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Nikolas - Theodore Stagkos CV & Architecture Portfolio

Education

2014-2016 University of Plymouth School of Architecture ARB/

RIBA Part II

Master of Architecture 2014-2010 University of Brighton School of Architecture ARB/RIBA Part I BA(Hons) Architecture

Second Class Honours Upper Division (2:1) 2008-2010 Anatolia College I.B. (International Baccalaureate)

Programme 2007-2008 Anatolia College B’ Lyceum, Thessaloniki, Greece 2004-2007 Anatolia B’ Gymnasium, Thessaloniki, Greece

2011

Publications & Academic Works 2013-present

2016

CAD Skills

Regular PC & Mac user Excellent use of: AutoCAD 2D & 3D Adobe CS (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word) Experience in: Rhino, Vectorworks & Google Sketchup

Conferences & Reviews

Personal Information

Born: 07/04/1992 Place: Thessaloniki, Greece Citizenship: Greek

Home Address

2 Viziinou str., Thessaloniki, Greece 54636

Phone

GR: (0030) 6971666135 UK: (0044) 07580342601

E-mail

nick.stagkos@gmail.com

Skype

nick.stagkos

Websites

linkedin: Nikolas Stagkos issuu: https://issuu.com/ntstagkos.architecture

Languages

Greek: Native Language English: Excellent command Michigan Certificate of Proficiency in English ECPE 2007 Grade B, Cambridge First Certificate 2006 Grade B, ECPE 2008 Grade B French: Very good command “Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Français”: DELF A2 Grade 88% (2006), DELF B1 Grade 71% (2007), DELF C1 Grade 65% (2012)

2015

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2014

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2013

Slupsk - co widac z daleka? conference organised by Plymouth University, Master of Architecture Year 02 students with the mayor and members of the local council of Slupsk, Poland Plymouth University, Master of Architecture students’ open dialogue with the mayor and members of the local council of Ustka, Poland ‘Radical Inclusivity’ Book Launch at the RIBA - Exhibited work as part of the event Preparatory work for London Super-Crit Conference - Exhibited work as part of the event Plymouth University, Master of Architecture students open dialogue with local MPs and member of the Haringey council ‘Our Tottenham’ Network community conference attended as part of a representative team from Plymouth University, Master of Architecture Programme Chosen to represent Studio 12 (taught by Luis Diaz & Sean Albuquerque) at the final year cross-over review, an open audience review against the board of directors of the Architecture Department at the University of Brighton. As a result of the above, selected to run a mixed peer review group across all years of University of Brighton’s BA(Hons) Architecture programme Chosen to represent Studio 12 (taught by Luis Diaz & Sean Albuquerque) at the final year cross-over review Selected to run a mixed peer review group across all years of University of Brighton’s BA(Hons) Architecture programme

Academic Experience & Other Interests 2015-present

2015

2014-2013

Guest reviewer at ‘Studio 12: Spatial Practices &

Spatial Forms’ run by Luis Diaz & Sean

Albuquerque Invited and organised the lecture of Luis Diaz (senior lecturer at the University of Brighton)

entitled ‘The Political Content of Form’ for Plymouth University’s Architecture Society Attended the RIBA South East Mentoring Programme at Conran+Partners, Brighton Office, 1st Floor, Hanover House, 118 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3XG

Selected to represent the 2nd Year Architecture student body for the RIBA meeting held on October 2011

2016

2015

2015

Architecture Portfolio Nikolas Stagkos March 2016 (latest version) Extensive Architecture Portfolio 2013 - 2016 issuu.com/ntstagkos.architecture/docs/nts-portfolio Rethinking the Tenement Block Via Ownership and Porosity Plymouth University June 10, 2016 M.Arch Architecture Final Year Thesis Published at the Academic Excellence in Research Journal of Plymouth University issuu.com/ntstagkos.architecture/docs/nts-thesis__ preview_ Public Bathhouse: Toward a Participatory Model for Urban Healthcare University of Plymouth June 10, 2016 M.Arch Architecture Final Design Thesis Design Award by Plymouth University for M.Arch Year 2 Design Award Nomination by HLM Architects for M.Arch Year 2 issuu.com/ntstagkos.architecture/docs/nts-design_ thesis Proto-City Plymouth University December 2015 M.Arch Architecture Urban Strategy Year 2 - Term 1 issuu.com/plymarch/docs/urban_strategy_group_4 Knowledge Hub Plymouth University June 2015 M.Arch Architecture Year 1 Design Project issuu.com/ntstagkos.architecture/docs/nts-design_ booklet_01

