androniki karambasis selected works
androniki karambasis PROFILE Working toward a Master of Architecture, I have explored and strengthened my skills within the field, fine-tuning my understanding of scale and space. Enduring six years of rigourous studio work has lead to my expertise in model-making, hand drawings, and computer rendering. I am seeking a position as a full-time intern architect to challenge my skills and fully immerse myself in the profession of the built environment.
The following pages contain selected works developed during my time pursuing a masters degree at the University of South Florida School of Architecture + Urban Design. The projects range from the comprehensive to the urban, solo works and collaborative group efforts. The intention of the portfolio is to concisely display the skills and experiences absorbed thus far, illustrating my understanding of scale, context, and societal impact. Most of all, the portfolio stands as a testament to the passion within me inspired by architecture’s possibilities.
SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator
PELICAN ISLAND DRIVE RENOVATIONS – TAMPA, FL Freelance Designer | October 2017-March 2018
Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Revit
• Collaborated on a private home renovation along with two colleagues, offering rendering services for exterior additions and design development plans.
Rhinoceros 3D SketchUp Lumion
THE BECK GROUP – TAMPA, FL Intern | May 2016-Present • Participate in project “pursuits” exploring design concepts, facade studies, and spatial configuration for prospective proposals, heavily working in SketchUp, AutoCad, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lumion. • Help create presentation packages and graphic proposals in InDesign and Illustrator. • Managed the Florida Regional Office renovations, coordinating between our in-house design team and outside consultants. Responsibilities included presentation packages and design for casework/custom furniture and a feature reception wall. • Aided in schematic master plans for Saint Leo University, as well as the new Wish Farms production and distribution center. • Contributed to the interview process and presentation for the University of South Florida Honors College, competing against Morphosis Architects and Daniel Libeskind Architects. LIVESTONE CONSULTING, INC. – TAMPA, FL Intern | Januar y-May 2016 • Carried out tasks in construction documentation and administration, making redline corrections and drawing various construction details on AutoCAD. • Participated in facade design studies for a 4-tenant shopping plaza, working between AutoCAD and SketchUp.
EDUCATION / RECOGNITION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA M. Arch Degree | 2012-2018 • Garcia Award | Nominee | 2018 • SACD ArchVox | Graphic Designer | 2015-present As lead graphic designer responsibilities include the collection and organization of the School of Architecture’s archive of student work, composing the selected work into a annual publication. • Portfolio Award | Nominee | 2016-2017; 2017-2018 • ULI Hines Student Competition | Honorable Mention | January 2016 Teamed with 4 other students of varied disciplines during a 2-week intensive charette. The competition called for a redevelopment master plan for Chicago’s industrial Goose Island, along with a detailed pro-forma of market-based financial data.
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The following pages contain selected works developed during my time pursuing a masters degree at the University of South Florida School of Architecture + Urban Design. The projects range from the comprehensive to the urban, solo works and collaborative group efforts. The intention of the portfolio is to concisely display the skills and experiences absorbed thus far, illustrating my understanding of scale, context, and societal impact. Most of all, the portfolio stands as a testament to the passion within me inspired by architecture’s possibilities.
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M A ST E R ’ S P R OJ E CT
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M I L L E N I A L TO W E R
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M A R I N A TO W E R
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T H E I N T E RST I C E
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U R B A N R E S I L I E N C Y: H Y B R I D L I V I N G
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M O R G A N L I B R A RY
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F O RT M ATA N Z A S
NARRATIVE CITIES A story of the Ephemeral and the Insidious
The following thesis is a study of the urban environment, the narratives that comprise it, and the theory of architecture as a vehicle of storytelling. The thesis begins with the exploration of two distinct cities—Tokyo and Berlin, specifically, the neighborhoods of Shibuya Crossing and Mauerpark. Through diagrammatic analysis of their contextual fabrics, the cities are distilled and personified as the characters of the EPHEMERAL (Shibuya) and the INSIDIOUS (Mauerpark). Using Aldo Rossi’s understanding of urban archetypes, the two personalities are tested and explored as two forms of spatial typologies: the DWELLING and the MONUMENT. Rossi defines these types as primary elements of the city for their opposing permanences and influences. Constructing these types allows the stories of the two personalities to be reproduced, for their pasts to be experienced in the present, and for a dialogue between the two to be spectated. Treating Shibuya and Mauerpark as characters, urban typology as the stage, and promenade as the site, the thesis then requires the stitching of the pieces—the introduction of plot. The story of ‘LA CARNAVALE’ is thus born. LA CARNAVALE is a take on the human condition as expressed through the characters of the EPHEMERAL and the INSIDIOUS during the festivites of the Venetian holiday, Carnival. The story is a philosophical one, an ode to the cycle of life and its inexorable ups and downs. Despite its plots of poor human experiences the story is a depiction of the utopia, though not by its traditional definition but by its reliance on the imaginary. LA CARNEVALE is not to be realized by historical context or compared to the ideologies of the utopian world. It exists to lead the spectator toward an internal response, not to dictate or impose an authoritarian ideal.
