ARCHITECTURAL
PORTFOLIO ANTONIOS ASMPACH
EVENTS
MEMORY
EXPERIENCE
ANTONIOS ASMPACH CURRICULUM VITAE BIO
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24/03/1990 Greece Romanou 35, 57019, Peraia Thessaloniki, Greece antonios.asmpach@gmail.com (+30)6987948096 (+30)2392024847 be.linkedin.com/in/aasbah
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ACADEMIC LIFE
....................................................................................... MSc IN ARCHITECTURE
2012-2014
LUCA - Faculty of the KU Leuven University, Brussels, Belgium
BA (Hons) ARCHITECTURE&DESIGN
2007-2011
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
COMPETITIONS/WORKSHOPS
....................................................................................... UNESCO Ctrl-space - [Open ideas] Matterbetter - [Open Ideas] 120 hours [Participation] ADU 2020 [Astillero Guayaquil Revisited] Streetscape Territories [Workshop]
Unifying Grounds Relating Fragments Wing of Hope Meet the Green Activating Reactions Taste Track
WORK EXPERIENCE
.......................................................................... OFFICE 25 BUROBILL HELLENIC ARMY
“Thalassa suites”, Acharavi, (GR) “AG Vespa”, Hoboken, (BE) “Renovation of Military offices into a housing complex”, Kavyssos, (GR) “LX Development”,Doriskos, (GR)
ACADEMIC_WORKS Selection of works
Contents
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INDUSTRIAL MEMORIES_OF AN URBAN BORDER Shenzhen, China .............................................................................................. 2014 TOWARDS_AN_ORGANISED
CHAOS Karachi, Pakistan .............................................................................................. 2013 H?C
THE_HEALTH
CITY Brussels, Belgium .............................................................................................. 2013 FORTIFICATION_OF THE SUBURBAN HOME IN 273 SECONDS Wenduine, Belgium .............................................................................................. 2012 REGENERATING_FLANEUR Plymouth, United Kingdom .............................................................................................. 2011
INDUSTRIAL MEMORIES_OF AN URBAN BORDER
The Industrial home
Shenzhen, China
Revive the industrial memories by identifying home.
The Wall
The protector of the memories. The industrial site, enclosed from its surroundings.
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH YEAR: 2nd Year MSc_iv sem_2014 SCHOOL: LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS MARTINE DE MAESSENER MENTOR:
The Ambush PROJECT TYPE:
ARCHITECTONIC METAPHORS
AREA: 2014 LOCATION: SHENZHEN, CHINA PROGRAM: CULTURE
design_BRIEF This design thesis is travelling in the industrial site of Shekou in Shenzhen. Object of study is Shekou's industrial heritage, the Value Factory which stands there for 30 years. Dealing with Shekou, means dealing with a place which is left behind; a place which stands quiet, distant from the rapid growth of Shenzhen.
Introduce the hidden industrial qualities outside the factory. Creation of a trail from the city to the Value factory.
act i A world apart
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Waste not, want not
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Waste not, save more
act iv Industrial love
act v The home of a lotus-eating life
industrial_MEMORIES One of the main reasons which launched this design thesis has sociological nature. To understand people of the working class of China, listen to their stories. The ‘Industrial memories of an urban border’ originates from the memories of the people who worked and lived in the factory ‘420’ in Chengdu city. Different tales outline series of events which represent the lives of the people who used to work on the industrial site. Attention is given to their concerns, fears, difficulties but also to their attitudes, ideals and beliefs. The stories are presented as acts, translated into design tools and relationships with the industrial site of Shekou.
The disconnection between industry and city is desired. There is no need for connection
Industrial heritage came into our hands....through the hands of many others...it can still be used. With the same ideology of respect to the former users.
The ‘worlds’ may be apart. However, their different users are connected in an intangible way.
The parental ‘love’ is only given inside the boundaries of the industry.
VALUES Relationships between memories and highlight of existing qualities which are not seen with bare eyes.
