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POR T F O L I O
A R C H I T E C T U R E & S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y 2015-2018
SELECTED PROJECTS E I R I N I S FA K I O TA K I
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What fascinates me about architecture is the puzzle the architect has to solve, the optimal design solution he has to come up with given the circumstances: time, money, place, needs, demands, vision. The game of negotiation among the parties, the assessment of resources and possibilities and the personal interpretation aiming at adding qualities and be innovative, are endless and simulating.
“architecture is about negotiation, assessment & interpretation�
| my design process
Rem Koolhaas
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Rotterdam
Circularity
Athens
History
Social sustainability
Urban cohesion
Delft
Durability
User experience
Connectivity Eindhoven Tasckent
Locality Tradition Participation
Lisbon
Architectural diversity
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This porfolio aims to showcase selected projects by Eirini Sfakiotaki from her academic and professional work from 2014 until today. The copyrights of academic projects are shared property of the student and the educational institution, while the copyrights of the professional projects belong to the architectural firm of employment.
Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Revit Sketchup pro V-Ray Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesige Adobe Illustrator Vabi -EPA -W Vabi -EPA -U IES-Virtual reality
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Eirini Sfakiotaki was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She graduated from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) with a Master’s in Architecture (2006-2012) with specialization in Habitation and Urban renewal. In a multicultural context, she has worked as a trainee architect in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (IAESTHE 2010) and studied as an exchange student in Lisbon, Portugal (ERASMUS 2011). In 2013, she decided to prolong her studies in the domain of Sustainable Buildings’ Physics in Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/Eindhoven); as she believes that in a world where nearly 40% of primary energy consumption is attributed to the building sector, sustainable design is today more imperative than ever. She graduated as a dual Master’s holder in Architecture and Building Physics and Services from the
eirini.sfakiotaki@gmail.com
department of Architecture, Building and Planning, in August 2015 with specialization in Cultural Heritage and Sustainability.
+0031 639143286
Since her second graduation in the Netherlands she has been working Architects, Delft, on new designs and refurbishments with strong affinity in architectural design of nearly energy zero buildings, as well as detailing and building realisation.
www.linkedin.com/in/eirini-sfakiotaki/
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as an architect and building physisist in the team of Urban Climate
www.instagram.com/sfeirini/ https://nl.pinterest.com/sfeirini/ 5
“Refurbishment” (active-adaptation): to combine earlier / later activities, subtract the exceeding and add the required forms and components (Pereira, 2007) “Reconstruction” (passive-rebuilding): to rebuild the building partially or totally, based on historic documents (Pereira, 2007) “Built new” (active-reconstruction): design new buildings while reusing the existing urban fabrics, infrastructures & services (Pereira, 2007)
“Energy -zero transformation” : to intervene in the building aiming in almost zero energy footprint by applying passive and /or technical measures (RCE, 2011)
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| definitions
“Adaptive reuse” (active-adaptation): redesigning the building for old or new activities according to contemporary needs, without damaging essential heritage qualities (Nelissen, 1999)
HOUSING COMPLEXES professional
p. 8 Urban renewal
concept / my design / drafting / presentation products
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN professional
p. 20 Seft-sufficient tiny houses
concept / my design / drafting / presentation / building application
p.22 European climate change academy
conceptual my design / presentation products
p. 25 Energy zero transformation
research / my design / energy calculations
p. 24 Adaptive re-use
research / my design / energy calculations
COMMERCIAL professional projects
p.14 H&M facade renovation
concept / my design / rendering / presentation products
member of design team / facade drafting / rendering / detailling
p. 12 Vertical garden
concept / my design / drafting / building application
p. 14 “De Worldring”
member of design team / facade drafting / rendering / detailling
| content & my role
EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS academic
p. 10 “Het schuurtje”
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What defines how people live their lives in societies, in groups? Is it culture, geography, habit, familiar, collective memory that defines the rules of co-existence? I am fascinating by travelling & observing how people live, how they orginise their -unknown to me, societies and how they live in them. The mass habitation is an extrovert action, an attestation of those intangible rules that define and organise the co-existence in different environments.
woman in Cairo
woman in Rotterdam
“nowadays, despite existing crisis, individuals & groups do not claim for a shelter like 19th century, neither for an apartment like 60s. They claim for their right to the city and for quality in habitation“ Anni Bryxaia 8
| 4 stories about co-habitation
I like to design collective housing complexes in environments I first explore, in order to attribute new qualities to old values through architecture. Co-habitation reflects the quality of living for groups of people, therefore reflects a great part of societal status. In addition, housing complexes represent a great part of the energy footprint in cities. Those are the reason why we should seek for solutions to redefine and improve those models constantly.
