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JORDAN LAURILA

Jordan Laurila

Jordan Laurila is an architectural designer with an interest in planning and executing innovative design. With degrees in Architecture and Arabic, there’s a skillset centered around communicating complex problems into comprehensible solutions.

Work Experience

Sept 2019 - Present

New York, NY

May 2018 - Sept 2018

Ann Arbor + Detroit, MI

Kohn Pedersen Fox | Intermediate Architectural Designer

• Completed pricing sets and milestone packages for residential and commercial office buildings in urban environments

• Tracked and maintained up to date areas for different program typologies and their requisite nuances

• Began the conceptual planning for an outpatient hospital facility on the Upper Eastside in New York City

• Participated in internal KPF office planning and design in post-pandemic office environment

• Coordinated city entitlements work with AOR and consultant team for a four-building development in Bellevue, Washington

• Helped secure new business through rapid programming studies for a Hotel and Residential tower in Texas

• Assisted in creating presentations for the KPF Morning Sessions, an internal morning meeting dedicated to educating colleagues about lessons learned and successes on specific topics

Akoaki | Designer

• Assisted in the first competition round for the DIA, aimed at better integrating the museum with the surrounding cultural institutions in the neighborhood

• Designed the renovation of a former grocery store into a community and event space for the urban farm and North End neighborhood

Education

June 2016 - May 2019

Ann Arbor, MI

Aug 2013 - May 2016 Athens, GA

University of Michigan | Taubman College

• Masters of Architecture (M.Arch), 3.8 GPA

University of Georgia

• Bachelor of Arts, Arabic Language and Culture

• Cum Laude, 3.5 GPA

Publications + Exhibitions

Dimensions Journal, University of Michigan

• September 2017 - May 2019

• Editor + Copy Chief for Volumes 31 + 32

• “Protocol Please” featured in Volume 33

Taubman College Gallery

• April - July 2017

• Persistant Pasts: The Bicentennial Campus as Archive

• Exbition Assistant, curated by Sarah Rovang

Taubman College Graduate Student Show

• 2019

• Annual Student Work Showcase

• Exbitied Systems Studio Project, “Eastern Commons”

Professional Skills

Architectural Design 3D Modelling + Rendering Visual Communication

• Revit (Verified Intermediate User by KPF BIM Team

• AutoCad

Rhino 3D

V-Ray for Rhino

Enscape

Graduate Thesis

Ladybird Lake / Residential

Role: Principals:

Client:

Location:

Status: Junior Technical Designer

Forth Bagley + Trent Tesch

Related Austin, Texas City Permitting

Project Relevance:

• Responsible for replanning the site into a residential building in an iterative process with the client. This process encompassed unit, amenity, and core planning.

• Coordinated with Related in creating an appropriate unit mix for this building, as well as balance between rental and condominium unit types

• Produced 100% DD set, focusing on sections, elevations, and typical wall details.

• Coordinated with the Interior Architect on the interiors portion of the set for the CD phase of the project. This included BIM model coordination and ensuring all portions of the building were captured in the appropriate scope.

Professional Rendering from the Colorado River looking towards the north and west elevations.

Professional Rendering from the Colorado River looking towards the north elevation, facing downtown Austin.

Typical 100% concept phase plan, outlining preliminary unit mix and core layout.

The building is split between condo and rental units.

Rental Condo

Ladybird Lake / Office

Role: Principals: Client:

Location: Status: Junior Technical Designer Forth Bagley + Trent Tesch Related Austin, Texas Inactive

Project Relevance:

• Created test fits for a range of densities and use types to aid the client in marketing efforts

• Client pursued single tenant occupant for the building

• Maintained up-to-date area tracking summaries as the building progressed through the design phases

Professional Rendering from the Colorado River looking towards the north elevation as it faces downtown Austin.

125sf/Person Test Fit, L5

150sf/Person Test Fit, L5

200sf/Person Test Fit, L5

200sf/Person Test Fit Alternate, L5

Financial Test Fit, L5

Various test fits provided to aid in Related’s marketing efforts.

Legal Test Fit, L5

Detroit Center For Innovation / Academic Center + Office + Residential

Role:

Principals:

Client:

Status:

Junior Technical Designer Jill Lerner + Hana Kassem

Related + University of Michigan

On-Going, Est. Completion 2025

Project Relevance:

• Planned the academic building according to a KPF-produced space analysis, inclusive of huddle rooms, offices, classrooms, conference + event space, and fabrication spaces, working with the University to refine the brief as suitable for client needs

• Tracked areas across the project for each building and individual program element in the Academic Center

• Updated Residential typical floor planning to comply with Sidewalk Labs timber structural systems

• Completed studies of potential hotel massing + planning on the site

Professional Rendering of the Academic Center looking towards downtown Detroit.

