SELECTED WORK Achilleas Kakkavas
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SELECTED WORK
Achilleas Kakkavas Architect, licensed in the European Union Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design, 2012 Pratt Institute, GAUD Diploma in Architecture (Dipl.-Ing), 2009 University of Patras, Polytechnic School - Department of Architecture
Contents
97 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, New York 2012-today
p. 02-09
253 8th Street, Brooklyn, New York 2013-today
p. 10-17
Proussos Residence, Proussos, Greece 2010-2012
p. 18-25
24_7 multimarket, Athens, Greece 2010-2012
p. 26-33
Piraeus Tower_elevating public space, Piraeus, Greece 2010
p. 34-41
Reversed Delta, Brooklyn, New York 2011
p. 42-49
The Waste Olympics, Accra, Ghana 2011
p. 50-57
Pylos_public spaces, Pylos, Greece 2009
p. 58-71
The New Ground, Mosciano StAngelo, Italy 2008
p. 72-79
The Wave, 2007
p. 80-85
Experimentations
p. 86-102
97 Douglass Street Brooklyn, New York 2012-today (Under construction) DD, CD Atelier New York Architecture Principal Architect: Ken Hudes Project Architect: Achilleas Kakkavas Team: Greg Bonner, Tommy Frost, Israel Wertenheil
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The 6,240 sf., 3-unit residential project was created for a private developer and currently is under construction. My involvement in the project started when a big decision was made from the client and the design team. The construction has been revised from steel framing to CMU reinforced steel. My role in the team was leading the development of the project, producing the construction documents as well as communicating and coordinating with our consultants (Structural, MEP, Expediter), under the supervision of the Principal. Additionally, I collaborated with the design team on the 3D rendering production and preparation of physical models.
Front view
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Rear view
New 3 unit condominium
Redistributing FAR, maximizing allowable bldg height and lot coverage
Existing 3 storey building with cellar
Existing
New
Unit A
Unit B
Unit C
Common areas
Rear view 05
Street view 06
Long section 07
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Second Floor Construction plan
Interior view, Unit C
First Floor Construction plan
Interior view, Unit A 09
253 8th Street Brooklyn, New York 2013-today (Under construction) SD, DD, CD & CA Atelier New York Architecture Principal Architect: Ken Hudes Project Architect: Achilleas Kakkavas Team: Tommy Frost
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Existing 2 storey building with basement and garage
This 3,307 sf., 2-Unit residential project was created for a private developer and is under construction. My role in the team was to oversee and lead its development from Schematic Design to Construction Documents and Construction Administration. I had some direct contact with clients and I materials. Finally, I was in charge for the production of the marketing materials (brochure, 3D renderings, physical models).
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Raising ceiling height and reaching allowable bldg height
Adjustments
New 3 storey house with potential rental unit
Existing house Existing garage New Potential rental unit Unit A New garage
Side elevation
Street view 13
Entrance studies
Front elevation 14
Rear elevation
Exterior studies
Interior studies
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Second Floor Construction plan
Inerior view, Unit C
Basement/First Floor Construction plan
Inerior view, Unit A 17
Proussos Residence Proussos, Greece 2010-2012 (Built) SD, DD, CD & CA Architects: Achilleas Kakkavas, Elena Kapompasopoulou
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Prousos Residence is a 87 m2 winter house located close to a ski resort and is a place for relaxation. The reuse of local materials coming from a nearby old ruin, strengthens its blending with the surrounding environment. Hidden into a pine tree forest, the residence is designed from the inside, aiming to frame the unique views of its environment.
Idea development diagrams
comfort area
living room
Having the restrain of keeping the
kitchen-dining room bedrooms
the new residence gained in hight
former building
phase I
phase II - roof adjustments
the master and secondary bedroom, and living room.
View from the house 20
Proussos Residence
During construction
Top view
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wooden boards 2300 x 50 x 5
parafoam insulation covered with wood 2000 x 600 x 50
asphalt sheets wooden boards 2300 x 70 x 5
plasterboard 2200 x 600 x 15
stone chimney 600 x 600 x 3000
wooden beams 4800 x 190 x 80 750
brick wall (80 mm thick) 400 SECONDARY BEDROOM 7.68 m2
double parafoam insulation 2000 x 600 x 50
MASTER BEDROOM 8.55 m2
2200 stone wall (200 mm thick)
1200 x 190 x 16
interior window 1600 x 600 x 2
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plasterboard 2200 x 600 x 15
1000 x 3 wooden beams 4400 x 190 x 80
double parafoam insulation 2000 x 600 x 50
oak wood shelves 1300 x 300 x 20
reinforced beam 400 x 400
oak wood 700 x 230 x 20
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750 LIVING ROOM 12.00 m2
870
KITCHEN 7.56 m2
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triplex glass 2110 x 940 x 3
stone base 1000 x 500 x 30 550
*All measurements are in mm
Section
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Staircase during construction 25
24_7 multimarket Athens, Greece 2010-2012 (Built) Architect: Achilleas Kakkavas Client: 24_7 Quality Foods S.A.