Uncanny This feeling of anxiety coming from the transformation of what once felt familiar into something unfamiliar, from hiemlich, that is, into the “unheimlich”.
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The courtyard
The dining room
The balcony
The fragments of the_industrial home
The bathroom
Research shows that industry and ‘home’ are related notions. The thesis seeks the industrial home. Experiencing the industrial nature of this place the thesis proves that home is a distinct world inside the industrial site.
Media center: The master bedroom
‘The master bedroom’ The master bedroom, the most private fragment of the industrial is hidden deeply in the new structure which consists of four levels. First the symmetrical entrance where the user needs to select one of the four entrances. If he chooses the doppelganger corridor he/she is going to live a repetitive experience by passing through same rooms create a loop around the master bedroom. If he/she chooses to take the risk and pass through the water corridor then he might a chance to reach closer to the bedroom. This defensive architectural language compliments the sacred character of the bedroom, by creating a difficult way to reach it.
Taking the risk: Water as a barrier
‘The bathroom’ Introducing the element of the water in the Silo. The metaphor focuses on the noise produced by the water and the steel symbolising the sharp ‘pain’ of the industrial worker.
level of spatial hierarchy Infinite Corridor
The master bedroom Water as barrier
Doppel ganger
“What is familiar and secure is also hidden, secret and concealed from the outside”
Infinite corridor
‘The industrial courtyard’
‘The kitchen’
Highlighting the vertical elements of the structure and the ‘sacred’ character of the Machine hall. Aim is to create an industrial trail. The memory of the object, the structure of the roof is removed and the ‘wasted’ materials ‘want’ to become part of the experience of the walker. The water pool is accessible, not deep so one can walk. Boundaries are creating alternative ways to walk this phenomenologically accessible place.
The architectonic metaphor represents the object (the big table) and the kitchen. Reviving the sacrifices of the working class for their families outside the factory. The objects create an alternate use of the area which form the act of eating “together in a world apart”, the dining room.
THE_WALL
The physical border is just the protector of the ‘memories’
The completion of the_industrial green belt_around the Value Factory
The visual disconnection from the city will create a representation of the memories of the people. A world apart, the Factory disconnected from its surroundings, concealed from the outside.
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An attempt for_reconnection Attempting to reconnect with the city the industrial home becomes a destination. The ambush’s mission is to spread the hidden qualities outside the factory, desire more an authentic connection with the city, a place where ‘accidents’ can happen by spreading the industrial atmosphere to the city. Creating a passage which consists of spatial relationships between vernacular and industrial qualtiies.
Behaving in different atmospheres around the Value Factory
Mapping of 2D landscape diagrams to 3D environment
LINES OF AN_ORGANISED
CHAOS
CONNECTIVITY
IC OMITY N O IV ECACT
COMMUNITY LIFE
Karachi, Pakistan
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH/ WILLIAM RICHE YEAR: 2nd Year MSc_iii sem_2013-14 SCHOOL: LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS MENTOR: MARTINE DE MAESSENER
PROJECT TYPE: MASTERPLAN/ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION: KARACHI, PAKISTAN PROGRAM: COMMUNITY/RESIDENTIAL
design_BRIEF Exploring Karachi and connecting with the Lyari nala (river) we find incremental settlements which are built and maintained by users. Out of the city planning this project tried to understand the different ways that the people use in order to survive and propose an action plan to connect the neighbourhoods, to strengthen the economic activities between the city and the settlements, and finally integrate the unplanned settlements with the city by creating a community spirit.
LINES OF_CONNECTIVITY THE BRIDGE
get everything together to go home
Find a good spot to sell
Get the goods to sell
Get up wake up the family
The nala as a barrier and the informal attempt by the users to connect the two neighbourhoods
the other_SIDE The daily life of the two neighbourhoods demands the connection with the other side of the nala. The close connection of the settlements with the industrial territories make informal transit zones which create difficulties to the people. The architectural proposal takes into consideration the average daily life of the people and creates the first action of the strategic plan, a network which starts with the connection of the neighbourhoods via a wooden bridge. The two pathways are used for different purposes as the one is for pedestrian use and the other one for hawkers’ activity.
