Victoria Nasiopoulou Skeva 31.03.1995 | Thessaloniki, Greece • e-mail: vikidfly@gmail.com • issuu: https://issuu.com/offvi • vimeo: https://vimeo.com/offvi
Education_ 2001 - 2010:
Conservatory “Music College” of Thessaloniki, Greece (Music Theory | Solfège | Piano)
2010 - 2013:
14th General High School of Thessaloniki, Greece
2013 - today:
Department of Architecture | University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Languages_
Greek | Native Language
May 2010:
Certificate of Competency in English ( ECCE // level B2 ) | University of Michigan
2006 - 2010:
German private lessons // level: pre-intemediate
Workshops | Labs | Exhibitions_ November 2015:
Participation in Athens Biennale _OMONOIA AB5to6 “identifications | Tαυτοποιήσεις” 3 days lab, by Zisis Kotionis
November 2016:
Modelmaking Workshop called “Model Making in Architecture” by Evelin Gavrilou| University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
April 2017:
Participation in Student Work Exhibition called “Happy Days” (Samuel Beckett) at Bios, Athens Greece (digital artworks / scenic design)
Work Experience_ July - August 2017:
Intership | T + T Architects, Thessaloniki, Greece | architect assistant (2D and 3D designer)
July - August 2018:
Employed | T + T Architects, Thessaloniki, Greece | architectural and industrial designer (2D and 3D)
Skills and Knowledge_ Autocad Sketch up | V-ray Rhinoceros | V-ray Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premiere Microsoft Office Suite Unreal Engine
Learning about and experimenting for my Diploma thesis 2019-today
Portfolio contents_ research thesis | architectural design | urban design | industrial design | visual art | scenography | sculpture | graphic desigh | audiovisual arts | video art
2019 | 2020 UNDERMINING REALITY|optical illusions in the chronicle of art // research thesis supervisor: Alexandros Psychoulis
UNDERMINING REALITY: optical illusions in the chronicle of art | contents
summary | The concepts of reality and illusion are seemingly opposed, used by perspective to correct or distort perceptions. The urban scenery is full of elements that cause optical illusions.
introduction: • definition of optical illusions, • gestalt theory
My research focuses on parts of human artefacts in the area of fine and visual arts, using various techniques, effects and technological tools on paintings, sculptures, architectural creations and designs scenography artworks, to deceive the spectator. However, the way to fool one’s vision is a complicated procedure. Sensory integration along with memory and experience resulting in optical illusions. Human brain, the “storage” of all these information, is the main organ -apart from the eye- that perceives reality, due to the brain’s function of constructing visual experience. Hence, whatever we see may as well be a misinterpretation. Artists are suitable to perform this result as they aim at entertaining and charm spectators through their work.
thesis | special research topic
Examples of this procedure that creates illusion are: • various artworks placed in internal or external space creating an illusion of movement and depth, • techniques such as video and projection mapping that add dimensions and movement on static elements, • interactive systems and installations, • technologies such as augmented reality that enriches our world placing between our eyes and the environment a variety of digital information. Since all these city elements give the impression of movement and change, arises the question whether the city’s environment tends to create a parallel world opposed to the “real” one, thus misinterpreting our senses.
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chapter 1: • optical illusions (history, Platon), • geometrical optical illusions (definition, science, art) • contour rivalry, light (definition, science, art) chapter 2: • figure - ground (definition, history) ambiguous figures (pictographic | stereographic ambiguity, definition, art, test Rorschach, science) chapter 3: • impossible objects (definition, history) • categories (boundary conflicts, impossible _ bars, impossible steps / continuous steps, overlapping planes) chapter 4: • perspective illusions (definition, history, science, art, architecture, cinema, theater) • trompe-l’œil (definition, history) • forced perspective (definition, history) • foreshorted scenography • anamorphosis • quadratura • false perspective • cinema / theater (scenography) • animation • constructions chapter 5: • motion (optical illusions, definition, history) • scenography (theater, phantasmagoria) • cinema (tricks) • optical art • interactive art, installation art, digital and interactive systems, interactive architecture • visual reality • videogames • augmented and spatially augmented reality • projection mapping (2d, 3d, 4d, 360O) conclution
Hermann / Hering illusion
Sandro del Prete, The inverted chess- board
Oliver Hardy / Stan Laurel, Brats movie
James Turrell, Afrum I
Victor Vasarely, Zebra
Acropolis of Athens, Greece
Rabbit-Duck Illusion
Francisco Sobrino, Unstable Transformation -Su- perpositionJuxtaposition
Marcel Duchamp, Rotary Glass Plates, Precision Optics
M.C. Escher, Concave and convex
Sandro del Prete’s photos
Onionlab studio, Axioma, projection mapping
2015| 2016 A POCKET OF EPISODES ( EVENTS ): DIGITAL|ANALOGUE LIBRARY professor: Iordanis Stylidis team partner: Lina Kantere subject | The educational intention of this design workshop is to navigate students to explore, to manipulate and thoroughly represent a critical proposal based on the multiple poly-programmatic properties of a digital-analogue multi-spatial/function Library*. Students have to explore and understand the nature of a multi-functional and complex behavior building and its correlation with the inner and exterior city functions. In addition, a major cognitional area forming this educational tusk is to explore and produce a concept result about a building integrating with the information technology, the complex and consecutive functions of people constantly occupying and using all networks of internal spaces, the zero energy consumption possibility that might lead to a possible setting of the building underground. The exploration of a matrix of function free and function full oriented spaces together with the research of a poly-programmatic use of the roof-top level (either at a high up level or to the natural surface) conclude the study demands.
