Maria Nefeli Pantou
Selected Works 2011-2014
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Maria Nefeli Pantou
Selected Works 2011-2014
M. Arch 04 The Initiatives and Boston Olympics Industrialized Housing Delivery Ecologies / Fall 2014 08 Urbanizing the Olympic Village Industrialized Housing Delivery Ecologies / Spring 2014 12 Pavillion for the Boston Olympics Digital Fabrication and Construction / Spring 2014 16 A micro apartment Urban Housing Studio / Fall 2013
BS. Arch 20 Cambridge Library Urban Institutions / Fall 2010 22 Art 3D Foundation / Spring - Summer 2011
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M.Arch | Research Studio Prof. Ivan Rupnik / Industrialized Housing Delivery Ecologies / Fall 2014 The illustration below presents a synopsis of my research. I examine the current initiatives to be implemented in Massachusetts and in Boston: the Compact Neighbourhoods Plan and Boston Housing 2030. These initiatives provide a framework for the development of affordable housing, and the context for the topic of our studio: the modular housing industry. They become an opportunity to explore to what extent they can be realized through the use of the modular housing industry. My research is part of a booklet prepared in collaboration, and can be accessed online at: http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/architecture/portfolio/mass-production/ 1 unit = 1.100 sf 10,000 units 6,661 units 550 sf
550 sf
365 days
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micro unit (2 people per module)
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M.Arch | Thesis Studio Prof. Ivan Rupnik / Industrialized Housing Delivery Ecologies / Spring 2015 Early in the Spring of 2015, Boston won the bid to be a host city for the Olympic Games of 2024. The Olympic committee of Boston announced some potential venues for the athletic events of the Olympics throughout Boston, and the Athlete’s Village in Dorchester, at a site that rests near by the UMASS university. With this information , I constructed a comparative analysis that illustrates various Olympic Villages from past host cities that participated in the Olympic Games. This reference can act as an inspiration and an understanding of how an Olympic Village in Boston could look like or not.
MONTREAL 1976
Capacity : 9,500 After Games Use: For Sale & Rental Apartments Building Surface Area: 10,100 sq.m.
MEXICO 1968 Capacity : 8,200 After Games Use: Student Housing Building Surface Area: 14,600 sq.m.
SYDNEY 2000 Capacity : 15,000 After Games Use: Private Housing Building Surface Area: 81,200 sq.m.
LONDON 2012 Capacity : 24,000 After Games Use: Affordable housing & Dorms Building Surface Area:
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BARCELONA 1992 Capacity : 14,000 After Games Use: Private Housing Building Surface Area: 74,600 sq.m.
MUNICH 1972 Capacity : 10,562 After Games Use: Student & Family Housing Building Surface Area: 82,000 sq.m.
ATHENS 2004 Capacity : 17,600 After Games Use: Private Housing Building Surface Area: 106,700 sq.m.
ATLANTA 1996 Capacity : 16,500 (9,500 the new construction) After Games Use: Dorms Building Surface Area: 5,625 sq.m.
The pictures below show a few examples of how Olympic Villages of past host cities look in size and urban typology in the proposed venue for the Olympic Village in Boston, the site located in Dorchester.
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M.Arch | Thesis Studio Prof. Ivan Rupnik / Industrialized Housing Delivery Ecologies / Spring 2015 My thesis utilizes the site in Dorchester that has been proposed to house the Athlete’s Village for the Boston Olympics 2024. Most area of the site belongs now to UMASS. Since it rests very close to the university, this site is being proposed by UMASS to be used as a future campus expansion. With these opportunities, I propose an urban scheme that supports the creation of the Olympic Village and its future use / conversion of student housing for the UMASS, and of affordable housing for the general region of Boston. This process could be expedited by the creation of a modular facility in the heart of the site that could also serve the construction of other building typologies throughout Boston, required by both the Boston Olympics 2024, and the high demand for affordable housing.
