Architecture Interior Design Portfolio*
THOMAI PNEVMONIDOU
Thomai Pnevmonidou
Architect / Interior Designer Confident, competent and imaginative, both as a part of a team and a team leader. Particularly concerned about the design process, I intend to create spaces which lift the spirits, paying much respect on the “living”. Determined and focused, I strive to improve and learn from others.
Areas of Expertise
Architectural design Landscape architecture Computer-aided design (CAD) Handsketching Handicrafting Drafting Photoshop In-design
Professional Experience October 2013 - Present (currently as visiting)
Lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art
- Supervise students projects promoting interpersonal and presentation skills - Often collaborate with other visiting tutors and assistants (intermediary between students and tutors) - Update the website of the Interior Design Depatrment June 2012 - Present
Co-founder of The Disco Studio
- Architecturally inspired bow-ties from concept to design and realization - Devised production line by cooperating with local traditional embroiderers - Exhibited a draft set of products at the Ethnological Museum of Thrace, Disciplines Registered Architect in Engineers’ - Fougaro Nauplio and Public Contractors’ Pension December 2011- Present Freelance Designer Fund (TSMEDE) - Christmas decoration for a bar-restaurant in the city of Xanthi Lecturer - Conceptualize and design business card, postcards, visual books and logos Freelance Designer October 2011 - June 2012 Illustrator
Personal Skills
Creative thinking Excellent imagination Ambitious and determined Good teamworking skills
Languages Greek (native) English (fluent) Spanish (fluent) French (basic)
Personal Details Thomai Pnevmonidou
28 Overnewton Street Yorkhill, Glasgow M: 0744 9399810 E: thomai_p@hotmail.com
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Illustration the University textbook of the Department of Environmental Engineers, Democritus University of Xanthi Managed and administrated the design process for the start Effectively been included in the acknowledgements after publication
Education & Credentials
2012 - 2013 MDES Interior Design: The Glasgow School of Art (Distinction) - Published work in the 21.09.2013 Evening Times (Nominated for the SPIE Prize) - Exhibited my works at The Lighthouse representing Interior Design Department - Nominated periodically as Teaching Assistant during the second semester 2004-2011 MArch Architecture: Democritus University of Xanthi, Department of Architectural Engineering - Managed to collaborate with several multi-disciplinary groups - Highly-effective group thanks to the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously 2007-2008 Bachelor of Architecture: Universidad Camilo José Cela of Madrid, with the program Socrates-Erasmus - Taken part in the International Workshop JARDINES DE REPENTE with the deutsch office LE BALTO - Part of the team that collaborated successfully during the workshop SMOKING - POINTS
References available upon request.
THESIS MDes Interior Design
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CAPSULE HOTEL MDes Interior Design
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Context and Cooperation MDes Interior Design
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THESIS MDes Architecture
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ACCOMMODATION FOR ARTISTS MDes Architecture
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- The Chamber of Wishes
- Between the Folds
- The Glue Factory in Glasgow: Design from the inside looking out
- Reconstruction of Independence Avenue in Famagusta
- Creative Art Workshop
ILLUSTRATIONS - COMPETITIONS .26 - A dose of optimism - Drop by Drop
Thomai Pnevmonidou E: thomai_p@hotmail.com
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Can we shape our need and our desires in a way that illuminates the human mind? The scientific explanations for mental phenomena connected to my personal curiosity regarding ‘how things really are’ and how they ‘appear to me’, are used as a case study in this project. In an effort to describe the personal level experience of space as a process of human consciousness perceived by my interpersonal relationships - through memories and spatial experiences - rather than a series of physical spaces, I am trying to discover alternative practices that offer a new way of understanding spatial meanings. These alternative perspectives shaped by real people and real events mixed with imagination are able to create new spatial articulations since they tend to represent a simulation of reality.
