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PORTFOLIO Anastasia Angelidou

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TABLE OF CONTENT 4-5 Curriculum Vitae 6-13 Landscape Urbanism Thesis [Semester IV Advance Master in Urbanism] “Re-Hydrating Landscapes in Cyprus”

14-17 Design Studio IUAV [Exchange Semester III Advance Master in Urbanism] “Urbs in Horto” 18-21 Design Studio+study trip KUL [Semester II Advance Master in Urbanism] “Reclaiming the mining belt, Johannesburg, W. Rand, S. Africa” 22-23 Design Studio KUL [Semester I Advance Master in Urbanism] “Urban Platform” 24-27 Competition [Ideas Competition] “Re-Creation Centre at Ospedale al Mare, Lido di Venezia, Italy” 28-29 Work Practice / Competition [AA&U For Architecture, Arts and Urbanism] “110 Seconds Sociability” 30-31 Work Practice [AA&U For Architecture, Arts and Urbanism] “The U-A-W? Mobile Exhibition” 32-33 Work Practice [AA&U For Architecture, Arts and Urbanism] “Refurbishment of a Listed Building, Nicosia” 34-35 Work Internship / Competition [AA&U For Architecture, Arts and Urbanism] “Environmental and Education Centre in Larnaca Salt Lakes, Cyprus” 36-37 Diploma Thesis [Diploma of Architect Engineer] “The Multi-Case” 38-39 Design Studio UCY [Semester VIII Bachelor in Architecture] “Urban Living” 40-41 Design Studio UCY [Semester VI Bachelor in Architecture] “TechnOasis”

Landscape Urbanism Thesis

Design Studio IUAV

Design Studio+study trip KUL [Semester II Advance Master in Urbanism] “Reclaiming the mining belt, West Rand, Johannesburg, South Africa”

[Advance Master in Urbanism] “Re-Hydrating Landscapes in Cyprus”

[Exchange Semester III Advance Master in Urbanism] “Urbs in Horto”

Design Studio KUL

Competition Experience

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[Semester I Advance Master in Urbanism] “Urban Platform”

[Ideas Competition] “Re-Creation Centre at Ospedale al Mare, Lido di Venezia, Italy”

[AA&U For Architecture, Arts and Urbanism] “110 Seconds Sociability”

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Work Experience

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[AA&U For Architecture, Arts and Urbanism] “The U-A-W? Mobile Exhibition”

[AA&U For Architecture, Arts and Urbanism] “Refurbishment of a Listed Building, Nicosia”

[AA&U For Architecture, Arts and Urbanism] “Environmental and Education Centre in Alikes area, Larnaka, Cyprus”

Diploma Thesis

Design Studio UCY

Design Studio UCY

[Diploma of Architect Engineer] “The Multi-Case”

[Semester VIII Bachelor in Architecture] “Urban Living”

[Semester VI Bachelor in Architecture] “TechnOasis”

Curriculum Vitae

Anastasia Angelidou | Architect | Urbanist PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Tel number E-mail Date of birth Nationality

| Anastasia Angelidou | +357 99 657236 | ana.angelidou@gmail.com | 15 July 1987 | Cypriot

EDUCATION AND TRAINING Sep 2013- Sep 2015 |

European Master of Urbanism [EMU]

Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism:

KU Leuven, Belgium | IUAV Venice, Italy | UPC Barcelona, Spain | TU Delft, Netherlands Home University: KU Leuven | Exchange Semester: IUAV Venice

Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning [MaUSP]

KU Leuven, Belgium

Spring 2015 | “Re-Hydrating Landscapes in Cyprus”, Cyprus [Master Thesis] Fall 2014 | “Urbs in Horto”, Veneto, Italy [Studio - exchange semester]

Summer 2014 | “Recycling City 3, Urbs in Horto”, Venice, Italy [International Design Intensive Programme]

Spring 2014 | “Reclaiming the mining belt”, West Rand, Johannesburg, South Africa [Studio and Study Trip] Fall 2013 | “Brussels North as area of new centrality”, Vilvoorde, Belgium [Studio]

Diploma of Architect-Engineer, University Of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Sep 2010 - Jun 2011 | “The Multicase” [Awarded Diploma Thesis]

Sep 2009 - Jun 2011 |

Sep 2005 - Jun 2009 | B.Sc.

in Architecture, University Of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

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WORK EXPERIENCE Jun 2011 - Aug 2013 | Practice in Architecture at: “AA&U for Architecture, Arts and Urbanism”, Nicosia, Cyprus

Responsibilities | Participation in Design, Drawing, Image processing, Presentations, Office Organization, Participation in Research

Projects and Workshop Jan 2010 - Jun 2010 | Student’s Internship - Erasmus Placement at: “Guallart Architects”, Barcelona, Spain

Responsibilities | Model Making, Drawing, Existing Building Survey, Image Processing, Implementation assistance of Research Project

RESEARCH PROJECT EXPERIENCE Feb 2015 - Sep 1015 |

“Re-Hydrating Landscapes in Cyprus”

eco-cultural waterscapes under a climate change scenario [EMU | MaUSP Advanced Master Thesis]

[Academic Research on a self chosen thesis topic guided and promoted by professor Bruno De Meulder]

Jul 2012 - Dec 2012 | “Urban-A-Where?”, Nicosia [through AA&U participation]:

The “Magic Carpet” Activity, November 2012 [implementation assistant / performance]

The “U-A-W? Exhibition” October / November 2012 [concept & implementation assistant]

The “U-A-W? Workshop” July 2012 [coordinator] Jun 2010 - Jul 2010 | “Fab Lab House”, Barcelona, for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 [through IAAC participation]

[implementation assistance]

WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE Oct 2014 | “Workshop “Re-cycle Ve.net”,Venice, Italy

IUAV Venice (DCP), Fondazione Francesco Fabbri [“Urbs in Horto” - advanced master student team], Jul 2014 |

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“Recycling City 3, Urbs in Horto”,Venice, Italy KU Leuven, IUAV Venice, Parson The New School for Design, TU Delft, UC San Diego, UPC Barcelona [“Sile Spring” - student team]

The “U-A-W? Workshop”,Nicosia, Cyprus University of Cyprus [coordination of bachelor student team]

COMPETITION EXPERIENCE Apr 2016 | “Seaside PlaYards” Venice Recreation Centre in Lido Island, Venice, Italy

International Ideas Competition - CTRL+SPACE [Team Project - Team Coordinator, Design, Drawing, Presentation] Mar 2012 | “Cultural Centre and Community Park in Eptagonia, Cyprus”

International Competition [Team Project - Participation in Design, Drawing, Presentation] Oct 2011 | “River and Fishing Shelter Configuration in Liopetri, Cyprus” [3rd Prize]

International Competition [AA&U - Support in 3d Modelling and Rendering] Sep 2011 | “Incubating Germanina”

Regeneration, Development and Utilization of Germanina’s Farm in Geroskipou, Cyprus

International Competition [AA&U - Participation in Design, Drawing, Presentation] Sep 2011 | “110 Seconds Sociability”

Redesign of the Old GSP Stadium Area in Nicosia, Cyprus

International Competition [AA&U - Participation in Design, Drawing, Presentation] Sep 2008 | “Environmental and Education Centre in Alikes area, Larnaka, Cyprus” [Honourable Mention]

National Competition [AA&U - Support in Drawing, Presentation] Jul 2008 | “Killing Free Time @ Cyprus” Venice Biennale of Architecture

[AA&U - Support in Images’ production, 3d Modelling]

HONOURS AND AWARDS Jun 2011 | “Lambros and Thalia David for Distinction in Architectural Composition”:

Annual prize|Best final diploma thesis project, for the academic year 2010-2011, University of Cyprus, Nicosia

