2021 Portfolio

Ian Kordonis|Portfolio

“This direct contact with reality can take place only on the terrain of invention.”

- Carlo Ginzburg Microhistory

RESUME PROSPECTIVE INTERN 902 Creekside Drive Apartment A Clemson, SC 29631 ikordon@g.clemson.edu | 843 460 5361

EDUCATION Clemson University

Master of Architecture | 3.55 GPA

College of Charleston

Clemson, SC

Expected Graduation Spring 2022

Bachelor of Business Administration | 3.4 GPA

Trident Technical College General Education | 3.8 GPA

Charleston, SC

Graduated Spring 2018

Charleston, SC

EXPERIENCE Architectural Intern|KHA Architects Assisted in technical drawing development Developed 3D computer models

Graduate Assistant|Materials Lab Maintain equiptment in Woodshop Teach and guide students

Cowboy|Phillips Cattle Company Gathered and branded stock Rode pasture and repaired fence Vaccinated heifers, cows, and calves

Mule Packer & Trail Cook|Triangle X Ranch Organized horse-led camping trips into the Bridger-Teton Wilderness for guests

Assistant Chef|Sunshine Village Ski Resort

Provided and implemented innovative food to guests Lived and worked on skil hill

Ski-Crew|Jackson Hole Resort Parked Cars Operated ski lifts

Charleston, SC Summer, Fall 2021

Clemson, SC Spring 2021

Baker City, OR

Summer 2019, 2020

Jackson, WY

Summer 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Banff, CAN Winter 2018, 2019

Jackson, WY Winter 2019

Charleston, SC

Valet Attendant|Ralph Johnson VA Hospital

Charleston, SC

Assisted Veterans in and out of hosptial Parked manual and automatic cars

Banquet Server|Kiawah Island Golf Resort

Served guests at Night Heron Grill Organized banquets for East Beach Conference Center Retail attendant of golf pro shop in the Sanctuary Hotel

Pantry Chef|Masters Golf Tournament

Prepared and cooked culinary events for corporate groups Worked with Executive Chef on special plates

2020-2021

Graduate Architectural Professional Partnership Current Role | President Initial Role | Fundraising Chair

LEED GA Candidate Eagle Scout

2021 2010

VOLUNTEERING

Captain, Event Cook|Salthouse Catering Prioritized guests and lead teams in events ranging from downtown residences to corporate showings

LEADERSHIP ROLES + HONORS

2015-2018

2014-2017

Kiawah Island, SC 2010-2014

August, GA 2010

Pickens Habitat for Humanity

2021

On-site construciton

South Carolina Oyster Recyling Enhancement

2017-2018, 2021

Charleston Waterkeeper

2016-2018, 2021

Oyster Rehabilitation Marsh Sweeper

Preservation Society of Charleston

2017

House Docent

Lowcountry Equine Assisted Pyschotherapy

2016-2018

Barn maintenance and Feeding

SKILLS

Microsoft Office Adobe Suite Revu 3D Modeling

INTERESTS

Leatherwork Cooking Guitar Woodwork

Laser Cutter Vray Lumion Sketchup

Rhino Revit AutoCAD

Sketching Watercolor Reading Writing

Riding Hiking Skiing Fishing

REFERENCES George Schafer

Tanya Gurrieri

Robert Turner

Andreea Mialache

Clemson Senior Lecturer (704) 562 - 9100 Triangle X Dude Ranch (307) 413 - 0457

Salthouse Catering (843) 991 - 4510 Clemson Asst. Professor (202)-492-6835

Rebecca Hoyle Painter & Teacher (843) 442 - 3644

CONTENTS 01 RISE 02 CRAFT ASHEVILLE 03 4X4 HOUSE 04 LIGHT PEAK 05 ALAMILLO 06 McLEOD 07 BOOLEAN 08 LEATHERWORK

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Empathy + Transistional Housing

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Textile Operations + Craft Formations + Fashion Academy 22-25

Precast Concrete + Tessellations 26-29

Inspiration From Nature + Spacing Identity 30-33

Structural Research + Modeling

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Preservation Research + Drafting 38-39