Professional Skills

2012 Summer Internship in June 2012 at

A31 Architecture & Construction,

31 Har. Trikoupi str.,

Athens, Greece 10681

(+30) 210 3818928 2013-2011 Pianist at The Robin Hood Pub, 1-3 Norfolk square,

Brighton

(+44) 01273 325 645 2011 Summer Internship for architect Aris Georgiou

Thessaloniki, Greece

http://www.arisgeorgiou.gr/

References

Luis Diaz Senior Lecturer Admissions Tutor Architecture Program Mithras House 3rd Fl Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4AT

Simon Bradbury MA Cantab Dip Arch RIBA Lecturer in Architecture M Arch program leader School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University Roland Levinsky Building Drake Circus Plymouth PL4 8AA

Mr. Praxitelis Kondylis A31 Architecture & Contstruction 31 Har. Trikoupi Str. 10681 Athens Greece info@a31.gr +30 210 3819288

Honors & Awards 2010-2009

2010-2003 2007

“Certificate of Excellence” for participation in the Drama Club of Anatolia College Elected member of school’s student council “Certificate of Excellence” for participation in the

Dokimes Club of Anatolia College, with the short story “La Retrouvaille”, which was published in the school magazine “Dokimes-Spring 2007”

Extra-curricular Activities

2013 Performed with punk rock band Incognito at the Greek

summer festival River Party 2013-2008 Member of a school punk rock band named Incognito

Incognito: live TV shows appearances - nationwide

music festivals - local events organised by

the municipality of Thessaloniki - radio interviews -

photoshooting - performances at local music venues - school events 2010-2009 Music director and pianist at school’s Drama Club

production of “Grease”

Pianist for the school’s Christmas Concert

Music director and pianist at school’s graduation

ceremony “Commencement” 2010 Piano instructor for an elementary school student 2010 Assistant at Anatolia College’s Rainbow Camp 2009-2008 Volunteer work at a local soup-kitchen & at a disabled children hospital 2009 Attended the music summer program Firespark! at

Brenau University, Atlanta, GA

Attended 2 times Firespark!’s talent show for classical

music and rock band performances 2008 Attended the music summer program Firespark! at

Brenau University, Atlanta, GA 2009-2008 Music director for school’s Christmas show 2008-2006 Member of French club 2007 YMCA summer camp in Nymfeo, Greece 2003-2002 Published 2 stories published in the national newspaper

“Kathimerini” - youth’s edition

M.Arch Architecture Final Year Thesis

‘BERLIN’ BLOCK TYPOLOGY

Re-thinking the Tenement Block via ‘Ownership’ and ‘Porosity’

Harvey, David. 2008. ‘The Right To The City’. New Left Review 53: 23-40. Web. 27 Oct. 2015.

Thesis submitted as part of the Plymouth University M.Arch Year 2 module ARCH753 ‘Emerging Research in Architecture’ supervised by Dr Nikolina Bobic. It has been published at the Academic Excellence in Research Journal of Plymouth University.

Abstract

The essay sets to investigate ways of achieving a socially and economically sustainable community by re-thinking the tenement block typology, in Słupsk, Poland. The town will be treated as a signifier of any degraded Polish post-communist rural town. The majority of the towns’ architecture is consisted of semi-inhabited tenement blocks, a typology that derived at the dawn of the 20th century and its historical and architectural evolution is evident particularly in the ex-countries of the Eastern Bloc. The re-thinking of this typology will be addressed through Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘porosity’, whereby the concept, will be treated as a variable to discuss ‘ownership’ retrospectively in relation to economy, society and architecture in pre WWII times (1900s-1940s), the years under communist regime (1940s-1980s), and modern times (1980s-present). The tenement block will be the means to understand the socio-spatial structure of ‘ownership’, by critically examining the historical development, use and appropriation of the typology. Questions dealing with utilitarianism and socio-economics will be brought to the foreground to address the underlying and less visible disciplinary domains of architecture and urbanism. Moreover, alongside the historical unpacking of this typology, the paper’s agenda will be underpinned by closely examining the economic and political context in the Eastern Bloc during the 20th century (Berend), the ‘Right to the City’ (Harvey) and the politicisation and disciplinary domains of architecture (Polo).

