Portfolio 0.1: Akis [Evangelos] Polykandriotis

PORTFOLIO

Selected works 2010-2018

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*NOTES* All collaborators participated equally throught out all phases of deisgn. Some illustrations though were modified by me in order to be featured in this book of work samples.

CONTENTS CV

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JUNCTIONS ON THE CITY DIPLOMA DESIGN THESIS • URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE OCTOBER 2016

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DETAIL DIPLOMA RESEARCH THESIS MARCH 2015

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C+VIEW MUSEUM DESIGN STUDIO • CULTURAL • MUSEUM 5TH SEMESTER • SPRING 2013

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SPERANZA INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION • INTERIOR DINING SPACE DOMES INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ARCHITECTURE • FEBRUARY 2018

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VITAL VESSELS ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION • HOUSING • SKYSCRAPER D3 COMPETITIONS • JANUARY 2014

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/BE-TWIN/ DESIGN STUDIO • CULTURAL CENTER • PUBLIC SPACE 8TH SEMESTER • SPRING 2014

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ABOVE/BENEATH DESIGN STUDIO • HOUSING COMPLEX • PUBLIC SPACE 7TH SEMESTER • FALL 2013

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CHRYSALIS ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP • ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION • PUBLIC LIBRARY 314 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO• SEPTEMBER 2015

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CURRICULUM VITAE A K I S

P O L Y K A N D R I O T I S

PERSONAL INFO

91 Megalou Alexandrou st,17121, Athens, Greece +30 697 690 51 42 akis.pks@gmail.com

EDUCATION 09.

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Diploma in Architecture [5 year professional degree] Department of Architecture University of Patras, Patras, Greece G.P.A.►8.89/10 [Summa Cum Laude] High School Diploma Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece G.P.A. ►19.4/20 [excellent]

WORK EXPERIENCE 05.

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COMPETITIONS Cook 8 “The New Dinning Place” Domes Interational Review of Architecture International Deisgn Competition • Project: “Speranza” • Team: Y.Giannakopoulos-Tselikas Casablanca Bombing Rooms BEE BREEDERS competitions • Open International Architecture Competition • Project: “Chrysalis” Team: P.Chatziangelidis [lead architect], E.Demiri, G.Zaharopoulos, I.Bountouva, M.Kalliora, S.Kontinou, S.Monachogios

MOLD Architects Iliana Kerestetzi [founder] • Athens, Greece

Dear Architecture Blank Space • Open International Architecture Competition • Team: S.Monachogios

►Freelance Architect • Post-production tasks ►Intern Architect • Concept development, preliminary phase, [3D modeling, 2D drawings, animation video] for an open-air public theater • On-site survey for house renovation

D3 Housing Tomorrow 2014 D3 Competitions • Open International Architecture Competition • Project: “Vital Vessels” • Supervisor: Prof. Yannis Patronis • Team: C.Loizou, R.Charalamboudi, S.Monachogios, V.Chairopoulou

314 Architecture Studio Pavlos Chatziangelidis [founder] • Athens, Greece

Tokyo Replay Center ArchMedium Student Compertitions • Open International Student Architecture Competition • Project: “peek-a-light” • Supervisor: Prof. Yannis Patronis • Team: G.Giannakopoulos-Tselikas, S.Monachogios

►Intern Architect • Participated in “Casablanca Bombing Rooms” Competition • concept development, 3D modeling, 2D drawings, visualization

MILITARY SERVICE Presidential Guard of Greece Evzone Soldier • Syntagma, Athens, Greece

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WORKSHOPS Architectural Association [AA] Greece Visiting School “Folded Force: Projections ” • Patras, Greece Faculty: A.Kallegias [Program Director], K.Liapi Ph.D [Patras Coordinator], O.Palmer, S.Dourtme, O.Ibraz, M.Brewster, A.Papamanolis, D.Milona E.P. PORTFOLIO

22.09 2014 02.10 2014

EXHIBITIONS 16.06 2018 31.07 2018

14.03 2018 27.06 2015 31.07 2015 6.10 2014 3.10 2014 11.10 2014 25.03 2014 29.04 2014