CONFERENCES Jun 2014 | Diploma

Thesis Project in: Research +Design Projects Exhibition: ACSA/AIK International Conference “OPEN CITIES: The new Post-Industrial World Order”, Seoul, South Korea Nov 2010 | Volunteer in European conference:

“Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe: Politics and Culture”, Vienna, Austria Oct 2008 | Volunteer in International conference:

“Liminal Zones”, Nicosia, Cyprus

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS 11th Oct 2012 |

Diploma Thesis Presentation at:

“Contemporary Ideas and Challenges: Inquiries and debate raised by diploma projects” organised by department of Architecture of Frederick University and the Cyprus Architects Association

Student Projects 2006-2009 included in |

STRATIS Socrates, J.UCY 02 Journal of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Nicosia: University of Cyprus, 2011 STRATIS Socrates, J.UCY 01 Journal of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Nicosia: University of Cyprus, 2009

PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue Other languages

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Greek: native speaker English: highly proficient Spanish: good command Portuguese: basic communication skills (ongoing learning process)

Computer skills | AutoCad 2D/3D, Arch GIS, Microstation 2D, Sketchup 3D, 3DStudioMax, Acrobat Photoshop, Acrobat

InDesign, Acrobat Illustrator, CorelDraw, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Other skills | Research, Architectural Design, Urban Design, Landscape Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Hand drawing, Mapping, Map Production, Cartography, Conceptual Representation Personal Education, Interests | Studied Piano and Music Theory 1995 -2003, Studied Ballet 1993 -1999, Interest in music, literature, arts, travelling, crafts, knitting

RELATED LINKS [http://issuu.com/anastasiaangelidou/docs/aangelidou_rehydratinglandscapesinc/1]

[http://www.recyclevenetolab.it/] [http://extremecities.net/] [http://www.aaplusu.com/en/home] [http://www.urban-a-where.com] [http://iaac.net/research-projects/solar-house/fab-lab-house/] [http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/en/research/kongresse-tagungen/european-november-conference-2010]

[http://issuu.com/anastasia87/docs/book]

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Re-Hydrating Landscapes in Cyprus eco-cultural waterscapes under a climate change scenario 2015 K.U.Leuven, Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning [MaUSP] European Master of Urbanism [EMU] Promoter: Bruno De Meulder

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RE-HYDRATING LANDSCAPES IN CYPRUS

eco-cultural waterscapes under a climate change scenario This is a master thesis project, submitted and presented in Leuven, in September 2015, to obtain the following degrees: European Master of Urbanism [EMU] and Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning [MaUSP]. Three semesters, including thesis semester, took place at KU Leuven, Belgium and one at IUA Venice, Italy. This thesis was guided and promoted

by Pr. Bruno de Meulder and fully supported by Phd candidates Cecilia Furlan, Julie Marin and Matteo Motti. This thesis is a combination of an intensive field work with a parallel process of cartographic research and interpretative mapping, through a process of “research by design”.

Investigating Landscapes of Cyprus as “living fields”, dealing with

ongoing political, cultural and economic transformations, this thesis turns its attention to a global, environmental crisis of the 21st century. Climate change contributes to the mentioned transformations, resulting to radical shifts in our ecosystems.[1] People’s realities lay on interrelationships between multiple layers of man-made and natural systems.

Building up sustainable societies has to do with elaborating a symbiotic agreement between those systems through their complexities. Nina-Marie Lister, in her discourse about Landscape Urbanism, positions design, in “the context of complex and dynamic cultural-natural systems”, proposing a “multiscaled and multilayered urbanism”.[2] This thesis experiments through “mapping”, crossing scales and field work survey, to express actual landscapes and their possible future. Mapping, as James Corner describes it, is an agency for creativity and imagination, a liberating instru1

“Impacts from recent climate-related extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones and wildfires, reveal significant vulnerability and exposure of some ecosystems and many human systems to current climate variability”: IPCC, 2014, Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland p8

2 LISTER, Nina-Marie, “Insurgent Ecologies: (Re)Claiming Ground in Landscape and Urbanism”, in: Ecological Urbanism, Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2010/2013 p537

ment.[3] Thus, political and cultural complexities are intentionally emphasised, within a frame of environmental fragility. A story of radical changes and cultural conflicts, leads us to the exploration of “ecologies”, studied and interpreted as complex systems of man-nature collaborations.

Past traces, expensive contemporary projects, productive landscapes and finally ecological landscapes, lead us to define the dehydrated landscapes of Cyprus. Desertification, ground and surface water pollution combined with the eternal shortage of water challenge ecosystems’ adaptation. Moreover, habitats are in conflict. Natural resources are diminished while population growth and people’s habits are stretching their limits.

Reading existing waterscapes, discovering potentialities of the past, transforming “waste” into “gold”, the proposal focuses on a set of water strategies. It aims to the re-hydration of Cypriot Landscapes. Design, under such environmental conditions on an already fragile, abused land, is all about ecological cycles. “Recycling” and “reuse” define a systemic approach in design processes based on ecologies of waste.

Waste produced by human activity is by itself part of a life cycle. By closing a cycle, an opportunity of design is generated. “Scaping” life cycles define the spatial subsistence of man-made and natural systems’ collaboration. “Systemic design”[4] as Alan Berger describes it, forms the inspiration of this work as man-nature collaborating method, which places Landscape Urbanism in-between sciences, politics, economics and poetics.

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CORNER James, HIRSCH Alison Brick, “The Agency of Mapping, Speculation, Critique and Invention” in: The Landscape Imagination, Collected Essays of James Corner 19902010, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014, p197 4 BERGER Alan, “Systemic Design can change the world, a lecture from Alan Berger” in: Systemic Design can change the world, Amsterdam: SUN, 2009, pp10-37

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The average annual rainfall of 500mm, gives 4600 million cubic metres of atmospheric precipitation of which the 3550 million cubic meters evaporate[1]. Therefore, more than 3/4 of the total atmospheric precipitation are of no use. That is one of the reasons that, since ancient times till today, surface water sources are unable to cover human needs. Today, desertification threatens Cyprus’ land with erosion, minimized productivity and decreased biodiversity. “Almost all land area of Cyprus is sensitive to desertification. The percentage of areas very sensitive to desertification may increase from 57% in 2008 to 70.4% in 2050”[2] 1 CONSTANTINOU Georgios, PANAGIDES Ioannis, Κύπρος και Γεωλογία, (Cyprus and Geology), Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 2013 (in Greek) p300 2 SHOUKRI, Elpida, ZACHARIADIS, Theodoros; “Climate change in Cyprus: Impacts and Adaptation Policies”, Environmental Policy Research Group Report 01-12, Limassol: Cyprus University of Technology 2012, p23

Division of an island of less than a million people is counter effective in cultural and environmental evolution. The Buffer Zone, containing active mine fields, keeps the Muslim and Christian separate, not only spatially but also mentally. A present of miscommunication obfuscates the urgency of environmental rehabilitation, while climate change puts deadlines in the ongoing process of over exploitation of natural resources

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Mapping Scales Mapping through scales crossing Mapping has been explored in three major scales: the scale of the island, the scale of the Buffer Zone and the scale of the selected study area 8x8 km which is crossed by the Buffer Zone.