Laser Cut Light + 3D Printed Paperweight 42-47

Lifestyle Application + Design + Craft

ACADEMIC

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RISE

Fall 2020 | Clemson University M. Arch Studio 8520 | Vunerable Cites & Populations Professors | Ulrike Heine, George Schafer, David Franco Type | Academic with Geoffrey Powell Digital Model | Rhino Rendering | Vray + Photoshop + Illustrator

Project Description RISE attempts to reclaim transistional housing in Fairbanks, Alaska, for Native women who have become victims to domestic violence. This design proposal seeks to offer a housing hybrid that is tuned to the needs of the women and children victimized by multigenerational abuse and trauma.

We chose a forested site along the Chena River that connects deeply to vernacular roots of the region, while allowing the design to lean into natural pressues architecturally, such as glacial retreat. By paying respect to the typologies of the region, and adhering to a re-use and reclaim strategy, the bulding will host these users in a safe and sustainable manner. The sites programs and spatial courtyards provide a direct passage towards generational healing, while maintaing a safe distance for community integration.

The general proposal includes 60 bedrooms for all ages, an emergency medical clinic, therapeutic spaces, educational clasrooms, a gym with a running track, a vertical farming program, greenhouse spaces, and four outdoor courtyards totaling around 60,000 square feet on 3.16 acres.

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01 This is the south side section of our model. It gives a better view into the public to private gradient that is showcased in the courtyards. This being a shelter for victims of domestic violence, we adhered to the safety concerns by providing a series of courtyards protected by the sites volumes, that also utilized inspirations from the vernacular typologies in our studies.

Figure 2 represents the rising of our volumes in areas. This is a direct response to the Athabascan food cache shelter, where food is stored high above predators. Our building is raised against two predators. Rising glaciel retreat that floods from the adjacent Chena River, and potential abusers who might attempt to re-engage with the victims of our site.

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Figure 3 represents the lowering of our site in several areas.

It might be unintuitive at first to lower our building into the earth, especially considering our site is in a permafrost zone.

But, this lowering is inspired by the Athabascan deng house, and we have designed spaces that collect heat from a geo-thermal well system, and also helps to protects our site from previously stated intruders. Along with the lowering, there is an added feature known as a thermosyphon, which extracts heat produced from our volumes in the earth, and radiates it into our courtyards, making the spaces habiatable in the winter, and the permafrost layer intact always.

ph WIND SPEED 4.5m

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FROST LINE 42”

Figure 1 helps root our users to tradition in the site, by adhering to the presence of tress amongst the volumes. We have designed special organic concrete ‘baskets’ made from fly ash wood slurry, both upcycled waste materials, that protect the trees, provide heat, and comfort to our users as they heal from their experiences.

PERMAFROST

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+ FIRE PIT

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LOW STRUCTURE INVITES INTRUDERS

SUMMER SOLSTICE

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GREEN ROOF

125% INCREASE IN

VEGETATED AREA Native plantings attract pollinators and recycle any emissions into clean air

WINTER SOLSTICE

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TREE WADDING

Protects enbankment from erosion and users from intruders. Over an acre of native trees were REPURPOSED in CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND TO SUPPORT HABITAT RESORTATION

FROST LINE 42”