“The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE: - ENCLOSED - COURTYARD (SEMI - PRIVATE)

‘ONE HERE / ONE THERE’

1909

Original 1900s block vs. Post WWII Damanged Status (Słupsk) POSSIBLE OPENING

NO CONTROL MAIN DOORS

“Time is integral to an understanding of urban affect. […] Reconfiguring the urban in terms of time and movement. Time and movement should not be understood as simple generalities.

They are given a specific configuration within the urban context that has to do with the use of porosity as a temporal concept rather than a purely spatial one.”

Benjamin, Andrew. 2005. ‘Porosity At The Edge:’. Architectural Theory Review 10.1: 33-43.

Web. 27 Oct. 2015.

“Within this context it is vital to produce an updated politics of architecture in which the discipline is not merely reduced to a representation of ideal political concepts, but conceived as an effective tool to produce change. Rather than returning to ideology and a contemporary politicization of architecture needs to relocate politics within specific disciplinary domains – not as a representation of an ideal concept of the political but as a political effect specific to the discipline.”

Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. 2008. ‘Politics Of The Envelope’. C-Lab 17: Content Management: 76-105. Print.

UTILITY COURT

BACK DOORS

POSSIBLE SECOND GATE/ ARCADE

- POSSIBLE LINK TO OTHER COURTYARDS - INTERCONNECTED COURTYARDS PERHAPS AS SECONDARY - PEDESTRIAN STREET TO AVOID STREET POLLUTION

POTENTIAL TO FURTHER DEVELOP & STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY BONDS CITY HALL ALREADY WORKING ON A PLAN (ASSOCIATION WITH NGOs)

BUILDING PARTS LINKED TO DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES

OPEN DOORS

INFORMAL ‘UTILITARIAN’ OCCUPATION OF ENTRY SPACES LACK OF CARE/ FAMILIARITY NEEDS: - PARK - OPEN SPACE COMMUNITY WITH - STORAGE PRIDE COMMUNITY - CAR PARK NEIGHBOURS

Notes on the Possibilities and the Porosity of the Courtyard (Słupsk) BUILDING STORAGE:

- HISTORICALLY COAL STORAGE? - CAR PARK - BUILDING’S COMMUNAL SPACE/ACTIVITIES (BBQ!)

INFORMAL OPEN SPACE ENTRANCE TO OTHER DWELLINGS

BUILDING TERRITORY OPEN OR DOES THE PUBLIC REALM OF THE STREET/PAVEMENT EXTEND FURTHER?

Courtyard Entrance and Storage Units (Słupsk)

Fragmented City Block (Słupsk)

Main Bibliography

Benjamin, Andrew. 2005. ‘Porosity At The Edge:’. Architectural Theory Review 10.1: 33-43.

Web. 27 Oct. 2015.

Benjamin, Walter, and Rolf Tiedemann. 1999. The Arcades Project (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press) Berend, Iván T. 1986. “The historical evolution of Eastern Europe as a region”, International Organization, 40: 329-346 Blencowe, C. 2008. “Destroying Duration: The Critical Situation of Bergsonism in Benjamin’s Analysis of Modern Experience”, Theory, Culture & Society, 25: 139-158 <http://dx.doi. org/10.1177/0263276408091988> Hanssen, Beatrice. 2006. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades project (London: Continuum), pp. 245-250 Harvey, David. 2010. ‘The Future Of The Commons’. Radical History Review 2011.109: 101107. Web. Harvey, David. 2008. ‘The Right To The City’. New Left Review 53: 23-40. Web. 27 Oct. 2015.

Hatherley, Owen. 2015. ‘Housing In The Eastern Bloc’. Architectural-review.com. N.p. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

Rolleston, James L. 1989. ‘The Politics Of Quotation: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project’.

PMLA 104.1: 13-27. Web. 4 Nov. 2015.

Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. 2008. ‘Politics Of The Envelope’. C-Lab 17: Content Management: 76-105. Print.

