Katerina Inglezaki Portfolio 2023

K aterina Inglezaki

Licensed architect GR (ID: 148998)

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rchitect/Urbanist MSc, Dipl. Arch.Eng.

Phone number: (+31) 627477723

Address: Goudsesingel 508, 3011KR, Rotterdam

Email: katerinaiglezaki@gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/katerina-iglezaki

Issuu: www.issuu.com/in/katerina_iglezaki

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terr.aforms/

Education

1st September 2020- 20th June 2022

MSc Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences (track Urbanism) Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology

1st September 2013- 12th July 2019

Master’s (integrated)/ Diploma Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng.)

Department of Architectural Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Work experience

12th April 2021- 31st July 2021

Atlas of Rotterdam Common Space joint research (internship)

Studio for New Realities, Rotterdam, NL

25th February 2020- 12th August 2020

Technical architect/ Interior architect

Enalia Group- Eleni Charmanta & Co, Thessaloniki, GR

2nd December 2019- 31st January 2020

Technical architect/ Documentation and restoration Artech Consulting engineers, Thessaloniki, GR

June 2018- June 2019

Product and graphic designer

Woodream.gr, Xanthi, GR

Publications/Exhibitions

Inglezaki K. (in press), Agroecologies for the Stateless, ATLANTIS | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape

Architecture TU Delft

Inglezaki K., Micha A., 1st Interdisciplanry Meeting “Memory and Oblivion in Public Space”- Conference proceedings, Redevelopment of the D. Gounari street axis and design of places of cultural interest in Navarino Square, August 2019

SOS Waterfront Climate Change, Urban design workshop results exhibition in collaboration with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Municipality of Kalamaria

Conferences/Workshops/Competitions

Inglezaki K., Micha A., Research thesis-Urban Rooms: Approaching the new urbanism, archetype.gr, April 2019, https://www.archetype.gr/blog/arthro/domatia-tis-polis-proseggizontas-ti-nea-astikotita Floating Districts Winter studio, Amsterdam 16-20/01/23, AMS Institute, 3XN Architects, TU Delft, Wageningen University, MIT.

SOS Waterfront Climate Change, Urban Design Workshop, Thessaloniki, 14-25/10/2019, School of Architecture AUTH, Gdansk University of Technology, Lusófona ECATI.

1st Interdisciplinary Meeting “Memory and Oblivion in Public Space”, Cities in Balance, Lefkas, 23-26 August 2019, Speaker - Diploma thesis presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz10tYGBNAQ&t=1s

“Redesign of the Base of the Statue of T. Kolokotronis in Tripoli, Greece.” Participation in the Pan-Hellenic Open Student Architectural Idea Competition of the Municipality of Tripoli, 2017.

“Creating green spaces in cities” Participation in the Pan-Hellenic Open Student Architectural Idea Contest for viable green spaces of WWF Hellas, 2017.

Ecoweek Thessaloniki 2016, Placemaking in one planet, International Conference & Sustainable Design Workshops Thessaloniki 14-20/11 2016.

“Scanning the past”- 3rd International digital documentation workshop, Architectural School of Edirne, Turkey 8-13/06/2015.

“History of Construction Structures”- 2nd National Conference, Xanthi 5-7/12/2014.

Design and technical skills Languages

QGIS

ArcGIS

2D design

Autodesk AutoCAD

Graphic design/Image editing

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

3D modelling

Sketchup

Rhinoceros 3D

Revit

3Ds Max

V-Ray

Lumion

Other

Policy/Literature review

Statistical analysis

Office

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Powerpoint

Spatial modelling and Analysis

Urban/Landscape

Landuse/Landcover

Spatial/Landscape

Ecological Morphology

Density/Intensity

Network analysis

Mobility network

Surface hydrographic network

Hydrography/Hydrology

Flood risk exposure

IELTS Academic, Overall band score 8.0

Volunteering

60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2019

Open House Thessaloniki 2015

TEDx Thessaloniki 2015

B1 level

B1 level

Delftse Methode, TU Delft

One semester completed

Native language

Other activities

Board member of POLIS, student association for Urbanism & Landscape Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft, 2021-2022

Member of the Diversity Office of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, 2021

Utrecht Barcode

Research pitch for a junior researcher position at TU Delft for the New European Bauhaus project

Institution

Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Year 2022

Selection commitee

Prof. Dr Arjan van Timmeren

Dr Alexander Wandl

Dr Verena Balz

Location:

Utrecht, Netherlands

Individual work

1 3 2 4

In the New European Bauhaus(NEB) Project 16 partners will join forces to make the transition to climate-neutral cities inclusive, beautiful and sustainable - for and with all stakeholders. The project will demonstrate how Territorial Transformation Plans can be operationalised with NEB principles to accelerate the journey towards climate neutrality.

The TU Team works closely together with the Municipality of Utrecht. The Dutch case aims to develop the Utrecht -Barcode, a widely appraised planning instrument, further by integrating qualitative and participatory aspects.

How much is Utrecht consuming?

