eleni gklinou Architect Urban Designer M.Arch, M.Sc Columbia GSAPP
SELECTED WORKS 2009 - 2016
eleni.gklinou@columbia.edu @EleniGklinou
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CONTENTS
EXARCHIA: A Micropolis in Flux 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP THE ATHENIAN DYNAPOLIS 2015 Summer, Columbia GSAPP OPEN PRISON: A Sociospatial approach 2013 Fall, A.U.Th. [RE] MADE IN NEWBURGH 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP WATER URBANISM: Paraíba do Sul River Valley; The Video 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP THE UNLOVING GRANDMOTHER and other regional tales 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP TO THE CORE; The Video 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP BLIND ATTEMPT II 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP AICHMOPHOBIA 2014 Spring, A.U.Th. RESIDENCE 101 2011 Fall, A.U.Th. EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2014 Fall CRIME & CINEMATOGRAPHY 2017 Spring POST-CRISIS TOURISTIC LANDSCAPES 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP LOS LAREDOS: American Cities + Systems 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP ANTIGONE: Theaters and Cultural Spaces 2012 Fall, A.U.Th. XENIA: From Design to Construction 2010 Spring+2009 Fall, A.U.Th. NOMAD’S LAND: Architecture for Extreme Conditions 2010 Spring, A.U.Th. FIRST IN LINE 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP TO THE CORE 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP URBAN INJECTIONS 2015 Summer, Columbia GSAPP PRIS[ON]/OFF: Open Juvenile Detention Center 2014 Fall, A.U.Th. URBAN SYNTHESIS 2012 Fall, A.U.Th.
URBAN DESIGN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN MAPPING RESEARCH MULTIPLE MEDIA WRITINGS & RESEARCH
urban design
FIRST IN LINE; 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP TO THE CORE; 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP URBAN INJECTIONS; 2015 Summer, Columbia GSAPP PRIS[ON]/OFF: Open Juvenile Detention Center; 2014 Fall, A.U.Th. URBAN SYNTHESIS; 2012 Fall, A.U.Th.
URBAN DESIGN
FIRST IN LINE A regional toolkit for linear re-centering
category Water Urbanism: Scales of Transformation [UD Studio III] project trigerring regional collaboration towards a linear urbanism team Hannah Beall, Nicki Gitlin, Eleni Gklinou, Grace Salisbury Mills faculty Kate Orff, G. Lassance, Z. Jamaleddine, P. Kempf, L. Kurgan, G. Mehta year 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP
The Mid-ParaĂba Valley in Brazil faces three complex and interrelated challenges: first, a state of post-industrial paralysis that is reinforced by the struggle of oncefundamental industries, such as the steel plant of CSN in the city of Volta Redonda, to re-establish their role; second, the
FIRST IN LINE
A regional toolkit for linear re-centering
absurd political divisions which disincentivize collaboration and have produced an unsustainable process of urban dispersal; and third, the vast environmental devastation: especially including the connected issues of deforestation and water pollution.
1948
1960
1941 CSN FOUNDED
A region of voids 1980
1990
After an unprecedented state-led industrialization, the valley found itself in a process of industrial urbanism: city and industry grew simultaneously, spatially, economically, culturally. However, a wave of privatizations in the 1990s marked a rupture in this symbiotic relationship, transforming it into a neutral one. CSN, the ‘mother’ of the region and the industry is now perceived as an unloving grandmother; in spite of holding a major stake, she maintains a somewhat indifferent position, narrating a not-sooriginal story of post-industrial challenges that quickly emerged, with vast amounts of vacant unproductive land prevailing in the Paraíba cities. SIMULTANEOUS GRO Yet, this vacancy extends well beyond individual urban centers, SPATIAL, CULTURAL, AND ECONO to a highly unique, regional asset: a vacant, linear right-of-way, owned by a company whose role in the region is begging for reinvention, and passing—by virtue of its industrial origins—through the entire region, crossing an endless variety of spaces and sites. Can this potentially connective device be activated, both at a regional and local scale? How could the region be re-centered around this linear piece of history?
A regional toolkit
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Observation flatbed
Raising ‘Right-of-Way’ Awareness Festival
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Fortunately, the ingredients already exist: there are locally manufactured flatbeds, and a disused rail running along the right of way—an easy way to inhabit the line. More importantly, there is a diverse array of parties with a vested interest in building a regional network of programs and spaces: cultural venues, reforestry labs, micro-commerce hubs, educational facilities, public spaces, to name only a few.
A metabolic corridor
It all seems fairly simple. Starting small at first, a network of programmed flatbed modules, could transform the right of way into a regional metabolic corridor. At once local and regional, mobile yet context-specific, the network of spaces, programs and needs created could offer endless possibilities for connections, catalyze new economies, foster new social dynamics and allow boundaries to be crossed.
Zoom-in in the city of Resende
mobile classroom
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MANUFACTURING
rainforest species
pattern park
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LOCAL DISTRIBUTION
ST commerce
office space
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recycling
LOCAL DISTRIBUTION
berms information center artistic scene
Zoom-in in the city of Volta Redonda
compost station
teaching garden
public restroom
habitat observatory
accommodation
greenhouse
benches
LOCAL DISTRIBUTION urban obsevatory
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bike rack
TEEL PRODUCTION
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exhibition area
amphitheater
rest area
Zoom-in in Barra do PiraĂ
CONNECTION TO EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
EARLY REGIONAL DEPLOYMENT FRUTA!
OPENING UP RIGHT-OF-WAY
TEMPORARY ACTIVATION OF ADJACENT VACANT LAND
With the small-scale concentration of people, density and programs, the region could gradually be re-centered around the line, allowing the impact of this corridor to extend beyond its immediate surroundings. The expansive vacancies which have long trapped the region in its paralyzed state could be re-injected with a new value, a new centrality, and new potential to propel the region into its next epoch. As the owners of this opportunistic urban layer, CSN and other industries would have a chance to re-establish themselves as regional figures. In addition, this re-centering could trigger new zoning types, encourage urban afforestation strategies: providing an alternative to the current trend of dispersed, disconnected and environmentallydevastating urbanism.