Harvard Stadium, Field hockey
Beacon Park Railyards, Aquatics
Harvard Stadium, Field hockey Agganis Arena, Badminton & handball Beacon Park Railyards, Aquatics BU [”Compact Olympics”] Media & Other Housing Agganis Arena, Badminton & handball NEU [”Compact Olympics”] Media & Other Housing BU [”Compact Olympics”]
Media & Other Housing Franklin Park Equestrian events, pentathlon NEU [”Compact Olympics”] Media & Other Housing Franklin Park Equestrian events, pentathlon
The site.
TD Garden, Basketball Boston Common Beach volleyball TD Garden, Basketball Boston Convention Center Taekwondo, table tennis, judo Boston Common Beach volleyball Boston Harbor, Sailing Boston Convention Center Taekwondo, table tennis, judo Widett Circle, Stadium
Boston Harbor, Sailing UMass, Olympic village
Widett Circle, Stadium
UMass, Olympic village
Baystate Expo Center: The Athletic Village The Bayside Expo Center was a convention center located in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It has been proposed as the site Baystate Expo Center: The Athletic Village for the Olympic Village as part of the Boston bid for the 2024 The property is located nearlocated the JFK/UMass TheSummer Bayside Olympics. Expo Center was a convention center in station onMassachusetts. the MBTA RedItLine, whichproposed would beasrenovated under Dorchester, has been the site for Olympics plan. thethe Olympic Village as part of the Boston bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The property is located near therequires JFK/UMass station on The International Olympics Committee 1 million square thefeet MBTA Red Line, which would renovated under the Olymof space for broadcast andbepress centers, an Olympic stapicsdium plan.to seat 80,000 spectatorsr for opening and closing ceran Olympic village that canrequires sleep 16,000 athletes and Theemonies, International Olympics Committee 1 million square 35 sporting venues. feet30ofto space for broadcast and press centers, an Olympic stadium to seat 80,000 spectatorsr for opening and closing ceremonies, an Olympic village that can sleep 16,000 athletes and 30 to 35 sporting venues.
Elkus Manfredi’s urban proposal for the Olympic Village based on a courtyard typology.
Urban proposal that engages the site’s surroundings and includes the existing buildings.
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office teacher’s union
The site and its context
The site and its existing buildings office teacher’s union
hotel
baystate expo
In my proposal, I use an existing facility-the Baystate Expo center-to be converted into a modular facility instead of being demolished. This facility can serve both the surrounding area, as well as other locations in Boston that have a high demand for affordable housing and student housing. Because of its large area, the Expo can include other program for the public.
The Expo center and Boston
The drawing below shows an example of how a modular facility, like Epoch Homes, could fit and operate in the area and dimensions of the Baystate Expo center, and its relationship with the surrounding newly developed urbanization characterized by a dense housing program and typology.
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The dense housing developed around the Baystate Expo center is characterised by three building typologies: the low, medium and high rise residential districts. Each of these typologies is meant to engage with the existing building typologies, urban conditions and landscape features that surround the site. The Baystate Expo center and the surrounding urbanity : 3D print 2bed 2bed
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Each building is based on a generic housing unit that can be converted to student housing and the accommodation for the athletes during the games. To be quickly constructed and be affordable, the unit is designed taking into consideration typical dimensions and requirements of the modular housing industry.
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Aerial view of the site and ground floor plan
The Expo center as a public space
The use of the Expo area as housing expansion
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M. Arch | Topic course
Prof. Paxton Sheldahl / Digital Fabrication and Construction / Spring 2015 The instructor assigned us to choose, study, and provide a comprehensive geometrical and assembly analysis of a building system. The case study building becomes the basis and inspiration for the content of our final assignment: the proposal of a new structure for the Boston Olympic Committee as an intervention on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Me and my partner chose and analyzed the Contemporary Art Center in Cordoba, Spain by the architects Nieto Sobejano and from which our pavillion is based. Case Study Building : Photos
Case Study Building : Facade analysis
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Selecting 4 bowls-modules from the case study building facade analysis
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For our pavillion, we chose 4 bowls and their reflections from the analysis of the facade of our case study building. With the transformation of 4 bowls and their 4 reflections, the result is 14 different bowl types with varying depths so as to play with the filtration of light and create interesting shadow effects.
