PORTFOLIO LIANA KALAITZOGLOU

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ARCHITECTURE A collection of designs and creative works by TRIANTAFYLLIA_RAFAELA KALAITZOGLOU

PORTFOLIO

A collection of designs and creative works by TRIANTAFYLLIA_RAFAELA KALAITZOGLOU

Curriculum Vitae RAFAELA-TRIANTAFYLLIA KALAITZOGLOU architect

E D U C AT I O N MASTER DEGREE (MEATS) Master in Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary spaces

Avenida Paralelo 89, Barcelona, Spain +34684322300 kliana93@gmail.com

PROFILE # Design & Creativity skills #Cooperative & Social skills #Quick learner #Flexible and adaptable #Team working skills

ELISAVA-Barcelona School of Design and Engineering ( Master in progress )

ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING Integrated Master Democritus University of Thrace Xanthi, Greece September 2012-November 2019 G.P.A. 8.46/10

ERASMUS STUDIES Escuela de Arquitectura y Tecnologia Universidad Camilo Jose Cela, Madrid-Spain February-June 2016

HONORS

LANGUAGES GREEK I native language I SPANISH I B2 I ENGLISH I C2 I

2ND PRIZE ARCHASM India_International Architectural competition “Home- Design your dream”

SKILLS

FRENCH I C1 I

INTERESTS Painting Photography Theater acting Dancing Sewing

HANDS

Sketching

AutoCAD

Photoshop

Painting

Sketch up

Illustrator

Modeling

Rhino

InDesign

Handcrafting

3Ds Max

After Effects

Sculpture

LUMION

Premiere Pro

Vray

Traveling interactive links :

COMPUTER

Also worked with: Revit, Archicad,Sketchbook pro, Prezi, Audacity

E X P E R I E N C E & PA R T I C I PAT I O N S 2016

“PORT-FOLES” WORKSHOP Polyxeni Mpanzou, Irma Arribas Perez Department of Architectural Engineering, Xanthi

NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOP, BUILDING WITH COB Cob gr _ Kostas Kontomanos ,Small house made of cob , teamwork Paliouria Volos (https://www.cob.gr/)

ART AND ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION individual participation , Balkan art gallery , Xanthi Greece

2017

JURY-PROJECTS EXHIBITIONS + CITY FOLLOWERS TALKS Universidad Camilo Jose Cela , individual participation , Madrid Spain

2019

DIGITAL PERFORMANCES TRAZOS_CLUB Marcela Ropallo-Anthi Kosma ,teamwork performance, Department of Architectural Engineering , Xanthi

2020

ECOWEEK WORKSHOP 48h challenge for circular economy W2-“UNDER THE BRIDGE” Group Tutors : gaupenraub+/- architecture studio, Vienna, Austria

ECOWEEK ANNIVERSARY EDITION 15 YEARS Challenge for circular economy W5-” Design a cyrcular pavilion: Upcycling in design using the Harvest map.”

Group Tutors: SUPERUSE STUDIOS, Rotterdam Netherlands

“VORA” PROTOTYPE OF EPHEMERAL FURNITURE, FURNISH Participation in the structure’s assemble process, Barcelona, Spain Project directors: Toni Montes, Roger Paez, Manuela Valtchanova

2021

BARCELONA 2.0 WORKSHOP “Improve Barcelona public life” Tutors: Irene Pereyra, Barcelona

OPERATIVE MAPPING SEMINAR Using mapping as design tool tutors: Toni Montes, Roger Paez

WORK EXPERIENCE 2020

INTERIOR DESIGN FOR A CIVIL ENGINEERING OFFICE Troumpounis Konstantinos+partners, Chalandri, Athens, Greece

SAQUELLA EXHIBITION BOOTH PROPOSAL FOR HOREGA EXPO 2020, in collaboration with AtPlus Athens ATHENS METROPOLITAN EXPO, Athens , Greece

2021

“BEAUTIFUL FAILURES” INSTALLATION-BARCELONA PAVILLION OF MIES VAN DER ROHE MEATS ELISAVA, POP-UP DESIGN in collaboration with Rahola Matutes Stella

INDEX

COMPETITIONS

#01................................................................................ EVERYTHING FLOWS “HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS“

architectural competition 2nd prize

PROJECT THESIS &RESEARCH

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“OUT” OF THE BOX “ TRANSFORMABLE SYSTEM- MULTIFUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE FOR THE PUBLIC SPACE” project thesis

#03........................................................................TRANSFORMABLE SYSTEMS SPACE SAVING TECHNIQUES research thesis

SELECTED PROJECTS

#04..................................................................................BEAUTIFUL FAILURES

TEMPORARY INTERVENTION IN THE BARECELONA PAVILLION OF MIES VAN DER ROHE realised project

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“AGORA” AN ORIGAMI APPROACH academic project