0-12 months
FREIGHT RAIL
TRANSVERSE CONNECTIONS
informação
1-3 years
PROGRAMMATIC LINK
INTEGRATION OF EXISTING FABRIC INTO RIGHT-OF-WAY
By virtue of its incremental, evolving nature, this system is open-ended: on the one hand, the network of flatbeds may become a permanent part of the regional fabric; on the other, it may trigger yet another phase of the ‘right of way’ as a connective regional corridor (such as a light rail system). Either way, the re-claiming of this linear armature provides a mechanism for enhanced regional collaboration and a strengthened identity of the Mid-Paraíba between the megacities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. By capitalizing on this fallow yet highly unique dispersed linear site, there is a chance to re-think the way ‘urbanism’ is done in a stagnant, post-industrial setting that is by no means an isolated circumstance. In the context of Brazil’s current political turmoil and threatened industrial economy, this strangely implementable toolkit presents one line of thinking forward.
Signage on overpass| Phase 1
Afforestation flatbeds on overpass| Phase 2
Evolution to light rail| Phase 3
Global Forest Watch, GFW (Sponsored by Google), WeFOREST Fundação Mata Atlântica, SOS MATA ATLÂNTICA Federal University of Rio de Janeiro or University, UFRJ University of São Paulo, USP Centro Universitário de Volta Redonda, UniFOA Centro Universitário Geraldo Di Biase, UGB-FERP Universidade Federal Fluminense, UFF Inst. of Preservation of the Paraíba Valley, PRESERVALE Mining Association Company of Rural Tourism, AMETUR Col. Teatral Sala Preta LOCAL ARTISTIC INSTITUTIONS RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS COMMUNITY CENTERS CITIZENS steel production, Volta Redonda - CSN hydroelectric hopper, Itatiaia - FURNAS automobile, Itatiaia - MICHELIN automobile, Itatiaia- HYUNDAI pharmaceutics, Resende- BioCHIMICO pharmaceutics, Resende- NOVARTIS automobile, Porto Real- NISSAN steel manufacturing, Porto Real- CSN GalvaSud electronics, Porto Real- MAN automobile, Porto Real- PEUGEOT glass manufacturing, Porto Real- GUARDIAN industrial biotech, Porto Real- DU PONT steel manufacturing, Barra Mansa- VOTORANTIM pipe manufacturing, Barra Mansa- SAINT GOBAIN industrial biotech, Volta Redonda- WHITE MARTINS brewing company, Volta Redonda- AMBEV
GO VERN MENT NGOS INSTI TUTIONS COMMU NITY REGIO NAL INDU STRIES
PARAÍBA REGIONAL ALLIANCE
Federal Institute for the Environment and Resources, IBAMA Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Envir. Institutes, INEA Federal Committee for the Paraíba River Basin- CEIVAP Rio de Janeiro State Agency of Water and Sewage- CEDAE Municipality of ITATIAIA Municipality of RESENDE Municipality of BARRA MANSA Municipality of VOLTA REDONDA Municipality of PINHEIRAL Municipality of BARRA DO PIRAÍ
RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS
MANUFACTURING
Implementation + stakeholders
3-10 years
GREEN FINGERS EXTEND FROM RIGHT-OF-WAY NEW “RIGHT-OF-WAY” ZONE INTRODUCED
EXPANSION OF RIGHT-OF-WAY INTO PUBLIC REALM &
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DEPLOYMENT
REUSE/REDISTRIBUTION
EVOLUTION+EXPANSION
EDUCATIONAL CULTURAL EVENTS PUBLIC AMENITIES
AFFORESTATION AGENCY
PERMANENT INTEGRATION
10+ years ADAPTIVE RE-USE
REDISTRIBUTED FLATBEDS
FRUTA!
ABSORPTION OF UNDERUTILIZED CORRIDOR SPACE
INTEGRATED TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE REGIONAL LIGHT RAIL
TO THE CORE An new economy for the Hudson Valley
SARATOGA SPRINGS
ALBANY
ATHENS HUDSON
KINGSTON
NEW PALTZ POUGHKEEPSIE
WALDEN
NEWBURGH
BEACON
CORNWALL
PEEKSKILL
OSSINING
YONKERS HUNT’S POINT
Also known as the ‘Apple Belt’, the Hudson Valley is home to a major cluster of apple production, extending from Saratoga Springs to Middletown
Also known as the “Apple Belt”, the Hudson Valley is home to a major cluster of apple production, extending from Saratoga Springs to Middletown.
NEW YORK CITY
APPLESHED CIDERSHED
THE HUDSON VALLEY REGION
APPLE GROWERS
SARATOGA SPRINGS
category Divergent Narratives, UD Studio II project urban revitalization founded on Newburgh’s manufacturing assets team Marshall Allen, Eleni, Gklinou, Chenxing Li, Nishant Mehta faculty Lee Altman, Justin G. Moore, Pippa Brashear, Liz McEnaney, Chris Kroner, Sandro Marpillero, David Smiley, Jin Taira, Nans Voron year 2015 Fall, GSAPP
TO THE C RE Marshall Allen, Eleni Gklinou, Nishant Mehta, Chenxing Li team Urban Design Studio II “Divergent Narratives” project GSAPP, Fall 2015 year
ALBANY
CIDER FARM L AW [ARTICLE 4A - NY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW]
FA R M C I D E R I E S M AY O P E RAT E A TA S T I N G R O O M WHERE THEY ARE ABLE TO SELL THEIR PRODUCT BY T H E P I N T L I M I T O N T H E A L C O H O L C O N T E N T RA I S E D F R O M 7 P E RC E N T T O 8 . 5 P E RC E N T
U S E E XC LU S I V E LY N E W YO R K S TAT E A P P L E S
HUDSON VALLEY APPLESHED HUDSON VALLEY CIDERSHED
ATHENS
APPLE GROWERS
HUDSON
MAJOR FOOD PROCESSING FACILITIES ANGRY ORCHARD & INNOVATION CIDER HOUSE
“To the Core” seeks to leverage the prolific industry of apple production and processing in the state of New York, in an attempt to catalyze investment and broader economic growth in the Hudson Valley region.
KINGSTON
NEW PALTZ POUGHKEEPSIE
WALDEN
NEWBURGH
BEACON
CORNWALL
PEEKSKILL
Building on the growing regional food and beverage industry, we propose the creation and branding of a local center in the Hudson Valley. Newburgh is ideal for such an endeavor, due to its convenient location on the intersection of Interstates 84 and 87, as well as its affordable industrial and commercial real estate and a labor force awaiting employment opportunities. Driven by a public-private partnership, the project proposes a phased approach to add a new element to Newburgh’s identity. The first step is the launch of an apple processing, cold storage and distribution facility, in addition to the establishment of the Newburgh Cider Company, an artisanal cider house to encourage entrepreneurship.
