JOSEF GORDON ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PORTFOLIO

JOSEF GORDON DESIGN PORTFOLIO

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Gradients, an Integrated Research Laboratory (Fall 2022)

Library, West Oakland Station (Spring 2021)

ULI Hines Urban Design Competition (Spring 2022)

Parametric Pavilion (Fall 2021)

Westside Gardens, Silver-line: Stafford & Boyer Station (Fall 2021)

Hotel Wanatabe & Onsen, Tokyo, Japan (Summer 2021)

The Yellow House: Art Gallery + Residence (Spring 2021)

Youth Center, South Los Angeles, CA (Fall 2020)

Professional Practice, Adaptive Reuse (August 2022 - Present)

Professional Practice, Multifamily Project (May - Aug. 2022)

Gradient - noun

gra·di·ent

Definition:

MASSING

2 : change in the value of a quantity (such as temperature, pressure, or concentration) with change in a given variable and especially per unit distance in a specified direction COEXISTENCE

INTEGRATED RESEARCH LABORATORY

COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN STUDIO | FALL 2022

Prof. Liz McCormick

The ambition of this work, Gradients, is to design a facility that will serve the research needs of the UNC Charlotte Arts and Architecture community and the city of Charlotte more broadly. The building will maintain as its core objective to ensure the minimum carbon footprint possible, that is, net-zero, and shall aim to produce its own energy for consumption. It shall be constructed of reused and recycled materials – materials which themselves can eventually be disassembled and re-used – while sustainable practices in all phases will ensure a product that respects the natural, ecological and agrarian legacy of the site.

The project will endeavor to tackle key Environmental and HumanCentered goals in effort to interrogate the notion of gradients in time, material, form and thoughtful deployment of programmatic conceits with an eye to the future and with a respectful nod to the past. A modular approach to construction and space making will allow future occupants to define and redefine their own uses.

LIFT

PEEL

TEAM: Josef Gordon + Nathan Smith (Personal Role: Took lead in theoretical design, creative themes, massing, visuals, renders, historical + contextual research, floor-planning, programming etc.)

Rain Garden

Grand Salon

Study Zone Fabrication Laboratory

Systems Applied, Section Perspective

Transverse Section 1

Transverse Section 2

Transverse Section 3

Ecology Diagram

Physical Massing Model

Physical Massing Model

Physical Massing Model

Level 0, Floor Plan

Level 1, Floor Plan

WEST OAKLAND STATION LIBRARY | OAKLAND, CA

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO II | SPRING 2021

In response to the cross section of humanity that passes through this BART Station daily, and particularly in service to the local community who have long inhabited this part of West Oakland, this Library design aims to invite and entice the community to interaction and engagement.

A library has a rare potential to be a mother, a father, a friend and a home. The goal here is to create a space that embodies the word “Cozy”.

The largest possible footprint of the site is advantaged as a means of reclaiming the land for the community, as gentrification reshapes this largely poor neighborhood.

A series of cuts that analyze mass/void relationships aim to shape comfortable, safe and cozy spaces. A sense of comfort is catalyzed through the use of light and color as material environment, a feeling of safety is ensured through visual adjacency.

Prof. Catty Zhang

Exterior Perspective

Interior Perspective

Gather

Corridor

Bridge

The Lookout

Bring Your Own Book (aka B.Y.O.B.)

The Den

The Inner Court

Analogue Stacks

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Longitudinal Section

Process:

Mass Void Relationship Diagram

Massing Study Diagram

Program Diagram

Massing Study Diagram

Sectional Perspective Composite

Fold (v)

: to lay one part over another part of : to incorporate closely : to bring to an end

Fold (n)

: a group of people or institutions that share a common faith, belief, activity, or enthusiasm

ULI HINES URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION

INDEPENDENT PARTICIPATION | January, 2022

Prof. Ming Chun Lee

The Fold, has as its primary objective to foster Justice and Equity in Old Oakland and the City of Oakland more broadly. That is, to reunite a city that has been divided economically, racially and socially by an Interstate Highway system, whose goal was (at least unofficially) to red-line the city and segregate its population.

Through innovative reappropriation of land parcels which were acquired by the city for the construction of the I-880 freeway, we will Fold the freeway back into the community, by removing a nearly one-mile stretch of it; effectively bringing the community back into The Fold –back into the conversation, and encourage inclusion and access for ALL people. The removal of the physical barrier serves as a symbol of the removal of long-standing social and economic barriers to access, particularly for BIPOC, lower-income, and unsheltered segments of the population.

TEAM:

Josef Gordon, Sol Cabero & Jessie Cart

(Personal Role: Designed All 14 buildings, Research, Assisted urban design, Wrote project Narrative)

Exterior Perspective, Townhouses + Apartment Complex

South Elevation, Proposed Old Oakland Skyline

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE:

Vertical Louvers on West-facing Facades

Horizontal Brise-Soleil on South-facing Facades

Photovoltaics

Hydro-panels to convert moisture in the marine layer to usable water Green Roof

Supportive Housing

Mixed-Use Office Building

The Fold: 35-Story Office Tower Development Phases 3/3 Diagram

Rex Food Hall and Plaza at base of Office Building

Exterior Perspective, Arts Center + Residence

IV

PARAMETRIC PAVILION

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS | FALL, 2021

Prof. Rachel Dickey

Braided River Systems of Iceland are investigated and their formal qualities are abstracted parametrically to design a public pavilion. A set of parameters are set in a Grasshopper script to develop a carving operation.

