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Tomos Owen, 85 Penrhos Road, Bangor, LL57 2BQ +447956137164 www.tomosowen.com tomoso@gmail.com
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POD HOUSE In the design of a sustainable terraced house in Cardiff, I created a large open space that housed enclosed private pods. The pods would be small to encourage use of the ground floor living room. While the pods inhabited the volume of the building, some would poke through. Some pods have walls that stop at balustrade level and some pods are only walls on wheels. The house is prefabricated, arriving in three lorries. The walls arrive, then the frame, then the pods. The house shares a new green space at the front, and a raised allotment scheme at the back.
Facade of reclaimed corrugated iron
Interior of Oriented Strand Board
Model progression
TONYPANDY We set out to record the special places and personal narratives of the people of Tonypandy, a small town in the Welsh valleys. We got permission to do a workshop at a primary school. We asked each child to draw a place that they liked and a place where they felt scared in the town on colour coded index cards. Many children identified a local Pub and an infamous drug taking spot as the scariest places. One child drew a park with a fence where he ‘could go with his mum and feel safe behind a fence’. We presented the project as a chaotic installation.
WOOLWORTHS THEATRE Woolworths was a British institution; everyone has fond memories of Saturday morning visits for pic and mix sweets. The idea was to create a house for culture using the bones of Woolworths. The programmes of the theatre are treated as volumes that sit within the gutted existing building. This creates a courtyard within the building where all the processes of creating a show can be seen by the public; the workshop, backstage and the rehersals. This engages the public with the art of creating a show.
Main section
Site section
Cafe
Performance
Courtyard
Walk to seats
Technical Section
CUP CLUSTERING Our given brief was to design an installation with the theme of clustering modules. Me and a fellow student chose to play with an existing module (the cup). We experimented with changing opacities, depths, widths and jointing. Our finished piece was a canopy of 700 cups and 2200 cable ties. Suspended from above, it was an operable puppet with applications as a wall, roof and enclosure. We projected images through the canopy with dramatic lighting results.
Development
year
3
JALOUSIE For the third year summer project we were asked to design a ‘jalousie’; a dividing screen. My design was based around a musical piece called ‘Halasana’ for drum kit and piano that I have enjoyed playing for years. The piece is set around a delayed beat which is very playful and enjoyable to listen to. I decided to pick out the bars of the piece that used the delayed beat and translate that into a structure.
Rules of the game
BUILD COOK PLAY Build Cook Play is a scheme in Ladywood, Birmingham, where the unemployed have an opportunity to learn a trade in building, and while doing so, build their own home and clad it in whatever they want. I worked with the iconography of what a home is and developed different typologies within this framework. The residents can also take part in cooking lessons where food is grown on site, and work with a performing arts centre, acting, singing and building sets.
Site plan
Aparments
Maisonettes
House
Performing arts site model
Public
Building school section
Private
Building School
Cooking School
Performing Arts School
Technical Section
KOMMUNIKATIONS MASCHINE This is a communication machine in Zurich, where bankers - through corruption or other failings - are kept prisoner and as punishment, must service the building. However this is not a tool for humiliation, but a machine for interface between innovators and the public. The inmates are kept out of view, their tasks, meticulously planned in regimented spaces. The innovators however, are free to interact with the public in flexible spaces. The guest spaces are expressed as timber volumes floating. This is wrapped in a public route through 10 stories - which at ground level incorporates the existing frequent market on the site. The inmates are condensed to a concrete plateau and service tower which has access to all served spaces. The servants tend to a farm where herbs are grown and bees and chicken are kept, this provides food for the restaurant.
East Elevation Long Section
South Elevation
Main Section
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Concept Model
Diagram Model
Structure Model
Atrium
Exterior
Inmate farm
Exhibition Space
PERSONAL DETAILS
PERSONAL SKILLS
Name
Tomos Aled Owen
Reliability: I am used to presenting my work on time. This was essential at
Address
85 Penrhos Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL572BQ
University with many tight deadlines. When I worked at Maes B, often I had to
Telephone
07956137164
work at short notice, and work longer hours than expected.
tomoso@gmail.com
Website
www.tomosowen.com
Confidence: I am confident with public speaking and communication in general
Date of birth
04/05/1989
and am fluent in both Welsh and English.
Nationality
Welsh Being a team member: Team work has been encouraged at University and I have
EDUCATION
been a hard working member in many groups where we produced good,
2007-Present
Cardiff University, Architectural Studies BSc, 2:1
interesting work. I was elected to be on the high school council for three
2000-2007
Ysgol Tryfan
consecutive years and in my last year, I was voted Head Boy of the school.
GCSE - 2 A* in Design Technology and Music, 7 A and 2 B A Level - 4 A in Design Technology, Music,
Attention to detail: I have much interest in detailed work. While designing my
Mathematics and Physics
projects, whether it be personal or part of a submission, every detail has to be perfect. My teachers and tutors would agree that I am a perfectionist.
WORK EXPERIENCE June - Sept 2008
WiSS Ltd - (Junior designer and developer)
SOFTWARE
Designed and developed website templates for a company
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, MS Office, AutoCAD,
project; worked on a project with a client from conception
Vectorworks, SketchUp, Ecotect, Familiar with 3D Studio Max and Rhino.
to delivery; designed concepts for logos and tenders; worked on live won tenders.
OTHER SKILLS
August 2006
Tudur Owen Roberts Glynne & Co (Administrative work)
I am interested in various types of design as well as architecture. I enjoy designing
July 2005
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol (Festival stewarding)
and creating t-shirt, making websites and photography. I have strong modelling
2005-2006
Pixel-Park (Icon designer, personal project)
and craftwork skills. I enjoy music and play the drums.
While at school I designed icons for Mac OS X applications. I worked with clients on projects of varying scales. April 2004
Ap Thomas Partnership (1 week work experience) Introduction to general architecture practice, as well as an introduction to hand and computer aided drafting.