Jordan McGee Architecture Portfolio 11/2022

JORDAN MCGEE PORTFOLIO

Elevate Death Studio Non-Denominational House of Worship Scranton, PA

Elevate is a project that focuses on the visitor’s journey and experience through space and time. In their passage through the garden, chapel, and columbarium, visitors can reflect upon and celebrate life. The project’s name is derived from the journey. As visitors enter first into the earth, the darkness strips them of their context. They follow the natural light streaming in from above the passage to encounter the entrance courtyard of the great hall. The hall is a monumental three-story room that serves as a meeting place for the bereaved. The chapel also shares a relationship with natural light, receiving indirect northern light from the clearstory that sits above. The stair along the edges of the great hall leads to the skyspace, in this space the occupant confronts the void that frames the sky. In this way, the building serves as a framing device which encourages us to derive meaning and self-reflect upon the many intricacies of life.

LACKAWANNA HERITAGE TRAIL

Mitigate

Speculative Futures Studio

Modern Art Museum, Theatre, Restaurant

Philadelphia, PA

Mitigate is a project set in 2100 that focuses on a speculative future where the city of Philadelphia is faced with permanent flooding due to climate change. Mitigate imagines a world where social spaces and community events must happen atop an elevated skywalk. In this new reality, the city of Philadelphia expands the rail parkto function as the main mode of transportation around the city. Mitigate adopts the main program of a contemporary art museum, replacing the inundated PhilaMOCA. Along with a contemporary art museum, the structure offers elevated green spaces, a restaurant, theatre, cafe, and office spaces. The elevated green spaces and skin like exterior circulation allow the project to be directly integrated with the rail park.

2ND-4TH FLOOR

SCREENING ELEMENT

2ND-4TH FLOOR

CIRCULATION

ROOF TERRACE

INSULATION

PRESSURE PLATE FINISHED FLOORING CONCRETE SLAB REBAR STEEL DECKING STEEL TRUSS GYPSUM BOARD

CLAD COLUMN

STEEL ANCHOR

STEEL STUDS

ANCHOR

STEEL ANCHOR GRATED FLOOR

Adaptive Reuse Project

Cultural and Performing Arts Center

Scranton, PA

The community and cultural center will consist of flexible programs such as a performing arts terraces, multi-purpose rooms, and atrium, classrooms and studios, exterior patios and courtyards, and a bus stop. A major focus of the project is the engagement that occurs between the natural and built environments. The built environment has the same tendencies to want to engage with nature as people do. Invigorate serves as a bridge to connect the urban fabric of Scranton with the Lackawanna Heritage Trail. This connection will help to promote overall community wellness. By making the Lackawanna Heritage Trail more accessible, alternative modes of traffic such as walking and biking will be heavily promoted. Bioswales contained within the greenspace will help to recharge stormwater runoff as it flows. This project strives to bring more art and celebration to the North Scranton area. Invigorate will also seek to bring in a more sustainable mindset that the community can learn from and enjoy.

NORTH SCRANTON

Invigorate

SCRANTON PLAN

BEAM Competition

Planetarium

New York City

Module 1 is an immersive experience that places emphasis on both the individual and collective. The project aims to give individuals the opportunity to reflect on something that is missing from their lives every night, star gazing. Light pollution strips city dwelling populations of a natural activity that some find so engaing that they will leave the city just to gaze upon a star and wonder about the heavens above. Module 1 brings the problem publics attention to this problem and gives them a simulated experience of looking for constellations. Allowing some that can’t afford to leave the city a chance to experience what it is like to openly star gaze.