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table of contents CV
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Architecture
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Co-existing in a crisis-ridden city
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The Vault
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Fixoteket Etapp 2 Restoration and re-use of the abandoned railway station of Myloi, Argolis
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Graphic Design
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.existence
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Against the Silence VII
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Swastika Night
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Εffrosyni Roussou
architect & graphic designer @
+30 6948 042 742, +46 (0)76 283 59 42 phren.rous@gmail.com Lilliegatan 8, 41657 Göteborg, Sweden LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/eroussou Portfolio: http://tiny.cc/ako9qz
Profile Architect and graphic designer with experience researching and designing within the sustainable development and architectural fields with a keen interest in the socio-political implications of both architectural practice and research. I am a fast learner, a dedicated and detail-oriented team player, and am always striving to expand my knowledge while achieving the best possible result in any given task.
Studies ///2016-2018
Architecture & Planning Beyond Sustainability, MSc Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden Master thesis: Co-existng in a crisis-ridden city: Exploring architectural ways to induce commoning practices within an economic crisis context.
///2007-2015
Architectural Engineering, BSc & MSc Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece Dissertation: Graffiti Culture: the social and spatial implications Master thesis: Restoration and re-use of the abandoned railway station of Myloi,
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Argolis
Professional Experience ///2019-
Course Assistant/Tutor Chalmers University of Technology Co-created, tutored and assisted in coordination of the “Dare to build” course: a learning platform
that aims to enhance the collaboration between engineers and architects while at the same time creating impact and outreach in underserved communities, through the implementation of built projects in close collaboration with local communities.
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Graphic Designer Freelance |2016-|: Design of marketing material, book and album covers, logos etc upon request. Ars Nocturna publishing house, Athens |2019-|: Book cover design and overall layout Self-organised publishing group “Ekdoseis ton Allon”, Athens |2017-2019|: Book cover design, overall layout, marketing material production Chalmers University of Technology |2019|: Designed visuals for “BEYOND 2020, a conference on sustainability, banners (printed) for the “DREEAM project” and various layouts
///2018-2019
Research Assistant Chalmers University of Technology Collected and quantitatively analysed data for DREEAM |EU/Horizon2020|: The DREEAM project
aims to develop a tool for providing strategies for cost-effective large scale energy efficient renovations of residential buildings.
Collected and analysed data for Stitching the city: From micro-data to macro-views |STINT|:
A study on the ideas and realities of compact cities from different perspectives, such as spatial analysis, systems thinking, actor network theory, citizen participation, social inclusion, regenerative design and more.
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///2015-2016
Architect Intern HAUS | ATELIER, Nafplio
Other Professional Experience ///2020-
Bike Delivery Expert Domino’s Pizza Sweden
///2016
Bartender & service Lathos Bar
///2011-2016
DJ Picasso Bar Ano Kato Bar
Publications & Distinctions ///2019-
Energy Efficiency Measures and Data Needs. The Case of the European Building Portfolio Owners
In collaboration with: Clara Camarasa, Holger Wallbaum, Abolfazl Sousanabadi Farahani Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, issue 503 Available at: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/503/1/012101 Build-to-Learn: Cross-Disciplinary, Practice-Based Teaching and Learning |ongoing paper| In collaboration with: Shea Hagy, Matthew Wettergreen, Clara Camarasa, Emílio Da Cruz Brandão, Angela Sasic Kalagasidis, Larry Toups
Social Inclusion: When Community Outreach Becomes the Core of Architectural Education |technical report| ///2018
In collaboration with: Emílio Da Cruz Brandão, Liane Thuvander, Marco Adelfio The Vault, a sustainable circular consolidation centre |Special prize|
The Hans Eek competition studio, with guidance & tutoring by 3ΧΝ Architects, Copenhagen
In collaboration with: Miran Alwan, Allegra Fornaca, Giovanna Gaioni, Naji Shabarek Here Comes the Sun: energy-efficient office spaces |1st Prize| RISE ,Solkompaniet, Svenska Solskyddsförbundet & Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
In collaboration with: Allegra Fornaca, Giovanna Gaioni, Naji Shabarek, Omar Zalloum ///2011-2012
Annual student projects exhibition, Xanthi
Theory of form and preservation studies III&IV Restoration and reuse of historic buildings and sites I&II
Workshops ///2016
Domesticity in public space, Hammarkullen district, GÖteborg Sweden ONOFF Collective Berlin & Chalmers University of Technology
