portfolio_anastasia.pistofidou

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Anastasia Pistofidou ‘10

name:

Pistofidou Anastasia

email:

naspoutin@hotmail.com

address: phone number: date of birth:

working experience

25, Cambouridou str, 55236 Panorama, Thessaloniki, Greece (+30) 6932 235236 09.02.1983

2010-2011

Master student of Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunia(IAAC)

2009-2010

freelance architect

2004-2007

part time job along with university studies

sept 2007-sept 2008

education

2001-2009

2003-2009 1995-2001

language certificates greek

english spanish

construction manager in Arcon Constructions Company

Diploma of Architecture_equal to Msc of Architecture_Aristotle University of Thessaloniki_ Faculty of Engineering_Greece_ grade 8.18/10 Very Good Stereosis school of photography Unified High school diploma_American College “Anatolia� of Thessaloniki_Greece

mother tongue

Michigan Proficiency, 1998/fluent Cambridge Proficiency, 1998/fluent Oxford Proficiency, 1998/fluent

Inicial, Instituto Cultural De Espanol,2006_ preparation for basico/good 02

workshops-competitions-exhibitions

apomechanes workshop and exhibition athens, july 2010

participation in Art is Hard_vol 3_exhibition_Block 33_ stereosis forward group _17.12.2009 participation in Gaby Schillig and Asterios Agkathidis_ textile structures_ form finding workshop_29.05.2009 nominated 1st prize in Photoday competion “the penalty” and 2nd prize for “lose control” and ‘upside down” photographic themes, 2009 participation in the on view for 99hours photography exhibition_ stereosis forward group_Portraits_ 7-11.07.2009

participation in Europan 9 international architectural competion, Groningen site,The Netherlands, 2008 participation in stereosis photography annual outdoor exhibition, summer 2007

participation in PixelDance II festival_ video art background of the experimental band “Eventless Plot” live_18.05.2006

participation in the competition of the Hellenic Mathematical Society, 1997

software proficiency

Autodesk AutoCAD, 3d Studio Max 8, Adobe CS4 package (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere pro, flash), Sketch up, Rhinocheros, Ulead Video Studio, ms Office

seminars

transparency and architecture_ challenging the limits _1-4.06.2006 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki_ Faculty of Technology_ School of Architecture

Claiming the rural_ University of Thessaly_ School of Architecture_28-30.03.2008

14+3 lessons on Modernism_ State Museum of Contemporary Art_ 05.11.2008-24.06.2009

social skills

motivated person with excellent communication skills, creative thinker, enthusiastic and hard working

artistic skills

studies in photography and active member of the photographic team “forward” in Thessaloniki, member of a dancing studio, member of a media laboratory producing video art

other activities

photography, sketching, fashion design, jewell design, cinema, painting, video art, packaging, swimming, snowboarding, YMCA leader, member of women basketball team

experiments 80%glue

70% glue

60%glue

50%glue

40%glue

30%glue

categorizing the patterns linear

having a positive and a negative, a hole and a hill. //according to grid and speed

keeping the same grid and playing with the speed of the machine

result: different kind of intersections of the piles puring the glue in every step and pouring the glue at the end makes different solidifications of the intersections

categorizing the patterns on a grid

changing the grid and the speed of the machine

synesthesia

apomechanes workshop-2010

2d cellular automata

renderings | photos

Fabrication Synesthesia_ a neurologically-based condition in which the brain mixes up the senses.

For example, synesthesia might cause someone to hear colors or see sounds.

Concept_3 senses (hearing,sight,smell) and the procedure of neurological mixing due to the disorder of Synesthesia Tools_3 different components and one 2D Cellular Automata Designing Procedure_experimentation in different tiling combinations _in components geometry in order to express the 2D CA in xyz axis _in infinite continuous surfaces Fabrication_expressing the endless 2D CA with a deformed surface and a continuous tiling _research in 3 different materials of the components _ending up with contouring the surface driven by an aesthetic of necessity and the service of continuity

Project Title synesthesia team A | pistofidou team member namevarva B | team member name C | team member name D georgemember gkiatas name | natassa | chryssa

