Park of Maritime Tradition «Odysseus - The Greeks and the Sea» professional project
Use, Operation, Management and Exploitation of the Alimos Marina professional project
The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation professional project
Port Passenger Terminal Station in Souda professional project
“OPEN” Public Building professional project
Family House in Lefkada Island professional project
Shelter for the Archeological Site of Lykeion professional project
Urban Revitalization in Dourgouti neighbourhood, Athens academic project - thesis project MA Architecture & Urbanism
Porto Marghera: from 1917 to 2050 academic project
Activation Network in the Settlement of Porto Lagos academic project - thesis MArch
Park of Maritime Tradition «Odysseus - The Greeks and the Sea»
Athens, Greece
Architectural Competition - A prize
date_ May 2021 - now
type_ professional project - Design Phase, Preliminary design to Construction documents: 12.000 m2
team_ Thymio Papayannis & Associates arch. office
The object of the project is the study and construction of the Maritime Tradition Park «Odysseus - The Greeks and the Sea» with the aim of creating a landmark that will host and highlight in a modern and attractive way our maritime history, our intangible and tangible maritime heritage. The project is an important urban intervention in the coastal front of Athens. The goal is for the project to be a visionary and emblematic intervention plan that concerns an integrated/multidimensional and lively place of education, culture and recreation centered on the sea. A space that will take us on a journey through our maritime history, cultivating synergies, showcasing and promoting the seafaring of the Greeks, creating a world-wide hub highlighting our unique maritime culture.
Park of Maritime Tradition 'OdysseusThe Greeks and the Sea' - Faliron Bay.
Use, Operation, Management and Exploitation of the Alimos Marina
Athens, Greece
Architectural Competition
date_ December 2020 - March 2021
type professional project - Preliminary design - Built-up area: 10.000 m2
team_ Thymio Papayannis & Associates arch. office
The wider upgrading and development of Athens’ coastal front is undoubtedly a much broader and pivotal project, the consequences of which may prove to be decisive for the overall revitalization of the wider area of the Capital.
The office Thymios Papagiannis and Associates, responding to the challenge and utilizing its deep knowledge of the area, its long-term international and Greek experience in corresponding complex studies of spatial development and landscape studies, is ready to contribute with all its forces to this effort.
The main goal of the development is the integrated, organic approach to natural and built space, taking into account the bioclimatic parameters of the project to create a cohesive, attractive environmentally sensitive landscape. Such a new urban landscape, we believe, will best support the investment initiative and the intended international character of the Marina.
Specifically, in zone 4 (750 m2) and in the heart of the Marina, a landmark building with catering uses is being organized at a point with special visibility. The shape of the building is organic and shaped by the forces of the landscape. The main gesture of the architectural solution is the upward path to the building which is the natural extension of the sidewalk that starts from the pedestrian entrance gate and unfolds around the amphitheater. In continuation of the course, the volume of the building creates a surge towards the sea and curves forming an embrace around the central square
The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Lasithi, Greece
date_ December 2020 - April 2021
type_ professional project - Preliminary design & Construction documents
team_ Thymio Papayannis & Associates arch. office
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center will have a capacity of 40 beds and will be aimed at patients from all over the Region as well as visitors to the island. Its operation will create multiple benefits by meeting both the needs of the local community and the island’s visitors, thus contributing to the development of medical tourism.
The location of the Rehabilitation Center at a short distance from the existing Hospital allows it to be served by the existing structure in terms of:
- The supporting functions in laundries, kitchens and warehouses.
- The area in which the patient admission and discharge procedure takes place.
- Administrative functions and administration areas.
The building program includes three main functional units:
1. The Dry Therapy unit 2. The Wet Therapy unit
3. The Hospital unit accomodation rooms
“Open” Public Building
Thessaloniki, Greece
Competition_Honorable mention
Architectural Competition for the Building Complex of Public Services (former Papafi Stables)
type_ professional project - 3d Visualization team_ D.Loukopoulos Arch. Office
Urban Revitalization in Dourgouti Neighbourhood
Athens, Greece
Urban Renewal in the city of Athens, concerning an historical neighbourhood of refugee housing.
date_ 2019-2020
type_ MA Architecture & Urbanism Thesis Project
supervisors_ Eamonn Canniffe, Mazin Al Saffar, Antonio Blanco Pastor link_ https://issuu.com/billa.evangelia/docs/final_studio_c_20__evangelia_billa
STRATEGY GUIDE
Nowadays, Municipality of Athens is in process of an extensive 25-years plan implementation for the remodeling and the renovation of the city center and its surroundings, so as to improve everyday life for the residents and visitors of these areas, promoting social cohesion and financial development.
