ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO JORDAN MEERDINK COLLECTED WORKS | 2012-2015
ROOFTOP BEACH
Studio: Fall 2012 Core Studio I Professor: Mark Rakatansky Duration: 10 Weeks pg 4-13
GRID BANK
Studio: Spring 2013 Core Studio II Professor: Lindy Roy Duration: 14 weeks pg 14-21
THE LOOKOUT
Studio: Fall 2012 Core Studio I Professor: Mark Rakatansky Duration: 4 Weeks pg 22-27
SUPERCORE
Studio: Fall 2013 Core Studio 3 Housing Professor: Robert Marino Duration: 14 Weeks pg 28-37
VIDEO GAME THEORY
Studio: Spring 2014 Adv Studio IV Professor: Mark Collins + Toru Hasegawa Duration: 14 Weeks pg 38-47
DISPLACED/REPLACED MOSQUE
Studio: Fall 2014 Adv Studio V Professor: Ziad Jamaleddine + Makram el Kadi Duration: 14 Weeks pg 48-59
FOOT ON THE GROUND
Studio: Spring 2015 Adv Studio VI Professor: Jing Liu Duration: 14 Weeks pg 60-69
FURNITURE
Professor: Various Duration: Ongoing pg 70-83
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ROOFTOP BEACH
Studio: Fall 2012 Core Studio I Professor: Mark Rakatansky Duration: 10 Weeks The project brief called for a Columbia University Aquatic Center to be built in Harlem. This project attempted to address the issue of further Columbia University expansion into low income neighborhoods by creating a dual use facility where local residents and Columbia students can congregate to swim. The building is divided up into three main water zones; a competition pool, a rehabilitation lap pool, and a rooftop deck. Each of the water zones is modeled after an existing waterside site. The competition pool is surrounded by marshy grasses and plants that help filter water similar to a freshwater pond. The rehab pool mimics the conditions found In Venice Beach, California. The rooftop deck features an infinity pool with a glass edge and is meant to evoke an ocean side cove. Circulating through the entire site is a looping figure eight walkway that brings visitors in and out of framed scenes of the pool areas.
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Circulation Through Site
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Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Interior Rendering of Competition Pool
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Section Perspective Through Building
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Exploded Structural System
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GRID BANK
Studio: Spring 2013 Core Studio II Professor: Lindy Roy Duration: 14 weeks Grid Bank is conceived as a public space where all interior functions are defined by a trapezoidal grid. The section operates as the plan and the structural systems of the building can be clearly understood from its exterior. The interior of the space is divided into large stepped platforms that can be rented by small businesses. On the ground floor a large monumental entrance to the bank teller windows sits above a glassed-in vault.
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Sectional Perspective A
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Exploded Structure and Facade
Section B
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Exterior Night Rendering
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VIEWING PAVILION
BATHROOM ROOF
SHEET GLASS
GRASS PATH
STRUCTURE
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BUILDING PATHS
THE LOOKOUT
Studio: Fall 2012 Core Studio I Professor: Mark Rakatansky Duration: 4 Weeks Taking inspiration from Toshiko Mori’s Newspaper CafÊ in Jinhua City, China, the Lookout is a bathroom that addresses two issues to generate its design. The siting of the project makes use of the existing path and sets up a loop over and around the building where one can view up and down the Hudson River. The second issue addressed in the project considers the needs of trans-gendered people who are under-served by the standard binary gendered bathrooms one most often find in NYC public parks. The Lookout is a gender neutral bathroom with private rooms for each user. A common sink room unites the spaces and looks out over the Hudson River.
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STRAIGHT BAR
ROTATED TOWARDS SHORE
DIVIDED PATH
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DIVIDED STRUCTURE AND VOID
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Sectional Perspective A
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Exterior Corner Rendering
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SUPERCORE
Studio: Fall 2013 Core Studio 3 Housing Professor: Robert Marino Duration: 14 Weeks
Housing Project
Supercore takes the idea of the building core to its extreme end. In this project all the circulatory, electrical, and mechanical functions for a stacked apartment complex were squeezed into the smallest space possible. Using this core as an anchor, lightweight structural frames are simpley attached to add living units and exterior facades. The plugin units are prefabricated with different sized dwelling units that can aggregate to achieve the desired mix of one, two, and three bedroom apartments. Each unit is accessible by an elevator connection and a semi-private staircase. Scattered throughout the development are elevated park and outdoor spaces for residents to make use of.
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Unit Plans
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Street View Rendering
Rendering In Site
Site Plan
Exploded Structural System
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Structural System
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VIDEO GAME THEORY
Studio: Spring 2014 Adv Studio IV Professor: Mark Collins + Toru Hasegawa Duration: 14 Weeks Recently Amazon.com has moved into the testing phase of drone delivery systems. A new distribution center was envisioned that makes use of similar automated systems to not only delivery packages but also create form with their choreographed movements. This project focused on using Proce55ing program language to generate patterns of movement for simulated robotic delivery systems. The robots are given a simple set of instructions, avoid each other and avoid people, in addition to their primary directive of delivering packages. Their behavior can be predicted and modified to created time based spaces within the large distribution center floor. The logic of the delivery system mimics the logic generated by video game programmers for their characters. When all these elements combine a constantly shifting landscape of large and small spaces are created by the movement of the delivery robots.