How to use this handbook

This handbook is a reference guide for anyone with an interest in the future of development of the city of Utrecht. This publication outlines a future vision for Utrecht in 2040, setting ambitions and goals in place. The vision is elaborated in a framework indicating the thematic agendas of the vision and the methodology of the research. The framework is then supported by an action plan in which strategic locations in the city are selected where test projects can be further developed. Finally, the handbook ends with a municipal policy package that enables Utrecht’s citizens to actively contribute to the future of their city.

The complete set of projects will enable a future-proof Utrecht. Let’s start today!

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Utrecht aspires to be a healthy city of the future. To do so, we must first understand the scale of the current pressing issues and evaluate Utrecht in 2040. What will it look like if the current growth model remains unchanged?

Population is expected to grow by 31.9% reaching 474.000 inhabitants, increasing the demands for energy, water and dietary consumption. It seems impossible to address all these crises with one plan or strategy. However if we look at the underlying patterns and behavior, we might discover system failures that underlie these crises and that can be repaired or bent.

D-CENT (Decentralized Citizen Engagement Technologies) brings together citizen-led organizations that have transformed democracy helping them in developing the next generation of open source, distributed, and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. Utrecht RSU 2040 proposes a design mechanism to instigate a new form of civil publicness. This initiative couples the physical and digital frameworks to ensure an active afterlife beyond the involvement of the spatial designer.

Agroecologies for the Stateless

Master’s thesis for the Master of Science (MSc) in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences (track: Urbanism)

Institution

Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Academic year

2021-2022

Supervisors

Nikos Katsikis

Tenure Tracker Assistant Professor Urban Design

Diego Andres Sepulveda Carmona

Assistant Professor Spatial Planning and Strategy

Location:

Murcia, Spain

Individual work

Institutional repository

Inglezaki A.C. (2022), Agroecologies for the Stateless: the case of Murcia, Spain, Master’s thesis, TU Delft educational repository:

https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:efcd2d59-499e-45a2-961d-a2a5ec132747?collection=education

Murcia, one of Spain’s autonomous communities, is located in south-eastern Spain. The region is a gigantic irrigation machine operated by farmers, cooperatives, and increasingly foreign-owned multinationals or large supermarkets that either cultivate their own land or lease from smaller plot owners. It comprises a sector that has managed to make south Spain the “orchard of Europe” with a profit margin of more than 900 million euros in the Segura river basin and over 100,000 direct jobs associated. The industry is dependent on the immense engineering works of the Tajo-Segura transfer, a major infrastructure that transports water from the North to the South.

Water is considered the most valuable resource in the region. There is a tremendous system of exploitation underneath the ground, formed by wells, pipes, and desalination plants, many of which are neither authorized nor monitored. This setting is damaging the Mar Menor lagoon, the largest saline lagoon in Europe, and its natural ecosystems; groundwater is overexploited and polluted with nitrates, despite the fact that European regulations mandate its protection.

This intensive system of production is also dependent on an increasing migrant workforce that seeks a better level of liveability in the European context. The distribution of immigrants in the territory is unequal and is conditioned by the structure of the labor market and the primary sources of demand for immigrant labor. The poor conditions of habitability, overcrowding, and lack of privacy have obvious negative repercussions for immigrant communities. Tensions in daily

Monitoring stations

Hydrographic network

Sub-catchments of river basin

Zones vulnerable to nitrates

Network of water retention ponds to improve connectivity and provide a range of ecosystem services

Enhancing dune dynamics in Dunas de la Llana

Preserving the salt marsh of San Pedro del Pinatar

Creating a vegetated foreshore connected to the urban fabric

Creating riparian zones for the stream of Rambla del Albujón

Restoring seagrass meadows Renaturalization of the Marina del Carmolí wetland

Inglezaki Portfolio Agroecologies for the Stateless

Fig.1. Initial design actions for “Matter” on the terrain model of the Campo de Cartagena. Terrain created using ArcGIS to extract the contours from the Digital Elevation Model and then modelled in Rhino.

Fig.2. Metabolic section of the region. Agroecologies for the Stateless

The Quaternary aquifer is highly polluted by fertilizer nitrates which is a great threat to water masses since it literally fertilizes phytoplankton in such huge quantities that it no longer allows sunlight to shine through water. As a result, the water turns green as happened in the Mar Menor in 2016 and the seagrass beds, unable to photosynthesize, die, a process known as eutrophication.

The hydrogeological functioning of the aquifers that make up the Campo de Cartagena aquifer is complex due to its geometry and high degree of anthropization. The sedimentary fill of the aquifer is mainly composed of detrital sediments (marl) with intercalations of highly conductive material (limestones, sandstones and conglomerates), which were deposited in the period between the Tortonian and the Quaternary. Years of drought led the CHS to authorize the extraction of brackish water, its desalination and use for irrigation in 1994.

Fig.4. Visible and invisible infrastructures that make up the “irrigation machine” of Campo de Cartagena.

Fig.3. Nitrate pollution along the Segura river basin, main sources of contamination and hydrographic network.

Nitrogen excess*

Vegetables 45%

Citrus trees Non-Citrus fruit trees 28% 28%

*Data from Universitat Polytecnica de Valencia.

Fig.5. Seasonal calendar based on water consumption and flood/ drought resilience of the crops.

Fig.6. Recultivation strategy.