Κάνιγγος 7, Αθήνα 2200048 hylo.com hylo.com

in collaboration with :

ΠΟΥΛΟΣ

6th of August 2010 | Athens | National Museum of Contemporary Art

organised by : ΕΚΤΟΝΑΣ

instructors: Ezio Blasetti (ahylo)| Roland Snooks (kokkugia)

Diagrams | Components apomechanes workshop-2010

2d cellular automata components | diagrams comp 1

comp 2

comp 3

medium-density fibreboard

molds

folding plastic

forms and tilings

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Project Title synesthesia team A | pistofidou team member namevarva B | team member name C | team member name D georgemember gkiatas name | natassa | chryssa

άνιγγος 7, Αθήνα 2200048 ylo.com

in collaboration with :

ΠΟΥΛΟΣ

6th of August 2010 | Athens | National Museum of Contemporary Art

organised by : ΕΚΤΟΝΑΣ

instructors: Ezio Blasetti (ahylo)| Roland Snooks (kokkugia)

landscape design_open urban spaces

This project concerns a site at the upper edge of Thessaloniki center that exists as a crack in the urban tissue and indicates the degraded and unplanned character of the area. The site is a gulch with steep banks, standing as a border of the forest, the neighborhood and the city center. Our main goal was to transform this abandoned, isolated site to a vital system that would play a defining and unifying role to the city, preserving the characteristics of the topography. The proposal was a mild character intervention using soft surface materials, that would serve as a park for the locals and a way to access the forest and the open theatre just above. The design consisted of a route, a “ribbonâ€?, that was also a retaining wall for the ground. At the center of the site where the urban surroundings are at the same level, the ribbon becomes a local square with an underground cafĂŠ.

title: open urban spaces

cooperation: Kehaidis Giannis

date: September 2007

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title: open urban spaces

cooperation: Kehaidis Giannis

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Both apartand the character of the boat houses would become a pole of attraction for new inhabitation. model of compact city and high rise developsments aiming such as bicycle and boat trade. The at the overstatement of the square, acting as landmarks. On layer that lies in between the two ments and family houses are perthe other two corners residential use is proposed up to four lanes will be stigmatized with station forate on two opposite sides layers .Yet the overall image of the square should be treated supplies,will become a meeting point URBAN SCALE.The site of Groninas a whole. Thus linearity that raises verticaly should extend for departure.Smalll scale everyday gen, with its characteristic idiom of which allows a bioclimatic aphorizontally to outline an optical square border of architecneeds and a local character will be the boat houses and this type of notural value. madic ephimeral architecture is at- proach for ventilation and sun promoted. tractive because it is not underlied The scenario of project xyz.Groningen is based on a Underground passages and ramps Since the apartwith a typology. There is an amount penetration. model of centralities and junctions. The form that is proconnecting the study site with this of anarchy and fortuity that signs its central lane should be provided for posed conciders centrality to be in housing and junction to local autonomus identity. Therefore ments are joined with the stairs the best accessibility of the network. be in public space. This implies a dislocation of the familiar ,managing this situation should be The expansion of the city will reach centrality of public and communal space. A linear structure based on the creation of lines of po- like the boat houses theis movethe industrial area,occupy the water which is strictly iindicated by the topography and the procentrality of the water square presignifies an operation larities, attractors and references that ment constains on axis x. Six The of expoiting the surround areas. The plan which front and outstretch forcing the gram forms theurban housing units.is Forces coming from the surallow flow and sustainability. The suggested for the four corners of the water square reveals industry. The topography of the area connecting bond-the road will signal types of apartments from 90 to an intention for diversity rounding andrise structures break the ‘’centre’’ which in each elements one. We see high settleSCALE-SITE an environment PROXIMITY thats suits to a small OF leads to an overall planning strategy. refers totothehousing, fragments come up to the surface ments as an expansion city centerand following the THE supported PROJECT The of commmunity well withform city and high to rise be developsments 110m2 with a displacement up to model of compactthat The fact that there are three boundaneed bridged. aiming Public space,communal activities housing apartments dirives from at the overstatement of the square, acting as landmarks. On services.Existingthe commercial activiries that surround the site, two physiprimary function of a pier andresidential services everyday enter to bridge these fragthe other two corners usefor is proposed up toneeds four 3metres on axis x constitute units ties set fine grounds for a access unifiedthat which is a linear discal water boundaries, Eemskanaal layers .Yet the overall image of the square should creates be treated full,concentrated, functional, ments.

