Jordan West Monez Portfolio

JORDAN WEST MONEZ PORTFOLIO

PROJECT LOCATIONS

my studio work as a map Site is integral to project work. My projects have been situated in various geographical, climactic, social, political, and ephemeral contexts.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CAMPUS

This map shows the location of all major design work that I have done, some of which are featured in this portfolio.

CHESHIAHUD LAKE UNION LOOP

KING STREET AND INTERSTATE 5

RAINIER AVE AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD

DUWAMISH RIVER/TERMINAL 117

SEATTLE, WA

TAIPEI, TW

MUNSIYARI, IN

COPENHAGEN, DK

NEW YORK, NY

PHILADELPHIA, PA

CHARLOTTESVILLE,VA

NEW ORLEANS, LA

LAS VEGAS, NV

SEATTLE, WA

PHOTO: ROOTS ON LAVA SAND, CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT

PHOTO: SULFUR EVIDENCE,YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

DUWAMISH PALIMPSEST

exploring the changing natures of a waterway/river/estuary/ superfund site As Seattle’s only river, the heavily industrialized Duwamish “Waterway” holds layers of history and meaning, people and culture, heavy metals and habitat, and these layers inform a design process. The Lower Duwamish Waterway was named an USEPA Superfund site in 2001 and several “early action sites” have been identified for cleanup.

Duwamish Palimpsest explores the historic process of the river that have led to this point in time in the cleanup process (10 years after being named “Superfund”) and makes suggestions for potential futures.

PROJECT INFORMATION + SITE: LOWER DUWAMISH WATERWAY, SEATTLE/TUKWILA, WA + THESIS + WINTER 2010 - FALL 2011 + PROFESSORS JEFF HOU AND THAISA WAY + UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON + RECEIVED WASLA MERIT AWARD (2012)

flowing shifting

accumulating

dwelling spanning

concealing altering

revealing living

flowing

concealing

dwelling

BOEING

WA STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY

KING COUNTY

LOWER DUWAMISH WATERWAY GROUP CITY OF SEATTLE

PORT OF SEATTLE

US EPA WASTE ACTION PROJECT

SOUTH PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION

PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE DUWAMISH TRIBE

DUWAMISH RIVER CLEANUP COALITION

GEORGETOWN COMMUNITY COUNCIL

COMMUNITY COALITION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

PEOPLE FOR PUGET SOUND IM-A-PAL FOUNDATION

ENVIRONMENAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE

Chapter cover pages for Flowing, Concealing, and Dwelling sections of thesis

Sketch of industry and nature along the Duwamish River. (opposite page) Multiple exposure photograph taken while traveling by boat down the Duwamish River layered with project concepts and waterway profile.

AUTOCAD

from design to construction documents These images show a small portion of detailed construction drawings I completed for the design of a park as part of my thesis project. The potential park is located on the site of Terminal 117, a former asphalt manufacturing site on the edge of the Duwamish River.

PROJECT INFORMATION +SPRING 2011 +LARGE SCALE CONSTRUCTION +SEATTLE, WA +PROFESSORS JULIE PARRETT AND BEN SPENCER +UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Berm structure (recycled concrete)

Meandering paths (existing asphalt)

Walkway (metal)

Lighting

Mudflats

P Patch Garden

Betula pendula European Birch

Trifolium repens White Clover

Brassica rapa Field Mustard

Cornus stolonifera Red Osier Dogwood

Salicornia virginica Pickleweed

Carex Lyngbyei Lyngby’s Sedge

P. menziesii ‘Pendula’ Weeping Douglas Fir

Helianthus annuus Sunflower

Juncus ensifolius Daggerleaf rush

WALK THROUGH SKY TO WATER

exploring the ephemeral qualities of the cheshiahud lake union loop This project on the Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop is an investigation of the ephemeral qualities that make moving along a path interesting, and how mapping and small scale landscape interventions can create new or enhance existing qualities.

The landscape performance becomes moving through space and time along the various pathways that make up the loop, observing sky, water, shadows, wildlife, city life;, and creating or participating in events that happen at the edge of Lake Union.

In this project the concept of wayfinding emphasizes the “finding,” guided by a series of phenomenological maps.

