Curriculum Vitae

THOMAS BENNELL

tpbennell@gmail.com 07851 557 167

PART II ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE WITH EXPERIENCE OF WORK IN LARGE AND SMALL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, NON-PROFIT COMPANY DIRECTORSHIP, AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING. EXPERIENCE

It is my aim to qualify as an architect. Having completed my Part II qualifications and worked in professional practice, I took the opportunity to join a small team that set up a company to organise the August 2010 European Architecture Students Assembly. This project is now winding down and I wish to resume architectural work. NOVEMBER 2010 - PRESENT Designer INNOVA DESIGN SOLUTIONS Furniture designer, space planner and interior designer in a company that provides design-led, turnkey fitting out for the education and commercial sectors, specialising in Corian fabrication. One-off pieces, lab and room layouts, visualisations, site surveys, client meetings, and CNC programming. Introduction of new drawing register, CAD templates and block library.

JUNE 2006 - JANUARY 2008 Part I Assistant RICHARD DRINKWATER ARCHITECTS A broad range of experience, working on projects through all RIBA work stages and in diverse sectors. Design work both planning and detail for buildings at a range of scales, both newbuild and historic (listed). Production of planning, construction (GA) and detail drawings. Production of presentation images and models for client and planning meetings. Site visits, client and planning meetings, and negotiation with statutory authorities. JUNE 2008 - AUGUST 2008 Summer Assistant BDP. Working with Sue Emms and Matthew Hird on the education team, undertaking MANCHESTER OFFICE initial planning for a new Academy. Experience of large practice culture and organisation including team work and systems. NOVEMBER 2008 - SEPTEMBER 2011 Director EASAUK2010 LTD. Company treasurer and secretary, responsible for a six-figure turnover. Senior member of organising team, directing the preparations for the 2010 European Architecture Students Assembly, a two-week residential summer school for 450 architecture students from 43 European countries and worldwide. Gallery Co-ordinator, managing a 135 sqm exhibition space with two exhibitions per month, and accommodation site manager, co-ordinating volunteer labour over two months to convert a disused warehouse to a suitable venue for the Assembly. Experience of negotiating with statutory authorities to obtain necessary permissions, licences and fire certification. Tutor with Matthew Duggan of a workshop at the 2009 EASA Italy. Participant building straw-bale bird hide in Connemara at 2008 EASA Ireland Delegate at INCM conference Nicosia 2008 and Copenhagen 2010 SEPTEMBER 2008 - JUNE 2009 Teaching Assistant MANCHESTER SCHOOL Working with a first year tutor group, I gave lessons in basic drawing conventions OF ARCHITECTURE and techniques, developing into general support with studio project work. Since graduating I have been invited to first and second year crits as a visiting critic.

EDUCATION

SEPTEMBER 2007 B.Arch Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture - JUNE 2009 ‘Private House’, thesis project exploring privacy, perception and meaning Dissertation: Architecture and Community: social interaction in contemporary urban accommodation SEPTEMBER 2003 BA(Hons) Architecture First Class Manchester School of Architecture - JUNE 2006 ‘City limits’, cinema and creative hub on the fringe

SKILLS

VISUAL Architectural drafting, freehand drawing in a variety of media, model making, COMMUNICATION illustration, photography, presentation graphics. SOFTWARE AutoCAD [8 years] Photoshop [8 years] Office [16 years] InDesign [5 years] Illustrator [5 years] SketchUp [2 years] + Kerkythea Microstation [3 months]

AWARDS

2006

Nomination, the RIBA President’s Medals for the project ‘City limits’

2005 Rossant Award for the best drawings in second year 2004 Michael Sharpe Prize for the best overall student in first year

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLE Education: The Final Approach Architecture and the Built Environment, Issue 4, RIBA NW June 2008 ESSAY The Unremarkable Building Isolative Urbanism: An Ecology of Control, Richard Brook and Nick Dunn, Bauprint 2009

REFERENCES

RICHARD DRINKWATER Principal, Richard Drinkwater Architects richard@drinkwaterarchitects.com PETE SMITH Director, Innova Design Solutions Ltd. pete@innova-solutions.co.uk

INTERESTS

Cycling, climbing, mountain walking, photography, drawing, voluntary work, travel, building and making, especially with wood.

EDUCATION PRIVATE HOUSE B.ARCH

The past ten years have seen a revolution in popular image technology, enabling the rapid distribution of images across the world. The corresponding increase in security and privacy concerns has resulted in attempts to restrict photography in public places. What would a building designed to address these fears look like? Private House proposes a residential retreat for wealthy celebrities who need medical assistance to enable them to overcome drug problems or indulge in cosmetic reshaping. Their wealth, and the risk to their image if such treatment were to become known, demands the design of an unusually low-key yet high quality building. This programme explores complex issues of power, control and ownership of space both externally, in the way the building responds to its context and location, and internally, how the building can have a powerful healing effect on its patients as well as providing the necessary technical and organisational framework for their treatment.

tpbennell@gmail.com 07851 557 167

An investigation into unprogrammed urban space and commonality, in the arches underneath Piccadilly Station in Manchester. Inspired by Calvino’s Castle of Crossed Destinies and Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy, Common Room for a City proposes a rough, multilevel environment animated by musical instruments, fire circles and sleeping boxes. Exit room 15m²

