PORTFOLIO Vasiliki Panagiotidou
3d-printing of wood panels - PG Masters thesis 2021
TRANSIENT TONES [programme] facade system for office building [location]
London, UK
[year]
2020
[project]
academic | Design Specialisation studio
[designers] Ahn S., Alalula D., Panagiotidou V. [software] Illustrator
Houdini, Rhino, Autodesk CFD, Grasshopper, Redshift, Photoshop,
Transient tones is a project catalysed by the observation that the design of the existing built environment, specifically that of the transitional space between the enclosed and open space of buildings have remained restrained and clearly defined for over a century. Especially the relationship with the natural system surrounding it is fragmented. This project proposes two types of component articulations for facades that are melanin-induced, and consequently forming a light filtering structure that protects indoor space from UV radiation. The envisioned design augments human senses, by introducing an experimental performance of the structure in the homogenous modern space. A new sense of biophilia is explored through this co-existence with a synthetic life form and a responsive material palette that changes colour, shape and transparency levels, suggesting a new type of hybrid, semi-living architecture.
Component iteration no.1 Environmental data guiding branching formation
Material performance simulations
solar heat gain analysis data define the branching system evolution and material properties
1. solar heat gain
2. informed substrate
3. channels generation
4. data on geometry
5. encodement
6. material performance
1. solar heat gain
2. informed substrate
3. channels generation
4. data on geometry
5. encodement
6. material performance
functional diagram of melanin containing channel network and bioresin scaffold embedded with GM E.coli cultures
opacity fluctuations of thermochromic hydrogel tile and shape transformation of hydrogel tile
Component iteration no.2
Illuminance analysis based on position of openings (without facade system) 21/06 10:00 sunny with sun
Improvement of breakroom natural light conditions through by facade system addition illuminance analysis (with melanin-infused glass protection) lux should be between 100-300 lux acc. to IESNA
21/12 10:00 cloudy
version 01
21/06 10:00
21/12 10:00
21/06 12:00
21/12 12:00
21/06 14:00
21/12 14:00
selected
thermochromic hydrogel 12% version 02
pH regulator [acid container] thermochromic hydrogel 7% thermochromic hydrogel 21% version 03
functional detail of channel network and mapped materials
Facade system phase 1
transparency change through time
Facade system phase 2
REWIN[E] [programme] hospitality | urban winery [location]
Thessaloniki, Greece
[year]
2018
[project]
academic | design studio
[designers] Panagiotidou V., Papadopoulos K., Theologi S. [software]
Rhino, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator
The goal of this design project was to revitalize a building in one ofthe city’s most vibrant areas. As only the framework of the eight-storey building is preserved, therefore the proposal focuses on a creative completion of the building by eliminating as less of the existing elements as possible. Inspired by the innovative thinking and complex architecture of Freie Universitaet Berlin, a fragmented, pixelated form resulted from diagrammatic studies and 3d investigations of the aforementioned building. The designed building hosts an urban winery, a novel usage in Greece, being simultaneously in accordance with the area of Ladadika. The starting point is the reconsideration of a winery’s building programme and all the needed spaces and additional uses, in an urban context. The basic aim was to transfer the usually horizontal-linear production line to a vertical arrangement as well as to expand it with uses and spaces for a broader audience. In a larger scale, the proposed building could highlight the end or the beginning of the broader existing network of wineries and wine roads.
The concept
The diagram
vineyard
vineyard
roof garden
educational spaces / administration
rent for production
rent for production
wine production
barrel space
wine tasting
bar + restaurant
storage
Longitudinal section
South elevation
West elevation
Floor plans
level 03
level 04
level 05
Technical detail axonometric
level 00
level 01
level 02
EMERGING CONNECTIONS [programme] residential | refurbishment + interior design [location]
Thessaloniki, Greece
[year]
2018
[project]
professional
[designer]
team work
[software]
Rhino, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator
This proposal regards the reuse of an old port warehouse and its redesign as short-time accomodation space for volunteers and artists for a cultural collective of Thessaloniki. Priority is given to common spaces of gathering and expression, which can be found in both levels of the building and take up most of the ground floor area. Around these hubs, bedrooms of minimum space are arranged which contain a working surface, storage space under and/or around the stairs leading to the bed or the bed itself. Each group of 3-4 rooms share one bathroom. Creativity, expression and response are spatially expressed by polygonal blocks of colour as wel as ropes acting as space seperators lights and bannisters, thus bridging utility and installation.
Mezzanine floor plan
Ground floor plan
Private unit axonometric
NEUES BELVEDERE [programme] public building | city theater + hall [location]
Bruehl, Germany
[year]
2017
[project]
academic | Design Specialisation studio
[designers] Fliegel H., Panagiotidou V. [software]
Rhino, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator
The following project regards an architectural proposal for a community centre with a theater stage of 200 people for the town of Bruehl, in Germany. The plot, which is close to a historical landmark and a park, had a lot of restrictions in terms of total coverage and use demands. We envisioned a versatile space that can host multiple events, and a walkable green roof, that acts as a vertical extension to the existing park. In that way, this public building remains vivid and open throughout the year and independently from the organised events. Traffic noise pollution is blocked by large music instrument installations that create corridors for play, wander and experimentation for the pedestrians.
Basement
Ground floor + mezzanine
Roof garden
location
traffic
green
Emergency and fire exits
concept
existing park roof garden BM connections
GF
1F
uses of land
Air circulation demand calculations area (m2)
train station Max-Ernst museum Koeln Str. / Comestrasse Muehlen Str.
height (m) duct cross-section
3 mins
The musical labyrinth
5 mins 3 mins 8 mins
multifunctional community center
building volume
flow rate flow rate (m2/h)
West view
East view
The deep cut between the complex volumes Technical detail
The way to the green roof
LAHNSTEIN SONNENHAUSPLATZ [programme] public space | square + block design [location]
Lahnstein, Germany
[year]
2017
[project]
competition
[designers]
Brassel K., Panagiotidou V.
