ELENI CHRONOPOULOU PORTFOLIO
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design through alternative readings
introduction
approach: design through alternative creative readings My name is Eleni and I am an architect that recently finished my master in Landscape Architecture at TU Delft. As a designer, my fascination lies in the way that alternative readings challenge strict hierarchical structures that try to objectify and accurately define space. Approaches such as the Surealist and Situationist descriptions of the city, or the emphasis of phenomenology on the ephemeral aspects of experience work as inspiring examples that investigate ways to redefine convectional structures such as regulative systems or one-directional, imposed meanings. The agency of landscape has a great potential in challenging urban and architectural design approaches that tend to reduce the complexity of space in a number of well defined geometrical figures associated with well organised uses. With its emphasis on processes, interrelations and the qualities of the existing site, it helps us to think beyond strict design models that provide us with definite images of both space and nature. However, the shift of emphasis from form and program to the poetics of processes and systems is sometimes associated with a conceived opposition between “the dynamic” and “the fixed”. It is often the case that process-driven design approaches totally reject “conventional” aspects of design such as form, structure and composition. As David Harvey suggests, while interventions that fetishize things are oppressively full, interventions that fetishize processes are empty.(1) In this view, in the field of ladscape archictecture, we need to search for a more dynamic balance, not only between natural and engineered, formal and informal, but also between form and process. Could the search for such a dynamic balance, between things often conceived as opposites, depart from a creative alternative reading of the existing milieu?
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By accumulating knowledge about how the site works and what are its particular spatial and processual characteristics, one has a greater potential to come up with unexpected combinations between elements, qualities, practices and processes inherent in the site’s history and particular identity. It is exactly in the field defined by these unpredictable combinations that the boundaries of striclty defined identities begin to soften. Within this framework, the existing landscape and the processes it includes are not approached scientifically, but rather conceptually. As James Corner writes: Today's renewed interest in landscape architecture is associated with a deep concern with landscape's conceptual scope; with its capacity to theorize sites, territories, ecosystems, networks, and infrastructures, and to organized large urban fields.(2) Most of the projects in this portfolio, thry to depart from an alternative reading of the existing condition in different ways, experimenting with landscapes potential to work as a synthetic art form. (1) David Harvey (1996) Justice, nature and the geography of difference , p.435 (2) James Corner (1999) Terra Fluxus, p.30
an urban river as an over-controlled landscape the case of KiďŹ ssos, in Athens
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1) The Oppositions of Kifissos From Static Duality to Dynamic Coexistence
Master Thesis project - individual Location: Athens, Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .p.01-10
2) Gestures of association with the historical city Connective interventions at the Byzantile fortification walls of “Casteli”
Diploma Thesis project - individual Location: Chania, Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.11-16
3) Rotte (rdam) ’s Flesh Where the weaving of the river and the city takes place
Quarter3 design studio project - individual Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.17-18
4) Reshaping the dike (to its natural form)
Quarter2 design studio project - group of 2 Location: Holwerd, the Netherlands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .p.19-22
5) Slope Intesification Making explicit the existing landscape qualities
Quarter1 design studio project - individual Location: Limburg, the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.23-24
6) Landscaping the building - Building the landscape 1 Museum complex in Chania
Semester 6 Architectural Design - group of 2: with Artemis Pantelidou Location: Chania, Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .p.25-26
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7) Landscaping the building - Building the landscape 2 Art School in Chania
Semester 5 Architectural Design - group of 2: with Artemis Pantelidou Location: Chania, Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.27-28
8) Hybrid Croocked block Social housing in Rethymno
Semester 7 Architectural Design - group of 2: with Georgia Gkratsou Location: Rethymno, Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.29-30
9) Parasitical urban voyers RedeďŹ ning the conventional experience of the city
Semester 7 Elective course: Transformative architecture Location: Chania, Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .p.31-32
professional experience CV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.33-36 de Urbanisten - working with spatial typologies of topography and water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.37-38
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The oppositions of Kifissos From static Duality to dynamic Coexistence project information: Master Thesis project - individual Delft University of Technology Mentors: Inge Bobbink, Esther Gramsbergen Final Grade: 10 Location: Athens, Greece
The current thesis project addresses a highly problematic landscape in an alternative conceptual way. The landscape in question is Kifissos, a heavily abused urban river in Athens that has become part of the citys infrastructural network, functioning as a highway and a sewage collector. To guarantee for the safety and functionality of urban processes the unpredictable dynamics of the river are essentially restrained. The once soft river banks are replaced with strict concrete boundaries, expressing a conceived necessity to dominate nature. The conflict between the identities of the dynamic river and the functional infrastructural element becomes part of a wider binary division between nature and urbanity, between natural and constructed. The physical boundaries of this conceived opposition result in the isolation of the landscape from its surrounding environment. Kifissos acts as a spatial boundary that articulates phenomena of social segregation: A social condition clearly reflected on the urban tissue as a tension between the neighborhoods that have been formally designed and those that grew spontaneously, escaping the control of the designer.
