Architecture Portfolio
Cheyenne Canterbury
2021
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“Without an intellectual construct life is boring.” -Jeanne Gang
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Contents
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Villa Veenstra SeventyF
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Kinetic Crystals Perkins Eastman
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The Urban Rural Interface
A Climate Change Education Thesis and Kremer Competition
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Dormiens Fungos
Housing Pods for a Yoga Retreat Competition
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Fluctuating Space
A Black box Theater Manko Competition
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Creative Explorations
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01 Villa Veenstra SeventyF Internship Mentor: Bas ten Brinke Collaborative Oosterworld, Netherlands 2021
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A Home For Accessibility The relationship between a caretaker and a person living with mental disability is often underappreciated in adaptable architecture. This Villa design creates a harmonious coexistence between an elderly couple suffering from Parkinson’s disease and their son, a caretaker. The program is divided into two private but unified apartments to feel as one home, yet allow independence within the family dynamic.
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Fig 1-4: Concept Diagrams Fig 5: Site Plan
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Privacy and Views The client for this project valued privacy from the public street and beautiful views of natural landscapes. To maximize natural daylighting from the north facade, vertical lamellas are designed to filter sunlight into the bedroom spaces, while maintaining visual privacy from the street. A rhythm within the facade is derived from circulation patterns of the floor plan, giving a layered feeling of transparency and solid volumes. This also blurs the divide between the two apartments, unifying them under one geometric roof. The lighting change from day to night brings the north facade alive as light spills between the lamellas yet doesn’t distinguish activity happening inside. The south facade opens to views of nature. The accessible garden design is inspired by the sharp geometry of the roof plane, cutting into the site and creating smaller moments of intimacy with nature, which is known to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
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Fig 1: North Elevation Fig 2: South Elevation Fig 3: East Section Fig 4-5: Lamella Day and Night Light Studies
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Interior Strategy Functional programmatic blocks are created to place emphasis on the living spaces. Sleeping quarters, utility, and mechanical spaces are strategically placed in compartments, allowing open and accessible circulation throughout both apartments. These two units maintain internal independence from each other except for an emergency access door connecting the caretaker’s bedroom and the couple’s bedrooms.
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Fig 1: Interior Strategy Diagrams Fig 2: Floor Plan
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Program 1. Bedroom 2. Living 3. Dining 4. Kitchen 5. Storage 6. Office/Guest Bed 7. Reading Corner
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The facade varies from the northern public street approach to the residential private approach. While the public street view is meant to glow with public activity and light, the residential view serves more to dampen light pollution for the residential towers. This is achieved by using perforated metal panels to filter light on the public side along with lighting and signage, and solid metal panels on the residential side to contain the loud visuals of the retail. Additionally, the end cap of the retail frame is designed to showcase a media screen for further interaction with the retail signage.
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02 Kintetic Crystals Perkins Eastman Internship Mentor: Gilles LeGorrec Collaborative Seoul, South Korea 2020
The facade varies from the northern public street approach to the residential private approach. While the public street view is meant to glow with public activity and light, the residential view serves more to dampen light pollution for the residential towers. This is achieved by using perforated metal panels to filter light on the public side along with lighting and signage, and solid metal panels on the residential side to contain the loud visuals of the retail. Additionally, the end cap of the retail frame is designed to showcase a media screen for further interaction with the retail signage.
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A Crystal in the Heart of Seoul This retail building is located in Seoul, South Korea and is home to the Banpo community. Perkins Eastman was hired in collaboration with Heerim Architects to design a unique overall concept and facade design for this residential complex. The client, Samsung, used the services we provided for a competition submission. The residential complex is composed of 13 residential towers, interactive landscape, kindergarten, gateway, and retail. My role in this project was to design a facade for the retail that follows the concept used for the overall complex, which is a crystal in the heart of Seoul. This facade is designed with kinetic louvers which speaks to the interactive technological brand of Samsung while also using the unique geometry and light filtration capabilities of a crystal. This screen also gives retail owners the ability to control the appearance of their store fronts while also allowing specific signage placement and artificial lighting within the facade.
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Fig 1-7: Proccess sketches for facade design Fig 8-12: Conceptual Diagrams Fig 13: Site axon
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03 The Urban Rural Interface A Design + Make Studio Space for Climate Change Education Masters Thesis Collaborative Middleton, Tennessee 2020
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The Urban Rural Divide In America today, there is a https://youtu.be/E3UjlkfnymU great divide between urban and rural communities, lifestyles, knowledge, and understanding of how climate change will be impacting current and future generations. Lone Oaks Farm has made its mission to bridge the gap between urban and rural through an interface that allows both worlds to meet on the same grounds and share an educational experience. While the divide between urban and rural communities grows, Lone Oaks Farm is looking to education for a solution to shrinking arable land areas, and food scarcity. The “wicked” problem of The Urban Rural Interface is addressing education on climate change, it’s effect on agriculture, an exponentially growing population, and younger generations being the solution to solving food scarcity. This project is designed on three different levels of scale, beginning with the greater national impact, masterplan, and ending with an architectural element. Where the rural and urban environments meet, is the interface of the future.
