P A P A D A N T O N A K I S
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designed and published in January 2012
the current issue contains personal and teamwork material samples produced with the use of several media. all work is accomplished during the period 2007-2011
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Diploma project
Thesis essay
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academic NTUA 2011 collaborator : m. markaki supervisors:t.papaioannou / p.tournikiotis participation in “Architecture and the city in SE Europe”
defining the urban void with 3 actions
STAGE _ ARCADE _ COURT diploma project
2011
Starting from the large scale and gradually approaching smaller scales, the current diploma project is structured as a broader reading of the city, leading to the production of a more specific architectural vocabulary.
the whole
Guide to this search is the
urban void.
An urban stripe including three different regions (Psirri – Metaxourgeio – Plato’s Academy) is selected as research area. The urban voids contained, are analyzed and categorised. The inner capacity of the cityscape, characterised by fullines in all dimensions, is refigured.Three voids, one in each the part
region, are selected, and a different function is placed in each one according to the specific character of the regions. In Psyrri, an urban void next to a central square (Koumoundourou square) is selected. A “stage ” is placed
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there, an aggregate of theatrical functions turned to the public space and reverse. The void is transformed to public space, a crossroad of urban flows. In Metaxourgeio, a transversal void combined with an
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inactive building shell is selected. An “arcade ” is the object to be placed there and the void is transformed to a space of movement and coexistence of diversities. The third point is a void in Plato’s Academy (a region with
urban voids
the character of a neighborhood), in the centre of a building square. A “court ”, a space of gathering, basically referring to the inhabitants of the building square is designed there.
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Three gestures-actions are committed in the urban tissue; each one of them with its scale and its function tries to redefine the urban void and to reinsert “the flux” of the city in it.
gestures
guideline to the project procedure
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distinction
of the city stripe
lef t over spac es
vo id s pac e s i nsi de bu ild ing squ ar es
ur b an t i ssu e - l ar ge voi d sp ac es
14 bui ldi ng squarei ndependent bui ldi ng
compact bui ldi ng square wi thout voi d space
bui ldi ng square wi th fragnented voi d i nsi de
bui ldi ng square wi th a structured voi d i nsi de
bui ldi ng square wi th a dead end road
bui ldi ng square wi th perforated urban fronts
bui ldi ng square pi erced by a large voi d passage
bui ldi ng square barely structured [large voi d]
bui ldi ng square wi thout fronts
ur ban squar es’ t ypology
AREA OF STUDY A part of the urban web, a strip with a six- building-squares width and 3 kilometers length is defined as the area of study, based on concerns around the “built” and the “un-built”. The strip is not isolated as a sample, yet used as an example. It is recognised as a section of diversities inside the urban
selection of the 3 urban squares - i n te rvent i on point s
tissue, defined by geographical, urban and social borders. As a part of the city, the area of study, contains the complexity of its structures and social relations, all these that characterise contemporary Athens; an urban environment based on the assemblage of entities. Basic principles for choosing the area of study are the connection with the Athenian city centre, the gathering of different aspects of the built environment and the interweaving of different social conditions.
VOID . City space exists beyond the built, in the vital space of the urban void, inside the “unbuilt”. In a city - a system of “built” and “un-built”- void is defined and exists beside the built elements and vice versa. Urban space is a void, both structured and structuring void; it has dimensions and character; it cannot be just leftover between haphazard building operations. So, un-built space is not simply a vacant space; it exists as an urban entity. The urban void space-where “built” is absent and emptiness seems to dominate- is never empty of meaning. Trying to accomplish an inversion between “built” and “un-built”, the presence of void space in the city [-Athens] is revealed. Still, the void seems energetic in a city mainly characterised by plurality in mass. By this inversion
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process, emphasis is given on the relation and the dialog between two complementary entities, both of them structuring the totality of urban space. As the gap can possibly receive anything, the void city spaces are places of otherness and indeterminacy, spaces with endless possibilities, where everything is feasible.
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IMPLANTS / 3 SPOTS
3 different gaps have been located. In order to approximate these places of void, they are analyzed in relation to the urban space that surrounds them. The urban and social web around the gaps, create principles which can be obtained and extended action reveals the “true identity” of each gap. Trying to manage those places, without deleting the emptiness with built mass, we seek for three implants. In each one of the three different points it is placed a “chip”; an entity relevant to the texture and character of each one that gives meaning to the empty space, introducing new uses and functions. Each architectural gesture aims to import urban flows into the void space and create areas of coexistence and diversity in it.