PROJECT INFORMATION +SITE: LAKE UNION, SEATTLE, WA +LANDSCAPE ART STUDIO +FALL 2010 +PROFESSOR JULIE PARRETT +UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + RECEIVED WASLA HONOR AWARD (2011)

“The human subject is no more fundamental than, say, a cloud. They are simply different and stand in different relationships to other things, each thing being constructed through these relationships. They act upon each other - in that sense they are all actors.” David Birnbaum curator, Innen Stadt Aussen

“plot” drawing and collage of the loop, emphasizing seasonal changes and activities

photo collage of Kite Hill at Gasworks Park; text identifying activities along the loop (detail)

PLACES OF WATER + GROUND 1.75 MILES: 3/4 hour walking 1/4 hour biking 1 1/2+ hours exploring

perspective of stepping stone and wind chime intervention at waterway 19 on a rainy day

RAINY DAY ROUTE

section of stepping stone intervention

WALK THROUGH SKY TO WATER LANDSCAPE ART STUDIO | FALL 2010

PLACES OF WATER + CSO 4 MILES: 1 1/2 hours walking 1/2 hour biking 6+ hours exploring

perspective of swimming pool intervention at south lake union park on a hot sunny day

HOT SUNNY DAY ROUTE

section of swimming pool intervention

RENEWING RENEWAL

2020

transforming the space under I-5 INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT vendor tent 售台

South King Street serves as the spine of the International District in Seattle, a historic neighborhood comprised of diverse people from all over Asia and the world. The two main areas of the ID - Chinatown and Little Saigon - were bisected by the construction of Interstate 5 in the late 1960s.

INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT mobile supermarket 流動超級市場

section showing Phase III: structures, garden and market place under I-5

This piece of the proposal for our community design ideas toolkit seeks to find alternative strategies for transforming the area under I-5 and solutions for restoring vital pedestrian connections between the east and west sides of the neighborhood.

PROJECT INFORMATION +COMMUNITY DESIGN STUDIO +WINTER 2009 +SOUTH KING STREET, SEATTLE, WA +PROFESSOR JEFF HOU +UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON + WORKED WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PHASE + http://courses.washington.edu/kingst/

perspective of Phase II idea: moss garden and market place under I-5

PHASE I 0-3 years

PHASE II 4-7 years

PHASE III 8-11 years

perspective of Phase I idea: activate the space with art

aerial view of King Street (red line) in downtown Seattle context

PROPOSED PARKING LOT USE - PHASE II >

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PEDESTRIAN STREET AND MARKET

PARKING

THEATRE, MUSIC P E D E S T R I A N AND OTHER EVE- S T R E E T A N D NING ACTIVITIES MARKET

SHELTERS FOR HOMELESS

PARKING

Re-thinking the parking lot to allow for parking at peak times and other uses when lot is empty, is key to renewing the area under the highway. Photo and Google Sketch-Up collage image shows potential market and its integration with urban agriculture in the neighborhood.

Section showing potential future, photo collage imagining new uses for Interstate-5 in 50 years.

2060 RENEWING RENEWAL

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STUDIO | WINTER 2009

URBAN MIRTH

exploring materials and design through building benches This design-build studio focused on exploring materiality while also engaging the body.

Working as a team we chose a site adjacent to Gould Hall at the bus stop and used concrete, metal, and wood inspired by the building to create benches at the 15th Ave and 40th St bus stop. To encourage interaction among strangers at the waiting area we made the benches swivel, creating a moment of fun and excitement in the urban environment.

PROJECT INFORMATION AutoCAD drawing of bench design

+LANDSCAPE MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION STUDIO +FALL 2009 +GOULD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WA +PROFESSORS DANIEL WINTERBOTTOM AND BEN SPENCER +UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON +IN COLLABORATION WITH BREANNE GEARHEART AND EMILY GRIGG-SAITO

parti plan of staggered layout and swivel movement

preliminary photo collage of idea in site context

Taking off the plywood forms, (my role included figuring out and constructing the concrete forms); finished bench profile. The metal design mimics the stairs inside the building.

The design team enjoying our swiveling benches!

