Katerina Examiliotou
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Katerina Examiliotou 25/04/1986 e-mail tel address education
examiliotou.a@gmail.com +31 (0) 648 428 798 Schiedamsesingel 177, 3012 BB Rotterdam
Master of Architecture/Democritos University of Thrace, department of Architectural Engineering Sections included:Architectural Design and Construction/Urbanism an Spatial Planning/Art and Human Sciences/Material Science
languages
Greek English French Spanish
wokshops
Networks and Interactive Landscapes/intervention in the area Limnio in the city of Xanthi/December 2007/Xanthi/Greece
congresses
4th International Sinan Symposium/Water and Architecture/April 2008/Edirne/Turkey The significance of Philosophy in Architectural Education/October 2009/Patra/Greece E-life2011/2nd Panhellenic Interscientific Congress of the Hellenic Association for the Study of Internet Addiction DisorderThessaloniki/April 2011(presentation)
publications
Heterotopias_ Internet: virtual space / heterotopia / invisible city, Research thesis published on “Elife: 2nd Panhellenic Interscientific Congress of the Hellenic Association for the Study of Internet Addiction Disorder�, 2011
work experience
Kosti E.Keventsides_architectural office/Athens/July,August 2010
skills
MAC OSX/ WINDOWS Autocad/ Autocad 3D
SketchUp Pro
Photoshop/ InDesign/ Illustrator
Keynote/ Pages
Word/ PowerPoint
references Kosti E. Keventsides Architect [Cornell University] Adjunct professor, architecture and urban design,Democritus University of Thrace kostikeven@gmail.com 52 Aristidus str. 15232 Chalandri Athens, Greece Tel. +306944646229, +302106818000
co n t e nt s
a r c h i v e _the new library?
[graduationproject/2010-2011][team:t. apostolidis/k.examiliotou]
old quarry_video art workshop facility [2009][team:t.apostolidis/s.alvanoudis/k. examiliotou/p.tempriotis/]
by the harbor_entertainment center in thessaloniki [2008][team:t.apostolidis/s.giwtaki/k. examiliotou/p.tempriotis]
seeking the balance_urban refugee housing complex in Athens [2009][team:t.apostolidis/s.giwtaki/k. examiliotou/l.palaiogianni]
heterotopias_internet as a virtual space, an heterotopia, an invisible city [research
thesis/2010][team:t.apostolidis/k.exa-
miliotou][500word summary]
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concept/users The arc h i v e is a new kind of library which incorporates the way people act, learn, live through the internet. Its concept applies the ideas of multitasking and overlapping that internet is all about. The main goal is to create a space where the real and the digital being are present at the same time, a space where people communicate, learn, expose/exhibit, entertain, an interactive public digital archive where the data can be a document, a book, a piece of art, a song even a person. This data is being difused to the city through two different nets, a real one:the Underground and a digital one:a Wifi net. The latter attempts a potential digital urbanism as it can transform a public square into a reading room.
_the initiated
_the potentially initiated
_the non-initiated
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_επί της Εγνατίας
In that single gigantic instant I saw millions of acts both delightful and awful; not one of them occupied the same point in space, without overlapping or transparency. What my eyes beheld was simultaneous, but what I shall now write down will be successive, because language is successive. Nonetheless, I’ll try to recollect what I can. J.L.Borges_The Aleph
old quarry_video art workshop facility
a c c o m m o d a t e / c r e a t e / e x p o s e
The project requests a semipermanent mutli-space where art workshops will take place for a limited amount of time per year. The requirements for such function include flexible work and exhibition spaces as well as minimum accomodation spaces for every individual. The main challenge consists into embracing the rocky intense landscape. The concept is to create a large scale scaffold, a grid within the quarry. Work spaces and accomodation spaces have the same basic dimensions with the first ones spreading horizontally and the latter vertically. The site is divided into two areas, a public one which exposes itself to the city through a big square and a more private one. The latter attempts to turn towards the rock creating spaces for the artists’ community and encouraging communication and collaboration.
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by the harbor entertainment center in thessaloniki
This project aims at the creation of a big flexible space which can host different kinds of entertainment (music hall, club, restaurant, lounge bar). The site is located by the harbor, at an industrial area, and is marked out by an adjacent old iconic factory. The intension here is to create a rough and brutal environment which would appear as it was emerging out of the ground. This was achieved by using angled concrete surfaces for both walls and floors. The outdoor space is as important as the indoors and it has been handled as an urban park. The concept transforms it to a funnel, an extension of the sidewalk which spreads among the buildings and rises up towards the harbor.
seeking the balance_private/public_culture/trade urban refugee housing complex in Athens
This project is about replacing small refugee houses with a large scale housing and commercial complex in order to upgrade the living conditions of the existing families, creating at the same time a commercial and cultural center for this problematic area of Athens. The design concept encorporates the scale of the existing neighborhood into the new
complex. To achieve this, the circulation cores of the buildings are semi-outdoor structures creating shared spaces among the apartments. Â The housing zone is developed like a puzzle, with three different types of apartments occupying the higher levels of the complex above the first two hosting public functions.Â
residence trade-entartainment office culture
heterotopias_ internet a virtual space an heterotopia an invisible city
This research attempts to examine the architectural space beyond any kind of material boundary, posing questions like where and how we live and what the outcome is of our existence. Our main examination tool is the internet, viewed as a virtual space, as a heterotopia and also as an invisible city. Space is presented within fluid and/ or overlapping limits which define connections between people or are defined by them. The internet, being an open data system, has been structured according to the interactive relations among its users. These relations compose a network, the intersections of which are its own users who are able to change their status from transmitter to recipient and vice versa. This network consists of a parallel and virtual reality which offers the user an exit out of her/his physical presence. Out there, the user is able to develop another possible life, enriching her/his reality and therefore the space she/he lives in. The overlapping of the physical and digital space, redefines the sense of “private space” as it is becoming “public space” through a new flexible limit which administrates the data flow, the computer screen. The status of a user raises a sense of relativity, which leads us to read it as a synchronized presence in two different spaces. The internet functions as a heterotopia, according to Foucault’s definition, as it consists of coexisting overlapping spaces of contradicting character. In there, the Information along with Time are gathered in a hyper-archive which is open to adjustments and
changes by its users. There is also an exit and entrance process and the whole system operates as an illusional space compensating for any kind of sexual expression that may occur. However, the digital space is considered a heterotopia due to the fact that it serves as a digital mirror in which one’s reflection redefines the position in her/his physical world and creates a real placeless place. There is an honest kind of existence within the digital world due to the fact that the human presence there can remain theoretically anonymous. This digital level of existing, becomes solid -even a description- as it is constructing an invisible digital city to dwell, with every choice she/he makes and every relation she/he develops. This city -continuous and international- is expanding, transforming and being destroyed like any other city. It contains the same qualities and the same form everywhere accommodating its cyber citizens but at the same time adapting to every single one of them and their choices, paths, stops. This digital walkabout leads to Architecture that intends to create life spaces. Nowadays, life also takes place in this digital world. There, in that heterotopia, I have the chance to include the whole world in my house and there is a city where a part of me dwells and constructs to dwell. In this place, the spatial designed field seems to include an everyday capacity to differ, a trivial otherness, that space designing should consider in order to find the way to make little utopias come true.
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