Portfolio 2017

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ELISSaVET PErTIgKIoZogLoU hArvArd n AT i O n AL

G r A d u AT e T ec h ni cA L

SchOOL u ni ve rS i T Y

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PrEfaCE i consider architectural design as a process leading to inventions. This term implies a process of development through experimentation that leads to novel creations. it involves research, design and making. All of these aspects inhere in each of the projects, however each time one of them is highlighted.

Based on a given context, one wonders how another reality could be composed.Research and theory lead to speculations that depart from an existent reality, but, after all, address priorities, intentions and strategies.

Design proposes a new reality that cannot be flawless, since it is not the absolute solution to any of real life controversies, but rather a dialogue with them. Making is the final completion of design. in this book, the stories of my architectural inventions unfold, partly by narration and partly by documentation and argumentative formulation.

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CITY-CUB E MUSEUM museum for the city of Athens

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UrBan rE-CoVEr re de si gni ng an ur ban square

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SYMBIoSIS medellin experimental Social

IMPrInTS representations of the athenian polykatoikia

waLL UnDEr CanoPY

research

community center in pumanque, chile

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PILE UP 3d printed clay

T U n I n g PaT T E r n S Transformable acoustic panel

roLL Software

make 1:1 PErIoDIC aSCEnT Geometric explorations with medial curves

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CITY-CUBE MUSEUM NEW MUSEUM FOR THE CITY OF ATHENS NTUA ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 7&8 | S 2013 COLLABORATORS: AXAOPOULOU A., POLYDORA I. INSTRUCTOR: PAPAIOANNOU T. , PAPALEXOPOULOS D.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

BLOcK cOrner deFiniTiOn

AcceSS & circuLATiOn

deTAchmenT

ConCEPT & InTErgraTIon STraTEgY The museum is conceived as an ‘ark’ that hosts precious exhibits, while narrating Athens’ histories, constructing its imaginary analog. conceived as the heterotopia of Athens, a virtual Athens, the museum’s main building is a cube- detached from the ground and floating above the layer of the city, like Foucault’s ship “closed in on itself and at the same time poised in the infinite ocean”.

The main volume of the museum is placed on the edge of the building site in order to define the perimeter and perceptual unity of the urban block. This operation contributes to a gradual transition from the height of the adjacent two-story neoclassical building to the ten-story office across the street .

Also, a large portion of site is left as open-air space, highlights the building’s public character.

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ATHENS CITY-CUBE MUSEUM

DESIGN

Program Distribution The functions related to the museum, including the reception, the administration and the exhibitions are incorporated within the cube. Other complementary programmatic functions -such as library, auditorium, restaurant- are placed close to the city’s ground or into it, in direct relation to the urban flows.

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ATHENS CITY-CUBE MUSEUM

Permanent

Exhibitions

Temporary Admin

administration

Reception

Library

Library

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DESIGN

structure The bearing structure of the museum is from reinforced concrete. Special attention has been given to the earthquake resistant design of the framework, which requires a grid of walls vertical to each other. Both the faรงade and the ramp are suspended from the main structure, by a secondary metallic framework.

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ATHENS CITY-CUBE MUSEUM

First Level- Reception

Ground Floor - Restaurant

Top Level- Exhibition Space

Second Level- Administration

Spatial Articulation Within the cubic prism, each level is different: it rarely occupies the whole perimeter in order to create double height spaces that enable views.

There are two types of vertical accesses: one expanded and slow through the ramp and a short one through the staircase and elevators.

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DESIGN

GROUND FLOOR DETAILED PLAN

FIRST FLOOR DETAILED PLAN

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ATHENS CITY-CUBE MUSEUM

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1. prefabricated concrete panel 2. metallic Truss for stiffness 3. metallic Beam ipe | 140x130mm 4. insulation | 70 mm 5. Lightweight prefab concrete Louver

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6. metallic Beams h | 80x46 mm 7. Sandwich-voided concrete Slab

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DESIGN

The ramp | a promenade Walking slowly and heading to the exhibitions, one can look inwards, in the double-height space of the museum entrance, he can see others and be seen.

At the same time, a view outwards, relates him to the city of Athens. The way up is a procession that prepares him for accessing the introverted exhibition spaces.

