2. DoB:17/4/93
Highfield Farmhouse
Church Lane
Heckfield
Hook
RG27 0LG
United Kingdom
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SAM TOTTENHAM
2013-2016 Oxford School of Architecture
BA (Hons) Architecture 1st Class
2007-2012 Stowe School
A Levels: Art (A), Design & Technology (A*), History of Art (B)
9 GCSEs
2015 July-Sep Peregrine Bryant Architects (CAD detailing & surveying)
2015 June Eva Jiricna Architects
2014 May-July Ward Thomas Removals
2013 May Peregrine Bryant Architects
2013 Jan-April Mark Warner Holidays
2012 Nov-Jan Ski France Chalets
2012 Sep-Nov Bramley Local Free House
2012 June-Sep John M Carter’s Marquees
2011 June Peregrine Bryant Architects
2011-2009 National Shooting Centre, Bisley
2011 Aug Bluu Solutions Office Design
2010 Aug Ben Whistler Furniture Design
Digital - Confident working with the Adobe suite, Rhino (Vray & Flamingo), Autocad,
Microsoft Office; some experience of Sketch up and Microstation; familiar with Apple and PC.
Physical - Wide experience of laser cutting, model making, woodwork, metal work, 3D
printing; confident drawing skills.
Personal - Hard working, conscientious and committed; responsive to new challenges; good
communicator who flourishes in a team environment; comfortable with the responsibility of
a leadership role.
SKILLSET:
EDUCATION:
EMPLOYMENT:
INTERESTS: A keen interest in contemporary and interactive art as well as pop up theatre and immersive
theatre, developed while visiting Amsterdam
A developing understanding of sustainability and ecological living as well as grass roots
projects and simple living; enhanced by visits to sites in Copenhagen, Berlin & London.
Passionate about learning new skills and crafts with my hands such as wood carving,
catalysed in part by the observation of indigenous practices in Northern India.
An enthusiastic sportsman since a young age, playing hockey at a competitive level through
school; an avid skier/snowboarder and cyclist having just completed a ride from Venice to
Barcelona.
3. MYCELIUM STORIES
Mycelium Stories is a wildlife observatory point
and story telling pavilion hidden behind the
threshold of Deptford Creek in East London. Here
children can learn the importance of urban wildlife
by engaging with it but without disturbing it.
Deptford creek section
4. MYCELIUM STORIES
In order to best aid the local wildlife the
pavilion is made from a compound mixture of
agricultural waste and m ushroom spores.
The pavilion is fully biodegradeable once
deactivated.
5. THEATRE OF THE EVERYDAY
GREENWICH
1:250 site model
DEPTFORD
LEWISHAM
ALBANY THEATRE
6. THEATRE OF THE EVERYDAY
The Theatre of the Everyday
is a social enterprise that
addresses the expanding issue
of homelessness in London.
The program brings together
Deptford’s creatives with
the homeless to benefit both
parties. While living in
residence the homeless learn
skills in preparing, running
and performing theatre from
local professionals. Overtime
the program evolves so that
the building sustains itself
financially and is of greater
mutual value to both parties.
The focus of the building is
exposure of professionals to
the homeless.
7. Proscenium wall
crossover Forestage grid
stage left wing
stage right wing
Flytower grid
Set rigging
kitchen rigging
proscenium
front of house
stage
cloakroom & Box office
kitchen & Bar
Fly stage house
pinrail
back of house
Weights room
theatre set under
construction
THEATRE OF THE EVERYDAY
10. PAVILION & FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION
Reclaimed timber community benchCob summer house Inflatable story-telling pavilion
As part of research for designing the Mycelium story-telling
pavilion, my University contemporaries and I designed and built
a temporary inflatable space to host a Christmas story-telling
event. We used lightweight sheet plastic to achieve a flexible
space. The interior was made more dramatic with less people
inside and more air so the top could raise to the ceiling of
the disused warehouse.
As part of a Technology module in my second year I co-ordinated
the team in a live construction project. The bench we designed
and built from reclaimed timber was semi-collapsible so that it
could be transported easily to its final site at a small nature
reserve in North London. The project was shortlisted for the
Camden Design Awards.
While on a recent trip to Northern India, I designed and
constructed a summer outhouse from twisted pine and cob. Using
traditional techniques and exclusively local materials I built
the hut over a 10 day period. The aim was to incorporate as
much of the local timber as possible in the design as (rather
unusually) the pine reduces the fertility of the land and
prevents indigenous wildlife from thriving.