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M. ARCH THESIS
PROF. NANCY SANDERS
2017-2018
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Diagramatic Site Analysis on Mylar
MAUERPARK, BERLIN
Diagramatic Site Analysis on Mylar
SHIBUYA, TOKYO
CHARACTER A:
THE INSIDIOUS A GAMBLER, A CON ARTIST, AN INSTIGATOR OF THE MISCHIEVOUS
The INSIDIOUS is dead ends, walls, and clandestine program; it lures the spectator into forbidden corners and hidden spaces.
CHARACTER B:
THE EPHEMERAL AN ENTERTAINER, A SKELETON
The EPHEMERAL is transparent layers, blurred edges, and impressionable material; it invites the spectator into a lightfilled rooms and suspended spaces
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A homogenous material reaches from the edges of a decayin says, “Come here! Come up! Let me carry you into a new
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“I am the lasting presence of the people as a collective. Let us walk through the corridors of storefronts and signage—their layered facades as transparent as water.”
Two figures in volto masks and hooped dresses are hidden entirely, anonymous in broad daylight and human only by the indenture of notrils and lips.
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White highlights dance between the stages of ‘La Carnevale’, each marked by the chapter in which they take place. From the sensory neighborhoods to the monumental churches, odes to Rossi’s archetypes are explored as a series of juxtaposed scenes within the Venetian context.
MILLENIAL TOWER Part I - Tampa, FL
The project serves as a 3-week charette for basic tower conditions. Using sections of existing built projects, the charette begins with quick section studies. These sections diagram the ‘typical’ from the experiential, illustrating how these spaces can perform harmoniously in a fully realized tower. From there, the project evolves into a working digital model, allowing for the concept of Millenial Tower to fully manifest into an urban node of public space. A framed landscape welcomes the flaneur into a public commercial incubator in which juxtaposed program allows for mixed activity. This public space provides the opportunity for Downtown Tampa’s Zack Street to become a vibrant art-walk, as well as a commercial corridor. Further along the tower, vertical galleries and art studios pull this art district into a five-story public volume. Partner: Luis Tilano
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COMPREHENSIVE TOWER
PROF. LEVENT KARA
SUMMER 2017
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Residential Office Gallery / Studios Public / Retail Program
Circulation
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Final Render
MARINA TOWER Part II - Tampa, FL
Themes of structure, tectonics, and skin are developed beyond the precedences of Project I in harmony with two-dimensional drawings. The completion of Project II concludes a mixed-use community of 800,00 square feet in the center of downtown Boston, offering retail and office space, varied residential typologies, and cultural and institutional programs. The chosen proposal in the Seaport District revolves around two early concepts: a porous ground condition and an elevated public node. The final product stands as a series of three towers, each sitting atop public podiums. One office tower is separated from the other residential towers, physically connected by an elevated market space and rooftop garden. Finger-like volumes extend from the podiums as a response to the site’s constructed piers, housing a shared office space and local brewery.
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COMPREHENSIVE TOWER
PROF. LEVENT KARA
SUMMER 2017
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THIRD LEVEL museum, brewery, market / food lab, office
FOURTH LEVEL museum, wellness center, rooftop garden, office
GROUND LEVEL commercial space, residential/office lobbies, daycare, public plaza
SECOND LEVEL gallery, we work, office
Typ. Studio SEVENTH LEVEL typ. residential first floor
EIGHTH LEVEL typ. residential second floor
Typ. 1 Bedroom FIFTH LEVEL museum, wellness center
SIXTH LEVEL museum / theater, wellness center
ROOFTOP COMMUNITY GARDEN (Above Market) A system of structural trusses anchor the elevated market to its neighboring towers, carrying it’s loads to the ground as a means of dialogue between the levels. The ground condition is thus uninterrupted by columns, allowing for a seamless view of the water.
BREWERY EXTERIOR The third floor of each podium serves as the initiallyintended public node—the hinge between commercial and private program. Complete with a museum, restaurant space, market, food lab, and brewery, the third floor seamlessly pulls the public into the tower’s underbelly to activate the towers at all times.
