Contact Information
My name is Tobias Herman Hendrik Feltham and I am a student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, in Ontario, Canada. I am currently enrolled in the first term of my second year in my architectural education, and collected in this portfolio is a curated selection of the architectural design work I have done to date.
(Phone) 604 312 7965 (E-mail) felthamtoby2@gmail.com
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Spatio-temporal Exploration The Library of Babel Grand River Artisan’s Residence Blue Cabin Residency
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Infinite Choice
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ResumĂŠ Education Achievements
Extracurricular Engagements
(2005-2016) Private Guitar Lessons (2012, 2013) Young Artist’s Studio
Employment Experience Volunteer Experience
Training Skills
Physical Digital Adobe Suite Architectural Model Making Rhinoceros (Grasshopper) Hand Drafting Ableton Live 3D Printing Laser Cutting
Travel Experience
Languages French Dutch
Extensive travel throughout Europe, USA and within Canada
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2 (2014-2016) International Baccalaureate Program, New Westminster Secondary School (NWSS)
(2016-2021) BArch, Honours, University of Waterloo
Diploma Awarded
(2012-2016) NWSS Honour Roll
(2016) University of Waterloo President’s Scholarship
Currently Enrolled
(2016-2017) University of Waterloo, Excellent Standing
Admission avereage of over 90%
BC Provincial Scholarship (2013-2016) Curling (2014) Abstract Painting Course
(2016, 2017) (2014,2015,2016) Performances at the Bridge Guitar Workshop Plus Centre for Art and Design (2015) Anatomy/Life Drawing Course (2017) Burger Heaven
(2014, 2015) (2015-2016) (2017) Shoreline Cleanup NWSS Bike Club Co-founder and Grunt Gallery (2013, 2015) Co-presidency New Westminster Elections BC Film Festival NWSS Red Cross Club Presidency Vote Scrutineer
(2016) Workplace Hazardous Materials Training (WHMIS)
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Individual Work
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01: Spatio-temporal Exploration This project investigates how architecture is understood in a spatio-temporal sense by drawing from spaces created in cinema. The project interprets scenes from Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point. Here, together, they form a sequence that begins in the texture and compression of an underground passage and culminates in a space that is not defined by a ground plane or other reference point, but rather by the relative positions and trajectories of disparate, yet constituent objects.
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Base Cycle (motive)
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Conceptual Collage
Image presenting ideas ofnfinity and surrealism that underlie the project.
02: The Library of Babel This proposal is for a completely submerged space of meditation and introspection, nestled in a quiet, residential area of Toronto, Canada. The project draws inspiration from the universe described in Borges’ short story, “The Library of Babel”, from which the project title is taken. Here library users may pursue knowledge and wisdom beneath the imposed scale of seemingly endless bookshelves and the cavern-like architectural design.
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House
Church and Daycare
House House
Fire Escape Skylights
Skylights
Main Entrance
House
House N
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Site and Context Plan
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House
Church
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1m
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Administration-Level Plan
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Makers’-Space-Level Plan
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1m
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North-facing Section 18
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03: Grand River Artisan’s Residence This project proposes an Artisan’s residence on the banks of the Grand River, in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. This proposal explores the relationship between the individual artist (artisan) and their surrounding social and physical landscape through material qualities of opacity and translucency, and through formal and material references to the urban context.
Physical model showing key relationship between opacity and translucency in the proposal itself, and how it relates to the immediate, urban context.
1:50 Scale Model
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Site and Context Plan 1m
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2nd-floor Plan
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West Elevation
South Elevation 1m
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West-facing Section
North-facing Section
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04: Blue Cabin Residency This is a set of conceptual photocollages created for a proposed artist’s residency program spearheaded by the Grunt Gallery, in Vancouver, Canada. Notions of location, placement, history, context are explored, as well as relationships between architectural textures, people and landscape elements, in a few different visual styles. This is done in order to establish some potential directions for the project later.
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Group Work
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Exploded Axonometric Projection
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Infinite
Choice
“The determination of your environment need no longer be left in the hands of the designer of the building: it can be turned over to you yourself. You turn the switches and choose the conditions to sustain you at that point in time. The ‘building’ is reduced to the role of the carcass – or less.” (Archigram – Peter Cook, pg. 68)
Infinite Choice manifests this notion into architectural structure, by creating a simple, infinitely aggregate-able platform, fitted with sliding and rotating walls that allow the user to create the space in whatever way they wish. The hexagonal modules can be stacked and linked infinitely in 3 dimensions, and serves as a meditation on architectural ideas of control and choice as posed by Archigram.
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Elevation
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Plan
Showing the possible motions of each moveable wall
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Floor Plate Assembly Detail *Not to scale*
Floor Plate Space Frame Assembly Detail *Not to scale*
Space Frame Assembly Detail *Not to scale*
Sliding Door Hanger Detail A *Not to scale*
Sliding Door Hanger Detail B *Not to scale*
Sliding Door Floor Guide Detail *Not to scale*
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