[software]
Rhino, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator
The following project regards an architectural competition entry organised by the municipality of Lahnstein. The goal was to design the square for the central residential block and design the facades and uses for all the buildings that comprised the borderline of the square. For this, a strategy plan was developed, regarding the development of the investment. This was based on a SWOT analysis of the area that helped identify the potentials and the risks of this project. Designwise the proposal was inspired by the river Rhine, which is within walking distance. The curvy form of the water body is translated into a flow of materials, that creates areas to stand, sit, walk and play without creating barriers. A children’s safe play zone is designed in a circular form and is lower than the main level of the square. In that way a protected and defined area is created.
LANDING ON DUNES [programme] transportation | airport terminal [location]
Dubai, UAE
[year]
2021
[project]
1ST Award | Environmental design competition
[designer]
personal work
[software]
Rhino, Grasshopper, Ladybug, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator
This winning design competition proposal was inspired by airport terminals architecture and its reconception through environmentally conscious design. A design proposal that reduces solar radiation exposure of the facades through geometry manipulation was the key deliverable. The proposal’s facade shading system was inspired by Al Sadu - the traditional weaving technique of Bedouin women. According to Unesco, the rapid economic development of the UAE has had a serious impact on the pastoral mode of life and the dispersion of Bedouin communities. There has been a rapid decline over the past few decades in the numbers of women practising Al Sadu. There is an increasing need to safeguard the Al Sadu craft as an important part of the Emirati heritage, and the government is working together with NGOs to achieve that. The proposed terminal complex, in Dubai. UAE is a tribute and an architectural interpretation of that technique, and a terrain where traditional patterns meet novel design methods. The resulting facade pattern gradation reduces exposure to sun by 67.8%.
The concept
Proof of algorithm
Benchmarking analysis
initial face of building’s mesh
Design method - generate environmentally informed interwoven meshes
Day
1st to 30th
Hour
4:00 to 20:00
Monthly Analysis - June
parameter 01 - face edge width
0.2
0.5
0.8
parameter 02 - face width at center
from
from 223.19
reduced to 0.2
0.5
0.8
90.83
percentage of solar reduction
59.3%
from
223.19 reduced to
percentage of solar reduction
67.8%
223.19
reduced to
71.97
57.28
combining parameters 01 and 02 [driven by solar radiation data]
par.01 =0.2 par.02 = 0.2
par.01 =0.5 par.02 = 0.5
domain end | 0.55
par.01 =0.8 par.02 = 0.8
domain end | 0.75
Annual dry bulb temperature (DBT) ranges distribution [per hour] range 01 : DBT< 200 C
range 02 : 20o C < DBT< 300 C
range 02 : 30o C < DBT< 450 C
selected
domain end | 0.95
percentage of solar reduction
74.3%
North view
East view
BIONIC HABITATS [programme] public building | nature restreat and wellbeing center [location]
Santa Engracia Mines, Spain
[year]
2021
[project]
academic | postgraduate dissertation project
[designer]
Panagiotidou V., Tamuli P., Wen N.
[software] Houdini, Rhino, Grasshopper, Autodesk CFD,Nudibranch, Pufferfish, Ladybug, Robots, Redshift, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator
This design-research project aims to investigate sustainable solutions for key issues in the current architecture and construction system to address climate change. At the same time, propose a radically alternative possibility for the future of our society, where our buildings are living entities – biologically alive, physically intelligent, ecologically regenerative. The primary research questions were – what will it be made of? How will it grow? And what will be its form? And we attempted to answer these questions by driving research and innovations in three different frontiers – biochemical engineering, robotic fabrication, and digital computation. Each research domain has a specific output – a photosynthetic biomineralized engineered living material, an environmentally functional gradient system of fabrication and a situated emergent computational algorithm. The three outputs come together to create an integrated transdisciplinary system that can enable us to design living buildings. This interdisciplinary approach has been used to envision a proposal for an ecological-spiritual retreat in an abandoned silica quarry at Santa Engracia, Spain to regenerate the ecology that has been damaged by anthropogenic activities.
Functionally graded material customised computational platform
Material development and pneumatic extrusion set-up 1
2
guiding curve
step 01
step 03
step 02
initial point grid maxel size: 4x4x4 mm
deformed point grid
material C
5
material A maxel size: 6x6x6 mm
material B
remapped grid
4 design variations through simulated deformation
design generations and parameter variations through evolutionary steps
3
maxel size: 9x9x9 mm
maxel size variations
final aggregation
surface to intervene
re-hydration
solenoid valve
step 06
step 05
step 04
Robotic pneumatic extrusion set-up
solar radiation exposure [ladybug_grasshopper]
01
air compressor
robotic arm external solar heating [Autodesk CFD]
material A
02
material C
toolpath creation
de-hydration temperature in Celsius
ML resulting material assignement
wall heat flux
C
o
03
iteration
toolpath generation
cartridge
material A material B
board
step 07
DHT-22 sensor
material C
material A material B LCD screen
material deposition real-time update
01
material C
material A material B
material C
02
t6
DHT-22 sensor - grasshopper communication set-up and fabrication application
step 08
Physical prototype of ceiling structure 50 cm
Process of generating environmental data-driven aggregation deformation
annual dry bulb temperature values Cuenca, Spain
1
5
Physical prototype of ceiling structure
annual solar radiation analysis of ceiling outline surface [total num. of sun hours exposure]
2
4
3
3
Process of generating environmental data-driven aggregation deformation
Data-driven deformation of the aggregation. Denser patterns are created around the areas of the higherst exposure.
50 cm
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