Portfolio dDrayiou 2022

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dDrayiou Portfolio

between 2015-2022

PORTFOLIO Daphne Drayiou

MArch Graduate AA DRL, Architectural Association London, UK

I am a graduate of the Design and Research Lab at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture (AADRL). I also hold a master’s degree from the National Technical University of Athens.

Currently, I am an Architect at Foster + Partners. My diverse professional background includes experience working at boutique firms in Athens, participating in competitions, and gaining hands-on construction experience on the Greek islands.

This varied experience sparked my interest in introducing innovation to the AEC industry and motivated me to use my skills and expertise to bring new ideas and solutions to the field.

As a computational designer, I am passionate about leveraging the power of coding to address design and manufacturing challenges. By using custom algorithms, I am able to automate and optimize various aspects of the design process, streamline workflows, analyze and visualize data.

I believe that coding is a powerful and essential tool for contemporary designers and am committed to developing my skills in this area as I work towards a dynamic career in computer-aided design.

ARCHITECTURE

URBANISM RESEARCH SKETCHES & OBJECTS

CLOUDFORMA

A DESIGN RESEARCH PROJECT TOWARDS ATMOSPHERIC AGENCY

academic | thesis project AADRL design reasearch | 2022

in collaboration with Oula Al-Eryani, Yuji Huang, Tyler Huang studio Theodore Spyropoulos | studio brief Elemental developed with Houdini, VEX, Maya, Unity, C#, Machine Learning (TensorFlow) | visualization Mantra, C4D

https://cloudformaaa.wixsite.com/cloudforma

CloudForma establishes a symbiotic relationship between climate and resources recurring to the most human aspects. Beyond engineering, architecture, and infrastructure the project is about treating phenomena as technology and setting up cloud formations as the infrastructural framework.

In its solid, liquid, and gaseous forms, water occupies our sense of being – vital and transformative as it is. Although dominant, water is finite. The world’s dramatic transformations during the modern era provided us with massive infrastructural works aspiring to tame water. However, these mega-projects are now denouncing their despair falling into decay and obsolescence.

Looking through the elemental aspect of water, we focus on its unique phase change properties that allow its continuous movement around the earth. Clouds are nature’s distinct way to manage water around the globe.

CloudForma harnesses the cloud as an infrastructure where wind and atmosphere become a medium. Beyond the fixed and finite resource management strategies, water delivery, water management, and water resourcing are addressed as an augmentation of natural systems.

Can we augment nature?

Evincing the invisible to visibility we propose a hybridized ecology of humans and infrastructure. Cloud’s absolute ephemerality challenges solidity and stability. In our project the architectural design resists “form” or “shape.” A design that regulates the very substance of water, artificially generating a natural phenomenon that emphasizes a connection with the resources in the most primal sense.

DATA INPUT SOURCE: https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?p=C1000000505-LPDAAC_ECS&pg[0] [v]=f&pg[0][gsk]=-start_date&fst0=Atmosphere&m=-0.0703125!0!2!1!0!0%2C2 II. RH 65% RH 78% MAX RH 65% 01 STEP 01 Collect csv files from Nasa Earth’s database. fig. 1 Nasa EarthDataset fig. 3 VEX Script Rainflow Analysis DATA ANALYSIS PROCESS STEP 02 Sort data in excel. Prepare csv file to import in Houdini STEP 03 CSV is imported into Houdini using Python Script to extract the recorded STEP 04 Map the recorded data, asses, analyze. (fig.3: rainflow) 03 04 02 FIND A PATH III. II. I. IV. OBSTACLE POSSIBLE LOCATIONS TO HARVEST GOAL

WATER STRESS WEATHER PATTERNS POPULATION I. II. III. ALTITUDE: SURFACE TROPOSPHERE ALTITUDE: 3000M STRATOSPHERE ALTITUDE: 9000M

AGENT [B] AGENT [A] 2 AGENT POPULATIONS CONDENSATION AGENT TRANSPORT AGENT AGENT [B] HYGROSCOPICITY AGENT [A] BUOYANCY

CONTROL WITH TEMPERATURE FROM SWARM TO CLOUD VELOCITY FIELD DENSITY FIELD INTRODUCE HIGHER TEMPERATURE IN 3 POINTS 01 02 03

A PARCEL OF AIR TRIGGERED BY THE MOVEMENT OF A SWARM OF AGENTS [VELOCITY FIELD]

PHENOTYPE

TEMPERATURE

VELOCITY

Water has been at the elemental core of human settlements. From stepwells in India to qanats in Persia people always find ways to manage the resource. The level of control on water resources and management always reflects the advancement of a society. Water management and weather prediction strategies have proven to be a tool for guaranteeing societal stability.

