PIOTR TOMANEK
Piotr Tomanek M.Arch · B.Fa · AT piotr.tomanek1@gmail.com Calgary, AB + 1·403·681·3912
Design Philosophy I believe architecture holds the potential to inspire and demonstrate by example how we can live sustainably, comfortably and happily. With a bit of care every project can help sprout new communities, bring people together and contribute to building a brighter future.
EDUCATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
Master of Architecture University of Calgary 2017 - 2020
Laboratory for Integrative Design University of Calgary April 2018 - April 2020 Diploma of Architectural Technologies · with honours • Leveraged expertise in digital fabrication, construction techniques, assembly, interactive Southern Alberta Institute of Technology environments with experience delivering projects for 2015 - 2017 a variety of community based clients. Open Studies DIALOG Mount Royal University Summer Research Student 2013 - 2015 Summer 2018 [IN]Arch Summer Session • Collaborated alongside architects, engineers, Introduction to Architecture interior designers as well as planners & urban University of California : Berkeley designers, providing a well rounded insight into a rich 2012 interdisciplinary creative environment. Bachelor of Fine Arts - Drawing youRhere Inc. Alberta University of the Arts Visual Specialist 2007 - 2012 Jan 2013 - May 2018 Autodesk Building Performance Analysis Certificate • Created digital way-finding content April 2017 • Coordinated with various millwrights, electricians, fabricators, security personnel and property PROFICIENCY managers during installation of directories Software • Designed directory enclosure incorporating Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, brand identity and marketing guidelines Grasshopper, Lumion, Maya, Sketch Up, V-Ray Farmboy Design HONORS & AWARDS Architectural Technologist Sept 2015 - Sept 2016 Cohos Evamy Partners Travel Scholarship • Assisted with schematic design August 2019 • Prepared working drawings Peter Burgener Memorial Scholarship REFERENCES September 2019 Available upon request Digital Design and Fabrication of Gridshell TRAVEL Structures in Academia: SAPL Research Pavilion International Conference on Emerging Technologies Austria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, in Architectural Design - Publication England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, October 2019 Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey Destination: Station INTERESTS D. talks - 2018 Movement Call for Ideas Technology Category Winners Mountain Biking, Djing, Skiing, Traveling, Drumming March 2019
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Sanguine Shift
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Cabrera House
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Tenchisouzou
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Pear Gridshell
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Verge
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Found Object
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Pacific Rim Estate
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Robotic Distancing
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Mackimmie Block
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Drawing + Painting
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Photography
Coalesce
Sanguine Shift SAPL 2020 Instructor: J. Taron Location: Inglewood, Calgary AB
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While digital fabrication has presented us with many new manufacturing possibilities, it has also given us the responsibility of using these new tools to reduce the impact we have on our environment. This project aims to alter conventional construction paradigms to align with consumer wants and needs of sustainable practices. The aim of this project is to show how we
can gain agency over our impact on earth through the things that we create. How can a building catalyze the construction industry’s commitment to lower carbon emissions as well as inspire carbon transparency?⠣ Mass timber has an inherent quality of being a reminder of our environmental impact, and a perfect liaison for our stewardship over that impact.
By combining all these factors we can create a harvesting, manufacturing and assembly logic that is driven by digital tools and research. Standardization through connection homogeneity paired with novel robotic fabrication creates a streamlined assembly process, eliminating excess waste as well as reducing traffic in the construction area. Sanguine Shift | 5
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Coalesce SAPL 2019 Instructor: B. Sinclair Team: M. Popel Location: Calgary AB 8 | Piotr Tomanek
Coalesce is a project that seeks to celebrate, express, learn from and ultimately provide a platform for Indigenous art, performance and culture. That is, the project serves as an Indigenous cultural and education centre on the University of Calgary campus. The programming celebrates underrepresented Indigenous artist and performers,
with a strong emphasis on local Treaty Seven Works. The Blackfoot word ‘ohkanaomowoo vai’ represents the act of coming together from all over in large numbers; ‘coalesce’ is what we felt best represents this concept in English, serving as a methodical armature to generate architecture which reclaims public space. Being located on the University of
Calgary, there are iconic connections of communities merging and individuals finding their voices. The project in this sense serves to allow for art as education, and the path towards reconciliation.