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Study Area 8x8km

Dam construction has begun long in 1900 under the British Colonial State. Today, Cyprus has more than 100 dams and their total capacity is approximately 327.5 million cubic metres of water. Dam construction increased the storage capacity of the island, while since 1970, the average annual rainfall decreased from 550mm to 450mm.[1] 1 OMORPHOS C., IOANNOU H., Water Development Department, Έργο Νοτίου Αγωγού (Southern Conveyor Project), Nicosia: Press and Information Office, 2000, p3,4

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The presence of “Serrahis” river made the study area one of the most productive areas in Cyprus. Citrus trees, olive trees and cereals are for hundreds of years a significant economic force for the inhabitants of the neighbour villages, as well as a cultural artefact which characterizes Cypriot identities both Muslim and Christian. However, productivity is challenged by soil degradation, global warming and water extinction. The study area is a sample of a wider problem identification and experimentation in design, focused on the Mesaoria plain.

abandoned mosque

church with a use of a mosque

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pictures of study area by Anastasia Angelidou

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     

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    

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Irrigation Methods - efficiency

The existence of wells as the most ancient evident of human civilization, claims Cypriot inhabitants’ everlasting dependency on ground water resources. Groundwater extraction went far beyond its ecological limit: “Namely, in 2007 Cyprus extracted more than 100% of the groundwater available for annual abstraction (Eurostat, 2010).”[1] Boreholes provide water for irrigation and water supply.

Extensive extraction lead to aquifer depletion.

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Although population growth rates in the few last years are  negative,   forecasts for the future show a population increase of 20% by the [2] year 2050 and 40% by the year 2080. At the same time, according  to statistics of 20th century regarding Cypriot climate, temperature  increases up to 0.01°C per year and precipitation decreases about      [3] 1mm per year.      

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 1 SHOUKRI, Elpida, ZACHARIADIS, Theodoros; “Climate change in Cyprus:  Impacts and Adaptation Policies”, Environmental Policy Research Group Report 01-12, Limassol: Cyprus University of Technology 2012, p28 2 Eurostat, “Population Projections”, [online] Available at: http://ec.europa. eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&plugin=1&language=en&pcode=  tps00002 [Accessed on 25 July 2015] 3 Prais, UNCCD, “Cyprus Report for Combating Desertification”, [online]  Available at: http://www.unccd-prais.com/Uploads/GetReportPdf/cdc86239afb8-4b6c-b2e5-a0fa014a4b27, [Accessed on 5 April 2015]

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This thesis positions the design process in a scenario of Cyprus released from military forces, exploring the island’s ecosystems adaptation to environmental changes. If we consider the Buffer Zone as a left over landscape, a nonproductive space, a space of exclusion, the backside of development, then we can refer to Alan Berger’s term: “Drosscape”. Landscape Urbanism, in this case, is a tool for dealing with “waste landscapes”[1] based on ideas as recycle and reuse.

Project Objectives: This projects aims to the envisioning of the “next becoming” of both ordinary and extraordinary landscapes: Ordinary landscapes based on human activity and exploitation of natural resources and extraordinary ones, based on elimination of human activity and reservation of natural resources. The proposal is based on Alan Berger’s idea about Systemic Design: “Systemic Design can Change the World”: “Systemic Design merges the existing forces on a landscape with multi-layered, timebased strategies that work to reclaim value and increase sustainability in the build environment”.[1] Water purification and reuse, water collection and reuse, qanat clean water reuse and afforestation, work together in order to increase productivity, local economy, social interactions, exchanges with “the other”, biodiversity and ecological rehabilitation. This project aims to “heal” the dehydrated and abused landscapes of the specific study area but it also demonstrates an example of an extreme scenario of water recycling in the Mediterranean region. Lastly, the strategies are tested in four design projects in various scales, which consist of productive, cultural, ecological waterscapes and waterscapes of exchanges.

1 BERGER Alan, “Drosscape” in: Wasting Land Urban America, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007, p.35

Research Objectives: The objective of this research is to examine adapting landscape possibilities through ecological systems, in a scenario of climate change. Water forms a tool of understanding and reshaping those ecosystems. Desertification mitigation and reaction of existing ecologies to it, form the driver of creativity, imagining landscape transformation of the future.

Water is mapped and designed as a time-based element, able to transform and be transformed in different ecosystems. Thus, water is the mediator of adaptability in extreme scenarios of radical changes.

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1 BERGER Alan, “Systemic Design and Research” in: Systemic Design can change the world, Amsterdam: SUN, 2009, p14

Tools - strategies

  Closing water cycles Increasing vegetated surfaces to attract migrating birds and other species Creating public spaces combined with recycling systems

River Waterflow Rain Water collection and purification

Reeds: oxygen to the water (photosynthesis) through the roots » purification

communal black water collection

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Aquifer Recharge Rain Enhanced Irrigation

input collective septic tank

output Root Zone Method

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clean water collection pond

Rethinking roof typologies collecting as much of it possile

Collect Rain water from household roof in individual pond and reuse in garden

Purification More water for irrigation

Waste water collection

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agriculture: fruit trees and crops

 input Collect Rain water from public surfaces in collective wetlands. purify and reuse in gardens, orchards and crops Separate grey from black waste water in household scale, collect Rain water and Grey water in individual wetland, purify and reuse in garden

forested areas

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case of Akaki Village (zoom in)

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Conditions of inclusion and exclusion create landscapes of the ordinary and the extraordinary in the frame of division of Cypriot landscapes. The Buffer Zone, an interface between two entities, a land in-between two civilizations, questions its own identity. The fact that this land is under “special treatment” naturally, led to its perception as the “other”, the “different”, the “inversion”. This buffered space has its own entity, its own ecosystem.

What if we focus on adaptability in terms of landscape transformation and multicultural development? What if we imagine the Buffer Zone as a land of negotiation of both sites and the Water as the tool, in healing processes, regarding cultural, productive and ecological landscapes?

  

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Working with seasons to eliminate waterloss Increasing vegetated surfaces to attract migrating birds and other species Creating public spaces combined with retaining wetlands

trees: oriental plane trees, calabrian pines / pinus brutia Reducing soil erosion

 



Collecting shallow ground water from qanat systems for vegetable gardens Cooler temperature in public spaces in relation with the qanat systems

Winter: retaining water in subsurface wetlands along surface water flows eliminating evaporation by covering the pont with sand and vegetation

Retain Ground Water cooler public spaces

Summer: using saved water for irrigation in summer or when the natural stream is dry

Silvopasture: Grazing on forage under shadow from trees

Existing Qanat system

Vegetable gardens protected by tree (shadow, wind breaks)

can be planted

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Afforestation 

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Qanat system reuse 

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

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

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    

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

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Surface channels retaining ponds 

New residences New public space

  



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

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  

Retaining Pond

 

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Clean water to vegetable gardens of new residents

Providing sufficient water for local cultivations » Enhancing local production

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Retaining Pond

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Systemic Design





 







 

 







  







  

 

  



     







 





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



Waste Water pur from ho

Waste Water purification from farms Irrigation with Flooding efficiency: 40%

Providing clean water to vegetable gardens of new residents

Retain Ground Water - cool temperature public space

Rain Water collection and purification

Micro-springlers for each tree efficiency: 75-85%

Enforcing local production - providing sufficient water for local cultivations

Sum Aquifer Recharge Water distribution in orchards

Win

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 

  



















       

   



 

 

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Punctual Projects 

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BOTANIC GARDENS

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PHYLIA VILLAGE

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bike/pedestrian route connecting “Phylia” with civic access to buffer zone

existing earthfill

Ecological

water dam

fruit/vegetable

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market Waterscapes Waterscapes water retaining wetlands of exchanges with botanical gardens bike/pedestrian route along main earth channel connecting water recyclng wetlands with public market and civic access to buffer zone

civic access to buffer zone - ex trainline

eco - bufferzone

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KATOKOPIA VILLAGE

AVLONA VILLAGE

axis with enhanced

fruit/vegetable 

production

restored aqueduct with water collection pond

bike/pedestrian route along “Naos river” (natural stream) connecting “Peristerona” with botanical garden, civic access to buffer zone and “Katokopia”

chain of wells

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existing

Waterscapes

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PERISTERONA VILLAGE

waste water purification wetlands and rain water purfication wetlands with communal fruit/vegetable gardens

Cultural

Waterscapes

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bike/pedestrian route connecting “Akaki” with “Avlona” and civic acess to buffer zone

productive

social housing with common gardens

AKAKI VILLAGE





     



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Ret stre

Natural Waterflow

AKAKI NEW PUBLIC SPACE



















 

 



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

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







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

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rification ouseholds

tain water in subsurface wetlands along water eam - save water in winter and use in summer

Steam production from trees

Raising Rain possibilities

Rain Water collection and purification

Harvesting from agricultural areas North and South side of Buffer Zone

mmer Silvopasture combined with Agroforestry

or

Vegetable gardens combined with Agroforestry Grey Water purification and reuse

Increasing biodiversity Eliminating global warming

Fruit and Vegetable wash to prepare for selling

Selling local products at the Market (exchanges)



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

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nter

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“Systemic Transect”: PURIFYING WETLANDS

a conceptual section cutting through interrelationships of different environments in the study area, in form of context (2015) and strategy (2055). The Systemic Transect indicated is a graphical exercise to simplify and understand ecologies consisting of social, economic, ecological and political interrelationships, the strategy focuses on waste ecologies, claiming the potential of waste in the design process.