Since farming is a primary economic activity in the entirety of the region of Murcia and there is already a great investment interest in the land, the strategies presented here are working in line with this fact, attempting to restructure the kinds of cultivation and export as a means to moderate the existing intensive models and to pay respect to the natural systems they are based on.

Fig.10. Orchard reforestation strategy.

Transect 1

Fig.7. Existing cultivation patterns on plot scale.

Fig.8. Proposed cultivation patterns on plot scale.

Fig.9. Agricultural practices for nitrogen recuperation.

The choice of strategic locations for new settlement insertions has been made based on existing urbanization patterns and their transportation connections. The logic of the strategy aims at creating semi-autonomous settlements in close connection to existing urban areas so as to accomplish the social integration of the migrant communities and reverse the current segregated status quo.

One of the fundamental goals of the project is to transform the landscape into a more resilient one, not only in ecological terms but also in productive terms. The territory will be altered according to the flood and drought resilience of the crops and a new labour balance has to be achieved. An equal balance can definitely not happen so some peaks will inevetably still happen in summer.

Fig.12. Impression of the new settlement’s everyday market. Production is getting closer to consumption by introducing industrial typologies that integrate retail markets on the ground floor, providing social interactions and gathering spaces for the residents.

Fig.11. Proposed cultivation patterns on plot scale.

Riparian zone Corine Railway

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Territorial vision

Phasing and actors involved

are initiated.

keep satisfied

European Union agricultural initiatives

Valencia Polytechnic University

WWF Spain

Polytechnic University of Cartagena ANSE (Association of Naturalists of the Southeast)

migrant agricultural workers

empower

INTEREST

Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment

national government Segura Hydrological Confederation

Ministry of Labor and Social Economy

regional government fruit and vegetable wholesalers commercialization

city governments

biomass engineering tech companies

residents of agricultural areas/ farmers

decision makers

BiodivERsA (European Biodiversity Partnership)

seasonal tourists

engage/convince inform

Fig.13. Social housing projects

Fig.15. Agricultural zones transform according to the regional strategy for each zone’s specifities.

Fig.14. Power-interest matrix of the involved stakeholders.

Fig.16. Stakeholders involved in the transformation of the territory.

Theories of SustainabilityPositions of care

Focus intensives weeks 1.5-1.6

Graduation Exploration

Institution

Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Academic year

2021-2022

Tutors

Taneha Cuzniecow Bacchin Raquel Hädrich Silva

Location:

Lesvos, Greece

Individual work

Fig.17. Migration dynamics in the Mediterranean.

Over a first attempt of critical mapping, one can clearly observe the size of the issue in the perimeter of the Mediterranean, with a growing number of deaths and missing people every year. The patterns of relocation are of special interest in order to get an understanding of the political situation. Greece and Italy function as the main gateways of human flows via Turkey or via the sea. Thousands of people are being guided by smugglers under terrible conditions to reach the land, while the process of admission in the European context is chaotic and dubious, with FRONTEX, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, often being accused for its questionable actions. Filing for an asylum is an uphill struggle since in most cases there is no access to internet connection or legal aid and the waiting time leaves individuals in a state of limbo for months, even years. Hundreds of Non Profit Organizations are operating only on paper while draining EU grants. Focusing on the case of Greece as a more familiar setting for me, it is worthy mentioning the xenophobia rhetoric that has been steadily building over the last years. Politicians are taking advantage of the small host communities in the country’s periphery, whose economy and social tissue can hardly cope with such a crisis for their own benefit. The deepest concern on a national level is currently the protection of the borders and the closure of the refugee settlements. New plans for gated communities with hightech surveillance are on the way, erasing any sense of individuality and quality of life.

In this context of loss and separation, the protocol of care aims at restoring the values of human dignity and provision of one’s fundamental needs. Instead of multiplying models of multi-million euro closed facilities outside the urban fabric where there is no social input it is essential to envision a new model of care, one that respects and invests in human life.

Fig.18. Mapping the territories of power in Eastern Greece.

The case of Lesvos, Greece

Lesvos, the biggest island of the North Aegean Region has been the main gateway that refugees have been using to reach Europe from Turkey. Its capital, Mytilene, with a population of 38.000 people, has been meeting the burden of accomodating thousands of refugees since the latest humanitarian crisis of 2015 started.

Theories of Sustainability-Positions of Care

Health aid

Connectedness to the outside

Goals

Life rescue

Security/dignity

Integration and social cohesion

Phasing

Immediate

Medium-term

Long-term

Action

Adapt the former prison of Mytilene in the outskirts of the city into a permaculture farm that will function as a farm-to-table restaurant for vulnerable groups.

Fig.19. The permaculture farm in the former prison of Mytilene as a proposal for reusing industrial heritage for refugee communities.

Kara Tepe boat routes major road network

refugees to adjust to

Through its long historical journey the Mediterranean has been a territory of prosperity, cultural exchange, trade and conflict. The unpredictability of the climate and its fragmented topography create a series of different ecologies that force their inhabitants into trade with their neighbors to sustain their energy sources. In light of the worst refugee crisis on European grounds after the Second World War, the Mediterranean coast functions as a passage to a land of opportunity from the perspective of the African and Middle-East populations. From Europe’s point of view, the South acts a pool of cheap labor that can easily be deployed whenever necessary, despite the ability for leaders to admit so. The interconnectedness of our times has broadened our understanding of the modes of cultural, social and political powers around the world and lead to us to face up to the fact that European power lies in its power to “make love and let die” - first by neglecting, and then overlooking and propagating apathy towards those who seek to enter Fortress Europe.

