Portfolio - Selected Works 2018

P O RTFO LI O Danai Michailidou 2018

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Welcome to WANDERLAND MArch 5 - 2018 London

This project forms links between neuroscience research, architecture, fiction and escapism as it aims to create a place where all these elements interconnect. We question the typology of theme parks as an architectural interpretation of escapism and combine them with neuroscience research laboratories.

Yourtopia

MArch 5 - 2017 Liverpool

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How landscape design and specific architectural typologies can benefit mental health and promote mindfulness and well-being are examined through this project. Based on a folk story about Utopia the aim of the proposal is to allow visitors to create their ideal place.

Utopia (no + place) + Eutopia (good + place) = Yourtopia (your + place)

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A core of knowledge MArch 4 - 2016 Liverpool

People from different ages and backgrounds are coming together in this hybrid building in order to share their knowledge and create the future. The aim of this alternative library typology is to create spaces that everyone can discover and learn.

MotionHouse MArch 4 - 2017 Liverpool

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Considering Liverpool’s rich filming history and as a part of a masterplan project this typology aims to create an event that will help develop the filming tradition of Liverpool and make people aware of it. This biennial event is created by the way the building is going to be used.

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Work Experience

Part I Placement 2015-16 Limassol, Cyprus Examples of my placement work. I was mainly involved in concept design and site visits for on-going luxury residential developments.

Worked on technical drawings for the planning departments and explored the regulations through the projects I was working on.

01_ Welcome to WANDERLAND King’s Cross Area, London 2018 - MArch Thesis

The function of the core areas is based on the process of memory creation and the names are inspired by characters and events from ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Linking the function with the fictional events from the story, each zone is named to represent the activity and atmosphere within it. The visitor as well as the scientist go through a unique journey every time. The aim of the building is to promote escapism through The Castle of Fun - Stimulation

play and discovery. Moreover, it gives the opportunity to neuroscientists to work with visitors and develop their research

The Forest of Relaxation - Encoding

The Social House - Storage

Through the looking glass - Retrieval

Visuals on Left Page

Core Areas _ Conceptual representation of the four main zones. Showcasing the qualities of each zone and how it can be translated architecturally Core Areas Combined_ Initial diagram of how these four areas come together to create a form

Visuals on Right Page

Form Development _ Exploration of form in three dimensional experiments

Exterior View in Context _ The envelope of the building is regular with playful materiality to promote discovery

Physical Sectional Model

Activity Core _ Slides, Interactions between activities and links to the encoding areas

Encoding Areas _ Exhibition Space. The encoding spaces surround the activity core and provide downtime spaces with views to the city.

Activity Core _ Swings. The facade creates playful shadows and provides colours around the building. The views outside and inside are controlled through the fins highlighting parts of the building

02_ Yourtopia

Festival Gardens, Liverpool 2017 - MArch 5

Yourtopia is a place for everyone. Is divided into three main areas that serve different purposes. Each of these areas is embedded strategically into the park in order to serve its purpose. The park as a total is disguised as a traditional park that provides relaxing spaces, play areas, walking paths and so on. However the interventions in each zone provide something different and more specific to whoever is interested. These architectural interventions have visual links between them and work as landmarks. In that way visitors are able to make connections and discover the park in order to create their ‘utopia’

LakeSide Centre Ecotherapy TreeHouse

Top of the Hil

Site Sections _ Summer and fall. These sections show the atmospheres change throughout the year and the relations of the architectural interventions between them and the landscape

Top of the Hill _ The reward of your journey. Reaching the top and being able to relax and contemplate. This intervention is hidden in between the trees however, people can have glimpses of it from the Ecotherapy tree house.

Ecotherapy ThreeHouse _ Ecotherapy is a method that helps improve your mental and physical well-being through doing outdoor activities in nature.

This tower promotes activity and it is the main attraction of the park. Everyone is welcome!

03_ A Core of Knowledge Cook Street, Liverpool 2016 - MArch 4

The aim of this project is to relocate ‘Athenaeum Club’ and their special book collections to a new site and include in the building a branch of University of Liverpool Library. These two typologies co-exist in the building and at the same time break the boundaries between public and private by alternating the traditional idea of what a library is.

Concept Sketch

Concept Diagrams

Section

Concept Diagrams _ In the middle of the building a core is created to accommodate the books which is accessible and visible from everywhere.

The floors have voids to allow views and create transparency.

By differentiating the heights of some floors different levels are created and it is a way to keep some spaces more quiet.

Structural Physical Model _ The special book collection is located in the middle of the building and works as a core. It is an independent timber structure inserted in the middle hollow part of the concrete structure. It hangs from the roof and is supported by the floor slabs.

Custom timber structure

Floating timber structure supported to the concrete slabs

Supported by flitch beams / columns sitting on the roof slab

Core Developement Sketches

View from inside the book core

View of the core from the ground floor

Long Perspective Section

04_ MotionHouse

Pumpfields, Liverpool 2017 - MArch 4

The main driver of this project is the composition of multiple spaces that represent and host the final ‘event’. Each of these spaces is interchanging and works like a scene as if you were in a film. The ‘event’ is dedicated to film and cinematography and the way each of these spaces change allows the ‘event’ to take place.

Exterior View

Site Plan

Exterior Development Sketches

Approach to Site

Interior/Exterior Spaces

Accesibility

Typology and Programme Concept

Flexible Filming Space

Looking Through the Arches

Filming Studio

Photography Studio

Opening up to Host the Event

Filming Studios connecting to outdoor space

Massing Model

Central Space

Dark Room

Exhibition Space

05_ Work Experience Part I Placement 2015-2016

A selection of drawings from my placement year

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Block of Flats _ Proposal Design for a client in the tourist area in Limassol

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Luxury Villa _ Site visit to record the existing drawing and propose new changes for rennovation in the interior and exterior.

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Housing Complex _ Working on the 2D drawings for the planning department.

These drawings were submitted for planning permission.

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Luxury Appartments _ Recording the process of construction, adapting the drawings.

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