Cook 8 "The New Dinning Place" Exhibition Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece ► Project: "Speranza" GR.AD Review Conference - Exhibition Ianos, Athens , Greece ► Project: “Junctions on the City” [Diploma Design Thesis] AA Projects Review 2015 AA main building, AA, London ► Project: “Folded Force: Projections” Imagine the City “Patras 2014 Exhibition” Agora Argyri, Patras, Greece ►Project: “Folded Force: Projections” ►Project: “above/beneath”[Design Studio7] ►Project: “/be-twin/” [Design Studio8] D3 Housing Tomorrow 2014 Exhibition Atrium Gallery, Gerald D.Hines College of Architecture , University of Houston, Texas ►Project: “Vital Vessels”, Curator’s Selection

PUBLICATIONS 2018

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Diploma Design Thesis “Junctions on the City” • GR.AD Review Magazine "Extrovert Architecture in Greece" Issue 02, 2017, page: 153 & gradreview.gr [e-magazine] Casablanca Bombing Rooms “Crysalis” • archisearch.gr [e-magazine] 314architecturestudio.com [Studio’s website]

DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS Cook 8 "The New Dinning Place" Entry shortlisted in top 42 out of 280 projects GR.AD Review “2016 Diploma Design Thesis Award” • Top 5 equal awards out of 53 projects by architects and designers in Greece

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Presidential Guard of Greece “Honorary Distinction” for excellent execution of Evzone duties

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Limmat Stiftung Foundation of Zurich “Award of Academic Excellence” for graduating with the 3rd highest GPA in 2016

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D3 Housing Tomorrow 2014 Entry shortlisted as “Curator’s Selection” Fellowship for Myconian Locals “Commendation” for diligence in academic performance for academic years: 2009-10, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16

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ACADEMIC ESSAYS Detail: Unveiling the Architectural Consistency Diploma Research Thesis Team: S.Monachogios Supervisor: Prof. Athanasios Spanomaridis

SKILLS & DEXTERITIES

AA Greece Visiting School “Folded Force Projections” • ek-mag.com, archisearch.gr, suckerpunchdaily.com, elculture.gr [e-magazines], conversations.aaschool.ac.uk [AA forum website], greece.aaschool.ac.uk [AA Greece visiting school website]

Digital: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros [3D Modeling & V-Ray Render], Grasshopper [Algorithmic Modeling], Maya [3D Modeling, Animation & Mental-Ray Render], Adobe Creative Suite [Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, LightRoom], Microsoft Office Analog: Hand Drawing, model making [laser cutter & Foam cutter]

D3 Housing Tomorrow Competition “Vital Vessels” • “Housing Tomorrow” [d3 journal], d3space.org [d3 website], arch.upatras.gr [Patras Department of Architecture website]

OTHER ACTIVITIES Graphic Design: edit 15 Scientific books registered in the National Library of Greece, T-Shirt Design for the Presidential Guard Hobbies & Interests: Hiking & Trekking, Bicycling, Photography, sketching, painting

5th semester design studio “100+5 Sceneries of the Greek Landscape” • arch. upatras.gr [Department of Architecture website], a2610 [Department of Architecture, Biannual News Bulletin]

LANGUAGES

3rd semester design studio “Angle House” • arch.upatras.gr [Department of Architecture website]

Greek [native or bilingual proficiency] English [C2 profecional working proficiency] German [B2 limited working proficiency]

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JUNCTIONS ON THE CITY " A MODE OF CONNECTING AND SETTING APART "

DIPLOMA DESIGN THESIS • URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE OCTOBER 2016 • GRADE 10|10 • COLLABORATOR: SOTIRIS MONACHOGIOS • SUPERVISOR: PROF. ATHANASIOS SPANOMARIDIS • DISTINCTION: GR.AD REVIEW “2016 DIPLOMA DESIGN THESIS AWARD”

“Junctions on the City” is the way of connecting multiple programs and the proposed system to the city through a path,. The proposal concerns the connection/junction between two train stations and it aims at reestablishing the city’s relationship with its infrastructure, nature, communal space, memory, reservation, restoration and topography, read in multiple scales [city, program, detail]. The system created is connected with the city as an event of differentiation. That triggers a contrast between the city and the proposal with the sole purpose of strengthening the latter. This introverted system differs from the city in four ways: section [verticality], detail, materiality and time.

this meeting point seems to be vanished by the sunlight falling, as if the column is not bearing any load.

Section: The project is briefly explained in Greek by its name [“Αρθρώσεις επί της πόλης”] since the word “επί” refers to “above” and “against” at the same time, because of the opposing nature between it and the city.

The proposal concerns the junction between the Athens Railway Station, called “Larissa Station”, and Attiki Station. Larissa Station is the main railway station of Athens, the capital city of Greece.