M.Arch Architecture Final Year Urban Strategy Proto-City

Supervising tutors: Simon Bradbury, Andy Humphreys, Alona Martinez-Perez, Alessandro Aurigi Group (with): M. Werdon, T. Whettingsteel, A. Wightman The urban strategy project of term one, showed an alternative development potential Slupsk and Ustka. The project addressed a particular set of issues addressing both cities, Ustka in a greater scale than Slupsk, and provided an alternative strategy for a ‘dual-city’ innitiative, for the prosperity of both communities. The project proposed the creation of local interventions in the city of Słupsk that solve social and environmental problems. The sites in Słupsk are fed by a large redevelopment in Ustka using natural resources and waste products from the sea to lead research into environmental building technologies and alternative fuels. The site in Ustka included a public realm that can lead to a more sustainable form of tourism. Research carried out in Ustka is implemented in the live test-bed of Słupsk. The creation of more jobs through development of these technologies and their implementation on communities will help address the debt and declining population facing the city. The two cities are combined to form the Proto-City, the mechanics of which are about seeking for economic and social sustainability, through future implementations of innovative, research based protocols, new means of productions, both of ideas and materials that have an immediate positive impact on daily lives and are as affordable as possible, activating the local communities to participate first hand in the inception and production stages. In other words, that strategy sets up the basis for the development of a participatory model, with schemes carrying immediate socioeconomic benefits, run and organized by an empowered community.

M.Arch Architecture Final Year Design Thesis

why healthcare?

A Public Bathhouse: toward a participatory model for urban healthcare Supervising tutors: Simon Bradbury, Andy Humphreys, Alona Martinez-Perez, Alessandro Aurigi Won the design award by Plymouth University for M.Arch Year 2 & a design award nomination by HLM Architects for M.Arch Year 2.

This design project aspires to further develop the debate on the resolution of the afore-mentioned key issues that Ustka is dealing with. My design research shifts from alternative forms of material production and innovation, toward innovation for social benefits. That is to say, it exploits local issues, such as peak tourism, and poor community engagement, and most of all will pick up on the fact that Ustka is a designated Spa Town. I intend to oppose that status, which I believe it is to blame for the over-reliance on tourism and the false identity the town has received. Tourism should be neither seasonal nor the facilities used should be exclussively for hotel clients. Ustka has per majority an elderly population during winter months, with no plans by the local council to improve their way of life, or any medical and relaxation facilities. The nearest major hospital is in Slupsk, with poor transport links. Wider theoretical influences will include the concept of the ‘participatory management model’, the agenda of ‘urban health systems’ and ‘primary healthcare investments’, as well as the architectural theory of the ‘mat building typology’, and precedents on ancient methods of cleansing and spirituality, such as the ‘Japanese sento ritual’ and the ancient ‘Ottoman bathhouse’.

woodland loss

poor community engagement overeliance on tourism

15,000 winter population majority of which are above median age

de-gentrifying the spa concept

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disease research centre public enclosure

outdoor bath courtyard

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axonometric annotations: 1. on-site primary north-south route leading past the public bathhouse, to the Baltic coast 2. research and innovation highstreet 3. temporary accommodation for users of the healthcare facility embedded within the dunes 4. energy production unit 5. leisure volume 6. treatment volume 7. relaxation volume

cable car leading to the temporary accommodation within the dunes sport activities temporary accommodation public realm marine research centre summer tourism alternative energy production leisure research hub innovation hub loading bay watersports train link to transportation hub pedestrian promenade public route main traffic artery secondary traffic artery railtracks public domain

M.Arch Architecture Final Year Design Thesis

A Public Bathhouse: toward a participatory model for urban healthcare (cont.)

As the design proposal is about an alternative primary healthcare facility - a public bathhouse - the discussion is focussing on how to bring the healthcare agenda into space. The main incentives are two key issues: Ustka’s designation as a Spa Town and the dominant elderly population. That particular population group is the reason for seeking social benefits that can be extracted from the designation of the Spa Town.

Research and analysis were conducted into the World Health Organization and European Union initiatives on urban health systems run through participatory management models. This discussion intends to reflect upon the aim of the urban health systems as to invest in improving the primary care, ensuring local communities a high quality life. Based upon that, a new healthcare model is devised, run through participatory management. The new model sets to provide 3 types of healthcare services, one based on relaxation, one based on treatment and finally one based on leisure. The building is accompanied by a masterplan that includes means and implementations that promote the idea of the urban health systems, that of healthy living and new means of investing into the public health policies of the future, falling under the agenda of trying to keep people out of hospitals.