architectural design
LIBRARY BUILDING PROGRAM A. ACCOMMODATION AREAS / ACCOMMODATION FUNCTIONS
330 m2
B. EVENTS
400 m2
C. SUPPORT AREAS
180 m2
D. LIBRARIES, COLLECTIONS, LABORATORIES
600 m2
E. LEARNING AND ACTION
560 m2
F. STAFF AREAS
100 m2
G. COLLECTION STORAGE AREAS
200 m2
H. INFRASTRUCTURE AND INSTALLATIONS
400 m2
TOTAL
2770 m2
project description | The library is located in Volos and belongs to the University of Thessaly. The lot, on which it is built, presents particularities owing to the amphitheatre that occupies most of the surface. The building consists of levels below and above ground level so that it fulfils the terms of the building programme while a height balance is preserved in relation to the rest of the buildings in the polytechnic campus. Its volume consists of a combination of geometrical shapes which add plasticity to the overall face of the building. Sunlight is a crucial factor to the function of the building. For this reason, openings were made on all sides of the building so that all of them are lit during the day. The largest opening of the library is found on the southeast side, lighting the connecting corridors between the levels (ramps). Even the underground floor is naturally lit through this opening as well as through the opening on the northeast side along with the ramp that leads from the basement to the main entrance. There are balconies to Southwest, Northwest and Northeast. Specifically designed flat room, equally important as the rest of the building, used mainly as relaxation and concentration room and comprised of little roofed spaces with accessible rooftops to be used all year round. Construction from reinforced concrete and visible (white) cement with black aluminum frames and glass railings.
University of Thessaly, Volos (Greece)
Library
Campus area
plans_
2nd basement
1st floor
section plan d-d
1st basement
2nd floor
section plan c-c
ground floor
flat roof
section plan a-a
ground floor // 2nd level
d
northwest niew
southeast view
c
a
section plan b-b
southwest view
2016 | 2017 Subtraction_
(+) home | dormitories professor: Evelyn Gavrilou team partner: Christina Iliadi
poster_
SUBTRACTION ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO III-V
subject | subtraction (n.) c. 1400, “withdrawal, removal,” from Late Latin subtractionem (nominative subtractio) “a drawing back, taking away,” from past participle stem of Latin subtrahere “take away, draw off, draw from below,” from sub “from under” (see sub-) + trahere “to pull, draw” (see tract(n.1)). The mathematical sense is attested from early 15c. [ url: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=subtraction ]
31.10-02.11.2016
MONDAY 31.10.2016 10:00-14:00 15:00-21:00 TUESDAY 01.11.2016 17:00-22:00 WEDNESDAY 02.11.2016 10:00-14:00
workshop along the contexts of the course | Model Making in Architecture_
PROFESSOR EVELYN GAVRILOU VISITING JURY
The workshop took place at the School of Architecture at the University of Thessaly in Volos. The working teams of students work are called to use and experiment with 3-4 different materials for the creation of models moving to the next poster_ step after the first exercise of diagrams. url: https://subtract2016.wordpress.com/
architectural design
The list of materials that were used for the models: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
plaster concrete soap with glycerine soap with olive oil wax wax gel white acrylic mastic silicone transparent silicone transparent (heated silicone cilopren polyurethane (smelted) polysterene / resin polysterene (dow) wooden filler filler sugar chocolate plasticine gel (for food)
SEVASTIANA KONSTAKI VAGELIS PAPANDREOU KATERINA TSAKMAKI ORGANIZERS DIAMANTOULI ELIKI FOUSTERI ATHINA
MODELMAKING
WORKSHOP
The central / vertical volume removal technique (square, cylindrical, rectangular) is used in the entirety of the models. From creating the first model, there emerged the rough structure of the main building, hosting the student dormitories of the ”+ home” project.
