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About Me
ABOUT ME My name is Tobias Herman Hendrik Feltham. I am a third-year student on exchange at CTU Prague, from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, in Ontario, Canada. CONTACT ME PHONE: +420 608 792 095 eMAIL: tobias.feltham@edu.uwaterloo.ca
OTHER MEDIA WEB: www.tobias-feltham.ca INSTAGRAM: tobias.feltham SOUNDCLOUD: user-209995845
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Resumé
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE 01/09/2018 - 26/12/2018 Undergraduate Research Assistant | Buoyant Foundation Project, University of Waterloo, School of Architecture | Cambridge, Ontario, Canada -Research | Writing | Prototype Construction -Studied the feasibility of buoyant foundation retrofits for houses in regions vulnerable to damaging floods, to promote architectural resilience and mitigate the severity of natural disasters. This involved the construction and installation of full-scale prototypes and the authoring of research papers for international conferences and journals. 08/01/2018 - 27/04/2018 Architectural Student | AODBT Architecture and Interior Design | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada -Team work | Communication | Design | Client Communication | Physical Modelling | Drafting -Worked directly with experienced architects on design and communication for various largescale projects in Saskatchewan, notably the design of the cultural space and physical modelling for a public school for the Onion Lake First Nation and high-level design and drafting for Parkland College, Yorkton. 27/05/2017 - 04/09/2017 Line Cook | Burger Heaven | New Westminster, British Columbia (BC), Canada -Organization | Communication | Punctuality | Team-work | Adaptability -Adapted to several roles under pressure in a kitchen, while also providing customers with high-quality food. Maintained a clean and organized workspace to respond effectively to the pressure of serving customers and took on various responsibilities to support a flexible team. VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE 30/05/2019 - 06/06/2019 Robotic, concrete 3D-printing team member | PETMAT, Umění Ve Městě | České Budějovice, Czech Republic -Team-work | Adaptability | Creativity -Worked with a small, international group to develop methods for the design and construction of concrete sculptures to be 3D-printed by a robot. This culminated in a public display of the process and the installation of the pieces at Umění Ve Městě, a public art event in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. 10/09/2015 - 20/06/2016 Co-founder/Co-president | New Westminster Secondary School (NWSS) Bike CLub | New Westminster, BC, Canada -Leadership | Organization -Co-founded the first club at NWSS dedicated to promoting cycling and cycling knowledge among the student body. A notable achievement was the organization of a bicycle maintenance workshop that took place once a week for 1 month and which taught students some of the fundamentals of maintaining and fixing their bicycles, and provided them the tools for doing so. EDUCATION 18/02/2019 - 05/02/2020 International exchange in Architectural Studies Czech Technical University | Prague, Czech Republic 3
31/12/2016 - 18/02/2019 Excellent Academic Standing in all academic terms to date University of Waterloo | Cambridge, Ontario, Canada 01/09/2016 - 31/07/2021 Candidate for Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies University of Waterloo | Cambridge, Ontario, Canada 01/09/2014 - 30/06/2016 International Baccalaureate Diploma | NWSS New Westminster, BC, Canada SIGNIFICANT AWARDS/HONOURS dd/09/2016 President’s Scholarship | University of Waterloo dd/09/2016 BC Provincial Scholarship | Government of BC SKILLS/PROFICIENCIES/TRAINING Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | Adobe Premiere | Rhinoceros AutoCAD | Avidemux | Ableton Live | html | Web design | Digital Projections | 3D Scanning | 3D Printing | Laser Cutting | Physical Modelling | Hand Drafting | Digital/Film Photography LANGUAGE SKILLS French | Dutch | Low-Level Czech TRAINING Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), 2016 PUBLISHED WORK The Economic Argument for Amphibious Retrofit Construction | Co-author, Author Dr. Elizabeth English, Ph.D. | International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment | Manuscript Submitted, peer-review pending SELECTED ACTIVITIES dd/mm/2016 - dd/mm/2017 Live Sound-Art Performances for Student Body | BRIDGE Center for Art and Design Cambridge, Ontario, Canada dd/mm/2014 - dd/mm/2016 Guitar Workshop Plus | Squamish, BC, Canada dd/mm/2012 - dd/mm/2013 Young Artists’ Studio | Shadbolt Center for the Arts | Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Projects
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Implant-Scape
project_id = Implant-Scape project_id.title()
‘So long as we consider these two practices of translation and purification separately, we are truly modern--that is, we willingly subscribe to the critical project, even though that project is developed only through the proliferation of hybrids down below. As soon as we direct our attention simultaneously to the work of purification and the work of hybridization, we immediately stop being wholly modern, and our future begins to change.’ -
Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, p.11
MEDIA: -Rhinoceros -Adobe Creative Suite -Arduino -Datamoshing/Avidemux
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Site Analysis Diagram
Implant-Scape is a network of anthropogenic injections in a decommissioned gravel quarry on the Banks of the Grand River in ON, Canada. It aims to revitalize the postindustrial landscape by galvanizing the successional process and increasing biodiversity, while also making the landscape valuable once again, to human agents.