Community Communitybuilding building- -proposed proposedbuilt builtupup Street - “portal - “portalstructure” structure”- outside - outsideprivate private space space LINES OF_Street ECONOMIC ACTIVITY 1 1income incomeforfor2houses 2houses THE PORTALS vertical verticalcirculation circulationisisshared sharedbybytwo twohouses, houses,and and isisintegrated integrated
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Street Street- wall - wall- outside - outsideprivate privatespace space 1 1income incomeforfor1 1house house Vertical Verticalcirculation circulationinside insideeach eachhouse house
Incremental Vernacular Housing
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Incremental Incrementalhousing, housing,knowledge knowledge
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“Portal “Portal structure” structure” between between Portal Structure street street andand house house
Community Communitybuilding building
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adaptive communitiy buiding making informal economies possible The dwellings are concieved in such a way that the spaces can adjust to its surroundings and to the specific needs of the users. To its surroundings in a way that a space can be transformed to a shop or productive space, or if facing a quieter street it can be an outside/inside individual space with flexible relations to the collective. In this way the repetitive aspect of the structure will be translated in a very differentiating, sparkling spatial experience.
This part of the strategy consists of a community building. An adaptive community building. The plot is situated on the verge of an industrial area, connected to an area of incremental housing. This strip of incremental housing in going over the Lyari Nala.
Proposing an adaptable structure completely out concrete. This concrete structure is configured in such a way that it is connected to the way that people are used to build in this area. But in stead of following this manner blindly we tried to evaluate, and transform. One of the things that need empowerment To the specific needs of the dwellers the is the streetscape, more in particular the spaces are configured in such communication a way that between house and street. In the incremental housing we see that the street has become a void, an they are adaptable. Water can excluded be tapped place. practically everywhere. In this way a living We tried to turn this around in more communication between individualinto and collective, of course respecting the needs and room for example can be transformed wishes for pricacy of future inhabitants. a kitchen without major construction
adjustments. The total dwelling can grow over generations of time.
ACTION PLAN COMMUNITY BUILDING
Showing the adaptibility/flexibility in the provided concrete structure
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ADAPTIVE_community buiding - making informal economies possible This part of the strategy consists of a community building. An adaptive community building. The plot is situated on the verge of an industrial area, connected to an area of incrementalhousing. This strip of incremental housing in going over theLyari Nala. Proposing an adaptable structure completely out concrete.This concrete structure is configured in such a way that it is connected to the way that people are used to build in this area. But in stead of following this manner blindly We tried to evaluate, and transform. One of the things that need empowerment is the streetscape, more in particular the communication between house and street. In the incremental housing we see that the street has become a void, an excluded place. We tried to turn this around in more communication between individual and collective, of course respecting the needs and wishes for pricacy of future inhabitants. A
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MEET THE_GREEN
Brussels, Belgium
project_INFORMATION AUTHORS: ANTONIOS ASMPACH/ANDRIUS ROPOLAS/ PROJECT TYPE: MASTERPLAN/ARCHITECTURAL AN-SOFIE DE BACKER/ ALBERTO ARANEGA LOPEZ LOCATION: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM YEAR: 1st Year MSc_ii sem_2013 PROGRAM: MIXED-USE SCHOOL: LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS LIVIA DE BETHUNE/ CHOTIMA AKUGRICUL MENTOR:
design_BRIEF
The project is focusing to oneProject works with Pachecolaan from different scales combining different scenarios of living, recycling existing and connecting. It is a complex area in a complex city, however our approach is simple, but at the same time including all the complexity. As a gateway the street is not working as an introduction to the historic city center of Brussels rather than as a transit zone which is used in the day and not during the night. The big streets, the signs of control of traffic, the different identities which control the area are the main focus of this project.