OSSINING
data source: NYS Apple Association
THOMAS O. MILLER AND CO. INC. GINSBERG’S FOODS C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS INC. PEPSI COLA VENDING COCA COLA VENDING GENPAK MILMAR FOOD GROUP II
YONKERS HUNT’S POINT
NEW YORK CITY
A missed opportunity “To the Core” seeks to leverage the prolific industry of apple production and processing in the state of New York, in an attempt to catalyze investment and broader economic growth in the Hudson Valley region. The Valley is home to two major apple production clusters, yet none of the processing facilities of the entire state. One cannot but notice the missed opportunity that lies here: while half of the annual apple produce is processed into added value products, all the processing seems to be happening exclusively in the Finger Lakes region.
Why in Newburgh? Building on the growing regional food and beverage industry, we propose the creation and branding of a local center in the Hudson Valley. Newburgh is ideal for such an endeavor, due to its convenient location at the intersection of Interstates 84 and 87, as well as its affordable industrial and commercial real estate and a labor force awaiting employment opportunities.
Translating existing assets APPLE LIFE CYCLE
CITY OF NEWBURGH
Newburgh Cider Co.
Driven by a public-private partnership, the project proposes a phased approach to add a new element to Newburgh’s identity. The first step is the establisment of an apple processing, cold storage and distribution facility, in addition to the establishment of the Newburgh Cider Company, an artisanal cider house to encourage entrepreneurship. The cidery would occupy a vacant industrial building adjacent to the already successful Newburgh Brewing Company and the large undeveloped hillside that was once eradicated during the urban renewal era, which would be transformed into a demonstration orchard.
Newburgh Cider Co.
NEWBURGH INSTITUTE OF POMOLOGY
PEDESTRIANIZATION
AMPHITHEATER
NEW FERRY ARRIVAL POINT
COMMUNITY ORCHARDS
“DWARF” NEW VARIETIES
NEW SUNY ORANGE CAMPUS
APPLE MARKET
Phasing Strategy
Community Orchards
Having gained a certain momentum, the next steps will be the creation of the Newburgh Institute of Pomology, an agricultural extension to the existing SUNY-Orange, that will provide training and education in close collaboration with the “living laboratory� that the orchard is. At the same time, community orchards provide opportunities for stewardship among the residents of the city.
Apple Market - Spring
Apple Market - Fall
As a new image and narrative is built, along with the economic growth, a new ferry port is proposed, linked to a pedestrianized Washington Street that facilitates the movement of visitors and tourists to the cider house, historic site of the Washington Headquarters and the successful small businesses on Liberty Street.
NYCHA INJECTIONS Urban accunpuncture in Brooklyn’s public housing developments
NYCHA INJECTIONS
category The Five-Borough Studio [UD Studio I] project urban acupuncture and incremental growth team Dhruv Batra, Eleni Gklinou, Surbhi Kamboj faculty Kaja Kühl, Ben Abelman, Brian Baldor, James Khamsi, Tricia Martin, Thad Pawlowski, Akil Matthews year 2015 Summer, Columbia GSAPP
Urban Injections Brownsville, Brooklyn
Batra Dhruv Gklinou Eleni Kamboj Surbhi
2050 acres
11,000 parking spaces
2550 ground floors
of all NYCHA OPEN SPACES
in 200 NYCHA developments
in 328 NYCHA developments
FENCED OFF
UNDERUTILIZED
UNUSED POTENTIAL
(includes courts, playgrounds, lawns, gardens, paths etc.)
Modify. Deploy. Mix. NYCHA Injections aims to navigate Brownsville, Brooklyn through a series of interventions that are to improve the residents’ perception and everyday interaction with their public and semi-public spaces. Open spaces are not scarce Brownsville, but they are rendered inaccessible as a result of boundaries -both physical and psychological. The design interventions, starting from a tactical approach and proceeding to larger gestures, are to be implemented along Sutter Avenue as a pilot site, in an attempt to ease the everyday transitions from public space to NYCHA developments.
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Phase1 1:DEDEACTIVATED PUBLIC SPACE ACTIVATED P BLIC SPACE STEP Modify the boundary
Phase NDER TILI ED SPLAND ACES STEP 2: 2 UNDERUTILIZED Occupy vacant lots steel frame structure
seating
parking on ground floor
planter boxes lighting
active playing
mobile stands
STEP
NYC A DEVELOPMENTS
MODIFY DE RADE ELIMINATE T E FENCE
CREATE NEEDED SPACES FOR T E COMM NITY
VARIETY OF COMBINATIONS
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STEP 3: NYCHA SE IN T E DEVELOPMENTS RO ND FLOORS Mixed use NYCHA!
EASY TO DEPLOY/ RETRACT
Phase 1: Modify The first phase attempts to create a better, more enticing threshold that will attract people’s attention and residents themselves to start using the already existing network of open spaces in their immediate surroundings. This new boundary, even more permeable, engages the elements of the fence, and takes advantage of their replicability. Through various combinations and along with the insertion of a cubic element, a new, low-cost urban equipment can be deployed immediately. Due to the open-ended character of the railings as well as the multiple uses that one can apply to a cube, the combinations are virtually endless; this new urban equipment, with cubes as benches, lights, charging stations, recycling bins, and planter boxes, can be a quick, easily implementable and adaptable way to transform the NYCHA common spaces into pedestrianfriendly landscapes.
Phase 2: Deploy The parking lots, as a vast infrastructure around NYCHA developments that remains underutilized, are the ground for the second intervention. A temporary grid with plug-in modules of various uses is applied, aiming to the creation of spaces for the Brownsville community to come together.
Deploying the grid
3m
6m
Phase 3: Mix As a final yet more permanent and invasive intervention, the change of ground floors’ use in proposed. This is characterized as a long-term approach, since its feasibility its minimal due to the various economic problems that NYCHA is facing, and tries to resolve everyday urgent issues in the developments.
Introducing retail to NYCHA
PRISON /OFF Open Detention Center in Silimna, Greece
category Graduate Diploma Design Thesis project alternatives to traditional incarceration spatial models team Veatriki Gavrielatou, Eleni Gklinou, Afroditi Manakou advisor Alkmini Paka year 2014 Fall, A.U.Th.