models_
(+) home | dormitories_ project
project description | A 116x57 meters plot, located near the Polytechnic School of Volos, with a student accommodation building complex in it. The plot lies between Kilkis-Limnou-Lachana Streets. The main entrance is located on Limnou Street (Northwest) and the second entrance is Southeast on the side facing the port. The complex comprises: A) a shared building, open-air terraces / squares and building units with basement, first and second floor, connected with corridors on the second floors. Their placement is geometric in accordance to the shape of the plot. A reception/secretariat ground-level building as well as a storage ground-level building are found bilaterally of the main entrance. The main entrance is located on Lachana Street and the second from inside the plot. On the Northeast and Southeast sides of the plot, there are squares, green spaces, wooden benches of irregular patterns as well as a concert stage. In the centre of the plot there are two smaller squares between the building units. The ground is paved which creates pathways between the buildings on the plot.
(+) home_ dormitories
masterplan | plans_
surrounding area
ground floor
1st floor
2nd floor
section plan a-a
section plan b-b
sleeping unit | plans_ Dimensions: Larger 38.6m / smaller 17.3m Height: 10m
ground floor // secretariat
Consists of community areas and two rooms on the 1st and 2nd floor respectively. (Large: 13x13m, Small: 8x8m) There are two ground floor variations: a) with reception / secretary, and b) with storage. Integration of staircases in shared spaces. Ground floor: Left: reception / secretariat, elevator. Right: Assembly room
ground floor // storage
1st floor: public areas (kitchen, living room, computer lab), private spaces (4 single-bed rooms in large section, 2 single-bed rooms in small section) 2nd floor: shared spaces (kitchen, living room, laundry room), private spaces (layed out in same manner as in 1st floor) In the 13x13m square space, a uniform glass atrium with a glass roof is integrated.
1st floor
sleeping unit’s furniture_
2nd floor
working desk | sofa views_
bed | shelves
section plans_
public building | plans_ Main entrance on Lachana Street, second entrance through plot.
ground floor
Dimensions: 28.3x16 m perimeter, 12.3 m height Ground floor: Reception, information, restaurant, medical room, restrooms, cinema / amphitheater 1st floor: central corridor, library, laboratories // offices, wc, warehouse
1st floor
2nd floor: central corridor, audiovisual recording studio, computer lab, offices
2nd floor
3rd floor
section plans and views
2017 UNDER THE SURFACE | SEEDS VAULT_
BIO-DINERSITY RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL CENTER professor: Iordanis Stylidis team partner: Dimitra Giova
architectural design
subject | Following the public open discussion and concern for the environment and the principal question of how the human beings mostly living in the geographical areas of massive and heavy industrialization, Europe and North America in particular, are going to achive a new equilibrium between the natural and the man-made environment, accepting and following the zero carbon dioxide emissions, the zero consumption or loss of energy for the heating and cooling of buildings and the re-thinking and re-arrangement of the relationship between the model of life and civilisation into the everytime specific and close range geography we are introducing a new subject-project responding accurately to the above mention local/global thinking. The task for this workshop is the design and the conceptual appropriation of a hybrid building containing research and educational units/spaces/properties. We investigate and negotiate with the hypothesis of a unique building/space or a cluster of buildings/spaces of no more than 2000 sqm containing units for research, education and applied or experimental methodologies for a territorial bio-diversity and sustainability holistic intervention and environmental protection. A unit/container for the variety of local seeds and a unit/laboratory for the quality control of the green production of the area (vegetables, fruits, crops) and a unit of multi-functional digital library open to public together with the logistics, the administration and multi-purpose open air area are the spatial elements of the program. The aim is to design a building attractor capable to mobilize not only the scientific but the ‘’everybody’’ interest. The building has be designed to operate under the surface of the earth at a choosen site having a minimum slope of 15o. This additional property is of great importance not only for the core functionality of the special or the usual typologies of the multiple programmatic spaces but for energy saving and the aesthetic of correlating with the close environmental typology.