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Within this wider theoretical framework that describes the case of Kifissos not only as an urbanized river, but also as an over-controlled landscape, the design process departs from an excavation on the site, investigating the common ground between things conceived as opposites. Latent conditions of coexistence are extracted and translated into conceptual design tools that compose a flexible and integrative landscape architectural framework, able to incorporate social, environmental and technical aspects closely related to the realities of the existing milieu.
evolving oppositions: between formal and informal, natural and engineered evolution of urban patterns and flood events
the design rhizome - a network of multple potential assosiations between existng extracted qualities of coexistence
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an urban river as an over-controlled landscape transforming an unagotiable linearity into an associative landscape the case of KiďŹ ssos, in Athens
The fragmented, residual urban voids along the river highway flow are turned into a common landscape defining a wider space of interactions between the river, the highway and the city. The new landscape is described as a connective topography created out of the soil excavated to re-open the river. The way this topography works is inspired by the architectural typology of “polykatoikia”, the typical Greek apartment block. “Polykatoikia”, departing from a simple formal structure has incorporated a number of diverse transformation practices, performed by its residents through the years. Within this framework, the connective topography becomes “a topography of affordances”: that can afford multiple, unpredictable acts of appropriation by its users, in time. The way that people are involved in the transformation of the landscape is guided by the “transformation laboratories”: reused abandoned factories that provide people with the necessary means, from educational programs and workshops to technical equipment. The designed landscape is not a mere imposed and distanced formal plan. It rather illustrates how landscape architecture can work as a synthetic discipline, bringing together conflicting notions such as natural and engineered, formal and informal, concept and reality, process and form, the designed landscape and the practices of everyday life. Furthermore, it explores and indicates how landscape architecture, as a discipline, has the capacity to work as an integrative common ground, bringing together conflicting notions such as natural and engineered, formal and informal, concept and reality, process and form, the designed landscape and the practices of everyday life.
