Cordelia Ann Staniford Work Sample 2019

Cordelia Ann Staniford

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Work Sample

BRYKER WOODS ELEMENTARY DESIGN V | FALL 2019

CHANGING THE WAY CHILDREN LEARN THROUGH DESIGN This project is a design for the Kindergarten wing of Bryker Woods Elementary School. The focus was to develop the interactions with a Pedagogy of early learning techniques from Montessori or Froebel education types. The development stemmed from the idea of parts and wholes, one part interacting with the whole of the space. The project aims to benefit the students from a hands on pedagogy through visual & auditory, tactile & creative, and individual learning programs. While in a space where the students feel encouraged to be creative and curious.

Project Recognitions: Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship Finalist

T H E C U R TA I N S “ E N D L E S S A D A P TA B I L I T Y �

The project was structured to have three classrooms that would seat 25 students each. This was problematic because a 25:1 ratio distracts from the overall purpose, learning. The design solution was to create a separation without permanence, through curtains. Curtains are tightly pulled on a retractable track, tight enough to be used as learning objects. The tracks run through nooks in the walls to allow the curtain to recede into when bigger group activities need more space.

THE DESKS ASSISTING INTERACTION This design consists of 7 desk types and two chair types. The tables cluster into different configurations to assist the program that is occurring. This happens because different spatial and formal interactions come from how the desks are configured.

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BSID | May 2021

open curtains

closed curtains

The plan works off of the concept thick and rigid, thin and rigid, and thin and taught. Thick and rigid is are outermost walls of the classrooms, thin and rigid are the innermost walls and where the walls would be carved into to create pockets for the thin and taught, curtains, to fold back into.

Video showing curtain retracting into nook

tactile learning

individual learning

visual learning

reading nooks

hands-on science

playscape learning

M I N D . B O D Y. C H R O M A BATHHOUSE DESIGN IV | SPRING 2019

DESIGN CONTROLLING A USER’S MOOD AND ENERGY Public bathing has been a vital source of leisure in many cultures.

The objective of this project was to explore a variety of surface conditions attending to material properties, ergonomics, thermal behavior, and allocation of the surface within the space. Mind.

Body. Chroma. focuses on healing the mind and body through light, temperature, and chromotherapy. The amenities of the bath house are arranged in a sequential cross-axis order to pull the user through different temperature and color circumstances that directly affect one’s mood and energy. The overall materiality and aesthetics is dependent on chromotherapy and what each space requires to give the user a maximized experience.

CHROMOTHERAPY MATERIAL AFFECTING MOOD Chromotherapy is a therapeutic technique that changes a users’ energy and mood based on color. Where deep meditation is needed black corian masses are morphed to the body as a second skin. Pale to gold gradient is applied as needed when energy needs to be restored, and when user is slowly being brought out of meditation.

All gold is only used when energy needs to be at its peak, either when in harsher temperatures or for ending meditation and starting to bring the body back to its center.

model showing enhanced cross-axis and chromotherapy spaces

Sections displaying depth of the pools and the dropped ceiling plane for natural light.

gold flake plunge pool

olfactory wall

amenity splash pool

sauna

outdoor circulation

hot - cold therapy shower