Wojciech Karnowka

Computational Design & Research

Education

20212023

2018

Master of Architecture (RIBA Part II)

Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, UK dr Marjan Colletti, Javier Ruiz | Distinction

Bachelor of Architecture (exchange)

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), AU

André Bonnice, Anna Jankovic | Distinction

20162019

Skills Design

Bachelor of Architecture (RIBA Part II)

University of Westminster, London, UK dr Costance Lau, dr Fiona Zisch | Distinction

Experience

2020 sep2023 feb

Computational Designer (R&D)

Pilbrow&Partners, London, UK

Led integration of technology to design operations, improved efficiency via automated workflows for early planning stages (VSC, APSH, Visibility and others). Directed experimental methodologies and computational strategies for developing, assesing and comparing indoor office spaces. Explored visualisation methods, dashboards, maps and graphs to showcase spatial potentials, developed in-house tools, plugins and scripts.

2022 sep2023 feb

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (BSc)

Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, UK

Led workshops and teaching sessions to BArch course students. Responsibilies involved review of design work and participation in design reviews with programme leaders.

2021 janongoing

Computational Designer (R&D)

Freelance, London, UK

Developed multiple projects in collaboration with international clients (i.e., UCL, GRUNER&FRIENDS, STUDIO DERA, CLOVER STUDIO, ENNCO, and others in multiple disciplines) developing plugins, in-house workflows and scripts. The work included collaboration with software-engineers, coordination and documentation of projects at various scales.

2019 sep2020 sep

Architectural Assistant (ARB Part I)

Wilkinson Eyre Architects, London, UK

Worked on various-scale projects at different stages. A key project was the Dyson Malmesbury Collaboration Space, where I developed the concept of a flexible collaboration space and gained client approval. Worked on RIBA Stage II-III of a major bank headquarters in Canary Wharf, London, where I focussed on the iterative development of a facade strategy. Other projects involved the development of design concepts, 3D modelling, 2D drafting and the production of presentations, schedules and reports as to internal and external building elements.

2018 sep2019 jul

Computational Designer (R&D)

Pilbrow&Partners, London, UK

Worked on a number of projects in their early stages, where I investigated and implemented iterative and analytical approaches through digital technology, data analysis and advanced modelling within office design processes. Key projects included the Francis Crick Institute - Future Work Place (in construction), 54 Bishops Gate (planning granted) and Theatre Study (findings will be published in book “Sense of Theatre” in 2021, by Richard Pilbrow). I was also involved in 3D modelling, 2D drafting and diagraming.

+44 737579 5834 wojtek.karnowka@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/wojciechkarnowka

Rhino / Grasshopper / Houdini / Microstation

DEVELOPMENT, ANALYSIS

Python / C# / VEX / Grasshopper / QGIS

VISUALISATION

Ai, Ps, Id / Redshift / V-ray / Keyshot / Enscape

RECOGNITION / PUBLICATION

2023

2022 20222023 2019 2018

10th Venice Architecture Biennale CityX Venice Virtual Pavilion

Saxa Fractionis shown at Virtual Pavilion Venice

RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarship

RIBA, UK

Shortlisted for the final stage of RIBA student excellence scholarship

OPEN Catalogue

Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK Work published in final-year catalogue, for both 2022, and 2023.

John Walked Memorial Prize

Univeristy of Westminster, UK Best Final Year Design in BArch

Distant Horizons Award

University of Westminster, UK Travel Award and Scholarship, Melbourne, AU

2018 Student Excellence Award University of Westminster, UK

Outstanding Academic Performance in the BArch, II year.

20162019 Robert Mitchell Society Scholarship

Robert Mitchell society, BArch, I - III year. High Achieving Student Scholarship Award

References

dr Marjan Colletti

Professor of Architecture and Post Digital Practice, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL m.colletti@ucl.ac.uk dr Fiona Zisch

Programme Director, Lecturer, Researcher and Architect, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL fiona.zisch@ucl.ac.uk

Ralf Lindemann

Senior Associate Partner, Head of Design Technology

Pilbrow&Partners (2014-2022) r.lindemann@outlook.com

MODERN SCHOOL OF RE-READING HISTORY

London, United Kingdom

Institution:

Advisors:

University of Westminster

BArch, May 2019, Year III

dr Constance Lau, Stephen Harty

Urban artefacts preserve the history of a city as a built form. In this sense, the process by which a city is imprinted with form constitutes its urban past (Rossi, 1982). Whereupon a city constantly evolves alongside ever-changing political, social and cultural context, sacral architecture can be seen as one of the few unaffected witnesses of the past ruptures and discontinuities.

My bachelor final year thesis (May 2019) was an exploratory investigation focused on the rich typologies of churches forever lost, deteriorating and those under renovation, undertaking a visionary search beyond precise reconstructions and that allows a contemplation of what the Gothic could have been if the technology available today existed at that time.

The project investigates the relationship between the oldest historical anatomies and the newest technology through recreation, preservation and speculation as applied to church and chapel typologies in the United Kingdom – entities depicted as monuments representing the unique and aggregated memory of urban residents.

Perspective Section, Scale: 1:100 @ A1

Drawing Representing Three Main Spaces in the Centralised Court Conservation, Reconstruction and Speculation Workshops with Publicly-Accessible Platforms and Terraces.