the layers of intervention: from formal to informal (from bottom to top) 1) avulsion of the highway+ extension of the river space 2) relocation of the land 3) vegetation: enhancing enclosures 4) transformation laboratories: re-used old factories 5)connective devices
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facilitating informal interventions: a topography of affordances the connective topography as a flexible framework open to appropriation inspired by ‘polikatoikia’: the typical Greek multistorey appartment block
reclaiming the post-industrial city transformation laboratories transformation and material re-use
transformation laboratories
opening up massive industrial buildings failitating new uses
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2-3 years: horizontal avulsion of the highway free public space around the river
7,5 years: the connective topography grows creating enclosures the public bank incorporates the ďŹ rst public amphitheaters
12 years: completion of the connective topography a space of multiple interractions between the river, the highway and the city
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5 years: excavation of the river and relocation of the land fragments of connective topography
10 years: the fragments are weaved into a common landscape the network of the transformation laboratories grow
following years: sensitive changes: the growth of trees, the changes of the dynamic soft banks
steps of gradual transformation in time
c. the topography engages with the city
b. theatrical epxerience
a. the highway submerges in the topography
c. public spaces and the river’s nature
2. a bridge that leads to the open industrial museum continuous movement between inside
1. pine forests framing the city
kinesthetic experiences of the driver and the pedestrian
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Gestures of association with the historical city Connective interventions at the Byzantile fortification walls of “Casteli” project information: Diploma Thesis project - individual Technical University of Crete Mentors: Panita Karamanea, Alexandros Vazakas Final Grade: 9,5 Location: Chania, Crete This project focuses on the potential connection of the old port of Chania with the historic district of Casteli. The site has a strong and complex urban character, resulting from multiple, overlapping layers of historic urban fabric. It is surrounded by important landmarks, such as the remains of the Byzantine fortress, the Ottoman mosque and ruins of Venetian mansions. The proposal focuses on the creation of a coherent network of nodes and paths, which generates a flow of movement connecting the city inside and outside the walls. Furthermore, it interweaves the individual historic sites in a common narrative. The objective is not the imposition of a self-referential structure, rather the birth of a contemporary architectural solution through the unique character of the place. The project begins with an extremely persistent, careful and personal study of the area. The first step is an intuitive interpretation of the place’s atmospheric gradients, defined by parameters such as temperature, humidity, materiality and texture, sound, and tensions between light and shade. In addition, the various historical traces are translated into architectural gestures.
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Key ellement of the composition is the Byzantine fortress. The wall is seen as a backbone which articulates the key nodes of the urban complex. A cave-like museum grows along the heavy fortification wall. The building constitutes a literal and conceptual immersion in the city’s history. It is a path through the historical periods, each of which has left its own distinctive mark in today’s image of Chania. The objective is to involve the visitor in an explorative game with the city, emphasizing its kinesthetic experience. The building is an individual complex of nodes and paths that is an organic part of the urban fabric.
emphasizing existing enclosures and flows exiting elements: The byzantine wall and adjustent buildings
the gradients of kinesthetic experience
spatial and historical analysis of the “Casteli District�
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venetian era
byzantine era
othoman era
modernity era
cretan polity era
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historical traces transformed into design gestures (not in chlronological order)
vegetation linear elements and clusters
public spaces museum loop and entrances
urban complex: paths and nodes of historical importance
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Rotte (rdam)’s flesh
Where the weaving of the river and the city takes place project information: Quarter3 design studio project - individual Delft University of Technology Mentors: Fritz van Loon, Rene van der Velde Final Grade: 9 Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Overall, the Rotte has a very rich kinesthetic experience wirh rich gradients of intimacy and opennes, introversion and extroversion, warmpth and coldness. However, there is a part of the river whch is less stimulating. Between Goudesingel and Krosjweigstraat the elements of the landscape are striclty contained between designed lines. The lines translate the landscape nto fragmented spatial categories that have little or no interaction. A house is always next to a path, which is next to a line of trees, wich is next to the river. Why has design turned towards this distanced analytical definition of distinguishable spatial categories, tpologies, identities and patterns of occupation? Why do we insist on setting boundaries, imposing strict spatial orders, seperating instea of uniting? These mdels of spatial determinism cannot adress the complexities of the contemporary urban environment. They confine not only our sensorial experience and the way we move through space but also social interraction. The aim of this project is to challenge the boundaries by testing a different model. The spatial elements that define the lendsape are no longer placed in a structural sequence. They are interweaved creating an integrative landscape: A “flesh” that facilitates the “chiasma” of the city with the river, the lendscape with the buildings, the existing and the designed landscape. A flesh where the landscape and the city reveal themselves through their common texture. An dintermediate world where the diversities and the complexties of the urban environment become part of the river’s flow.