Dourgouti neighbourhood is an area, inside Athens’ urban core, with a big range of open public spaces and many abandoned buildings. At the same time, in Athens’ city center there is a limited number of houses and a lack of big urban squares.
The settlement of Dourgouti was one of the first refugee settlements in Athens, with many historical events. Today, many immigrants, and poor people live there in inferior conditions, while there are very few elderly apartment owners left as their descendants moved to other areas. Most of the buildings are left vacant and neglected. This feeling of abandonment creates a feeling of danger, pushing people away, and making the area even more empty and isolated.
However, the neighborhood is historic, walkable, and centrally located. In Dourgouti development is needed, but not by changing its multicultural character. Local people should not drive out, but instead, people from the surroundings should come in. Hence, the question is how we can regenerate an area avoiding gentrification.
My thesis aims to propose development and urban renewal strategies, targeting this minority neighborhood, for improvements by preserving the existing community. Dourgouti Revitalization is a resident-centered redevelopment study, that takes into consideration the people, history, and geography of a neighborhood — will attract entrepreneurs and developers that serve and retain the existing community, drawing in further businesses and people. This project is a visual alternative and proposed option in an historical Athenian neighbourhood’s future development in a direction that benefits local residents and visitors alike, providing an attractive, alive and pedestrian-friendly environment and promoting social and economic sustainability.
The new community building acts like the entrance and an end of the neigbourhood for the student and those who are coming from the east. Its metalic structure aims to touch the ground floor and the green smart park only in a few areas. It is designed to serve university students’ needs, such as laboratories, studying classrooms, library rooms etc but not only them. The lower floors are open to the community and local people can use the computer rooms, the reading areas, the workshops and the roof garden. Furthermore, everyone has access to the bridge exposition rooms and the amphiteatre.
Under the new building an underground parking will be in two underground floors, that will serve the whole area. Next to the parking is illustrated “sunken” under the green park the Lagoumitzi Avenue, which used to be a physical barrier between Dourgouti and the city grid, and now noone pedestrian can notice it.
The exiting buidling is going to be retrofitted, by creating physical permeable arcades in the ground floor and shops, cafe, restaurants and services will be placed there. Direct access will be possible to the third
floor where laboratories, workshop and multi-purpose spaces will be available for the whole community. The upper part of the building, similar to its current residential use will be transformed into student accommodation. In the forth floor someone can find the reception and the common facilities for the residents while the upper ones will have more privacy. Green roofs are going to desinged where the structure is capable of, so as to reduce the impact in the environment. Inside the bridge building, which connects the old and the new building, exhibition rooms are going to be placed. Its green roof will be used as an entrance to the amphitheatre and as an open semi-public space. The flow of the green park and the social life of the pedestrians will take place unhindered under the bridge which will be a landmark for the area.
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Porto Marghera: From 1917 to 2050
Venice, Italy
The project aims to regenerate the first industrial zone located in the mainland of Venice. Currently, the site is a post-industrial brownfield characterized by high levels of pollution, large-scale abandoned buildings, poor connectivity, limited accessibility, and vulnerability to natural disasters. The regeneration project will address these challenges through a comprehensive, sustainable, and resilient urban design strategy.
date_ September - December 2019
type_ MA Architecture & Urbanism Studio A project - group 11 link
In 2050, one day, when you plan a trip to Venice, on the plane, you will never ignore the vivid land before you arrive...
Design Phase Key Objectives
As a long term redevelopment project, the process had been divided into 3 phases. Starting with the detoxification of post industrial lands by planting plants like alpine pennycress and pigweeds. Which is considered the best plants for detoxifying the land. Following with the construction of super campus to attract the first batch of inhabitants.
5 Community and Economic Revitalization
Activation Network in the Settlement of Porto Lagos
Porto Lagos, Greece
The goal of this dissertation is the creation of a network of interventions in the settlement of Porto Lagos, aiming at activating the area and exploiting its particular characteristics.
date_2016-2017 type_academic project, final diploma thesis, DUTh team_E Billa, C Margaritis, C Tsamitrou supervisors_P. Kokkoris, G. Papagiannopoulos, D. Loukopoulos