BUILDING PROGRAM - SPATIAL RELATIONS 1. Laboratories, Research Areas
500 m2
2. Seed storage
500 m2
3. Meetings, presentation rooms
400 m2
4. Interactive Spaces, Cinemas, Library
200 m2
5. Restaurant, Recreation / meetings
200 m2
6. Bonds-Swelling-Transition
200 m2
7. Corridors, Wineries, Sanitation, Warehouses
500 m2
20 researchers, 8 employees / day
5 researchers, 5 technicians / day
20 researchers, 80-100 visitors / hour
150 guests / researchers, trainees / day, 5 employees
80 guests, 5 employees
8. Surroundings, Views Total
2000 m2
plans_
section plan a-a
section plan b-b basement
2nd level section plan c-c
section plan d-d
1st level
3nd level
section plan e-e
section plan f-f
east view // coffee shop flat roof
project description | Τhe building is part of a plot with a slope of about 15° northwest of Volos. It is located near Larisis avenue facing Lundemi Str. and the Kaliakouda stream. This is a rural area where crops are favored due to soil and microclimate conditions. The plot forms a pentagon shape. Its dimensions are 110m west, 40m north, 77m northeast, 44m southeast and 60m south. It is bounded on the northeast by a highway, which also grants the access to the plot. The main entrance of the building can be reached through a square located on its east side, which also has a parking lot. The main section of the building (section 1) includes interactive spaces, a cinema, and a library. On the north side of section 1 there is a small enclosed courtyard which leads to the secondary entrance. On the building’s south side (section 2) there is a restaurant, a store, a rest room and a meeting room. sections 1 and 2 are connected. The main entrance of part 2 overlooks a small square on its east side. Access to this square can be reached via a 7x12m ramp, with a planted roof. On the west side of the building (section 3) there are meeting and presentation rooms. Access on this section can be granted via the central and northern sections of the building (sections 1 and 4) The northern side of section 4 includes laboratories, research areas and bedrooms (for researchers and employees) and can be reached from the east side , which overlooks an enclosed courtyard on the northern section of the plot. The seed storage is located on the basement of sections 3 and 4. The building has openings on the east sides as well as on the roofs. As for the crops, section 3 has a planted room with scented plants (basil, parsley, spearmint, mint and oregano). Access on the roof can be reached through exterior staircase situated on the north. Sections 2 and 4 have grass planted rooms. On the west side of the plot (behind the building) there are vegetable crops (summer period: tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, okra, green beans / winter season: spinach, lettuce, cabbage cauliflower, broccoli) and 11 olive trees. The southern section of the plot has a grain field. At the same time there are kiosks which can be used as warehouses for tools and equipment.
2018 ORDER AND DISARRANGEMENT:
Negotiating form and matter in the design of a distillery
KYDONITIKO_ winery / distillery professor: Kostas Manolidis team partner: Christina Iliadi
architectural design
subject | The studio engages with the design of facilities for distillation of grape-based alcoholic beverages such as tsipouro, ouzo, grappa, etc. The proposed building will also house the reception of visitors and a place for accompanying tsipouro feasts. Our explorations focuses on the complex correspondences between architecture and earth’s materials and meanings. We elaborate an architecture that rearranges and refashes earthy matter, technical and aesthetic narcissism, and embodies vital forces of nature. Experimentation with the application and articulation of materials such as stone, brick, wood and rammed earth will be a central concern of the studio’s work and a theme for exercises and lectures. We will deal with the inner fabrication of forms and consider the densities and gaps, the ordered coherency and its disintegration, the laws of materials and their poetic transgression. The creation of alcoholic fermentation and distillation products has an almost magical character and belongs to the fundamental elements of the grammar of the transformations with which human civilization has moved. Therefore, the production of wine and spirits was also associated with key functions of the human community, such as collective worship and festive practices that reenact the secret of human union with nature. In modern society, the orgiastic decompression element that has long been associated with the production and consumption of wine has been almost completely suppressed. Alcohol was often employed in ritualistic forms of ecstatic exodus of one’s self and always brought a degree of liberation from internal burdens and immersion into a pro-logical field of approaching the world. The architecture of the distillery can interpret and internalize the mediating action of the distilled spirit towards the secret coordinates of existence and towards a reverent reconciliation of the human community with its natural ecosystem. The design of the building, in addition to its functionality and efficiency, can incorporate emphatic or implied echoes from such latent meanings. This integration can take place in architectural forms, in spatial relationships, in light and especially in the materiality of the building.