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A linear structure and services is a predominant tendency nowathat are designed as a sequence the primary function of a pier supplies,will become a meeting point an intention for diversity in each one.

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People can refers promoted. at the overstatement of the square, acting as landmarks.

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Travelling on the stable PROXIMITY SCALE-SITE OF sides, without indeterminate public space. Densified public space is setthe best accessibility of thetransitional network.places. horizontally to outline an optical square border of architecan arch or brigde. In buildings clling routes accompanied with sport facilities and a forest connection is organic, apartunits and commercial activity due THE PROJECT The form of The expansion The of the city will reach network,by that are designed as a sequence tural value. car, tram or bicycle tled in between housing environment a green ments are attached to the stairs to the fact that leisure time nowadaysoutline is indisolubly relatedcorridor to Eemscanal which of bays each window or door the industrial area,occupy the water housing apartments dirives from The scenario of project xyz.Groningen is based on a and are characterized with auwith commerse. Organized activities with can be leisure viewed fromalongside the road and play the role of attractor. opening between piers is confront and outstretch the the the primary function of a pier model of centralities and junctions.

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Single housing units follow ries that surround the site, two which is strictly iindicated by the topography and the character. prosingle treatment that runs public from the center of the city waterpenetration.

Sincephysithe apartpier::: a pier is a raised walkway Secondary a smaller and more diversive apartments per floor, on both cal water boundaries, ments are Eemskanaal joined with the stairs gram forms the housing units.

Forces coming from the surfront.

Small scale wooden instalations with multiple uses space will encircle.

River Hunze.Multiple walking and cysides, without transitional places. over water, supported by widely a strict parataxis extending on like the boat houses theis moveand Winschoterdiep, and one artifirounding elements and structures break the ‘’centre’’ which clling routes accompanied with sport facilities and a forest The connection is organic, apartprovide shade, shelter and public equipment such as spread piles or pillars.//:: In archiment constains axis x. Six cial, the network, gives a singleonlinear environment outline a green corridor to Eemscanal which ments are attached to the stairs refers to housing, and fragmentsthe comewaterup to the surface y and occuping types of apartments from axis 90 to seats,deck chairs, parking for bicycle, water taxi stop e.t.c. tecture, a pier is an upright supcan be viewed from the road and play the role of attractor. and are characterized with audirection towards east. Consequently that need to be bridged. Public space,communal activities

urban design_europan 9_groningen case_the netherlands

port for a superstructure such as an arch or brigde. In buildings that are designed as a sequence of bays each window or door opening between piers is concidered a sigle bay.

The design of the linear structure follows the function on a pier rotated on axis z, where the stairs distribute movements to two apartments per floor, on both sides, without transitional places.

The connection is organic, apartments are attached to the stairs and are characterized with autonomy and privacy. Both apartments and family houses are perforate on two opposite sides which allows a bioclimatic approach for ventilation and sun penetration. Since the apartments are joined with the stairs like the boat houses theis movement constains on axis x. Six types of apartments from 90 to 110m2 with a displacement up to 3metres on axis x constitute units of 8apartments(two per floor) The combination of the apartments leads to a series of different units that count up to 100. This morphology leeds to a multiplicity enveloped in a unity. People can easily distinguish the form but not the pattern. Travelling on the network,by car, tram or bicycle the visage reveals frames, figures, facets and an undefinied lattice. Single housing units follow a strict parataxis extending on axis y and occuping the water-

title: χyz groningen

tonomy and privacy. Both apartments and family houses are perforate on two opposite sides which allows a bioclimatic approach for ventilation and sun penetration. Since the apartments are joined with the stairs like the boat houses theis movement constains on axis x. Six types of apartments from 90 to 110m2 with a displacement up to 3metres on axis x constitute units of 8apartments(two per floor) The combination of the apartments leads to a series of different units that count up to 100. This morphology leeds to a multiplicity enveloped in a unity. People can easily distinguish the form but not the pattern. Travelling on the network,by car, tram or bicycle the visage reveals frames, figures, facets and an undefinied lattice. Single housing units follow a strict parataxis extending on axis y and occuping the water-