MARKET existing

proposed

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URBS IN HORTO

IUAV design studio: Veneto diffused city, Villa del Conte Urbs in Horto - Villa del Conte, Jan 2015, Venice, Italy Project Team: Anastasia Angelidou, Carmen Van Maercke, Caterina Rosso, Daniel Zelayaran, Marine Declève, Yufei Zhang Supervisors: Paola Vigano, Andrea Curtoni, Giulia Mazzorin

structure (Sereni, 2010). The image of ‘Urbs in Horto’ goes furthermore: ‘Horto’ in this respect covers not only the garden in its aesthetical relevance, but reinterprets the agricultural landscape as a place of extensive production, leisure and possible inclusiveness.

‘Urbs in Horto’ is a vision for the central area of the Veneto region that investigates the potentials, opportunities and conflicts of the urban sprawl in the diffused city. ‘Urbs in horto’ is a process that becomes an instrument of urban renewal that starts from the specific qualities and ways of living the territory and ends in a new image of the diffused city. It is a process to integrate the landscape and generate new types of urbanity, different iconic images linked to the qualities of the space.

The idiom ‘Urbs in Horto’ is derived from the moto of Chicago. It relates to the extensive productivity that characterized the territory, articulated in different ways by the juxtaposition of a productive space to another, for example the production of furniture close to a field of maize (Viganò, 2014).

The concept of the three natures, raised by John Dixon Hunt in his article for Casabella in 1993, has been used in the studio as a ‘design tool’. Exploring this concept, the Studio has investigated the relation between the man and its natural environment. The relation between the three natures itself has been used to define the three ecologies: the ecology of the river, the ecology of the fields and the urban ecology. It is in the borders of the build and the fields, in the hedges and ecotones that the specificity of ‘Urbs in Horto’ emerged.

The image of the territory nowadays has his roots in the agricultural past, which has been dominating the region for centuries. In 1990 Francesco Indovina described a causal linkage between the outlooks of the current dispersed built landscape and its origin in the productive development. He defined the outcoming phenomenon as città diffusa (Indovina , 2009).

The significance of the agriculture as part of the territory is clearly highlighted in his text, which implies its importance considering future proposals.

Agriculture in this region has developed as a machine, though can also be characterised as inertial spaces subjected to the rhythm of seasons, to the rhythm of time (Viganò, 2014).

Today, even in cases when agriculture is not productive anymore, it is leaving traces in the landscape and defining its

The three ecologies: River ecology: forest, wood production and flooding areas

Field ecology: A smaller grain and diversified carpet for the field industry together with urban agriculture enforcing local economy

Urban ecology: Civic spaces and a network of Km0 farms which minimize the distance of production and consumption

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Elm Poplar Ash

Agroforestry

Wood Production

trees: fruits, oils, nuts, timber crops: grain, seed production, soft fruits, vegetables, biofuel

great willow harvest: 2-5 years spacing: 75x75cm

poplar harvest: 2-5 years spacing: 50x300cm

Elm

Willow

Poplar

Heating Wood Storage for plant cuteer’s wood and house housing

Model Images taken by Marine Declève

 The ‘Woodstock’ agritourism is a house for temporal stay and it manages a wood production and storage for its own use and The ‘straw’ integrates the three natures and give measure to the landscape. The glassprofit (part of Km0 farm network). house is a boulevard that ends in front of the main road where the palace was as a monumental entrance part of the city. A horizontal landmark for the a horizontal metropolis.

‘Farm collective’ is a collective of farms which have a common storage and waste disposal point (digestor). A common playground supports the civic space in relation to the Km0 network.

The ‘Apazzia Pisani’ community centre development suggests new housing and new/reformed public spaces in relation to production. A space dedicated to gardening classes is proposed as well as a GAS (Community Support Agriculture) distribution space and a “Pick you Own” field.

The ‘Agritourism Riverside’ is the reformation of an old mill using the flow of the river to produce electricity for its own use. It offers a temporary stay in relation to the the river.

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Marine Declève Belgium Caterina Rosso Italy Daniel Zelayaran Mexico

Yufei Zhang China

Anastasia Angelidou Cyprus

Carmen Van Maercke Belgium

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RECLAIMING THE MINING BELT, W. RAND, JOBURG, S. AFRICA KUL design studio + study trip: Landscape Urbanism, closing cycles A project for the West Rand - Johannesburg, South Africa May 2014, Leuven, Belgium Project Team: studio students of MaHs/MaUSP: Anastasia Angelidou, Au Vu Hai Phan, Aurora Dias Lokita, Duc Long Nguyen, Eliana Muñoz, Fitri Maharani Indra, Hao Feng, Javier Dario Tamayo, Le Nam Hoang, Linh Nguyen, Lucile Ado, Margarita Macera, Marine Declève, Michail Mina, Nhat Sariful Islam, Vidya Spay, Yufei Zang Supervisors: Bruno De Meulder, Wim Wambecq, Tahira Toffah, Hannah Le Roux The Witwatersrand region is defined by its mining history and this identity and history is embodied in the mounds of goldenyellow dust scattered across its landscape. This landscape is – despite the fact that most mines closed in the 1970s under critical transformation through programs of removal, projects of extraction of residual ores, intrusion of informal settlements, redevelopment into business parks, etc. The processes of remining –fuelled by market, legislative and environmental interests- is forcing the relocation of most dumps and tailings to ‘super dumps’ on the edges of the city.

For the moment, this heritage of colonialist and state-supported extraction is seen as a huge reserve for redevelopment (surely for the parts in which re-extraction has taken place), nevertheless memories concerning suppressive racial attitudes, economic inequality and social uprooting of apartheid are still manifest.

The Witwatersrand mining belt has also been referred to as the ‘apartheid wall’, the ‘ultimate buffer space’ between the historically ‘non-white’ south and the mostly white and more affluent north. The spatial legacy remains and can be read in the developmental contrast between the north and south of the region. The mining belt is the third space that both antagonistic spaces shared in a certain way, for example as the common economic space of work.

The Witwatersrand territory suffers the bitter environmental consequences of over a century of mining, which has left behind a toxic landscape, polluted both above and below ground. Vast tracts of toxic mining footprints (Mine Residue Areas) scattered across the region bear testimony to the decades of exploitation. A detrimental water problem has been also been created. The empty mine shafts are slowly filling with water that is heavily polluted. This acid water has already overflowed in the Western region, been partially treated but no sustainable, long-term solution has been put in place. Pollution problematics are only worsening. It becomes obvious that the vacant mining landscape of the Witwatersrand is one of the major potential elements to fundamentally reconfigure the metropolitan landscape; to rethink the structure of the city.