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Implant-Scape
N The function of this network is not to act as a superstructure, a brace for the ecosystem to grow into, but rather to saturate the postindustrial site with agents (those that are valuable to humans) that stimulate the dynamic system to move towards states that are ecologically healthier and more valuable to human visitors to the site.
Site Plan Showing also Grand River, floodplain and forest cover
Plants will be distributed over time by animal actors like bird species or humans, or by non-organic agents like wind or river flow
In-Situ Column Placement Isometric
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The injections consist of a columnar unit and a planting strategy that extends in a 10m-diameter circle around the unit. The unit is outfitted with sensor arrays, LIDAR systems, animal sheltering/ feeding systems, water collection systems, &c., and the planting strategy that surrounds it incorporates plants that are forageable by humans for either food or functional purposes and respond intimately to site conditions.
1.TOWER FEATURES
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i. LED Panels for Collected Data Expression ii. Floor 1: Foraging Information Space iii. Floor 2: VR/Data Visualization Space iv. Access Elevator
2.UNIT SYSTEMS
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i. Animal Propagation Strategy Bird Houses: (Seed propagation, increased biodiversity, species control) ii. Planting Strategy Miyawaki Method: (Early-successional species, bird/wind propagated, pollinatorattraction) iii. Non-Riverine Monitoring System iv. LIDAR System v. Water Storage and Distribution System vi. Computer and Memory Storage vii. 10cm Indentation of Initial Planting Area
3.RIVERINE UNIT SYSTEMS
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i. Riverine Monitoring System ii. Non-Riverine Monitoring System iii. LIDAR System iv. Computer and Memory Storage
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Implant-Scape
‘If we are to be realist in the one case, we have to be realist in the other; if we are constructivist in one instance, then we have to be constructivist for both. Or rather, as our investigation of the two modern practices has shown, we must be able to understand simultaneously how Nature and Society are immanent—in the work of mediation—and transcendent—after the work of purification’ - Latour, p. 96
Conceptual Collage 1
Conceptual Collage 2
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Conceptual Collage 3
Gesturo-cyborg Model
Gesturo-cyborg Model
Clay Unit Rendering
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Leviathan
project_id = Leviathan project_id.title()
‘cyberspace represents the acceptance of the body in the realm of the mind, it attempts to escape the mortal plane by allowing everything to be converted into a common currency of exchange.’ ‘[Liquid Architecture] is a symphony in space, but a symphony that never repeats and continues to develop.’ - Marcos Cyberspace”
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MEDIA: -Rhinoceros -Adobe Creative Suite -Laser Cutter -Projection -Datamoshing/Avidemux -3D Scanning -Digital Motion Picture/Photography
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Exterior Panorama
Leviathan is a symphony of dissent and uncertainty. Leviathan is a broadcast media hub, a node in a rhizomatic web of information that saturates the undercity with visual media, internet coverage, cellphone service, AM and FM radio coverage and television coverage.
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Leviathan
Interior Panorama 1 Leviathan is inhabited. Built off of the servicing catwalks hung behind the skin of screens and arrays, are squats. And these are inhabited by the “other�: artists, anarchists, rebels. Those who want to escape the favelas, those who have nowhere else to live. Hackers, cyber-criminals, people in hiding.
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Leviathan
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Interior Panorama These squatters live in a world dissociated from any ground plane, without an origin in 3D space. A space understood in the experience of its rhizomatic structure. An experience of interiority that is no more comforting than the dizzying world of information consumption and imposed ideology outside.
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Leviathan
The data-moshed clip was created in Avidemux, by combining clips from Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point and Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The clips were manipulated in order to distort the pixels at the transitions between scenes.
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Stills from Datamoshed Visual Sequence
Physical Model
Much of the model was lasercut and then assembled. A large, plexi-glass screen was constructed as a surface onto which a data-moshed visual sequence could be projected.
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Leviathan
Physical Model: Projection Still 1
Physical Model: Projection Still 2
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Physical Model: Projection Still 3
Here the screen of the model is shown with the visual sequence projected clearly onto its translucent surface. The pixels of Zabriskie Point morph into a face and hills of sand from Stalker.
