Pantelis Kyriakou Portfolio 2022

Pantelis Kyriakou

Selected Works 2017-2021

Pantelis Kyriakou

Elsenstr. 27-28 Berlin, 12435 +49 176 58860672 padeliskyr@gmail.com

About

My name is Pantelis Kyriakou and I am an architect, cur rently living in Berlin. I graduated from the University of Thessaly in January 2021 where I successfully acquired my master’s degree in Architecture. In 2015 I became the Greek National Contacter for the largest European Architecture Stu dents Association (EASA) and this was my first opportuni ty to travel and meet architecture students from all over the world. Through this experience I discovered the benefits of a multicultural environment and my interest in urban design topics. In 2017 I moved to Berlin to work for LIN Architek ten. After carrying out a variety of demanding projects and competitions in LIN, I undoubtedly enhanced my architectur al skills and knowledge at a professional level. At the same time living in the dynamic city of Berlin had a strong impact on broadening my architectural perception. For the next two years I was moving back and forth between Greece and Ber lin, finishing my studies and working as a freelancer for var ious projects and competitions.

In 2021, I started working full-time for Dax-I, an interior de sign firm. During this period, I worked on almost all phases (LP 1-3, LP 5-9), overseeing the construction site and han dling cost calculations and offer reviews. My time at Dax-I allowed me to take on additional responsibilities, discover new strategies for organizing and managing my team, and su pervise (and learn from) interns with the goal of project de livery.

Most importantly, I am proud of my time at Dax-I since I was able to extend our clientele by upgrading our presentations with 3D Visualizations. I was extremely devoted to this proj ect because it was purely my initiative, and was overjoyed when it paid off: we noticed that the time spent negotiating with clients was significantly decreased since our proposals could be depicted more effectively. This resulted in fewer client sessions (saving time and money), while ultimately it attracted more customers.

In this portfolio I would like to express my critical point of view to contemporary architectural developmen, urbanization as well as interior design, through my academic and professional experiences. Throughout this process I attempt to seek for new possibilities of architectural and urban forms by im posing new meaning on older ideas.

Pantelis Kyriakou

MSc Architecture

Elsenstr. 27-28 Berlin, 12435 +49 176 58860672 padeliskyr@gmail.com

Education

2012/9 - 2017/9 University of Thessaly Bachelors in Architecture

2018/5 - 2021/1 University of Thessaly Masters degree in Architecture Valedictorian, 9,39/10

Professional Experience

2017/9 - 2018/3

LIN Labor Integrativ Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Berlin Internship

2018/5 - 2019/6 Freelance

Interior Design projects and big-scale competitions alongside professionals

2021/5 - present Dax-I

Interior Design projects with focus on residencies. Mainly private clients

Achievements

2015/8 - 2016/10 Greek National Contacter European Architecture Students Assocciation EASA

2015/6 Participation in “Default 5: Long Time No Sea” Short-film and architectural collage

2017/10 2nd Prize for Rauchstr. 34 - 40 LIN Architekten Internship

2021/03

Valedictorian, Highest Grade Among Graduates in Masters Degree in Architecture University of Thessaly

Competences

Computer Rhino 3d + Vray, Archicad, Blender, 3ds Max, Sketch-up, Autocad, Photoshop, Ilus trator, InDe-sign, Premiere Pro, After Ef fects, Office

Making

Languages

Model Making, Laser Cutting, Wood and Metal Fabrication

Greek, Native Speaker English, Proficient Speaker (C2) German, Intermediate Speaker (B2)

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T.I.N.G.A

Trash Is Not Going Away Recycling Center and Hab of Eco-Industrial Living

S.E.A.L.

Seaside Ephemeral Accommodation Laboratory

A Gateway to the City Redesign of Konrad-Adenauer Square in Düsseldorf

Rauchstr. 34-40

Proposal for Residential Buildings in Spandau, Berlin

Interior Design

Fragments of my work the past year and a half

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Trash Is Not Going Away Berlin, Germany

UTH Master Thesis Collaborators: Individual Winter 2020

This diploma project refers to a different time. In this time, nothing vanishes. Nothing magically disappears from our toilets and our trash cans to un known direction. Everything stays here, piled up, emblems of a coming com munity. And we all dance around them, around the beautiful nothingness, in love with the marks that time cannot erase, being true ecologists.

Springboard to this project was the video-essay of philosopher Slavoj Žižek, in the documentary Examined Life. There, Žižek addresses the relationship that mankind retains with its waste, the problematic issues of modern ecolo gy and possible theoretical outlets. The video starts with a general shot of a trash pile and Žižek saying “This is where we should start feeling at home”.

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In regard now to the actual product of this academic project, there has been designed a recycling and sorting center in which, most importantly, trash are in open display.

To this is added a second-hand market with several workshops that deal with the practices of processing recycled material or reusing and repairing existing products.