Maasvlakte

The Studio essentials course examines the phenomenon of urbanization (of sea/ land). This question requires a fundamental shift in perspective: urbanization can no longer be understood as a spatially bounded phenomenon; it must instead be examined as a comprehensive and extended process.

Second, the urban should no longer be regarded as a specific form or type of settlement space; it must instead be analysed as a process - a process that increasingly moulds more land and sea and repeatedly overwrites them.

And third, urbanization should not be taken as a one-dimensional phenomenon, but rather as a multiayered one that manifests itself on diverse levels. Urbanization includes the material structures and practices of the production of urban space as well as the various regulations of the use and transformation of the territtory and the modalities of everyday interactions.

We sought instead to find ways of mapping that are capable of portraying the multidimensional nature and plural determination of urban territories, using Maasvlakte as a case study of a massive man-made industrial territory.

Studio essentials intensive course

Graduation orientation Q5 phase

Institution

Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Academic year

2021-2022

Tutors

Taneha Cuzniecow Bacchin

Luisa Calabrese

Nikos Katsikis

Diego Sepulveda Carmona

Location: Maasvlakte, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Individual work

Maasvlakte

Fig.20. Atmosphere-Cartography.

Fig.21. Subsurface- Cartography.

Fig.22. Surface-Cartography.

Atlas of Rotterdam Common Space

Public Space as Common Space

A comparative research between Rotterdam and Milan

Internship for the course Design in Research, Research in Design of the Q4 Master of Science (MSc) in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Office

Studio for New Realities, Rotterdam, NL

De Kroon: K24

Schiemond 20 3024 EE Rotterdam

Nederland

www.newrealities.eu studio@newrealities.eu

In collaboration with: Quinzii Terna Architecture, Milan

Year 2021

SFNR team

Jeroen Zuidgeest

Francesca Rizzetto

Hugo Lopez Silva

QTA team

Chiara Quinzii

Diego Terna

Francesca Robustelli

Fabio Samele

Quinzii Terna Architecture

Studio for New Realities

Cities are perpetually dealing with their shortcomings in socioeconomic and demographic development, mobility, production and social cohesion. These urgencies are (finally) recognised as such at specific moments in time. This comparative research investigates the potential of the city’s public space to become a true “common space”: social places that maximise quality of life and strengthen a sense of belonging.

The document includes an analysis of the current state of public space in Rotterdam and Milan, and presents a collection of thoughts for possible nextstep interventions on various scales and layers. In doing so, it seeks to instigate a mind-shift towards a usage-driven reconsideration of these crucial shared spaces in our cities. The ultimate aim is to trigger the transformation of transit spaces towards usage spaces that accommodate the local community.

The research presented here builds on a study that QTA started in 2019 (as part of the Urban Factor call by Triennale di Milano and Comune di Milano), which investigated the city of Milan deeply, focusing specifically on the elements that compose its public places and reconstructing the essence of Milanese public space. This research is a “Spinoff”, where we observe the cases of Milan and Rotterdam to compare and learn, finding similarities and differences, as part of a general reflections on Public Space of cities around the world. The result is a comparative - not comprehensiveatlas of the common spaces in both cities - highlighting their qualities, their problems and potentials and their characters. It offers reflections on the usage quality of their public space at a unique moment in time.

*all images are courtesy of Studio for New Realities

Fig.23. Cover page of the Atlas edition.

Fig.25. Permeability analysis in relation to pedestrian movement.

Rotterdam

Parterres/ boulevards comparison Milan

Fig.24. Mapping and comparing the concept of the parterre between the two cities.

Fig.26. Relevant natural areas in and around Rotterdam.

Rotterdamse canals are not the same as those in Amsterdam. They cannot be navigated beside only one connection called ‘The Blauwe Verbinding’. It is a special water connection between the Zuiderpark in Rotterdam, the Buijtenland van Rhoon and the Zuidpolder in Barendrecht. It is a recreational navigable route that also provides clean water in the area but it also functions as a water storage facility, establishing an ecological connection between the various green areas. The connection runs from the Zuiderpark, the Zuidelijk Randpark, the Buijtenland to the Zuidpolder. The Zuidelijk Randpark has been renovated considerably. This offers opportunities for holidaymakers from Rotterdam South as well as Carnisselande and Portland.

During this research we worked with a multi-layered strategy leading to suggested interventions at the micro, meso and macro levels: relating to the street, the neighbourhood, and the city as a whole. The series of action scale interventions proposed in the following pages can be considered a collection of thoughts, and they are built around four key components: gathering space, mobility space, green space and blue space. For each of these categories a series of interventions is drawn, from extra small to extra large – together, they give new shape and meaning to the public space of the city.

The research was carried out mainly using open data from the Municipalities of Milan and Rotterdam (and their related agencies and departments). The maps were created using GIS, as the main tool used. The extracted information was further developed in image editing softwares. Some of the maps are calculated using ‘Open Route Service’ to obtain usergenerated free geographic data directly from ‘Open Street Map’. It then builds, also with the use of ‘Travel Time API’, isochronous to determine which area objects can be reached in given times or distances.