This station is also served by Athens metro Line 2.

Attiki Station connects Athens Metro Line 1 [Electric Railways-“ISAP”] with Metro Line 2 in a complex system of stations both underground and overground. Also, a part of Attikistation is used as a trolleybus depot.

Detail: The main circulation path gets folded while passing through the city. Columns emerging from cityscape to support the path and the programs.

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Materiality: The main path’s structural skeleton is made of steel and its surface is from epdm rubber, a soft material which, along with steel, is distinct from concrete, the typical material in the city of Athens.

Time: Transition from one station to another can occur within a short period of time through the subway. However, a path of deceleration is proposed instead of the subway path of acceleration.

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A CITY PORTAL

AREA ANALYSIS

The once glorious image of the past seems to crumble and be replaced by neglect and negligence. The region is characterized by a highly dense structure with minimum green areas and limited public spaces. More specifically, almost 1/8 of the greater area is green areas and public spaces. This percentage is very low considering that in this region lives more than 1/4 of the municipality of Athens total population.

While Acharnes Railway Center [SKA] is larger in size and features greater train storage capability, the strategic location of the Larissa station, a breath away from the city’s center, gives to the latter station a significant advantage to be classified as a city portal [chief Port of Greece Piraeus and Athens International Airport Elefthérios Venizélos are the other two].

NATIONAL + SUBURBAN Railway...................

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METRO Line 02.................................................

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ATTIKI Station [Metro Line 1+2, Bus]...............

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TROLLEY Depot.................................................

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ATHENS MUNICIPAL library.............................

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LARISSA Station [Railway + Metro Line 2]....

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PELOPONNESE Station Building [inactive]...

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OMONOIA square [northern corner of the downtown area].........

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B. Area of proposal A. Athens Basin // Site[point] B. The 3 Portals of Athens // Municipality of Athens // railway, Metro Line 1+2, Tram, Bus and Trolley Network

JUNCTIONS ON THE CITY

Significant public programs Overground train lines Underground train lines

E.P. PORTFOLIO

COLUMN TYPOLOGIES

TRAIN STATIONS & CATHEDRALS

“Junctions on the city”, the morphological characteristics of the column, which is used as a main component of the proposal, change in scale. Τhey are magnified, so that the “columns” resulting gain new and different functions in contrast with the previous structural, producing by this process eight different versions of typology. Thus, the column that loses its structural substance, acquires new programmatic functions and is transformed into vertical circulation, sitting area, power supply, reception, piping, absence and nature.

According to Aldo Rossi, “the penitentiary institutions [prisons], the monument and the cemetery are the only programs that can integrate the values ​​of architecture as it is”. In all other cases, he resorted to an architecture of analogy. Consequently, train stations could fall into the category of programs that need an analogical architecture. Therefore, the Gothic Cathedral, which was the center and the symbol of the medieval world could be compared as an urban junction with the train station [national, suburban and electric railway or metro] of the contemporary city Basic Cathedral’s characteristics such as, large scale, infinite space, verticality and the longitudinal axis are imbued into the two train stations [Larissis, Attikis] of the proposal. This comparison is not based on strict figural and typological criteria but is accomplished in a manner of space qualities and sensations that it evokes.

bearing load [main typology]

reception area

pipping [rest room]

absence [inside exterior ]

vertical circulation

power supply [working area]

sitting area

Cathedral diagram of central axis: The central aisle of the cathedral is magnified through column repetition in order to have the same length as a train platform has.

Go to Larissa Station part.

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ACCESS The path is mainly accessible through the central gates of each train station’s building [Attiki and Larissis]. This is where the greatest number of visitors enter or exit each station .There are also alternative entrances [stairs and

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elevators] in various spots along the path. Using the main circulation path central gates? is the only way to enter any of the programs designed.

Infrastructure Shell

Urban Trail

Masterplan

JUNCTIONS ON THE CITY

E.P. PORTFOLIO

Plaza of Memories

USES The existing train infrastructures are the project’s starting point. Another type of infrastructure, an intangible one, the Internet, is the basis for the creation of a co-working space in the middle of the main circulation path. There are

more programs in between those three, located according to the existing urban conditions [Garden, WWII Bunker, Trolley Depot, Section Museum].