PRIS[ON]/ OFF Open Juvenile Detention Center in Silimna Greece
The new open detention center is proposed in close proximity to the urban center of Tripoli Arcadia (population: 47,000), in the central Peloponnese peninsula, a two-hour drive from the Greek capital. Due to the spatial requirements of an ‘urban village’ and the programmatic principles of open prisons that offer job opportunities related to the local, developing agricultural sector, the field of study is located adjacent to the village Silimna (population: 200). The main access to Silimna is realized through the main ring-road that connects the capital of the prefecture. Tripoli, with traditional and neo-traditional villages located among the scenic beauties of Mount Mainalon. A key point in the management of the proposal is the particularity of the site’s geomorphology. The succession and analogy of “armfuls” and “passages” presented, contribute to the emergence of characteristics that result in an intuitive and smooth transition-tour in the site. We proceed to the identification of four different qualities: the plateau, the cliff, the terraces, and the armful.
The urban context of Silimna and Tripoli
to TRIPOLI [20’ drive]
plateau
cliffs
SILIMNA pop.: 120 terraces
armful
ring road to Tripoli local site Access and context study
SCALE 1:5000 Study of geomporphological characteristics
Masterplan
administrative center services’ center
employment center residential center
Educational facilities
Habitation center layout
‘free’ prisoners modules collective public space combined entrances semi-private gardens The residential center is situated on the southern ‘armful’ and houses 100 prisoners, in housing modules. These are surrounded by the employment center and sub-centers that range in size and scale, where prisoners work on the cultivation and production of aromatic plants, sold either as fresh or or added value products. Therefore, the detainees gain new skills while spending productively the time of their incaceration. The prison’s educational facilities work in collaboration with the Forestry Department of the University of Tripoli, to test out new cultivation techniques in the prison grassfielads that function as living laboratories, and offer essential knowledge to youth that could be interested to pursue a future in that field after their release.
One of the particularities of the open prison system lies in the organization module of each cell block. The general population is divided in housing teams of 11-12 people and given a housing module. This module contains 11-12 cells [2.50m x 3.00m], as well as a common space with a living room, small kitchen, dining area and a laundry/ storage room. Instead of following the principles of row housing, the modules disperse in the given space, with a result highly characterized by a manufactured complexity and density inherent in greek traditional villages. The modules have combined entrances, in groups of 2 or 3, while each of them has access to a semi-private garden that can provide for part of the fruit and vegetable needs of each This prison model encourages the provision of housing for “free” prisoners as well, who have gained the trust of the authorities and are allowed to occupy 2 people houses, live independently, owning their keys.The general population modules [approximately 80% of the prisoners live there] is situated on the east side of the main access. At the same time, the “free” prisoners’ modules are situated along the west side of the main access. The two categories of housing enclose and define a collective public space. This area is mainly open-air, due to the favorable weather conditions in Greece, but also includes a common room available for group activities.
Accommodation facilities
Interior facades
Cell block module
The housing unit is organized in two distinct volumes: the collective space and the cells, arranged around an internal courtyard. The cells are prototyped as two storey modules. Although their nature is this of a repeated, prefabricated element, the challenge was to provide a space that in spite of its minimal dimensions, is divided vertically in two ‘blocks’: the ‘living’ zone and the ‘sleep/rest’ zone above.
secondary window
unit entrance
URBAN SYNTHESIS A composition in 330m x 230m
category undergraduate urban design project mixed-use neighborhood team Eleni Gatou, Eleni Gklinou, Afroditi Manakou advisors Nikos Kalogirou, Alkmini Paka, Anastasia Tzaka year 2012 Spring, A.U.Th. Greece
The ‘Urban Synthesis’ studio explored the potential of an imaginary site with predetermined dimensions [330m x 230m]. Devoid of context, this is a study on tabula rasa urbanism and a compositional exercise, where we were asked to invent our own scenario, programmatic rules and limitations by which we had to abide. This particular project aimed to the creation of a new mixed-use area with particular emphasis put on a strong public space of recreation and civic participation. We saw this venture as an idealistic response to the hyperdense conditions of greek urban centers which lack functional public spaces.
θURBAN SYNTHESIS
The composition used the natural elements as a point of departure; a waterfront on the southeast, combined with a gradual upward slope where introduced as an initial set of restrictions. On the northeast region, the highest point of elevation in this new urban neighborhood, the residents can enjoy a community center along with a cafeteria and an open park. This is also the starting point of a pedestrian bridge with an inclination, leading gradually to the waterfront which is also a designed landscape for active and passive recreation.
Public park under the elevated bridge
architectural design
‘ANTIGONE’: Theaters and Cultural; Spaces 2012 Fall, A.U.Th. XENIA: From Design to Construction; 2010 Spring+2009 Fall, A.U.Th. NOMAD’S LAND: Architecture for Extreme Conditions; 2010 Spring, A.U.Th.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
‘ANTIGONE’ Theaters and Cultural Spaces
ANTIGONE Theaters and Cultural Spaces
category architectural design project department of theater studies facilities team Veatriki Gavrielatou, Eleni Gklinou, Afroditi Manakou faculty Alexandra Alexopoulou, Petros Martinidis year 2012 Fall, A.U.Th.
WHERE? The site is situated in Thessaloniki’s historic center, on the junction of Tsimiski and Ethnikis Amynis Streets. Main characteristics of the area: high congestion during rush hours, noise nuissance and the gradual transformation of low density and height buildings, to dense and high-rise constructions. Adjacent to many cultural and recreational spaces (Royal Theater, State Theater of Northern Greece, Alexandrian Theater, White Tower, Expo, Central Municipal Library), the site in currently a parking lot, on an important axis with a highly commercial front, without a “breath” of public space.The elements described above, pose “introversion” as the key element to this composition. WHO? The creation of a micro-climate, a vibrant public space, not only to be used by the Theater Department students, but by all the citizens of Thessaloniki, will function as a space of interaction and culture. Protected by the noise and high congestion, a small plaza is designed, on the borderline of the historic and commercial center of the city, which remains open to the public.
Initial study models
Learn. Perform. Interact.
