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.

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Faculty of Architecture Master thesis project Tutor: prof. inż. arch. T. Bardzińska-Bonenberg Poznań University of Technology June 2013

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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?

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Furniture boutique Interior design Tutor: mgr. inż. arch. M. Gyurkovich, mgr. sztuki Poznań University of Technology October 2011

EmptyII Interdisciplinary Drawing Studio Tutor: dr hab. A. Tyczyńska, prof. ndzw. UAP Art University in Poznań January 2013

De –constructionMaster 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…?

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ChilliChoco dual packPackaging design Tutor: dr K. Kwiatkowski Art University in Poznań December 2013

Museum of technologyServices design Tutor: dr inż. arch. T. Jastrząb Poznań University of Technology February 2012

roofLEAFBionics Tutor: prof. dr hab. inż. arch. W. Bonenberg Poznań University of Technology December 2013

Bristlecone lampIndustrial design Tutor: dr inż. arch. A. Bonenberg Poznań University of Technology June 2012

insideOUTDom Tramwajarza, Jeżyce, PoznańSite-specific project Tutor: dr hab. A. Tyczyńska, prof. ndzw. UAP Art University in Poznań April 2013

The aim of the project was to think of some two things that for some reason are sold together- pepper and salt, pencil and eraser, sun-screen and after-sunbath balm, for instance- and then design a packaging for those two separate-but-linked objects. My proposal was the whole chilli peppers sold together with liquid chocolate, so that the user could dip the peppers

in the smooth and sweet sauce. Thus I designed two ‘bottles’ that stand in contrast with each other- one sleek, glossy and red, the other transparent and polygonal. The project was made from scratch in Rhino 3D design software.

The museum of technology was designed on a lot placed in the former harbor in Gdańsk, the very same place that has seen the workers strikes in 1980s and Lech Wałęsa famous jump. The entrance of the newly-designed building is set from a triangular square, roofed by plexiglass, with dynamic sculpture in its centre. Museum is divided into three

distinct functional areas. The western side of all the stories houses the main museum display, the middle part if the building is temporary exhibitions, and the eastern side have the offices and administration. The main hall is shaped as an open gallery, with a wide skylight above, supported by steel trusses.

One of the many flaws of 60s and 70s modernist housing buildings is a total underuse of the vast area of flat roofs. roofLEAF is a complex and yet easy to assemble modular roofing system for grey water collection, to be used in a typical modernist residentional unit. The water gathered by each ‘funnel’ is warmed up by sun and at the end of the day is transported via

troughts to heat exchanger, where the heat is transferred to the house water system. Cool grey water can be used for watering the garden, washing car, and other house duties.

Bristlecone is a ceiling-mounted lamp inspired by fir cones, which tend to expand and open themselves as they spread their seeds. The movable scales of the lamp provide accurate control of the light stream.

As the lamp could be remotely opened or closed, the light pouring out from the Bristlecone create

spectacular shade effects on the walls and objects around.The final step of the project was to make an actual prototype of designed lamp. Thus the images shown are not renderings- they are photos of the real thing!

On 18.04.-24.04.2013. I’ve been taking part in the International Student Workshop organized at Dom Tramwajarza (Tram-driver Culture House) at Jeżyce district in Poznań. The aim was to find an artistic answer to the topic: ‘5 o’clock’, which was about social manners, table rituals and clichés. The proposal of my team was a set of 6 tables arranged in a circle, thus creating sort of a ‘round table’. But

in our project, people were forced to sit with their backs at each other, with no eye-contact whatsoever. To maintain the artificial atmosphere of such ‘diplomat dinners’, we set burgers from a popular fast food on each plate. During the vernissage I played the role of a waiter, delivering oil-soaked, cold French fries on a glittering tray.

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