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topographic plan // Aivaliotika, Thessaly, Greece
KYDONITIKO_ winery / distillery
plans_
project description | This project is located on Thessaly in Aivaliotika region, on the south of Volos on a plot of 101m altitude, viewing the Pagasitikos Gulf. A distillery producing tsipouro and ouzo with a characteristic quince aroma is situated here*. The total area is 1350m2 and consists of two units connected by an external corridor: a) Τhe production unit with a cellar on its basement, the production is on the ground floor and the offices/accommodation are on the first floor. b) The tasting unit on the ground floor. The plot has also a parking lot and luggage compartment. Since the subject of the study is the interaction between the building and the ground, natural materials have been used in various parts. The building is embedded into the rock which constitutes part of its walls. The production area consists of red brick masonry on the inside. Its facade features a section of wooden blinds, as well as the corridor joining the units. The elevated wall of the tasting unit is made of stone and built into the mountain. *The name of the region Aivaliotika refers to the city Aivali in Asia Minor. The name comes from the Turkish word “ayva” which means quince.
axonometric of the main building_
basement
section plan a-a
section plan b-b
section plan c-c ground floor
front view
restaurant_ side view
1st floor
photorealistic images // exterior | interior _hall
perspective plan of distillery’s wine exhibition
2017 | 2018 CITY OF ROOMS | STUDENT DORMITORY _on wheels // project professors: Aristides Antonas, George Mitroulias, Sophia Vyzoviti team partner: Katerina Kotsaki
project description | The core of the design is the collective self-management and therefore self-figuration of the student accommodation. The student housing network consists of 7 buildings located in the city of Volos and accommodates 200 students in total. Each building is treated vertically as a series of autonomous floor-apartments while ground floor facilities provide functions aimed at the wider academic community.
architectural design
_network map
selected buildings plans_
_on wheels // project
project description | A construction on wheels is used as a rest unit in these buildings to accommodate the space needs of each student. It was designed in such way that its shell could “close” and potentially isolate the person from the community and “open” to re-connect the person with it, in ways that result from the individuals’ self-determination. Thus, dynamic floorplans are produced with occasional private spaces and small social areas. In the free space between the private areas different activities of the members can be accommodated (study, entertainment, games, social activities…). Residential auxiliary activities such as eating, hygiene, and storage areas are placed on the sides of the apartments to minimize unit movement and space permeability.
axonometric_ bathroom
axonometric_ 1st floor | Korai 67
plans_ Korai 67 | sleeping units
section plan b-b
Korai 67
sleeping unit
axonometrics_
indicative basement // ground floor
plans_
basement
axonometric_
ground floor
_on wheels // project
_on wheels // gif url:
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2016 URBAN PLANNING | URBAN DESIGN Redevelopment of Allatini area, Thessaloniki, Greece. professor: Giorgos Triantafyllidis subject | Τhe course’s aim is to focus on the concepts and specifications of Urban Design as well as the integration in the built environment and social dimension of the city. In this framework the use of basic urban design tools is introduced (integration strategies, urban functions, transport networks, public/private space, building blocks shapes, squares etc).
topographic // 1
protected buildings
The area of study is located in the southern part of Thessaloniki and includes mainly residencies, sports areas, and some protected buildings (old Allatini factory). It is also next to the sea and Thessaloniki Concert Hall. The existing topographical plan is illustrated in Figure (1) and comprises a large enough area for the site, a building block in which the old factory along with some abandoned buildings belong to. The proposed scheme is illustrated in Figure (2).
streets
suggested plan // 2
library radio station
stores_ ground floors
health clinic post office event center coffee shop
public squares
urban design
green areas / squares
general top view
public buildings_ protected built area [Allatini factory]
buildings flower beds
residencies_ ground floors
office buildings
surrounding built area
photorealistic image
project description | Τhe first step in understanding the area was the analysis of the urban structure. Therefore, the concept is to preserve and utilize the buildings of the old factory along with the redevelopment of the surrounding area. It breaks down the building block in smaller ones by paving roads in between to serve road network purposes and access and utilize the created spaces. The section including the protected buildings now shapes a public space with public buildings and squares which are now accessible from every block corner. It is surrounded by office buildings with public squares north and southeast and residential blocks (with retail spaces at ground floor, residences at 1st -last floor) forming interior squares and green spaces. In this context, the area turns into a second “city center�, by forming public spaces that include different activities, and providing job opportunities for the local residents at the southern part of the city.
