Mayte Hellenthal is a studied architect [B.Sc.] , with experience in several international design built projects with emphasis on participatory natural construction and social architecture. She is an autodidact in the craft of ceramics, woodwork and goldsmithing and has been working artistically with materials such as clay, textiles, stone, metal, plaster etc.
Her studies in architecture and her versatile aesthetic interests and craftmen-ships have naturally led her to follow her passion of production design & scenography. In the most recent feature film „Ein schöner Ort“ by european film award winning filmmaker Katharina Huber, she has been the head scenographer, production designer and art director, overseeing the budget and handling location scouting, stage building, as much as interior & exterior props.
// Work Experience (Selection)
Head Production Designer, " Straße der verlorenen Herzen", Short Film by Alexander Nowak, 2023 - Post Production
Head Production Designer, " The Smell of Milk", Short Film by Kim Lea Sakkal, 2023 - Post Production
Head Production Designer, "Hysteria", Feature Film by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, 2022 - 2023, Post Production
Head Production Designer (including property management), "Hex Papa Hex", Short movie by Leonard Carow, 2022
Head Production Designer + Art Director (including property management), “ Ein schöner Ort“, Feature film by Katharina Huber, 2021- 2023
Architect + Communication Management, CoDesign+ project, in cooperation with Riley Orton Foundation, Boboyo, Kenia, 2019
Architect, roof extension, Bochum, LPH 1-3, 2018
Architect, Model maker, Reinhard Angelis Architekt, Köln, 2017
Architect + Designer, Human Computer Interaction Center, RWTH Aachen, 2016
Architect, Model maker + Graphic Design, Pfeiffer Architekten, Berlin, Student Internship, 2014
// Education
Master of Architecture, RWTH Aachen & TU Berlin, 2016 - 2021
Bachelor's degree [B.Sc.], RWTH Aachen, final grade: 1,0 (A)
Bachelor of Architecture, RWTH Aachen, 2009 - 2013
// Scholarships, Residencies, Workshops
Promos Scholarship, DAAD, 2018
BASEhabitat Participant + Scholarship, 2018
Houzz-Scholarship, 2018
NKA Foundation, the Gambia, earth architecture workshop and research, international designbuild projects, 2019
BaseHabitat, Austria, social Cooperation & earthen and bamboo Construction, international Summer School, 2018
Critical Concrete, Portugal, Practice & theory of sustainable & social architecture, int. Summer School, 2017
RWTH Aachen & Berufskolleg Eschweiler, Aachen, Miteinander lernen, participatory designbuild project, 2017
RWTH Aachen & NGO Identafrica e.V., Boboyo, Kamerun, designbuild project, 2014
Vastu Shilpa Foundation & CEPT, Balkrishna Doshi, India, Habitat design studio, participatory design process, 2013