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jordan eliasarchitecture portfolio
selected works: 2010 | 2011 | 2012
228 ronning close | edmonton, ab | t6r 1z4
(204) 333 [email protected]
CONTACT INFORMATION
Jordan Elias
228 Ronning Close
Edmonton, AB
T6R 1Z4
(204) 333-5374
SKILLS
• Strong researcher (6 years’ experience in post-secondary, 2 years’ experience in government)
• Articulate writer
• Eloquent public speaker
• Enthusiastic collaborator
• 1 year’s experience in hand drafting
• 4 years’ experience with Adobe Photoshop 5.x and 1 year’s experience with Adobe Illustrator
and Adobe InDesign
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD 2012 and Rhinoceros 4.0
• Extensive knowledge in HTML, CSS and Joomla
EDUCATION
B. Environmental Design specializing in Architecture
University of Manitoba • September 2011, ongoing
• Completed studio coursework focusing on: hand drafting technique, knowledge in AutoCAD
2012 and Rhinoceros 4.0, and gained experience in model building.
• Completed technology coursework focusing on: research and hand drafting to understand
structures, loads, wall assemblies, and environmental sustainability practices.
B.A. Philosophy and Political Science with Distinction
University of Alberta • September 2005 to December 2009
• Double Major. Emphasis on phenomenology, spatial theory, and identity politics.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Offi ce of Councillor Kim Krushell
Communications Director
March 2010 to August 2011
• Provided communications support
• Wrote articles for the Edmonton Examiner and community newspapers
• Maintained and drafted articles for http://www.kimkrushell.com
• Provided social media presence on Twitter and Facebook
• Researched issues like the downtown arena district, the City Centre Airport redevelopment,
urban planning, and youth engagement
• Represented Councillor Krushell on Edmonton's Next Gen Committee
• Co-wrote sponsorship documents, met with potential sponsors, and secured $10000
sponsorship for Edmonton Community Challenge 2011
• Updated terms of reference for Sustainability Committee
• Developed solutions to address citizen concerns by providing information, investigating
issues, and liaising with City of Edmonton Administration
Offi ce of Councillor Dave Loken
Aide
November 2010 to July 2011
• Drafted news articles for Edmonton Examiner and community newspapers
• Developed http:///www.daveloken.com
• Assisted setting up new offi ce by developing on-line and off-line databases
• Researched issues such as transit-oriented development and urban agriculture
Kim Krushell Election Campaign
Communications Advisor
July 2010 to October 2010
• Assisted in development and execution of campaign strategy
• Compiled information used in campaign by monitoring social media sources
• Prepared Kim Krushell for Ward 2 Candidates Debate
COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE
Edmonton's NextGen (http://www.edmontonnextgen.ca)
Pecha Kucha Working Group Volunteer
April 2010 to August 2011
• Provided day-of support in organizing and running Pecha Kucha events 7, 8, and 9
Special Projects Working Group Volunteer
January 2011 to August 2011
• Helped design itinerary for Edmonton Community Challenge 2011
• Coordinated and executed activities during weekend of event
Arts 4 the Alley (http://eote.ca/alley) • Co-founder
May 2011, ongoing
• Worked with volunteers, MADE in Edmonton, and Edmonton the Edge to create Arts 4 the
Alley, a day-long event on August 13 occurring in the Alley of Light
• Co-wrote sponsorship documents, met with sponsors, and secured $800 in sponsorships
• Recruited volunteers, participants, and sponsors for event
• Coordinated planning of event activities
MADE in Edmonton (http://www.madeinedmonton.org) • Member
October 2010, ongoing
• Worked with Progress Unlimited to host Designing Downtown: Between Two Cities, which
took place April 6 2011
• Assisted in hosting Edmonton Design Exposed: How a Decade is Made 2000-2010, which
took place from October 14, 2010 to October 21, 2010
Big Bear FC • EDSA Soccer Coach
April 2009 to August 2011
• Worked with a group of twenty players to achieve both team and individual expectations
• Cultivated and nurtured strong team spirit and philosophy
• Provided regular feedback to players on both team and individual levels
• Organized practices and team social functions
• Administrated fi nances
INTERESTS
• Community engagement
• Urban design issues (e.g. transit-oriented development, infi ll development, repurposing
existing structures)
• Architectural theory (e.g. writings by Kengo Kuma, Terunobu Fujimori, Juhani Pallasmaa)
• Spatial theory and philosophy (e.g. Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze,
Henri Lefebvre)
• Minimalist art (e.g. Anne Truitt, Robert Motherwell, Canan Tolon)
• Art and sculptural installations (e.g. James Turrell, Olafur Eliasson, Richard Serra, Walter de
Maria)
• Soccer (playing and coaching)
REFERENCES
• Available upon request.