SHADE GARDEN

design for an apartment building My design for a Capitol Hill apartment building took into account the shady site in a dense section of the neighborhood, a small budget, and existing trees and plants.

BEFORE

The new design incorporated native and other ornamental shade plants, ideas for a shared edible herb garden and bike parking, an evergreen color palette, and new hardscape and lighting design for the small site.

PROJECT INFORMATION + JORDAN WEST MONEZ STUDIO PROJECT +FALL 2012 +1613 SUMMIT AVE, SEATTLE, WA

AFTER (SKETCH PLANS ABOVE)

INSPIRATION: RATTLESNAKE LEDGE, WASHINGTON

SIDEWALK SHOW

furniture for Seattle Design Festival A design-build collaboration with Inkwell Collective for the Seattle Design Jam resulted in a fun, interactive installation at the 2012 Seattle Design Festival event.

Competition parameters included using a small palette of wood, cloth, black or white paint and one additional material (we chose chalk). Entrants were asked to consider how street furniture in an urban setting can help the public engage and interact with their urban environment.

Our design was created with the idea of maximizing the creativity of the participants and interaction with the piece, as well as the presence of photography (especially the use of Instagram) at the festival. We found this definition of furniture particularly delightful: (n) 1. large, movable equipment 2. a person’s habitual attitude, outlook, and way of thinking

PROJECT INFORMATION +JORDAN WEST MONEZ STUDIO COLLABORATION WITH INKWELL COLLECTIVE +SUMMER 2012 +SEATTLE DESIGN FESTIVAL GROUNDS + http://seattledesignjam.com/

FLUVIAL IMPRINTS

Key arpents proposed road

planning for an industrial ecosystem in post-Katrina Lousiana

habitat corridor

This interdisciplinary urban planning studio worked with the Jefferson Parish government to develop an idea book for masterplans and details on a large (20,000 acre) undeveloped site just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.

3 meanders

water ďŹ ltration system

We chose a 5,000 acre site bordered by a large railroad yard and the I-90 highway, near the river and the massive Northrop Grumman shipbuilding plant. Our project for an industrial ecosystem introduces the new industries of biodiesel, storage and aquaponics and seeks to expand the existing movie industry presence in the region. It also creates new topographies on and experiences of the land.

PROJECT INFORMATION +SITE: 5,000 ACRES ALONG THE EAST BANK OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER + COMMUNITY PLANNING STUDIO + FALL 2009 + PROFESSORS DANIEL WINTERBOTTOM

AND FRITZ WAGNER, UNIVERSITY

OF WASHINGTON + CLIENT: JEFFERSON PARISH + IN COLLABORATION WITH TORI HALLIGAN

N UPLAND HABITAT AND AQUAPONIC WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM The historical flows of the Mississippi River are articulated in our site plan through overlays of road, habitat corridor and living machine structures and organisms. These design techniques create a unique sense of place and provide a framework for creating usable land for industry out of a currently unused and undervalued tract.

FLOOD LEVEL

AQUACULTURE AND RECREATIONAL BOATS

INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

by reinforcing social activities in working environments Industrial Ecology is an emerging field that focuses on the twin goals of economic development and envithrough integrated design, places multiple layers of system be viewed not in isolation from its surronmental quality.gain The concept requires that an industrial rounding systems, but in concert with them. It is a systems view in which one seeks to optimize the total use and meaning. materials cycle from virgin material, to finished material, to component, to product, to obsolete product, and to ultimate disposal. Factors to be optimized include resources, energy, and capital.

DEFINITION: CENTER FOR INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY, YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY

FOOD PROCESSING RESTAURANTS AQUACULTURE RAILROAD + I-90

COOKING OIL

BIODIESEL SHIPPING

GAS STATION

FERTILIZER

LOW WATER LEVEL

TPC GOLF COURSE MOVIE PRODUCTION

BORROW PIT NETWORK AND FLOOD CONTROL

LOCAL INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEM

BASIN CITY

strategies for the Las Vegas Wash Our proposal seeks to expose the inextricable connections between environmental degradation, rapacious development leading to economic collapse, and urban life in a city of transients and tourists. Illuminating such connections are reused materials and abandoned sites with new contexts and uses, and the reintroduction of running water throughout the city. These strategies will create new cycles of use that stimulate the community and the economy around the Las Vegas Wash.

