Jordan Meerdink Architecture Portfolio

ARCHITECTUREPORTFOLIOJORDAN MEERDINK COLLECTED WORKS | 2008-201260 W129th Street New York, NY 10027 | [email protected] | 440.212.2831

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2012 PROJECT LIST

FARM/FORESTKSA SOUNDSYSTEM

BICYCLE DISTRICTROVING MUSEUMSPIRAL ANNEXSKETCHES/PAINTING

BOX STORE ROOF

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FARM/FORESTGUI DESIGN COMPETITIONARCH 442 WINTER 2011 // INSTRUCTOR: BART OVERLY // NINE WEEKS

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FARM/FORESTThe 11 Gui Design Competition focused on a complex program of community amenities in the Weinland Park neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. While the design prompt initially called for a se-ries of community garden plots and an education center, it didnt address several issues facing the neighborhood. This project is based on is a sim-ple proximity diagram showing how far away WP is from forest and recreational outdoor spaces. Farm/Forest expands the program to include for-est, cultivated urban fields, a running path, and a number of much needed recreational installations.

Farm/Forest is a two part design that considers the main structure individually and in relation to a greater urban plan. The urban plan takes advan-tage of the underutilized land surrounding railroad tracks on the eastern edge of the site. Program is divided between agricultural parcels, parks, and recreation space. Moving towards the main site the strands of agriculture and forest condense along Fifth Avenue and provide residents with individual plots and sheds for community gardening. Parking and individual pavilions are scattered throughout the site as smaller more intimate spaces that exist for Weinland Park residents to gather.

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Community GardensPedestrian Paths

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First Floor PlanA. Cafe

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On the main site, the bands of agriculture and forest again expand up and around the build-ing covering the combined organic market and community center in a green roof and sur-rounding the west and south facades with a buffer of trees. The main structure houses a community center and market with kitchen that looks out over the site.. The building form is a bar lifted at both ends and wrapped by a ramp on the north and east. Neighborhood residents can start at ground level and move up around the building to the roof where they can look south towards downtown Columbus or north into Weinland Park. The main structure acts as an exclamation point where the green space caps the beginning of the project.

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Program Organization

Farmers Market Community Center Restaurant Classrooms


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KSA SOUNDSYSTEMGROUP INSTALLATIONARCH 243 SPRING 2009 // INSTRUCTOR: ALAN SMART // NINE WEEKS

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KSA SOUNDSYSTEMKSA Soundsystem explores the way students in Knowlton Hall communicate across borders to each other. Essentially, there are localized hubs of activity in several points around the building. These hubs tend to isolate students and instruc-tors into specific areas defined by major and year. KSA Soundsystem attempts to bridge the inter-stitial space between these points through a low tech, but notheless effective, method.

The current layout of the building divides social in-teraction up into defined spaces. The placement of the speaking tubes and periscopes break up the divisions between these otherwise isolated areas. The speaking tubes bridge horizontal and verticle gaps to unite areas of high traffic across areas of low traffic. At several locations visual zoetropic displays are set up to increase interaction among users of the tubes.

The sound tubes are attractions that cause pass-erby to pause. The visual displays invite interaction with the system and require cooperation between users on both ends to operate.

Zoetrope Machine

The current set up of the building divides social interaction into rigidly defined spaces. These spaces have specific users who do not have access to other centers.

The proposed intervention to the building breaks the divisions between areas and short circuits the building system. Users are no lon-ger restricted. Areas are no longer defined.

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Undergraduate students occupy isolated centers of the building. Generally self-segregating by year, students stay within studio boundaries. The planned installation will connect areas otherwise isolated and precipitate increased communication between faculty and students of all years.

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Knowlton Hall Main Space

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Team: Jordan Meerdink - Steve Jacobs - Adam Stritenberger - Paul Milar

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Cafe to Studio Section

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BOX STORE ROOFWHOLE FOODS ROOF GARDENARCH 341 FALL 2009 // INSTRUCTOR: LISA TILDER // FOUR WEEKS

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BOX STORE ROOFThe concept driving Box Store Roof is a simple one. North Market, a historic public market located in downtown Columbus, OH, is getting an addition link-ing it to Whole Foods Market, the largest organic gro-cery store chain in the US. Whole Foods Market and North Market, while they operate in distinctly different ways, both aim to provide consumers with top quality food and service. Ideologically, agriculture links both markets together and consequently the two markets are linked physically with a green roof covering both buildings.

The ground level of the addition houses most tradi-tional grocery functions like delivery, storage and product floor space. The second level houses a year round farmers market and cafe. At ground level North Market and Whole Foods Market operate as separate entities, however the upper level of the ad-dition links the two structures with a communal dining area. While parking for the combined grocer and mar-ket remains on site, it is lowered into a subterranean garage hidden from view. Finally a green lawn covers the roof uniting the original structure with the Whole Foods Market addition.

The green roof unites the buildings and provides over 60,000 square feet of park space for local residents to utilize. People passing through the markets to ac-cess the green roof become potential shoppers with multiple choices. A large grocery chain, many small businesses, and independent farmers are all inte-grated within one location yet retain their individual identity.

