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2016 - 2021
Domniki Papanikolaou
Academic Portfolio
2016 - 2021
PERSONAL Name
Domniki Papanikolaou
Nationality
Greek
Languages
Greek, English
CONTACT Facebook
Domniki Papanik
domnikidp@yahoo.gr
Address
Thessaloniki (Greece)
DIGITAL SKILLS
EDUCATION
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ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, GREECE
Power Point
Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture
AutoCAD
Diploma of Architect Engineer
Photoshop
September 2016 - November 2021
InDesign SketchUp Vray Rhino
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Digital Design a flexible and multi-functional construction in the courtyard of the AUTH School of Architecture p.1
Architectural Design in Historical Context the Old Railway of Thessaloniki p.13
Historical Structural Forms traditional mansions in Siatista, Kozani of Greece p.25
Diploma Research Thesis Lenght 60_Width 20_Height 25 Formation of architectural limits in places of worship p.39
Interior Design ∞ points of view an exhibition in an adandoned warehouse in Thessaloniki’s port p.7
Landscape Design of Urban Open Spaces Source Of Naturality And Revitalization Polygnotou stream of Thessaloniki p.19
Fixes-Fluxes-Futures an alternative Child Care Institution p.31
Diploma Design Thesis Resuscitation Restoration and adaptive reuse study of the H.M. of the Honorable Forerunner of Anatoli, mount Kissavos p.45
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a flexible and multi-functional construction in the courtyard of the AUTH School of Architecture
5th semester 2018 - 2019
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Project description This project has been implemented within the framework of the course 05TT10_Digital Design, during the 5th semester of my studies (2018 - 2019). It was a collaborative effort of 4 people. The main purpose of this course was to make students aware of digital media. We were asked to design a flexible and multi-functional construction in the courtyard of the AUTH School of Architecture by using digital media. This specific project aimed to create thermal comfort by being α protective cover and a sitting place simultaneously, for the users of the courtyard. concept: from image to diagram from diagram to structure from structure to object
Location: the courtyard of the AUTH School of Architecture, Thessaloniki, Greece
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∞ points of view an exhibition in an adandoned warehouse in Thessaloniki’s port
6th semester 2019
/02 Interior Design
Project description The ∞ points of view project has been implemented within the framework of the course 06EE22_Interior Design, during the 6th semester of my studies (2019). It was a collaborative effort of 2 people. The main purpose of this course was to make students aware of interior design, in a pre-existing building envelope. We were asked to design the interior of Warehouse 8 in Thessaloniki’s port, with a view to improving this infamous region. After analyzing the existing situation, we decided to host permanent and occasional cultural uses. We formed the interior spaces, in a n industrial style, by using portable constructions. Location: Thessaloniki’s port, Greece
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concept: all-day use enhance of the pre-existing building envelope
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the Old Railway of Thessaloniki
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Architectural Design in Historical Context
77h semester 2019 - 2020
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Project description This project has been implemented within the framework of the course 07EB10_Architectural Design in Historical Context, during the 7th semester of my studies (2019 - 2020). It was a collaborative effort of 3 people. The main purpose of this course was to make students aware of urban design in historical context, which includes listed buildings. We were asked not only to re-design the Old Railway of Thessaloniki, but also to restore a specific part of it. This part contains two listed buildings. We would host cultural and research uses in them. After both analysing the urban fabric, citizens’ necessities and the existing situation, and deeply investigating the Railway’s history, we formed our concept.
Location: Old Railway Station, Thessaloniki,
Greece
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concept: from past - to - present days
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Masterplan Therefore, we divided the area in to three main sections, according to the date of construction of each building they contain, in order to enhance them. During re-designing the listed buildings-section, we preserved the building envelope and formed portable interior constructions, which are interconnected between the two structures both inside and outside as well.