When I was a kid, I would walk around different neighbourhoods with my
mom to look at the houses. One day we discovered a house unlike any other;
it had glass tiles, curved walls and steel fl ourishes. We called it “the science
lab”. My mom and I still call it that.
I want to design the kind of architecture that I experienced together with
my mom. I want to make architectural memories as vivid for other people as
“the science lab” remains for me.
This portfolio shows both personal work and work from my Bachelor of
Environmental Design studies program at the University of Manitoba.
My work attempts to work through small details and discovering
relationships within a site in order to discover an appropriate, sensitive
architecture.
Contentschallenging the everyday
triptych: working through photography
constructing the triptych
topographic dream space
exploring thresholds within the city
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Revealing the EverydaySociology 448
This project calls into question
typologies of space and typical objects
we encounter every day.
The installations critique how we
conduct our lives by refl ecting back to
us our understandings, memories and
practices of the everyday. By revealing
the contingent nature of the everyday, we
open up possibilities for investigating and
deepening our understandings of the world.
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01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | revealing the everyday
By mounting paintings in the river valley, the space operates simultaneously as a functional space—it
becomes an art gallery while remaining unfettered and natural. In doing so, the practice of viewing
art in gallery spaces is challenged: must art be shown in a building where space is delineated for
things in order to be functional? Critically, how does the change of context from the everyday
space affect how we feel about the paintings?
This site is set in Edmonton’s Whitemud neighbourhood where three houses fell into the North
Saskatchewan River. The installations not only question the comfort and insularity of “normal” living
rooms by displacing everyday objects—a couch and a lamp—but also speak to the severance
between what was and what is. These items open up anxiety for us because they can no longer be
be taken as part of a comfortable, interior part of a residence: the living room.
Triptych: working through photographyEVAR 3008 Design Studio
The triptych was made by using pan
pastel over three related photographs. The
intent was to let existing elements dictate
how the artwork would unfold rather than
working from a preconceived idea.
It was used as a thematic device
within studio coursework for exploring
architectural interventions.
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01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | triptych: working through photography
Constructing the triptychEVAR 3008 Design Studio
The next stage of work required constructing
a fragment or evocation of the triptych. My
focus was on creating a space rather than an
object that would be still during the day and
come alive during the night.
The work attempts to cultivate an
atmosphere predicated upon the play of
oppositional light sources.
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01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | triptych: working through photography
Topographic Dream SpaceEVAR 3008 Design Studio
My studio had the opportunity to go to
the Cappadocia region in Turkey, which served
as the inspiration for the topographic dream
space.
The selected site comes alive during the
day. trees, which creates a play of light and
shadow. As the sunlight moves across the
room, the tree’s shadow becomes warped due
to the angle of the sun. The surprise of fi nding
the tree underground is the critical aspect of
the site.
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01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | topographic dream space
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | topographic dream space
Exploring thresholds within the cityEVAR 3008 Design Studio
The Exchange Site features a red, metal fi re
escape in front of the Swiss Building and the
Mackenzie Building.
During the day, the site receives no direct
sunlight. At night, the building’s lighting gives
a yellow-orange tone that falls upon the red
fi re escape. As a bare, exposed structure, the
fi re escape is easily understood with a single
look of the eye that makes the voids—the gaps
between the metal members—more prominent
than the members themselves.
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01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | exploring thresholds within the city
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | exploring thresholds within the city
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | exploring thresholds within the city
This piece strove
to discover
an appropriate
colour palette for
an architectural
intervention. It worked
from pre-existing
conditions found
within the images to
explore possibilities of
assembly and collage.
Sections are
representational image
that purport to the
reality of the site. By
treating this section
of a fi re escape as a
malleable image that
could be duplicated
at different scales and
oirentations, I hoped
that a new material
assembly could
reveal itself from pre-
existing notions.
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | exploring thresholds within the city
The two plans found
in this spread follow
a similar technique
to that used for the
secitons of the fi re
escape. Again, I hoped
to fi nd a different way
to understand the
site and refl ect upon
spatial possibilities
for an architecture by
working through pre-
existing conditions to
fi nd something new.
Rather than focus on
the entirety of the
image, I fi nd it’s more
revealing to identify
moments within the
works.
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | exploring thresholds within the city
A limitation of
working through plan
and section is that
the viewer is not
implicated directly
within the image.
This piece collides
different perspectives
within the site and
has elements of
these perspectives
extend into the other
perspectives to
create an impossible
space. The hope
was to fi nd more
defi nitive architectural
possibilities by
creating new spatial
relationships.