#06..............................................................................................PERFORATED URBAN DESIGN IN THE PORT OF KAVALA

academic project

#07.......................................................................................PRIMARY SCHOOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

academic project

#08.................................................................................................CASA LAGO A STORY IN THE “PUJOL” LAKE academic project

#09.................................................................................................MEMORIES XANTHI CITY MUSEUM

academic project

EXPLORATIONS

#10............................................................................EXPLORING TERRITORIES PERFORMATIVE DRAWING

COMPETITIONS

#01 EVERYTHING FLOWS “HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS“

2nd prize ARCHASM international architecture competition “HOME- DESIGN YOUR DREAM” YEAR: 2020 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: INDIVIDUAL WORK LOCATION: NON SPECIFIED

This house is located in a tiny no-name island in the middle of the sea. Considering that the idea that “change” is a basic element of the human personality, the concept includes the proposal of a building that can change its own form and ambience, as long as the needs, the thoughts and the mood of its users change during the day or during their lifetime.

The idea of the building as well as its form and transformation are paralleled with the human’s substance, his intake procedure, his relationships his behaviors and his need to transform, on a figurative way. This design emphasizes the procedure and the notion of “change”, independently of time and space. The siting of the house, in the middle of the sea, is an analogy and a focus to the human’s self.

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The building is a system of four units that are moving on a specific way changing their spatial dispositions and creating a variety of space combinations. The system can be transformed changing its spatial disposition on the surface of a specially configured platform, that includes rails, designed according to the system’s movements.

When the units change their relevant position, three formats with particular spatial combinations are generating. So various compositional versions, spatial limitations and accesses are producing to the building. Those tangible transformations create different conditions, space qualities and a variety of atmospheres.

Each unit has a particular form connected with the basic geometrical solids that reflect various aspects of the human substance, mentality and materiality. The interior configuration of the units is meant to cover all the humans needs and desires and to host all of his pleasures!

PROJECT THESIS & RESEARCH

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“OUT” OF THE BOX TRANSFORMABLE SYSTEMMULTIFUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE FOR THE PUBLIC SPACE

PROJECT THESIS YEAR: 2019 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: INDIVIDUAL WORK LOCATION: NON SPECIFIED

Let’s not just talk about public space, nor a building, not even a piece of furniture.

Let’s talk about the human, or better… about people, their movements, their needs, their activities, their common interests, their particularities, and their best possible coexistence in public space. Whatever they do and don’t even imagine that they could do in public.

Let’s better talk about a “procedure”, independent of time and space, a procedure that mainly involves the concept of movement and transformation.

This thesis project includes a design study of a multi-functional unit-equipment for the public space, in order to attract activities and give to it a new identity, promote the communication and social cohesion.

This four-cube system can be transformed into 3 different spatial dispositions, expanding and shrinking its shape.

Its surfaces change their relevant position, in different screenshots during the movement.

Because of these two characteristics, different compositional versions of possible spatial limitations can be born.

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT: >minimum-necessary dimensions, during a human movement in various activities >needed equipment > possible uses, activities and actions that can take place with the aid of this structure It’s been created an ergonomic 3d grid that finally defines the form and the total structure size.

According to this anthropometric approach, the surfaces have been designed appropriately so that they can transform simultaneously producing combinations able to generate countless versions and utilize completely the indoor and outdoor space that is defined.

The 16-parts divided horizontal surface of every cube can function as a floor, seating , tables and stands system, with the help of a scissors mechanism, making the space totally ergonomic.

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These partitions can produce furniture, openings, windows, or totally closed surfaces (walls) during specific configurations.

Each two surfaces can come in touch in several screenshots of the movement and ,being in a mirror disposition, can produce common openings.

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#03

TRANSFORMABLE SYSTEMS SPACE SAVING TECHNIQUES

RESEARCH THESIS YEAR: 2019 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: INDIVIDUAL WORK LOCATION: NON SPECIFIED

INDEX • FROM THE PAST UNTIL NOW • TERMINOLOGY • “FLEXIBILITY “APPROACHES • SOLUTIONS IN SPACE SAVING_ TRANSFORMABLE ARCHITECTURE • MOVEMENT IN TRANSFORMABLE ARCHITECTURE • MECHANISMS • SELECTED REFERENCE PROJECTS & CATEGORIES SUBMISSION

The evolution of modern society has brought about changes in everyday life, values ​​ and relationships between people, but also in the physical space that surrounds them. So we live in a society characterized by constant changes and intense “mobility” at all levels, which has changed the data in the science of architecture, taking into account that human’s relationship with the environment is in a constant redefinition.