Thus, the Las Vegas Wash has the potential to become a community-connecting network and local destination. With the merging of cultural, historic, entertainment, and natural tourism in a 21st century context, Sin City can become Basin City.

PROJECT INFORMATION +SITE: LAS VEGAS WASH, NEVADA. USA + IBA (INTERNATIONAL BUILDING EXHIBITION) STUDIO + SPRING 2009 + PROFESSORS NICOLE HUBER AND RALPH STERN TYPOLOGIES + IN COLLABORATION WITH SCOTT CLAASSEN AND SETH GEISER

vacant land reused for community centers like flea markets and social art spaces

invasive plants like the tamarisk tree absorb much of the LVW water before it reaches Lake Mead

sectional diagram of the path the Las Vegas Wash takes: from the city of Las Vegas, through suburban Clark County, under Lake Las Vegas, past water intakes, and to Lake Mead

THINGS TAKE TIME designing a center for green architecture

Designing for reclamation of the Danish waterfront by a research center for ecological design and public space began with a process of evaluation of the site, its surrounding context, and the city of Copenhagen. This design focuses on the weather conditions, rhythm of existing buildings, human scale, the dimension of time, and a connection to the surrounding harbor front.

The main building’s design elements - thick steel walls, double glass facade, and insulating green roof - contribute to creating a microclimate in the building that uses very little energy to regulate. Construction can be spaced out indefinitely, allowing for financing to be acquired over time with less debt; and site is occupied in different ways over the course of the construction process, allowing for gradual introduction to the city.

PROJECT INFORMATION +SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STUDIO +FALL 2005 +GRØNLANDSKE HANDELS PLADS, COPENHAGEN, DK +PROFESSOR BO CHRISTIANSEN +DANISH INSTITUTE FOR STUDY ABROAD

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FLEXIBLE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME, REFELCTED IN CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AND MATERIALS CHOSEN

steel walls patina

YEAR 0

site is used as a public park

[STAGE 1] abandoned buildings on site are taken down; material is recycled for benches and walkways

[STAGE 2] corten steel walls are erected and public facilities built. park opens to public with seasonal market and public infrastructure

[STAGE 3] glass enclosure is constructed around steel walls; green roof installed; cafe, gallery, lecture hall and library open

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[STAGE 4] pre-fabricated laboratory spaces are plugged into site

HARNESSING EMERGENCE

track system base pod

design for atmospheric research Harvesting the natural and human-controlled processes of water for study and treatment, our building seeks to provide an interactive environment for its 18 research scientist fellows as well as the interested general public.

This Institute for Atmospheric Research takes on the form of a vertical spatial logic of change testing weather conditions and innovative water treatment processes.

track floor and lighting bubble structure pneumatic bubble

[LAB exploded axon]

LAB axon

Extension of the river to the city and vice versa through the filter of the Institute is a highly visible interface between the city water systems and the natural processes of the hydrological cycle in the Delaware River. The building incorporates the armature of the abandoned Camden-Philadelphia Aerial Tram, reusing the expensive and massive structure.

PROJECT INFORMATION

LAB plan

+SPATIAL LOGICS OF CHANGE STUDIO +SPRING 2005 +DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT, PHILADELPHIA, PA +PROFESSOR JASON JOHNSON +COLLABORATION WITH JON DUEY +UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

LAB section

Sketch of building concept with exterior scaffolding and pipes reaching into the city fabric.

Model (materials: plexiglass, repurposed plastic, metal wire, light box).

HARNESSING EMERGENCE

SPATIAL LOGICS OF CHANGE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO | SPRING 2005

water input

pumping

screening

aeration

chemical addition

mixing

clarification

chlorination

sludge removal

filtering

storage

redistribution

Map showing street grid, building outlines, and water connections (green) from building to city; Image of south west approach (Microstation model created by Jon Duey)

Diagram of water purification system

MODEL-MAKING forming a design

Creating a model allows us to test new possibilities and ideas in three-dimensional space, while the act of making brings up new issues and ideas in the design process.