One could argue that the heart of the city is vacant; a heart that in the past was a divider, but evidently could be turned into a space of commons. text composed by Wim Wambecq

pictures by Anastasia Angelidou landscapes of the mining

THE MINING BELT AND THE EXTRAORDINARY?

street vendors

habitating the hostel

creating oasis on a dessert land

agricultural activities

life growing on anwelcoming soil

polluted dam as a place to visit

street vendors and leisure activitieis

habitating the hostel

nature

habitating the hostel

motorcross on sand dump

The mining belt in between north and south Johannesburg is characterized by the emptiness of abandoned mining sites, tailing dumps, polluted land and here and there samples of remediation. Their fascinating alien topographies are, as time goes by, claimed by spontaneous forms of life. Informal settlements, homeless, street vendors, urban agriculture and nature are incrementaly, but nevertheless strongly marking their presence while mining activities continue to dominate every other use. Short, the contested mining belt also hosts the extraordinary.

Does it allow for the co-existence of the temporary and informal? Can it become a common ground for different groups?

collage presented in Johannesburg March 2014

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pictures by Anastasia Angelidou mining belt and human interaction - work, mobility, living

social infrastructure in relation with the mining belt investigating extending possibilities and living conditions in it studio exercise: 4 stripes - 8 design teams (mixing with members of soil, water and urban group)

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natural water stream - public space in relation to new housing with increased density and public park

water reservoir - public space inside a new forested area

artificial, temporary mountain for phytoremediation exterior theatre and multipurpose field

wetland after water treatment - natural park - botanic gardens

forest infiltration in the urban space

CLOSING THE MINING ACTIVITY WITH PHYTOREMEDIATION

public park

urban agriculture irrigated with clean water of natural water stream

Krugersdorp

public square

new residences with high density in relation to the train station and the new forest car free path through forest, leading to social infrastructure in the new landscape of the former mining belt skate board park and public space: (extension of Krugeresdorp social infrastructure towards the former mining belt)

open air sculptural water reservoir: in case of high drainage (wet seasons) it offers space to the water and opportunity of infiltration in the new forest

MINE RESIDUE AREAS (MRA) SLIMES DAMS TO BE REPROCESS SAND DUMPS TO BE REPROCESS ROCK DUMPS OPENCAST WORKINGS

PHYTOEXTRACTION 20 years REPROCESSING OF SLIMES DAM AND SAND DUMPS 20 years each dump

PHYTOSTABILIZATION

FILLING IN OPENCAST TEMPORARY MOUNTAIN FOR PHYTOREMEDIATION 20 years/layer

closing the soil cycle strategy soil group:

Fitri Maharani Indra, Le Nam Hoang, Linh Nguyen, Margarita Macera, Marine Declève Nhat Sariful Islam

train station

Ecological corridor along the railway

Nature and Humans symbiosis

afforestation along existing railway Shaping a new valley

artificial mount - temporary mountain for phytoremediation

Natural habitats in between

urban group:

multipurpose field

Anastasia Angelidou, Au Vu Hai Phan, Javier Dario Tamayo, Lucile Ado, Michail Mina, Vidya Spay, Yufei Zang

open air theatre on the temporary mountain

Savannah

Grassland

Woodland

Forest

Woodland

Valey

Floodplain

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CLOSING WATER CYCLE

water group:

wetland system for acid mine drainage water purification and reuse in agriculture

Aurora Dias Lokita, Duc Long Nguyen, Eliana Muñoz, Hao Feng

savana

purified water wetland

botanic gardens

clean water pond natural park

agriculture irrigated with treated water

forest

Wetland System wetlands’ system

Water level on High rainfall season 2.00

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Water level

Water level

Canal surface to next wetland Pipe along the wetland

Pipe underground 10.00

Slope min 0.5% max 2%

Water level

Low permeability subsoil

Drainage system on the bottom 1.50

2. HORIZONTAL WETLAND

3. VERTICAL WETLAND

4. SETTLING POND

AMD 27 Mgls / Day --> 42.9 ha/Pond

2. HORIZONTAL WETLAND Canal surface to next wetland

Water level 0.50

4 Ponds/system > 171,6 ha

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Slope min 0.5% max 2%

Seasonally waterlogged

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stripe n3: Anastasia Angelidou, Eliana Munoz, Margarita Macera

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URBAN PLATFORM

KUL design studio: New Centrality in Brussels North, Vilvoorde, Belgium A design studio project: Brussels North as area of new centrality, Jan 2014, Leuven, Belgium Project Team: Anastasia Angelidou, Vidya Spay Supervisors: Erik Van Daele, Ivan Llach This studio explores the possibility of inserting new centralities or to strengthen existing ones in order to value Flanders as a metropolitan system based on small-scale local qualities. The zone where this atypical metropolis is most evident is the area between Antwerp and Brussels. Within this area lies Vilvoorde, a city that profited from its proximity with Brussels and was an important industrial environment, but that today is characterized by voids and brownfields. These, however, offer the opportunity to respond to a demographic and programmatic pressure, since it is estimated that 80.000 people and various large-scale programmes will have to be located in and around Brussels in the next decades. The studio challenge is to consider how these claims can be spatially organized. Will new centralities be introduced? Can the larger region become one new urban system? What is the implication for the fragile open space structure? What will be the nature of the backbones of this new urbanization? text composed by Erik Van Daele

This project aims to create a transit node which will play the role of a generator in between two towns -Vilvoorde and Machelen, supporting a new program of residential development, where there used to be an industrial, segregated area.

Therefore, it introduces the term of transit oriented development as an answer to the new wave of inhabitants who will be hosted in Brussels North.

The project’s takes advantage of the importance of the railway platform, and transform it to an “Urban Platform” with the

insertion of a new station. Merging the existing Vilvoorde’s train station and the future Machelen’s train station into one in between, the project introduces a new network of flows, open spaces and facilities which will structure the new density. To support the new train station, the project proposes a new tram line, a tram station and a bus station. This project suggests that the new centrality of Brussels North starts with a transit node. ground floor plan cutting the train platform

sports centre

train station public facilities bicycle rent

new residential development with different building typologies for short and long duration habitants

train museum

car park drop off car park bus station

public facilities eg. shops, restaurants, cafeterias, youth centres

bus park

tram station new hospital residential development office park and communal facilities

public facilities related to open space activities

pedestrian flow car flow bus flow tram flow

mixed mobility - flows

URBAN PLATFORM as a reference transit node - program Transit Urban Life

Flows - Road Network URBAN PLATFORM asDiagram a “Backbone” Generating the new Centrality

URBAN PLATFORM as a landscape attraction pole - people flow New Public Space

Vilvoorde

TRAIN MUSEUM New train station New tram station

FACILITIES / PARK STATION

New bus station BUS TERMINAL

FACILITIES / PARK

Machelen

Merging the stations Thickening the railway platform

Connecting the centers - tram route Proposing new flow network

Urbanising the railway infrastructure Proposing an “URBAN PLATFORM”

Proposing a transit node

green public spaces

urban tissue

Ex-Flattening area Proposed Public Green Space in relation to the water

sports centre

train station public facilities bicycle rent

Public Space Structuring the new density new residential development in relation to the New Urban Platform with different building typologies for short and long duration habitants

train museum

car park drop off car park bus station

public facilities eg. shops, restaurants, cafeterias, youth centres

bus park

Existing Public Green Space

tram station new hospital

Natural Green Space Flattening area

residential development office park and communal facilities

public facilities related to open space activities Proposed Public Green Space Urban Platform as Part of the proposed linear Park

URBAN PLATFORM as a “Backbone” Generating the new Centrality

URBAN PLATFORM as a reference TransitNatural UrbanInfrastructure Life as a space structure

URBAN PLATFORM as a landscape New Public Space

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Re-Creation Centre at Ospedale al Mare, Lido di Venezia, Italy

International Idea Competition, Independent Team Project Cultural Building Refurbishment in Lido Island, Venice, Italy, April 2016, Cyprus/Portugal-Belgium-China Project Team: Anastasia Angelidou: architect, urbanist, team leader (Cyprus), Marine Declève: art historian, urbanist (Belgium), Yufei Zhang: architect, urbanist (China) Competition site: The site is located in the eastern side of the Lido Island, bordering the Adriatic Sea. The plot for this Competition is part of the extinct Ospedale al Mare – Hospital by the Sea – built from 1921 onward as innovative healthcare facilities by the Mediterranean. Devoted to the treatment of tuberculosis, the therapeutically philosophy was based on the benefic properties of Sun, Sand and Sea water, but where also the arts have played an important role in the process of returning to full health.

