housing SIFF
DIPLOMA PROJECT | OCTOBER 2015 FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE | ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI CINEMATOPIA HOUSING SIFF SUPERVISOR_PAKA ALKMINI | TEAM_PALAIOLOGOU MARIA FANI_S K A R A G K O U I L I A N A
This diploma project aims in creating a base for the activities of the newly founded Syros International Film Festival, covering its spatial requirements and establishing a landmark for Hermoupolis. Siff, as it is called, wants to form a different identity than traditional film festivals, emphasizing experimental cinema, defining its screenings as a daily route-experience for the spectators, mingling audience and creators and holding mostly outdoors screenings. Taking under consideration the character and the needs of the organization, we chose the event points by analyzing the urban space, the centrality factors, the access possibilities, the relation with the open space and their importance in the cityscape.
PLACE: SYROS area: 64.069 m2 population: 21.390 capital: Ermoupolis
fresh new film festival, 3 years run started off the initiative of a group of friends
FOCUS experimental cinema outdoor screenings transforming unexpected environments into cinemas various locations
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ELEMENTS emphasis on small productions seminars and classes international residensy masterclasses and q&as collaboration space
traditional film festival model
time
place
place
time
a trail of screenings a unique experience open meetings film performance viewers
cinematographers
THEMATIC CARACTER 2013 2014 2015
the journey the border the place
This base is positioned in a open plot by the sea, in the historical quarter of Vaporia in the north eastern part of the city, a place bearing the potential of evolving into a new pole of vibrancy and attraction of visitors. The program includes spaces for workshops and movie production that correspond to the experimental aspects the festival wishes to embrace, administration offices, as well as an open and a closed projection venue. the challenge: creating a base for the festival
INTENSITY OF ACTIVITY IN ERMOUPOLIS WINTER SUMMER
festival core _reception _shop _meeting space _mobility office workshop rooms computer room archive conference room showcase room recording studio cinema theatre outdoor cinema cafe
festival offices _administration _press office _hospitality storage space guest rooms info point
a place that transmits the atmosfere of the festival city - countryside colour and summer
administration offices main screening venue archival space workshop rooms spaces for creators
CHOOSING THE MAIN VENUE creating an attraction point for the city beyond the main square
proximity to the city center
SPACE SELECTION CRITERIA urban environment intensity proximity to the center land - landmark outdoors accessibility
FESTIVAL SPACIAL NEEDS
capable of housing the needs of the basic core of the festival, tracing its profile a free and public slot that can become the permanent base and a reference point for the festival
objective: tracing a route
AREA ANALÎĽSIS _aristocratic borough of Ermoupolis with mansions of the 19th century _located in the eastern part of the city, built by the sea, north of the port, very close to the main square but at the same time at the edge of the city _rocky coastline and concrete platforms that attract city swimmers _today various buildings are either abandonned or in partial use
built space
buldings’ height
housing
abandonned
special uses
tourism
parking
a place of dipoles a topos of all people. mansions_kassiotika [aristocratic_working class] | diversity of activities. swimmers_working people ?visitors_residents? meets fluidity. city_nature | movement in space. getting somewhere by car_walking barefoot | stories of the built space. abandonned
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manmade versus physical. houses_rocks [and blending] | experiencing the sea. connection to the water. diving_gazing | where order places_houses in use | making way. and relation to volumes. pathway_alley
great level differences urban front at the north access for pedestrians and vehicles sea front at the south accessible only by pedestrians tourist bar and swimmers THE SITE
_a free plot of public propriety _formerly occupied by various buildings a neoclassical two-story mansion that has crumbled a cluster of smaller poor houses _today we can only see debris of the old buildings and a row of seven abandonned small houses identical and of almost cubic volume known as the kassiotika for there lived working families from Kassos
strict limits, firm outline dense vegetation, may trees bigger than the average city plot distinct from far away
lines
inspiration
influences
*xerolithia_stone wall with no mortar and of low height built in order to hold the ground and prevent landslides found aboundently in the greek islands and shaping the landscape of the hills
ebullition
xerolithies
The first focal point is the urban integration of our proposal, which is achieved with the design of the main seaside promenade leading to the site, by redefining the walking route and the docks for the swimmers, and also by designing urban equipment. Regarding the site itself, we choose to maintain the open-air character by incorporating the volumes into the landscape formation, and take advantage of the acute slope and the existing vegetation. The point of departure for our concept is xerolithia (stone walls forming the landscape) and the arrangement in levels, both important elements of Cycladic architecture. Through the alternation of closed and open, buried and protruding, the ensemble translates the transition from rural to open-air, from the clear straight lines to the roughness of crooked ones. At the same time, we restore and reuse a line of small houses, which already existed in the site, creating a link between old and new, between the historicity of the island, which is the start of the narrative, and the future of experimentation and creation, which wants to become its continuation.
observatory
ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION
expansion of the swimming platforms creation of a lower level zone in order to protect the main access route from the waves creation of a wooden jetty that invites the visitors into the water creation of a new vertical route and opening of a blocked one to enhance the motion grid of the water front URBAN SCALE EXISTING SITUATION PROJECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE INTENTIONS OF THE PROJECT
designing urban equipment suggestion for artistic screenings in interest points at the route towards the venue
before
after
vibrance
motion
green
PROPOSITION FOR THE URBAN SCALE
soil
rock
green slaterock pavimentation with gravel wooden deck pavimentation with quartz sand concrete
CONCEPT | COMPOSITION EVOLUTION
Our design proposal is formatted as a courtyard with strict boundaries, but fluid interior which guides you to navigate from the existing stone buildings to the new additions and projection venues that constitute the ebullition point. Particular emphasis was given in the clarification of the borders, namely the continuation of the urban front in the north, the break to access the sea in the south and the creation of different types of entering, with the west gate acting as the main one. The materials were selected based on their correspondence with the natural environment and the city’s typology, and they mark with their use the escalating importance of each space. The multi-leveled formation, the route in the space, as well as the alternation of the views of the visitor are the main axes upon which this complex was created, having as a goal a descriptive experience of space.
PLANS
SITUATION PLAN
kourasani coating forged cementdust green slaterock pebble soil pavimentation with quartz sand pavimentation with gravel cement rock vegetation wooden deck
PLAN LEVEL +9.50
PLAN LEVEL +11.50
PLAN LEVEL +15.50
PLAN LEVEL +21.50
PLAN LEVEL +25.50
NORTH ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
SCHEME OF COLLAPSIBLE SCREEN MECHANISM
κηπευτικό χώμα
επικάλυψη προστασίας στεγανοποίησης
DETAIL OF CINEMA THEATRE
ΛΕΠΤΟΜΕΡΕΙΑ ΚΛΕΙΣΤΟΥ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΟΥ
DETAIL OF WALLING
ΛΕΠΤΟΜΕΡΕΙΑ ΤΟΙΧΕΙΟΥ
DETAIL OF ADDITION TO EXISTING BUILDINGS ΛΕΠΤΟΜΕΡΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΘΗΚΗΣ ΣΤΟ ΥΠΑΡΧΟΝ ΚΤΙΣΜΑ
DETAIL OF RECORDING STUDIO ΛΕΠΤΟΜΕΡΕΙΑ ΣΤΟΥΝΤΙΟΥ ΗΧΟΓΡΑΦΗΣΗΣ
MODELS scales 1.500 1.200 1.100
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