TAKING TREES OFFSITE IS NOT GOOD SUSTAINABILITY

108,000ft3

RE-USE CLEARED TREES AS WADDING ON SITE

EMERGENCY TANK PERMAFROST

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+ ATHABASCAN CACHE HOUSE

+ USERS ON SECOND FLOOR FOR SAFETY

1. South Side Section Cut Perspective of Model

HEALING COURTYARDS NOT INHABITABLE IN WINTER

Fig. 1 Concrete Baskets Graphic For Courtyards

+ ATHABASCAN DENG HOUSE

Fig. 2 Athabascan Food Cache Graphic For Users and Safety

COURTYARDS LIVABLE IN WINTER WITH THERMOSYPHON

Fig. 3 Athabascan Deng House Graphic For User and Safety

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MYCOFOAM BUSINESS UPCYCLE

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Along with a mindest towards the region’s culture and traditonal roots, we also implemented a heavy awareness of sustainability and minimizing our footprint of construction and materials. We used a mycofoam insulation that is grown on site in our first volume, which is dedicated to vertical farming. This model provides an abundance of revenue to keep users focused on healing. Over 97% of foodstuffs are imported in from outside of Alaska. This model along with the vertical farming components provides food and money for the site and Fairbanks. Mycofoam is compromised of completely natural materials that grow without artificial energy making it a sustainable all life cycle product insulation that does not need treatments against fire, unlike traditional polystyrene panels.

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From Alaska Feed Company

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STERILIZE DAY 2-4

Hay substrate

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INNOCULATE DAY 5-6

Mycelium with sterilized hay

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FORM DAY 7-17

Innoculation into 4x8 panels

EXPORT DAY 18

Mycofoam insulation to Spenard’s Building Supply

$300,000 In annual revenue

The axon section cut provides insight into where the mycofoam insulation is being used, as well as the other sustainable materials that are built into the site.

100% Upcycle process using waste materials 1

WALL SYSTEMS USED WITH MYCOFOAM INSULATION MYCOFOAM WITH POLYCARBONATE AND GLU-LAM BEAMS

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ARTIC 2X6 STUD WALL SIPS WALL PANEL WITH R-21 MYCOFOAM ASSEMBLY WITH INSULATION SOYBEAN RESIN MDF

WALL TYPES USED IN CONSTRUCTION

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MYCOFOAM

GLULAM/CLT

POLYCARBONATE

1 Mycofoam Business Cycle Using Regional Waste Materials

2 Construction Types Using Mycofoam Insulation in Building

3 Section Cut Axon of Living Units

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Cote Top Ten Competition Boards

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02 Craft Asheville Spring 2020 | Clemson University M. Arch Studio 8420 | Architectural Materials & Assembly Professors | Peter Laurence, Andreea Mihalache Type | Academic with Tuyen Tram Digital Model | Revit + Rhino + Grasshopper Rendering | Vray + Photoshop + Illustrator

Project Description Craft Asheville is an attempt to create a textile design school with accomodations for students and residents of the greater Asheville region. The chosen site location, next to St. Lawrence Basilica attempts to widen the epicenter of downtown Asheville while creating a transcendental architectural experience through space, light, techtonics and community connections. Our design proposal centers around an axial condition of our site. One linear line coming from the center of downtown, the Grove Arcade, and two from the northern neighborhood side of Asheville. From this axis we developed a park in front of our site that enhances the walkability of downtown Asheville. The pedestrian bridge follows the line of the other axis and offers residents of the neighborhoods around Asheville to commute to town using bikes and their legs.

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02 The program is divided into two buildings. The larger building is designated for academic spaces, while the tower is designed for housing. Both have entrances at the angle of the building allowing the outer screen to curtsy like a dress.

There is an underground garage for teachers and others who decide to drive to the location.

Asheville, like many other cities, faces issues with homelessness, which led us to include housing opportunities for low-income families and individuals within the facility. There are several programs on the site that create jobs for this user group.

The ground floor of the school has a research facility that is centered around utililzing different textile techniques to develop new forms of clothing. The intention is to have a sustainable upcycle of materials for sale. By developing a relationship with local farms and breweries, in the region, to help source raw, organic materials for this research, the site hopes to develop a communal condition between the school and Asheville.

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For the project, we were inspried by two textile operations: knotting and blending. The blending concept came from our study of the modern recyling process of leather. This process breaks down the leather into a fiber and blends it to produce refabricated leather hides. With knotting, we realized that most knots are interlaced in and out of the knot itself. These two operations led us to design our project around blending and interconnnecting various program spaces, both spatially and architecturally.

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5 1 Digital Model Render with Basswood, Chipboard and Wire Textures | Revit + Vray

2 Textile Operations Experiment

3 Program Space Sketch

4 North/South Site Section

5 East/West Site Section

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02 The main rendering on this page shows the back entrance bridge to the textile school. It is a direct link from the adjacent Asheville neighborhoods to the heart of downtown.

