supervisor: Demetrios Issaias, Professor of Architectural Design, School of Architecture NTUA
advisor: George Gazetas, Professor of Soil Mechanics, School of Civil Engineering, NTUA
The main purpose of this project was to create a building dedicated to education and research on earthquakes, as well as reducing vulnerability, in an attempt to spherically investigate the seismic phenomenon as an integral part of the region.
Taking into consideration both its geological features, as well its history, which has been marked by seismic events, the island of Cephalonia and its capital, Argostoli were selected to locate the Museum.
The objective was to create a building that is operating all day long, combining education, training and research. That is ensuring population preparedness, as well as training disaster doctors and engineers, and that, through long-term, planned effort is ultimately reducing population vulnerability.