Floor 1 and 1/2
A space open to the public, that can be used as anything: from setting up an impromptu open-air cinema, to designing scenery, painting costumes, rehearsing you latest modern dance moves. Or just relaxing. That works, too.
dance Dance lesson room locker rooms + showers
roof +22.00 +21.00
sing Dance lesson room locker rooms + showers
3rd FLOOR +17.00 learn Free-hand and painting class Seminar rooms (x5)
act Acting classes + locker rooms + storage (x4)
2nd FLOOR +12.75 exhibit Permanent exhibition space Foyer
1 and 1/2 FLOOR +8.50 control Control booth Lighting Catwalk/ Grid
Open to the public. Can be used as rehearsal space, open-air cinema, fab-shop, painting, dancing, exhibition space or any art-related activites
research Library + reading spaces Videotheque Mediatheque
1st FLOOR +4.25 perform Ticket Booth + Foyer Wardrobe Restrooms Smokers’ room Theater (150 seats) Backstage
work Individual working stations for students (x 38) in four rooms
teach Dean’s Office Administration and Archive Office spaces for professors (x14) Office spaces for visiting professors (x8)
GROUND FLOOR +0.00
make Scenography lab + storage Costume Design lab Textile dye shop Washer, dryer, ironing room + storage
relax Entrance School Cafeteria Kitchen +Storage
14 [m] 7 0
Ground floor plan
14 [m] 7 0 0
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14 [m]
First floor Plan
Second floor Plan
Third floor Plan
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14 [m]
Dance Classroom
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2
4
8 [m]
Theater floor plan [Arena]
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Theater floor plan [Italian]
XENIA
From Design to Construction
XENIA From Design to Construction
category architectural design project small hotel complex with spa facilities team Eleni Gatou, Eleni Gklinou faculty Eduardo Castro, Tasos Tellios, Mimi Daniil year 2010 Fall - 2011 Spring, A.U.Th.
Physical model
Hotel facilities design has always been a matter of paramount importance to Greek architecture, considering the economic strength that tourism provides the country with. The need to produce a space that would convey the spirit of greek philoxenia (hospitality) triggered our try to implement traditional Greek architecture characteristics in a modernist building. The site’s proximity to the waterfront as well as the views from the complex have been the main issues to assess in this synthesis. Five longitudinal volumes follow a localisation process on the site, keeping in mind the optimum orientation. A grid of flows facilitate visitors’s movements, leading them to the main parking and reception (south of the stream), or a secondary parking and athletic facilities (north of the stream). The volume placed on the south of the composition houses the main entrance and reception (west), along with a multipurpose hall (east). A number of 110 visitors can be hosted in two “room” volumes, which transcend the shoreline and fly over the sea.
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50 m
Top view
50 m 25 0
Ground Floor - Plan
50 m 25 0
First Floor - Plan
Typical room and Suite - Plan
Typical room - View
50 m 25 0
Basement - Plan
Private spa rooms - View
Office
Office
Infirmary
Spa - Plan
Typical Room - Plan
D6
D8
D1
Section A-A
D7
1 Vegetation 2 Planting soil layer 3 Gravel 4 Soil retention membrane 5 δ Draining layer (8cm) 6 Root protection membrane 7 Polymeric Waterproofing Membrane 8 Inclination layer 9 Vapor retarder 10 Thermal insulation 11 Reinforced concrete slab 12 Cement mortar 13 Metal brace 14 Wooden panel (2cm) 15 Metal cap 16 Wooden panel 17 Metal brace system supporting panels 18 Plaster 19 Water proofing layer 20 Reinforced concrete 21 Rotating mechanism 22 Wooden louver
Detail 4 - Green Roof
D4 D5
D3
D2
Typical room and Suite - Plan
Typical room - View
Nomad’s Land Architecture for Extreme Conditions
category architectural design project dwellings for immigrants + small medical center team Eleni Gatou, Eleni Gklinou, Afroditi Manakou instructor Fani Vavyli, Eve Dova, Thalia Grigoriadou year 2010, Spring; A.U.Th.
NOMAD’S LAND Architecture for Extreme Conditions
Section A-A’ Scale 1:100
Floor plan Scale 1:100
The project’s objective is the creation of a residential “episode” for semi-permanent people. Providing housing to such heterogeneous groups of people that immigrate from place to place -not in the context of alternative nomadism, but of social need- is the main goal that architectural design is challenged to achieve. The design of transportable elements such as two types of original housing units and a medical center, is approached aiming at the creation of a housing site for immigrants. Based on the dimensions of a typical container and the philosophy of “all in a shell”, two transferable housing units have been created, along with a third one that functions as a “parasite”. The combination of the three house a small medical center for small-scale emergencies.
Detail 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Wooding flooring (plywood) Insulation Wooden substrate Metal suspension Tube beam 80mm*80mm Polystyrene panel 40mm White chromadek Aluminium window Wooden plank
Autonomous as it is, each unit creates spaces to be used and lived in the maximum, keeping in mind the parameter of the minimum needs of its transfer, as well as the one of the living time -possibly prolonged- in such a situation. Nevertheless, combined with each other, the units not only cover the adaptability issue, according to the needs of every family, but also create common public or semi-public spaces that can alter the behavior of the complex to an equivalent of an “urban web”.
‘Parasitic’ Unit
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White chromadeck 5mm Polysterene panel 40mm Metal suspension MDF panel 20mm Sliding solar panels Polysterene panel 40mm Tube beam 120mm *120mm Insulation Sliding aluminium window
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As far as the organization of a residential neighborhood is concerned, a clearly space-defined web of the unit is proposed. A web whose characteristics of configuration do not aim to form a de facto situation-proposal at an urban scale. Instead we form a diagram/ equation in flux, which will function as a trigger for the application of similar gestures of residential design. These gestures can be used not only as a solution to the immigrants’ housing problem, but also as an innovative way to fill urban voids with various kinds of activities and uses, based on existing demand.