Seaside PlaYards focuses on the exterior space of the site and its relationship with the interior spaces. This space, is imagined as an opportunity to test the ability of design, to reflect on the relationship “Culture and Nature”, which «...form an inseparable unit.” This unique character of the lagoon and its islands is highlighted in the project, aiming the wellbeing of its users, emphasising in the «benefic properties of Sun, Sand and Sea water, but where also the arts. The activities taken place in the Ospedale al Mare complex, were focused on the treatment of the Body as well as the Spirit. The proposed idea, aims to take this symbolic action to its limits and experiment a spatial infrastructure where body and spirit benefit from nature and culture.

location on the beach of Lido island, between the wild forest and the Adriatic sea, makes the scenery more dramatic, a great potential for further innovations in culture, arts, education and healing processes.

The external spaces of the buildings are mostly restored, recovering their original aspects to host the functional program of the re-creation centre while the local fauna of the beach is preserved as an element of the ecosystem but allow the circulation and create a programmatic sequence that extends the interior spaces outdoor. The outdoor programmatic sequence enhances both the benefic properties of sun-sandsalt (sweet, salty and sandy pools, open-air spa) and artistic activities (open-air theatre, sloppy square, performance scenery). Both interweave in the same space to highlight the complementarity of body and mind, wellness and creativity, in the healing process.

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BURANO

MURANO

SANT' ERASMO TREPORTI

CA' SAVIO VENEZIA

INTERVENTION SITE LOCATION

The Seaside PlaYards are potentially the extension of the interior to the outdoor space. They can be described as a domesticated nature, which is not yet fully productive nor truly wild. Nevertheless, they are spiritual spaces, a pleasurable scenery created by man and nature together. Moreover, their

LIDO DI VENEZIA

LIDO DI VENEZIA

WATER PROCESS grey water from Central Building collection - phytoremediation

CENTRALE

grey water from buildings collection - phytoremediation

VINCENZA

natural pool MARINONI

RISPARMIO zen garden cascade

children padle-playground

MARZOTTO

sea water used in salt water pools

A system of water pools is proposed to enhance the body-spirit experience of the envisioned Recreatorio of Lido island. These water pools are part of a general vision which suggests the combination sun-sand-salt as the main caracteristic of this complex devoded to arts and education. The project suggests the creation of salt water and sweet water pools.

Salt water pools shape a complex of therapeutic pools, a public swimming pool and a smaller shallow padle for the children. These, combined with the sun and sand of the site are ideal for adult relaxation and children fun.

Sweet water pools are created by the recycling of the grey water of the buildings Marzotto, Risparmio, Marinoni and Vincenza. The aim is to create a natural swimming pool and a recycling park.

This forms an educative example of recycling and reusing for adults and children.

salt water swimming pool thalassoterapy pools

Adriatic Sea

OPEN AIR ACTIVITIES residence terrace custodian balcony natural swimming pool recycling material and work garden common garden

orchard

grey water collection - phytoremediation yoga garden

performance garden kitchen garden

grey water collection - phytoremediation

children padle sandy playground slopy square

meditation garden

A system of water pools is proposed to enhance the body-spirit experience of the envisioned Recreatorio of Lido island. These water pools are part of a general vision which suggests the combination sunsand-salt as the main characteristic of this complex devoted to arts and education. The project suggests the creation of salt water and sweet water pools. Salt water pools shape a complex of therapeutic pools, a public swimming pool and a smaller shallow padle for the children. These, combined with the sun and sand of the site are ideal for adult relaxation and children fun. Sweet water pools are created by the recycling of the grey water of the buildings Marzotto, Risparmio, Marinoni and Vincenza. The aim is to create a natural swimming pool and a recycling park.

This forms an educative example of recycling and reusing for adults and children.

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salt water swimming pool pool shelters

children sand pool

open air theatre

common garden

spa shelters beach stoping point thalassotherapy

outdoors bar - canteene

CIRCULATION entry point

workshops accommodation

backstage

theatre

administration pine tree thatre square

pine tree garden break points

wooden pear to the sea

bio bar pool terrace

beach services

entry point

bio-bar terrace

As a common and multifunctional space dedicated to art, care and education, the project focuses on gathering different publics together (children coming to play, young creators and handicraftsmen coming to work, elderly people coming for the theatre and the spa). The design allows the interaction between them as one of the main source of knowledge and educative aspect of the society.

The scenery welcomes also the lido community in a productive aspect. The lightness of the infrastructure allow a strong appropriation of the place by the commoners so the space become truly part of the community life. The scenery is also seen as a productive space that gives a new value to underused resources such as rainwater and waste and upcycle them.

KITCHEN STORAGE F.A

BIO BAR SEA-HEALING LIBRARY

grey water is recycled

FOOD PRODUCTION

SCUBA DIVING LIBRARY

fruits and vegetables for residence and Bio-Bar used in communal garden food production

grey water recycling from Central Building

orchard

Beach-related services

Public toilets, Changing rooms, lockers, Infirmacy/first aid station, waiting area

communal garden

Cafeteria/Biobar

Cafeteria, Bar, Lounge, Kitchen, Storage room

Shops

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Sea library, Healing library, Scuba diving

Storage

scale 1:500

Kiosk/Reception

“Centrale” ground floor

New walls Existing walls

treated water used for food production

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CUSTODIAN APARTMENT

STUDENTS DORMITORIES

OFFICES

OFFICES

LIBRARY INTERNET MEETING AREA WI-FI

MEETING ROOM

LOUNGE

LOCAL ASSOCIATION OFFICES

LOUNGE

READING STUDENTS DORMITORIES

LOUNGE

WAITING AREA INFO

TICKET POINT

READING

LAUNDRY

STUDENTS DORMITORIES

Working spaces

“Risparmio” ground floor

Communal spaces

KITCHEN

Ticket point, Waiting room, Information desk, Lounge

Students’ Residency

shared rooms with 4 people capacity (double hight beds)

Communal Spaces

common kitchen, bathrooms, lounge area, laundry room, reading space, library, wi-fi/meeting area

Custodian Appartment New walls Existing walls - primary Existing walls - secondary Wall filling Wall opening

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“Marzotto” ground floor

scale 1:500

New walls Existing walls - primary

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Offices, Local association offices, Reading rooms, Meeting room

scale 1:500

HANDCRAFTS RECYCLING-SCENERY CREATION

Cabin module 3x3 This wooden structure module is proposed as a light structure shelter which can host activities like: bio-bar open air bar and canteene, pool shelters, healing massage room, beach stopping point, working and storage room.