110m2 with a displacement up to

the study site can be easily constitute 3metres on axis x constitute units 8apartments(two per floor) The an entity since offorthcoming attachcombination the apartments ments to the urban fabricofoccur to leads to a series of different units just one side. One receptor with an that count up to 100. This moropen pluge,a phology multiuse structure leeds to a multiplicity enshould be attached eastern velopedtoin the a unity.

People can easily distinguish the form edge so that later expansions willbut not the topattern.

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Likewise the low dike that embraces harbour treated Junctions thatthe break theis continuity

of housing

and services for everyday needs enter to bridge these fragas a continuity of the front. A public footpath as with well their everyday needs and to arewater to supply the residents ments. This treatment creates full,concentrated, functional, as a bicycle route will accentuate and reveal the entity of a enforce communal Some fish restaurants and bars stable private space and mobile, dispersed, supportingsingle and treatment that runs from the center of activity. the city waterwooden instalations with multiple uses located at the junction that occurs by the harbour front indeterminate public space. Densified public space is front. set- Small scale are shade, shelter and public equipment such as tled in between housing units and commercial activityprovide due and river Hunze and near the ring road market and everyseats,deck chairs, parking for bicycle, water taxi stop e.t.c. to the fact that leisure time nowadays is indisolubly related day Junctions that break theservices continuity ofappear. housing with commerse. Organized leisure activities alongside are with to supply the residents with their everyday needs and to shopping and services is a predominant tendency nowaenforce communal activity. Some fish restaurants and bars are located at the junction that occurs by the harbour front days. Furthermore, sport facilities and dedicated bicycle and ariver Hunze and near the ring road market and everyroutes enhance open public space and we assume that type of centrality will be generated.The existing use ofday thisservices appear. eastern part of the harbour as a playing field will keep this character. Secondary a smaller and more diversive public space will encircle. River Hunze.Multiple walking and cyclling routes accompanied with sport facilities and a forest environment outline a green corridor to Eemscanal which can be viewed from the road and play the role of attractor.

Likewise the low dike that embraces the harbour is treated as a continuity of the water front. A public footpath as well as a bicycle route will accentuate and reveal the entity of a single treatment that runs from the center of the city waterfront. Small scale wooden instalations with multiple uses provide shade, shelter and public equipment such as seats,deck chairs, parking for bicycle, water taxi stop e.t.c.

Junctions that break the continuity of housing are to supply the residents with their everyday needs and to enforce communal activity. Some fish restaurants and bars are located at the junction that occurs by the harbour front and river Hunze and near the ring road market and everyday services appear.

cooperation: Kehaidis Giannis

date: June 2007

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xyz.groningen proposal faces with the thorniness of suburbia and expansion of cities.the analysis focuses on the utility of networks and local i d e n t i t i e s . //:city vs suburb//: centrality vs decentralization//: typology vs anarchy //: accesibility is the key factor for a sustainable versatile net-working society. city center is revived with the surge coming from the suburbs. suburbs multiply when cities are overspaced and close enough. networks can trim or extend distanse. networks breed settlements.

//:connection//:city and satellite city//:junction//:bridge//:transitional place//:road with allure//: healthy working networks concentrate services, trade and establishments that should be in the skirts of the city. //:car trade is a pole of attraction//:facilities and services shape the physiognomy of this junction//: local identities form the anarchy of cities. a wide range of colors is revealed and should be inhanced in every aspect. the site of Groningen is marked with the identity of seven piers with boat-houses attached to them. this form of undesigned architecture, local and nomadic gives a different value, a color, that makes the site attractive and diversive. the boat houses are the landmark of this site.