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Fig 1: The Urban Rural Interface Short Film Produced by Cheyenne Canterbury and Emily LaRocco Fig 2-4: Urban Rural Interface Collages
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A Platform for STEM Education Lone Oaks Farm, located in Middleton Tennessee, needs an architectural element to complete it’s center for STEM education on site. This initiative is meant to challenge students from both Urban and Rural lifestyles to think critically about the connection between science and traditional agricultural farming. A set of STEM Barns are proposed to serve as a platform for STEM education, while going beyond the function of a traditional barn. This design provides architectural manifestations as a means to educate younger generations about how climate change is affecting our food sources, while showing how science becomes the key for a solution. While maintaining the local typology of the farm, the two STEM Barns are composed of a hard shell component, and a light element creating a unique balance of functional spaces.
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Fig 1-11: Process sketches Fig 12-14: Form Diagrams
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Lone Oaks Farm Barn Profile
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5. Greenhouse 6. Demonstration Space 7. Primary Machine Accessible Pathway 8. Demonstration Garden Fig 1: Floor Plan Fig 2-6: Seasonal Studies Fig 7-10: Daylight Studies
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Seasonal and Daylight Studies To express the deep connection between the STEM Barns and their natural context, seasonal and daylight studies were conducted to show the functionality of the program, even during less agriculturally active seasons. While the northern shell portion of the design serves as a hands on workshop and storage space for farming equipment, the southern light element draws visitors to the barn as a functional greenhouse to be used especially during off seasons, and at night. The public space between the barn structures can be used for educational demonstration of farming equipment. 27
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Harvest Day Lone Oaks Farm, Tennessee 29
STEM Architectural Detail In addition to the multifunctionality of the STEM Barns, the design is taken a step fuether in the direction of technology and agricultural practices through the use of a kinetic rain collection system. Operable doors are designed to capture rain when open to store, and reuse in the greenhouse. Enforcing the STEM Barn’s connection with nature, These kinetic doors provide a unique teaching moment for students to learn about the rain cycle, how human science can play an important role in it, and how we can practice sustainable techniques in agriculture. This design gives encouragement and sparks curiosity within both urban and rural students about STEM education, proving that architecture can become an Urban Rural Interface.
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Fig 1: Kinetic Door Detail Fig 2: Rain Collection System
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04 Dormiens Fungos Housing Pods for a Yoga Retreat Competition Individual Amieira, Portugal 2021
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Dormiens : “Sleeping”
Fungos: “Mushrooms”
The hills of Portugal rise and fall with slopes and valleys covered in a blanket of foliage. A yoga retreat can be found in the Vale De Moses, immersed in the natural beauty of Amieira. This design for housing pods within the valley, stems from mushrooms growing vertically like extensions of their organic surroundings. Dormiens Fungos, meaning sleeping mushrooms, spread throughout the valley, growing out of the hillside like spores. This nature inspired design houses up to two occupants to sleep, rest, and connect with nature while also providing basic necessities such as a lavatory and storage. Spaces inside these pods can be used for an introverted immersive experience as well as social companionship. Sustainable design elements reinforce this proposal’s connection to the environment through controlled solar heat gain, recycling wastewater, and ecofriendly construction materials.
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Flexibility In Design Dormiens Fungos is a highly flexible design meant to have minimal interaction with the site yet work with the steep slopes on site. A light structure is built on elevated struts above the ground plane, touching the site only at the concrete foundations and the rear facade. The rear side of the pod is designed to collect rainwater and store it for use within the plumbing wall, supplying water to the lavatory. Cork based construction materials provide a functional and ecofriendly quality to the design and its natural connection.
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Fig 1: Site Section
Housing Pod Assembly 1. Metal sheet roof plane 2. Angled cork structure with steel connections tied back to a cork storage wall 3. Interior plumbing wall for recycled water use 4. Cork and rice paper partition wall for bedroom storage and sliding room divider 5. Cork platform with steel supports 6. Exterior enclosure walls with high windows for natural light and air circulation 7. Southern oriented facade with limited windows for privacy and lower solar gain 8. Steel foundations to elevate design for minimal site contact 9. Concrete foundations
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Fig 1: Interior Cabin Space Fig 2: Floor Plan Fig 3-6: Spatial Fluctuations
Spiritual and Spatial Divider Dividing the two main spaces within the housing pods, is a custom partition wall. This interior element constructed of cork framing, panels, and rice paper, filters light and organizes spatial functions. Storage cubes provide organized object arrangements while the rice paper backing allows light to filter between spaces. The spiritual space created can be used for a variety of experiences, including meditation, yoga, art, writing, and social connection. This flexible space engages with the interior partition wall and the exterior beauty of Vale De Moses through five large windows for a breathtaking view of the valley.