It can be combined in pairs in all directions since the panels are removable.

material collection

artists and artisans working spaces ramp

material recycling theatre scenery

recycling material shelters working spaces

handcrafts

storing materials for reuse after theatre’s scenery demolition or from other uses

recycling material shelters - working spaces

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SCENERIES WORKSHOP STORAGE SECURITY FROM STAGE THEATRE

ARTISTS WAITING ARTISTS ROOM WAITING ROOM

BACKSTAGE

DRESSING ROOMS

DRESSING ROOMS

WORDROBE

BREAK ROOM

ADMIN OFFICE

MEETING ROOM

ARTWORK SPACES TEMP EXIBITION

SCENERIES STORAGE

REST AREA

ENTRANCE HALL THEATRE COMPANY MEETING ROOM ELEVATOR HEAVY LOADS

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Theatre Wall filling Wall opening

scale 1:500

scale 1:500

“Teatro Marinoni” ground floor

KITCHENET

Theatre backstage

Sceneries workshop storage, Dressing rooms, Break room, Administration office, Meeting room, Wardrobe, Artwork space, Rest area

Artists and artisans working space Wall opening New walls Existing walls

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SECTION ACCESSED FROM GARDEN LEVEL Diagrams of the parking units - levels of access

ACCESSED FROM GSP LEVEL

Greetings to your family!

I am really tired today :/

I'm going for a drink are you coming?

YEAR 1

I prefer the coffee of mr. Giorgos

Nice to see you here again

the espresso indeed

MONTH 1

I prefer this car park tower!

it’s cool here!

Me too! :)

WEEK 3

How are you today?

Have a nice day!

Hi

WEEK ONE

Nice to see you here again Hello

DAY TWO

Hi

Goodmorning Hi

DAY ONE

110" SOCIABILITY GARDEN LEVEL UNITS

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110 SECONDS SOCIABILITY Total Car No: 1500

GSP 2 Car No: 114

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International Competition, AA&U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism Car No: 162

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International Architectural Competition, Sep 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus Project Team: Socrates Stratis, Dr. architect, urbanist Collaborators: Riccardo Urbano, architect Assistants: Anastasia Angelidou, architect, Rui Santos, architect, Stavri Giannakou, architect, Savvas Anastasiou, architectural student, Filippo Gurrieri, architectural student The aim of this proposal has a double take. Firstly, it is to create frameworks for sociability in public space for the 1500 cars’ motorists of the underground garage. In other words, to turn a rather passive practice of parking one’s car within a massive underground parking, into an active practice of sociability on the grounds of the public space. The second take refers to the notion of reversibility. It is proposed that the proposal contains possible afterlives. This challenge becomes pertinent regarding the fact that a current policy about private cars in the city could be challenged in the next 10 or 20 years.

Consequently, a former decision about concentrating 1500 cars at one spot, useful for current planning priorities, could become gradually obsolete. Containing possible afterlives could decrease investment risk. Both of the objectives want to enrich the debate around sustainability.

GSP LEVEL _ View from running track facing southwest.

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GARDEN LEVEL _ View from gate’s clusters.

For this aim a major decision has been taken. To keep the parking users on the public space grounds by organizing the parking garage around 12 automatic parking units grouped in six blocks. Half of them are accessed from the “GSP” level (street) and the rest from the “Garden” level, (-6.00m). The latter is created by a big gesture at the south edge of the site by pushing the ground of the city to a lower level. The “Garden Level” is connected to the street level by a terraced garden and large inclined planes, supported by public program, vegetation and natural light.

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It is crucial to emphasize the gains regarding the reversibility issue by inserting the 12 units of automatic car park in six “cages”. Within these “cages” the metal automatic-parking industrial system is inserted. When and if the current priority of car park density is altered in the future, the metal structures could be dismantled and rebuilt, for example at Park & Ride points around the city periphery. Consequently, some of the cages would be gradually emptied and could house public uses because of their very flexible container like size and independent accesses from the former car elevator points.

The rest of the program is organized around “Gates”, through which the users could pass in order to enter into the square, (image 8). The old-clock is located next to one of them, maintaining its former role. The edge of the square along Evagorou avenue acts as a registry for programmatic activities which then are directed towards “GSP”, “Garden” and “hiphop” levels, (located between the car-park “cages”).

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PASSING-THROUGH GATES The rest of the program is organized around “Gates”, through which the users could pass in order to enter into the square, (image 8). The old-clock is located next to one of them, maintaining its former role. The edge of the square along Evagorou avenue acts as a registry for programmatic activities which then are directed towards “GSP”, “Garden” and “hiphop” levels, (located between the car-park “cages”).

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GARDEN LEVEL _ View from gate’s clusters.

GSP LEVEL _ View from running track facing southwest.

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THE U-A-W? Mobile Exhibition, The “Urban A-Where?” Project Work Experience at AA&U for Architecture, Arts and Urbanism

The “U-A-W?” Project Jul-Oct 2012 Nicosia, Cyprus Curator: Socrates Stratis, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, Dr.architect, Ubanist Assistant Curators: Dedier Rebois, Professor of architecture, Ecole d’Architecture Supérieure de la Villette, Paris, France, Maria Panayides, architect, art exhibition organiser, Athens, Greece Organization: Socrates Stratis, Maria Panayides (m. p. artproductions) Hosts: University of Cyprus, Municipality of Aglantzia, Municipality of Nicosia, Municipality of Larnaca, Schools’ Administration of Nicosia, AA & U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism Sponsors: Ministry of Education and Culture for the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union, University of Cyprus.

The aim of the “Urban-A-Where?” Project (the “U-A-W?” project), is to bring to the surface in a creative and critical manner the processes of making of the urban and the need for public engagement of all sorts. The “Urban-A-Where?” project wants to contribute into the construction of an active urban society, emphasizing the increasing importance of urban environments all over the world. “Get playfully public engaged” is a method that allows to teams of architects, artists and urbanists from Cyprus and other European countries, to assist and criticize everyday processes of making of the urban in Cypriot and other European cities.

The “U-A-W?” project is concentrating on the notion of chrono-urbanism that is the study of diverse urban rhythms that generate the richness of urban environments, allowing possibilities of coexistence of any sort. Quite often such rhythms are channeled, isolated or juxtaposed indifferently, diminish-

ing any possibilities of interaction or coexistence that could increase the qualities of the urban environment.

The major problematic of the “U-A-W?” project is how to increase sharing between people in the city by encouraging new processes for multi-rhythm urban environments.

Such processes for multi-rhythm urban environments are studied through three themes coupling with their “U-A-W?” activities. The themes, on one hand, operate as “umbrellas” for knowledge archiving practice and on the other hand the “U-A-W?” activities are events that will take place during the project. They will operate as agents to make public problematics around the three themes. The archive has been enriched already by a workshop taken place at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, during July 2012. Some activities have been designed, or implemented too, by the same workshop.

pictures of Mobile Exhibition Route from UCY to “Caseteliotissa Exhibitional Space” by students assisting the project

The Urban-A-Where mobile exhibition structure: - 3 tricycles - 3 three dimensional banners made of 10mm white cardboard each 3D banner opens up in a telescopic manner creating a linear thematic exhibition surface.

The first part of the 3D banner addresses the city scale where the other two operate in proximity scale.

The first part is laser printed where the other two are spray painted with stencils creating frames for the exhibition material to be gradually posted during the “U-A-W?” activities.

pictures of Mobile Exhibition at “Caseteliotissa Exhibitional Space” and at the UCY

The “U-A-W?” Mobile Exhibition Authors: AA & U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism: Socrates Stratis, assistant: Anastasia Angelidou The aim regarding the “U-A-W?” exhibition was to create dynamic interrelations between its form and its content. The exhibition had both physical and virtual presence. In fact, both presences were crucial to retain together temporal communities both virtual and in the physical space of the city. Its physical one was manifested both by its stationed and mobile parts and its virtual by the website www.urban-a-where.com.

Both the form of the exhibition and that of the web site had an open character, a sort of a frame on which the output of the activities that took place during 8 weeks, was being posted.

The driving force of the “U-A-W?” project was indeed, the support kind of structure that was formed for the activities themselves (Condorelli 2009). The mobile exhibition was stationed in two places; that of a historic Arsenale and that of the ground floor of the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, both located in the historic centre of Nicosia.