This connection re-locates the focal point of regional commute to the historic and shopping districts.

The far right is a detailed structure model of the housing tower. Done in conjuction with our second structures course, we select beams, girders, and columns that were appropriate for loads, as well as efficient in cost. Based off research, we knew that wind loads above a certain height had to be accounted for. We should a skeleton shaft concept for that reason. It provides a reinforced concrete core, where steel members can branch out from.

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1 Rear View of Revit Render | Vray

2 Dorm Balcony of Revit Render | Vray

3 Structural Skeleton of Housing Tower

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4x4

Spring 2021 | Clemson University M. Arch Studio 8520 | Precast Performative Morphologies Professor | Michael Carlos Barrios Kleiss Type | Academic with Sydney Parker & Lydia Lehman Digital Model | Revit + Rhino Rendering | Photoshop + Illustrator

Project Description The project deliverables tasked us with re-designing the 4x4 House by Tadao Ando, into a pre-cast concrete building.

We started by drawing plans in Revit, and then moved our model into Rhino where we split apart the building into logical sequences that concrete panels could stack and piece together. We utilized, single slab, hollow core and pre-cast stairs in the design.

Rendering style was inspired by Tadao Ando’s minimalistic design process.

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03 This page shows plans and details that were done in Revit.

The exploded axon and construction sequence were modeled in Rhino.

In conjunction with the Precast Concrete Institute (PCI), we were able to identify issues in our building process, and ultimately find resolution through discourse on what types of precast panels are possible in the industry at this moment in time.

FOURTH FLOOR LIVING/DINING

THIRD FLOOR STUDY

SECOND FLOOR BEDROOM

FIRST FLOOR BATHROOM

BASEMENT STORAGE

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4 1 Floor Plans | Revit

2 Roof to Ceiling, Floor to Wall, Foundation Details | Revit

3 Precast Panel Assembly Sequence | Rhino

4 Exploded Axon | Rhino

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LIGHT PEAK

Spring 2020 | Clemson University M. Arch Studio 8410 | Architecture at Various Scales Professors | Peter Laurence, Andreea Mihalache Type | Academic Individual Model | Basswood + Rockite + Plexi + Chipboard Hand Rendering | Graphite + Charcoal

Project Description This project was a re-design of the existing Samuel J. Cadden Chapel on Clemson’s campus. We were tasked with designing a space to invite all faiths. I personally drew inspiration from nature. The roof mimicks the mountainline of the Blue Ridge, while the privacy wall houses stones from the streams and lakes near Clemson. The spatial identity of the structure is a series of private and public rooms. There are windows that follow the bottoms and tops of the walls to allow the spaces to glow with light, yet not visibily see the sun in the afternoon or at night.

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04 This is the hand rendering for Light Peak. The laser cut topography includes a plaster parti model showcasing the building volume form and site of the design proposal on Clemson’s library quad.

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1 South View of Site Using White Cardboard | 1/32

2 Floor Plans on 24 x 36 Poster Paper

3 Aerial View of Site Using White Cardboard | 1/32

4 Section Cut on 24 x 36 Poster Paper

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ALAMILLO

Fall 2019, Clemson University MArch I Arch 8700 | Structures I Professor | Michael Carlos Barrios Type | Academic with Josiah Kinney & Raymond Gross Model | 3D Print + Guitar Strings + Basswood + Concrete

Project Description This project was a an attempt to model Santiago Calatrava’s Alamillo Bridge in Seville Spain. The Bridge Tower and road way are 3D printed, with the land portion of the model is cast in place concrete. With the use of a dremel tool, I placed guitar strings through the tower one by one to mimic structural tension on the bridge.

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05 These are process photos of our project. We substituted a mirror glass for the river that flows underneath the bridge.

We made our concrete mold out of MDF. This project two approximately one month from start to finish.