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ATHENS CITY-CUBE MUSEUM

Main Exhibition | the end of the tour The significance of the last stop is emphasized by the double height. The light penetrates the space only from above.

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U R B AN R E - COV E R REDESIGNING A PUBLIC SQUARE NTUA URBAN DESIGN STUDIO 8A | S 2013 COLLABORATOR: AXAOPOULOU A., POLYDORA I. CRITICS: BABALOU B., PAGONIS A.

This project call s the re-designing of a public square that currently fail s to act as a condenser of public life. The square is located in the historic center of Athens, exactly at the point where the neoclassical par t of the cit y meets the medieval with the narrow streets and arcades. The proposal choses to manifest the dif ferent spatial and historic layers of the cit y that currently coexist imperceptibly and to attribute to the t wo par ts of the cit y an urban space with distinct qualities.

DESIGN

Neoclassic Urban Grid

Medieval Urban Grid

Trace of Ancient Wall

Topography

SITE-InTErPrETETIon The square is lying in the coalescence of the old ottoman (medieval) urban grid and the new neoclassic one. it is related axially with the neoclassic trilogy –three buildings with significant symbolic value for the Greek State. under the level of the existing square, a double-floor car parking coexist ironically with the trace of the ancient Themistoclean fortress wall. The concept of different spatial and historical layers of the city was employed to address the complexity of the site and consisted a point of departure for design.

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URBAN RE-COVER

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DESIGN

URBAN RE-COVER

SYMBIoSIS MEDELLIN ExPERIMENTAL SOCIAL HOUSING

PERSONAL | COMPETITION ArchMedium 2014 RECEIVED HONORABLE MENTION COLLABORATOR: AxAOPOULOU A.

The proposal’s aspiration is to intensify the city’s porous infrastructure with new - less univocal - facilities by integrating a flexible, lowcost housing program into medellin’s center. The implementation of residential use is translated in a system of ‘symbiotic parasites’, placed on top of existing buildings in a mutually beneficial relationship (existing vertical accesses, reinforcement of infrastructure).

DESIGN

narraTIVE

no demolition is required!

The main structure is erected and the service units are provided. here comes the crane

Service unit

maria 27 married 1 child secretary

Jose 40 married 2 children engineer

Teresa 30 single mother 1 child nurse

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SYMBIOSIS

Stages - incremental Strategy The first stage of the process is a structural space-grid (depending on the ‘host’ features) and the location of vertical facilities -wet spaces-, around which are placed the apartments, in a user generated way, based -according to the needs- on a module of approximately 10 m2 .

The possible ways of combining them forms an interval space between public and private sphere. This semi-private yards in each floor act as multipurpose spaces (recreation/production), organizing the dwelling into small neighborhoods, shared by average four apartments.Our aim is to establish the conditions that will allow diverse kinds of social life to flourish.

The proposal in the given plot illustrates the above. ‘Parasites’ placed on the two ground-level markets and onto the office building define three hybriddwellings, characterized by tertiary use on ground and porosity at top floors.

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DESIGN

pLAn 1ST LeveL

pLAn 2nd LeveL

dWeLLinG TYpOLOGY FOr FAmiLieS

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SYMBIOSIS

dWeLLinG TYpOLOGY FOr FAmiLieS

dWeLLinG TYpOLOGY FOr STudenTS

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RESEARCH

IMPRINTS OF AN URBAN MYTH REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ATHENIAN POLYKATOIKIAA ACADEMIC NTUA | DISSERTATION THESIS | PUBLISHED 2015 COLLABORATOR: AXAOPOULOU ANNA PROFESSORS:TOURNIKIOTIS P.,TSIAMBAOS K.

Polykatoikia –the Athenian post-bellum apartment building- is revisited as an urban myth - a myth that largely indicates the practices of building and inhabiting space during the following decades.

A multifold of factors linked to the way of production, the legal framework, the ‘promoted’ lifestyle, defined the modular unit that seems to have produced, through its repetition, post-War Athens. In order to better understand the banal, we go back to the first post-war decades a period that precedes and prepares for the extensive ‘cloning’ of apartment buildings the coming years, in a retroactive quest of the genetic grammar that enabled to this widespread bottom-up reproduction.