The conclusions of this research were presented during an international event in Milan, held in the Palazzo dell’Arte, Triennale Milano.

Fig.30. Designing a more walkable and cycleable city- excerpt from the developed toolkit.

Fig.28. Typologies of water elements in Rotterdam.

Fig.29. The idea of creating multiple small-scale parks is explored in the toolkit part.

Canals and singels

Fig.27. Mapping and defining the squares of Rotterdam.

Heathscapes Meating in the middle

The future poses a major problem of feeding 9 billion people by 2050, while the current system of agriculture in itself is unsustainable and demands resources which exceed the planetary boundaries. Further continuing this trend of exploitation and destruction of ecology will only worsen the planetary stresses the Anthropocene has established. Hence emerges the urgent necessity to reorganize and reinvent our current food system towards a sustainable and circular one to sustain life on our planet.

The primary goal of this project is to achieve sustainability in the food sector, thereby achieving circularity and food security. The Netherlands has an extraordinary position in the global market and is globally leading in agricultural research, technology and innovation. Therefore it could prove to be fruitful to develop a regional sustainable agricultural model that could become a role model for sustainable agriculture globally. The vision is to reduce the spatial impact of our food system while discontinuing the destruction of new habitats. To achieve this, a healthy diet must be embraced, which not only proves to significantly improve our health but also facilitate a transition towards a healthier planet.

Research & Design studio

Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis

Institution

Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Academic year

2020-2021

Supervisors

Remon Rooij

Nikos Katsikis

Daniele Cannatella

Group work

Collaborators:

Oviya Elango

Boris Bakker

Lilly Petter

Yoran Erami

Location:

Province South Holland

Production typologies

High yield per hectare of food that is important for the diet

Current management threatens biodiversity

By evaluating the spatial, environmental and health impacts of the current model, the negative externalities at each stage of the food sector are investigated. The diversification of the crops to be grown within South Holland is crucial in order to facilitate the transition from a food exporter to a self-sufficient region with respect to the food sector. To encourage more sustainable food production and enhance the relationship between people and their food production, it is invaluable to invest more power in the producers.

Produces popular foods Highly productive in producing valuable products

Makes NL biggest flower exporter in the world

High production rate and has shorter consumption routes

Has a large footprint of land use and carbon & nitrogen emissions per product

Big energy demand and produces green house and nitrogen emissions

Causes soil pollution while not contributing to nutrition

Has a big energy demand and is connected to high initial investments

Fig.31. Current agricultural model in South Holland.

Our current diet already reaches beyond the planetary boundaries and will continue to do so in the years to come if we are not willing to change our ways of consuming.

At the moment we, as South Holland, need approximately three times the size of our province to maintain our diet. When implementing the Lancet diet, we will only need the space of one South Holland and even less than the vegetar-

ian diet, while also staying within the planetary boundaries. Considering the positive effects despite the relatively small change in consumption behaviour, the Lancet diet proves to be a very realistic and feasible solution.

Fig.34. Vision framework scheme- groupwork, diagram by Oviya Elango.

Fig.35. Planetary boundaries of different dietary lifestyles - groupwork, figure by author.

Fig.36. Intensive cultivation proposal in combination with agrotourism activities in Biert - groupwork, figure by author.

Fig.37. Wetland proposal for the Eastern peatland region of Kinderdijk, a mixture of silvopasture, duckweed farms and floating greenhouses- groupwork, figure by Lilly Peter.

Peeling off the surface Sustainable urban design in the TU Delft campus area

Research & Design studio

Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis Institution

Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Academic year

2020-2021

Supervisors

Victor Muñoz Sanz

Iren Koomen

1st phase-Group work

Collaborators:

Celeste Richard

Miriam van Eck

2nd phase-Individual work

Location:

Delft TU campus South

The area that our group chose to work on is the one called “Back to Back”, due to its two strong defining borders, the Mekelpark and the Schie river. The interesting aspect of it, is the fact that it is not only consisting of educational facilities, but also some student housing complexes and a lot of industrial territories. This variety of functions is spread without a certain planning system, and the most discouraging fact is that the view to the river is almost completely lost when walking from the main campus. Bike routes seem to end up nowhere, industrial buildings are mostly closed and seem to have no character whatsoever and all of the natural elements of a waterfront are left to luck.

The selected area for the detailed public design is the one near De Nieuwe Haven port, an area described in the strategy phase as a mixture of commercial and housing development.

The concept of dividing the Back to back area in stripes is explored further into the detailed public space design. The area is covered in a fluid porous concrete floor which is produced by recycled demolition waste and glass bottles and is further divided into a grid of marble stripes that are 80cm wide. The grid is dictated by the desired movements between the buildings so as to signal zones of staying or moving. The denser the repetition of the grid, the faster rhythm it gives to the passersby. The emerged in-between surfaces are explored in various ways that can be peeled off or twisted so as to reveal new elements, such as vegetations or street furniture.

Fig.39. Key moment-Retail/housing complex and open market interaction, diagram by the author.

Key values

Fig.40. Distribution of the green network- groupwork, diagram by the author.

Fig.41. Masterplan-groupwork, drawing by Celeste Richard.