Focused area
A B
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Listed building A
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Listed building B
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Source Of Naturality And Revitalization Polygnotou stream of Thessaloniki
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Landscape Design of Urban Open Spaces
77h semester 2019 - 2020
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Project description The SONAR project has been implemented within the framework of the course 07EE10_Landscape Design of Urban Open Spaces, during the 7th semester of my studies (2019 - 2020). It was a collaborative effort of 3 people. The main purpose of this course was to make students aware of landscape design of spaces that could become landmarks. We were asked to design the unstructured rundown urban space of Polygnotou stream in Thessaloniki. After analysing the urban context, by listing the Strengths-Weaknesses and Opportunities-Threats, we formed the concept of our designing moves. A sonar-function would be exactly what we were looking for in order to make more viable the stream area and the whole city. As a consequence, we divided the area into zones, with main criterion the users to whom we address. Each zone would embody recreational activities.
Location: Polygnotou stream, Thessaloniki Greece
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concept: a SONAR for the city
Site Analysis
Interactions
Greenery - Climate - Traffic
Natural Banks
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Soundscape
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Masterplan
Section T1 Section T2
Section T3
Section T4
Concrete tiles_Detail Stone cube flooring_Detail
Deck_Detail
Stabilized earth_Detail
Lights_Detail
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Sitting areas
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traditional mansions in Siatista, Kozani of Greece
87h semester 2020
Historical Structural Forms
Location: Siatista, Kozani, Greece
Project description This project has been implemented within the framework of the course 08EX10_Historical Structural Forms, during the 8th semester of my studies (2020). It was a collaborative effort of 2 people. The main purpose of this course was to make students aware of the construction terminology, by entering them in a more practical architectural section. We were asked to find a small-scale building with noteworthy historical and structural value, in order to analyse its form. My group chose the traditional mansios of Siatista, buildings of eminent construction technique. Through detailed analysis of two textbook examples, we managed to image their main and secondary structure (both horizontally and vertically). Finally, we compared those two mansions with all the other ones that are located in Siatista, with the aim of cataloguing the differentiations between them, and the reasons why they exist. key words: form, structure, materials
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Nerantzopoulos mansion
Roof plan
Floor plans
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Section plans
Tzonos brothers mansion
Floor plans
Top view
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Section plans
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an alternative Child Care Institution
97h semester 2020 - 2021
Fixes-Fluxes-Futures
Project description This project has been implemented within the framework of the course 09EM14_Fixes-Fluxes-Futures, during the 9th semester of my studies (2020 - 2021). It was a collaborative effort of 2 people. The main purpose of this course was to make students aware of the difficulties when designing a welfare building, especially when it comes to a big-scale one. We were asked to design an alternative welfare building, through which the problems of such kind forms would be faced as much as possible. The building had to be in a real place, in Greece. After thorough investigation of the Greek welfare, my group discovered a good many problems in Child Care Institutions. We could say selectively that the most severe ones are institutionalization, absence of privacy and isolation. Those threats could be solved by creating a Foster Home with Kindergarten, as a different kind of Child Care Institution.
Location: Mikrolimano, Piraeus, Greece
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opportunities: socialization family environment close relationship between child-foster parents
Concept During the formation of our building, we ended up creating three main zones - volumes: private (inhabitants) communal (Kindergarten users) public (visitors) The Grid
Recesses - Projections
Openings
The building
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These three principles constituted our concept.
Site Analysis The building is located in a plot with schools (primary school-high school), in the region of Mikrolimano, Piraeus of Greece. Thus, our Kindergarten is complementary to the neighbour schools, solving the major usual problem of ghettoization.
Urban network
Sun
Land-use
Structured - Non structured
Transportation
Circulation system
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Building heights
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Site plan - 3D
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Section plans
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Indicative dormitories
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Lenght 60_Width 20_Height 25 Formation of architectural limits in places of worship
97h semester 2020 - 2021
Diploma Research Thesis
Bhaja Caves
Muṇḍeśvarī Temple
Temple of Jerusalem
Church of Panagia Acheiropoietos
Pune, India 2th century B.C.
Jerusalem, Israel 10th century B.C.
Bihar, India 7th century A.D.
Thessaloniki, Greece 5th century A.D.
Length 60, Width 20, Height 25 (cubits):
Masjid al-Ḥarām
These three dimensions describe the Temple of Solomon, a masterpiece of architecture that is said to be ordered by the God Himself. This sacred space plays a crucial role in the development of places of worship throughout the centuries and throughout religions all over the world. Thus, a question arises: Is it possible to limit sacredness within three-dimensional reality?