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Reconnecting disconnected routes. Creating better permeability in different ways - on ground (cars, cycling, walking), undergound, overgound. Improving public transport system with new tram line. The idea is to provide felxibility in transportation and movement by providing a freedom of choice and as an outcome, reducing need for cars.
Concentrating on two main public spaces in Brussels - Botanique and Brussels Park. Reinforcing existing network of smaller public spaces in Brussels by creating new with different spatial and privacy experience. The goal is to keep clear hierarchy of public spaces in Brussels by providing smaller more personalizable spaces.
Creating a network with a feeling of continuous green spaces by using public and private spaces and already existing system of scattered green in Brussels. The aim is not to create a continuous park or alley, just to provide the feeling that greenery is always near.
Finding and focusing on already exsiting small diversity which has its own potential in Pachecolaan. Reinforcing it by four different proposals, to create new spatial and life qualities in the area.w The idea is to respect existing situation and create an organic strategy with its own special heritage which would reattach area back to Brussels.
Recycling key structures and spaces in our area, that their impact would influence all site. The backbone for change would be already existing structures. The goal is to achieve biggest impact with minimum efforts by attacking critical points.
Strategy_SCALES We work in three different scales: Brussels scale, Pachecolaan scale and Intervention scale. In scale of Brussles we look at our area as piece of bigger structure and seek for solutions which can give impact to all Brussels. At the street level we apply unifying strategies, to make our proposals along the street coherent and respond to healthy life.
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We find local identities, small existing diversity in monofunctional area, we focus on them and move on to micro scale. Within it we use strategies from city and street scale, however we strengthen and encourage difference – we break this monofunctional atmosphere of area from within, from small scale, at the same time respecting existing and giving new qualities.
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Wenduine, Belgium
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH YEAR: 1st Year MSc_i sem_2012 SCHOOL: LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS MENTOR: ANDREA SOLLAZO
PROJECT TYPE: MIXED MEDIA AREA: 2014 LOCATION: WENDUINE, BELGIUM
design_BRIEF The initial research which I followed aimed on mapping the high levels of privacy that the typical suburban house presents. The journey starts with the analytical maps where we meet Wenduine and we identify the boundaries that surround its suburban environment. Taking a walk in the residential part of the suburb and associating the experience with the fact “time”, the oriented map describes the experience of the users. The walker challenges the privacy levels of the suburban home by presenting himself to the streetscape of the suburb. The extension of the oriented and the analytical maps is the poetic map, the translation of the research to an object which enables the user to live this 273second experience in order to finally develop his own understanding on the interactivity levels between the collective and individual space in suburbia.
REGENERATING FLANEUR Plymouth, United Kingdom
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH YEAR: 3rd Year BA_i sem_2011 SCHOOL: LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS MENTOR: RICHARD BOWER
PROJECT TYPE: MIXED USE AREA: 2014 LOCATION: PLYMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM
design_BRIEF Approaching the close context of the train station, easily someone can distinguish the great landmark of Plymouth, the Intercity House, influenced by the modernist period. This project challenged me to give life to a landmark which lost its cultural importance and its connection to the city. The building needs to escape from its strict and reduce its high privacy levels to open to Plymouth. Transforming the building into a tourist orientation device, Intercity house connects with the city’s landmarks. A smart new circulation system is given to the building creating a different hierarchy between private and public. Finally, celebrating the beautiful views, the building offers visual and cultural communication with the city. Attached to the train station, the design aims on providing a chance to the visitor to discover Plymouth and make a mental map of the city of Plymouth.