Sculpted facades Waterside living

Urban farming

Slow traffic

Diverse population Ecological network Peeling off the surface

Public space typologies diagrams by the author diagrams by the author

PARK high green

WATERFRONT walk by

SQUARE hard floors

PLAYGROUND meet & play

WATERFRONT natural shore

ROOFTOP break time

Communal green roofs serve as a way of treating the UHI effect while at the same time enhancing the relationships of the residents serving as places of interaction.

Inner courtyard of the retail-housing complex. The floor is slightly sunken in some zones with steps surrounding them, in an attempt to create a feeling of enclosure for passersby. This courtyard also functions as a watersquare, concetrating rainwater and pouring it through stainless steel gutters into the bassins.

The stalls of the market consist of light semi-permanent wooden constructions that can be retrieved after the functioning hours of the market so that the space after the steady metal roof is appropriated by the nearby residents in other ways, e.g. for exercise during the evenings.

The zones in front of the shops offer places to sit and rest after hours of walking around.

The reused containers function as cafes, bars or restaurants for healthy fast food and offer both a seating area viewing the river and a take-away side for students or other residents or employees during their lunch time.

Fig.42. Proposal masterplan, diagram by author.

Fig.44. Water square function, diagram by the author. Reference from the Water Square Benthemplein by Urbanisten.

Fig.43. Section D-D 1:200 Individual phase

Redevelopment of the D. Gounari street axis and design of places of cultural interest in Navarino Square

Bachelor’s thesis for the Master’s (integrated)/ Diploma Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng.)

Institution

Department of Architectural Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (DUTH)

Academic year

2018-2019

Supervisors

G.Papagiannopoulos gpapagno@arch.duth.gr

E.Amerikanou eamerik@arch.duth.gr

P.Exarhopoulos pexarcho@arch.duth.gr

Groupwork with Angeliki Micha Location: Navarino square, Thessaloniki, Greece

The diploma thesis investigates the coexistence of the archaeological site of the so called “Galerian Complex”, the most important monumental group in Thessaloniki, with today’s urban scenery. The choice of the area was made based on the thought that archaeological sites can be integrated in a system of open public spaces.

The Galerian Complex, was built at the turning-point of two worlds, the Roman and Byzantine. Its erection began when the Caesar Galerius Valerianus Maximianus (293-311 AD) chose Thessaloniki as the seat of the eastern part of the Roman Empire.

Christian times, important emperors occasionally stayed in Thessaloniki due to its significance and geographic location, situated between Rome and the New Rome-Constantinople.

The proposal had as initial intention the investigation of the relationship of the pedestrian street and the square with the wider area. With our main goal being the upgrade of the D. Gounari axis and Navarino Square’s designation, we designed a small-scale museum, dedicated to this historic region of the city, from the 2nd century BC until Late Ancient times, a café and a public reading hall that will host young students. with the closed spaces as well.

Redevelopment of the D. Gounari street axis and design of places of cultural interest in Navarino Square.

Fig.46. Program distribution.

Fig.47. Section A-A.

Fig.48. Sections of the overall proposal.

Fig.50. Museological proposal scheme, first floor (above) and ground floor (next page).

Fig.51. Photorealistic impression.

Fig.52. Design principles between building-public space.

S.O.S Climate Waterfront Workshop

Located on the western edge of Thessaloniki, the Dendropotamos area faces many challenges today. The western part of the city is characterized by a lack of urban and programmatic planning. The Dendropotamos river is covered by road network and functions as a barrier between residential areas. The surrounding areas faces the risk of stormwater inundation and chemical sewage overflow alongside coastal flooding due to the long-term threat of sea level rise.

The proposed masterplan depicts our vision to create a harmonized transition between nature and the surrounding heavy industrial zones. Our aim is to achieve good connectivity and sustainable accessibility for our focus area, by introducing a new network of paths addressing both locals and visitors. Changing land-use for the creation of natural public spaces as well as for economic development is also a critical element of the vision. For this reason we aim to put a lid on the uncontrollably growing industries so as to promote ecological sustainability. Our proposal combines educational activities, urban agriculture as well as leisure activities.

Urban Design Workshop part of the HORIZON 2020 | MARIE CURIE RISE

School of Architecture AUTH, Gdansk University of Technology, Lusófona ECATI

Academic year 2019

Studio tutors

Nikos Kalogirou, Alkmini Paka, Evie Athanasiou, Charis Christodoulou, Konstantinos Sakantamis, Athina Vitopoulou, Maria Rita Pais, Jelle-Jochem Duits

Groupwork with Theodora Lymperi, Maria-Nefeli Gerotolioy, Eva Raekidoy

Project contribution:

Initial design process/Strategic design/Masterplan design/ Diagrams/ 3d renderings/ Presentation

Location:

Thessaloniki West delta, Greece.

S.O.S Climate Waterfront

Fig.53. Adaptation of the towers in the future scenario.

Urban green rooms

The selected area was chosen due to its need of redevelopment, so as to approach the competition’s goals about sustainability and creating green spaces. Focusing on the quality that is provided through inhabiting open outdoor spaces as a cultural commodity in the modern times, the Refugee Buildings of Alexandra’s Avenue in Athens (built in 1933) seemed to be an option worth exploring.