Physical Model Interior Perspective TEAM: Josef Gordon, Turad Garba, & Matt Panko

(Personal Role: Wrote parametric design script in Grasshopper & created all renders and diagrams. Shared in initial research process, sketches and diagrams and in final model fabrication)

WESTSIDE GARDENS: CHARLOTTE SILVER-LINE

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO | FALL 2021 Prof. Ming Chun Lee

Westside Gardens is an urban design solution for the newly proposed stretch of the Silverline, which will link uptown Charlotte to Charlotte-Douglas Airport. The site included the two-mile stretch of line and three stations at and immediately preceding the Airport. The plan leverages a large swath of undeveloped woodland and deploys it as a central park. The park and various plazas are framed by buildings whose programs include mixed-use, residential, retail, commercial, hotel, and academic typologies. Each node is activated with emphasis given to a specific programmatic need. The Stafford and Boyer Station, pictured here, focuses on access to retail while securing availability of housing and commercial office space.

(Personal Role: Urban Design & design of all buildings at central Node pictured here: Stafford/Boyer Station. Design of several building typologies)

VMaster Plan, All Three Stations

Transverse Section

TEAM: Josef Gordon, Peter Rioux, Ramona Reinhardt

Building Typologies: Residential + Retail (Above), Small Office (Below)

Longitudinal Section Perspective

Master Plan, Central Node

Longitudinal Section

Perspective Render, Stafford & Boyer Station

Gather

HOTEL WANATABE | TOKYO, JAPAN

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO III | SUMMER 2021

In this project students were asked to design an all-in-one, modular Hotel, Capsule Hotel, and traditional Japanese Onsen (or bathhouse) in the heart of the colorful Harajuku district of Tokyo. Designs responded to constraints of pour-in-place and precast modular concrete systems. The hotel is to serve athletes of a specific sport, in this case Olympic Wrestling, during the Olympics and then continue to serve the local community thereafter.

The goal here is to analyze the Olympic sport of Wrestling to develop geometries rooted in its motion and kinetics. Wrestling maneuvers are translated into formal elements relative to motion that represent the sport conceptually and facilitate engagement with the sport and its athletes within the space(s), both public and private.

The division of public and private spaces are investigated and developed, with a focus on transparency; that is, transparent borders between rooms.

Prof. Chris Jarrett

Exterior Perspective, Tea Gardens

Interior Perspective, Main Lobby

Interior Perspective, Wrestling Gym

Custom Lighting Fixture : Taken from core geometry pictured right

Exterior Perspective, Core, or “Heart”, Stairwell

Interior Perspective, Hotel Room

Interior Perspective, Hotel Room (Looking across terrace into neighboring W/C)

Sectional Perspective, Hotel Room Floor Plan, Combined Modular Hotel Room, Shared Shower

Plan, Hotel Room Cutaway Axonometric, Hotel Room

Program Diagram

Assembly Diagram

Processional Diagram

ARTIST STUDIO + RESIDENCE | CHARLOTTE, NC

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO II | SPRING 2021

Prof. Catty Zhang

The Yellow House is an artist’s studio and residence in one. Set in the Noda Arts district of Charlotte, NC, the space intends to interact with the public by opening its front wall to the street while delivering a multi-purpose program. The spaces are developed from the carving away at the mass with light. Natural light and artificial light are deployed as means of dividing space and informing the program; while color is activated as a material variable. Geometries are derived from a series of sectional investigations of shadows made within selected architectural precedents and analyzing their respective color fields.

Interior Perspective, Stairwell (From Roof)

Exterior Perspective, West Facade

Exterior Perspective, North Facade

Site Plan

Second Floor Plan, Artist Residence

First Floor Plan, Studio & Exhibition Space

Interior Perspective, Gallery & Light Well

Interior Perspective, Living Room into Upper Lobby

West Elevation

North Elevation

Transverse Section

Longitudinal Section

Interior Perspective, Gallery & Reception

Interior Perspective, Physical Model

Interior Perspective, Physical Model

Exterior Perspective, Physical Model

Interior Perspective, Physical Model

Axonometric, Physical Model

Interior Perspective, Physical Model

Process:

YOUTH ACTIVITY CENTER | SOUTH LOS ANGELES, CA

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO I | FALL 2020

The craft-based logics of braiding are analyzed through massing and modeling exercises and are/were further developed as inhabitable volumes. Set in the Crenshaw district of Southern Los Angeles, these volumes become a youth center and park. The braided forms serve structurally and socially.

Prof. Rachel Dickey

Exterior Perspective, South Structure

Longitudinal Section, Composite Drawing

Axonometric

Transverse Section, North Structure Composite Drawing

Interior Perspective, South Structure, Indoor Court

Exterior Perspective, North Structure

WRESTLING GYM | WAREHOUSE UP-FIT

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE | 2022 - 2023 ARCHITECT OF RECORD: BSB DESIGN

An adaptive reuse of a large storage warehouse was the focus of a local nonprofit. The space was to include a wrestling ring, semi-fixed seating, a weight training space, and other ancillary spaces.

Responsibilities included site visits, developing drawings via 3D modeling Revit software and ensuring life safety requirements were met.

TEAM: Josef Gordon + Don Flick (Partner) + John Clese (Architect)

Classroom Lounge + Viewing Area

Wrestling + Training Area

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

MULTIFAMILY PROJECT

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE | 2022 ARCHITECT OF RECORD: BSB DESIGN

A large multi family project with apartment buildings, clubhouse, and garages in Moresville, NC.

Responsibilities included assisting with developing drawings via 3D Revit Modeling, detailing wall sections, creating storefront elevations and ensuring life safety requirements were met.

TEAM:

Josef Gordon + Nicholas Faulk (Job Capitan) + Scott Anderson (Project Manager) + Don Flick (Partner)