I have not stopped dreaming and taking these dreams very seriously. -Tadao Ando
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The Chamber
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THE CHAMBER OF WISHES
dreaming
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of Thesis - MDes Interior Design Nominated for the SPIE Prize
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of Wishes
The Chamber
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The Chamber
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BETWEEN THE FOLDS “Once upon a time” opens an alternative world, a fairy-tale world in comparison with our own world. Exploring many questions about body’s engagement with the world and the ability of memory to define a place, I decided to reverse the space consciousness. By introducing movement as an extra variable in the project and by designing folding spaces –using cardboard as my primary material –, reconfigurable spaces through variation, we get many benefits, because we literally open up possibilities of spaces we previously thought impossible: walls that become ceilings, beds that turn into walls, floors that move from one place to another.
MDes Interior Design Project: Capsule Hotel
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THE GLUE FACTORY Design from the inside looking out
The intervention at the building functions as a heterotopia; as a spectacle of incompatible representations and contradictory desires that challenge us to rethink and ultimately redefine our collective experience and perhaps each one’s everyday experience with that space. My intention regarding the interior proposal, the “room”, is to construct a fantastically interior where the ceiling is covered with a diversity of 3D shapes. The geometrical form allows a glimpse of the building within the new addition. Preserving its raw beauty through the transparent material that is made of laminated glazed panels, which are coated in a mirror finish, I will achieve the dialogue with the past and present, the juxtaposition with the old and new and I will avoid to overwhelm the existing structure. -The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images Guy Debord.
MDes Interior Design Project: Context and Cooperation
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“Between myself and the mirror, where lies Reality?�
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Reconstruction of Independence Avenue in Famagusta
A different world.
Situations that occurred in the past, have left their marks on the city and in a place with traces of ancient customs, we are affected and we design. An urban space that has intensity and a patchwork of stories that still reside here, within each one’s memories. Although the memories are different, this project is an effort to redefine the landscape. The purpose is to create an urban space promoting the city’s development bymanaging architectural / urban direct action, and by changing the limitations to the centre. What preoccupies us mostly, as architects, is the alteration of space.
“[...] after having dismantled the city piece by piece, he reconstructed it in other ways, substituting components, shifting them, inverting them. - Italo Calvino, Invisibles Cities
Thesis - MArch Architecture
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RIGHT LEFT
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Handrawing representing situations, paths and different levels of the land lot.
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Lovers are hidden in salons full of shadow, older people are gathered around their stories or children with their little paper ships on the surface of water, are admiring the skaters. Maybe that represents only the complexity of thoughts in life. - Eduardo Arroyo
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ACCOMMODATION FOR ARTISTS MArch Architecture
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Creative art workshop
The complex is located at a neighborhood in the north of Thessaloniki, housing an institution dedicated to research, exhibition and accommodation of artists. The location is a beautiful stretch of rocks and the main access to the land is through the main traffic artery. The project comes as an attempt to convert part of the landscape into indoor and lab spaces. The building is organized into different levels that provide views and ease of movement free movement, but at the same time connects the spaces between them.
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We become aware of space through our undivided Ego, through the simoultaneous activity of soul, mind and body. –Walter Gropius
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WHAT'S NEXT ? PORTFOLIO 2014
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Illustrations - Competitions February: the month of sales in Greece. That’s how this idea was born. Everyone is waiting for discounts to buy things. Now is the opportunity . The purpose of the idea is not to annihilate our positive thoughts, but to make them somewhat more attractive. Something that everybody needs. So, positive thoughts everyone?
A dose of optimism Shortlisted within 20 proposals to be part of a private viewing in Thessaloniki
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European Competion: Drop by Drop
Title: The others Don’t be so selfish. we have to think about the others too
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And I said “ You know Gabor, if I could think what I would do, other than architecture, it would be write the new fairy tale, because from the fairy tale came the aeroplane and the locomotive and the wonderful instruments of our minds... it all came for wonder� Louis Kahn - Conversations with Students
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