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05 Fluctuating Space A Black Box Theater 4th Year Studio: Todd Gabbard
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A Continuously Evolving Theater This black box theater is located in Wichita, Kansas and is meant to serve the Fisch Haus Artist Collaborative Studio by providing a place for local artists, communities, and performers to host events. Designing an apparatus for adaptability and connection hidden in a massive form is what drives this proposal for a black box theater. The design focuses on communal outreach and adaptability of space to best serve the needs of the performing groups in the Wichita Art District. By designing a black box theater that has moveable walls, ceilings, and seating arrangements, this design allows the space to take on multiple shapes and configurations according to the performance. This creates a unique dynamic between the theater and the community by allowing users to experience performances on a larger, as well as a more intimate scale.
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Fig 1-2: Conceptual Model Fig 3-11: Process sketches
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Light and Function The theater anchors the building, connecting it to Wichita. Walls of the black box theater are set on tracks to interlock and change the space inside. Moveable seating units and stage platforms can then be configured to best fit the performance. Acoustic panels clip onto the operable walls to create an ideal sound environment. While the black box needs to have controlled lighting, the rehearsal space and classroom are allowed to be filled with light. The skylights create a nice contrast between the enclosed, adaptable theater and the light filled upper support spaces.
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North Section Wichita, Kansas
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Fig 1-3: Floor Plans Fig 4-6: Theater Wall Operations Fig 7-15: Spatial Configurations
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Parapet
Thermal Frosted Glass 5x5 Technowood Panels
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Level 2 Poured Concrete on Metal
Rigid Insulation Air Gap Board Form Concrete
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Rigid Insulation Black Steel Panels Operable Stage Door
Site Cast Foundation T.O. Slab
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Gutter Parapet Aluminum Cap Waterproofing Gypsum Board Insulation Concrete on Metal Decking
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Aluminum Plate With Pin 5x5 Technowood Panels Aluminum Pin Connector Steel Connector Open Web Steel Joist Structural Steel Column Thermal Frosted Glass
Roof Detail 5x5 Technowood Panel Thermal Frosted Glass Aluminum Connector Structural Steel Column Level 2.1
Oak Flooring Acoustic Mat Concrete Metal Decking Level 2 Aluminum Plate With Pin
Open Web Steel Joist Thermal Glass
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06 Creative Exploration In addition to architectural studies, I have explored other creative medias including watercolor painting, sketching, and photography. These creative outlets have allowed me to expand my understanding of design and quality to projects of all scales.
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Thank you to those who support me, and mostly to those who challenge me.
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Cheyenne Canterbury
cheyen.canterbury@gmail.com +1 314 . 954 . 2884
Professional 2021 Present
2020-2021
Intern Architect at SeventyF Almere, Netherlands Office Worked for a tight knit five person firm lead by Bas ten Brinke to create elegant, modern, and impactful architecture for a variety of project types based in the Netherlands including high end residential
The Design+Make Studio in collaboration with El Dorado Kansas State University Studio and El Dorado Kansas City, US Office Worked with a team of student designers and practicing architects led by David Dowell, AIA and Principal of El Dorado, to design a series of education projects for international and local clients
2020
Intern Architect at Perkins Eastman New York City, US Office Collaborated with a variety of reputable designers, architects, and clients on large scale international and domestic residential, educational, senior living, and commercial projects
2016-2021
2020-2021
University and Research
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Kansas State University College of APDesign
AIAS
Master of Architecture Degree and Minor in Urban Planning Deans Honor Roll
Active Member 2017-2021
Thesis, “The Urban Rural Interface”, Global Research studies for climate change education in Botswana, Tennessee, and Kansas
2020
Internship, “The Future of Abandoned Suburban Malls”, US A Research study for abandoned malls in the Midwest with an adaptive reuse approach
2016-2021
Served as Vice president 2017 - 2018 President 2019 Peer Advisor 2020-2021
APD Pro Lecture Series Certificate
Adobe Cloud Suite Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD Grasshopper Vray Laser Cutting Enscape, Twinmotion Model Crafting Woodworking, Welding Freehand Sketching 3D Printing Film Production
Kremer Competition Sleeping Pods on a Cliff Competition Dormiens Fungos, Submitted
2019
Kansas State APDesign Plot Club
Skills
The Urban Rural Interface, Recognized 2021
Active Member 2016 - 2020
Awards and Competitions Awarded certificate for completing the Kansas State University APD Pro lecture series for 5 years 2021
Women In Design MHK Chapter
Manko Competition Fluctuating Space, Submitted References avaliable upon request
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