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With dark blue is highlighted the visitors’ main circulation-observation area, which takes place above the industrial activity.

The market’s and workshops’ main input comes from the recycling center. More over a student and volunteer/visitors’ housing unit is added along with offices for the public transport company, that owns the site.

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The accommodation unit, used for both student and TINGA’s guest-volunteers, is designed to have in the center the main waste disposal facility, the toilet.

The recycling center works on an “in dustrial tourism” model that follows the one from agrotourism. In other words visitors work in the center and in return they live there and take part in the industrial life, its systems and chains of recycling.

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With this project, besides the architectural proposal, I tried to find a different point of view on the ecological discourse. And through the lens of trash, which was used to zoom in to the city, an endoscopic view of exis tence might have been occurred.

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South Elevation

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View from Jebensstraße

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Seaside Ephemeral Accommodation Laboratory Volos, Greece

UTH Design Studio Project Collaborators: Harris Vamvakas

Winter 2017

S.E.A.L. describes a new condition of labor and accommodation around maritime activities in the gulf of Pefkakia, which is part of the port of Volos. The project constitutes part of a greater effort to redefine tourism conditions in Greece by reinventing and boosting alternative forms of tourism. Visitors of S.E.A.L. are on the same time tourists and workers. Trying to define this demanding statement of the new hybrid between these two condi tions, it offers a combination of accommodation and labor under the nature of a workshop atmosphere. S.E.A.L. offers the minimum of symbiotic living in an educational and social co-working environment. Therefore it address es to amateurs and willing-to-learn people of all ages and sexes, who are looking for a different way of capturing the essence of the place. On the first day of arrival –after a quick tour among the facilities and the site- the guest will be able to choose between participating in the “shipyard” workshop or in the “fishing” one.

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The activities of these workshops are really important to the local history and economy, but they have dramatically declined because of the economic crisis and new technologies. As far as spatial organization of the site is concerned, the division of the gulf into two main parts is adopted, one focuses on the shipyard activities and one focused on fishing and accommodation. Each part is characterized by a long platform on the edge, they are meant to trigger all the intermediate space while using the least built interventions needed. As a result comes the gentle sideway path that connects the two ends. On the west platform is located the accommodation building, the public restaurant while the fishing activities take place underneath. Accordingly at the east platform, all the shipyard facilities and a public info point are placed.

Study room

Dining room

Accommodation unit

Living roomLaundry room

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Platform A plan

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Platform B plan

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Inside the hotel

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Inside the shipyard

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A Gateway to the City

Redesign of Konrad-Adenauer Square in Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany

LIN Architecture Competition Internship Winter 2017-2018

As the gateway to the city of Düsseldorf, the train station area must be positively developed. As an incubator, Konrad Ade nauer Platz should be redefined as an ensemble of the existing building of Immermannhof, high-rise addition to the train sta tion as well as redesign of the square area.

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Building on the existing structure

Programm distribution

Circulation

Underground infrastructure

Tree master plan

Urban spatial elements on the square

Urban carpet

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Rauchstraße 34 - 40

Proposal for Residential buildings in Spandau, Berlin Berlin, Germany

LIN Architecture Competition Internship Summer 2017

Against the background of the increasing demand for affordable housing as well as the current plans for the Wasserstadt Spandau, the transforma tion of the Neue Gartenfeld and the Urban Tech Republic in the immediate vicinity, WBM intends to build a dense urban ensemble consisting of com mercial and residential uses on parcels 937 and 942. It should be possible to realize the project in phases.

On the one hand, the site between Wasserstadtbrücke/Rauchstraße and As nieresstraße is characterized by its opening to the Havel, a suburban quiet atmosphere, and a potential connection to the streetcar. On the other hand, considerable acoustic emissions emanate from Rauchstraße. The design proposes a comb-shaped ensemble. Along the Wasserstadtbrücke/Rauch straße are 2 commercial blocks, called Stadthauser. Behind them, parallel to the Havel River, are 4 residential buildings. The Stadthauser are two 72 and 60 meter long blocks, which are flexible in their skeletal form and open for different uses.

The combination of high building density and a programmatic mix of res idential and commercial uses creates a lively neighborhood that reinter prets the development of the Wasserstadt Spandau in the context of current developments and creates quality spaces for living, living and working.

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Interior Design

Fragments frοm my work over the last year and a half Berlin, Germany

Dax-I

Full-time Employment

Most of the projects that I have done in the past year and a half have not yet been fully completed. Smaller or more significant details kept us from being able to clean the construction sites and proceed to take photos. But even if that wasn’t the case, Dax-I usually prefers to take pictures of the projects at least a year after the project has settled residents so that they capture it full and alive. Therefore, in this section, I’ll be limited to a col lection of photos or 3D renders from projects we’ve done without further details. This way I aim mainly to show the aesthetic approach we pursued rather than the actual projects.

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