Artificial Garden

Mid Point Communal Workplace

Municipal Library

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Super Regional Station Larissa Station Subway Connection

LARISSA STATION • SUPER REGIONAL STATION

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Larissis Station includes the Athens railway station and the metro station. The shell of the existing Larissa station building becomes the connecting link between underground and national rail, acting as vertical circulation and as a main entrance for both two stations and the urban path that maneuvers between city’s buildings. A forest of concrete columns covers 6 train platforms [11 trains] in such a

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way of enhancing the conceptual association between train stations and cathedrals [metro station is similarly redesigned]. Subsequently, a monolith, prism-shaped volume hovers over the platform and accommodates all the necessary services of a station [ticket offices, information desks, luggage storage area, waiting areas, customer services] and commercial use [café, shops, outdoor area]

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Column imprint on the ceiling

Commercial uses

Entrance

Main uses Entrance View from the train platforms: canopies, circulation and the garden

Columns

Handrails + blinds

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Old facilities

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ARTIFICIAL OLIVE GROVE

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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need� Marcus Tullius Cicero. The pre-existing historical relationship between the library and the garden becomes the reason for the creation of an artificial garden opposite to the Municipal Library of Athens. The design is based on the research and dialectical relationship of conflicting concepts such as natural - artificial and the

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commentary desire on the nature of the city. The second nature, which is intentionally formed by the action of civilization [John Dixon Hunt], and which includes everything outside wildlife [Cicero], is cut up, canned and organized in an absolute shape, square and loses contact with the ground, is hovering.

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Olive trees

Cubic pots

View of the man-made and rational nature

Columns

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The whole system is supported by the Larissa station columns. Each of the 80 olives [Tree inseparable from Greece culture] germinate at individual concrete sockets, only where there is a column beneath, otherwise the socket of nature remains empty. Finally, through a circular upward motion the garden is gradually revealed to the observer visitor, but without making any contact with him, he is just enjoying the view of the garden at a distance.

Main circulation

Columns the main circulation

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WORK HUB • COMMUNAL WORKSPACES

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The Internet is an infrastructure that seems essential in the contemporary work and it is this that boosts the proper functioning of the program. In the mid point of the urban path a collaborative workspace is designed for individuals or groups who wish to work under the same roof. The

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path creates the building and the concrete slabs are resulted from its’ segments. The key services are extremely basic and occurring from different column typologies such as offices, living rooms, interior patios and sanitary facilities.

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Column imprint on the ceiling

Handrails + blinds

Main circulation Vertical circulation

Handrails+ blinds

The meeting point between the two train stations

Main entrance Main circulation

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Strong daylight is filtered by peripheral blinds. Each activity gets highlighted by the rays coming from above

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PLAZA OF MEMORIES

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At this location of the proposal, the main body of a pre-existed industrial building, that functioned as an auxiliary workshop of trolley, was removed, leaving behind a grid of columns at its memory. The disclosure was intended to reveal a war bunker of WWII, who was there, embedded in pre-existing building. With a procedure similar to an excavation the “archaeological finds” was highlighted by

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the creation of a moat. The descent to the bunker takes place through a folded metal structure. The bunker contains documents of Newspaper of the Greek Government from 1927 and onwards as well as lists with names of soldiers from the WWΙΙ.

These are all the elements that compose the plaza of memories.

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WWII bunker in plaza of memories

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INDUSTRIAL SHELL & SECTION MUSEUM

Site plan of industrial and section museum

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INDUSTRIAL SHELL The trolley depot was constructed in 1938 by the British [just before the Second World War] and it is one of the three trolley depots in Athens and hosts 1.4% of network vehicles. The building maintains the structural frame and divided into two sections, the existing workspace and a public space in which

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the urban path passes. The flexibility in the design of this public space allows any unexpected event of public life to take place. It could then be converted into exhibition space, area for music, dance, sport activities and events[etc].

Concrete Beam structure

Glass shell Multi-purpose areas

Cut in half trolley depot

Section museum

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SECTION MUSEUM The section museum is a process of revelation of city structures on a vertical axis. It creates a cut to the upper and lower city, unveiling its components. It is placed in that point where the city’s soil has its greatest centralization and diversity of programs. More specifically the building intersects without preventing the function of the trolley depot, the metro and other necessary city infrastructure such as, wiring and sewage networks. The part of the building which is above ground is characterized by openness, in order to observe the city from different levels and perspectives, while in the underground part, the observer looks inward, to the viscera of the city. The museum has the ability to adapt its height and depth depending on the city development.

Gentle path to the upper city. Outer observatory

Spatial metal grid

Main circulation View from attiki station.