Private Office Floors VS Unused Space
1:500 Plan
Create Space
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New circulation
Openings
Views Expanded
COMPETITION/WORKSHOP_ENTRIES Participations
Contents
(Sorting by date & time in descending order)
BAMIYAN CULTURAL CENTRE_UNIFYING
GROUNDS Bamiyan, Afghanistan .............................................................................................. 2015 PORTO POOL PROMENADE_RELATING
FRAGMENTS Porto, Portugal .............................................................................................. 2015 MH17_MEMORIAL+PARK_WING OF HOPE
Amsterdam, Netherlands .............................................................................................. 2014
GREEN_IS THE_NEW BLACK Oslo, Norway .............................................................................................. 2014 ACTIVATING_REACTIONS Guayaquil, Equador .............................................................................................. 2013 TASTE_TRACK Brussels, Belgium .............................................................................................. 2013
BAMIYAN CULTURAL CENTRE_UNIFYING
GROUNDS
Bamiyan, Afghanistan
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH/KIMON LOUIZIS ATHANASIOS CHRYSSOMALLIS/ KATERINA RAPTI YEAR: 2014-5 CLIENT: UNESCO EMPLOYER:
OFFICE 25 Architects
PROJECT TYPE: CULTURAL AREA: 20.000 m2 LOCATION: BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN
design_BRIEF Unifying grounds: the Bamiyan valley has been a crossroad of civilisations and their activities for thousands of years. The Bamiyan cultural centre should lean on this multicultural past, arise beyond conflict and become a social space, connect with the rest of the world. The new building includes the spirit of the cultures that shaped the essense of Bamiyan. The Macedonian distant past, the silk road and the connection to the Buddhist and Hindu culture, along with its Islamic past and present should blend and become keystones to support the bright future. In this project, several elements of this shared heritage have been used. Architectural forms or artifacts, symbols, letters and imagery in obvious or subtler forms and expressions.
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Performance hall
PORTO POOL PROMENADE_RELATING
FRAGMENTS Porto, Portugal
Events Tracking down city’s activtivies
Create Fragments Extend city’s activities to the site
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH/KIMON LOUIZIS CHRYSA KECHAGIA/SEMINA PAPADOPOULOU YEAR: 2015 CLIENT: CTRL SPACE EMPLOYER:
OFFICE 25 Architects
PROJECT TYPE: AREA: LOCATION:
MEMORIAL, PARK 10 hectares AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
design_BRIEF Focusing on Porto’s variety of activities, people spend a lot of time outdoors, affecting the usage of public spaces. Standing next to the historic Luis I Bridge this proposal aims to be a new place of public gathering enriched with events and atmospheres. The atmospheres arise by the city and its users. Relations are translated to fragments creating the proposal’s form. The evolution of the design takes into consideration the people of Porto and promotes swimming. At the same time the design aims to raise awareness about the usage of Douro river. Using the site’s potential and topography, the architectural language of the proposal evolves by the surroundings in a harmonic way.
Relate Form follows relationships
Evolve Fragments connected giving life and form to the final design
By giving the opportunity to touch the river and swim next to it, the design aims to create a new relationship with the water.The final outcome gives a flexible space ready to accept Porto’s locals and tourists, a new attraction with 24h programs, open to day/night winter and summer.
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7 Cafe 8 Changing rooms/ lavatory
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MH17 MEMORIAL PARK_WING OF HOPE Amsterdam, Netherlands
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH/KIMON LOUIZIS CHRYSA KECHAGIA/SEMINA PAPADOPOULOU YEAR: 2014 CLIENT: MATTERBETTER EMPLOYER:
OFFICE 25 Architects
PROJECT TYPE: MEMORIAL, PARK AREA: 80 hectares LOCATION: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
design_BRIEF Memory, the creation of a space that overcomes literal barriers of geometry, a space equipped with stimulus, designed to trigger memory recall. The passage from grief to hope. Initial inspiration originated by the tip of the airplane wings which was translated through a series of development stages into the final composition. The wing became a monumental space that cuts the island in two with all names of the victims engraved on the inside. The monument is an elongated corridor with intensely narrow width and height of 30m. The experience of the monument escalates with controlled access of sunlight and the sound of water from underneath.