A window became a model making space for a design exercise in which we were given a roll of receipt paper and tape. (Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole)

Final model of my design for the New York City Waterfront Museum at the cove in Brooklyn Bridge Park, a museum that is currently located on the Lehigh Valley Barge. Materials: wood, copper, brass, cardboard, plexiglass. (University of Virginia)

Massing model of Hjortekær site, for “A New Map of Denmark” neighborhood development studio project. (Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole)

NEW CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

documenting a changing built environment in the indian himalayas Working in the built environment group of a multi-disciplinary class, I traveled to the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border to learn from the people and landscape of the region and to document the quickly changing built environment of Munsiyari.

We made maps, took photos, drew landscape and building plans and sections, sketched, attended talks on natural and social issues in the region, toured businesses, and interviewed the local people. Our group spent the majority of our time staying in private homes through a homestay program that is linked to the community forest land and farmer’s market, and run by women.

PROJECT INFORMATION +SUMMER 2009 +EXPLORATION SEMINAR +MUNSIYARI, INDIA +PROFESSOR MANISH CHALANA +UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

RESUME

Cover of Survival Guide created for Susan Robb’s The Long Walk 2012, a social art “pedestrian adventure” from Golden Gardens to Snoqualmie Falls. After participating in the 2011 Long Walk I designed the layout and cover art, edited content, and wrote an article on mental mapping for the 2012 Long Walk Survival Guide.

As a docent at the Olympic Sculpture Park I educate visitors about Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium, a hybrid work of sculpture, architecture, environmental education and horticulture. The bottom image shows the area of the Green River Watershed where the nurse log featured in the artwork came from.

View of Howell Collective P-Patch in Seven Hills Park from above. As a community garden, we built the garden, plant, maintain, and harvest together, and make all important decisions through the process of consensus.

EDUCATION

U WASHINGTON | COLLEGE OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Master of Landscape Architecture, Urban Design Certificate (GPA 3.71) ROYAL DANISH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS | DEPARTMENT 1 Fellowship exchange student studying Architecture, City, and Landscape UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Minor in Architectural History ADDITIONAL RECENT AND SELECTED EDUCATION Taiwan Studio [urban design studio with National Cheng Kung Uni. for Taipei City] Rural Development Studio [historic preservation in the Indian Himalayas] Presenting Data and Information [Edward Tufte course] Washington ASLA Conference [seminars on landscape architecture in WA] Land Trust Alliance Conference [continuing education for land conservation] ESRI ArcGIS [completed parts one and two of ArcGIS Desktop online course] Denmark International Study Program [study abroad in Copenhagen, DK] UVa McIntire School of Commerce [business certificate program]

EXPERIENCE

VIRGINIA OUTDOORS FOUNDATION | RICHMOND,VA Webmaster + Conservation Easement Program Assistant

INVOLVEMENT

2010 2001-2005

2009 2009 2010 2009/11 2007 2006 2004 2004

FREELANCE DESIGN AND ART WORK | SEATTLE, WA 2012 - today Landscape/garden designer; Public artist; Artist assistant; Presenter; Graphic Designer UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | SEATTLE, WA Teaching Assistant for Architecture + Landscape; TA Advanced Communication

HONORS

2008 - 2011

WASLA Merit Award: Duwamish Palimpsest Research Thesis WASLA Honor Award: Walk Through Sky To Water Landscape Art Project Recipient of the ScanDesign Fellowship for Study Abroad in Denmark Recipient of the Lee and Rolaine Copeland Endowed Fellowship in Urban Design Recipient of the Margaret and Fritz Wagner Endowed Scholarship Project selected for Parallel Cases, 4th Int’l Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA: Docent Howell Collective P-Patch: Member Seattle Design Festival: Volunteer UWASLA: Outreach Co-Coordinator Urban Land Institute Urban Design Student Competition: UW Team Member American Society of Landscape Architects: Member

2011

2005 - 2008

2012 2011 2009 2009 2008 2009 2008 - today 2010 - today 2011/2012 2010 - 2011 2010 2008 - today

JORDAN WEST MONEZ e-mail: jordanmonez@gmail.com phone: 703.628.3778