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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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| disclaimer

For the content of this book the following software has been used:

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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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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DESIGN

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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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