User:Twingate

Thomas Wingate

Hopefully this is not seen as too self-promotional, if it is then please slap my fingers for being a noob.

An early fascination by the experiences and environments created for theatre led me to start designing costumes and sets. This led on to working with metal as well as creating events and experience-spaces for people. From there I went on to do interior design work, first as an assistant, later as a freelance and finally as a 3D CAD specialist in architecture.

I worked as a freelance Creative Director and Project Manager between 1995 and 2002. Designing, developing and building interior and exterior space applied in the fields of commercial and private interiors, theatre, film and TV set design and architecture. Since 2002 I have focused more on computational geometry and CAD tools, using computers as primary means of expression. These days I find myself more interested in information modeling, process and supply-chain challenges and less focused on design as I see these issues as being the greater bottlenecks to achieving the architecture we dream of.

One of my greatest assets is that I’m mainly self taught. That is, I have picked bits and pieces of knowledge needed as I have developed projects. This gives me a very direct approach to spatial creation and the acquiring of knowledge. It has also taught me the value of working together with people and I much prefer good collaborative creativity to egocentric hierarchy. I find I’m often the odd piece in the puzzle giving me the opportunity to look at problems from a different angle. I design and develop as well as involve myself in the making of projects and enjoy getting my hands dirty.

With a bit of a hacker background I have a lifelong interest in digital culture and tools and have extensive computer skills in CAD/CAM and 3D animation software. In most of my projects I have integrated and investigated new ways of using computational tools.

In my spare time I enjoy riding my mountain bike down really steep hills and over big jumps or play around on the slopes on snowboard or skis.

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