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The synergy between the built and the unbuilt and the dissolution of one spatial category into the other encourages us to imagine new ways of living and new typologies of housing where man is directly engaged with his environment, respects it and uses its sources with caution.
analysis of experiential gradients
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Reshaping the dike to its natural form
project information: Quarter2 design studio project - group of 2: with Yuthcen Liang Delft University of Technology Mentors: Inge Bobbink, Denise Piccinini Final Grade: 8.5 Location: Holwerd, the Netherlands note: all the drawings used are made by the author
To revive Holwerd we need to re-establish its lost relationship with the dynamic Wadden sea, to redefine the connections to its surroundings -both spatially and in terms of circulation- and to create new spatial qualities and sequences which may potentially be associated with different programs. The dike is experienced as an element that separates two different worlds. The land inside the dike is described as a set of isolated islands, associated with the points of reference that define our perception. Those fragile fragments seek for inter- relation. Outside the dike the landscape has a "flowing" quality. It combines stillness and movement and dynamic processes with a quiet atmosphere. Could we, by playing with topography, weave these two worlds into a common narrative? Could we also create a topographical relation between Holwerd's mounds and the dike? This concept is inspired by the dunes in Ameland. It is a reference to the natural protection from the sea. The goal is to create a structure that does not imitate either the dike or the dune. It is a hybrid between the two defense elements, the natural and the manmade.
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A strong element of this scenario is movement. Taking advantage of the linearity of the dike, the landscape incorporates different modes and paces of movement and different experiences for drivers, cyclists, runners, hikers and horse-riders.
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Slope Intensification
making explicit the existing qualities of the landscape
plan of the submerged buildings and their connection to the network
project information: Quarter1 design studio project - individual Delft University of Technology Mentors: Joost Emmerik, Saskia de Wit Final Grade: 8 Location: Limburg, the Netherlands Walking in and around the quarry one can experience various qualitatively different atmospheres. The goal of this project is to identify and define these atmospheres, find ways to react to them within the design and to weave them in a coherent narrative about the place, so that the visitors, the villagers and the inhabitans can fully experience the site. This is achieved through the development of a flexible system of routes and nodes that would both link these individual places in a common experience and adapt -each time- to the specificities of the site. Besides movement, the program involves a villa, a visitors center, a common and a private garden. This complex is placed within a soft slope, created by erosive forces, which has an intense horizontal quality. The design emphasizes this horizontality by creating the impression of a flow that expands from the place towards the other sides of the quarry. The identifiable elements of the composition are horizontal planes that descend, following the slope and leading the visitors at the bottom of the quarry. The last of them is a public terrace, connected to the visitor center and two outdoor theaters overlooking at the quary. The villa and the visitor center are submerged in the slope, becoming an organic part of the landscape. This complex is inextricably linked to the system of routes. This system consists of “quiet” interventions such as the repetition of the same material and the same species of planting. Their scale and pattern changes while someone moves towards the nodal points of this network. It also adjusts to the specific conditions of the place like the inclination and materiality of the ground and the density of the existing vegetation. This adjustable system also changes through time, following the way the quarry and the forest grow, as well as the human activity and the patterns of movement that the people who live or visit the site follow. 23
movement and variety of spatial experiences (bottom)
merging with the existing lanscape perspective view of the submerged buildings and the interconnected amphitheatrical spaces
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Landscaping the building building the landscape 1 Museum complex in Chania
project information: Semester 6 Architectural Design - group of 2: with Artemis Pantelidou Technical University of Crete Mentors: Aristomenis Varoudakis Final Grade: 10 Location: Chania, Crete
The museum complex consists of three long/elongated exhibition spaces which host the Archaiological, the Byzantine and the city museum of Chania. Main element of the synthesis are the three thick, robust and varying in section walls, that run through the site, shaping both the indoor and the outdoor spaces of the museum. The exhibitions are organized along the walls, at two different levels. There is a large, long, submerged space where the main exhibition unfolds and where the visitor can carefully go through the historic displays. The walls include designed recesses and inclined surfaces for the installation of exhibits and murals. The earthly element of the walls contrasts with the orthonormal, light construction of the three corridors that offer a quick passage through the museums and view of their content.