Thus, in architecture of nowadays, which integrates in its design the concepts of “time”, “movement” and “change”, we often encounter issues concerning flexibility and transformability as well as the design of spatial structures that allow the user to modify his space, depending on the use he wants to give it, so that he can cover his occasional or even more stable personal needs.

The needs of the modern user, in many cases today, are not predictable as they may change over time depending on the circumstances.

So we observe in many examples ,more and more strongly, that the concepts of complexity, change , dynamic development of shape and multifunctionality come first against “stability”.

It’s time to wonder: What is transformable architecture? What features does the design with flexible elements provide? What techniques are used for those transformations and changes?

How can transformable architecture contribute to make the use of space more efficient?

This thesis research discusses the different forms of movable and transformable architecture now and in the past . Then spatial solutions and mechanisms of space-saving transformations are studied .

Reference projects and examples were used for finding the essential categories and rubrics of transformable architecture which are important for the understanding. The case studies are then sorted according to the categories to give overviews of the great range and possibilities of transformable designs and which solutions are applied for which situations to save space.

SELECTED PROJECTS

#04 BEAUTIFUL FAILURES TEMPORARY INTERVENTION IN THE BARECELONA PAVILLION OF MIES VAN DER ROHE YEAR: 2021 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: MEATS ELISAVA in Collaboration with the artist Stella Rahola Matutes LOCATION: SPAIN

BCN

PAVILLION,

BARCELONA,

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Beautiful Failures is a story of constructiondestruction-construction to reflect on the rich history of the German Pavilion of Barcelona 1929 International Exhibition.

The Beautiful Failures intervention presented in the German Pavilion designed

by Lilly Reich and Mies van der Rohe works on fragility, detecting the two most delicate materials in its construction: the glass and the travertine paving. Glass is the paradigmatic material of the Pavilion, with its constant games of reflection and transparency, while the travertine paving is one of the most identifiable elements of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture. Consequently, the Beautiful Failures installation proposal is based on a fundamental material order that makes it possible to revisit this apparently polished, perfect, and safe architecture from its most vulnerable side.

From the formal point of view, the resolution of the installation consists of 17 raised travertine slabs that reveal the under-space resulting from a construction system that diverges from the solution of the original Pavilion.

These 17 holes contain defective pieces of glass, originally from artisan workshops in the city of Barcelona. The glass pieces correspond to the collection made by the students of more than 2,000 units discarded by craftsmen’s workshops. They are made of borosilicate glass of German origin, which cannot be recycled in our country. The ruins and discarded pieces make it possible to establish a link with the Pavilion’s past history while raising questions of sustainability for the present at the same time.

The new landscape resulting from the partial lifting of the pavement and the relationship with the pieces of glass finds analogies with a stratigraphic excavation using a grid system, commonly used in archaeology.

“The pro that whi understo And In t of the Pa the piec

oposal is a ceremonial action that rides between the discovery and the funerary act, between ich is mortuary and that which is revealed to us. The temporary intervention in the Pavilion is ood simultaneously as a rite of discovery and burial. this cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, all the elements play an important role, from the history avilion itself, implicit in the actions with the travertine, to the life accumulated in each of ces of glass. "

#05

“AGORA” AN ORIGAMI APPROACH

YEAR: 2015 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: 3 LOCATION: XANTHI, GREECE

The city is a creation of the human need for socialization. Its public space, free or even built, is the predominant place - the host of social life, the place of coexistence. That’s where commerce and entertainment flourish, culture is cultivated, worship takes place.

Located in a network of commercial, social and cultural functions and outdoor space, very close to the city center, surrounded by buildings and spaces of varied uses of public life, this municipal multi-use center aims not only to develop a commercial activity but also to motivate people to cocreate, co-plan, co-work and finally co-exist.

The building by its self is an element of a smooth transition between the traditional “pazari”- flea market and the folk Anatolic market area of the city, the University, and the rest of the modern-life city.

The design consists of a central atrium surrounded by a shopping area, cultural associations, workshops, library, theater, exhibition space, restaurants, and sitting areas, that is covered by an origami-form platform with foldings that imitate the geographic relief and covers a variety of uses, composing an upper panoramic-view plaza where an open-air cinema is located.

The platform is crossed by a massive inclined route that connects the upper level with the ground floor level.

CENTRAL ATRIUM

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SHOPPING AREA

WORKSHOPS /LIBRARY AREA

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

#06 PERFORATED URBAN DESIGN IN THE PORT OF KAVALA

YEAR: 2016 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: 4 LOCATION: KAVALA, GREECE

The study area constitutes part of the south sea-front of Kavala, forming a peculiar junction with the urban fabric. In the area there are particularly auxiliary buildings and warehouses.