Physical Model: Projection Still 4
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project_id = Morocco_Conservation project_id.title()
Morocco Conservation
This project, undertaken in collaboration with Charles University in Prague, is the documentation and proposed general restoration outline for an adobe synagogue in Tamnougalt, a small town southeast of the Atlas ridge in Morocco. This region gave rise to a Jewish population culturally significant for its unique, vernacular culture that adapted to its local, Berber context. However, following two waves of emigration: the first in 1948, with the establishment of Israel as a country, and again in the 1960s, with Moroccan independence, the malahs now lie mostly abandoned. Houses and sometimes whole malahs have been left with no inhabitants or clear delineation of ownership that could maintain the adobe structures as is necessary, and so these malahs and their cultural significance are simply decaying away with each rain or dust storm. Preservation is crucial. MEDIA: -Rhinoceros -Adobe Creative Suite -3D Printing
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Reconstruction Rendering
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Morocco Conservation CULTURAL This project aims to document and CONTEXT propose general reconstruction principles for an adobe synagogue in Tamnougalt, a small town southeast of the Atlas ridge in Morocco. This region gave rise to a Jewish population culturally significant for its unique, vernacular culture that adapted to its local, Berber context. This community has been documented dating as far back as the 1st century CE, but in reference to an even older, already-wellestablished community-in other words, this group has enjoyed long and deep ties to the region, deeper, in fact, than Jewish communities further to the north. The Sephardic, JudeoBerber communities built and developed their malahs, the Jewish quarters, largely out of adobe and locally-available species of lumber. The construction process for the development of these buildings has historically been largely unplanned, with buildings emerging as need for them arises, in whatever space is available. According to Baglioni et al.,
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“The planning phase, as conceived in our cultural context, is inexistent. There is not a project design [sic] (often the maâlem [the construction foreman] can’t write), there is just an idea that the maâlem and the customer construct together by talking, thinking, explaining and describing, which gradually forms the construction plan.
All agreements are made orally and are based on trust. The construction sites and work tools are traditional and handcrafted.” (p.80).
The malahs of the region were generally, where possible, built against the town walls, separated from the rest of the town by a locked gate, and were generally more well-to-do than the rest of town. However, following two waves of emigration: the first in 1948, with the establishment of Israel as a country, and again in the 1960s, with Moroccan independence, the malahs now lie mostly abandoned. Houses and sometimes whole malahs have been left empty with no inhabitants or clear delineation of ownership that could maintain the adobe structures as is necessary, and so these malahs and their cultural significance are simply decaying away with each rain or dust storm. Preservation, or at the very least documentation, is needed. INTERIORITY OF BUILDINGS The nature of construction is significantly different than the tradition common to Europe and North America. “Architecture”, in south-eastern Morocco, has no exterior component-it has no concept of the “façade”. Buildings
Location of the Tamnougalt Synagogue in Morocco, Africa.
are networks of spaces defined by adobe walls, wooden floors and common program, and therefore aggregate in a 3D network that is much more complex than European/ North American urban types. The roofs of some buildings become the balconies or second storeys of others, houses bridge over common spaces forming long, dark corridors, and so on. This presents a challenge for the documentation of these buildings and urban zones, as some traditional means of architectural documentation are not appropriate to this context, and the representation of the interiority of these buildings becomes a priority for the legibility of these spaces. This challenge is heightened by the limited amount of pre-existing documentation on these buildings and malahs, which is found only in some documents from the colonial French administration, or known from testimonies from those who left for Israel in the 1960s.
Source: Baglioni, Eliana & Mecca, Saverio & Rovero, Luisa & Tonietti, Ugo. (2013). Traditional Building Techniques of the Drâa Valley (Morocco). Digital Journal of Archaeology, Architecture and Arts. 10.14195/2182-844X_1_9.
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Morocco Conservation
Broad context: Tamnougalt
Exterior Perspective Tamnougalt Synagogue
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Perspective of Interior Perspective Tamnougalt Synagogue
Interior perspective: Schoolroom
Interior Perspective: Corridor
Interior perspective: Prayer hall
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Morocco Conservation A
“Schoolroom”
Prayer Hall
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“Corridor” Synagogue Plan A
Synagogue Section BB 1
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Sectional Isometric: Synagogue Prayer hall
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Morocco Conservation
Torah Ark
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Ceiling Detail
Lintel
Column Embellishment
Doorway Embellishment
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