucalyptus trees contribute to fuel loads on site.
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WILDFIRES: PATTERNS OF IGNITION & MOVEMENT Specific variables in the environment affect fire ignition and spread. Fire spread is most impacted by topography and wind. Ignition, however, is impacted by many variables that are: locational, anthropogenic and/or environmental.
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WATERING HOLE
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Artificial watering holes
The devices adapt the landscape over time to generate longterm fire risk reduction strategies. The weather modifiers disperse cypress seeds; the erosion accelerants erode vegetation creating new fire breaks in the forest; and access to water attracts animals, bringing down fuel loads in the area.
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EROSION ACCELERANTS // MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE Indicating water availability in the regional water reservoirs, the number of pools activated within the erosion accelerants signal to park users times of surplus and scarcity.
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TRANSIENT MOORINGS GEORGIAN BAY, ONTARIO DESIGN STUDIO, FALL 2015
GREAT LAKEs basin WATERSHEDS The area surrounding Honey Harbour is best known for its cottage country and bucolic lifestyle. And yet the experience for the locals who maintain it is very different. The locals are reliant on the cottagers for jobs but have little agency or access to the beautiful landscape that they operate. This project aims to provide access to the water and offer alternative means of income and recreation for the local population, specifically during the winter months. As water levels fluctuate - but continuously decrease - over the next 25 years, some marinas in the region will become obsolete both physically and by the increased heavy costs of dredging; this phenomena will subsequently put many people out of work. The availability of these marina landscapes allow for new opportunities for locals to utilize the land productively. This will be accomplished through the incorporation of micro-industries which historically operated in the region and are highly tied to their location, while engaging with existing environmental systems. Critically, these productive landscapes provide new recreation opportunities for the residents during the offpeak months of winter. The project aims to give voice, agency and access to the residents that operate and care for this beautiful landscape in the north.
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MAPPING LAKES OF ONTARIO
INDUSTRY & RECREATION WORKING SIDE BY SIDE By providing new industries to this area, the wealth distribution among local residents equalized and improved. When the industrial sites are not in use, they become recreational playgrounds for the residents, catering specifically for programming enjoyed by citizens of the north (such as curling, seen above).
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MAPPING THE ENVIRONMENT By using experimental drawing techniques to map Honey Harbour, new understandings are gained. The site is documented and inventoried from varied viewpoints: from lichen, to fish to larger, geological timescales.
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WORK EXPERIENCE VARIOUS SITES AND PROJECTS
Having worked professionally in the field of landscape architecture for over three years, I have gained experience in all many stages of design, which include: Concept Design Detailed Design Tender Packages City Submission Approvals (Zoning, Site Plan Approval, Toronto Green Standards, Building Permits, etc) Request for Proposals / Qualifications (Graphics, Writing and Layout) Design Competitions (Graphics & Writing) The graphics included in the portfolio represent work I completed as part of my time at Janet Rosenberg and Studio and North Design Office.
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PORCELAIN UNIT PAVING (ON STRUCTURE) 150MM MIN. GRANULAR ‘A’ INSULATION & DRAINAGE BOARD CONCRETE SLAB. REFER TO ARCHITECTURE.
CONCRETE WALL WITH SMOOTH, ARCHITECTURAL CONCRETE FINISH. REFER TO STRUCTURAL AND SPECIFICATIONS. 3 - 15 T&B FOR SPECIES, REFER TO L300.
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BIG RIVER LANDSCAPE Nepean Point, Ottawa
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Nepean Point Compeition (Winner) http://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/projects/nepean-point-redevelopment INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION FOR NEPEAN POINT
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EXISTING STREETSCAPES
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ING GREEN STREETS TRULY GREEN
vision Sidewalk Lab’s ideas as seeds that, when d in the landscape and combined with other ementary innovations, will bloom into a robust array efits touching all aspects of sustainable, inclusive, onnected urban living.
ity of Toronto has undertaken a Green Streets ve intended to transform city streets into landscapestormwater processing infrastructure. According to ty, Green Streets will “help manage stormwater... ve air quality, increase bio-diversity and enhance eautify our public realm”. 1
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hallenge facing this initiative is that traditional, ented streets simply do not support effective mentation of Green Streets in Toronto. Sidewalk Adaptable Streets do.
utilities are removed from under sidewalks, have places to extend their roots and really grow. water can be collected and cleaned in these tree renches. Native habitants for birds, insects and e improves.
FUTURE STREETSCAPES
+ Consolidated utilities mean we don’t Smaller paved areas and Increased green space allow + birds and wildlife to navigate the city more safely
have to rip out trees for repairs.
+ Dynamic bike lanes mean less cars, and less solid and air pollutants around
Heated pavements mean less salt, which allows new species of plants and trees to be used at the streetscape level
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sidewalks are heated, the most significant deterrent erse, healthy streetside plantings in a cold climate g salt - is significantly reduced.
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daptive maintenance based on monitoring of soil ater conditions and you have what the City wants nnot currently achieve: a truly Green Street.