Perticipated in and co-created a temporary Intervention on a square, as part of a culture festival ///2011
Restoration and renovation workshop , Dilofo Kozani, Greece Participated in hands-on seminars on traditional building techniques
Ecoweek, Thessaloniki, Greece
Workshop coordinators: K&K Architects, Thessaloniki
Greening Thessaloniki’s “black holes”
Software Skills 2D & 3D visualisation
Adobe
Others
AutoCAD 2D ArchiCAD Sketch-up V-Ray Artlantis Rhino Revit
Illustrator Premiere Audition InDesign Photoshop
Microsoft Office
Operating Systems Windows, Mac, Linux
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Languages greek english french swedish
native excellent very good basic
C2 |Certificate of proficiency in English, Cambridge| B2 |DELF 2ème degré| A2
Hobbies & Interests ///2010-
///2010-2015
Radio producer
Archivist.fm |2017-| Underground Radio 100.3 |2010-2014|
Member of the Lindyhop dance community, Xanthi, Greece Member of the Cultural Students’ Union of Xanthi “I Gefyra” Organising and participating in several events such as:
live concerts theatrical plays radio shows movie screenings photography exhibitions
Others: sketching/painting, books, cinema, cooking
Reference Contacts 1.Emílio da Cruz Brandão
2.Liane Thuvander
3.Holger Wallbaum
brandao@chalmers.se +46 31 77 22 278
liane.thuvander@chalmers.se +46 31 77 22 266
holger.wallbaum@chalmers.se +46 31 77 21 994
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“Exploring architectural ways to induce commoning practices within an economic crisis context” Master’s thesis in CTH, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering // 2018, May digital tools: AutoCAD, SketchUp, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
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How can spatial organisation practices contribute to a more empowering and emancipating way of living for urban communities under economic and/or social pressure? How can commoning practices, within such a community, shape spatialities and enhance already existing activities in order to reach a sustainable future?
already existing structure
By re-imagining the shapeless, non-space, that surrounds this very diverse and often overlooked historical neighbourhood in the centre of Athens, through an ideological prism that questions the role of the architect, of modern planning and of the current socio-economic system, this project aims to introduce the notion of commoning practices to contemporary urban environments, as an emancipating way to answer everyday challenges. The neighbourhood this study takes place in, is home to refugees, immigrants, homeless and poverty stricken people, in a city where the global economic crisis hit hard. In other words people living at the very edges of society. It is co-existing in a crisis-ridden city.
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DIY interventions
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production of shared space appropriation of space
constant creation and re-creation!
occupation necessity vision symbolic conveyance of meaning cultural and political characteristics attribution
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community of solidarity
re-shaping of the individual/private space
we can be both individuals and parts of a community
common space
developing a design concept a modular grid that will allow flexible and reversible interventions
introducing a system of holes/ a grid
anchor spaces in the grid
form modules
break the modules
SPATIAL practices observed on site used as an architectural language to interpret existing features and to influence potential future interventions
extension: extending tangible or intangible aspects of an existing entity towards another entity
inversion: inverting the meaning/ function into its relative “opposite�
expansion: physical/spatial expansion of an entity
Extending an activity towards the outdoors space
Indoor activity to outdoor activity: living room
Expanding the living quarters: DIY storage space
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a scenario of the evolution of the in-between spaces
the sprout
the grove Extending to the city: activities that transcend the boundaries of the district.
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Reclaiming the terraces: from gardening to afternoon coffee
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Commoning practices and space shaping does not mean that everybody uses everything all the time
kitchen “Not social movements, but “societies-inmovement� -Raul Zibechi
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“A Circular Consolidation Centre promoting a flexible, sustainable approach to waste and goods management” Sustainable Building Competition CTH in collaboration with 3XN - Special Prize with: M. Alwan, A. Fornaca, G. Gaioni, N. Shabarek // 2017, December digital tools: AutoCAD, Rhino, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign my contribution: general concept, typical plan design, visualisations and presentation
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Contrary to what usually happens with such buildings, this Circular Consolidation Centre is a landmark to the city, celebrating those city functions that architecture and urban planning has striven to hide the most: storage, waste management and logistics.