+ Along the strip [-area of study] there are placed three items: a stage/ an arcade/ a court and analysis finally leads to the urban point-spot . Three different spots, each one placed in one of the three different areas that constitute the selected urban strip. Transition from the large scale to the architectural scale is accomplished.
implantation process
inside void / ak. platwnos - residential area
inside the vacant space. This first
open void / koumoundourou sq. - central area
penetrating void / metaxourgeio - transition area
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inversion model- the strip is repersented by its extruded voids.
a Stage: The place where a theatrical
“A stone wall closing the c
act is performed, part of a theatrical
fixed spaces, the glass
play / part of the urban scenery / the
panels
place of an incident, where an event
stands lighter as an inter-
is committed in the city environment.
mediate linking entity be-
Stage in the city / space / place/ scene
tween open and enclosed
/ incident which involves the city view
spaces, in counter with
with the participation in an ongoing
the polygonal mesh of the
event. The space formation itself is
paved area; all of them
structured as a whirl of flows, together
compose the courtyard.
with theatrical functions in variable
A heavy body and next to
(-χαγιάτι)
that
it a lighter structure and
levels.
that’s all” A.K.
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Common: The
arcade, as a
void penetrates the mass of the building square, importing movement into it. Reverse: the arcade as an object penetrates
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urban
void
importing urban flows through mass into the void. The architectural object is the outcome of that design gesture of reversal, together with actions of void penetration.
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TAGE Functions are both generators of flows and “chips� which reinforce vacant spaces with meaning. Space formation supports two basic theatrical spaces, an open air theatre [placed on the folded city level, in direct contact with it] and an elevated amphitheatre [structured as a belvedere to the city as well as a frame to it]
VIEW FROM KOUMOUNDOUROU SQUARE
SECTION AA’
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
ARCADE
The arcade is a group of inbetween spaces, functions that involve both the “built” and “un-built”. All the borders between the urban space and the void inside the urban building square are disputed with a single gesture, a clear route with commercial functions at both sides. All
objects
linear An used
used
are
constructed. inert as
building well,
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treated
as a formed built sac.
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COURT
Elements contemporary translated bring back the classic Athenian court in a
SECTION AA’
transformed version. A rectangle forms the un-built space; it is downgraded and with the use of grid emphasised. All other objects are imported at the top of it, providing functions for the neighborhood. The court is constructed
SECTION BB’
in the heart of the urban square.
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un zoom To think about the identity of a city is to think about the collection of sites and spaces that together signify this city. The identity of a city lies in its struggle to administer its everyday activities. It is the very mowhole is overruled by urban flows and movement, that immediate identities are born. City can be understood as an organism which is increasingly constructed around flows: flows of people, flows of images, sounds and symbols. So, urban quality is an ever-changing dynamism, based on flows in the urban voids. The void can be, on the one hand, considered as introverted desolation, an existential and sociological appearance of loss. On the other hand, the concept of void can also be interpreted positively: vacant primarily means empty, but also free and therefore full of meaning.
back to the large scale This diploma project after passing through a variety of scales turns back to the large urban scale coming up with a small manifesto as conclusion; an introduction the complexity of the city’s tissue as an ensemble of smaller actions. Each one of these actions affects the urban tissue in its scale and by its function. The point interventions proposed, dealing with urban void, affect both the built and the un-built entities of the urban environment. Urban organism is conceived as an assemblage of events and not as a single entity.
residual region void . total area: 679m2
ment in which the institutionalized
central region void . total area: 2478m2
transition region void . total area: 990m2
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CITY IN THE CITY
1 theory, 2 (urban) realities
thesis project 2011 academic NTUA 2011 supervisor: p.tournikiotis
The speculations of the current essay are built on the beauty of reality “as it is�. The daily,in this case the urban environment of Athens, becomes the source of consideration, in a time period when a huge amount of reformation proposals, for the Greek capital, come to front, signaling the desired transition to something new, together with the denial of the current. The whole essay is based on an orthological way of reading a city, which is structured as an assemblage of entities.
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The analysis of the theoretical Berlin of 1977 follows the transfer of the model to an adversative environment. The “city in the city” model, is formed as a metaphor in the controversial or “condemned” reality of contemporary Athens. Athens city serves as a postlude in a research for the “bordered” urbanity. The transfer is accomplished, through the use of analogy, as a voyage with basic principle the urban reality.