What we formulate is a synthesis of an artificially generated phenomenon with water’s primal vitality. An augmented weather system is a technological artifact that enables life conditions in places where water is scarce. Working with the conditions as part of the environment.

To uncover the invisible, we propose a hybridised ecology between humans and infrastructure. The laws of stability and solidity are challenged by cloud’s absolute ephemerality. In this project the architectural design resists “form” or “shape.” It is a design that regulates the very substance of water, artificially reproducing a natural phenomenon that emphasises our connection with the physical resources in the most primal sense.

Nestled in the foothills of Geraneia Mountains.

INDUSTRIAL AND OFFICE COMPLEX

The industrial extension and the new office building reflect Bauer’s development as a global brand. Nestled in the foothills of Geraneia Mountains at Megara, the new complex and industrial warehouse aim to blend with the impressive mountain view. The building is grounded in an idea of a structure ostensibly levitating above the ground, a signifier of the company’s continuous and sustainable growth.

Visitors approach the building along a tree-lined entrance until they face the inverted pyramid at the edge of the industrial complex. Approaching the entrance of the building, the visitor can have a walk in the showroom where the sculptural staircase functioning as a structural buttress leads to the interior of the monolithic structure. From the staircase, one can have a glimpse of the warehouse interior, which is 2 metres higher than the entrance. The first floor is essentially smaller and hosts some ancillary functions like storage spaces, a kitchen, and a few quality control offices. These are linked by a staircase that follows a pyramid inclination to the executive level situated above. The uppermost floor presents an enthralling openplan office space, comprising two offices, two meeting rooms, and executive spaces with panoramic views. The open-plan layout of this floor manifests teamwork and collaboration culture. Adjustable panels allow for privacy, personalisation, and collaborative working.

Building facades are mostly blind emphasising the powerful impact of this monolithic shape. However, the steel roof allows abundant light to reach the office spaces. Louvres are distributed at varying levels of density to moderate the indoor light levels. Finally, on the south edge of the pyramid, there is a roof garden. The balcony takes advantage of unobstructed views across the Megara area, offering a unique space for small-scale company events.

professional | architecture | commercial | 2020 developped as part of Tense Architecture Network

GROUND FLOOR PLAN | SCALE 1:100 warehouse factory complex and office spaces entrance. A showroom is located in the entrance of the building where company’s products are showcased.

SECOND FLOOR PLAN | SCALE 1:100

The uppermost floor houses an open-plan office space, two offices, two meeting rooms and executive spaces with panoramic views.

wooden model scale 1:500

01 | | entering the building 02

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showroom, small conference, and staircase buttress

05 | executive

03 | a corridor of light leads to the core of the platonic

office, living room and roof garden offer a great space for company events 04 | the upper floor houses an open office space

Switching temporalities seeks to interpret the urban square as a contextual counterpoint, while tackling issues of the dynamic processes which are taking place in the dense modern Metropolis.

“The Metropolis is the general form assumed by the process of the rationalization of social relations.”

Massimo Cacciari, Metropolis

Switching Temporalities

CONTESTATIONS IN LAVRIOU SQUARE

academic | diploma thesis competition held by the Ministry of Infrastructure | 1st PRIZE architecture & urbanism | 2018

Confronting the monstrous face of Athens as an extremely dense urban environment, a situation derived from a series of conflicting construction laws of postwar Greece resulting in an urban jungle, this project strives to perceive the experience of Metropolis through irregular permutations of space and time. Boulevards structure linear accelerated timelines for the rapid fluctuation of people and commodities while public squares end up as transport and circulation nodes. The project specifically questions the contemporary fixation with speed and acceleration as the dominant modus vivendi and explores potentials of a designed delay in the very heart of the beast.

Lavriou Square is more of a remnant retaining an exotic aura of an era long gone. Located in a two hundred meters distance from Omonia Square, once a departure point for Lavrio and Kifisia, industrial labor and bourgeois recreation areas respectively, nowadays it is transmogrified to a safe heaven for sex workers, thugs, drug users, immigrants, anarchist youth of Exarchia neighborhood, subjects in the margins of society. Despite a large number of underlying activities, Lavriou Square remains rather unknown for the mass majority.

Interpreting the field, main goals are the contribution of a different point of observation, the negotiation of the square as a node, the reappropriation of the monumental office complexes emphasize in the perception of an urban landscape in the poetics of uncanny.

“The centre is materialized at the exact moment and in the place of the action.”

Takis Ch. Zenetos

Supervisors : Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Konstantinos Daflos in collaboration with Olga Xenouli

in the terrain of the square and in surrounding vaccant buildings which are adaptively reused.