Camera obscura 6m²

Accommodation cell 15m²

Kiln space 8m²

Wet space 8m²

Store 5m²

Craft space 16m²

Greenhouse 50m²

Compost heap 10m²

Grounds maintenance shed 24m²

Individual therapy 6m²

Light therapy 6m²

Fitness suite 30m²

35° bath 49m²

16° bath 5.4m² Multifunction space 24m² 45° bath 7.1m²

16° bath 8.2m²

Surgical preparation 15m²

Recovery 15m²

Operating theatre 24m²

Anaesthetics 15m²

Medical staff office 3m² Medical staff office 3m² Store 3m²

Pharmacy 4m²

Toilets & massage Physio 6m² 24m²

Toilets 6m²

Changing 3m² Changing 3m² Showers 10m²

Security centre 10m²

Staff shower 4m² Staff changing 4m² Staff toilets 14m²

Central management office 12m²

Staff common room 12m²

Cellar 3m² Food store 3m² Food store 3m² Kitchen 15m²

Housekeeper's office 3m² Cleaner's store 3m² Laundry 6m²

Accommodation suite 25m²

Bar restaurant 25m²

Lounge 25m²

Accommodation suite 25m²

Beauty clients

Accommodation cell 15m²

Store 3m² Quiet space 10m²

Cooking space 10m²

Eating space 20m²

Common space 15m²

Security centre 10m²

Staff entrance 10m²

Client entrance 10m²

Porter 3m²

Gatehouse 6m²

A590 Visitor accommodation 30m²

Visitor accommodation 30m²

Staff accommodation

Staff + service

Rehab clients

CITY LIMITS BA

COMMON ROOM FOR A CITY

A cinema and arts centre on the edge of the city centre. The building’s form and materials strongly respond to this boundary.

Staff accommodation 46m²

PRACTICE

A small practice with the principal, Richard Drinkwater, accompanied by three full time staff: an interior designer, project architect and one part I architectural assistant. The practice has a broad portfolio of project types and scales, with a particular speciality in listed and historic buildings. There is a convivial studio culture to which all members of the team contribute.

Selected projects: 20 APARTMENTS AT MELLOR ROAD Feasability, planning, construction, detail 17 HOUSES AT PROSPECT HOUSE Feasability, highways, planning OVER TABLEY HALL Joinery details LLOYDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HOUSE BASEMENT insertion of car park in listed building THE GRAND HOTEL Feasability for boutique hotel

RICHARD DRINKWATER ARCHITECTS

INNOVA DESIGN Innova Design Solutions ltd. is a shopfitting company specialising in educational environments and solid surface fabrication. They provide a turnkey service: design, manufacture and installation for laboratories, food technology rooms, toilets, canteens, staff rooms, reception desks and other spaces. The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique selling point is a design-led service. HAPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL Design of fitted furniture for four classrooms, two toilets and a media suite (pictured right). Manufacturing drawings and site visits. KNOWSLEY LEISURE CENTRE Design for manufacture of Corian reception desk, initially designed by the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architects Broadway Malyan. The desk included difficult compound angles and was integrated with painted and plastered wall surfaces, requiring careful consideration of construction sequence and different trades. SELECTED OTHER PROJECTS Manchester Met. computer games laboratory Numerous science laboratories Numerous food technology laboratories Concept designs for canteens CNC programming and prototyping

SELF DIRECTED HOPE MILL (WITH CHRIS MALONEY) Feasability study and planning & listed building consent for cafe bar and event space in ground floor former boiler room of Grade II* listed early C19 fireproof mill, currently used as industrial storage.

ATTIC CONVERSION Insulation and new window in attic of Victorian house in conservation area to create art studio. Hardwood window with custom profiles and inward opening sash.

EASA 2010

THE 30TH EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS ASSEMBLY, MANCHESTER

2 WEEKS 432 PARTICIPANTS 27 HELPERS 47 COUNTRIES £96,236 20 WORKSHOPS 11 VENUES LECTURES EVENTS MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL ASK DEVELOPERS THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER RIBA RIAS ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND MAKITA APPLE PETER SAVILLE THE AOC ROGER STEPHENSON RICHARD MURPHY PLANNING LICENSING FIRE...

EASA was established by students and tutors of Liverpool University in 1981 as a way to bring talented students together to discuss the issues facing both the profession and urban environments. Every summer since, around 400 of the brightest students from every part of Europe have come together for two intense weeks of workshops, lectures, exhibitions and events in the name of exchange of ideas, culture and experience.

The European Architecture Students Assembly 2010 Licensing Application for Downtex House

Fire Strategy Diagrams For full supporting text please see attached notes

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4 & 5 Loading Bay Fire watchers will be personally tasked with opening a roller shutter in the event of a fire alarm. Shutter 4 is manually operated; 5 is motor driven with a manual override. 6 Alley Provides escape from courtyard (3) to car park (8) 7 Roller Shutter As with the other two roller shutters, in the event of a fire alarm fire watchers will be personally tasked with opening this shutter. 8 Car park A tarmac area open on three sides. At least two people will be tasked with opening the gates in the event of a fire alarm.

Protected shaft Other escape stair Designated fire escape Other escape door Final escape to street People

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