This luxury furniture boutique project was designed on a given 20 by 10m rectangular plan. The aim was to create a shop along with the small cafe fitted into the maximum customer area. The result is a project based on a diagonal axis from the entrance towards the bar at the back. Jotting walls show small interesting vistas of the space of the cafe, making the viewer getting deeper and deeper into the shop. The furniture samples are displayed on cubical stands, which are highlighed by the spotlights, lifting them up from the shadows. Architecture Faculty of Architecture Master thesis project Tutor: prof. inż. arch. T. Bardzińska-Bonenberg Poznań University of Technology June 2013 Tomasz Trawiński @ [email protected] ph. +48-518-633-231 Tomasz Trawiński Portfolio I think I was born a traveler. Before I found myself living in Poznań, I used to be a resident of Polish cities of Białogard, Ustka, Słupsk and Szczecin, then Portuguese town of Viseu, and then Irish capital, Dublin. A year spent there gave me not only the proficiency in English language, which feels almost as natural as Polish right now, but the ability of getting over all obstacles that life sets in front of me. Jobhunting in crisis-overwhelmed Ireland taught me not to give up, reaching my aim constantly getting over my own flaws. I will be eternally grateful to my parents for getting me into sports and travels- things that always gives me a kick after some tougher time. I love hitchhiking- I think because of the challenge factor it usually involves. This way I’ve got most of Europe map already covered. But the thing that is not only my passion, but after last six years become my life, is design. Getting full architectural master course, consisting of various design subjects (shaping things from teaspoon to a county scale) was hard, but satisfying task. An open project is truly a riddle, set before one’s feet for him to solve. But there were some things I was still hungry for, some areas which I wanted to explore deeper. Then the University of Fine Arts came in the picture. I have plunged myself into the miraculous world of art, making sculptures, photographs, painting , drawing, and generally making myself really free. I got myself into graphic design, exploring typography, publishing, logos, portfolios and all the different printed stuff. But the main point was always design. My master project was in fact an inverted architecture design- the inhuman space, something between art and the world of architecture. A grand sculptural object with the twisted insides and a smooth, elegant finishing outside. Now I’m standing on the crossroads. Where to go next? Design Arts Arts Furniture boutique Interior design Tutor: mgr. inż. arch. M. Gyurkovich, mgr. sztuki Poznań University of Technology October 2011 Empty II Interdisciplinary Drawing Studio Tutor: dr hab. A. Tyczyńska, prof. ndzw. UAP Art University in Poznań January 2013 De–construction Master thesis project Tutor: dr hab. A. Tyczyńska, prof. ndzw. UAP Art University in Poznań June 2014 What is architecture anyway? After graduating from Uni of Technology, for half a year working on a tiresome architectural project, I began to realize that architecture is quite an undefined idea. First I thought of my own definition, thinking of the immanent features of architecture. Then I’ve taken the different approach, trying to find what architecture is not. By that I strived to find and define space which is not ‘humane’- not in the human scale, unpleasant, unsafe, ever- changing, and not solid. At this rate, I deconstructed the idea of architecture, building unpredictable and a bit hostile sculptural form. The Master project for Uni of Technology was to design a new Architecture Dep. The result is a vast (24 486 sq. m of utility space!) project consisting of two interconnected buildings, housing lecture rooms, auditorium, exhibition halls, drawing and sculpting studios, and numerous offices for departments’ administration. The architecture of the buildings was made elegant, modernist-clean and transparent. The main entrance halls were designed as open from above, so that the sunlight could flow through the glazed roof. At the top of the buildings there’s a green roof, designed as a experimental garden for different grass and small shrubs specimens. Descending into earthly delights, after some time we completely vanish ourselves. We lose contact with the reality, but most of all we lose our dignity and humanity. The shape of a green wine bottle has an universal, symbolic value, it represents not only the drinking habits, but all the other pleasures and bad customs symptomatic to our times- all the possible addictions, workaholism, money abuse, etc. The action of cutting the bottles in slices is a way of asking- is a bottle, thus a container used for keeping water, that is cut in halves, is a bottle any more? It does resembles a bottle, but is it still one? Is a drunken man lying in his own vomit and urine, is he a man any more…?