east side view | protected buildings_ public // office buildings
west side view | residencies // stores
2017 | 2018 SMALL SCALE PLACES AND ARTIFACTS [ space ] capsule // project professor: Iordanis Stylidis team partner: Laskaro Konstantinou
architectural | industrial design
subject | The educational intention of this design workshop is focused on the inter-disciplinary areas of human habits, information technologies, rural and urban landscape identities, industry oriented construction methodologies and zero energy consumption/energy harvesting. We have to investigate, examine and discover the multiple variations of major political, aesthetic and technological topics regarding the western societies typologies of life and behavior in order to criticaly manipulate and, finally, embody the theoretical and functional possibilities of all algorithmic orientations to a unique construction-form aiming to achive a multi-purpose life-sustainable unit. This unit should, additionally, be capable to be build in a shipyard or aeroplane consruction factory thus it should be designed in separate mono-form pieces that can be assembled. project description | The [space] capsule project includes a small-scale space creation in capsule shape, designed as a single residential unit. It is a standalone unit with interior surface dimensions of 1x1m and a total diameter (including the load bearing structure) of 3.60 m. It consists of a metal frame with various layers of insulation and is both internally and externally covered with aluminum foil. The construction also has aluminum frames. Internally the construction is divided in four floors: a) entrance storage space, b) WC, c) kitchen – office space, d) bedroom-storage space.
location // section plan
This metal construction can be installed in industrial buildings. – building sites which are turned into living spaces. Without this intervention the sites would not be suitable for living. To serve this purpose each unit comes with a water tank, located below ground, right under the capsule (water supply). All these units are provided with a standalone underground electrical grid. Thus, each industrial building where those capsules are installed is turned into a living space forming a community. The living units’ target group varies depending on each building’s location (age, profession). For example, should a site be located next to University premises, the capsules will be occupied by students, employees, professors etc. On the other hand, should the site be next to an industrial area (factories etc.), the capsules will be occupied by factory workers/employees. The building site could be located either on urban or rural areas. That said, the site could turn into a Motel. The capsules can be used as hotel units which accommodate anyone interested in staying in the aforementioned areas where those industrial buildings are located.
1st level
section plan a-a
2nd level
section plan b-b
3rd level
side view axonometrics_
top view
2016 | 2017 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PRACTICES
plans_
Happy Days | Samuel Beckett on the throne // project professor: Maria Papadimitriou team partner: Lina Kantere
subject | Having as main subject of the lesson, the scenography for Samuel Beckett’s, “Happy Days”, we began thinking on the project by reading and analyzing the theatrical text. The selection of the play by our professor and artist, Maria, was relevant to the fact that an actual performance would be held in BIOS stage. ( 84 Peiraios Avenue, Athens | url: http://www.bios.gr/ ) plot summary | Happy Days is a play in two acts. In Act I, Winnie, half-buried to her waist in a hill, chatters away to her husband, Willie, who is largely hidden and taciturn in a hole behind her. Winnie was saying “Oh this is a happy day.” Later, in Act II, she is buried up to her neck, but continues to talk and remember happier days. Willie does not seem to be about.
visual art | scenography | graphic desigh
project description | In our recommendation for the scenery, the play is plaid in a bathroom area covered with black and white plaid tiles. The white, combined with the fake desert landscape, indicate the dryness of the landscape in which Beckett refers. The repetitive plaid tile is associated with the monotony of the couple’s life and paranoia in combination with the rearrangement of the bathroom (door on the floor, unnatural toilet scale. Finally, the unequal levels give the impression of the hill, while the sinking of Winnie takes place inside the toilet where she drowns with its dirty water.
top view
section plan | 1st act
section plan | 2nd act
photorealistic image
front view
poster_
graphic design | We also create the poster of the play, as if we were the actual scenographers of the performance. On April 2017, selected works of the lesson (as the present) were exhibited in BIOS. Student Work Exhibition | Happy Days http://www.arch.uth.gr/el/activities/1425
design scenography artwork_
2017 | 2018 ARCHITECTURAL AND ARTISTIC PRACTICES SEVEN |7| // project
professor: Maria Papadimitriou subject | The course content focuses on the creation of certain digital projects. At first, we are required to design a postcard. (1) The next step is to record the story of a refugee or immigrant and digitally create his portrait. Then map out the route he followed and identify through his story: a) an important event that stuck with him, and b) an object of emotional value he had with him on this journey. In the end, these two elements should be digitally visualized. (2) (3) (4) (5)
visual art | graphic desigh
(1) card postal | Pallet on self: “two” pallets trasformed into stable table-self, in the city’s coffeeshop.