mapping research
POST-CRISIS TOURISTIC LANDSCAPES 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP LOS LAREDOS: American Cities + Systems 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP
MAPPING RESEARCH
category research and data visualization, UD Seminar II project essay and mapping team individual project faculty Kate Orff year 2015 Fall, GSAPP
[...] Any recent unemployment map can showcase the predictable bleak spots (almost two-thirds of under-25 year-old Athenians and Barcelonans are out of work) but also some surprises. Even cities that are otherwise doing fairly well are having serious trouble integrating young people into their workforces. If Europe’s big cities are growing, it’s often because they are attracting people from outside—not just immigrants, but migrants from within the same countries. This is not the case in the Athenian workforce landscape, which is declining at an alarmingly fast pace. Due to an economic expulsion that has started feeding an extensive population mobility, the Greek hinterlands, which remain urban by definition, are bound to power ahead to their capital. An exodus from the larger urban area, not large at scale, but definitely noticeable, is underway for the educated youth that chose to see recession as inspiration. In search for the “next
big thing”, yet conscious of the arduous conditions, they seem to have simplified the equation; unspoiled, widely available natural resources, plus a wealth of culture and history, both pillars of the identity that Greece has been trying to build, equal a new portfolio for tourism. This is where geotourism comes in. A tendency to a new form of tourism that is interested in the identity of specific landscapes [natural, cultural, traditional] through the lens of their geological richness. One may say that geotourism is exclusive to scientists of relative fields; and he will be vastly mistaken. Exactly because paradigms shift as their subjects’ needs shift. One of these unspoiled, almost undiscovered landscapes is the karst landscape of Arcadia, situated in the Peloponnese Peninsula, an hour away from Athens. The convergence of three tectonic plates [Eurasian, African, Arabian], which
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are constantly acting, at a very slow yet forceful way, have established the Greek and specifically the Arcadian landscape as a rich geological realm. However, the karst landscapes of the eastern area of the prefecture are not as common in its western part. The geology, nonetheless, remains largely the same. The bedrock of carbon rocks is still present, but this time in the form of lignite. It goes without saying that the Anthropocene has made its presence quite visible, even in the Arcadian countryside. The repercussions of the relentless yet inescapable decision of establishing a lignite extraction plant have been obvious in the health of locals. The emission of chemicals that derive from the burning of lignite, are daily inhaled by the 3.000 inhabitants of Megalopoli, which is located five minutes from the plant, as well as the 35.000 inhabitants of Tripoli, twenty minutes away. But this is one facet of the issue.
Pollution occurs daily with random leaks and deviation from regulations that dictate the proper disposal of harmful materials is concerned. The aforementioned chemicals find their way into the groundwater and travel through the natural karst hydrological infrastructure towards both directions; east towards the Gulf of Argos, not far from Leonidio, and west towards the Gulf of Kyparissia, going through a different administrative region. From groundwater, to soil and to the sediments of the river Alpheios, the pollution and destruction of the underground karst geomorphologies by anthropogenic particles [78.4% of which derive directly from lignite] are an imminent risk, not only to the well-being of the whole peninsula, since water infrastructure does not respond to boundaries, but also to the potential investment in this landscape to be productive, not through an economy of resource extraction, but an economy of tourism that is largely vital and vibrant in the country.
project research and data visualization team Marshall Allen, Eleni Gklinou, Karan Daisaria year 2015 Fall, GSAPP
LOS LAREDOS
multiple media
[RE] MADE IN NEWBURGH; 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP WATER URBANISM: ParaÃba do Sul River Valley; 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP THE UNLOVING GRANDMOTHER; 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP TO THE CORE: the video; 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP BLIND ATTEMPT; 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE; 2014 Fall AICHMOPHOBIA; 2014 Spring, A.U.Th. RESIDENCE 101; 2011 Fall, A.U.Th.
MULTIPLE MEDIA
[RE] MADE IN NEWBURGH
category video and multiple media project short film exploring manfacturing as a growth mechanism for Newburgh, New York team independent project; advisors Lee Altman, David Smiley year 2016 Spring, Columbia GSAPP
You can find the 3 minute video describing the project here: https://vimeo.com/206718530
Fro m s team engines to pocketb ooks , in d u s trial m an ufactu ri ng sha ped the city of N ew b u rg h , N ew York an d its c i ti zens ’ l ive s. However, wit h larg es cale m an u factu rin g l eavi ng the city and be ing re p laced by m ore s u b u rb an typ o l o g i es o f industry locate d ou ts id e th e city ’s b ou n d aries , t he chal l enges sta rte d soa ring an d b u ild in g u p a s in g u lar q u es ti o n: wha t ca n the ne w econ om ic d rive for t h e cit y of Newbu rgh be? Ma n u fa ctur i ng i s m ak i ng i ts way ba c k to N ew b u rg h; a nd i n s p i te of not offering t h e vas t am ou n t of job s t h at l a rg e co rporate investments wou ld , it b rin g s reinves tm en t a nd p o s i ti ve pre ss. Loca lity, a n ot ion cen tral to th e p h il os o phy o f the se busine sses , is in d eed q u in tes s en tial, s i n ce i t does more than one t h in g : rein forcin g t h e lo ca l econ omy in the long-run, while g row in g d eep root s in th e co m m u ni ty. T he imp rint of ti m e on New b u rg h ’s u rb an fab ric is t h e c i ty’s wo rst e nemy a nd ma jor as s et . Th e af ford ab le in d u s tri al and comme rcial re al es tate in n eed of res toration , a l o n g wi th a fa scina tion with th e “old ”, d rive t h e inves tm en ts i n for m er i ndustr i al fa c i l i ti e s an d wareh ou s es . As a trans forma tion pattern is on it s way, a h ig h ly s p atial q u es ti o n arise s: how do the i n d u s t rial d is t rict s of t h e f u -
t u re l o o k l i ke? I s o u r i ndu st r i a l a rc hi te ct u re t ra nsi t i o ni ng f rom a su bu r ba n, m a l l u r ba ni sm to m a nu fa ct u r i ng facili t i e s l o ca te d i n t he u r ba n co re? I f so , w ha t i s t he ro l e an d re spo nsi bi l i t y o f u r ba n de si gn a s a di sc i pl i ne t ha t in teg ra te s m u l t i pl e fu nct i o na l i t i e s i n o ne pro j e ct ? I f t he retu rn o f i ndu st r i e s i s t he e ngi ne o f N e w bu rgh’s re vi ta l izatio n, how do de si gne rs wo r k w i t h ne w co nce pt u a l m o dels and spa t i a l co nfi gu ra t i o ns o f i ndu st r y t ha t a ddre ss t he s p ec i fi c i t y o f t he “ l o ca l ” ? H owe ve r, t hi s spe c i fi c i t y ex i st s w i t hi n a co ntex t -re gi o nal, n a t i o na l , a nd gl o ba l . T he va r i e t y o f i ndu st r i a l m e t hod s , fro m l a rge fo ot pr i nt s o f ce nt ra l i ze d i nfra st r u ct u re to s m a l l de ce nt ra l i ze d syste m s o f di st r i bu t i o n, i s pa i ntin g t he pi ct u re o f a ne w, di ve rse m a nu fa ct u r i ng se cto r. Th e c ha ngi ng na t u re o f m a nu fa ct u r i ng a nd a n e du ca te d work fo rce have i m m e di a te spa t i a l m a ni fe sta t i o ns; i ssu e s t h at a re di sc u sse d i n t he fi e l ds o f u r ba n pl a nni ng a nd re a l es tate de ve l o pm e nt . I f c i t y a nd i ndu st r y go ha nd i n ha nd an d i nfo r m e a c h ot he r ’s fo r m a l c ha ra te r i st i cs, w he re do t h e la rge r fo rce s o f re gu l a t i o ns a nd r u l e s sta nd? H ow ca n t h es e be u pda te d so a s to u ncove r t he be ne fi t s o f ne w a nd in cre a se d m a nu fa ct u r i ng a ct i vi t y? A nd how to br idge an i n d u st r ial c it y ’s att r ibute s w it h high qualit y o f life fo r i ts re s ide nts?