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The walls either verge, or move away from the corridors, resulting in differentiating gradients of communication between the two levels. As a result, a theatrical relation between the two groups of visitors is created.
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Landscaping the building building the landscape 2 art school in Chania
project information: Semester 5 Architectural Design - group of 2: with Artemis Pantelidou Technical University of Crete Mentors: Aristomenis Varoudakis Final Grade: 10 Location: Chania, Crete
Key feature of the synthesis is the interweaving of the building with the landscape. The school of art consists of ďŹ ve crooked stripes which evolve in a reciprocal relationship with the spaces between them. The essential intermediate zones arrange the whole structure. They integrate a gradient of dierent qualities along their length, transforming from passages to squares and linking the park at the western side of the plot with the main street at the north. The public zone, at the center of the complex, is surrounded by spaces open to the city, such as a library, a theater, a restaurant and an exhibition space. The neighbouring zones act as expansions of the school and have more quiet and academic character. The building stripes constitute the classes of the school. They are broken into individual bars, with various elevations. Under this slender complex there are semi-underground, cavelike cores, which facilitate the focal functions and the gathering places of the building. These nodes are connected with the lightweight bars via inclined surfaces, which weave the building with the ground. They form a coherent terrain which intertwines the interior with the exterior, as well as the individual modules of the school. 27
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Hybrid croocked block
social housing in Rethymno project information: Semester 7 Architectural Design - group of 2: with Georgia Gkratsou Location: Rethymno, Crete Located on the southwest foothill of the medieval fortress of Fortetsa and bordering with a particularly commercial road to the south, the site in question is called to connect the old city web with the fortress, by creating a residential block. The main concept of this proposal is the transformation of the continuous peripheral city block and its adjustment to the unique urban environment of the old city of Rethymno, thus creating a hybrid. The built environment consists of three units, which accommodate common uses on the ground floor and residences on the upper levels. A network of public spaces of different scales and characters is developed within the site thus creating a variety of experiences. In particular, respecting the presence and the significance of the Fortetsa, a public square is formed in the northeast section of the site for the visitors of the monument. Additionally, another square, smaller in scale and with a commercial character is created, as an extension of the road, to the south section of the site, the entrance to which is camouflaged as an arcade. As far as the apartments are concerned, the composition is based on two basic elements; the thick walls in the middle or the sides of the buildings, which refer to the fortification walls and define zones that accommodate secondary uses, and additional light constructions that are hooked on the main buildings creating a variety of apartment types and allowing the users to customize their houses according to their needs. These constructions refer to the traditional type of addition on the facades of buildings (sachnisi - σαχνισί) that are found in the area. 29
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Parasitical urban voyers Redefining the conventional experience of the city project information: Semester 7 Elective course: Transformative architecture Technical University of Crete Mentors: Socrates Yiannoudes Final Grade: 10 Location: Chania, Crete This project is inspired from Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon: a network of sectors of organized complexity floating above the city and where the situationist practices of urban drift can freely develop along with playful activities. iThes prectices subvert pre-established social relations through a creative sensual game with space. Revisiting these ideas within the context of the city of Chania, a new experience of the city is created, which does not float above the city, but rather intersects it. At the intersections a number of bodily games is activated, redefining the way in which cities are experienced by both local people and visitors. A parasitical structure, resultin of overlaping maps of various organic cities, penetrates the medieval tissue of Chania. The boundaries of this “city museum” renegotiate the given public-private relationship through an interactive game of collective creativity. The communication between inside and outside is not based on pre-defined communication codes, but rather on a pre-constitutional language that creates different situations/ localities of emotonal tension. In this sense, space is defined experientially and emotionally, rather than geometrically. Body-centric communication is implemented through a system of sphenoid apertuses, the size of which is determined by both sides, leading to a variety of different penetration possibilities. These apertuses are constructed by parallel layers of mechanical irises, that allow the flexibility of the openings. The element of looking through a hole, into a private or semi-privte space, points to the surrealist fascination with the keyhole. A faschination very present in contemporay society’s extreme engagement with social media.