seven (7) // project| Sotiris is 30 years old and a war refugee. He was born in 1987 in Odessa, the former Soviet Union, today Ukraine. His father was of Greek descent and his mother was from Odessa. Due to changes in the republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States (the great financial crisis and nationalist turmoil) he was forced to emigrate to Moscow with his family. They stayed there for 2 years and then left for Prague. Soon after, they went to Kiev. But the conditions led them to Georgia. In all these places he lived, he was housed in old very small houses with various relatives. They were all sleeping together in small rooms with many beds. At that time there were conflicts between Georgians and Abkhazians. Abkhazia had the status of an Autonomous Republic, affiliated with the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia. The Georgians demanded the full integration of Abkhazia into their nation-state, while the Abkhaz wanted to create their own. The cause of the final conflict came at the beginning of the summer of 1992, when a Georgian army was sent to Sokhumi. Greeks in the area were in the middle of the fighting. While declaring their neutrality, there have been many cases of recruiting young people in areas where one of the conflicting parties was in control. Many of the Abkhazian Greeks fled as refugees because they were targeted, because there was an impression that they were a wealthy group that was financially supported by relatives living in Greece. Having lost everything in the war, they expected assistance from greek natives. Sotiris’ father is killed in those places, his mother leaves for Moscow, and he immediately leaves for Odessa with his uncle. But for security reasons they came to Greece when they were 7 years old. His house was very small and the bedroom had 7 people sleeping and sharing a toilet. In all his movements he had a children’s jacket, the only warm item of clothing he had until he turned 7 years old. In 2007, he starts working on music while at the same time working as a hobby in furniture making, an activity he wanted to do from a young age. He is now a professional musician.
(2) portrait // Sotiris | music producer
(3) mapping // on the road | 7 years
(4) event // bedroom - bathroom | 7 beds
(5) object // jacket | until 7 years old
2019 ARCHITECTURAL AND ARTISTIC PRACTICES II The archeology of the future | Carousel sun catcher // project
carousel // sun catcher
professor: Maria Papadimitriou subject | Τhe course focuses around recycling and creating three-dimensional structures, while emphasizing on collecting materials and objects that are cheap, thrown away, and seemingly useless. From the early 20th century various artists started to incorporate the concept of material repurposing and reuse. This course’s aims are the following: making students familiar with the world of modern art, understanding the thought process of how an idea is formed and how can it be materialized, to work with new materials such as gypsum, cement, fluid materials, molds, metal, wood and recycled objects/materials. In that way, they find themselves confronted with modern consuming-frenzy culture and contemplate about issues of sustainability and economy. The student is encouraged to choose an object or a childhood experience and turn it into inspiration for the final sculpture he’s creating. Afterwards, a visit to a junk yard takes place for choosing an object that will ultimately be the foundation of early creative thought process that results in the making of a 3-dimensional structure which is all about the “archaeology of the future”.
visual arts | sculpture | industrial design
_rotating night lamp for kids
_axonometric diagram
project description | My inspiration source was a child’s rotating-image night lamp, that when turned on, projects images onto the walls of a room. My purpose was to create a sculpture for interior spaces that, when light is casted onto it, it creates rotating shadows onto nearby walls. The object I retrieved from the junk yard was an old bicycle tire rim. Onto it, using bronze wire, several small jars (two-dimensional) made from metal foil, were hanged in various height variations. The structure when placed in the center of a room’s ceiling, went into rotating mode and light was casted onto it, shadows of the jars started to appear on nearby walls in much larger-than-normal sizes.
carousel _sun catcher // materials: α) bike wheel b) piston ring c) silver | bronze wire d) metal foils
2018 | 2019 AUDIOVISUAL REPRESENTATION OF CITY: The evolution of the representation of the city from the early cinema to present day video and interactive installations. professor: George Papakonstantinou subject | Course structure: • Documentary film basic characteristics • Space in the cinema and the audiovisual arts in general (photography, animation, video art, digital animation image) • Iconographic space, architectural space, narrative space • Scenarios and narration structures • Urban soundscape • Audiovisual production organization • Camera and Editing principles and techniques • Neo-realism, free cinema, nouvelle vague and the city • Experimental cinema and the city • Video-art and the city (filmming, video editting, montage) • Contemporary trends in representing urban space
audiovisual arts | video art | graphic design
