This is a portfolio of work by architect Andreas Angelidakis
Andreas Angelidakis, Studio 7 Alkyonis street, Athens 175 61, Greece phone: +30211.1166.716 email: studio@angelidakis.com web: www.angelidakis.com
Andreas Angelidakis is an architect who likes mountains and clouds and websites as much as buildings, trees and people. He maintains an experimental practice in Athens, Greece, a studio involved in building, designing and speculating the contemporary ecosystem of a life spent between computer interfaces and natural landscapes. www.angelidakis.com
Andreas Angelidakis, Studio 7 Alkyonis street, Athens 175 61, Greece phone: +30211.1166.716 email: studio@angelidakis.com web: www.angelidakis.com angelidakis.com
Ruin within a Ruin is a proposal for a pavilion of postcontemporary curating inside the skeletal remains of Sutton Scarsdale Hall. Recognizing the universal, white exhibition wall as a ruin in perpetual progress, a structure built up and demolished time and again as exhibitions pass, we proposed a building configured as a pile of white exhibition walls, inside the beautiful Derbyshire ruin. The building will continue to grow and decay as it is inhabited over time. Competition entry, longlisted in February 2010. www.thecentreofattention.org/centre/Andreas.html team: Sotiris vasiliou, Eirini Anthouli.
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The Monument to a oncoming disaster is a gate to the Athens Marina. Playing along with the scientific scenario that predicts the dramatic rising of sea levels worldwide, instead of designing a gate to the Marina as the competition bried required, we designed for the future of the area: A small island onto which one can tie their boat and contempate the one time location of the by then underwater Marina facilities. ww team: Sotiris Vasiliou, Nana Stathi, Andreas Sivitos, Eirini Anthouli, Efrosyni Charalambous. Structural engineer: Christos Kaklamanis, Coordination: Diarchon
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SIF9 is the codename for a house that streches it’s body to reach the sea. Located on the island of Antiparos, this vacation home is configured as a topographical platform that gradually transforms into a set of volumes, stacked according to the local building method of piling up stones without mortar. The paltform acts as a new, clean horizon from which to gaze at a potential sunset. private commision for OLIAROS S.A, competion 2011 team: Alexandros Papadias, Eirini Anthouli, Sotiris Vasiliou, P. Bakagiannis, D. Silaidos, N. Stathi.
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Heaven was the overall title given to the 2nd Athens Biennial. Located in an area that combined an industrial and a leisure character, the biennial was designed as a contact collage, that blurred the line between before and after, between design and reality. Spaces of strangely leaning exhibition walls and hellish storage corridors packed with piles of furniture alternated with white airy exhibition rooms, creating an exhibition experience where the space orchestrates the understanding of art. Private commision, completed summer 2009. www.athensbiennial.org team: S. Vasiliou, N. Stathi, E.Anthouli, D. Siliados, P. Bakagiannis, E. Charalambous, G. Eftaxopoulos
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The Stockholm Exhibition revisits the 1930’s expo that established the welfare state in Sweden. Positioned as a link between two stranded devalued suburbs of Stockholm, the exhibition design takes the form of a research project carved into the landscape. A series of analytical drawings are constructed as means of organizing and temporarily inhabiting a green field with a series of polemical pavilion that will attempt to position architecture in the era of climate change. Commissioned by the city of Stockholm, completion date T.B.A. www.stockholmexhibition.com Team: S.Vasiliou, E. Anthouli, N. Stathi
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Collateral is an exhibition of videos inspired by cinema. The design consists of two kinds of spaces, the space of each work and the space between the works, and together these spaces create what I would call a contemporary video experience. The works exist inside cave-like structures inspired by the shape of TVs and cinema rooms, perspectivaly arranged as buildings in a city of monitors. commisioned by Art for the WORLD, www.art-for-the-world.net realised in Milano 2006, www.hangartbicocca.it
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Biglietteria is a hut for the new biglietteria and libreria of Hangar Biccoca. The hut is part of the Philosophy series, which started as a house for artist Mai Ueda in the online virtual community Neen World. This house existed online for a year, and since then I have recreated it in various “ghost� versions, street facades, furniture, interiors and structures where one of the colors disappears to create walls like patterned lace. commision, hangartbicocca.it 2007
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Menir House is a beach home shaped like a rock sitting under an umbrella. The rock is a vacuum-formed polyurethane shell filled with seawater.While the water-filled shell provides weight and insulation, the photovoltaic umbrella is custommade to fold-up, flip-up and become a wind turbine, allowing the experimental house to be lived-in off the traditional energy grid, at once primitive and futuristic, actual and virtual. Research project 2009-2011wPavlos Bakagiannis, Minas Konstandinou, Iro Micheli, Nana Stathi, Dimitris Silaidos, Sotiris Vasileiou
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Soft Rock for Bouwkunde is a version of the Delft School of Architecture shaped like a soft green rock, hovering over a colourful, inviting social space for sitting, reading, chatting, watching, entering and passing through. The building was inspired by debris piled on the ground after the original building burned. The debris is miraculously lifted, levitating as a soft green cloud protecting the community while it reconnecs underneath it ans inside it. Competition entry, Fall 2008, mention. Team: S. Vasiliou, E. Anthouli
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Commsioned to design the inaugural exhibition at FF NORR, we proposed instead the Walls: a system for organizing and building a centre of conteporary art. Art centers are often housed in raw spaces that can facilitate different set ups, each time requiring new exhibition walls to be constructed. We proposed an art centre organized as a modular set of universal exhibition walls, handing over the design of the exhibition to the curators. Commisioned by Jan Aman, completed April 2007 www.fargfabrike.se
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Polygon Housing is an apartment complex based on the organizing pronciples of social networking websites. The complex begins as a set of concrete towers that echo the various scales of this downtown Athens neighborhood. Once the users move in, they configure their apartments by linking towers and punching out windows. The building becomes a user-generated form with a strong visual identity while allowing for random user customization. Competition entry, honorary mention, spring 2006
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Cloud house is a proposal for a vacation home. The shape of the cloud was found on the internet but the idea comes from growing up in the Greek summer landscape of semi abandoned concrete frames, contemporary ruins inhabited as natural elements, caves and rocks. The building starts off as a basic openair frame and gradually converts itself from nature to home, in this case from cloud to house. Research project, 2004-2008. Commisioned to be constructed in Stockholm, date TBA.