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a relationship of interpenetration with the existing tissue
social interraction
social interraction
communicating through the senses
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curiculum vitae Education Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture Master of Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Landscape Architecture Track
05-09-2016 until 02-07-2018 Master Thesis: The Oppositions of Kifissos, From Static Duality to Dynamic Coexistence Mentors: Inge Bobbink, Ester Gramsbergen External examiner: Alexander de Ridder Final grade: 10/10
Technical University of Crete, Faculty of Architectural Engineering Diploma of Architectural Engineering
05-09-2008 until 14-02-2015 Diploma thesis: Gestures of association with the historical city, Connective interventions at the Byzantile fortification walls of “Casteli” Mentors: Panita Karamenea, Alexandros Vazakas External examiner: Fani Malouhou Final grade: 9,5/10
Honours Cum Laude, July 2018
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture GPA: 9/10
First Class Honours ECTSA, February 2015
Between the three best students graduating on the academic year of 2014 GPA: 8,75/10
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Protypo Athinon GPA: 9,1/10
Eleni Chronopoulou
27 June 1990, Athens, Greece +306946203835 l.chronopoulou@gmail.com Sluiswachterstraat 34, 2645JC, Delfgauw
Professional experence De Urbanisten Urban Design Assistant, December 2018- April 2018 Roles: 3d modelling, Design Assistant Project: “Over the Ring”, landscaping the Ring in West Antwerp & Zwijndrecht.
De Urbanisten Intern, May 2017-August 2017 Roles: Design Assistant, model making Projects: 1) “Over the Ring” competition, Antwerp, Belgium (Ideas Competition, Winning Entry) 2) The Archipelago of Antigoon, Antwerp, Belgium (Ideas Competition, Winning entry, Exhibition and Conference) 3) Vismarkt Louvain, Louvain, Belgium (Competition, Nominated for Realization)
Aikaterini Arapaki Engineers Temporary Design Assistant, December 2015-Janouary 2016
Project: Open space adjustment to the “Arapakis” Historical Tower, Mani, Greece (realized project) Roles: Detailed desing drawings in various scales
Topio7 (Katerina Andritsou - Panita Karamanea & Thanasis Polyzoidis) Temporary Design Assistant, February 2016
Roles: Presentation Material, Photomontage Project: Regeneration and Reuse of former lignite mines in the Western Macedonia region, Macedonia, Greece (Architectural Competition, 1ST PRIZE)
Socrates Yiannoudes Architect Temporary Design Assistant, December 2013-February 2014
Roles: Design Assistant, presentation material, photomontage Project: Development of “Katechaki” square, Chania, Crete (Architectural Competition)
Panita Karamanea, Panagiotis Malefakis, Dimitris Rotsios, Socrates Yiannoudes Architects Temporary Design Assistant, July-October 2013 Roles: Design Assistant, presentation material Project: Reconstruction of the waterfront of Kum Kapi, Chania, Crete (Architectural Competition)
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Alexandros Vazakas Architects Design Assistant, December 2012 – June 2013
Roles: Design assistant, detail drawings Project: Complete Study of “Aghia Paraskevi” Town Hall, Athens, Greece (project to be realized) Site: http://konstantiosdaskalakis.com/New-Town-Hall-Municipality-of-Aghia-Paraskevi-Final-project
Alexandros Vazakas Architects Intern, September 2012 - November 2012
Roles: design assistant, presentation material Projects: 1) Complete Study of “Aghia Paraskevi” Town Hall (project to be realized) 2) Innovative Bioclimatic European School Complex in Crete, Heraclion, Crete (International Architectural Competition)
Publications How do you Landscape? Blog of Landscape architecture Tu Delft Article in blog, November 2017