Steeper path to the lower city. Inner observatory

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ATTIKI STATION • REGIONAL STATION

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The Attiki station includes an electric railway station [metro line 1] and a metro station [line2] and a bus stop. Between the two train stations an intermediate plane is created, which is the transportation square and acts as a connecting link between

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the stations and also at the same time as an entrance for the urban path. The same elements of the cathedral are imbued at the Larissa Station, are also imbued in Attiki station.

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The Technical Truth Farnsworth House Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The Narrative Castelvecchio Carlo Scarpa

The Relations of Form and Meaning Kimbel Art Museum & [FDR] Four Freedoms Park [handrails] Louis Kahn

The Light Koshino House Tadao Ando

The Continuity | Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center Zaha Hadid

The Continuity || Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center Zaha Hadid

DETAIL "

UNVEILING THE ARCHITECTURAL CONSISTENCY

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DIPLOMA RESEARCH THESIS MARCH 2015 • GRADE 10|10 • HARD-COPY PUBLICATION 25X25 CM • 105 PAGES COLLABORATOR: SOTIRIS MONACHOGIOS • SUPERVISOR: PROF. ATHANASIOS SPANOMARIDIS

Unveiling the Architectural Consistency: A recent stimulus from the 2014 Biennale gives rise to the introduction of the theme of architecture as language in order to discover the meaning of “grammar”. The unifying role of the detail helps the emergence of its importance as grammar. The lexical and etymological analysis of the word is a starting point for the revelation of a new comprehension, leading to the study of the “truth” (Aletheia) in the detail, the meanings and intentions that flow from it. The study of the Part and the Whole as relations emerge through the detail. The theory of perception illuminates the interpretation of these relations from the perspective of the observer. Through the method of elimination takes place a distinction between the detail of the construction and that of the excitement (sensation). Finally, with the help of selected examples, the detail illustrates the consistency and intentions, the technical truth (Aletheia), the narrative, the relations of form and meaning, the absence, the light, the organization, the continuity. Details move us.

Contents Part 1 • Theoretical approach 1.1. Grammar: in relation to language • 1.1.1.

Unification through detail • 1.1.2. Meaning through detail • 1.2. De-tail: language and Meaning • 1.2.1. Lexical approach • 1.2.2. Etymological approach • 1.2.3. Unveilling the Truth (Aletheia) • 1.3.

Part: Whole • 1.3.1. Harmony • 1.3.2. Perception • 1.4. From Simple Construction to excitement/ thrill • 1.4.1. Standardization and Mode • 1.4.2.

Equipment and artwork • 1.4.3. Excitement 25

Part 2 • practical/applied approach 2. Through Detail: • 2.1. Consistency and intentions • 2.2.Technical Truth (Aletheia) • 2.3. Narrative • 2.4. Relations of form and meaning • 2.5.

Absence • 2.6. Light • 2.7. Organization • 2.8. Continuity Part 3 • concerns Selected Bibliography Alberti, Leon Battista [1986], The Ten Books of Architecture, • Banham, Reyner [1970], Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Bizley, Graham [2010], Architecture in Detail II, • Bloomer, Kent [2000], The Nature of Ornament, Rhythm and Metamorphosis in Architecture, • Bormann, Karl [2006], Platon • Ford, R. Edward [1998], The Details of Modern Architecture, volume 2: 1928 to 1988,/ Ford, R. Edward [2011], The Architectural Detail, • Frampton, Kenneth [1995], Studies in Tectonic Culture, The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, • Frampton, Kenneth [2007], Modern Architecture: A Critical History, • Hays, K. Michael [1998], Architecture Theory since 1968, • Heidegger, Martin [1996], Beind and Time, • Heidegger, Martin [1986], The Origin of the Work of Art, • Norberg-Schulz, Christian [1977], Intentions in Architecture, • Scruton, Roger [1979], The Aesthetics of Architecture, • Vesely Dalibor [2004], Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation: the Question of Creativity on the Shadow of Production, • Vakalo, Emmanuel-George [1988], Optical Syntax: Function and Form Production, • Frascari, Marco [1984], “The Tell-the-Tale Detail”, 48

Watch Tower

Exhibition Area Void Space

C+VIEW MUSEUM "

100+5 SCENERIES OF GREEK LANDSCAPE

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DESIGN STUDIO • CULTURAL • MUSEUM 5TH SEMESTER • SPRING 2013 COLLABORATOR: CHRIS LOIZOU • SUPERVISOR: PROF. DEMETRA KATSOTA