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The main objective of this project has been to combine a snack bar and a mini market into a low budget single store. A prototype has been designed in order to work as a pattern for the new multi-market chain. The self-service and service areas are distinctly separated in order to simplify the shopping experience to the costumers and at the same time minimize the number of employees needed. Furthermore, the interior layout facilitates customer circulation and easy access from one area of the store to the other while, a service counter facing out on the street allows the store to also function as a refreshment stand. Finally, special attention has been given to the design of the interior details and furniture. The selection of materials and the complexity of the design have been shaped in order to easily adapt to requirements of different space layouts and to be fabricated by a carpenter, employed by the client company.
Interior views
Space allocation
Functional model
main space
service area
storage space
self-service area
Circulation
entrance
Circulation area
staff
6.5 m2
customers
37 m2
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Floor plan diagram refrigerator FV 650refrigerator
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food display
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shelves
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counters
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freezers VT400
shelves
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freezers VT400
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Easy Reach refrigerators
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counters
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Furniture details
*All measurements are in mm
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Front view rendering
Sections
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Interior renderings
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Piraeus Tower_elevating public space Piraeus, Greece 2010 “Piraeus Tower 2010 – Changing the Face/Façades Reformation” competition entry Team: Angeliki Drakoula, Achilleas Kakkavas, Athilena Maragoudaki
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“Ground city” vs “Sky City”_ Two cities with a different layout approaches. At the ground city, the urban net is spreading horizontally, which has as a result the condensation of built parts and the rarefecation of open space. In opposition, sky city is expanding vertically, which leaves open space between the built parts and allows broader public spaces. The Attica urban plan is mainly drawn according to the model of low rise layout. The number of open spaces spaces are very few in such a big city. The tower of Piraeus has been a part of this urban fabric in an oxymoronic logic. Vertical and horizontal spread is observed at the same time. As a result of the excessive horizontal spread, the Tower is almost unnoticeable for people passing by. By contrast, it is more apparent to the visitor of the city when approaching to the Piraeus port from the sea. The intervention proposed deals with a tower that nowadays represents an ambiguous and grey element for Piraeus. The main objective is to restore the clear notion of skyscraper, by adding at the same time a new perspective for the user or visitor of the
to the new square, an open route is established that is directly connected to the arm of the jetty via a developed, such as a library, an info box, an internet café etc. At the level of the square, a new entry is created, are accommodated. Then follows the hotel unit, of which the reception lobby is placed in a green zone, which is extending in two consecutive levels and offering a better ventilation and segregation of the The existing framework is maintained and perimetric axes of circulation and shades. In each one of the of use, serving the main principle of delivering an “extrovert” tower, more open to the city underneath.
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“Ground City”
“Sky City”
Piraeus Tower case
Lack of public space
New public space
Elevating public space
as facade
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Piraeus Tower square plan view
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25m
Hotel/Lobby square plan view
50m
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Section/Program distribution
Public library
Day use diagram
SE side view 40
Hotel
Commercial space
Hotel/Lobby square
Piraeus Tower square
SW side view 41
Reversed Delta 2011 Pratt Institute, GAUD, summer semester studio Tutors: Ferda Kolatan, Erich Schoenenberger
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“Reversed Delta “ is an experimentation on design technics, an investigation on ways a “city” can reach the water and how sustainability can act not just as an addition but as part of the design. For this project, a series of animated line diagrams design approach. Moreover, key role to the design waterfront. The location uses Manhattan as a reference point but at the same time tries to keep its identity intact. Former water connections are reestablished, new ones are introduced, while connections to the existing water transportation
the feeling of a more intimate neighborhood and lower-rise buildings compared to Manhattan. At the same time being a viewport to Manhattan has the tendency to grow in high-rise development. Thus, the design solution to the buildings approach was skinny towers, that try to keep the character of the neighborhood but at the same time maximize the ability to act as a belvedere to Manhattan. Furthermore, the tidal energy of the East River can be collected by power generators in order to provide power to the development. The form of the canopy, covering the buildings, can work as a water collection system and the use of solar panels can work both as shades and solar power collectors. Finally, with all the excess power collected a water
for NYC, a new urban beach.