The buildings are of special historical significance, since they have been in the centre of the “Dekemvriana” events, a series of clashes fought during World War II in Athens from 3 December 1944 to 11 January 1945, with the marks of the blasts still visible on the exterior walls.

During the recent years they have come to a bad state, with numerous complaints by residents about constituting a public health hazard.

The proposal studies the concept of the in-between space, as a spatial structure of outdoor action, codependent from the block’s building layout. It handles and interprets this spatial relationship as a part of a modernist architectural vocabulary, in need of improvement, renewal, activation and co-ordination with this era’s climatic changes.

Student competition

Pan-Hellenic Open Student Architectural Idea Contest of WWF Hellas “Creating green spaces in cities”

Institution

Department of Architectural Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (DUTH)

Academic year 2018

Supervisors

V.Ghikapeppas a-g@otenet.gr

Groupwork with Angeliki Micha, Christina Sgouraki

Project contribution:

Masterplan/ Diagrams/ 2d designs/ 3d renderings/ Presentation proposal

Urban green rooms

Fig.54. Masterplan.

site

design

greenery

buildings

bridge

pergolas “memory lines” (water)

Fig.55. The layers of the intervention.

Fig.56. Photorealistic impression over the aromatic garden.

Fig.57. Photorealistic impression of the contemplation garden.

Redesign of the Base of the Statue of T. Kolokotronis in Tripoli,Greece.

The key aim of the proposal is the best placement possible of the base of the statue of Theodoros Kolokotronis, the historic figure of the Greek Revolution of 1821, a pivotal chapter in Greek history, and his ossuary, as well as the redesign of its field of impact, emphasizing on the city’s history and the needs of the wider region while aiming at the creation of a landmark in the square. Kolokotronis’s mention in his memoirs is worth mentioning: “When I reached Tripoli, they showed me the sycamore tree in the flea market where they hanged the Greeks. I sighed and I said: “Aye, how many of my family and my nation were hanged there” and I ordered to get it cut”.

Based on this phrase we envisioned the basic structure of the floor plan, which simulates the shape of a tree’s branches as a ideogram. However, wanting to overturn this negative feeling, we choose to deal the concept of the tree as a symbol of life with an ulterior motive the reconciliation of the place with past wounds.

Student competition

Pan-Hellenic Open Student Architectural Idea Contest of the Municipality of Tripoli

Academic year

2018

Groupwork with Angeliki Micha, Christina Sgouraki

Project contribution:

Initial design process/ Diagrams/ 2d designs/ 3d renderings/ Presentation proposal

Fig.59. Photorealistic impression of the contemplation garden.

The statue is dealt as something sacred, being positioned in a “memory tank”, meaning the water.

Fig.60. North-west facade.

Fig.61. Section A-A.

Floor plan of the square.

Fig.62. Process diagram

Fig.63. Night impression of the quare.

Inspiration

Tripoli Idea Structure The tree as a symbol of the revolution’s unifying character.

Redesign of T.Kolokotronis statue base

Tobacco museum in Xanthi

The class’s subject is the study of a public cultural building, in an existing plot in Xanthi. A crucial element in the design process is the existence of a preexisting preserved building of a tobacco warehouse, which is suggested to be reclaimed and in harmony with the new building.

The main goal is dual: To designate the historic and economic importance of the tobacco cultivation for the city and the inhabitants of Xanthi and to deliver the expectation of a modern cultural space, while revocating stereotypes concerning “morphological rules” in cases of intervention on existing historic environments.

The proposal is developed in three building volumes, each with a distinctive use, that are connected through a closed bridge. The museum path starts at the ground floor, which is enclosed in the warehouse’s walls and continues on to the next level, where one can find the bridge’s route, with which they can move to the rest of the volumes and tour the rest of the exhibition.

The construction consists of a metal structural system with galvanized steel columns and a composite metal deck with a steel sheeting, and is formed on a pilotis to its biggest part so as to free up the plot’s ground floor space, to create an open public space for the city.

Architectural Synthesis VIII

Course for the Master’s (integrated)/ Diploma Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng.)

Institution

Department of Architectural Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (DUTH)

Academic year

2018

Supervisors

G.Papagiannopoulos gpapagno@arch.duth.gr

E.Amerikanou eamerik@arch.duth.gr

P.Exarhopoulos pexarcho@arch.duth.gr

Groupwork with Angeliki Micha, Christina Sgouraki

Project contribution: Floorplans and sections / Presentation proposal

Fig.66. South-west facade.

Fig.64. Construction detail. Fig.65. Section A-A.

POLIS TU Delft Platform for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture ATLANTIS

Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture

Board member and Editor-in-chief

POLIS student association for Urbanism & Landscape Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft

Institution

Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

ATLANTIS Board 2021-2022

Rosalie Moesker President

Jolt Wiersma Secretary

Xulingjun Ji Treasurer

Oviya Elango Atlantis

Ayesha Hussain Education Landscape Architecture

Zahra Agbaria Education Urbanism

Patrisia Tziourrou

Year 2021-2022

Type Editorial work and social media strategy

ATLANTIS team

Oviya Elango

Issue repository

https://issuu.com/atlantismagazine

Fig.67. Magazine cover page, design by Oviya Elango.