The fifth semester’s design studio subject was to create a museum of Greek landscape painting and photograph -for the city of Patras in the Peloponesse, Greece. A building which hosts such forms of landscape representations should be itself designed as an instrument in experiencing the surroundings. Therefore, the project’s leading idea is based on experiencing qualities (emergence, worms-eye and birds-eye views) and isolating elements (sky, sea, sounds) of the local environment in addition to the picturesque landscape representations illustrated in the exhibited collection. Specifically, visitors are initially gathered underground in the main reception; a frame towards the sky; a void space which enhances hearing. The main exhibition ion the inclined plane emerges below ground level, leads above sea level and is wedged in a watch tower. Through the latest, visitors obtain a 360° panoramic birds-eye view. The two bridged

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towers marking the exhibition’s beginning (void space) and end (functional space) bear the concept’s main requirements.

The area is situated just a few kilometers northwest of the city’s center by a protected coastal wetland of high ecological value; Agia’s marsh. The coastal strip that forms Agia’s cape is the closest to the city beach and leads to a campsite built by the Greek National Tourism Organization (apx. 1970) for the Municipality of Patras, the given site for the new museum. During the summer season, at the time being, the area serves as a children’s camp and an open public multifunctional space for various play, leisure and recreation activities and events. The project revitalizes the area and its existing uses by integrating all year round functions of cultural, historical and geographical content.

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Worm's eye View

360ยบ Bird's eye View

Watch Tow

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C+VIEW MUSEUM

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SPERANZA "

AN ENCLOSURE FOR DINING

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INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION • INTERIOR DINING SPACE DOMES INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ARCHITECTURE • FEBRUARY 2018 • TEAM: Y.GIANNAKOPOYLOS-TSELIKAS • DISTINCTION: ENTRY SHORTLISTED IN TOP 42 OUT OF 280 PROJECTS

The dinning place, the common focal point around which the “meal ritual” is taking place, has lost its social nature. The “light screens” of the modern digital era have contributed to the “burst” of the mutual dining space. Human being, who is considered to be “social”, becomes “isolated”. Communication is now dry and tasteless.

The etymological analysis of the Greek word for table [τραπεζα] defines the table as a furniture consisting of a surface which is supported by four feet. Although tables, like all objects, are classified according to their form and function, the dining tables are of extreme importance because they are not just a surface on which we dine but they indicate an area around which people gather and communicate.

The dining table centrality is converted into linearity. Table's ability to attract people is strengthened by the absorption of the necessary equipment for food preparation and consumption. The table turns into either a "multi-tool" a "2 for 1 offer" that no one can refuse.

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The unified table is the common platform around which the eight attendants participate, collaborate and interact during food preparation in order to dine. After the consumption, the dinner is completed with the act of "defecation". The toilet seat, which is placed on an elevated podium at the end of the table, is the most comfortable seat in the room amongst the other eight.

“Speranza” is the island in which Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked (in means hope in Italian).

“Speranza”, is an "island" is surrounded by solid walls. The enclosure gives the opportunity to discover another world, unique and arcane, which aims to set up the “foundations” of human communication from scratch. Herein, the “individual isolation” becomes “grouped isolation”. The vertical staircase is the “one and only” connection with the outer world. Conceiving “Speranza” as a monolithic object, detached from any kind of environment, gives to its space a notion of a sacred ceremony with a mystic character.

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VITAL VESSELS " AN ENERGY EFFICIENT VERTICAL COMMUNITY "

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION • HOUSING • SKYSCRAPER D3 COMPETITIONS • JANUARY 2014 • TEAM: C.LOIZOU, R.CHARALAMBOUDI, V.CHAIROPOULOU, S.MONACHOGIOS • SUPERVISOR: PROF. YANNIS PATRONIS • DISTINCTION: ENTRY SHORTLISTED AS “CURATOR’S SELECTION”

Megacities • Overpopulation As of 2013, there are 24 megacities in existence, each of these has a population excess of 20 million inhabitants. Two of these are located around the Pearl River Delta. The delta has become one of the leading economic regions and a major manufacturing center of China and the world. Guangzhou is a key of national transportation hub & trading port. It concentrates all political, economic, educational, scientific, technological, cultural and social functions. Its dynamic growth process do not only transform urban economies and population structures but also the urban morphology and Guangzhou’s cityscape with more and more people living in a high building density or in high rise.

Reality Based on daily routine, a large amount of people travel from home to work and vice versa. Shifting through different levels reaching the city’s other end, entering their office building in daytime and returning home by night. This is a well-known fact, for any society based on a modern megacity.