Perspecting view of Lavriou Sq. | G’ Septemvriou axe frames view of Acropolis. Leisure time activities are dispersed

right exploded axonometric view left map Athens City Centre

3 Central Squares - 3 poles of interest.

Regeneration of Athens City Centre

AN URBAN DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR THE CITY CENTRE OF ATHENS

in collaboration with Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Anatoli Georgiadou Georgia Katsi, Nestoras Skantzouris

Consultants | Urban Planner Dimitris Filippidis | Traffic Engineer George Lagadinos | Agronomist Grigoris Karaiskos | Civil Engineer Athanasios Kontizas

Publications

Kathimerini, Lialios G., “Μια πρόταση ανάπλασης του κέντρου της Αθήνας”, 14/10/2019 https://www.kathimerini.gr/1046885/gallery/ epikairothta/ellada/mia-protash-anaplashs-toykentroy-ths-a8hnas

Archisearch, Marinaki Tina, “Tense Architecture Network wins 1st prize inthe competition for the Regeneration of the Athens City centre”, 15/10/2019 https://www.archisearch.gr/architecture/tensearchitecture-network-1st-prize-the-regenerationof-the-athens-city-centre/

Lifo, Haramis Thanasis, “Η ανάπλαση του κέντρου της Αθήνας”, 15/10/2019 https://www.lifo.gr/articles/design_articles/255535/h-anaplasi-toy-kentroy-tis-athinas-deite-to-protzekt-kai-ta-sxedia-poy-kerdisan-ton-panellinio-arxitektoniko-diagonismo

The regeneration of the Athenian city centre involves the revival of its Historical Triangle, Piraeus-Stadiou-Ermou . The metropolitan, hyper-local character of the Kleanthis-Schaubert neoclassical triangle is discernible and cannot be disproved by the economic crisis or by the ageing of its structural content. Its radiance, though, has now degraded.

The inherent power of the triangle does not lie in the periphery but within it. We find it in its relationship with the Acropolis through its vertical correlation with Athinas Street, its formerly powerful bisector. It is this feverish, commercial and cultural vein that flows into Ermou Street and shapes a strong “T”. These main axes are not only significant movements - they also signify an intense metropolitan life. Regenerating the Historic Triangle, the recovery of its public space was imperative in this innermost linear “T”: between Omonia and the Acropolis, between Syntagma and Kerameikos.

The proposal for the regeneration of the Athenian Centre, emphasises the formation of three new points: two on the edges of the hypotenuse Ermou -in Syntagma and Kerameikos- and one in the middle of the bisector Athinas- in Barvakeios Market. Three poles were used to reinterpret the very character of the public spaces that were in Schaubert’s design: The Culture Square at Syntagma, the Market Square at Varvakeios, and the Recreation Square at Kerameikos. We ended up with three fundamental geometries, accompanied by crucial circulatory adjustments -along with a fundamentally restructured pedestrian network. The aim is to reclaim the degraded public space and amplify the life of the Historical Triangle of Athens.

professional | competition held by the Ministry of Infrastructure | 1st PRIZE urban design |

VARVAKEIOS 02

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SYNTAGMA SQUARE

VARVAKEIOS SQUARE 02

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KERAMEIKOS SQUARE

bottom perspective view top right master plan sc. 1:1000 top left floor plan bottom left longtidunal section

The community centre is formed close to the ground as part of a sculptural lansdscape while the transparent library library stands as a symbol of lightness.

Library at Ilioupolis

The subject of this course was to design a multifunctional building that hosts a public library and cultural activities. The site is located in the suburb of Ilioupolis and is surrounded by a low density urban environment. The main purpose of this project was to create a public space, which would constitute both a landmark for the area and a social condenser.

The concept of the proposal is based exactly on this dual functionality of a public space - library. We focus on the idea of the street as “a room of agreement”; on that basis the design incorporates a wide linear public space -“the street”- which is formulated as a deviation to the normal pedestrian route. Public open air spaces are established bilaterally of the street while the latter ends up to a concrete platform. This leveled up platform, an area of 50x50m, comprises the second basic element of the composition, a “plaza”, the most vital space of the building which is providing a view to the smaller foyer courtyard & to the neighbourhood of Ilioupolis. The “plaza” completes the solid base of the building a complex of the open - public uses and points the entrance to the main library.

Upon the concrete base of the building a steel framed structure is seated. This structure hosts reading rooms while the book stacks are hanging from the space frame in the middle of the building. The wide openings are protected from the sunlight by exterior adjusting sunshades and an interior shade cloth to control glare. An electrically operated system adjust the angle of shadings depending on the hour and the season.