We had to create: 1. Paper building_ a digital comic (2 pages | location: architecture department building / University of Thessaly) 2. TAM shots_ two audiovisual projects | location: architecture department building (short videos | 0 - 1 min / per video) 3. TAM gif_ three digital animation images (those include the architecture department logo | mp4 or gif files) 4. Volos 360O_ an audiovisual project on a specific building or an urban space (group project | 3 - 4 students | panoramic shots) (1) paper building | maneki neko The Maneki-neko (招き猫), literally meaning “beckoning cat,” is a common Japanese figurine (lucky charm, talisman) that is often believed to bring good luck to the owner. The figurine depicts a cat (traditionally a calico Japanese Bobtail) with an upright claw, and is usually displayed in, and often at, the entrance of many spaces. It is also called “Chinese lucky cat”. This comic depicts a short story about a maneki neko cat that inspires students to be creative”
1st page // 招き猫
1 | maneki neko // paper building
2nd page // 招き猫
2a | un _expected // TAM shots
An odd-seeming stranger enters the building and interferes with its electricity supply. The only thing that seems to appear though, is just a shadow.| #short video #natural sound
video url: https://vimeo.com/384606868
2b | [trippy] trip // TAM shots
Fast alternating shots that include motion.| #visuals #music #loop
video url: https://vimeo.com/385610658
3 | boob & bra, skuba mask, traffic light // TAM gif
(3a) TAM gif | boobs & bra
gif url: https://giphy.com/gifs/JTK4tjof5dMsyc3cX0/html5
(3b) TAM gif | skuba mask
gif url: https://giphy.com/gifs/UuwMYihplj6FN9gCEq/html5
(3c) TAM gif | traffic light
gif url: https://giphy.com/gifs/ftSTZzXIkzYOXiVg12/html5
4 | kill the cat // Volos 360O
team: Anastasia Moraiti, Marianna Filopoulou, Soumela Makanika
(3a) Volos 360O | “Kill the Cat” is a short film about a girl looking for the “golden cat”. The cat wants to destroy the world, by making any place like this. location | old alcohol factory, Volos, Greece
video url: https://vimeo.com/385612723
2019 THE MECHANISM OF THE DREAM The stagnation of evolution // project professor: Alexandros Phychoulis
video url: https://vimeo.com/384591371
subject | The Invention of idiosyncratic creative methods. This course is about creating spatial models to experience different qualities and needs according to the aims and choice of each student. The starting point of the course is the personal imaginary space of dreams. Primary ideas are negotiated in a mode of dream physiology. This implies the personal way of dreaming, of producing images and emotions without seeing and without any critical negotiations. We are therefore called to transcribe a dream of ours, and create an artwork based on that dream.
creates a heart shape. (5) Then, when it is time to lay its eggs, it approaches the water and places them in the tank. (6)
project description | My dream that was transcribed had the dragonfly as its key element. A crucial feature of the dream was the way it came about, as it was in the form of a two-dimensional pattern with several variations, painted on the walls of a factory tank. After some research, I discovered that dragonflies, before they take on their final form, live as larvae. They belong to aquatic insects and inhabit the walls of fresh water tanks.
audiovisual arts | video art
From way back in time, the transformation from a nymph to a dragonfly has been a matter of human imagination. In the art world, the Odonata insect group was often depicted with a human-like face. For some Native American tribes, dragonfly replesent swiftness and activity. For the Navajo, they symbolize pure water. Akitsushima (= one of the classical names of Japan). Akitu is an old word for dragonfly, so one interpretation of Akitsushima is “Dragonfly Island”. The life of the dragonfly consists of 4 stages and has 6 basic elements. The eggs that are placed in the water give birth to the nymph, whose shape is quite repulsive. (1) It is a very aggressive insect / hunter living in the water. Then, when the time of adulthood arrives, it comes out, attaches itself to the shoot of the plant and turns into an exuviae. (2) At some point, different for each insect, the pupae transforms into a beautiful dragonfly, abandoning its protective shell (exuvia) (3) and continuing its life outside the water. The dragonfly (4) is a very friendly insect, especially to humans, as it is very comfortable living around them and can often go as far as to land on humans as well. An important detail is the way it is reproduced as it
It is therefore a “magical” transformation from something ugly and aggressive to something beautiful and friendly. So I decided to create a video installation on the evolution of the dragonfly and man. The “stagnation of evolution” // project is a parable of the life course of man with the dragonfly, which unlike the insect, as he grows old he isn’t able to naturally change his appearance, as well as his behavior by trying to “wash away his sins”. Therefore, some footage is apposed, containing a woman in her bathtub, who, while rubbing her body with fury, cannot erase past mistakes from within her, and change her personality and image. The only way for her to achieve becoming someone “better”, is to do it with actions.
(1)
nymph
(4)
dragonfly
(2)
exuviae
(4)
reproduction
(3)
metamorphosis
(6)
eggs
Starring | Elena Kyriakou
The stagnation of evolution // project
The stagnation of evolution // project ( EDIT )
video url: https://vimeo.com/387775019
photos | video installation: “The stagnation of evolution�, University of Thessaly, Department of Architecture, Volos, Greece, June 2019
2017 Hugger | Mugger // project Visuals | collage & video edit from Man Ray’s films / clips
audiovisual arts | video art | visuals
Track ID: Forward Strategy Group - Mandate
video url: https://vimeo.com/387754016
2017 in | a spin // project Visuals | collage & video edit from random bdsm clips / shots
video url: https://vimeo.com/387753629