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Villa Angelo is a house inspired by artist Angelo Plessas’ MeLookingAtYou.com. On the website we see a face hidden inside lines, moving its features like a machine about to break down. I wanted this house to be a cage, a theater set, a lion and an archive. You can see what’s inside and they can see you. Sometimes you get dizzy. research project, 2007 team: Dimitris Silaidos, Nana Stahi
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Gem Complex started out by studying how to make a diamond on a 3D program, and how to join stones for a diamond pave. Working with dodecahedron primitives, we joined them in vertical clusters that expand to volumes that slowly get inhabited and turn into buildings, which could become a house or a hotel or maybe a shopping mall. Commisioned for an artists’ book by De Grisogono Jewelers, Geneva 2007. www.degrisogono.com team: Dimitris Triandafyllou, Nana Stahi.
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Walking Building is a hybrid hyperbuilding conceptually derived from an existing 1950s factory about to converted into the National Museum of Contemporary Art. The factory communicates ideas about contemporary art that are rooted in the 1970s, while the city around it communicates with mobile phones. The study is presented in a series of DVDs and large scale models. Reaserch project commisioned by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2006. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPUjc5jLHM
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The Blue Wave is a system for temporary living, a concrete beach where you can spend your lunchtime. It is a modular system that can produce various scales of habitation, from furniture to building. The pieces in these photos are large scale models exhibited at MU foundation in Eindhoven. They were produced as a testing phase to initiate the project at Lichtplein. Part of the exhibition “Andreas Angelidakis : Blue Wave�, MU Foundation, Eindhoven, January 2005, www.mu.nl
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Lichtplein is a plaza in Eindhoven that the public doesn’t know how to inhabit.The Blue Wave is configured as a series of city-furniture and placed as an inhabitable public sculpture, a meeting point and a chatroom. Blue Wave (Lichtplein) - 2004-2005 in development - Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Hotel Blue Wave is a medium sized building based on the blue wave module. The project studies modes of temporary habitation such as the beach (put your towel down- claim your spot), or the squat (choose your room, stay for a few months), and the way they can socially and aesthetically enrich the hotel experience. produced as part of the “Invisible Hotel� exhibition, Deste Foundation Athens, Greece. www.invisiblehotel.com
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Neen World is an online community designed as an openended architectural experiment. a chat- room with 25 neenster houses and public meeting points. Some of these buildings were inspired by websites while others such as Blue Wave and Teleport Forest were inspired by the natural landscape of the web. Neen World was released as a DVD in 2005 by One Star Press Artists’ editions in Paris. www.onestarpress.com , www.neen.org
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Pause is an optical illusion pavilion, an oblique hall of mirrors. It was made as a photographic environment for the exhibition “Jean-Pierre Khazem in a space by Andreas Angelidakis�. Khazem used the space as a place to photograph nude models with masks. The resulting exhibition was actually a sequence of shows: The empty space, the space with live girls, the space with the photos, the space with the photos and the girls recreating the poses in the photos. Pause - Fargfabriken Center for Art and Architecture - Stockholm, Sweden - March 2002.
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TeleportDiner is a restaurant and chatroom designed for the internet. The Diner was first used as a link between New York and Stockholm so people could meet online and chat. Then a copy of this virtual space was constructed inside Fargfabriken in Stockholm and people from New York flew to Stockholm to meet, chat and simulate their internet experience in a place that existed somewhere between the real and the virtual. commisioned by Jan Aman for “TeleportDiner: From Real to Virtual to Somewhere in Between�, Fargfabriken Center for Art and Architecture - Stockholm, Creattive Time - New York, May 2000.
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Electronic Orphanage is a space designed like a desktop interface, a space that changes function with a simple click: Office by day and exhibition space by night. The workstations are configured as ceiling-mounted columns on wheels, and when you fold-up the seats and push back the columns they form a projection wall in the back of the space, turning the storefront into a screen. commisioned by Miltos Manetas 2000, 971 Chung King Road, Los Angeles , www.electronicorphanage.com
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Andreas Angelidakis, Studio 7 Alkyonis street, Athens 175 61, Greece phone: +30211.1166.716 fax: +30.211.1166717 email: studio@angelidakis.com web: www.angelidakis.com