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Pavillion : Day rendering
Pavillion : The process
Pavillion : Zoomed in photo of one of the walls
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Pavillion : Night rendering
Pavillion : Physical model
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BS. Arch | Housing Prof. Suzanne Charles / Urban Housing Studio / Fall 2013 The need for housing development is situated in Lynn, Massachusetts With approximately 90,000 people from a variety of different ethnic, economic and professional backgrounds, the resulting residential block needs to be composed by a variety of housing units to respond to the existing demographics and real estate. To achieve affordability and comfort, I suggest a variety of housing units with minimum unit square footage. To increase the desirability for any unit within the apartment housing building, I suggest each unit to have an exterior expression similarly to the bay condition found very often within the city of Boston. This expression is achieved by extruding the living space a couple of feet outside the facade.
1. Organizing the zones of a house into modules.
2. A unit made by the composition of modules.
3. Different units resulting from the different arrangement of modules.
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Each unit has a minimum square footage to increase its affordability. The area and height of each unit are similar to one another to achieve an exterior visual consistency. In each unit, the living room is located in a corner and is extruded two feet outside from the rest of the unit, in an effort to recall a bay condition. Second floor plan
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1 bed | 520 sf
2 bed | 690 sf
1 bed | 726 sf
2 bed | 887 sf
2 bed | 732 sf
3 bed | 1,162 sf
The resulting six housing units range from 1bed to 3bed apartment types. Each has a different layout and they vary from one storey to two storey. In that way, it offers a variety of units to respond to the needs and be desirable from the young professional couple to the family, and from the single professional to the student. The aggregation of units in section
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Sectional physical model
Street persepective
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BS. Arch | Cambridge Public Library Prof. Erkin Ozay / Urban Institutions / Fall 2010 The Cambridge Public Library seeks to expand by building a new branch library at Massachusetts Avenue and Landsdowne Street, Cambridge. The site rests among retail and residential developments and is easily accessible by public transportation. The main purposes of this new branch is to provide books, function as an educational institution offering up to date technologies, and being used as a public space inviting all the different population groups of Cambridge. For this reason an outdoor space is required in the site to be used both by the library users and the general public. Axonometric view of the interior space
Physical model
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workstations
Floor plans telecom closet
exterior dock
classrrom
mechanical room
office 1
office 2
office 3
office 4
reading room
up auditorium conference room
online catalog workstations
circulation/info desk
computer /research area
ENTRANCE
Level 1
reading area
lounge
reading area
reading area
Level 2
office 1
office 2
office 3
office 4
reading room
conference room
circulation/info desk
computer /research area
ENTRANCE
reading area
Level 3
lounge
ading area
reading area
reading area
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BS. Arch | Art Prof. Ed Andrews / 3D Foundation / Spring 2011 3D Foundation | Module project : physical model
Study Abroad, Summer 2011, Spain | Art studio
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Prof. Ed Andrews / 3D Foundation [Site Specific Art] The instructor assigned us to create an object that could activate a public space, the International Village plaza located in front of one of the dormitories of Northeastern University. The site faces the entrance of Ruggles MBTA station. The relationship of the site with this transportation node, acted as an inspiration for the themes of speed and movement. The shapes I chose, the location and arrangement of the object is an effort to reflect a linear process of movement directed by the two object members that flank the boundaries of the site. In this way, they give definition and distinguish the area as a gathering space. Site plan
Digital 3D model
The modules
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section view
9’ 5/8”
elevation view
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3D view
Physical model
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Thank you.
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