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“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.� -William James
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Organizational Logic
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Client Simulation
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Generated Architectural Space
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Kiva Delivery Robots
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Physical Model
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DISPLACED/REPLACED MOSQUE
Studio: Fall 2014 Adv Studio V Professor: Ziad Jamaleddine + Makram el Kadi Duration: 14 Weeks Turkey is in the midst of a culture war between traditional Muslim and secular values. This project takes the brief from a competition to build a mosque on the Asian side of Istanbul and rethinks it to form a more appropriate solution that is sensitive to the site and the surrounding neighborhood. This mosque looks to the historical precedent Rustem Pasha Mosque in Istanbul and its interesting stacking of commercial function below the main structure. In Displaced/ Replaced Mosque a volume of the hill is removed, then rotated and placed in a skewed form across the void it creates. Circulation and retail spaces are created in the skewed spaces surrounding the mosque.
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Study Model
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Study Model
Study Model
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-Michael Heitzer Displaced/Replaced Mass
Site Plan
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Form Finding Within the Koran
Form Finding Within the Koran
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Section Through Site
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Interior Hallway Rendering
Interior Mosque Rendering
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Retail Entrance Rendering
Exterior Hallway Rendering
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FOOT ON THE GROUND
Studio: Spring 2015 Adv Studio VI Professor: Jing Liu Duration: 14 Weeks Foot on the Ground addresses the acute housing shortage that is facing New York City. Unlike other development projects in NYC, this project is envisioned to serve the largely itinerant population of undocumented workers in Chinatown. Using a series of readymade construction elements sourced from the Chinese commerce site Alibaba.com, an incredibly low cost alternative to traditional housing types is created. This housing is sited in underutilized spaces created from parking lots and infrastructural leftovers. A rooming house is created that can adhere to minimum building codes in New York while still maintaining profitability for the developer. The extreme temporality and low cost of the project allows for a profit to be generated from an incredibly small rental fee issued to tenants of the space.
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Parts Sourced from Alibaba.com
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The Prototype Site
Programmatic Axonometric
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OCCUPATION COSTS Total Square Footage
Cost per sq foot
Number of Tenant
9,240 sq feet(858.5 sq m)
$32.50 (349.87 per sq m)
68 half time tenant
Income Generated From Advertising
Income Generated From Re $250 per tenant monthly
$2500 per month
$204,000 total year
$30,000 per year
Operation Costs $80 per month per unit
204,000.00
$2720 total monthly
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$32640 yearly Market Value
300,000
Taxable Value
135000
Tax Rate
13.05%
Annual TaxTotal Cost To Run per Year
153,738.45 +30,000.00 $183,738.45
$17621.55
1.95 year
$50,261.55 TOTAL YEARLY INCOME
$183,738.45
CONSTRUCTION COSTS Building System Mechanical/Electrical
Plumbing
Walls and Enclosure
Commodity Solar Water Heater Water Tank Gray Water System Electrical Wire 12/2 Electric Outlet Florescent Ceiling Light Ceiling Lights Oven Ventilation Cover
PVC drain pipe 3" 10 ft 3/4" Pex Tubing 300ft PVC Angles Toilet Sink Prefab Shower Showerhead Washing Machine Dryer Kitchenette
Sport fence 10 X 4 Kingspan Konnect enclosure wall EPS Fiber Cement Board 120 mm Corrugated steel sheet Industrial steel stairs Concrete Steel Framing Window Kalzip Perforated Faรงade System Garage Doors
Miscellaneous
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Shipping 45 Ft container Import Duty Construction Labor Vinyl Advertising
Price
Quantity
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$200 per unit $300 per unit $2,000 per unit $.15 per linear foot $.50 per unit $40 per unit $ 15 per unit 220 per unit $10
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800 300 2,000 300 100 1600 1500 1100 610
$10 $115 $3 $50 $25 $150 $35 $200 $200 300 per unit
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240 115 300 750 375 2250 525 800 800 1500
$100 $1000 per unit $10 per sq meter $700 per ton $1500 each $80 per cubic yd $10 per sq meter $1400 per ton
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800 42000 28800 3500 7500 300 4250 36400 8235 27600 5500
2 1 3200 920 m2
9370 13685 96,000 460
$90 per square meter $30 per sq meter $1100 per unit
$4,685 $13,685 $30.00 per Hour $.50 per sq meter
TOTAL CONSTRUCTION COST
$300,365
Building Parts Acoustic Barrier
Structure
Room Walls
Ceiling
Exterior Wall
Wall Channel
Water Barrier Facade Panel Assembled Axonometric
Transparent
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Third Floor Plan
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Sixth Floor Plan
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Elevation
Section
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FURNITURE
Professor: Various Duration: Ongoing This section covers an ongoing preoccupation with furniture and fabrication as a method to understand material and the built environment. By addressing the material capabilities and limitations of wood, metal, and plastic, I created a series of furniture in my time at GSAPP that informed the design and detailing of my studio projects.
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Ply-boo Stool
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Experiments In Layering
Experiments In Layering
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Butcher Block Kitchen Table
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Precision Hardware
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Choosing Materiality
Cutting Formed Plywood
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Joinery
Form-work Becomes A Bench
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Plyboo Bedside Table
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Traditional Joinery Meets CNC Precision
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Construction Using Traditional Tools
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Butcher Block Seat
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Parametric Lamp
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Parametric Lamp
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