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By revealing such functions, an opportunity for education and awareness arises, concerning the city’s needs for logistic services and the amount of waste that city dwellers produce, in order to reach a sustainable future in urban communities. By mixing several types of functions (i.e. office spaces, workshops, commercial areas etc), with the logistic/ storage/waste management, we conceptually explore the potential of an alternative way of urban planning, where the widely accepted function placement is questioned.
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reuse of materials
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mix of functions
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minimising land use
sample plan
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Fixoteket Etapp 2 “A recycled recycling centre for Hammarkullen’s Fixoteket” Dare to Build | Pilot project | CTH in collaboration with RICE university, Göteborgs Stad, Bostadsbolaget & Hyresgästföreningen // 2018, June my contribution: foundation laying, colour palette development, installation of the polycarbonate wall
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Fixoteket Etapp 2 is the second part of a design and build project that started in November 2017. During Etapp 1, two containers were re-used to host a wood and metal workshop for Hammarkullen’s Fixoteket. During June 2018, the project was resumed and oriented towards designing and building a recycling centre for the Fixoteket complex, as well as providing a unifying landscape proposal for the area in between the three parts of Fixoteket.
workshop
area in-between
recycling centre
The purpose of this project was to provide, apart from a ready-to-use upcycling/recycling station, a platform on which people can interact, help and learn from each other and enhance the culture of collaboration and creativity already in place.
visualisations * Hammarkullen is a Gothenburg suburban area, designed and built in the ‘70’s, as a paradigm of the so-called modern lifestyle. Nowadays, even though it is perceived as a ghetto, it’s actually home to Gothenburg’s most vibrant and lively immigrant communities. *
Choosing a colour scheme based on the co-creation workshop and on the desires expressed by Kretslopp och Vatten
By replacing one of the container’s walls with polycarbonate, the Recycling Station can enhance the feeling of safety, by providing street lighting at night. A semi-permeable material such as polycarbonate can also enhcance the connection to the outdoor space.
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fixoteket etapp 2 //recycling centre
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Restoration and re-use of the abandoned railway station of Myloi, Argolis “The wanderer’s museum”
Master’s thesis in DUTh, School of Architectural Engineering // 2015, September digital tools: AutoCAD, SketchUp, Artlantis, Adobe Photoshop
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In a country where privatisations occur at an increasingly fast pace, buildings that comprise a place’s history and heritage, seem to face an uncertain future. This abandoned railway station is the testbed for an attempt to provide a sustainable re-thinking of an area with a lot of potential, in order to protect it from destructive profit-driven practices, while celebrating its history. The five buildings that used to be part of the railway station are now the different parts of a railway museum that is not only confined within the walls of the buildings but expands to a unification of the whole area, through the landscape.
Privatize everything, privatize the sea and the sky, privatize the water and the air, privatize justice and the law [...]. And finally, privatize the States, surrender once and for all their exploitation to private companies through international share offering. There lies the salvation of the world... and, while you’re at it, privatize your w***e mothers.
There is a deliberate frugality in design interventions, along with an absence of boldly imposed design decisions, as a means to prevent radical change and the potentially disastrous consequences this can have for a settlement of 1000 permanent inhabitants. Discretely highlighting what’s already there is the main strategy used to reimagine this area.
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warehouse | museum shop
café | café
masterplan of the entire area
box office| box office & mgmt
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zoom in 1: the main square
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zoom in 2: the auditorium &the exhibi tion
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metal frame hollow SHS 80x80 metal sheets as covering metal sheets connecting the different parts of the truss french roof tiles purlins 20x20cm second layer of rafters sheathing (wooden planks) in between rafters
metal gutter encased in cement ring and coated with lead cement reinforcement metal anchors M16
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roughly carved stones, shaping the curved openings section of curved windowframe
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.existence
Cover design for “Once Upon A Winter”, vinyl LP, Snow Wave Records, Finland //2018, February
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Against the Silence VII
Promotional material for the digitally distributed compilation album of the “Against the Silence� team //2018, July
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Swastika Night
Book cover design for Ars Nocturna publications ISBN: 978-618-5032-33-3 //2019, December
“An outstanding example of dystopian fiction sometimes compared to 1984, Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night examines the world of male violence by weaving a tale of feudal Europe seven centuries into a post-Hitlerian society, “when men rule the world.” -project MUSE
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