Tip of the airplane magnified
Isolating geometry and unserstanding dynamics
Dynamics extend downwards and grow
Growth into movement dynamics on both directions
Main body splits in two and further growth in dynamis
Final stage: Split volume and frozen dynamics
The exit from the wing brings the visitor back to hope and optimism. As emotions progress from grief to happiness, the visitor exits the monument following the footsteps of the victims on the landscape keeping alive their memory. The geometry of the landscape relates to a naturla flow which determines movement and stance of the visitors. The exterior creates shells to accomodate necessary facilities and buildings. The natural habitat comes as a reminder of how vulnerable the human essense is , Creating a dialogue between the monument and the river of the landscape allows the tide to flood and reshape it.
GREEN_IS THE_NEW BLACK Oslo, Norway
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH YEAR: 2014 ORGANISATION: 120 HOURS
PROJECT TYPE: INSTALLATION AREA: 2014 LOCATION: TøYENPARKEN, OSLO, NORWAY PROGRAM: MEETING POINT
design_BRIEF A birch tree is enclosed inside a black metal structure. Passersby can see, but cannot touch it. They cannot touch it because it is protected. This act of protection is translated into the installation that we propose for Tøyenparken.
We choose the tree which stands on 59.918727, 10.774664. Aim is to create a continuity of different experiences. Firstly, by using the height of the cubic installation (10m) we provide an easy-to-see spot. The public space around the tree is reconfigurated turning the installation into a meeting point, which drags attention day and night. By getting closer to the installation, the user explores what’s inside the box. The visual connection between tree and user is desired in order to give to the installation a little taste of interactivity. During the festival, the installation stands on a strategic point close to the main entrance and the temporary night club which is set especially for the event’s days. Finally, at night the installation is lightened from the inside creating interesting lighting effects which enable gatherings and also an escape during the festival. Finally, we wanted to raise consiousness about the way that people think about sustainability. We often think of it as green in colour and material. This project wants to show another vision of sustainability, coloured black but being green from the inside.
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project_INFORMATION AUTHORS: ANTONIOS ASMPACH/RANDI RAVDAL/ SARAH POOT/LOKESH MANIMOHAN YEAR: 2nd Year MSc_iv sem_2014 SCHOOL: LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS KRIS SCHEERLINCK MENTOR:
PROJECT TYPE: MASTERPLAN/ARCHITECTURAL AREA: 2014 LOCATION: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM PROGRAM: MIXED-USE
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This scheme establishes Central Station as a destination, not just a transit zone for the daily tides of commuters Breaking free from the consumerism, returning to a production-centric culture, it hosts a culinary institute. The intersections between different categories of people create tension and the dynamics of ‘ownership’, sequencing, and depth are explored in fourth dimensions, including time. TASTE TRACK
Antonis AMSPACH - Lokesh MANIMOHAN - Randi RAVNDAL - Sarah POOT
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This scheme establishes Central Station as a destination, not just a transit zone for the daily tides of commuters. Breaking free from the consumerism, returning to a production-centric culture, it hosts a culinary institute. The intersections between different categories of people create tension and the dynamics of ‘ownership’, sequencing, and depth are explored in fourth dimensions, including time.
01 / FIRST FLOOR Access Ravenstein
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Guayaquil, Equador
Equador
project_INFORMATION AUTHORS: ANTONIOS ASMPACH /VIT FORMAN/ROEL SIMONS YEAR: 2nd Year MSc_iii sem_2014 SCHOOL: LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS KRIS SCHEERLINCK MENTOR:
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PROJECT TYPE: INSTALLATIONS AREA: 2014 LOCATION: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM PROGRAM: RETAIL/TRANSIT/ENTERTAINMENT
Working under the same umbrella with Costa Rica and Venezuela, this parallel studio focused on a specific area where emergent systems and informal activities show, unfamiliar to our European eye, stories about how space is used and appropriated.Our design team along with academic promotors talk and work on a weekly basis about site related research and design issues.