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BICYCLE DISTRICT21

BICYCLE DISTRICTCOMMUTER COMMUNITY URBAN PLANARCH 441 FALL 2010 // INSTRUCTOR: MARC MANACK // NINE WEEKS

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Building Typology

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Submerged Garage Beneath Ramp

Raised Green Path

Apartment Block

Units Stacked

Units Removed For Path

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BICYCLE DISTRICTFranklinton, OH is essentially the last undeveloped piece of land in downtown Columbus. Originally lo-cated below water level, constant flooding prevented improvement of the area. The recent construction of the Scioto Flood Wall and re-zoning of the neighbor-hood for commercial and residential development has placed Franklinton in a unique position. Located just across the Olentangy River from Downtown Columbus, Bicycle District aims to transform Franklinton into a car minimal commuter neighborhood.

With businesses, sporting venues, and cultural attrac-tions all within a short ride or walk from the neighbor-hood, The district is designed to optimize conditions for bicyclists. Direct bike lanes connect to downtown for commuters, meandering wooded lanes facilitate leisure riding, and a velodrome is available for serious racing. A bridge connects the neighborhood trails with the ex-isting Olentangy River. Once inside district boundaries, the bicycle trail is arrayed around the perimeter and through the interior of the development. Apartments and businesses on the site look out over green roads and trails rather than towards asphalt streets.

Although designed for bicycle commuters and pedes-trians, Bicycle District accommodates vehicular traffic using modified conditions. Vehicular roads operate on the site only for necessary functions like emergency and municipal services. High speed traffic is selectively filtered to the periphery while cars moving through the neighborhood operate only on specific roads at low speeds. The two high speed roads running through the site are lowered below ground and bridged over, hid-ing traffic from view. Parking garages are located on the edges of the site and underneath apartment com-plexes. Bicycle District orients residents focus away from cars and parking and towards green spaces with accommodations for active commuting.

Third Level Housing Plan

First Level Housing Plan

Movement Into Site

View From Broad Street 80 ft24 m

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Local Roads

Walking Paths

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While the city roads generally run west to east, Bicycle District breaks from this by orienting roads and infrastructure on a diagonal angle. The angle breaks the vehicular streets from the grid, slowing them down, and accommo-dates a more natural flow for the bicycle lanes running through the project.

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ROVING MUSEUM27

ROVING MUSEUMSWACO LANDFILL MUSEUMARCH 341 FALL 2009 // INSTRUCTOR: LISA TILDER // FOUR WEEKS

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Retrofitting a Garbage Truck

Off-Site Visitor Center

ROVING MUSEUMLocated just outside Columbus, Ohio, the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) is a massive landfill that accepts all of central Ohios municipal refuse. To instruct the public on the im-pact of their garbage, the Roving Museum is an education center that showcases the science of waste and recycling. Initially intending to place the museum directly on the landfill, research showed that in practice landfills are unpredictable build-ing sites. A specific example cites the City View Walmart project which attempted to develop on a former landfill. Eventually the store was con-demned after the foundation cracked and meth-ane leached through the floor. Decompositon of material, emission of methane gas, and influx of more garbage create a constantly shifting land-scape unfit for permanent buildings.

As an alternative to a single stationary structure, the Roving Museum decentralizes museum func-tions and disperses them out over the landfill in a series of movable structures that plug into a larger visitor center off-site. The mobile buildings directly engage visitors with the site and can move as the landfill landscape changes.

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MOBILE MODULE

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The form for the mobile buildings come from everyday examples of movable structures like mo-bile homes and quonset huts. The base of each module is built around a standard size trash dump-ster. Dumpster trucks already are equipped to quickly move and un-load heavy amounts of refuse. They are also already prevalent on the landfill site. Once in place on-site, pistons lower the sidewalls and un-fold the building. Methane fueled generators inflate the canopy and provide power to the module.

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Cladding

Ramp Circulation

Remaining Original Facade

Roof

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Dance Studios

Building Organization


SPIRAL ANNEXSULLIVANT HALL RENOVATIONARCH 342 WINTER 2010 // INSTRUCTOR: ZACH SNYDER // NINE WEEKS

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SPIRAL ANNEXOriginally constructed in 1913, Sullivant Hall is one of the oldest buildings on the Ohio State University campus. Currently, Sullivant Hall houses the dance department library, classrooms, and studios. Although additions were last made in 1950, changes in technology and the addition of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library have necessitated substantial overhaul and redesign of the structure.

Sullivant Hall is located on the gateway between Ohio State University and the city of Columbus. Along the fault where these two entities collide there is an approximately twelve degree shift between the city and university grid systems. Peter Eisenmann exploited this shift in his design of the Wexner Center located adjacent to Sullivant Hall. This renovation also employs that shift to generate new circulatory space and redirect pedestrians through the gateway towards the center of campus.

The interior has been reorganized with a combined dance and cartoon library on the bottom two floors and lobbies, classrooms, and dance studios on the remaining levels. While elevators and interior stairwells provide direct connections between floors, the winding ramps wrapping the building create paths of leisure circulation and provide for meeting areas between students and faculty of different disciplines.

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The exterior building has largely been left in place except where circulation ramps move in and out of the existing facade. The west and east facing ramps cut inside the facade within the original building footprint. On the north and south sides of the structure the ramps wrap around the exterior of the existing building. The system terminates on the roof with an outdoor amphitheater that can be used by the dance department for recitals and performances.

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