Since Polykatoikia’s emergence as a multivalent ideal was boosted mainly through the media of the period, an architectural magazine named ‘Architectoniki’ - published during the decade 1957- 1967- and aimed also at a broader reading public- was selected as the main source of material. The various publications were employed as different narratives about our main issue of concern, that codify and reveal clues about the urban Model, its Rules and Norms, while consulting the occupants with its Home Guide and promoting commercial Messages.

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IMPRINTS OF AN URBAN MYTH

RESEARCH

Afterward The disassembly of the reality into consecutive and equivalent narratives constitutes the imaginary of Polykatoikia that is finally ‘consumed’ by readers of ‘Architektoniki’. Images from bourgeois apartments succeed advices on how to furnish your modern home or how the post-war urbane subject should entertain him/herself. Through the systematic investigation of the archive material and the personal reconstruction of its narratives, this dissertation explores how cultural patterns reflect on organization and hierarchy patterns, space syntax and typology abide by written and unsaid rules and norms. The issue of whether magazine’s narratives illustrate the real dimensions of postwar Athenian inhabitation is of little importance for this dissertation. After all, they demonstrate a potential reality and the development of a common language between architects and users enables the engagement of both in design and construction process. A mythology around the urban housing model of Polykatoikia.

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IMPRINTS OF AN URBAN MYTH

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RESEARCH

COLLAGE FROM MAGAZINE’S COVERS

MAPPING PUBLISHED APARTMENTS IN RELATION TO THE STATUS QUO OF THE REGION BOOKLET SPREADS

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IMPRINTS OF AN URBAN MYTH

SpAce SYnTAx AnALYSiS OF puBLiShed ApArTmenTS

cOmmerciALS nArrATive - cOLLAGe BOOKLeT SpreAdS

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WA L L U N D E R C ANO P Y COMMUNITY CENTER IN PUMANQUE, CHILE

ACADEMIC AHO | SCARCITY AND CREATIVITY IN LATITUDE 34S awarded for Excellence in the use of Timber by AHO COLLABORATORS: AHO STUDIO PROFESSORS: HENSEL M., HERMANSEN C., SANDNESS S.

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MAKE

TOP VIEW

groundfloor plan

In SCL34S studio, our team undertook the design and construction of a new community center for the town of Pumanque in Chile, which was devastated by the February 2010 earthquake. The project features an envelope, articulated as a timber screen-wall and incorporating two multi-purpose rooms , and an auxiliary membrane structure . The membrane canopy, suspended above the wall structure, casts shadow to the roof terrace and the courtyard and it is pertinent to the warm, dry Mediterranean climate of the region. The construction took four intensive weeks.

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WALL UNDER CANOPY

Backyard

construction process

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MAKE

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WALL UNDER CANOPY

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input geometry

anchor points fabric tension stiness

springs from mesh global simulation settings

forM-fInDIng ThE MEMBranES design questions concerned the number and sizes of membranes, their precise location and geometry and the articulation and dimension of the primary structure were addressed in a manner that recognises their interrelation the further design and structural elaboration.

tension simulation

WALL under cAnOpY

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03 sub-sheets cut & wires arc radius span & height generated geometry

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corner cuts

Stresses can be split into pure compression and tension forces. force vector analysis

windload safety

estimated tension force

computational associative modelling in Grasshopper / rhino was employed in order to facilitate the integration of design criteria, structural analysis, and resulting shading pattern, as well as providing the geometry for producing the membranes.

MAKE

MaKIng ThE MEMBranES in order to prepare the membranes, the textile had to be cut into strips in such a manner that, when sewn together, it would result in the double curvature of the membrane with minimal distortion. The number of strip pieces was defined by the criterion of economy of material.

The generated surfaces were patterned on the basis of geodesic lines, which minimize the cloth usage and the angles between textile weaving and surfaces’ principle stresses.

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WALL under cAnOpY

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MAKE | RESEARCH

P I L E U P. 3 D P R I N T E D C L AY

ACADEMIC GSD | MATERIAL PRACTICE AS RESEARCH: DIGITAL DESIGN AND FABRICATION COLLABORATORS: YUAN MU, JOHAE SONG, MATH WHITTAKER INSTRUCTOR: LEIRE ASENSIO VILLORIA

When the profile of a gothic column gradually turns into the foundation of its vault, it produces a coherent geometric transformation of its structural skeleton. Base on this observation, this research proposes a re-interpretation of ceramic construction by using 3d printing technique.