Adaptive reuse
Upgrading existing building stock
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Den Haag
Rotterdam
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Circularity History
Social sustainability
Urban cohesion
Water front
Co-habitation Green spaces
Connectivity Resilience Renewable energy
Eelde
Architectural diversity Locality Integration
Participation
Groningen
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Tradition
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URBAN RENEWAL How to transform an office building into collective housing, while reassuring urban diversity & architectural qualities after the refurbishment ? Collective housing The Hague, The Netherlands Based on raising habitation demands in the city center of The Hague, arises the need of transforming an existing office building into housing complex. Maix axis of pre-design process is to read the grid
Building
of the existing building and take into consideration the surrounding built environment. By keeping the grid of the typical Dutch house, a
Recreation
composition of three architectural qualities generates the new design: one grid is used for the side facades, another for the predominant but airy corner and a third one for penthouses that complete the skyline
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of the design. The corner of the buildings acts as the bone structure of the complex and integrated exterior balconies & green elements. The groundfloor consists of a double-storey commercial plinth and is a continuation of the commercial zone of the city-centre. Status: Functions: Year: Gross floor space:
in progress 13 shops & 43 apartments 2017 7700 m2
concept / my design / drafting / presentation products
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ENERGIE AMBITIE Gasloos
CO2 free Groen dak
basement -1
1st floor
4st floor
PV panelen
Licht-LED
Rc-waarden
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basement -2
2nd floor
5nd floor
groundfloor
3rd floor
6rd floor
top view
A++
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“HET SCHUURTJE” What if we designed a contemporary habitation shell, by driving inspiration from archetype forms of the past?
Collective Housing
In a current commercial zone, across the monumental church
Eelde, The Netherlands
“De Dorpskerk” in the center of Eelde, a new residential block is to be designed. Inspiration is retrieved from the typology of “boerderij voor & achterhuis”, as it is recognised to be the predominant housing type that shaped the urban evolution of Eelde to its contemporary image. The design aims at investigating if a habitation form of the past can be mutated into a contemporary shell, that will enrich the image of the village and the habitation experience of the users. Two processes are happening simultaneously: one is the application of new urban regulation standarts (BKP) in collaboration with the municipality
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of Tynaarlo and the second is the design process in the building
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level. Primary goal is to reassure coherence in the center of Eelde.
Status:
in progress
Function: Year: Gross floor space:
32 apartments 2016 4600 m2
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member of design team / facade drafting / rendering / detailling
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Permeability
VERTICAL GARDEN
Masa
Open space
Circulation
Voids
How to design a collective housing building with positive impact on the saturated urban tissue by using as design tools the exterior space & green elements? Collective housing Den Haag, The Netherlands The location of the project is challenging as the back facade faces a narrow alley, two meters wide. The alley divides the urban lot in two parts and the route in-between is of no urban quality. The proposal investigates how to introduce a design for a housing complex with 19 apartments that will offer high quality living standarts for new users, and improve the ones of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Core idea for the design solution is to creat a green open space in the heart of the lot, in connection to the interior alley. A cube of mass is subtracted from the original building volume in order to generate a vertical garden; for private use for the inhabitants of the complex and in public view for the
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passenger/ inhabitant of the neighbour.
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Status:
in progress
Function: Year: Gross floor space:
19 apartments 2017 2500 m2
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“DE WOLDRING” LOCATIE How to design a self-standing co-habitation cell as a uniform yet diverse urban block in connection to the waterfront?
Collective housing Groningen, The Netherlands “De Woldring” is a big scale, ambitious housing project located in Groningen. The project hosts 436 new apartments and it is shaped according to the sourrounding context. The building creates a barrier against the highway and opens towards the water front. The design is influenced by the movement and exposure to the sun, so the building
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itself to block the sound but let the light in. The roofscape is covered in
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solar panels aiming in lower energy footprint and healthy inner climate. Status:
construction phase
Function: Year: Gross floor space:
436 apartments, 2019 28.000 m2
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135 betonwand 270mm minerale wol 90mm
Opbouw Bi-Bui (Rc=5,0): - gipsplaat 12,5mm - OSB 9mm - dampdichte folie - stijl- en regelwerk 38x170mm - isolatie 170mm - isolatieplaat 50mm - spouw 33mm - metselwerk 100mm
multiplex 18mm
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afdichting
Dilatatievoeg
relief in metselwerk
triple glas (U=0,8) aluminium kozijn
D1
150-P
1550-P
tegels 50x50cm
prefab beton traptrede
prefab betonrand prefab beton traptrede
beplanting
D1 480+P
prefab beton traptrede prefab betonrand
beplanting tegels 50x50cm
prefab beton traptrede
720-P
D2 20
prefab beton traptrede
prefab betonrand
prefab beton traptrede
project
1630 Friesestraatweg 145 plattegrond fragment
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D2 triple glas (U=0,8) aluminium kozijn
1355-P
1400-P
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betonen kantplank 1550-P
project
1630 Friesestraatweg 145 Doorsnededetail AA
schaal
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21 tekening
formaat
A3
datum 7-11-2017
Sustainability is nowadays often perceived as the need of adding green roof on a building or lowering the energy footprint. Apart from the technical aspects, sustainability has a lot of forms and in the name of circularity it has to be achieved in all of them: social, environmental, economical. The notion of sustainability varies based on the context: in a developing country it can be the an efficient design, based on available, cheap & local materials aiming in durability. In a developed country it can be the optimisation of a sensor aiming at balancing energy efficiency and user comfort in a building.
sustainability in Cambodia
sustainabiliy in the Netherlands
“with the right design sustainability is nothing but the rigorous apply of common sense” Alejandro Aravena 22
| 4 stories about sustainability
I believe that “sustainability” should not be seen as an independent goal but as a decision- making tool in the design process. While trying to achieve sustainability in the sense of energy efficiency, optimal solutions are sometimes in contradictions with aesthetic ideas, functional needs, urban rules or preservation demands of buildings. Architects trained in sustainability issues and work within interdisciplinary teams is essential in order to find optimal solutions within the frame of possibilities.