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The water’s edge is an integral part of Toronto’s collective softer landscape material provides new wildlife habitat can be collected and on-site understanding of itself. The mental image of ‘cottage + Stormwater and dually functions toabsorbed filter and retain stormwater before without having to enter the stormwater system country’ is framed by a muskoka chair sitting on a dock. returning it to the lake. And yet, in the downtown core, there are kilometers of hard edges and few places one can actually touch and feel We believe that a gradient of experiences is important . the lake. A harder edge near the urban plaza, but becoming softer and greener as it approaches the river outlet, mirroring These hard edges eliminate opportunities for wildlife the Villier’s Island development plan. The green edge also and aquatic habitat, and keep us four feet from the water improves climate resiliency, by absorbing and holding at all times. We envisage re-adapting the hard edge as water runoff before and after storm events, preventing ecological infrastructure. Replacing parts of shoreline with flooding. Softened waterfront edge mirrors future plans for the outlet and creates new habitat for wildlife near the Don River
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An improved waterfront will provide new recreational experiences and generate excitement and buzz again about living next to the lake. Layering these activities with easy to use digital8 platforms which help book, rent and access these activities truly improves the quality of life of Torontonians. This will make Quayside a true lakeside community.
Lighting designed by artists indicates safe swimming conditions in the lake
+ Rent your own island for the day!
New boat launches and lakeside activities
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+ Don't own a cottage? Now you can enjoy a dip in the lake!
+ Urban stormwater is filtered and used for the lakeside pool
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[above] Diagrams created for the Google Sidewalk Labs proposal in Toronto.
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[above] Rendering for a concept diving dock along Toronto’s waterfront [below] Rendering for a new urban pathway.
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MACRO/MICRO/MYCO SELECTED FOR THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL JARDINS DE MÉTIS FEATURED IN ASLA’S LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE // AUG 2015 MÉTIS-SUR-MER, QUEBEC DESIGN STUDIO // WINTER 2015
Emerging from the forest floor, Macro/Micro/Myco is a folded, modular structure hosting select varieties of mushrooms, and celebrating the role of fungi in fortifying and upholding our forest ecosystems. The mycelial networks of fungi intersect and permeate one another, generating the foundation of soils worldwide. They envelop the roots of grasses, shrubs, and trees, forming an intelligent biological model of connecting organisms to one another. Fungal complexity is the common denominator of a healthy forest. Macro/Micro/Myco is an invitation to see, smell, touch, and be fully enveloped by these enigmatic organisms, allowing to admire their minute but provocative forms. The structure is composed of growing units, accommodating the substrate wherein mushrooms propagate. Every surface fosters a unique mushroom species — genetic diversity of fungi is vast by design, and crucial for life to continue. The skin is made up of distinctively cut panels, evoking the filaments of mycelial structure. The garden offers the distinct experience of traversing scales in which we appreciate the mycelial process: micro, or the wonder of these tiny organisms and the intimacy they provoke, and macro, or the vastness of the environment they inhabit and foster. Concept: Jordan Duke + Jasper Flores Construction Team: Pete North, Dayne Roy-Caldwell, Anna Rosen, Nicholas Gosselin, Hanna Chung, Jaclyn Ryback, Siqi Li, Ameneh Kadivar, Tamar Pister, Yingyi Zhao, Anita Manitius
[right] Modular in form, the various iterations were tested digitally before installtin on-site.
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[left] The installation was featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine, Aug 2015.
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[Above] A multitude of mushroom species that were propagated within the wood structure.
[above] Carrying mushroom bags to our site location. [above right] Construction begins.
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FORM TO FUNCTION: MYCELIAL STRUCTURE
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GRIT LAB RESEARCH ASSISTANT // SUMMER 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO 2015
“The Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory, or GRIT Lab, is located at the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. A platform for multidisciplinary collaboration, GRIT Lab links the fields of Landscape Architecture, Biology, Hydrology and Building science, with the goal of investigating the environmental performance associated with ‘green’ & ‘clean’ technologies such as green roofs, green walls, and photovoltaic arrays. GRIT Lab offers students a unique hands-on opportunity to work directly with the latest material and digital technologies, as well as with both industry experts and academics from a wide range of disciplines. This wide range of partnerships with industry, academic institutions and government agencies have far reaching implications for education and knowledge transfer, innovation and commercialization, as well as policy and guidelines. The cross-pollination between these disciplines is designed to promote new innovations, while the links to industry enable their implementation.” As a research assistant for the summer, I helped collect data and develop drawings for GRIT Lab. Excerpt taken from: http://grit.daniels.utoronto.ca/about/areas-of-investigation/
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(top) Maintenance on the temporature sensors and the wiring.
EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN In 2013, the City of Toronto passed a by-law mandating that all new buildings over 2000 sq/m2 require a green roof. But not all green roofs are created equal. By testing different parameters - temperature, water availability, flora types and soil depth - the GRIT Lab helps scientifically determine what types of green roofs thrive best under Toronto conditions.
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