Testing newer classroom typologies for an evolving academic program.

Concept Phase Ground Floor Plan of the Academic Center.

Professional Rendering of the interior of the development, with the Incubator Office at left and the Academic Center at right.

Visible makerspaces activating plaza + street frontage.

Professional rendering from the center of the site towards the Academic Center. Residential building at right.

Typical concept level plan of the Academic Center, a parellelogram in both plan and section.

Residential building typical floor study readjusting unit mix to Sidewalk Labs timber structural system.

Feasibility study

ōM District / Office + Residential

Role: Principals:

Client: Status: Junior

Technical Designer

Richard Nemeth + Bruce Fisher Hines

On-Hold

Project Relevance:

• Refined Ground Plane Strategy across the four-building development, in accordance with city zoning guidelines. Constraints ranged from stringent local zoning code, a sloped superblock site, and programmatic goals of including a grocer with a connected basement under the development.

• Planned the basement strategy for partial and full-phase buildout, aligning to city and client parking demands while maximizing excavation and use efficiency

• Managed the BIM documentation of the two office buildings creating families and developing details to the appropriate phase level

• Led the city entitlements process, working with the AOR to provide necessary documentation

• Produced pricing, SD, and DD drawing sets

Public Space + Terracing Diagram Phase

Phase 1A / R1 Resi

Phase 1A / R2 Resi

Phase 2 / T2 Office

Phase 2 / T4 Office

Full Phase Build-Out Ground Floor Plan

Interior Town Square Diagram

Single tenant test fit of the L2 Superplate level at the podium level of the two towers above.

Testfit Metrics

Testfit Metrics

Single tenant test fit of the T1 Tower typical floor.

Single tenant test fit of the T3 Timber building typical floor.

Typical wall details for the timber office building, T3.

Professional rendering of the T3 timber office building and T1 steel and concrete tower.

Professional rendering of the timber T3 office building from the street.

Baseline SD Parking

ADA spots for Retail + Resi on B1.

Retail + Grocer 131 Spaces

B1

Current Retail SF Total: 33,100 nsf

Target Grocer: 4 Spaces / 1,000

Target F&B (50%): 10 Spaces / 1,000

Target Retail (50%): 4 Spaces / 1,000

Target Total Spaces: 177

Drawn - 10% Spaces: 131 Spaces

Provided Ratio: 4.01 / 1,000nsf

Ph 1A

Residents turn right. Loading proceeds straight. To B1

B2

Current Unix Mix: 341 Total Units

Target Ratio: .75 Space / Unit

Target Spaces: 262 Spaces (Incl. 6 Visitor)

Drawn - 10% Spaces: 243 Spaces

Provided Ratio: .71 / Unit Resi 241 Spaces

Phase 1A (2 Levels)

Resi: 203 Spaces (0.60 Ratio) Retail: 173 Spaces (5.31 Ratio) Ph 1B

Phase 1B (5 Levels) Commercial (3 Lvls): 531 Spaces (1.54 Ratio) Retail (2 Lvls): 236 Spaces (6.10 Ratio) Alternate Phase 1B (4 Levels)

Protocol Please / Graduate Thesis

School: Advisor:

Year: Taubman College,

Ellie Abrons 2019

UMich

Project Relevance:

• Protocol Please aimed to investigate coding logics in its most analog forms, which are rule based systems for completing a series of steps.

• I created a series of forms that compiled preferences from a group of participants to build out a New New Urbanist fictional community. Appended to the forms were pages of footnotes, where the consequences of each decision were spelled out, should the user choose to care.

This project sought to study:

• How a computational mindset can produce novel difference without sacrificing efficiency.

• How crowdsourcing can transition authorship away from a singular “architect” to a system with a designer, user, and system participating equally.

A portion of the Master plan for the built out site with participants’ homes etched onto the site, located on the outskirts of Atlanta.

