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Team Projects 1-Reuse of former military camp Thessaloniki
2-‘EcoWeek’ workshop Hellenikon, Athens
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3-‘Urban Performance’ workshop Thessaloniki
4-‘XXL’ design studio - metro station Thessaloniki
Individual Projects
5-Student competition for multiple use
facilities of the University of Thessaly Volos
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Masterplan
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This project is the outcome of the design studio ‘Landscape architecture’.
The majority of the area was left empty. Thessaloniki has very few green spaces.
A vast area in the outskirts of the city of Thessaloniki, adjacent to the ring road, is empty and without use. The ring road, a civil hospital and a military hospital have disconnected this area from the forest that embraces the city. For this reason, our idea was to reconnect the forest and our area, making it again a branch of the forest.
The main axis was left unaltered.
Easy access from the ring road makes it an ideal metropolitan park. We wanted to combine the experience of nature with a variety of other activities. However, we did not neglect the local community. We designed a local park for the urban area next to the camp and connected it with the adjacent high school through a brigde. We highlighted the stream in the souther side, through an artificial path that promotes a variety of sport and social activities. Two areas were specialized for sport and cultural activities, through renovating the old barracks.
We decided to insulate the park from the disturbance of the northern neighbouring activities. For this reason we planted this side intensively. Finally, jogging routes were created througout the whole area.
Our project was later publicly exhibited among the best projects of the studio in 2008-2009 and was published in the national newspaper “Makedonia”.
5 Renderings of our proposal
Photos from the model
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Our idea: Scattering the void to the metropolitan Athens
Connection axis between the city center and the former airport
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This project is the outcome of the workshop that was part of the ‘EcoWeek’ conference that took place in Athens in 2009. The workshop participants had to deal with the vast area of the former airport of Athens in Hellenikon and its contribution to the sustainability of the city. The idea of an enormous metropolitan park in a location so distant from the center of the city and not easily approachable seemed irrational. So we thought it would be much better to spread the benefits of Hellenikon to the entire Athens. I should point out the fact that the idea was largely mine. Important was the decompression of urban landscape through the transfer of activities from other areas of the city (residential and business activities) to the area of Hellenikon and reversely the importation of cultural, educational and open green spaces to the various areas of the city in order to improve the quality of life throughout the whole city. Consequently, we decided to: -Subtract volume from high density areas -Add volume to the “empty” area of Hellenikon -Utilize underground spaces
and to: -Create a detoxifying forest, functioning as an oxygen provider for the city -Create a planted “green” axis connecting the sea and the city -Add more sport courts on the present athletic facilities, making the area an athletic core for the metropolitan area of Athens Concerning the ecological management and bioclimatic design of any new buildings: -Reuse of concrete,steel, existing buildings and facilities. -Utilization of unbuilt land for installation of photovoltaic panels and wind generators -Facilities planning along the wind axis to provide ventilation and cooling of the area Finally, we designed an axis full of green spaces that connects the city center and the former airport through important sites. With this action, we indirectly connect all the Athens metropolitan area with our site, as all areas are connected through public transportation with the city center
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Masterplan of the former airport
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View of the entrance
View from above
Plan
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This project is my proposal for a student competition that was held by the University of Thessaly in 2009. It was about a multi-use auditorium and snack bar in the Faculty of Engineering and the sheltering of an open theater. Its location is on the entrance of the Faculty complex from the parking lot. My first thought was that it should symbolize the entrance and be contextual to the industrial character of the near-by buildings. I decided to design a wide sheltered corridor that eventually leads to the various departments and place the auditorium and the snack bar separately on each side. A connecting, social, semi-outdoor space where students could spend time with each other is formed in this corridor. The shelter is a curved corrugated plane that is supported by a steel grid. It incorporates PV and translucent glass panels. Visually, it is ‘crushed’ by the corridor, made from COR TEN steel, connotating the entrance and the age/character of the structure every element is symbolically connected to. All glazing is sun protected with perforated steel sheets that are movable, depending on the amount of solar radiation. The distribution of the PV panels has been studied for the greatest possible solar energy absorption. It is the resultant of merging the distributions from two hours: 10:00 and 15:00 on June the 21st.
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Sun at 10:00
The final efficient distribution of the PV panels (blue), translucent panels (green), and opaque metal panels (yellow).
Sun at 15:00
Solar radiation regulated | open and closed sheets.
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This is a team project for the ‘Urban Performance’ workshop that was held in Thessaloniki in April 2010. We chose the small water bottle as our material and a bus terminal downtown as our site. This project proposes a new urban furniture concept. It was parametrically designed, utilizing explicit site information and programmatic data to interact with its context. The scheme is driven by a set of parameters like the overall shape of the structure, possible openings or the size of the bottle. It incorporates seating, garbage bins and free-press stands. The project aims at raising awareness about the surprisingly poor recycling rates of plastic bottles. Empty bottles of passersby could be utilize to form new furniture units, just with a simple screw of the bottle to the ready-made supporting structure. The project was later publicly exhibited as part of a greater ecological event called “Another Thessaloniki”.
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This project is the outcome of the design studio ‘XXL - Digital Technologies and Architectural Design’ in June 2010. The aim of the studio is to utilize digital tools and methods in order to design a subway station in the historical center of Thessaloniki. We chose the dipole compression-decompression as our main idea. Then we made an analog and a digital model of this dipole, using Maya software. Then, we associated the poles with certain qualities that would be expressed on our design. When tha system is compressed, it is characterized by maximum complexity and volume and minimum speed. The opposute qualities appear when the system is decompressed. Later, we studied the context of our site in order to place the entrances and effectively manage the flow of passengers. We placed our bipolar qulities inside the station through our initial diagrams and later we shifted to real plans and sections. At the same time, we decided to use ribbons as structural modules. With a few modifications, the project was finished.
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Landscape Architecture project published in national newspaper “Makedonia”
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Nikolaos Iakovidis 17, Despere str. Thessaloniki 54621, Greece nickiakovidis@hotmail.com (+30) 694 6797748