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Pascal’s principle While people enter the building, a large amount of variable weight is gathered causing a downwards force (gravitational force). The building with the largest amount of weight retreats into its shell (vessel) because of this input force. By the same time, the applied force is transmitted through the pistons infrastructure and an output counter force boosts up the second building. This action often takes place more than twice a day, depending on the inhabitants’ needs.

P1=P2 P=[F]/A A1d1=A2d2 W done=W output

P=Pressure // F=Force exerted in each piston // A=Area of each piston // d=Height variation // W=Work done

Utilizing Pascal’s Law (principle of transmission of fluid-pressure), we achieve the multiplication of our input force (gravitational force of human weight).

Therefore, taking advantage of the buildings’ vertical movement, water is boosted via kinetic energy through the underground infrastructure in order to produce electricity by using water turbines. This energy is saved in order to be consumed for the community’s needs, achieving a sustainable housing system.

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Benefits Work and housing are placed in each one of the two vessels. The infrastructure - vessels standstill, contain and protect the two buildings. This system is designed to withstand the worst weather forecasts to come in the future (maximum sea level rise of 60m) and provide autonomy and sustainable protection. An adaptive vertical community with variations of private, open and closed public spaces is formed.

Public Open Space • It mainly contributes for social gathering, being used as a multi-functional place.

Office building weight=Housing weight Office building volume=Housing volume

Sea level rise in Pearl River Delta

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Vessel metal structure

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Potential locations of Vital Vessels in Guangzhou

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Water Turbines are used to save energy from the water’s flow

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Exterior Blades Adding to the building’s outside appearance, the blades work as cantilevers of each one of the buildings, regardless of their position in the vessels.

Exterior Vertical Circulation This is the way to approach the system from the rest of the urban fabric.

In case of a severe weather disaster (floods, storms, sea level rise) the system maintains its autonomy and every-day life remains unaffected.

Furthermore, this circulation connects the two skyscrapers with each other, so that people can move easily between them.

Water pillar This is an intrusion of water in the skyscraper, carving the building and climbing between the floors and public spaces.

Structure The skyscraper structure is balanced in between the vessels’ inner walls.

It perfectly seals and separates the water managing to constrain its pressure in order to achieve Pascal’s Principle.

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THE ARK AND THE GROVE OF PERSEPHONE

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DESIGN STUDIO • CULTURAL CENTER • PUBLIC SPACE 8TH SEMESTER • SPRING 2014 COLLABORATOR: SOTIRIS MONACHOGIOS • SUPERVISOR: PROF. ATHANASIOS SPANOMARIDIS

Persephone, daughter of Demeter goddess doomed to live six of the twelve months of a year in the Underworld with Hades, is now seeking a way to escape from her fate and live in the upper world of the living. Persephone finds shelter in the temple of her mother in the city of Patras, where she feels safe. The temple of Demeter no longer exists, nor the cemetery [early Christian cemetery], their remains are buried in the soil and they are waiting to be discovered. Only the fountain which gushes Holy Water is preserved. Next to the fountain two Christian churches have emerged, dedicated to St. Andrew. Nothing is the same anymore. She is safe only in the maze. This is the only place where she could hide. A maze without disorienting and complicated arrangement which can isolate you it and in the same time allows you to exit. She is “a voluntary prisoner of architecture”. This is the sacred grove of Persephone. A grove of walls rather than trees, a grove of concrete rather than foliages.

Some of the walls of the grove are long and becoming thick, and thus they are able to accommodate program and become spaces of history, research

and protection of knowledge [more specifically they acquire functions of marine and archaeological museum, antiquities conservation laboratories and ossuary]. All these spaces together form a set of buildings, a single complex, the ark. Persephone is saved, she escaped from fate.

The myth about Demeter and her daughter Persephone is just a myth, this is only a metaphor that refers to the regeneration of vegetation after its “death” during the winter. It refers to a transition from reincarnation to death, and from death to reincarnation [Persephone: from the world of the living to the world of the dead], which is repeated constantly. Mortals, the residents of the city of Patras, when they enter the grove of Persephone in order to be “rebirthed” they must first undergo through the process of “dying”, a process of removing the environment in which they exist. The height of the walls prevents visual contact with the urban fabric of the city and separates them from familiar places and situations. By this way the residents of the city disengaged from their familiar surroundings in order to experience the new city, the other city.

