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01 CONTEXT & BACKGROUND SITE LOCATION HISTORY THE NEIGHBORHOOD TODAY NEARBY REFUGEE TENEMENTS
02 URBAN ISSUE & ANALYSIS RESEARCH METHODS THE ISSUE ATHENS URBAN CONTEXT ACCESSIBILITY & CIRCULATION UN-USED PUBLIC SPACE SWOT ANALYSIS
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APPROACH AND STRATEGY DESIGN STRATEGY GUIDE PRECEDENT STUDY DESIGN PROGRAM COGNITIVE MAP
04 MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL MASTERPLAN THE SUSTAINABLE NEIGBOURHOOD
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PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT THE GATES TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD THE OPEN MARKET AREA THE SEMI-PUBLIC SQUARES THE PUBLIC SQUARES THE SMART PARK THE COMMUNITY BUILDING SMART PARK SECTION THE VIEW FROM THE TOP
06 CONCLUSION DOURGOUTI’S FUTURE CONCLUSION POSITIVE IMPACT
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BRIEF Nowadays, Municipality of Athens is in process of an extensive 25-years plan implementation for the remodelling and the renovation of the city centre 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 centre there is a limited number of houses and lack of big urban squares. The settlement of Dourgouti was one of the first refugee settlements in Athens, with many historical events. In 1944, one of the largest blockings of the Nazi Germans in Athens, was organized there, known as “Dourgouti’s blocking”, with hundreds arrested and executed, while in 1953 many greek movies were filmed there. Nowadays, 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 abandonement 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 — all of which is attracting developer interest. In Dourgouti neighbourhood development is needed, but not by gentrificate the area and change 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. This 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.
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SOCIAL SWOT ANALYSIS
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Dourgouti TEXT TITLEDesign Program
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DESIGN PROGRAM housing
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preserve the historical identity
housing + workplace
student accommodation Co-Working places commercial uses in the ground floor
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coexistence of users [residents, workers, pedestrians] with different interests
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refugees and homeless consulting offices temporary accommodation museum promoting the refugees’ history library + archive for refugees’ history cultural indoor space - theatre reuse of the existing buildings
adapting to current needs by integrating social, political and economic change utilization of public spaces
SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
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historical square
preserve Modernism buildings as possible
green park connected with the opposite square pedestrian roads lead people into the settlement
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integration of the complex into the urban scale
courts and sport facilities
small-scale family parks bridges physical / mental with the context around lighting and amenities
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During the research are pointed out not only tangible barriers, but also intangible that they should overcome. Therefore, the proposal promotes a mixed-use community where people with different backgrounds can live in harmony , and non-native visitors are welcome and attrected to. In order to revitalize Dourgouti and keep it alive, social integration should be achieved and people with different identies can coexist. In the cognitive map is presented the aim of the proposal to create a pedestrian connection network which links not only the areas inside the neighbourhood, but also Dourgouti neighbourhood with the surroundings. In order to create porosity and break the existing tangible and intangible barriers, different strategies are applied in different scales. The “main corridor” is a green comfortable pedestrian road, which will be extended into the city’s grid. It acts as a “boulevard” for the pedestri-
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ans and aim the connection of different neighbourhoods and nearby public spaces. The unique chance of big open spaces that are found in Dourgouti, compared with the lack of free spaces in Athenian urban grid, is indicated to create public and semi-public poles of attractions, like squares with residential, touristic and commericial character, which are going to be joints of the proposed pedestrian network. Moreover, while someone is walking from the one square to the other, they can find, subsidiary functions. The main purpose of Dourgouti Revitalization proposal, which is illustrated in this cognitive map is to achieve the mix of different users in the neighbourhood and to integrate it physically and socially with the city of Athens.
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The big car roads and especially the one on the left of the neighbourhood, that is in a lower level than the area and creates a hole there, are the main physical barries. When someone drives on this road, he cannot even notice the neighbourhood. Morever people from the right of the road can not easily visit the park on the leftinofDourgouti it. 40 Urban Revitalization neighbourhood
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The masterplan promotes a pedestrian connection network which links not only the areas inside the neighbourhood, but also Dourgouti neighbourhood with the surroundings. The pedestrian “main corridor� aims the flow of the people throught the centre of Dourgouti and its connection with nearby neighbourhoods. Different kind of squares are placed in th existing open space with residential, touristic and commericial character, and they are the joints of the proposed pedestrian network.
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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 64 Urban Revitalization in Dourgouti neighbourhood
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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