Jordan was a part of the project team 2021-2023 as a Project Manager.
Jordan was a part of the project team 2021-2023 as a Project Manager.
Jordan was a part of the project team 2021-2023 as a Project Manager.
Jordan was part of the project team 2018-2021 a Designer and Construction Administrator.
https://www.rhodepartners.com/projects#/villasonrio/
Jordan was part of the project team 2018-2021 as a Construction Administrator.
https://www.rhodepartners.com/projects#/the-pearl/
Project Name: Gulf Coast Design Lab
Project Location: Galveston, TX
Team: Peiwei Chang + Pia Garcia + Maggie Gaudio + Danlin Huang + Sudarshan Iyengar + Reuben Joseph + Miguel Rodriguez + Jordan Sheets + Derek Smith + Andrew Stone + Brandon Tharp + Claire Townley + Angela Vanella
Description:
How do we understand the world? How do we understand nature? By gathering, separating, and ordering. To understand a complex system we must first understand its parts.
An elemental understanding of the universe began with the Ancient Greeks. Their world was built of essential, indivisible pieces, or elements. Earth, Air, Wind, Fire. Aristotle proposed a fifth element: aether, which can be compared to Heidegger's concept of the divinities.
Why do we do this? Why do we seek to order complex systems, and to divide them into their smallest parts? We seek to understand nature by our relationship to it.
Ecological education temporarily gathers, separates, and orders nature as a means of understanding relationships. When we understand the parts, the elements of a system, we have a greater appreciation for the harmony of the whole.
Our design for an outdoor classroom provides an architectural framework for an elemental understanding of architecture. Through targeted interventions, it will gather space and people, highlighting underlying order, and elevate the understanding of an ecosystem as a complex orchestration of essential parts in harmony.
Our project is conceived as an organizational gradient. The heart of it is a highly ordered, rationalizing space created through the use of columns, almost as a hypostyle hall would be designed. Space is organized between the columns which transition from a frame, to a screened space, and finally to a matrix of trees before a viewer is exposed to the beautiful views of a barrier island prairie.