This project proposes the demolition of the building fabric inside the site, releasing the area for its redevelopment into a single public place, at the same time, transforming it into an environment, designed to be used for cultural events, recreation, soft sporting activities, walking and relaxation. The large oblong building situated at the waterfront is exempted from demolition.

So we meant to manipulate the building envelope and structure, reversing – revealing its key structural components, in order to reshape – transform it into an essentially elevated public space.

The study area becomes a kind of a “platform” for the development of structures and configurations; In this context, the key design challenges are: the restoration of the city’s relationship with the sea, the visual and functional connection of the study area with the urban fabric, and ultimately the formation of a new identity for the area.

#07 PRIMARY SCHOOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD YEAR: 2015 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: 3 LOCATION: XANTHI, GREECE

How could an educational building provide the sense of open, non-boundary space?

How a school building could be full of life even when the day is over?

Located in a fully residential area of the city of Xanthi, having as a background the image of high, densely built apartment buildings and mountains, a space of education is created. Intending to create a smooth synthetic intervention with almost “ transparent” boundaries and direct contact with the city, the building is designed according to the inclination of the ground.

Its position and form aims not only to represent an “open” elementary school but also aims to bring together the community giving the opportunity of entertainment, co-creation, and communication.

There are facilities that can be used by the community, as for example an open library, a shared kitchen, an amphitheater, and a sitting place.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS

SECTION A-A’

#08 CASA LAGO A STORY IN THE “PUJOL” LAKE

YEAR: 2017 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS:INDIVIDUAL WORK LOCATION: VALENCIA, EL SALER, “ESTANY DEL PUJOL”

This house is located on a small island in “Estany de Pujol” a small lake in El Saler a few kilometers south of Valencia city. The site is between Albufera lake and the Mediterranean seacoast.

The client is a young couple that is searching for a silent place to live and work isolated from the city life noise, taking advantage of the lake view and the natural tranquility.

This environment can surely provide the needed inspiration for the painter.

The building composition is based on the idea of a regular shapes 3-dimensional “collage”, a simple fragmented orthogonal form where “in and out”, “open and closed” aren’t easily distinguished. The building parts are overlapping and penetrate each other.

The principal elements of the composition are the upper interior balcony with a panoramic view of the site, the big kitchenwarehouse connected with a vegetable garden and an enclosed backyard, and the workshop sector that includes an office loft.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

LIVING ROOM

BEDROOM-BATHROOM 2ND FLOOR

KITCHEN

#09 MEMORIES XANTHI CITY MUSEUM

YEAR: 2016 DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: 4 LOCATION: XANTHI, GREECE

The museum plot is located in the center of the city, very close to the central square and a variety of public buildings.

The main intention of this design was the creation of a city core, aiming to preserve the historical memory of the city, but also to exanimate in a critical way its current identity and future development.

Also, the museum was tenting to be a living and dynamic pole of knowledge and arts.

Responding to the contemporary social and cultural components of modern life, the new museum was called upon to be a reference point for the city’s residents, to encourage their participation, to enhance their experience, to strengthen their critical outlook, and to express them. Both in its content and its design, it is constantly “open” and “coordinated” with modern life, except of being a valuable legacy of its history.

This is achieved with the multifunctional character of the building. The synthesis includes additional uses and activities, that function simultaneously or independently of its main areas.

COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS

The conceptual idea begins with the creation of two enclosed public squares that are integrated into the main building, in two different altitude levels, and realize the main intention of an “open”, city core. All the interior museum spaces are forming a “circular” shape of overlapping building sectors that enclosures the lowest square. This circular shape is translated into the movement inside the building.

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MUSEUM GALLERIES:

1) History of the city and the surrounding area 2) Urban planning and developement 3) Society-Education_Religion 4) Local economy 5) The old town of Xanthi 6) The contemporary architecture of the city 7) The city through art and education 8) Culture, Turism and tradition 9) Natural and built environment 10) Contemporary artists of the city , city innovation 11) Temporary exhibitions

INTERNAL SQUARE

EXPLORATIONS

#11 EXPLORING TERRITORIES PERFORMATIVE DRAWING YEAR: 2020 LOCATION: GREECE, SPAIN

Psychographies,excursions of the inner , the subliminal.

These experimental performative drawings, are the results of a series of live collective drawing sessions, where the principal intention is the stimulation of “Thinking through drawing”.

Exploring territories, forms, material, techniques movements, feelings, and internal demons by charting them on paper.

Collage of the academic project: “Renewal of the Spinning Mills industry of Lavrio” Located in a very contradictory territory, with an industrial background, the design was intending not only to create a new city “magnet” of facilities but also to connect more efficiently the city with the port. The refurbished old industrial building of the spinning mills from the 60s’ is combining with 3 new building units composing a variety of new facilities not only for the Lavrio’s residents but also for the plenty of visitors of the city.

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