Jordan Young by Jordan Young

JORDAN YOUNG PAST / PRESENT / PROCESS 2014 - 2018

[RE]OBSERVATORY OPTIC APPARATUS HYDRO-MORPHOLOGIES INFORMAL URBANISMS BOOLEAN (-) GENERATOR ADAPTIVE INFRATRUCTURE 170 AMSTERDAM CATHEDRAL

[RE]OBSERVATORY Dating back to the 1500â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the first representations of an aviary were grossly over-scaled reproductions of the household bird cage. Subsequently, the relationship of spectacle to spectator has been continuously re-framed as an attempt to replicate a more natural relationship between man and bird. This project explores visual and spatial distortions as a mechanism to radically invert the relationship between spectator and spectacle. Drawing inspiration from the muscular and skeletal transformations the common loon (gavia immer) undergoes while diving for food, the [re]observatory distorts how one typically perceives surrounding wildlife. A series of lenses focus on individual moments of the flight, dive, and nesting habitat to decontextualize the bird and provide novel perception. Transparent trays arranged at varied levels create new relationships that result in people being both spectator and spectacle. This further blurs the distinction of who is on display for whom.

Origins + Siting: The common loon (gavia immer) is a master diver, going through intense muscular and skeletal distortions throughout the dive sequence. Sited within Beebe Lake, the form is distorted to focus on specific moments of the birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily routine, both above and below the surface.

Spatial Distortions: The observatory alters the standard perception of what or who is on display. Transparent trays arranged at varied levels create new relationships that result in presenting people as the spectacle. Further prompting one to question which side of the lens is for the voyeur.

Enclosure + Lens: Adopting the logics of naval architecture, the enclosure is designed using a series of structural ribs, connected with interior and exterior shells. The lenses are mounted to a telephoto lens-like frame, fastened to the shell, creating a continuous system.

OPTIC APPARATUS Visual perception is an operation in which light rays are transmitted through the eye, converted into neuronal signals, and processed by the brain. The result: an image of what one perceives, a visual distortion of their surrounding environment. This installation challenges and amplifies these optical distortions, altering how one perceives their surrounding environment and allowing new readings to emerge. This installation components are the result of material explorations that applied thermodynamic and physical manipulations to alter optic and formal properties of PETG plastic sheets. The resulting lenses are fastened together, acting as both structure and enclosure. The apparatus creates a new environment on the interior in which each of the lenses produce varied distortions of the exterior.

Optic Interface: Using the mechanics of vision to inform the aggregation of lenses, this apparatus creates a new enclosure in which the site is distorted to allow for new visual readings and spatial deformations.

Logics and Distortions: A series of five lens types were developed with the ability to be overlaid and aggregated in a variety of ways and acted as both structure and enclosure. The increased layers further distorted inside views out and outside views in.

HYDRO-MORPHOLOGIES The rise in coastal development on barrier islands and the consequent destruction of surrounding ecologies has altered natural processes, propelling many of these islands into a state of destabilization. High-intensity storms further amplify these conditions, putting both the natural and man-made landscapes at risk. While beach erosion is typically managed through engineered edge control systems, this project uses natural processes and material flows to inform a new hybrid surface. Through the manipulation of scale, density, and structure, a single module is transformed to slow water velocity, catch surface debris, and encourage dune stabilization and growth. Ultimately, rethinking edge control as a system that works concurrently with natural processes creates a resilient infrastructural landscape.

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Systems and Flows: These mappings visualize dynamic functionalities and interdependent relationships within coastal networks to inform surface strategies. New interstitial hydrographies emerge from human developments.

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Unit Modulation: Using the diamond as the initial unit geometry, the above prototype represents variation through a shift in density, scale, and structure. Site forces and natural sand formations informed surface manipulations.

INFORMAL URBANISMS Current models for mass housing prioritize efficiency and regularity over the diverse spatial requirements of those who occupy them. This has produced monotonous housing types that restrict individuals to the capacity of a space, rather than a space that is shaped by the specific needs of the user. Using informal communities (specifically favela developments) as a generator for new housing typologies, this project amplifies chaotic organizations into a spatially diverse and increasingly dense housing model. The autonomous building becomes the product of individual user requirements, which further inform the social, formal, and communal characteristics of the whole.

Chaotic Development: Using the logics from a socio-cultural mapping of an informal community in Brazil, in which open spaces become the primary location for programmatic diversity and community interaction, a prototype was developed combining the density of a standard housing block with the spatial and programmatic diversity of an informal community.

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2BR 1BR Loft Studio Configuration/Aggregation: The models above investigate new spatial relationships between the internal components of typical unit types. As these new types are aggregated strange voids remain, allowing for the chaotic remnant to become a productive opportunity for shared program.

BOOLEAN (-) GENERATOR Adopting the geometric principles used in creating the domes at the Great Mosque of Cรณrdoba, these drawings exploit the architectural potentials of boolean difference operations to develop novel forms. The choisy axonometric drawing further speculates on how these emergent geometries can be used to create new spatial, structural, and ornamental constructs.

ADAPTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE Generated from an interest in the movement and flow of people, water, and infrastructural systems within urban environments, this project re-imagines and re-organizes existing relationships through the manipulation and delamination of these systems. With an unprecedented rise in high intensity storms and the associated effects on the urban landscape, the sites potential as a performative ecology informed the building design. The banding strategy within the landscape creates a series of berms and depressions to slow the flow of water and create pockets of retention to mitigate storm-water runoff and allow for increased water infiltration. By prioritizing landscape performance, the site becomes stratified into three primary parts: existing sub-grade infrastructure, an undulating surface, and a raised building platform. Although each component has a distinct spatial experience, building cores act as the link to unify the movement of people through each datum. Just as the site components are stratified, the building is divided into static and dynamic levels, ultimately allowing for a wide range of building uses over its lifespan. Building, site, and infrastructure adapt to external forces, shaping new and unknown outcomes. The design, research, drawings, and models were done in collaboration with Caitlin McCarthy.

Surge Capacity: The surrounding landscape no longer has the ability to retain water from high-intensity storms, causing an increase in flooding.

Control Mechanisms: Engineered water management systems control excess water at points across the site, increasing run-off pollution in the nearby channel.

Hydro-Velocity: Non-porous surfaces combined with topographic valleys increase the flow of water, while decreasing the ability for inundation.

Soil Degradation: Infill conditions on a previous tidal flat have deteriorated nearly all of the watersheds ecological productivity.

Site as Collector: Natural topographic features and historic infill have created a basin at the

Industrial Fabric: Industry and infrastructure have severed surrounding neighborhoods into disparate pieces, further separating South Boston from the waterfront.

Edge Manipulations: Decades of infill expansion have disrupted the once productive ecologies of the South Boston waterfront.

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Landscape Catalog: Informed by a series of site mappings, the concept for the ground plane required the site to be divided into a series of bands that were manipulated based on ecological and programmatic influences.

Year: 2015 Program: Transit Hub

Year: 2055 Program: Artist Lofts

Year: 2095 Program: Fabrication Lab

Skin Strategy: Designed in a similar language to the landscape, vertical fins provide soft indirect lighting for the interior. Thin vertical windows on the east and west facades were aggregated to re-frame city and site, allowing users to see specific moments as they move along the facade.

Moonscape: Undulating topographies create a dialogue between building and landscape, blurring the boundary of where landscape ends and building begins.

170 AMSTERDAM Handel Architects

A building in motion. The constraints of a long narrow site and need to reduce construction time and cost required an innovative solution that was manifested through the use of a concrete diagrid exoskeleton. As a result of this solution, interior spaces are freed to allow for maximum floor area and minimum disruption of interior spaces.

CATHEDRAL Handel Architects

In close proximity to the fourth largest cathedral in the world, this residential project is carved away to allow both visual and physical connections to its historic neighbor. The central void is occupied by a new grand stair, creating a new connection to the transept. Below, both residential buildings are connected through a gallery space with views up toward the cathedral. The buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facade uses undulating cast in place exo-skeletal concrete ribs, an abstraction of the cathedralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buttress structure. Units leverage the carved form, allowing corner units open views to the cathedral and nearby park.

EDUCATION Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

8.17 - present

Candidate for Master of Architecture Honors and Awards: Bradford and Phyllis Friedman Perkins Graduate Award GPA: 4.00

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

9.10 - 5.15

Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture Minor in Environmental Studies Honors and Awards: Graduated cum laude, Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s List, Achievement Scholarship, Technical Excellence Award for Comprehensive Design Studio GPA: 3.69

EXPERIENCE Cornell Robotic Construction Lab, Ithaca, NY

3.18 - present

Researcher Investigate and research material processes, construction methods, and fabrication systems to develop novel techniques for advancing robotic construction.

Handel Architects, New York City, NY

6.15 - 7.17

Associate Collaborated on hospitality, residential, and mixed use projects to produce concept drawings, massing options, interior design, and facade schemes. Developed exterior facade schemes, details, and renderings of a 500,000 square foot residential project from concept to 100% construction documents. Advanced the design of residential units and amenity interiors through design development. Managed the coordination of structural and landscape consultants throughout all phases.

Northeastern University School of Architecture, Boston, MA

Teaching Assistant Environmental Systems ARCH 5210: Prepared and instructed weekly labs to provide students with a hands-on approach to the concepts taught in lecture. Assisted the professor on a weekly basis to coordinate labs and improve lesson content. Fundamental Representation ARCH 1110: Worked closely with faculty members to develop tutorials and teach first year architecture students graphic, technical, and representational techniques needed to produce drawings, models, and renderings.

9.14 - 12.14

Matiz Architecture and Design, New York City, NY

7.14 - 8.14

Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, New York City, NY

1.14 - 6.14

Architectural Intern Directed a small project team through initial concept and design on an architectural competition to create a pedestrian street in NYC. Contributed to weekly critiques and final submission with diagrams, renderings, and concept drawings. Architectural Intern Designed exterior and interior options for a variety of projects including the facade of a high-rise tower in Tokyo, plaza for a mixed use development in Dubai, and lobby for a healthcare center in New York. Developed technical drawings for the core, podium, and interior of a 100,000 square meter mixed use tower in Astana, Kazakhstan. Fabricated and built one to one mock-ups to test pre-cast concrete facade variations for new innovation building at the University of Connecticut.

SKILLS Digital: Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, V-ray, Maxwell, AutoCAD, Revit, Adobe Creative Suite Manual: Photography, Physical Modeling, Laser Cutting, Hand Drawing, Woodworking, 3D Printing, Metal Fabrication

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