The tricycles with the 3D banners were addressing the urban scale of the exhibition, making public all the activities by being continuously on the move. A sort of ritual was generated while assisting the various project’s activities. The tricycles and the 3D banners were creating their background, animating the space, disturbing the flows in the streets, carrying tools for the events, etc.

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REFURBISHMENT OF A LISTED BUILDING, NICOSIA Work Experience at AA&U for Architecture, Arts and Urbanism The Architecture of Extra Small Living and Working, Jul 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus Project Team: Socrates Stratis Assistants: Anastasia Angelidou, model: Filippo Gurrieri The project is about the reuse of a small linear listed building of the early 20th century, into a working living unit. The program addresses the increasing demand of young couples who want to live and work in the old Nicosia city centre. The actual building is situated in a narrow slot between two higher apartment buildings. It is part of a subdivided one floor building that used to be a shop and storage. It is made of adobe bearing walls with a wooden roof covered with ceramic tiles.

The design concept is about the vertical extension of the existing linear space onto a new volume inserted at the back of the site. Both the extension and renovation are based on extra small architectural elements that facilitate the creation of a flexible space which could be shared between working and living. The copper cladding of the new volume emphasizes the contrast between the existing and the new parts of the architecture. The form of the volume allows views from the upper floor onto the tiled roof of the actual building and onto a hanging garden proposed for the wall of the adjacent apartment building. text composed by Socrates Stratis

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ENVIRONMENTAL and EDUCATION CENTRE in Alikes area, Cyprus

National Competition, AA&U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism National Competition, Awarded with Honourable Mention, Sep 2008, Nicosia, Cyprus Project Team: Socrates Stratis, Dr. Architect, Urbanist, Aggela Petrou, Architect, Riccardo Urbano, Architect.

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Allowing the trail to go through the building gives an organizing role to the biotope itself through the existing old trees which determine the route and give special character to the courtyard. The Environmental Centre is organized around the courtyard with the foyer entry and the main circulation to be situated along the northwestern side with a continuous great view to the salt lake of Aliki. The courtyard works as an expansion tank for the indoor activities. In this manner it achieves two things. Firstly, the visitors’ activities are contained into

The proposal expands the notion of exhibit into three categories beyond what mentioned in the brief: 1. Exhibiting fragments of the view through selected openings at various wall heights, 2. Exhibiting the ecological function of the building: energy production (through solar panels) and energy consumption, water collection etc.

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A biotope visitor gets into a sort of an “incognito” condition when entering into a biotope: his presence should not be detected by the biotope inhabitants. He should not leave “footprints” into the everyday life of the biotope ecosystems.

Creating an environmental centre in a biotope contains such a paradox: on one hand, the centre should attract visitors for promoting the biotopes assets and on the other hand such attraction endangers the biotope equilibrium. The proposal is formulated around the paradoxical condition of “incognito” by turning the building into a mechanism of observation with introverted and extroverted characteristics. It is organized as part of proposed natural trails (loops) of the biotope. The building becomes in fact, a node to those trails that transverse it, becoming a special event along them. A ramp invites the visitor into the “guts” of the building, an open ended courtyard, that one can follow either into the Environmental Centre or out to the rest of the trails. Transversing the building is possible even if the Center is closed. Its roof can serve as elevated observation area.

the courtyard, thus discouraging them from spreading into the biotope and destroying the nearby orchid field. Secondly, it gives the possibility to a very small building to house larger scale activities (the lecture room can become double during spring period, or the exhibition space can extend with periodic activities). The “incognito” conditions are emphasized by the skin of the building. A sort of a camouflage coat is layered over the building, made of metal panels with cut outs of flora and fona (leaves, plants, birds).

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EXISTING BUILDINGS’ REHABILITATION LONG STAY - PRIVATE HOUSING ie. YOUNG COUPLES WITH CHILDREN

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Diploma thesis, May 2011, University of Cyprus Project Team: Anastasia Angelidou Supervisors: Socrates Stratis, Associate Professor, UCY, Dr.architect, urbanist, Christos Hadjichristos, Associate Professor Head, UCY, Dr.architect, Aristides Antonas, Visitting Assistant Professor ( Fall 2008) UCY

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This diploma thesis deals with the rethinking of the city as a mobility receiver. It proposes adapting mechanisms for the existing to accommodate the new. It introduces the concept of the “case” instead of that of the “use” to work on a multible urban level. The “cases” snap on different types of urban elements. They intent to generate, within such urban elements, spaces where there is creative friction between diversified uses, spaces accessible to the public flows, mediation spaces that filter the public - private relationship and living spaces for extra short, short and long inhabiting.

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The project suggests a case network on the existing street that accepts the temporary as part of the urban environment and opens up the potential for transaction with the permanent. A frame which allows the possibility of diversities coexistence. A case network that receives friction situations transforming them into productive micro climates of odds, exchanges and experience.

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UCY Architectural Design VIII, the ditch as an important public space of Nicosia Urban Infrastructure comprising Residential and Public spaces, May 2009, University of Cyprus Project Team: Anastasia Angelidou Supervisors: Nadia Charalambous, Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus, Marios Economides, Adjunct Faculty, Architect Study area: The study area is located in between the walled city of Nicosia and the city around it, including three bastions on the south-west part of the venetian walls. The program required was accommodation for ephemeral users as well as public uses and free open spaces.

The aim of this proposal is to invite people to use this part of the city in their everyday activities and challenge different cultures to mix and interact with each other. Also, it proposes EXISTING SITUATION: WALLED CITY - DITCH AS A BARRIER BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW PART OF THE CITY

EXISTING SITUATION ditch as a buffer between the walled city and the extension outside the walls

that the so far, divisional space of the ditch all around the walls becomes a pole of attraction and an important public space for Nicosia with public and private program activating the open spaces.

Description: The proposal welcomes the ephemeral users by providing them with a sleep unit that they can use according to their needs, which can be actually used for camping in several places of the ditch for a short period or they can plug it into a sort of a threshold of facilities allowing the possibility of a longer staying period. At the same time, a platform attached to the road outside the walls is proposed having the role of a receptor of the pedestrian mobility and of a connector of the two sites, guiding the public flows into the lower level of the ditch. This platform is the architectural element that unfolds into smaller infrastructures that support the accommodation as well as the visitors’ activities in the area. Finally, the several uses of the project are empowered by other elements such as light metal structures allowing plantation to climb providing shadow in strategic spots of the proposal.

PROPOSED SCENARIO: DITCH AS INTERMEDIATE SPACE CONNECTOR OF THE OLD AND NEW PART OF THE CITY

PROPOSED SCENARIO ditch as a link, an important public space for both parts of the city

PROPOSED SPATIAL IDEA: PEDESTRIAN PLATFORM TANGENTIAL TO THE ROAD ALL AROUND THE WALLS, EXTENDING IN THE DITCH, PROVIDING URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES -ACCESSES, PUBLIC SPACES, VIEW POINTS, SITTING AREAS ETC.

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UCY Architectural Design VI, building interaction as a reference of technology “Research of Constructions and Technology Platform Centre, Cyprus”, May 2008, University of Cyprus Project Team: Anastasia Angelidou, Christos Pasadakis Supervisors: Marios C. Phocas, Associate Professor, University of Cyprus, Aimilios Michael, Lecturer, University of Cyprus Study area: The study area is a current central parking plot in the most busy commercial area of Nicosia, Cyprus. It is located at the outside part of the walls, adjacent to two important sites under development in the city, which are: the main square designed by Zaha Hadid and the mixed use tower designed by Jean Nouvel.

The aim of the project is to create a reference point in Nicosia that reflects its function as a technology centre and at the same time forms a secondary public space where people

can visit, get informed about technology and interact with it through the contact with the building itself.

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