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Sea taxi
East river ferry 0
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250m
Piers
Energy collection Tidal power
Willamsburg
bridge
Circulation area
Housing
Grand st. ferry
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Physical model
Solar power collection
Rainwater collection Residential
Elevated backyard
Commercial
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View of the piers
Inside the “Delta”
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Accra 2020, The Waste Olympics Accra, Ghana 2011 Pratt Institute, GAUD, fall semester studio Tutor: Carla Leitao
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Waste Olympics is an urban revitalizing strategy, which aims to take advantage of the infrastructure development in order to support the hypothetical Olympic Games in Accra, Ghana in 2020. Practically no waste water treatment
procedure. This will be achieved through waste and e-waste treatment. The methodology is divided into three steps. First, the remediation of the contaminated areas and the creation of the infrastructure network. A network that can support both the Olympic Second, the remediated areas will host the main facilities of the Olympic Games and third, and last phase is the overall transformation of the Olympic facilities and network to a sustainable waste treatment system.
E-waste burning and dumping
Old Fadama slum
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Intervention site A, Old Fadama (Olympic Stadium and Village location)
Intervention site B (wetlands creation)
Accra Metropolitan Area (AMA) analysis AMA
Old Fadama area E-waste dump site
Airport
Urban farming >1 ha 1-5
Slum
5-10 10-25
<25 ha
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Systems
current
Waste water treatment
release to the sea
proposed
sewage phytoremediation
sewage infarastructure
collection point
urban agriculture
city-food
urban aquaculture
wetlands
composting
solid
recycling release to the sea
collection
treatment
production
waste
release
Electronic waste (e-waste) treatment import
market
collection
1st phase treatment
2nd phase
current
solid waste collection
30% new import
dismantling
70% second handed
60%
consumer
raw material
repair/refurbish collection 171,000 tons/year 458 tons/day
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scrap components transportation
treatment
dismantling
shredding
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dismantling scrap components
fragments
treatment
raw material
bio eaching
export
usable raw material
metal-plastic syngas
useless raw material
fragments
plasma
treatment electricity
slag
treated material local industries
obsidian rock wool
repair/refurbish
usable components
collection
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usable components
dust
proposed
treatment
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25% repairable 15% non-repairable
weee collection point
fragments
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1st phase treatment
2nd phase
3rd phase
market
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Wetlands Phase 01, 2020
Olympic aquatic center
Phase 02, 2025
Wetlands
Olympic Games stadium Phase 01, 2015
Phase 02, 2020
Olympic Games facilities
Phase 03, 2025
Hydroponics facility Material treatment facility
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Old Fadama master plan
Onion Market
The Olympic Village
Agbogbloshie market
Possible future expansion
Train station
Olympic Stadium
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Olympic Stadium and Village
Old Fadama master plan phasing
Phase 01 E-waste facilities
Phase 02 Remediation Olympic Stadium construction
Phase 03 Olympic Village construction
01. Olympic village construction 04. maintain the dump and burning area 01. remediation e-waste burning and dumping area
01. temporary relocation of slum population (Medina)
slum
03. stadium completion
02. Olympic stadium and surrounding open spaces
02. construct the e-waste treatment facility
03. remediation 05. shuttle buses from Medina to the burning and dumping area
02. open public space (parks, leisure)
03. site for potential housing developing
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Pylos_public spaces Pylos, Greece 2008-2009 University of Patras - Department of Architecture & Municipality of Pylos, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historical Technical Infrastructure Investigation of the Greek Cityâ&#x20AC;? Research Associate Tutors: Petros Koufopoulos, Georgios Panetsos Team: Achilleas Kakkavas, Elena Kapompasopoulou, Kyriakos Lagos 2009 University of Patras - Department of Architecture, Diploma Thesis Tutor: Georgios Panetsos Team: Achilleas Kakkavas, Elena Kapompasopoulou
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Analysis
historical background and an economy that relies mainly on tourism. A new major resort development is set to take place a few miles away from Pylos which attracts high end tourism. Consequently, the municipality of Pylos is interested in attracting these tourists to visit the city and therefore further boost the economy. A strategic plan is proposed to improve its residents. The current situation in Pylos could be described as pedestrian unfriendly with the public life highly centralized around the main square were all the public activities take place. Furthermore, the places of high historic and touristic interest are not well exposed nor are well connected to the urban fabric of the city, making them not easily accessible.
Building levels One-level building Two-level building Three-level building Four-level building
main places of interest, decentralizing the public life from the main square to the whole city. Furthermore, the old harbor plays a key role in this network as it is reformed into a new public space acting as rival to the main square as well as a belvedere to the city. Finally, a new public multi-program building-access is established, capable of hosting major cultural events for the city while providing a new place of interest in the southern part of the city and a connection with the northern.
