ZAPARTA
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO _ 2017-2019
CONTENTS cv academic projects
cv work experience
workshops
Vasalos Ioannis_Carpenter Apprentice_July 2018 3SK Architects_Student Apprentice_July 2014
Stone Building Workshop_Manolis Piperakis_Kapandriti_September 2018
education
skillset
HAEF Athens College_Highschool_2010-2016 Moraitis School_Elementary School_2004-2010
software
languages
AutoCad Rhinoceros_Keyshot Sketchup Adobe CC_Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design MS Office_Word, PowerPoint, Excel
Greek_mother tongue English_ proficiency French_b2 certificate Spanish_courses
academic projects
shĹ?ji_shadows of form
vitam parallel
anarchitectural integration
shōji_shadows of form project_SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE location_METS, ATHENS, GR team_ELENI MAGNISALI professor_ANDREAS KOURKOULAS completed_FEBRUARY 2018
“If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty.” _Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
This project was done for Achitectural Design 03. The subject examines the house on the spectrum of the eroticism of space in its creation. The location of the plot is in Mets, in the center of Athens, right next to the Panathenaic Stadium. Mets , an old, high class neigbhourhood, shows continuous and homogenous history and character. The project takes upon the integration of two different spatial atmospheres on the same environment. Designed for an elderly couple, a writer and a painter, the two have grown to need their seperate spaces. He, can’t write having in mind that people might be listening to the sound of the keys. She needs an open lightfull space, for people to come and go, and with the ability to expand and host exhibitions. But there is also need for a commonspace where the lost intimacy of the relationship is to be cultivated.
The plot given, has a strong inward force, and also faces the south with an unobscured view. The site inclination means that the two entrances have a height difference of a floor. The scale of the area is that of a well preserved neighbourhood with the exception of some appartment buildings. The two different roads, a neighboorhood street and a pedestrian street, serve the more public and the more private entrances. lengthwise section
The entrance on the upperside of the L shaped plot, pictures a large tree on a two floor covered onening, with a framed view of the courtyard. The public entrance splits to the house on the right and the renting studio on the left. The house enters to an open hall with the view of the whole house. A flying corridor leeds to the guest room while a staircase towards the ground floor and a staircase towards the upper floor. A balcony like situation oversees the atelier on the inside. The atelier, on the lower floor, that extends to the courtyard and the living room can also be seen form the street through a small skylight. The living room is in direct connection to the courtyard and the kitchen on the other end of the house, next to which is the other entrance. The whole wall in the back of the living room is covered in bookselves in both ground floors, to cover the needs of the writer. The staircase to the upper floor leads to the open space of the bedroom and the bathroom which with the exception of the toilet, doesn’t have anyting but curtains to divide the space. The bedroom prolonges to a long terrace similar to that of Casa Malaparte. Finally, a flying corridor leads to the writers studio, over the rental studio that only has entrance through the bedroom, that making it the most private and disclosed room, with the best view.
ground floor level
entrance level
cross section
upper floor level
Inspired by the serenity and the intimacy of the traditional japanese shĹ?ji, the first glimpse of this house is that of an ever changing translucent lattern, which acts in reverse to the light of the day and gets enlived by the shadows of the inhabitants. The wooden frame structure sits on top of a heavy concrete base that only shows itself on the lower part of the plot. Covered by a metaphorical curtain (U-glass) on the outside and a literal curtain on the inside, this house has no walls. This is house acts as a space where several dims of light filtrate creating the different requested atmospheres.
vitam parallel project_APPARTMENT BUILDING location_METS, ATHENS, GR team_STELIOS KANTARTZIS professor_TILEMACHOS ANDRIANOPOULOS completed_JULY 2018
This Project was done for Architectureal Design 04. The site given on in the central road of Mets, in central Athens, called Anapafseos street. Anapafseos street is a commercial street with some appartments that leeds to the First Cemetery of Athens. The other two roads that surround the plot are of minor importance, typical neighbourhood streets. The lowerpoint of the plot is on Anapaseos street. The program set requires 5 appartment houses, 2 of 60 sqm, 2 of 90 sqm and one of 120sqm with parking, as well as a 100sqm commercial space. The commercial space was chosen to be a cafe/study room on Anapaseos street. The commercial space is deferenciated from the housing part, as it appears under a ‘slice of earth’ that rises and on which the housing is built. In the middle it’s sliced by a staircaise that leads to the residential part.