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M.Arch Architecture First Year Urban Strategy & Masterplan

symbiosis network

Tottenham Hale: symbiosis test-bed

Supervising tutors: Simon Bradbury, Krzysztof Nawratek, Alona Martinez-Perez Group (with): K. Donovan, T. Whettingsteel The following project was initiated by invitation of the local council of Haringey and local community groups, such as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Our Tottenham Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, in order to generate and present by June 2015, alternative strategic regeneration frameworks for the local area. The following urban strategy & masterplan were the basis for the development of a detailed design proposal that followed Janurary 2015-June 2015. The scheme seeks on producing an alternate model for regeneration in Tottenham Hale. The project acts as prototype which can be modified to be used throughout Tottenham. The scheme is looking at changing the current negative perception of industry, which seems to be a common theme in deprived areas of London. Currently Industrial areas surrounding Fountayne road and Ashley Road are underdeveloped and under used. In saying that, however, there are a number of important industries and business in the area which are key assets to the community. The project aspires to work with these industries and enhance both the business and also the area as a whole. Currently the council are under pressure to produce 10000 new homes and 5000 new jobs.

Community groups are feeling threatened with the fear of gentrification which could happen if these targets are met. Some redevelopment schemes around Tottenham have already forced residents and business to move out. The project proposes new ways in thinking that will benefit both the residents, community groups and the council. This project examines and questions the current status of the industrial estates north and south of the retail park and re-thinks the negative perception of industry. The primary agenda will be focusing on proposing a new model of urban re-industrialisation through a Tottenham-wide network of industrial symbiosis. Fountayne Road becomes a test-bed of industrial synergies, examining ways that will generate a sustainable industrial symbiosis model. It seeks for economic, social and energy benefits between industry and non-industry, co-existing within the same locale.

economic programmes health & education industries energy consumed & produced on-site wider network facilities residential symbiosis users input routes local shops Utility courtyard of the industrial block

Penetrable facade as way-in to public route

Hybrid edge

Open market as node

M.Arch Architecture First Year Detailed Design Tottenham Hale: symbiosis test-bed

Supervising tutors: Simon Bradbury, Krzysztof Nawratek, Alona Martinez-Perez Group (with): K. Donovan, T. Whettingsteel A Symbiotic Growth and Research Network (S.G.R.N) is formulated to run a collective scheme. The building proposal is the Knowledge Hub - Prototype and Testing Centre of the industrial symbiosis network. It contains a chp prototype and small scale glass recycling processes, educational spaces, open source and private laboratories, as well as an open market for urban farming products. In summary, is about community and science coming together under a knowledge hub. Educational and research programs are met within the same volume, in the centre of the building, with an industrial spectacle taking place within the same space and economic activities on ground level, turning the hub into a learning, industrial and economic node within the masterplan.

industrial processes

main volume

classrooms

ACCESS || VIEWS

auditorium

BRIDGE

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[industrial occupation]

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1. main route ACCESS

[assembling the structure]

from: auditorium

to: glass recyling from: live-work units

to: open source labs

VIEWS

to: digester facility

main route

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BA(Hons) Architecture Final Year Translation from Drawing to Dwelling

Supervising tutors: Luis Diaz, Sean Albuquerque Studio 12: Spatial Projections Term 01 and Term 02 of the final year of my BA(Hons) Architecture at the University of Brighton, are part of a vertical studio project that run from September 2013 to June 2014. The themes and ideas discussed in the first term project led to the project outcome of second term. My work in the last year of BA(Hons) was about spatial manipulations, articulation of the architectural tectonics and the journey from the analysis of a modernist Alvar Aalto house, to manipulating the spatial qualities and creating rules for housing in a dense urban block, to re-discovering the ‘mat’ building typology within an about to be demolished social housing estate, Robin Hood Gardens (Alison & Peter Smithson) in Poplar, London. With an added element of socio-politically driven site investigation in the start of term 02 - as part of the site analysis requirements for the design project - I was led to the creation of a social housing scheme, through which I re-invented the ‘mat’ building typology, by carrying the architectural elements discovered in Aalto’s house analysis. The following term 01 project began with a study of Avlar Aalto’s Maison Louis Carré in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France. Through a series of drawings, I unravelled its organic form, the clever distinction between the formal and informal spaces of the hosue and a wellthought-out spatial orchestration, organised according to use and public and private conditions. Through manipulation and tweaking of the architectural tectonics discovered in Maison Carré, I jumped up a scale to create an imaginary housing scheme within a dense urban block, evolving around a live-work distinction within the unit.

In a dense urban block, all live-spaces are facing toward the interior of the block to enhance the development of a micro-community within the streets and communal areas of the block, whereas the work-spaces are gathered toward the exterior of the block. That way a direct connection is made of the housing block to the city, as a place of work and other economic activities.

BA(Hons) Architecture Final Year Translation from Drawing to Dwelling Supervising tutors: Luis Diaz, Sean Albuquerque Studio 12: Spatial Projections