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Our team decided to explore in detail the street activity and its relationship with the built space in the Colombia street. We believed that by watching from one corner to another surprises would reveal. During our digital ‘walk’ on the Colombia Street we saw a series of events which reflected to the actual uses of the built space. Working in section we try to understand how people are protecting their private property. The findings show that the architectonic language of the residential part of th street is defined by elements which suggest security (railings, fenches, walls). In terms of social control we see that this specific language does not encourage the “eye on the street” as there are no openings which enable the views.
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Emergent actions, activate reactions By identifying the actions around the street we understood that people express theirselves in space, sometimes in a very strict formal way but other times in a equal informal. Our team believes that in each scenario the actors, the people who play their part inside the urban realm, find their way to appropriate the space that they need in order to satisfy their needs for expression and interaction. The built space is transformed into something personal. The easy copy to copy behaviour is a tense that our team takes into account towards the structure of our strategy. A strategy which treats the emergent actions as new rules. The strategy aims to use these rules with extravagance giving to people’s actions the required attention and potential for self expression.
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THALASSA SUITES_ACHARAVI Acharavi, Greece ............................................................................................... 2015
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AG_VESPA Hoboken, Belgium ............................................................................................... 2013
MILITARY OFFICES INTO A HOUSING COMPLEX Kavyssos, Greece ............................................................................................... 2013 MASTER_DEVELOPMENT
PLAN Doriskos, Greece ............................................................................................... 2013
THALASSA SUITES_ACHARAVI
Corfu, Greece
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH YEAR: 2013 EMPLOYER: O25 ARCHITECTS CLIENT: SIDIRODROMIKA ERGA (S.E)
PROJECT TYPE: HOUSING COMPLEX LOCATION: ACHARAVI, CORFU, GREECE PROGRAM: LEISURE
design_BRIEF Behind the design of the three complexes there is a logical concept which follows local morphological rules, without copying them entirely. The local, almost white, irregular stone, the cement pillars that support the pergolas and the rough texture of the plaster, are the predominant materials. The roofs are evident in some buildings and encased in others. In the exterior floors, weuse cement and build decks under the pergolas. The colors are light by rule, so that they reflect the amazing Greek light.
Thalassa Resort Thalassa resort is composed of three separate assemblies autonomously, with suites, which grow on one or two levels, depending on their size. The resort develops in a particularly privileged plot, standing first in front of the coast and surrounded by dense vegetation. The two swimming pools are combined with artificial creek running water. The image, the flow and the sound of the water in relationship with the green and colorful flowers are designed in order to create a quiet environment, ready to welcome and accommodate the visitor. Next to the beach, we design a beach bar, able to satisfy more than 450 people at the same time. At this strategically commercial and functional spot, we design as vertices of an imaginary triangle, the reception, the beach bar and the restaurant. In between we find various other service and rest points which lead to the ultimate destination of the visitor, the sandy beach of the complex. The guest is directed through a private road, on the eastern site of the plot, to the main entrance of the resort. There we find the temporary parking plot, right in front of the reception room, were the guests are being welcomed and redirected to their suites. The main guest parking plot is situated on the southeast of the resort. From this point on, everyone is directed to their suites, the pools, the beach and the rest of the resort on foot. The resort exit is at the southwest. Both entrance and exit are secure, one way passages.
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GORGO, ARPE, DREPANE, SHARKI RESTAURANT The three building complexes, ‘Gorgo’ in the South, ‘Arpe’ in the East and ‘Drepane’ in the West. Among them, flows the small river, which connects the two pools, following the North-South axis of the plot. ‘Gorgo’, offers six single-storey suites and six more in the first level. Each suite offers a living room with small kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom. They are designed to accommodate up to four people and all have views to the pools and the sea. The ‘Arpe’ has four suites on the ground floor, similar to the ’Gorgo‘, capable of accommodating up to four people. Five more suites develop at two levels (first floor and attic) and are designed with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a living room with kitchenette, so to accomodate up to six guests. All suites offer views both to the pools and the sea. At the northern end of ‘Arpe’, next to the big pool and beach bar, we designed the ‘Sharki’, restaurant,serving guests and external customers, as well as the need for food at the beach bar. In the same building and in contact with ‘Sharki’ we find the reception area of the resort. The ‘Drepane’ has six suites on the ground floor and six more two-level lofts upstairs,following the same concept. Again, all suites have views of the pools and the sea.