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3 Casting Rockite and Conrete for the Topography Base

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McLEOD

Spring 2017 | College of Charleston Historic Preservation HPCP 299 | Homes of The Enslaved and Their Descendants Professors |James Ward Type | Academic Individual Hand Rendering | Graphite

Project Description This project was a collaboration studio between The College of Charleston and Charleston County Parks. Myself and other students were tasked with measuring, cataloging and drafting our own slave cabin on the hisitoric McLeod Plantation. My cabin was No. 6, or the last structure in the row of houses on the plantation. We used the Historic American Building Survey to conduct our measurments and guide our research.

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06 After hand drafting, we were tasked with importing the elevations into AutoCAD. Much of our work was preliminary, due to the safety concerns of the slave cottages. With several structural deformities, including a sinking foundation, and risk of lead paint, we provided the measurements as precisely as we could.

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1 Exterior Elevation of Cottage No. 6 | AutoCAD

2 Cottage No. 6

3 Row of Slave Cabins on McLeod Plantation

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BOOLEAN

Spring 2020, Clemson University MArch I Arch 8110 | Visualization II Professor | Douglas Hecker Type | Academic Individual Digital Model | Rhino + Autocad Models | 3D Print + Cardboard

Project Description This semester focused our attention towards digital visualization and representation. This page showcases two projects stemming from the same root of boolean operations performed in Rhino. The first project utilized contour techniques on the original Rhino form, and then was laser cut, glue together, and made into a table lamp.

The second project is a 3D printed model of our boolean explorations on form.

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PERSONAL

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BELTS

Type | Personal Materials | Shoulder Hide + Dye + Neatsfoot Oil + Thread Tools | Strap Cutter, Edger, English Point Tip Punch, Oblong Punch, Stitch Punch, 2 Size Hole Punch, Round Maul, Burnisher

Project Description Through my times working in Wyoming and Orgeon, I was able to learn the craft of leathework. I first picked up the profession through the leatherworker at Triangle X Dude Ranch in Moose, Wyoming. I learned enough from him to get me started, and since then have developed my own techniques. Pictured are belts I have made over the years for myself. I have been fortunate enough to use this skill to improve my finacial situation while I navigate my academic career.

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CHAPS

Type | Personal Materials | Chap Leather + Shoulder Hide + Dye + Neatsfoot Oil + Thread Tools | Strap Cutter, Round Knife, Edger, English Point Tip Punch, Oblong Punch, Stitch Punch, Round Maul, Burnisher, Quick Rivet Set, 3 Size Hole Punch

Project Description I designed this pair of chaps for myself over the winter of 2019. Traditionally chaps are designed to hold warmth, and provide protection from brush and rope burns. This pair was used in Wyoming on mule pack trips into the wilderness adjacent to Yellowstone National Park. They were also used at Phillips Cattle Company in Baker City, Oregon in the summers of 2019 and 2020. The conchos and brass hardware are designed by a metalsmith and saddlemaker out of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. All hardware is brass to match my saddles brass stirrups and connection points. What is referred to as the ‘yokes’ of the chaps, are designed and inspired from the outline of the Grand Tetons. This set of yokes in particular showcase the view from the leathershop I learned in. The entire pair were built in the same shop.

Assembly time was approximately one and half months from start to finish.

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11 1 Chaps Present Day

12 2-9 Yoke Design Process & Chap Assembly

10 View from Triangle X Dude Ranch Leathershop

11 Finished Pair of Chaps

12 Myself Wearing this pair of Chaps in Oregon

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PORTFOLIO

Type | Personal Materials | Double Shoulder Hide + Dye + Thread Tools | Strap Cutter, Box Cutter, Edger, Scissors, Stitch Punch, Round Maul, Burnisher, 3 Size Hole Punch

Project Description This is the physical portfolio I made to house the work I used to get into Clemson’s graduate program. These are all process photos taken in the fall of 2017. I used 9-10 ounce weight doulbe shoulder hide, that was then sectioned off into an 8.5” x 11” landscape orientation for the portfolio. The spine is a custom piece of hard canvas from Hartnack and Company out of the United Kingdom. Chicago Screw posts hold the contents together.

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