The building’s composition combines different perpetual scales, i.e. the scale of a landmark, as well as small meeting places, corresponding to the complex functional diagram of a public library.

academic | NTUA 4th year design studio architecture | 2016 in collaboration with Semeli Galdada supervisor Kafritsa M., Vasilatos P. AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR A SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS IN FLORINA

wooden floor boards 2x14cm plywood sheets wooden beam 5x5cm /30cm mineral wool metal sheet

concrete slab

telescopic elastic foot thermal insulation 5cm

leightweight beton concrete bracket

water vapour barriers reinforced concrete hollow core slabs

reinforced concrete

thermal insulation 5cm prefab concrete slabs

reinforced concrete thermal insulation 5cm asphalt membrane leghtweight concrete slabs leghtweight concrete slabs concrete C15/25

5 2 2 CONCRETE STRUCTURE DETAIL DRAWINGS | SCALE 1:20 DETAIL DRAWINGS | SCALE 1:10

CONCRETE STRUCTURE DETAIL DRAWINGS | SCALE 1:10

STEEL

STRUCTURE | DETAIL DRAWINGS

FRAMED

Nestled in the foothills of Geraneia Mountains.

SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

The school of Fine Arts is located in the city of Northern Greece, Florina, a city known for the cold climate. Given the winter snowfall and a climate of the coldest in the Greek territory, the building shells in the city of Florina must be sustainable while interior space is vital. As for the Scool of Fine Arts the uniform and abundant distribution of natural light in the laboratories is of paramount importance for its proper functioning.

The proposal for the new School Fine Arts places emphasis on the section. The main idea is that of a building-roof. Design on the diagonal of the site the proposed shell is extends with its one side slightly sloping and facing north and the other being its roof. The main purpose of the design is to create symbolically strong shell and relate it to the existing facilities of the surrounding univeristies. Located diagonally in the site area it creates two significant outdoor spaces to the north and south respectively.

The south area constitutes a courtyard of recreation and connection to the central functions of the amphitheater and library, while the north area, welcomes a diversity of outdoor exhibition activities of the School’s laboratories. The latter, is a slightly degraded area and connected by sloping curves to the surrounding streets, in its northwest corner is an anchored, open-air theater - making up the school’s protected, outdoor workshop.

The lower level, in contact with the outdoor garden, receives painting, sculpture, decorative and drawing workshops. There is dual access for all laboratories: from the South Hall through elevated lofts as well as through the two symmetrical corridors at the lower level. In addition to this dual accessibility from their south side, all laboratories can be unified by sliding partitions in contact with the northern poles - creating a continuous interior exhibition path.

professional | competition entry architecture | 2019 in collaboration with Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Konstantinos Kosmas in collaboration with Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Konstantinos Kosmas Nestoras Skantzouris, Konstantinos Xanthopoulos AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR A SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS IN FLORINA

left from top to bottom : model scale1:1 diagram

zibellino: a woman’s fashion accessory moschophoros - the calf bearer 560 B.C.

right model scale 1:1

Steel Fur

AN IMAGINARY HOUSE | SYMBOL OF PRESTIGE

academic | NTUA arts object design | 2017

supervisor Konstantinos Daflos

Barthes Roland, “Le bleu est à la mode cette année” Notes sur la recherche des unités signifiantes dans le vêtement de mode, article, 1960

War lasted a really long time.

For now and on nothing seemed the same as in the past. Forms were remnants, wrecks of a glorious past. She dressed hershelf and looked in the mirror. There was only one thing missing to complete her style. One last thing. She put the steel fur on her shoulders. Now she looks great. The fur was kind of a fetish to her, she loved walking down the street in the sunlight while her steel fur glimpses. She was feeling charmful, seductive. Needless to say that she had spent a month’s pay for this little piece of clothing...

The squirrel is an imaginary animal. This proposal suggests that squirrel finds shelter upon the human body. As squirrel’s nest becomes a basic element of dressing. We are attempting to reflect on the subject of dressing as a mechanism which resembles the body as a sign. Reading Roland Barthes’ The Language of Fashion, dressing is a semiot- ic structure which is integrated in a system of common norms. In fact, in societies starkly hierarchical, fashion was part of a “real social ritual”. In many occasions animals were used as dressing in a semiology of prestige and authority. Historically acknowledged examples were zibellini, a sort of scarf like wrap made out of the pelt of an animal, very popular in the 15th and 16th century. Fur comprised for so many years a sign of glamour and well-being; hair’s sleek and smooth sense stimulate and become a synonym of sexuality and luxury.

On this background, my proposal is placed in a future world devastated by an ecological war. A significant ideological turn-around occurs. The wearable house of squirrel becomes itself an element of prestige as it signs ecological sensitivity. Smoothness of fur is replaced by the durable alluminium which forms squirrel’s nest, reflecting a new era for the relation between humans and animals in a dystopian future.