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Hoboken, Belgium
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH YEAR: 2013 EMPLOYER: BUROBILL CLIENT: COMMUNITY HOUSING HOBOKEN
PROJECT TYPE: ARCHITECTURAL AREA: 2014 LOCATION: HOBOKEN, BELGIUM PROGRAM: RESIDENTIAL
design_BRIEF The experiment takes takes place in the elevation of the community house. The different variations of the patterns of the bricks organise different realms between the built and the open space. The patterns consist of different types of bricks with different dimensions.
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Kavyssos, Greece
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH YEAR: 2012 SCHOOL: LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS CLIENT: HELLENIC ARMY
PROJECT TYPE: CONVERSION/RESIDENTIAL AREA: 2014 LOCATION: KAVYSSOS, GREECE PROGRAM: RESIDENTIAL
design_BRIEF The Military camp “Krallis” in Evros of Greece served as a military base for many years and now it’s time to move. Remainings like old symmetrical military buildings were used as offices but they are no longer serving the needs of the Hellenic Army. The strategic masterplan 2020 indicated that the office buildings should be used for residential purposes in order to help military professionals and their families. This conversion project shows the transformation to a new home.
Current_Condition The general picture of the building shows a stable structure. There are, of course, many problems with the plaster coatings, especially in the northern rooms. As far as the interior of the building is concerned we have a different scenario. Works about the floors need to be done. High humidity levels have destroyed the northern rooms and the sense of security which the existing structure provides.
Architectural_Proposal We focused on the alteration of the new spaces according to the new programme, the one of a home for eight families. The new plan was based on the existing structure and the same lines of the ex-office building. The eight new apartments consist of a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen, living room and they were positioned according to the scheme (on the left). Half of the apartments have 37m2 area, whereas the four left are divided into two apartments of 38,50 m2 and two of 40m2. The south winds of Evros suggest a passive cooling of the building, especially in the summer. Against the winter cold of Evros, the proposal focused on the small openings of the north side of the building.
LX_DEVELOPMENT Kavyssos, Greece
project_INFORMATION AUTHOR: ANTONIOS ASMPACH YEAR: 2012 CLIENT: HELLENIC ARMY
PROJECT TYPE: MASTERPLAN/ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION: DORISKOS, GREECE PROGRAM: MILITARY
design_BRIEF The client (Greek Army) was very interested in moving two Battalions into the LX camp until the end of 2020. The challenge was to create a preliminary strategy plan which could show clearly the future integration of these new plugins.
Existing Structures
Green Vs Built Space
Green Vs Built Space
Current_CONDITION Working on the existing plan we conclude that the campus’s infrastructure faces problems regarding its existing program, access and circulation, which require a radical transformation in order to connect the existing language with the new. For now, this programmatic master development plan is not taking into consideration any budget or work analysis. While, it sets the fundamental principles which have to be followed step by step in order to create a series of different projects which do not prevent the harmonic and structured function of the campus.
Heavy Vehicle Parking
Coming - Working - Gathering
Eliminate the conflicts between stuff and vehicles Define a new road axis Use andTransform the dead space
proposed_STRATEGY The proposed Strategy consists of all the necessary actions to revitalise the camp’s basic problems. After the elimination of the circulation barriers and the clear division of territories, the camp can breathe, the incorporation of any new units will be welcome and easier to manage.
Proposed Space
Green Vs Built Space Proposals
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