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 pergolas bridge buildings greenery

“memory lines” (water) design site