The project concentrates on exploring the role of additive manufacturing and the possibility of clay as individual component in catenary system.

It was developed in two parallel directions, which composed an interactive workflow: First the design development of an experimental structure and second the practice on the printing technique.

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PILE UP

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MAKE | RESEARCH

FOrm FindinG prOceSS

FOrm GenerATiOn OrnAmenTATiOn

Slic3r

Slic3r

cOde GenerATiOn FABricATiOn

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PILE UP

phOTOS FrOm The FABricATiOn prOceSS

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MAKE | RESEARCH

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PILE UP

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MAKE | RESEARCH

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PILE UP

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MAKE | RESEARCH

T U N I NG PAT T E RN S TRANSFORMABLE ACOUSTIC PANEL ACADEMIC GSD | NANO- MICRO - MACRO: ADAPTIVE MATERIALS LABORATORY COLLABORATORS: MAX VANATTA INSTRUCTORS: BECHTHOLD M., AISENBERG J.

Auxetic materials consist of the repetition of single geometric units. When compressed/stretched along a particular axis, they expand /contract in directions orthogonal to the applied load and create open and closed systems. The project explores the application of such structures in architectural applications, such as a transformable acoustic panel, which adapts to different acoustic requirements of multipurpose spaces.

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TUNING PATTERNS

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MAKE | RESEARCH

TrAnSFOrmATiOn in 2d

TrAnSFOrmATiOn in 3d

TrAnSFOrmATiOn in 2.5d

After multiple experiments with such formations, a planar square grid, which transforms in three dimensions is proposed (2.5d). The extraordinary property of this system is that it transforms in a way that the boundary of the overall geometry remains constant, something not in common for auxetic structures.

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TuninG pATTernS

prOTOTYpeS OF mechAniSmS

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MAKE | RESEARCH

PROTOTYPE Assembly details

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TUNING PATTERNS

prototype of the final product

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MAKE | RESEARCH

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roLL

Without Repulsion

SOFTWAre GSd | INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN cOLLABOrATOrS: ZAch cOhen, diAnA YAn inSTrucTOr: pAnAGiOTiS michALATOS

Equators Field

Meridians Field

in 3d modelling, spheres are impossible to unroll in without Circular Field topological distortion. consequently, the fabrication of spheres is a challenging and imprecise task. roll is a computational program that exploits the “sphere problem” by leveraging the impossible physics of modelling environments to create a novel method for the discretization of spherical surfaces: instead of unrolling the surface, roll wraps it up.

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TrAce WiThOuT repuLSiOn

rOLL

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Affected Affected Field Field diAGrAmS FrOm SimuLATiOn SOFTWAre

mAppinG OF veTOr FieLS On Sphere

TrAce WiTh repuLSiOn

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Output Samples Roll Roll Output Samples

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The unique topographies created through roll simulations are then input to a robotic fabrication software, which was hacked to optimize tool path trajectories. The robotic arm deposits thread on to an inflated fabric sphere to create globe-like artifacts that embrace the struggle of describing complex geometries through computation and fabrication.

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End Affector Optimized

Threading Tool

Optimized End Affector

Threading Tool

ROBOT TOOLPATH DIAGRAMS

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PErIoDIC aSCEnT GEOMETRIC ExPLORATIONS WITH MEDIAL CURVES

AcAdemic GSd | DIGITAL MEDIA II cOLLABOrATOrS: YuAn mu inSTrucTOr: AndreW WiTT

An infinitely extensible and adaptable vertical circulation system derives from a set of interlocking circles. This project explores the formation of complex geometries based on the manipulation of simple curves as paths that define topological relationships.

The logic of curve skeletons is applied to the set of interlocking circles. The outcome is a medial surface that represents the ascent.

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PERIODIC ASCENT

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mediAL SurFAceS FrOm inTerLOcKinG circLeS

SOLid vOid reLATiOnShipS

circLe pAcKinG ArOund SKeLeTOn curve

circLe pAcKinG ArOund SKeLeTOn curve

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PERIODIC ASCENT

mOdeL phOTOS

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