3d model of West Berlin, as described in the project “Die Stadt in der Stadt”
PROCESS MANUAL A city which has passed through several realities is chosen as the consideration base and analysed at the very moment its transforming process is enforced to stop. From 1961, Berlin-this is the city analysed- experiences a bordered reality and its fragmented structure fulfills all the formal, urban characteristics of an upcoming city model, the “metapolis”. Berlin which has been developed as fragmented, could be seen as a green archipelago. The analysis process is based on the urban laboratory of Oswald Mathias Ungers “city in the city” (Stadt in der Stadt), which is structured on Berlin’s established urbanity. A new city model is generated, from which every confrontation based on cohesion and unity is discarded. Small urban entities are developed constructing an urban swarm of characteristics, a fragmented field of heterogeneity.
thesis CONTENTS 00 INTRODUCTION 01 THE BOARD GAME [brief biography of OMU]
02 MORE THAN A THEORY ELEVEN THESES FIRST
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SECOND SUM FINAL HARVEST EXTENSIONS
03 correspondence 04 another proposal for athens a. ATHENS AS IT IS b. URBAN ISLANDS IN ATHENS - Αι Αθήναι c.THE GREY ARHIPELAGOS
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THE REAL START?
the model of Berlin is constructed, Athens is watching...
(a short coloured story) bibliography
academic projects
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academic design studio 9 NTUA 2009 collaborators : g.pasisis / g.papoulias supervisor:s. stavridis
mind the gap between volumes
FOLDING THE PUBLIC LEVEL
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A large scale intervention, emphasising on social housing and the interaction of it with public space uses, is the objective.
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aim is to penetrate the site of intervention with new uses, in order to create a core of social interactivity. The area, characterised by large industrial voids is placed 3 km from the centre of Athens city, besides one of the most major road axis, Piraeus Avenue.Situated near a huge intersection, the urban structure of the site is characterised by low density and discontinuity in the spread of the urban mass
plan of the intervention area
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The fundamental design concept is the relation with the site both in means of form and use. Two principal gestures take place. four new dwelling blocks. The second design phase takes place as a research in order to bridge the barrier between the blocks. a way of connectivity. Urban flows are imported.
collage view from peiraeus av.
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The urban axes from the existing dwelling blocks are extended inside the area of intervention and parallel to them are designed The ground level of the city is folded and under it, all the public uses are placed. The upper level of the folded plane operates in
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digital documentation in design and construction academic NTUA 2010 collaborator: k. vavaliou supervisor: d. papalexopoulos / a. stavridou
reForming an ARCADE
The purpose of the project is the creation of a parametric architectural object capable of operating as a linear route. A single tube is the initial prism. The tube should be transformed depending on selected characteristics of the urban environment. The whole construction is based on the repetition of frames. The distance between the frames is changeable, so the transverse movement, through the tube could be attained.
Designing the two different cases
Importing surroundings’ position In the case of the three parts, the shortest part
Control points of
between AB and AD gives the distance of the first
the main polyline
control point from the start. The maximum between AC and AD gives the distance of the second
The probable side curvature of the tube is examined, so that a control
control point from the start. The (0,0,0) as reference point, is also the coordinate of the middle control point on the axis.
condition of the panel distribution alongside the main polyline could be
In the case of the 5 points, the shortest between
found. As described in the diagram
AB and AD gives the distance of the first control
if AC<AD or AE<AB then the main
point from the start, and the largest gives the dis-
polyline should be constituted by
tance of the third control point from the start. The
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shortest between AC and AE gives the distance of the second control point, and the largest between those two gives the distance of the forth control point.
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Firstly, the two sides of the tube are built up, starting from the two initiate curves, so it could be transformed and bend, according to the surroundings of the urban environment. From the section of those surfaces with the frames that have already been arranged, vertical rectangular traces are left. Those rectangles are used as outlines for the final frames. The dimensions of the final object [cross sections, frame distance, tube length, etc.] are, also, changeable.
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academic design studio 7-8 NTUA 2008-09 collaborator : m. markaki / k. xatzinakis supervisors: k.mwraitis / n.marda
public service multiple function building
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The level of the urban flows is considered as the basic entity. Movement to the building and though it is the initiate idea used to develop an architectural synthesis where public and private are divided by an action of folding, which operates the movement from the open space [Alexandras avenue and Pedion tou Areos Park] to the inside of the urban organism [Exarcheia].
