sheila cobb interior design portfolio
Design is the best channel to communicate new ideas. I believe its purpose is not only to show us the future, but to invent it. _Yves Behar_
CONTENTS
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The Sandpit
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Stars Theater
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Next Health
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Other Work
THE SANDPIT Year 4 DSGN 450 Fall 2018 Location: Shanandoah, IA Team: Megan Jespersen, David Huissman, Joshua Frederick, Katrina Christiancy Within this STEM facility education will not be taught in a unified way but rather tailored to the ndividual learner, supporting distinct intelligences. The use of multimedia and modularity is important in supporting diverse students. The classroom will be flexible for the present and adaptable for the future and will not be confined to the indoors. The boundaries of the classroom will be pushed so that students can explore their opportunities and test their limits, expanding resources beyond textbooks. Finally, the STEM facility will support the community, not limiting itself to students so that Shenandoah as a whole can benefit.
Sandpit Exterior
Learning Environments Our goal is to provide environments for students that support their unique learning style and allow them to choose more freely about where and how they learn. We want to include these spaces throughout the STEM facility to encourage collaboration (watering hole), hands on learning (sandpit), expressing and exchanging ideas (campfire), reflecting on oneself (cave), and sharing and presenting work (mountain top).
Watering Hole
Sandpit
Come together to Play, prototype & exchange ideas experiment & cross-pollinate
Campfire
Cave
Share stories, exchange ideas & build on each others ideas.
Withdraw from noise to be alone with your thoughts & reflections.
Mountain Top
Celebrate & share your learning.
*Thornburg, David D. “Caves, Campfires and Watering Holes.� Core-ed. Accessed August/September, 2018.
SITE The site is positioned adjacent to the land east of the school so that students within agriculture and auto mechanics can get hands on experience developing the land. The STEM facility is between the middle and high school. Views and access to nature is also an important part of the site so that it can cater to learning styles such as naturalistic and kinesthetic learners. The south-east facing facade provides a view of the greenhouse as one drives on the road to get to the STEM facility. Surrounding the building, there will be outdoor seating for students to immerse themselves with nature. Site Plan
Adjacency Plan Diagram
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Floor Plan
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Cafe
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Robotics Lab
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Greenhouse
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Administration
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Wood Shop
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Mechanical
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Gallery
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Aquaponics Lab
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Welding Lab
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Mechanical
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Agriculture Classroom
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Automechanics Lab
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Robotics Hallway
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Kitchen
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Outdoor Classroom
GALLERY & CAFE
As students enter the facility, they walk into the gallery and cafe space. This mountain top environment offers views into each program space. Students can see down the robotics hallway where robots are tested, through the large greenhouse and agriculture classes, and outside where students can get hands on experience fixing tractors. This allows students to see all of their opportunities, exchange ideas, and see other students’ work. The gallery and cafe can transform into an assembly space for the middle school and high school to utilize for events or as part of the study hall at the end of the day for students and teachers. Additionally, the cafe offers quick, healthy snacks for students to purchase between classes and provides a warm, welcoming entrance.
Gallery
Cafe
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West Wing Section
Robotics Hallway In the robotics wing, the corridor acts as a sandbox and mountain top space for students to test their robots and display their work. The carpet tile is designed to be used as a path for robots. The glass wall allows for students to see into this space as they approach the building and offers a view to the surrounding nature.
Robotics Lab The robotics lab consists of a classroom space, a sandpit area to test robots, and breakout spaces that can be used as campfires and caves. The classroom space can be rearranged as needed and includes tools and storage space necessary for robotics. Adjacent to this lab is a wood shop which includes additional resources for robotics and automechanics to use.
Greenhouse The agribusiness and aquaponics sandpit share a space for lecture based learning and project based learning. This modular classroom and lab space encourages collaboration and hands on learning through a variety of seating and an open concept. Students can easily rearrange the space to satisfy their needs. The greenhouse adjacent to the lab offers students the ability to be hands on with grow beds and fish tanks beneath. The food can be prepared in the kitchen space and transferred to the cafe as well as the school cafeteria.
Automechanics The automechananics sandpit can fit two tractors for students to learn how to fix and drive. The land to the east of the building will be developed by students so that they can get experience for the work force. Students can work on the tractors inside and out to cater to all learning styles. The welding sandpit and caves offer the automechanics and robotics additional resources for tractors and robots.