Filing Status: Part I House Design

Your first name and Middle Initial

Email Address:

Occupation

Keep a copy for your records.3 Alone

Not alone, filing jointly Not alone, but it’s complicated Last name

Number of Occupants39 to be expected in residence: Will you be hosting often?40

Under penalties or perjury, I hereby declare that I am filling out this form with every intention to love the end result. Should I have any questions or concerns, I will address them through the proper channels and with proper documentation and with every intention to move into this house should it actually get built because I make commitments and follow through with them.2

Form HR223 (2019) You will refer to Page 2 for making specific choices regarding style and shape of elements.

Specify numbers for the given questions.

The acceptable range is between 0-10.32

1. Number of floors5 6 1A. Split Levels7: 1B. Minimum Floor to Ceiling Height8 1C. Maximum Floor to Ceiling Height9 2. Number of Staircases10 11 12 2A. Number of Elevators13 3. Number of Bedrooms14 15 16

Number of Bathrooms17,18

Number of Dormers19 20

Number of Additional Rooms21 22

List of desired additional rooms

List percentage amount. (0-100%)38

Refer to endnotes.

Interior Partitions34

Trim35-To-Wall

Corner Detailing36 (Refer to Question 26)

Check Ornament Style Package37 (Choose one. You may refer to Appendix NC.)

Select one.

Available partis30:

This section determines the spatial arrangement to be deployed in your home.

Use this space below for any additional notes you might wish to provide:

Check Shape of Bathroom (Select all that may apply)

Answer following questions with (Y/N).

Please note that each options comes with requirements and stipulations. You may not be eligible for each option. Refer to endnotes for more information.

Form HR22343 (2019)

Select all that apply to you. If you choose more than one, please rank.42

Type of Popular Roof Shapes41

Part I Commercial Entity Design

The roof is integral to the expression of a home. What does your roof say about you?

There are more in Appendix R.

Keep a copy for your records.4

Sign Here Desired Program

Under penalties or perjury, I hereby declare that I am filling out this form with every intention to love the end result. Should I have any questions or concerns, I will address them through the proper channels and with proper documentation and with every intention to move into this house should it actually get built because I make commitments and follow through with them.

Select all that apply to you. You may skip this section if you specified no dormers previously.

You may blend 2 programs together.33 If you choose other, you get 1.

For this section, please choose all of the dormers that you would like to see attached onto the roof of your house. Hello World must stipulate that dormers are sensitive aesthetic devices and you might risk violating the standards and conditions clause of Hello World. Dormers should be used sparingly and with severe restraint.

Type of Popular Dormers

Other program, if not listed above16: Check Shape of Bathroom17 (Select all that may apply)

Answer following questions with (Y/N). Please note that each options comes with requirements and stipulations. You may not be eligible for each option. Refer to endnotes for more information21

1. Is your roof space occupiable?7

2. Do you want skylights?8

3. Is there an awning9 on your facade? 4. Do you want an atrium?10

For this section, please choose the windows that you wish to see on your structure. Available to you is the choice of however many options, but Hello World will caution the user that selecting too many window types may yield a design that hearkens to the gauche or gaudy.44 Presented here are the six most popular options of windows in our roster, options which account for a range of sustainable or aesthetic interests. Specific window change is contingent on ornament package.

Select all that apply to you.

5. Is your store11 set back from property line?12

Type of Popular Windows

6. Do you want a drop ceiling?13

7. Is your structure column bearing14?

Facade5 Options6 Window Options

This section is to choose type of windows. Select as many as you wish. Window-to-Wall Percentage42:

Check to allow some windows to be turned into skylights at technician’s discretion.

also includes your choice for roof silhouette.

Factor43:

II

Check to entrust placement of windows to Hello Word technician.46

dominant color for facade materials

For this section, please choose the type of staircase that you would like. Presented here are six options. There are more in Appendix S. The scale of the staircase is dependent on the scale of the house as a whole. It has minimum dimensions so as to meet fire code and general livability. As the size of your house increases, so too will the dimensions of the staircase.

Select all that apply to you.45

Type of Popular Staircases. There are more options in Appendix S.

a copy for your records.

With each house built on with Hello World protocol and on Hello World property, we will also install weather vanes and blueberry bushes on the lot. Hello World is committed to maintaining a sense of old world quaintness that American domesticity fostered so well. We pair the weather vanes with blueberry bushes, which is the glue that binds the community together.

dominant color for roof materials. If you would like a complementary color to your facade, please leave this blank. Scale factor of materials

Completed homes and commercial spaces were presented as models in a convention show space.

Opposite Page: Additional homes designed by participants.

Above: The completed Master Plan with all participants’ homes and businesses assembled together.