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model
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initial folding models
The objective is an architectural and constructive study of a public building of 3.000m2 for the Greek Architectural Association. The site is placed in the centre of Athens, in an area of transition, as it is on the border of Alexandras avenue and next to the urban region of
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Exacheia. The functional program includes work spaces [offices, laboratories, meeting rooms] as well as spaces open to the public [exhibition space, amphitheatre, library, restaurant]. All office uses, as well as the library are placed in two separate building blocks. Both of them are lifted from the ground level, which is folded
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atre]. The lofted concrete ground provides a certain movement continuity which leads to the commercial uses beneath it. The whole intervention is a composite construction, of both metallic and concrete parts. Specifically the bearing structure is metallic and the sleeve of both the folded
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ground and the volumes is a thin concrete layer. In respect of the construction part, a research on metallic constructions, combined with concrete elements is conducted, reaching a detail of 1.20 constructive scale.
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academic design studio 8A NTUA 2009 collaborator : g.pasisis supervisors: a.kourkoulas public space in urban and natural sites
SITE - GRID superimposition
λύκη + βαίνω = Λυκαβηττός “Thousand nights from the side of Lyvabettus, which overlooks Acropolis, I saw beyond the contemporary city, which led its lights to the desolate hill and its stone guard, the Parthenon, to dominate it in order to lead it, as seen from Piraeus, to the sea.” Le Corbusier , “Texts for Greece” 1997 SITE At the top of Lycabettus hill the ground is excavated and the parking placed there deleted. The erasure of mass is at the same time an emergence of the site, once a quarry. Through the redesign and the excavation the vision of the city rises up. The site of Lycabettus , although resists definition – a physical entity that forms the Athenian cityscape- requests a signifier. The whole place highly connected with the concepts of light and view is used as 54
a platform, a belvedere turned to the city. ZENETOS The metallic theatre designed by Takis Zenetos is already placed there. The structure of the theatre triggers the design approach to be connected with it. So, design is based on significant theories of Zenetos, and the basic tool used is the grid. A metallic grid that could easily start to spread towards the city, as once Zenetos dreamt of (Electronic Urbanism). A connection with the city is the very considerable idea that we tried to come up with, both optical and axial. SUPERIMPOSITION A grid system is superimposed on the existing landscape. The grid which can either appear in the form of metallic beams, lighting columns or spots for trees, arranges the cultural activities connected with the theatre. Two different systems are mixed up, a highly orthological one, with an indeterminate. Natural landscape is not used simply as a background, but as a design element.
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The metallic grid is materialized as superimposed on the morphology of the hill and the already existent metallic theatre.
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ARCH medium ideas competition Aurora Borealis Arctic Observatory collaborators : p.alevizou / n.gravani /d.shammas
Χ|Υ
TO W E R S
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INTERVENTION
AREA
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SYNTHESIS PROCESS
The project is conceived as a duality, where two sepa-
The footpath leads to an outdoor space which
rate longitudinal prisms [towers] are placed in con-
serves as a connector between the two towers
frontation; one vertical and one horizontal. These two
while locating their main entrances.
gestures intend to enhance the visitor’s experience by
The tube, kept camouflaged and close to the
combining the primordial connection to the Rovani-
ground, encapsulates the spherical planetarium
emi landscape with a metaphysical, upward view of
while containing the accommodation area and the
the Lapland sky.
Finnish sauna. The adjacent, slanted wall provides
The horizontal tower [tube] shielded by a wooden
a semi-private outdoor space for the sauna pool
skin is fused into the natural environment, while the
and outdoor facilities.
vertical observation tower emerges over the hill-
The upright tower - apart from the inbuilt restau-
crest, piercing the pine forest with its distinguished
rant - exists as a skeletal synthesis of vacant space
concrete materiality. The building’s placement
and staircases; a gradient, vertical ‘room’ both
provides a panoramic view of both mountain and
interior and exterior that rises towards the obser-
city, while a sufficient amount of distance from the
vatory point. Observation is not conceived as a
access point allows the walker to come in contact
static experience but rather as a climactic ascen-
with nature.
sion through a concrete shell - overt only towards
The pedestrian road leading to the building is carved
the north - gradually proceeding to the top where
in relevance to a cartesian 100m grid that has been
boundless view is unveiled. There, above ground,
superimposed on the natural slope. The outcome
the observatory point turns to flotation. It exists
is an elaborate mixture of orthology and organic
under the Northern Lights spectacle yet hovers
vagueness— a set of possible routes which depend
over the pine forest. The visitor situated both
on the walker’s preferences towards comfort and
under and above view level becomes part of the
distance.
view himself.