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Mecca, Saudi Arabia Unknown time
Samyé Monastery
Tibet 8th century A.D.
Jetavana Centre
Chuncheon-si, South Korea 2016
↖ Kailāśa Temple
Ellora, Maharashtra, India 8th century A.D. ↑ Krishnapuram Veṇkiṭācalapati Temple Tamil Nadu, India 16th century A.D.
← Temple in Stone and Light Barmer, India 2016
Masada Synagogue
Capernaum Synagogue
Monastir synagogue
Katholikon of Great Lavra Monastery Mount Athos, Greece 10th century A.D.
St Denis Cathedral
Chapel of the Taxiarches
Umayyad Mosque
Fethiye Mosque
Abijo Mosque
Southern Israel 1st century B.C.
Damascus, Syria 10th century A.D.
Northern Israel 5th century A.D.
Paris, France 12th century A.D.
Ioannina, Greece 18th century A.D.
Thessaloniki, Greece 1925-27 (2016)
Athens, Greece 1934
Lagos, Nigeria 2020
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The purpose of this particular thesis is an effort to analyse and study forms and structures created to depict architectural limits of sanctity, according to human beliefs expressed through Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Simultaneously, it is an attempt to trace the progress of the designing regarding these limits in each one of these religions and among them, as well. In this academic research, every religion is represented by an architectural paradigm, which is considered to be an exemplar. Moreover, multiple subsequent examples have been chosen, with a view to deeply understanding the purpose of sacred architecture, taking account of the major role of the limits in differentiating the sacred and the profane.
Overall, it may be said that there are eight designing principles responsible for the function mentioned above, which additionally influence the preparations before entering the Sacred, the gender-segregation, the salience of specific sections that are thought to be of significant holiness, the protection of the Sanctuary, that becomes of great value due to the altar inside. The mystic atmosphere is an additional technique to ‘imitate’ the existence of the Transcendental amid the pilgrimages or the worshippers. It is obvious that both the social discriminations and the deification of some mortals (or not?) are a part of this total.
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Circulation system
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Taking all things into consideration, we could summon up a wide variety of information and conclusions, making it easier to find the ideal perspective that an architect should present when it comes to the concept of ‘limits’, not only during designing religious buildings, but also in every of their creation, in such a way that architecture becomes a life experience and its outcome a ‘sacred space’.
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Resuscitation Restoration and adaptive reuse study of the H.M. of the Honorable Forerunner of Anatoli, mount Kissavos
107h semester 2020 - 2021
Diploma Design Thesis
Location: Anatoli, Mount Kissavos, Greece
Specifically, this building complex is known as the Holy Monastery of the Honorable Forerunner. It is a four-sided plan building complex, which surrounds the katholikon (Greek: καθολικόν – a monastery’s main church), with two or sometimes three floors.
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This particular diploma thesis constitutes a restoration and adaptive reuse study of a post-Byzantine monument, that has been built by the monk-martyr St. Damianos in the 16th century, to house a Christian orthodox community. Symbolically, we could call the whole operation a ‘Resuscitation’.
Construction Phases
The northern wing 1971
Nowadays, the old Monastery in Mt. Kissavos, is a part of a new monastic complex, which houses a cenobitic community of about 20 monastics from various countries from Europe, Asia, America and Australia. It is half restored, with the northern and the southern sides to be still in ruins.
The northern part of the eastern wing, in ruins
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2003
The vulnerability of the complex is being ensured, that one may say it will finally constitute an ‘alive’ heirloom for the next generations, not only as a set of values, but also as a material existence.
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The aim of this project is to suggest a restoration program that can be applied to the old monastic complex, by respecting its architectural identity, typology, morphology and historical value, and adding the characteristics that are needed, in order for it to be normally integrated in today’s context. They are combinated the old and original, with the ruined and historical and the new and strong, by commenting on the authentical form and solving the operational issues that have been caused by the numerous interventions, over the years.
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The entire project is stored both printed in the 4th Section of the School of Architecture of AUTH, and digitized online on https://issuu.com/dompap/ docs/_pages_compressed.
Academic
2016 - 2021
Domniki Papanikolaou
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