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Commercial use Mixed use Storehouses Residences Institutions and public spaces
Figure-ground
Green area
Buildings before 1985 Buildings after 1985
Current status
The proposal consists of three main principles: exposition, reformation and creation. A new pedestrian route network is designed
Land uses
Circulation
Proposal
Parking area
Pedestrian unfriendly city
New parking area
Pedestrian friendly city
Main network Secondary network Tertiary network Pedestrian areas
New circulation Main network Secondary network Tertiary network Pedestrian areas
Harbour reformation
New public building
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Current status
A No access to a public space No connection between A and B
B
Proposal
B
A Connecting A and B through a new public building
New Multi-program Building
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Multi-program Building plan view +2m
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Square
Amphitheatre Cafe
Main entrance
Public library
Information desk Secondary entrance
Wardrobe Toilets Theatre Auditorium Stage
Bar Changing and utility room
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Idea development diagrams
Axes
Axes and courses
Expansion of urban tissue
urban tissue
Development of pedestrians ramp
Final design
New Harbour
Harbour plan view +2m
Public sculpture
Relaxation area
Slope Harbour square
Pedestrian ramp Public toilets Amphitheatre
Refreshment stand
open area
Bench
Organized planting
City Hall square
City Hall
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South side view
View from the harbour
East side view
West side view
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The New Ground 2008 International workshop “Transforming the Landscape”, Pescara, Italy Tutor: Georgios Panetsos Team: Ivi Damantopoulou, Achilleas Kakkavas, Elena Kapompasopoulou, Vasilios Sokalis
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Main project principles
The Adriatic City is made of roads and buildings scattered on the hilly countryside next to the coast line. Is it a successful model or just an uncritical mode of development responding to the need of capturing the sea and occupying all available space? Mosciano S. Angelo, a non-residential industrial area located next to an important node in the natural environment of the Tordino River, is capable of becoming the locus of a new centrality. The vicinity of the landscape and the city creates a dual interaction of individual but also interacting entities, potentially transforming what is currently an edge or a border line into actual public space.
Inverted traditional city buildings surrounding the “walled” industrial precinct
From the vertical building to the vertical city: layered groundS
Footprint x height = constant
Overcoming infrastructure directly connecting new ground and riverbed
New ground - new roof - a viewing platform
Developing centrality
A city of pedestrians
A non-residential terminal city
Creating centrality
the precedence of Venice
the precedence of Las Vegas
the precedence of Manhattan - inverted
The “new ground” as a typology
A “New Ground” is projected. It creates a new building site and new parkland at the same time. Programmatically, it accommodates the requirements of a contemporary city, both on top and within its thickness. These requirements no longer “pollute” the landscape with their built presence or physical imprints. Formally, it doubles the topography. It consists of a thick undulating slab, hovering over the loosely urbanized industrial area. The slab will evolve overtime through punching, fragmenting and deforming. The “new ground” is a viewing machine, bringing into operation both nature and the city. Vertical development allows for a degree of centralization, maintaining however the lesson of the Adriatic City and simultaneously performing a critical operation on it. Decentralization can nowadays be vertical.
the precedence of ancient AthenS
New Ground-analysis
Vertical connections
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Urban squares network
The new ground
New ground + voids
Transportation network + logistics
Basic axes
Existing footprints + new buildings
Natural ground elements
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View of the central square
Central station
Vertical connection
Day uses 4:00-7:00
supplies + services short term residents
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8:00-9:00
10:00-15:00
16:00-18:00
outgoing employees incoming employees
19:00-21:00
22:00-2:00
leisure
3:00-4:00
nightlife
hotels + dorms short term residents
Workdays
Holidays+Weekends
sum
sum
Plan +100m
Section a
Setting areas
Old ground level
Treatment of existing conditions
New ground level
Old ground level
Program distribution
New ground level
Old ground level
New ground level
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General view
NW side view
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View of a square
Inside the New Ground
SW side view
Plan +20m Buildings are typed by their preexisting footprint
Small
Medium
Large
Footprint < 1000 m2
Footprint < 2000 m2
Footprint > 2000 m2
Section b
NE side view
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The Wave 2007 Furniture design
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positions it was noticed that the actual body layout stays constant. The only varying factor is the angle of this layout. Thus, adequate support for the body in various sitting positions can be achieved through rotation. For the design solution, an approach was followed principle that in order for a surface to be determined, resembled a seat on a wave. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waveâ&#x20AC;? consists of two parts, the supporting structure and the seat while, the components for these parts are mainly fabricated from two metal sheets by laser cutting. The decision of metal was made for two reasons. First for its ability to provide a stable structure and second, for its ability to bend. Thus, while the structure is capable of carrying the forces of the seat and person siting, the seat , because its made of a single part, it is able to slightly bend, provide a more comfortable
studying, discussion
relaxed reading, chat
music, nap
the different positions
sharing a common 83
Physical model study
Components
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Side views
Assembly
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Experimentations
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