//:pier:: a pier is a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars. //: in architecture a pier is an upright support for a superstructure, such as an arch or a bridge.in buildings that are designed as a sequence of bays, each window or door opening between piers is concidered a single bay

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title: xyz groningen

cooperation: Kehaidis Giannis

date: June 2007

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textile structures_ form finding workshop

Inspired by fashion design, clothes and their fabrication techniques the workshop was about adopting a transformable second skin. Individual form defining design strategies were developed in order to generate spatial concepts with the parallel search of materials and geometry development. The generator idea was the “seam� of a cloth and its different types. Its magnification to three dimensions produced gaps and fills that were appropriate for the exploration of a transformable skin and the interactive space between it and the body.

cooperation: Pantazis Evan

date: May 2009

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diploma project_reburial:on ruins

Situated in the city centre of Thessaloniki, the public square in front of the former Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, remains until today an unexploited site of archaeological findings. During 1993 this square was planned to become an underground parking facility and since then, the ruins of earlier times have been exposing the inhibition of the Greek government to plan urban spaces and to deal with its own past. The first approach was to visit the archaeologist who was in charge of the excavation and conduct thorough architectural measure drawings in an attempt to comprehend the ruins. After research it was decided that the reburial of the ruins was the most appropriate treatment to combine preservation, site exploitation and planning innovation.

Taking geomorphology as a vocabulary for the intervention several experiments were conducted on the volume that was to be added above the ruins. Primal forms that served as discoveries themselves were added and correlated with the urban fabric. This way there was a direct conversation between the ruins and the volume added above them, introducing the elements of the site in a new form. The idea of a hill was developed, rising as a power lift from beneath, standing in front of the Ministry, making the public surface twice as much, open from every side.

title: reburial,on ruins

cooperation: Tranouli Eleni

date: October 2009

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cooperation: Tranouli Eleni

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title: reburial,on ruins

cooperation: Tranouli Eleni

date: October 2009

title: reburial,on ruins

cooperation: Tranouli Eleni

date: October 2009

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dissertation_maps and mapping in contemporary art This research project is a collection of a range of artists whose work relates to maps and mapping. Since the beginning of the 21st century, there are many examples and thematic exhibitions concerning the map, cartography, new geographical information technologies, mapping and views on the perception of space. With the research starting from the surrealists, and moving on to situationism, pop art, conceptual art and land art, there was an attempt to trace this movement.

The map is a symbol, a language, a code, a recipe. Artists are using maps to adopt power, to create new worlds, to situate themselves in reality.

Through maps, art can introduce difference, multiplicity and chaos as an entity, and simultaneously art can be an entity. According to Deleuze the map is an abstract machine, blind and silent that induces sight and speech.

Louisa Bufardeci is using map symbols to present world according to statistic surveys of the CIA. In a way she is imitating a scientist trying to alter common perspective and establish new views. In the same way Simon Patterson takes the London Underground map and transforms it to his private story by changing the names of the stations to historical, famous people that occasionally connect to each other. The map as a code can unfold someone’s personal world in an understandable and universal way.

This project was partly inspired by this realization and more specifically by Mona Hatoum, who in “Hot Spot” turned the world in a political message about global warming, and her work also gave rise to other interpretations. Maya Lin in “Above and below” constructs wire forms inspired by the topography of the underground river system under the state of Indiana, mapping the unseen but existing sources of life that stir the aesthetics.

In Hugh Davies’ “Analogue Art Map” there is a communal way of mapping inherently digital things such as social networking, city spots and other relations and on the other side Laura Kurgan in association with Diller Scofidio+ Renfro and Mark Hansen utilize geographical information technologies, statistics and database information to compose “Exit” for Native Land exhibition, focusing upon subjects such as Rising Seas, Population Shifts and statistics on the <disappearance of geographic space>. This dissertation activated a search on the aesthetics of form, landscape and representation methods that are a prime element in architectural design.

title: maps and mapping in contemporary art

cooperation: no

date: June 2009

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louisa bufardeci_governing values_2004

simon patterson_the great bear_1992

mona hatoum_hot spot_2006

maya lin_ above and below_2007

hugh davies_analogue art map

laura kurgan_diller scofidio+ + Renfro, Mark Hansen_EXIT_2009

title: maps and mapping in contemporary art

cooperation: no

date: june 2009

photography works

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from the series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Copenhagenâ&#x20AC;?

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from the series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Underwaterâ&#x20AC;?

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