90sqm
120sqm
The appartments were divided into two (or three according to size) parts, that constitute -the living space which acts as the core of the house, and is shared and -the sleeping space that is more private and can be thought as an ‘addition block’ onto the main core. These parts, or blocks where used for the creation of a three-dimensional habitual puzzle where the open space left (both interior and exterior) was given as much attention as the built blocks. The blocks where then placed in different height on the basic unit of half a floor, in order to create a better flow of spaces both indoor and outdoor. and allow for a hierarchy of spaces with a difference in hight. The main backbone onto which the sleeping spaces are attatched is the staircase, private for each house. This gave all the teraces use, as each house has access to one, that were thought as the space for the possibility of incremental development according to future need. Each terrace has blocked view towards the others but an unobscured view of the surroundings. The way the built space was escalated was according to our sense of the geomorphology on which it is build and in preservance of the particular characteristics of each side: the building seems like an apartment building with retreats from Anapafseos street and like a two storey house from the neighbourhood perspective. The space left by the blocks creates two green spaces in relation: one is a more public-private yard with low vegetion where the residents can meet, on the boundary with the street, while the other is a more private, balcony like roof on top of the commercial space.
60sqm
There are three entrances: 1. The entrance for the cars, as well as for the most appartments is on the side street 2. There is an entrance through the commercial space, from Anapafseos street 3. The 120sqm house has a private entrance to enchance the feeling of the neighbourhood.
anarchitectural integration project_INTEGRATION IN PUBLIC SPACE location_NTUA, ATHENS, GR team_THANASIS SVARNAS professor_KOSTAS MORAITIS completed_FEBRUARY 2019
This project was done for Architectureal Design 05. The title of the subject is ‘Monuments of modern history - Spatial integration and design of political statement. The intervention is done in the courtyard of the Architecture School of Athens, a place all too familiar. The buildings of the Technical University in Exarcheia were the center of anti-junta strikes and demonstrations during the early ‘70s. In 1973 the Technical University as well as other universities around Greece where squatted by the students as an act of protest against the totalitarian government. On what become the last night of the squatting, a tank entered killing 24 and injuring many. This campus, which is considered a monument of modern history, still holds a significant role in the political scene of the country and Exarcheia is still the center of most of the politicization as well as protests and streetfights. The surplus of spaces, left behind by the moving of the rest of the university is either left empty or used by political teams for cultural or non purposes. Recently many politicians have announced the will to move the university from the campus to Zografou in order to expand the National Archeological Musem and halt the unrest in the area. Exarcheia is all the same becoming gentrified in midst of daily clases between anarchists and police forces on the borders. These classes that have become normalty in the life of the neighbourhood, see the use of rocks and marbles from the buildings of the university, thrown to the police. While analysing the whole phenomenon is too big to be realistic in the spectrum of this project we decided to address one very important issue of modern urban life that seems to explain the expression that this crisis assumes. The fact that this action, apart from the political characteristics, is a form of decompression from the everyday violence of the contemporary society against nature. This may justify why these people chose a manual way of fighting, based on the destruction. It is true that people wouldn’t have all this energy and temper in a surrounding that successfully consumes it.
t12
We chose to act in an analogy to the subject that choses to destroy unleashing his energy against a constant target, the supressor. We set aim to demolish parts of the built environment and let nature back inside the jail-like institution that is so typical of a university, decomposing what in all seems old and rotten. By destroying instead of building, in a thought process that stems from Anarchitecture we chose to leave the ‘plaza’ empty, even stripping the asphalt that peviously paved it. Our idea of integration was to not use new architectural languages and to not design in favor of some of the users, excluding others. At present, it is place not only for the use of the academic society but also for political assemblies of all types, people that walk their dogs, etc. It is a multiuse public space. The end result, in it’s function, resembles the Ancient Agora of Athens, in the fact that it is an open multipurpose, unpaved ‘plaza’ with sparce trees. Two diagonal movements, though not drawn, are evident from the use. This is a semantic analogy to the breeding ground of democracy.
Our basic move was to enhance the outdoor activities, weather it is eating, working or socializing. In doing so we adjusted the earth level creating a slope on the one side and a small hill on the other side so that the plaza is border in all sides from porticos. Five porticos, of which the three pre-existing are on the ground level, and the others are one on the first level and one underground. This connects the most popular working room, T12 with the outdoors and gives it a new double floor openning.
general sections of the plaza and floorplan of the ‘hill’ area
sections B-B and A-A
T12 is the most popular work room in the School of Architecture. Originaly it occupied just the ground floor while the basement was abandoned. By creating a slope on the outside we enabled for the basement to get light and ventilation and a connection with the ‘plaza’ through a portico. A piece of the original floor was demolished to connect visually and physically the ground floor with the basement and a metal staircase was added for internal communication. In the underground floor a noisy room was created, separeted from the rest with glass panels. The orignal materials are being used, in their decaying form, to abstain from intruducing new ‘languages’.
underground floor
ground floor
part of underground floor zoomed in
Apart from the ground level, a big demolition occurs on the top floors of one of the buildings. One part is taken off, while the structural system remains, and in the very core of this a tree is planted, creating an indoor garden and lushing the building with vegetation. This serves as the relief of a library that exists on the fourth floor. The column line in the middle of the floor plan sets the limit for the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. The top floor is completely stripped off of much of the skin, to provide a live lesson in its constructural nudity. It is an open space for the students to create experimental structures, that now affect the neighbourhood as well, since it is the only place with visual connection to the outside.
5th floor
4th floor
3rd floor
section collage