“Towards a new Dutch Picturesque: between the pictorial and the productive landscape. Reflecting on the projects of the Landscape Triennial 2017”, with Inge Bobbink Link: https://howdoyoulandscape.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/towards-a-new-dutch-picturesque-reflecting-on-the-projects-of-the-landscape-triennial-2017-between-the-pictorial-and-the-productive-landscape/
Time, Space and the Human Body: An Interdisciplinary Look, ed. Rafael F. Narváez and Leslie R. Malland, Inter-Disciplinary Press Oxford, United Kingdom, 2016 Esseay in collective volume “From the Sensuous Spatiality of the Body to the Bodily Coordination of Space”, p. 59-70 Link for the collective volume: https://flore.unifi.it/retrieve/handle/2158/1040191/132548/tsb4eBook.pdf
Artcore Magazine Article in Blog, January 2013
“ Giacomo Costa’s Apocalyptic Utopia” (in Greek) Link: http://www.artcoremagazine.gr/art-echoes/art-outside-the-core/i-apokaliptiki-outopia-tou-giacomo-costa
Artcore Magazine Article in Blog, July 2012
“Challenging the Boundaries. Lebbeus Wood’s vision of the Korean DeMilitarized Zone” (in Greek) 35 Link: http://www.artcoremagazine.gr/allai-texnai/arc-attack/amfisbitontas-ta-oria
Workshops Design as ethno-turism
Erasmus Intensive Program, Madrid, 4-14 April 2014
Thresholds. Public Space and Urban Transitions
Workshop of Urban and Architectural design, Heraclion, 23-30 September 2012
Sens(e-res)ponsive Architecture Workshop
Chania, 22-29 August 2011 Link: http://senseresponsive.blogspot.com/p/project-02.html
Conferences Time Space and the Body 4th Global Conference
Mansfield College, Oxford, 2014 Participation with the paper: “From the Sensuous Spatiality of the Body to the Bodily Coordination of Space”
IT Skills Expert: Autodesk Autocad, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Rhinoceros, Adobe Photoshop Intermediate: Grasshopper, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Languages English (Proficient) Greek (Native) German (Beginner) Coming soon: Dutch
Other activities Sports: Endurance Running, 2013 until today Former member of the Athletic Organization “KYDON” Distinctions in local races of 10km and half-Marathon in Greece Hobbies: Mountain Hiking, Literature, Cinema 36
“the harborland”
de Urbanisten
Working with spatial typologies of water and topography info: all the including drawings, schemes and models are made by the author, under the supervision of de Urbanisten
“the deltaland”
“the hinterland”
I practiced my internship at the Office of de Urbanisten in Rotterdam. Their office is involved in large scale urban projects. They are clearly oriented towards a "revival of a polytechnic urbanism, driven by waterand energy systems, by material cycles and smart transport plans" with the aim to contribute to a better city climate. For me, this focus on how to contribute to a better city climate was a very important motivation, since I feel it is a part lacking from my current skills and experience. This approach, instead of being limited in formal and structural concepts and elaborations of space, addresses the city as a dynamic system, where sub-systems of infrastructure, water and energy become an essential part of the way we experience and occupy public space.
project: “Over the ring”, ideas competition
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different spatial typologies - responding to the existing context supervisors: Florian Boer, Eduardo Marin Salinas
And it is exactly though dynamic processes that we often consider as a threat that the open spaces inside, or connected to the city, can be transformed into appealing environments that change in time.
project: The Archipelago of Antigoon supervisor: Agate Kalnpure
project: “Over the ring�, second phase 3d modeling - Interellating topography and infrastructure supervisors: Florian Boer, Timo Stevens
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thank you
contact: l.chronopoulou@gmail.com
project:Development of “Katechaki” square, Chania, Crete (Architectural Competition) drawings and renders made by author
fin!