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CITY AS A PALIMPSEST

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DESIGN STUDIO • HOUSING COMPLEX • PUBLIC SPACE 7TH SEMESTER • FALL 2013 COLLABORATOR: SOTIRIS MONACHOGIOS • SUPERVISOR: PROF. ATHANASIOS SPANOMARIDIS

Palimpsest, in textual studies, is an overlapping process of an old passage with a new text layer.

In architecture, it is referred to all those layers of history that coexist in a city and shape the urban environment as we know it.

In the southern section of the city of Patras, a large area of the industrial zone remains inactive and abandoned. This whole ​​Brownfield is coated by a single layer of material in order to be rediscovered through a procedure similar to an archaeological excavation. By this way, a new ground layer, a new topography, a new landscape is created.

The proposal is organized into longitudinal strips that run the site. Public programs [commercial use, leisure programs, public space] are developed in the longitudinal axis, either above the new ground’s surface or beneath it, while private programs [dwelling] are developed in the vertical axis forming residential towers. At the exact points, where the buildings of the industrial past are conserved, the materiality of the strips changes, without having any consequences in their form. The impenetra-

ble materiality of concrete transforms into a metal framework. The light which penetrates the metal structure triggers the user’s curiosity and provokes him to interact with the remnants of the aforetime industry. “Void” is transforming into “solid” and “solid” into “void” on the entire length of the site.

The access to the proposal is made from the edges and center of the site, where the stripes blend with the existing ground. Secondary entrances [ramps] exist at certain intervals slots between the strips.

In areas of habitation, the strips change direction from horizontal to vertical. This action results in the creation of an introvert community, a neighborhood that abhors the public space.

Each habitation module is organized internally in the same manner as the whole proposal. The movement in each habitation module evolves in the same axis as in masterplan. The space in each apartment is defined by three sliding panels giving the user the flexibility to adjust interior space according to his needs and willings.

Contour lines of the new Landscape

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Each Housing Complex forms an introvert community, a closed neighborhood protected from the public realm

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FROM IGNORANCE TO KNOWLEDGE

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ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP • ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION • PUBLIC LIBRARY BEE BREEDERS COMPETITIONS • SEPTEMBER 2015 • LEAD ARCHITECT: P.CHATZIANGELIDIS TEAM: E.DEMIRI, G.ZAHAROPOULOS, I.BOUNTOUVA, M.KALLIORA, S.KONTINOU, S.MONACHOGIOS

Chrysalis: a process of developing, a transitional state, moving from ignorance to knowledge. Like the butterfly emerges from the chrysalis.

The design proposal concerns the Architecture Competition for the “Casablanca Bombing Rooms” on a highly charged site due to a bombing act in 2003. The project highlights the need for alteration and public communication and uses knowledge as the key feature.

In regard to the Islamic element of minaret the project is designed as a tower which calls city’s residents in a route to cognition. “Chrysalis” aims to make a gradual transition from unawareness to knowledge as an attempt of elimination of any act of violence. This transition is achieved through a vertical movement that emerges from the darkness and results to the light. The water layer intervenes with its emblematic role of purification, therefore the visitor could act as a communicant of the light of cognition.

The visitor follows a narrated promenade on a rising helix ramp that begins from an underground exhibition area and goes on as a journey of knowledge to a public library [the main function of the tower]. The ramp is wrapped by a cloth shell producing an aerial and organic form leaving a humble imprint to the city of Casablanca. The light materiality contributes to that direction. The pleated form of the tower is created from the transformation of the eight star [as a reference to the Islamic architectural vocabulary] into a circle. The promenade is interrupted by several intermediate levels. A second cloth shell surrounds the levels creating semi-outdoor spaces that host the conference room, the classrooms, the administration offices. The whole installation of the library is hang from the structural frame. The public space, that includes the main library, is transferred to the upper levels (agora) where people gather, study, communicate and interact with each other.

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The building also works in an energy efficient way due to a geothermic system that uses the stable temperature and the thermal capacity of the subsoil. A water tank in a depth of 10m into the subsoil works as a cold capacitor keeping a stable temperature.

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1. A water tank into the subsoil.

2. A turbine revolves in a slow rate and the cold air is propelled through the building.

3. An inner and an outer cloth shell filter the heat that enters.

4. The warm air gets conducted through the roof opening.

The exhibition space is conceived as a spiritual interaction. The relation with the water is perceived visually and also acoustically. The visitor can experience the memory of acts of violence through interactive screens that trigger a journey of knowledge in the upcoming library.

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