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Coalesce This project suggests that art is not always something human produced, but rather a pre-existing entity that is generated from the natural environment through wind, water, sun and fire. The materiality throughout the building aims to serve as both a symbolic and literal canvas for art to be projected onto. The sun rays throughout the day project a dance of shadows 10 | Piotr Tomanek
across the built environment. Rendering walls and floors as canvases, constantly being redrawn as temporal site qualities which are harnessed by the architecture. Rain spouts surrounding the grand hall are exposed and expressed, allowing for the sensory and audible connection to water.
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Coalesce The parti model (top left) is comprised of elements that are inherent in indigenous culture; the circle which is emblematic of the sun, the creator, and the cycles of life, serving as a container for an epoxy resin reminiscent of water in which kindling sits broken up from the same log. This kindling is reminiscent of a gestalt of parts unifying together to 12 | Piotr Tomanek
hold up a rock typically used in Blackfoot sweat lodge ceremonies, representing the responsibility of reconciliation. Our experiential model shows the procession from entrance to the main oculus, as well as the main structural features of the building. The building heavily relies on the use of birch glulam columns and beams and primary structural members.
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Cabrera House SAPL 2017 Instructor: B. Wylant Location: Calgary AB
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The Cabrera House is a collision of life and nature guided by a sensitivity to post traumatic stress disorder. Our clients are two young professionals looking for a fresh start in a new city. Maria Cabrera is a doctor suffering from PTSD, her work routine is stressful and she seeks a refuge to return home to without the triggers she finds herself surrounded by.
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Tenchisouzou SAPL 2019 Instructor: B. Sinclair Team: V. Lee Location: Denenchofu, Tokyo 16 | Piotr Tomanek
Tokyo is a city entrenched with movement and constant flows. People, trains, cyclists and machinery are in perpetual, efficient, and coordinated movement. The choreographed dance of synchronization can be elegant and evoke a machine-like precision when observed from a distant scale. Tokyo is also a city that takes its time to
recognize and allow its citizens moments of stillness, peace, and reflection. It is also a city of juxtapositions and things that may seem contradictory but exist together in harmony. In the bustling urban centers, there are shrines and castles, moments of leisure within the heavily emphasized working life of the city. Onsens and sentos serve as a retreat for the body
and mind amidst the high-speed lifestyle of Tokyo. The contrast between busy and calm, fast and slow, modern and traditional draw lines on the landscape. There are creatures that exist between these lines, known as yokai and yĹŤrei. Yokai are described as strange, mysterious creatures, “a monster or fantastic being, a spirit or spriteâ€? Tenchisouzou | 17
Tenchisouzou links the soul and the body. Through exploring the deepest caverns of the mind and the most sensual physical pleasures, the user can find nirvana within themselves
Tenchisouzou Through the unconventional combination of a train station with a sento and yĹ?kai center, the projects aim is to bring together two worlds of wonder, mystery and ambiguity. The Yokai Center focuses on presenting Yokai culture and creatures to both locals and foreigners in a highly experiential and involved manner. Using projection onto built environments, 18 | Piotr Tomanek
one can immerse themselves into the world of Yokai, to step through the portal from one world into another. Tenchisouzou takes elements inherent in Japanese folklore and tradition, then utilizes the opportunities latent within a transportation oriented development and elevating it into a center for community, family and friends.
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Pear Gridshell SAPL 2019 Instructor: M. Soto Rubio Team: EVDS 683 Class Conference: ICETAD 2019 20 | Piotr Tomanek
The 2019 Gridshell Research Pavilion is a deployable timber structure which exemplifies how digital design & computation can inform strategies for deployability and prefabrication of design-build projects. The goal of this design-build project was to employ both traditional physical form-finding techniques as well as contemporary technologies such as digital design
and manufacturing to design and build a lightweight, self-supporting, rapid assembly grid-shell structure. The project was designed to make efficient use of materials and to be able to be transported and erected without the use of specialized machinery, tools, or personnel, as well as to adapt to a variety of spaces and terrains.
Finally, the project was designed to demonstrate a coherent logic, a language or system that brought together form, materiality and structural performance. I was fortunate to have my design chosen to be built out of several candidates and iterations. The entire process helped us develop a strong team work acumen where we each utilized our strengths. Pear Gridshell | 21
Tensile Surface Creation
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Verge SAPL 2018 Instructor: J. Taron Location: Calgary AB
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Verge speaks to the intersection of the physical and the digital. This speculative program focuses on the needs of the video game community, culminating in a e-sports arena at its core. The rapid progression of this global culture has called into question the infrastructure needed to accommodate such events How can we design social space for the introvert?