Fig.68. Exepmplary page of the magazine’s layout, here featuring student works from our Q3 course.

Fig.69. Board of 2021-2022.

Fig.70. Social media strategy and coordination.

Fig.72. UL Week 2021-Assistance on workshops day.

Fig.71. Promotional content for the association’s Instagram profile.

Urban rooms: Approaching the new urbanism

Publications

Urban Rooms: Approaching the new urbanism, Inglezaki K., Micha A., archetype.gr, April 2019 https://www.archetype.gr/blog/arthro/domatia-tispolis-proseggizontas-ti-nea-astikotita

Bachelor’s research thesis for the Master’s (integrated)/ Diploma Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng.)

Institution

Department of Architectural Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece (DUTH)

Academic year

2018-2019

Supervisors

V.Ghikapeppas a-g@otenet.gr

G.Papagiannopoulos gpapagno@arch.duth.gr

exchange of opinions is being conducted in the cyber space of social media, and so, people no longer feel the need to resort to the exterior space of the city square to express themselves and coexist with others. Moreover, the bond with a site and the attribution of meanings to it, is hard to achieve in a globalised urban environment that’s lost its identity.

With this in mind, contemporary urban interventions have to respond to multiple tasks and deal with multiple challenges and questions. The answer to these issues is searched out through the link of architectural design to the present time, highlighting the depth of the pre-existing, but also through a participatory future, pursuing the activation of the citizens in public spaces, retrieving the city’s qualities as an experiential spatial experience.

The square, the most significant urban public space, from its birth as a primary city void, constitutes a space extremely charged with multiple meanings; social, political, cultural, economic, all charged emotionally.

Level of enclosure and square scale

don’t even end on the square’s surface, but look like they fold under 90 degrees and continue along the terrain and elevate again towards the other side, like a cube’s net- the square is an undivided container. The horizontal level is the field of human action whereas the primary dimension of vision is the perpendicular.

The impression of a solid is influenced by the height of the buildings that shape it. But height depends on the width and the width also contributes to a great extent to the square’s character. Architecture needs space to breathe. If the square is too narrow, the buildings that stand opposing will look as if they step on their opposite’s foot, compressing unpleasantly the in-between space. But the square shouldn’t be too wide either. When the square’s width extends beyond the visual fields that are created from the building, a “sense of void” is created, meaning a site lacking structure. Unless the central zone of the square gets highlighted with adjuvant shapes, like flower beds or trees, so that this lack is counterbalanced, the visitor will experience a sense of abandonment, he will be not be given a clear guidance towards the direction that he needs to follow, nor will he be able to measure correctly his distance from the buildings. What upsets us in a overly wide square is that even though visual limits exist, a person cannot benefit from the help that appears appealingly just

outside the boundaries that he can reach. This makes him feel not only alone, but also abandoned.

Urban rooms

“What we call interior space is not defined by the negative relationship or the logical inversion of “exterior space”, but by its genetic “innerness”, its origin and its characterization of the space itself.” Moving from an interior to an exterior space implies in fact the transition from one interior space to another, from a room of a space to an “urban room”, or in other words, an urban void.

Sculpting the void should be a concern for the architects so as to shape spaces surrounding the built forms, to try to understand the form of the void. Urban space is considered rather often as an absence of space. Spaces between buildings get filled randomly with questionable pieces of art and urban furniture. Public space ought to be considered as an entity and most importantly, as a chance for presence. Architecture can become the background, a place when different groups can be the foreground and create their own ideas.

This research thesis is focused on the space of a city square as a space of relations, as an important active city void and not as simply the remains of the built environment. The square signals the city, reflecting its particularity, ready to welcome people at any moment. It constitutes a “life container” with an anthropocentric character, as a place of presence, contemplation and engagement.

The contemporary urban space is changing according to modern societies (globalization of the economy, image domination, new means of communication, new technologies) and therefore there’s been a change in people’s perception of public space. Nowadays the need for communication and

The issue of scale is one of decisive importance for the tension of the spatial characteristics of a structure regarding its dimensions. For example, when certain dimensions grow over a certain degree in plan and in section, then the “structure” might collapse. Squares that are massive in space, with massive buildings, with massive –in size and in tension, meaning in visual tension- billboards and increased vehicle traffic are no longer squares. Such a square state is not a square by definition, it isn’t a related condition to the relevant structure of space.

Regarding the issue of scale, Rudolf Arnheim’s reasoning is worth a mention. The street is visually often more than a path on the ground, which shapes a three dimensional tube, whose edges fold and continue to the other direction This thought can be implemented not only for the street, but also for other urban spaces. In this way, the square can be seen as a three dimensional void, a solid that is shaped from the buildings and the ground. In a way, a building’s elevations

Urban rooms: Approaching the new urbanism.

Fig.73. Thesis final product.

Fig.74. Sculpting the Void, Mossessian Architecture

Fig.75. Typological analysis of a series of squares; the square is the “character” of the class. Source: Aspasia Gospodini, Type and typology: The case of the square, Architektonika Themata 25, 1991, p.37-39.

Fig.76. Piazza del Campo, Siena, Italy-an example of a classic square.

Fig.77. Schouwburgplein, West8 Architects-a contemporary example.

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