STARS THEATER Year 3 DSGN 351 Spring 2018 Location: Rural Nebraska Quonsets
The creative class and rural landscapes are often thought of as different topics. The goal of this project was to investigate the creative class and discover what relationships and opportunities exist between this demographic and rural areas, specifically rural Nebraska. Richard Florida breaks down the creative class into two groups: super core and the peripheral. The super core is comprised of a wide range of occupations in which people are “fully engaged in the creative process” while the peripheral creative class is composed of professionals who are “knowledge-based workers.” The diverse and individualistic lifestyles enjoyed by the Creative Class involve participation in a variety of experiential activities. They are open to new experiences, culture, and social contact. This led to the question: How can I bring the community together and offer a fun, new experience that will promote openness to cultures and new perspectives in order to attract and retain members of the creative class that gravitate towards openness and diversity?
Box Office
AA
14 FOOT CUT PLAN
5’
Box Office Theatre
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AA Restroom
Restroom
Storage
4 FOOT CUT PLAN
5’
FILM & INTENTION Film has the power to shed light on an issue, tell a story, and show history. The impact and life-changing potential film can have on the developing world and vulnerable communities is significant. Film can offer information to people about cultures, health, religion, and much more. Film is a very powerful vehicle for education as well as leisure. It can educate people on a variety of topics and even has the power to change perspectives and expose cultures to unfamiliar content. Film gives the audience a certain level of openness (Warren, Christina). My intention is to bring rural communities together and use film as an opportunity to educate them about cultures, religion, and unfamiliar content through Independent and International film in order to promote a culture of openness and conversation within the community.
Quonset Shell
Star Projection
Custom Grass Rammed Earth ADA Seating Wheelchair Seating
Exploded Axonometric
“OUTDOOR” THEATER
SECTION AA
5’
STARS THEATER
The intent of Stars Theater is to promote openness among rural communities in order to attract and retain the creative class. Openness has the power to influence people’s ability to acquire new skills relatively quickly. People who are open are adventurous and they are likely to generate new perspectives on old issues and are comfortable with and adaptable to change. Communities can take on a certain level of openness which could draw in more open people and enhance its openness to new ideas, and its ability to harness creativity. Openness then comes to be imprinted on their psychological and cultural DNA.(Warren, Christina).
Vignette
Theater
NEXT HEALTH Year 3 DSGN 350 Fall 2017 Location: Seattle, Washington
Vision Statement: NEXT approaches wellbeing in a holistic way by considering not only the physical needs of employees, patients, and families but also their emotional and cognitive needs. The vision is to provide a space that is inspiring, innovative, thought provoking, fun, functional, flexible and collaborative through a mixture of individual and group spaces as well as open and enclosed spaces. NEXT will shape an environment that supports positive emotions, fostering a connection between users, their colleagues, and the NEXT organization.
Reception
FLOOR PLAN
NEXT will promote health and wellness through a welcoming and comfortable environment with an efficient design. This on-stage, off-stage facility will encourage patients and staff to live a healthy lifestyle. Through the use of naturalistic elements, positive distractions, and ease of navigation, this facility will aid in reducing stress and anxiety. NEXT Health will also promote learning and relaxation through way finding strategies.
Materials
Acupuncture Massage
Consult
Exam
Exam
Exam
Exam
Consult
Exam
Exam
Consult
Massage Laundry Restroom
Open office
Vitals
Mother's Room
Consult Restroom
Conference
Medical Supply Reception
Office
Office
Education zone
Lounge/ Waiting
Office
Demo Kitchen
Work Cafe
Phone
Phone
Conference Washroom
Fourth Floor
Open Office
Locker room
Exam Room Offering an on-stage, off-stage facility increases efficiency while also giving the patients and staff privacy while they are in the exam rooms (Vickery, C. G.). The layout of the exam rooms offer more space and comfort for the patients.The Empath exam chair was chosen because patients may feel uncomfortable or non-receptive if the doctor is not at the same eye level (Neil Baum).
Exam Room Hallway The curved hallway is meant to ease patients as they walk back to the exam rooms. The patients will have a view to downtown Seattle to act as a positive distraction and aid in way finding. This organic path, resembling a river, pulls the patients throughout the space encouraging them to explore the space, educating them on their health options.
WORK CAFE
This space incorporates views to the outside, comfortable details, and familiarity in order to aid in overall staff and patient wellbeing. The naturalistic elements within this space such as patterns, shapes, colors, and materials promote all senses to be engaged in the environment.
Demo Kitchen
Work Cafe
OTHER WORK
June
Stella
Cass
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