Upgrading existing building stock
Aquapinics
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Amsterdam
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User profile
Selfsufficiency
Low energy footprint
Seasonal gardens
Green roof
Connectivity
Amsterdam
Water storage
User comfort
Renewable energy
Historic atrtibutes Zero-energy transformation
Adaptive reuse
Eindhoven
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Tradition
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WORKSHOPS & EXHIBITION AREA
The particular design is a roof extension on the top of an industrial building. The existing building is used as workshop/ exhibition area and offices by artists and designers. The users wish to extend their activities on the rooftop and create space for exterior installations, exhibition routes and small office units with the ability to be movable. In order to cover their needs, the idea of designing self-sufficient, tiny houses on the top of the building is generated. Status:
in progress
Function:
How to enrich the roof-scape of an industrial building? How to design a self-sufficient village of tiny houses?
Year:
13 tiny houses 2017
Gross floor space:
1300 m2
two layers of workshop / offices area tiny houses on the roof top Tiny- houses
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Den Haag, The Netherlands
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concept / my design / drafting / presentation / building application
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EUROPEAN CLIMATE CHANGE ACADEMY
Institution Amsterdam, The Netherlands
European Climate Change Academy
How to design a complex that uses buildings as platforms of innovation?
Aquaculture
Financial sector
SEASONAL GARDENS
WATER STORAGE
Green roof
Power storage
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AQUAPONICS
Smart industry
Research
The awareness against climate change is gaining momentum and the need to create a platform that will combine research, investors and manufacturers is today more imperative than ever. The European Climate Change Academy has as ambition to be an institution that will facilitate the knowledge transfer among partners involved. The connectivity of groups of interest in a dynamic environment needs to find a spatial expression. Apart from the spatial expression, design challenge is to generate a circular, healthy and energy natural complex that will use buildings as innovation platforms. Status: Functions: Year: Gross floor space:
concept proposal academic/ research/ conference /meeting 2017 25000 m2
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GREENHOUSE
SOLAR CELLS
Cultivation
Renewable energy
CO2 FACADE FILTERING Microclimate
Program
Social space
Green space
Climate zones
conceptual my design / presentation products
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Could active rehabilitation reassure continuity for vulnerable historic buildings while preserving historic attributes?
ADAPTIVE REUSE Post-war designated primary school building Amsterdam, the Netherlands THINK
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ECONOMICAL & ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION
The school of Pieter Jelles Troelstra in New West, Amsterdam is highly appreciated as a historic building; however a demolition decision has been issued. The design research, through the case study, examines if and how a historic school, built in 1956 can foster a contemporary educational institution. suggesting rehabilitation which meets current requirements, instead of demolition and replacement. Status:
academic project
Function:
primary school building
Year: 2014 Gross floor space: 28
1700 m2
I rehabilitation
This investigation points out a different strategy to be adopted,
research / my design / energy calculations
ENERGY- ZERO TRANSFORMATION
Could a modernish building from the past be transformed into a contemporary landmark of sustainability for the future?
research / my design / energy calculations
Hoofdgebouw TU/Eindhoven Eindhoven, The Netherlands
LINEAR APPROACH
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CIRCULAR APPROACH
Historic and heritage buildings play a vital role in the existing image of cities, as they carry the sense of the past in the contemporary built environment. Although research indicates that heritage and historic buildings have energy saving potentials, the difficulty lies in organizing and designing energy efficient interventions that will not induce loss of building can be transformed into a low energy footprint building while applying interdisciplinary strategies and partially preserve architectural qualities. Status:
academic project
Function:
educational building
Year: 2013 Gross floor space:
18000 m2
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heritage qualities. The case study investigates if and how a modernistic
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| 1 story about inspiration There are always cracks for interventions in the built environment that constantly mutates in front of our eyes, partially due to architect’s role. For that architect to mature, design practices and experiences are often not enough. With intangible tools such observation of people & cities, cultures and environments maybe the architect inside of me grows one day and manages to have a small, small impact in this big, big world.
Photography
Travelling
Sustainability
STRP Biennale
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Urban research
Dutch Design Week
FACADE RENOVATION
How to design a translucent facade that will use light traces to lead the user inside?
concept / my design / rendering / presentation products
Commercial facade Doetinchem, The Netherlands
The H&M franchise is looking for a new face for Doetinchem branch. The design of the facade is inspired by the work of the fashion designer Usha Doshi, and in particular by her publication ‘‘creating with shapes”. The white, minimalistic folding lines on fabric are used as inspiration to design a twodimensional folding facade where the density of light traces emphasis the entrance. The facade panelling used is translucent and seamless. Status:
construction phase
Function:
commercial
Year:
2018
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