ROOFTOP COMMUNITY GARDEN (Above Food Lab)
COMMERCIAL ATRIUM The first few floors create an exterior urban hall, bleeding the proposal into it’s context and connecting the waterfront to the community, as well as allowing for a pedestrian-dominant ground floor.
THE INTERSTICE Tokyo, Japan
The project explores the interstitial relationships of objects and maps as a generator of design. The class emphasizes the importance of fluidity and opportunity in the design process, yielding the student to unorthodox methods and results. Investigation I introduces a semester-long studio of theory and praxis, and their manifestation as a design proposal. The following graphics illustrate a newfound language discovered through collage and compiled found objects.Heavy black tone marks the grand gestures of these objects, exaggerating their existing forms and blending them into surrounding objects as entirely new forms. Between these black masses are lines of varying weight and type to imply connections and transparencies. Color finalizes the drawings to clarify zones and hierarchical organization. The result is a collection of hybrid drawings in which extruded space and modelmaking can begin.
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OPEN STUDIO
PROF. STAN RUSSELL
SPRING 2017
Site diagram on mylar
Early collage diagrams
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Tea House
Butterfly Pavillion
Aviary
Final Model
The model takes advantage of the site’s narrow boundaries, extending it’s paths into its smallest spaces. One begins on narrow elevated walkways, expanding into gallery spaces of opposite conditions. The flaneur is encouraged to explore contradicting qualities, moving from above ground to below, and dark construction to open gardens. The proposal models itself on the Japanese way of living— unconventional and efficient.
Theater
Gallery / Moonviewing
Bookshare / Cafe
URBAN RESILIENCY Berlin, Germany
The project explores the role of the architect in our world’s growing densification, and the strategies needed to ensure sustainable development. Located in the heart of historic Berlin, the site, formally known as the Tacheles Quarters, calls for the development of a hybrid housing, mixed-use community. The project looks to redefine the Berlin block, reimagining the public space, diverse living, and quality of life for urban inhabitants. The final proposal opens each of its edges to the Berlin streetscape with setbacks along the market, greenery within residential zones, and permeable facades along commercial corridors. Large, unfolded plazas and courtyards allow for fluidity between these nodes to serve as transitional shared spaces.
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Material Studies First floor commercial facades are marked by warm, wood palettes. Private program, both as residential and office space is marked by cooler, concrete tones. The central market marries the two palettes as a symbol of connectivity.
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Final Model THE PUBLIC NODE APPROX. 6000 SF 4 FLOORS + ROOFTOP DECK MAIN PROGRAM: MARKET, CAFE, EVENT HALL, & RESTAURANT
FOURTH LEVEL RESTAURANT (incl. shared rooftop deck) CAFE/BAR
THIRD LEVEL EVENT HALL CAFE/BAR
SECOND LEVEL INTERIOR SEATING EXTERIOR DECK (incl. space for rotating vendors) CAFE/BAR
GROUND LEVEL PUBLIC PLAZA INTERIOR MARKET (incl. permanent and rotating vendors) CAFE/BAR
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Final Model
MODULAR SKIN STUDIES SYSTEM OF WOODEN FRAMES & KINETIC LOUVERS ADJUST TO UNIT TYPES & SIZES MAIN PROGRAM: UPPER LEVEL RESIDENTIAL & OFFICE SPACE
MATANZAS EXTENSION St. Augustine, FL
Focusing on the horizontal, the extension at Fort Matanzas explores the possibility of site through an unbounded landscape. The landscape itself, amorphous and ever-changing, reveals its potential through site analysis and mapping, allowing the designer to build with landscape in mind. Reaching beyond the hard landscape into the inlet’s water, the constructed extension—a park center—begins with an exterior archive represented by walnut edges. The dock leads to a building of private and public program, each separated by floor. The main staircase leads the public to a theater, archive, and fort access. Heavily exposed to the east, the public floor treats the landscape before it as an archive of its own. Oppositely, the private first floor hides behind the grand stairway, leading one from below the fort into a large meeting hall, focusing itself to the west.
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CORE DESIGN III
PROF. NANCY SANDERS
FALL 2015
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MORGAN LIBRARY New York, NY
Situated within a lot of existing built boundaries, the museum takes the hand of the city via alleyway, plaza, and the Highline. The plaza, a horizontal connection between public and private, serves as a moment of pause and extension to the Highline. Within the museum, galleries and archives relate the exterior skin to the interior program. Stained walnut houses private access to the Morgan Library’s most delicate collections, while glass and white material mark places of gather and reflection.
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CORE DESIGN III
PROF. NANCY SANDERS
FALL 2015
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Final Model
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e: akarambasis@mail.usf.edu p: 954-812-0151