WATER URBANISM ParaĂba do Sul River Valley
category Water Urbanism: Scales of Transformation, UD Studio III project introductory video team individual (advisors Petra Kempf and Guilherme Lassance) year 2016 Spring, GSAPP
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You can watch the entire ten-minute video here: https://vimeo.com/164212897
1. Introduction
2. Global challenges due to population explosion
3. Atlantic Rainforest degradation
4. Comparison of the Mid-Paraiba Valley to New York
5. CSN: the steel mill in Volta Redonda
6.Vacant properties in Volta Redonda owned by CSN
7. Interview on the industry’s symbiotic relationship with the city
8. Air and water contamination
9. Mobility patterns
THE UNLOVING GRANDMOTHER and other regional tales
category Water Urbanism and Scales of Transformation, UD Studio III project research and analysis booklet team Hannah Beall, Nicki Gitlin, Eleni Gklinou, Grace Salisbury Mills year 2016 Spring, GSAPP
THE UNLOVING GRANDMOTHER
& other regional tales Association of Unloving Grandmothers* [Limited edition release]
A framing of the Mid-Paraíba Valley
Hannah Beall | Nicki Gitlin |Eleni Gklinou | Grace Salisbury Mills
*Affiliated with Columbia GSAPP Urban Design Spring Studio, 2016
You can see the entire framing of the Mid-Paraiba here: https://issuu.com/eleni.gklinou
A REGIONAL TOOLKIT
CHALLENGES 03 MATA ATLÂNTICA DEFORESTATION
A regional toolkit, for linear re-centering A regional toolkit, you say? But what are the tools!? And how on earth do they work!? And isn’t linear re-centering a paradox anyway?! As described throughout the previous pages of this book, the Mid Paraíba faces numerous challenges: political divides, a state of post-industrial paralysis and vast environmental devastation. Yet, the region also possesses a highly unique asset: a vacant, linear right of way, owned by a company whose role in the region is begging for re-invention, and passing—by virtue of its industrial origins—through the entire region: crossing an endless variety of spaces and sites. Can this potentially connective device be activated, both at a regional and local scale? Can CSN’s regional role be re-cast through the process? Indeed, could the region be re-centered around by this linear piece of history that has long been forgotten? Fortunately, the ingredients already exist: there are locally manufactured flatbeds, and a disused rail running along the right of way—an easy way to inhabit the line. More importantly, there is a diverse array of parties with a vested interest in building a regional network of programs and spaces: cultural venues, reforestry labs, microcommerce hubs, educational facilities, public spaces, to name only a few.
The Deforestation Pandemic Under the pressures of economic globalization, urbanization, and uncontrollable population growth, deforestation has gradually transformed from a regional and national challenge, into a ‘wicked problem’ that traumatizes the entire continent of South America. In the past 15 years, over 38,338,733 hectares of Brazil’s rainforest have been destroyed (Global Forest Watch, 2015). The severe repercussions of this— tremendous environmental devastation and general loss of habitat—are only exacerbated by economic and political discrepancies. For example, large scale efforts of habitat protection or reforestation, although existent, typically happen in a disorganized manner, due to complicated political structures. Ultimately, the systematic eradication of both the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest needs to be visualized at a continental scale. The repercussions of an environmental devastation this massive transcend national borders and raise critical questions of transnational, if not global responsibilities and actions. 38
It all seems fairly simple. Starting small at first, a network of programmed flatbed modules, could transform the right of way into a regional metabolic corridor. At once local and regional, mobile yet context-specific, the network of spaces, programs and needs created could offer endless possibilities for connections, catalyze new economies, foster new social dynamics and allow boundaries to be crossed. But what of the unloving grandmother? Through this gradual linear re-centering, the expansive vacancies which have long trapped the region it is paralyzed state could be re-injected with a new value, a new centrality, and new potential to propel the region into its next epoch. As the owners of this opportunistic urban layer, CSN, and other industries would have a chance to re-establish themselves as regional figures.
38,336,733 ha of Brazilian rainforest have been lost in the past 15 years - Global Forest Watch, 2015
Perhaps, then, the unloving grandmother, and the region could have a long, productive and transformative conversation. Heck, there might even be tea and cookies. 39
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TO THE CORE the video
category video and moving image, UD Studio II project series of videos team Marshall Allen, Eleni Gklinou, Chenxing Li, Nishant Mehta faculty Lee Altman, Justin G. Moore, Pippa Brashear, Liz McEnaney, Chris Kroner, Sandro Marpillero, David Smiley, Jin Taira, Nans Voron year 2015 Fall, GSAPP
REC
You can watch the entire three-minute video here: https://vimeo.com/152349419
1. Introducing a missed opportunity
2. Newburgh’s assets
3. Newburgh’s assets: the attraction of new manufacturers
4.Educational aspect of the apple industry
category physical model, UD Studio II, Divergent Narratives project conceptual interpretation of Newburgh and Beacon team individual project faculty Lee Altman, Justin G. Moore, Pippa Brashear, Liz McEnaney, Chris Kroner, Sandro Marpillero, David Smiley, Jin Taira, Nans Voron year 2015 Fall, GSAPP
BLIND ATTEMPT II
category Visual Arts II project installation design team individual project faculty Dimitrios Fragkos, Fenia Pagoni year 2014 June, A.U.Th.