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competition “Space for the Rehabilitating” SOCIO Design foundation February 2012
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The project started at TU Berlin at the course “Model in Wirklichkeit” for the 6th Berlin Bliennale of Art, in collaboration with D. Tegkelidis and A. Chortogiannis.
reassembling dOmestic equipmeNt living ON the vertical plane
Deleting an urban entity leads to leftovers, which are transformed into margins, through time. Rehabilitation/reuse is an action of penetrating with life a kind of space which is characterised as latent potential. Such spaces are the vertical vacant facades of buildings next to urban voids. ANALYSIS [private module analysis] Studying both inner and outer realms is essential when rethinking the distinction from each other. The non-physical, inner private space of the mind is highly dependent to the body to gasp the physical outer space of the world. Personal distance, a term originally used by Heidegger, is a small protective bubble that an organism maintains between itself and others. The body is the medium between private sphere and the public one. So, the body boundaries can be considered as boundaries of privacy. DISMANTLING As individuality is reduced to body boundaries space considered as private loses the totality of its identity. In addition, private space is analysed in its objects and then dismantled. Space is not viewed in layers, spheres or any other form which depends on its constitution and unity, but as a swarm of objects. Space exists through its objects and private space exists in pieces, each one of them characterised by a different privacy level. Space is determined as private by its use. Necessity of the objects that construct the private realm is refigured and objects are chosen, from a huge variety, in the society of consumption. REASSEMBLING A leftover, a blank vertical planar space is used as a canvas where all objects of privacy are arranged on. A vertical archive of necessity is created, objects that maybe be needed or not for living in urban dimension. The collection reactivates the vacant faรงade, as well as the void besides it, and is figured as a composition of infrastructure. The user has to climb, to feel verticality by living on the z axis of contemporary cityscape, in contradiction to the autonomous vertically repeated levels of built space. Social interaction is born and takes place in the public sphere. Space of rehabilitation becomes a territory where individuals perform social acts using their individuality.
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S PACE
MANI F E S TO
Architecture in this case is not implemented as a design method of initial creation. Architecture of dismantling is a composition of abstracts, an assemblage familiar with the complexity of the city space. All kinds of space from the ideal pure private to the equally ideal public are understood as systems of complexity and not as autonomous environments. Design does not apply to a built object, but a collection-swarm of everyday life abstracts. Space turns into infrastructure, because infrastructure is the contemporary face of cities. Everything is organised around movement and spectacle. Living turns to become an ephemeral condition and citizens transformed to refugees of the world [Giorgio Agamben-“We Refugees” Symposium 1995] Homes are scattered all around the world, certain boundaries do not exist and global market redefines locality. Places of living are transformed into web forms of movement. Rehabilitating a space is considered a plug-in of the personal space on an unused “urban platform”.
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2-days workshop NTUA 2010 collaborators : p.alevizou m.markaki
prototype dwelling unit
FIRST aid spACE
“….As part of the overall plan for the implementation of the embargo against Gaza, Israeli officials confirmed to the economic diplomats of the U.S. embassy, that they intend to maintain the economy of Gaza to this situation of collapse. How68
ever, the bloody Israeli attack on the Turkish ship with humanitarian aid for Gaza Strip destroyed food supplies, medicines for those who need it and fuel for institutions. There is no thinking in letting the residents of Gaza to live normal lives.” ……Gaza remains an isolated place and the transfer of any assistance is almost impossible.
1.plan 2.side view 3.perspective 4.perspective dismantled 5.packing
The First Aid Space, is the smallest unit of space, in the form of a package. The basic unit [2,20 x2, 20m]can be used autonomously or in combination of more units, for temporary accommodations and for other purposes [treatment, storage]. The logic of construction aimed at a quick and easy transport and setup for the users, securing the minimum living space, which fulfills the basic requirements of sanitation, waterproofing and safety. Insofar conditions permit it, in the belligerent Gaza Strip.
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abstracts
pieces of Art
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conceptual arcade model collaborator: m.markaki
samples hand drawings and sketches
academic “Kunst in Stadtraum” [Art in public space] TU Berlin 2010 collaborators: A.Chortogiannis, D.Tegkelidis, F.Simionato supervisor: S.Bürkle
installation in the public space - A
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An installation of a real-model structure of a Google A [the symbol of pointing the desired place in Google earth and Google maps] at Ernst Reuter Platz [square] in Berlin. The concept is based on the transition between electronic and media world to the “real” one. A mix of two realities is achieved using a recognisable enough symbol, placed at a significant place. The objective was the creation of a third dimension, a bridge of communication of the two worlds. The audience, the city crowd, is momentarily transferred into a world where everything coexists with electronic information. The question of what reality truly is, rises up.
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ATHENS IN PIECES graphic novel - the end of the Thesis project
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