The primary formal driver of the project initiated a conversation between surface and component; applying tensile forces to an initial cube, followed by an aggressive application onto a subdivided quilt. This investigation of self similar modules revealed the potential of one element manifesting it self in an endless variety of ways. Each iteration improving on
the success of its predecessor, this structure emerges as a natural progression of design rather than just a one off. As technology develops exponentially and allows for new possibilities in construction - How can we mix sculpture and architecture in a symbiotic manner while developing immersive phenomenological experiences. Verge | 23
Found Object UC Berkeley - Summer Session 2012 Instructor: M. Kaba
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A selected portion of a found object is overlapped and rotated becoming a module, which is moved and repeated according to a set of rules. The nature of these established rules results in the formation of dynamic relationships between lines or “seams�. These rules are not absolute, allowing for slight variation; however they provide instructions for a
2D geometric elements begin a new life as they lift off and fold into valleys, peaks and plateaus
multi-combinational architectural surface capable of evoking surprising forms through superimposition. Line types and weights become a code, instructions for cutting, folding or punching the paper partially enclosing space in a manner that is complex, diverse and architecturally suggestive. The transition from 2-dimesions to 3-dimensions is achieved by carefully
analyzing structural relationships, experimentation and execution created a visible harmony bounded by each surface. This exercise was my first introduction into rule sets, revealing to me the beauty and complexity inherent in algorithms. Granted the opportunity to create something complex, it came naturally moving from drawing patterns to a quilt. Found Object | 25
Pacific Rim Estate SAIT 2017 Instructor: J. Dvorzsak Team: S. Jmourovski, K. Simpson
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Our group recreated this pool house of the Pacific Rim Estate designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. What drew us to model this particular area of the house was the harmony of material tectonics; the concrete pads meeting the pool area serving as a base to the prominent wooden columns and beams, connected by black powder coated steel brackets.
Robotic Distancing SAPL 2020 Instructor: J. Johnson Team: N. Borstmayer, D. Callan, F. MĂŠthot
Robotic Distancing is a project that explores the interface between masonry and robotic fabrication. The nuance of the human hand, catalyzed by the programmability of the robot, is paired with the reliability and familiarity of the traditional medium of masonry. Adequate tools, various masonry units and organizing tool paths drove project development. Robotic Distancing | 27
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Explorations focused around the necessity to situate wood veneer in economically sustainable methods, as well as creating a nuanced experience of the three light wells
Mackimmie Block DIALOG 2018 Supervisor: R. Claiborne Team: S. Rennie Location: Calgary AB 28 | Piotr Tomanek
The Mackimmie Complex and Professional Faculties Building Redevelopment Project is a multi-year, multiphase project to address deferred maintenance, enhance pedagogical and administrative environments, accommodate growth, and strengthen the sense of place and community in the heart of the University of Calgary’s main campus.
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Parametric solutions for ventilation were explored with the variables of gradient type and panel orientation; adhering to surface area and location requirements
The block will be a net-zero carbon building, holistically support health and wellness, and showcase the university as a Learning Lab. At the center of the block is an opportunity for architectural expression in the form of mechanical ducts. These ducts hold latent potential to act as light wells, solar chimneys, acoustic attenuators, smoke evacuation,
allow for passive cooling, and act as landmarks. The majority of our investigations focused on the economically optimal orientation and placement of panels around the light wells, as well as required mechanical ventilation opening sizes necessary for a successful night flush of the hot air accumulated in the floor plates during the day. Mackimmie Tower | 29
Drawing + Painting AUA · SAPL · SAIT · PERSONAL 2012-2020
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Drawing is a tool that has been critical to my ability to quickly express ideas and convey instructions. It is the beginning to any project, allowing problems to be resolved as rapidly as possible. Painting allows me to explore a full palette of colors, I treat their application with a sense of equality with a propensity for lighter tones, in this sense my style is fauvist.
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Photography PERSONAL 2012-2020 Locations: Istanbul, Ios, Tokyo, Rome, San Francisco
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Inherently I’ve always had a connection to the natural and built environment, I believe the more we see and experience the better we can navigate, critique and appreciate the world. My aim is to awaken the senses through stimulating sensory memory eliciting a shared nostalgia, allowing the observer to become a part of an otherwise esoteric moment.
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