aichme + phobos| AICHMOPHOBIA
Correlated with the diploma thesis “Pris[on]/ off”, this project aims to comment on the various aspects of incarceration, that every prisoner confronts: prelude, (d)elusion, necrosis, time, release. Focusing on the “Prelude”, and widely influenced by the works of Mona Hatoum, as well as Carole Bove’s manipulation of scale, the project is expressed as a light construction/ installation. Its dimensions have been specified as such, in order to cause a slight feeling of claustrophobia and general discomfort to the visitor. With a height of only 6 feet and sharp objects dispensed from the roof, the visitor will “run” to the exit, which is adequately narrow, with a width of only 2 feet. The goal is to leave the visitor with new thoughts on small, confined spaces and the constant fear of living on a “sharp” edge, considering, however, that the exit is available at any time.
category installation project installation design and construction team S. Chrysikopoulou, N. Efklidou, V. Gavrielatou, E. Gklinou, A. Taki, E. Triantafyllidou faculty Dimitrios Fragkos, Spiros Papadimitriou year 2011 February, A.U.Th.
Residence 101 served as an introduction to a series of wooden constructions designed and built during the “Dwelling” workshop.
“Dwelling” workshop| RESIDENCE 101
category graphic design, non-academic project official logo design competition team individual project year 2014 Fall
TRIPOLI 2021 candidacy| EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE
category graphic design, non-academic project seminar posters team individual project year 2017 Spring, Panteion University
CRIME AND CINEMATOGRAPHY
writings & research
EXARCHIA: A Micropolis in Flux; 2015 Fall, Columbia GSAPP THE ATHENIAN DYNAPOLIS; 2015 Summer, Columbia GSAPP OPEN PRISON: A Sociospatial approach; 2013 Fall, A.U.Th.
WRITINGS
category human rights and urban public space project essay on the intersection of protesting and public space team individual project faculty Noah Chasin year 2015 Fall, GSAPP/ Institute for the Study of Human Rights
“Mapping urban landscapes and piazzas of insurrections is important in understanding the role of the urban landscape and the recurrent spatialities in political transition” (Leontidou, 2012) and one of these long-lasting paradigms for Athens is the neighborhood of Exarchia. Starting out as the cradle of resistance against the German Occupation of 1941 (with the formation of E.A.M, the National Freedom Front, collaborating closely with the Communist Party of Greece), the Exarchia Piazza moved on to be a key character in the student uprising and the anti-junta revolt that ended in bloodshed on November 17, 1973. In 2008 a process of social fermentation started again in the area, with the killing of a teenager, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a policeman. The rage and daily violent confrontations of teenagers with the authorities functioned as the declaration of “independence” for other social groups in the magnetic
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realm that Exarchia is. Combined with what turned out to be the unraveling of a deeply rooted fiscal, political and social crisis for years to come in Greece, a shift occurred: from secret, ‘underground’, and privately expressed verbal manifestations of resistance (against austerity measures, discrimination, you name it), to a sudden, bold occupation of the public realm and space, by numerous and differing social groups. Leftwing anarchists and conservative police authorities come and go as a plethora of grassroots and activist movements strive for equality, equity and solidarity in the public space of the city, as the only way to move through the socio-economic discrepancies. This essay explored the multivalence of Exarchia, not only as a space of protest and a place of identification but also as a collection of highly constructed and divergent narratives, as an imperium in imperio controlled by anyone and no one.
category research, urban history and theory project essay on C. Doxiadis’ vision for Athens, Greece team individual project faculty Noah Chasin, Anthony Acciavatti year 2015 Summer, GSAPP
THE ATHENIAN DYNAPOLIS
[...] For the renowned Greek architect and planner Constantinos Doxiadis, settlements and cities are living organisms, evolving ones for that matter. A city is quite similar to a human body with nerves, arteries, and a heart. At the time the planner was forming his hypothesis and proposal, the state of Athens was morbid; with a hypertrophic heart/center, and an “anemic periphery” (Doxiadis 1961, 21), this particular organism was marching towards death at a vigorous pace. Doxiadis clearly states that the new plan should re-establish the human factor, since “we must look forward to build a civilization of billions and that can only be achieved by not looking back to old organizational forms”. He rejects the idea of decentralization in its birth, having a firm belief that an open-minded planner ought to strive for new ways, rather than borrow past strategies that have already been proven wrong. Indeed, decentralization as a tactics seems to be unwilling to provide a definitive solution to the original problem: a center that acts as a static receptor for continuously increasing flows of population is surrounded and smothered by a radially ever-expanding periphery. Admittedly, this strategy would offer immediate alleviation to the pressured center, since the population movement could be channeled towards strategically chosen sub-centers. However, the rhythm at which the pressure is being augmented cannot be controlled with small scale tactics, and the center would soon be inundated with sprawl, flow, and speed, leading to its death. In this case, not only will the new “improved” city end up with a cancerous cell/ center, but with multiple metastatic cells/sub-centers that will eventually take over its entire organism. One can only wonder if this urban “mitosis” can be at all beneficial, or if the architect was right to believe in a complete change of mentality when it comes to re-branding the function hosted in the urban fabric. [...]
category research project Diploma Research Proposal| Dissertation co-authors Veatriki Gavrielatou, Eleni Gklinou advisors Kyriaki Tsoukala, Charikleia Pantelidou year 2013 September, A.U.Th.
A Sociospatial Approach| OPEN PRISON
Complete Dissertation in greek: https://issuu.com/eleni.gklinou
A synthesis of problematiques on urban sociology and the deterministic values often inherent in architectural decisions was the trigger that revealed the topic of open prisons: new ideas, observations and case studies about a relatively new, but well-established system of incarceration, widely present in Scandinavian countries. In conjunction with a brief consideration of the penal system, its evolution and principles, as well as the birth of Correctional Sciences, this dissertation contemplates on the sociological aspects of incarceration. The spatial conditions present in and imposed by prisons are highly specific and have been the subject of an everlasting discussion; one that has been revolving around the moral responsibility of the architect and the spatialities of terror produced in the current models of prisons. What can we learn by focusing on design as a key-element that plays a crucial role in incarceration rather than debating its right to participate in penal punishment?
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