Papiotis Portfolio by Papiotis Georgios

Papiotis

Georgios

January

2017

Architecture Portfolio 1

CONTENTS Architectural Portfolio: Papiotis Georgios Selected Professional & Academic projects About 03 Profile 04 Professional 1. Dental Clinic 08 2. International Competition for the Medical School of UCY 12 Academic 3. Diploma thesis 16 4. Studio 8 22 5. Studio 6 24 6. Steel Construction Course 28 7. Studio | TU Graz 30 Urban Installations 8. Fouskopolis - Pneumatic Structures 32

Phaneromeni 2016 - BOCCF Festival

Exhibitions

10.

Cyprus Pavilion at the XXVI Milano Trienale

11.

Exhibition: Reverberating the Dormintlands

ABOUT

George Papiotis is a young architect born in Cyprus in 1991, raised mainly in Greece. He completed his studies at the University of Cyprus in 2014 with the Diploma of Architect Engineer. During his studies, he was mainly interested in Technological aspects of Architecture, which drove him to develop passion for detailed design and exceptional skills in computational design methods and tools. At the same time he participated in various workshops, investigating experimental architectural, urban and technological concepts, where he also participated in the development of 1:1 scale Pavilions and installations. After he completed his studies, he searched for new expression in architecture, which led him to work at the architecture office of Prof. Yiorgos Hadjichristou in Nicosia, Cyprus. During his work there, he further developed his skills in practical detailed architectural design and participated in the officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research in various Social and Architectural themes through national and international competitions and exhibitions. While the Office collaborated with the Urban Gorillas NGO, a multi-disciplinary organization which investigates and intervenes in public spaces through out Cyprus, he also participated in the development of urban installations.

PROFILE Last name: First name:

Papiotis, Geogios

Licensed Architect, Technical Chamber of Cyprus, Επιστημονικό Τεχνικό Επιμελητήριο Κύπρου (ETEK) Email: papiotisg@hotmail.com Tel: +357 96604428 Date and place of birth:

13 August 1991, Nicosia, Cyprus

Nationalities:

Greek, Greek Cypriot

Education

2013-2014:

University of Cyprus, Postgraduate Diploma of Architect Engineer (Overall Grade: 8,83/10)

2009-2013:

University of Cyprus, B. Sc. in Architecture (Overall Grade: 7,79/10)

2012:

Technical University of Graz, Erasmus Program

2006-2009:

1st Lyceum of Evosmos, Thessaloníki, Greece

Languages Greek (Native language) English (The University of Michigan, Certificate of Proficiency in English) German (A2 Level, currently student at the Goethe Institute of Cyprus) Computer skills 2D Drawing: 3D Modeling:

Autodesk Autocad, Bentley Microstation

Digital Rendering:

V-Ray for Autodesk 3D Studio Max, V-Ray for Sketch Up, Rhino Render

Image and Layout Editing:

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Office

Video Editing:

Adobe Premier

Other:

Processing, Arduino (Basic knowledge on both)

Rhino, Grasshopper, SketchUp

Technical skills

3D modeling, model making, digital fabrication processes (laser cutting, 3D printing), hand sketching

Links http://issuu.com/papi91 http://tumblr.com/papiotisg

Work Experience July 2016 - January 2017:

Obligatory Service as a Soldier at the National Guard of Cyprus (Greek - Cypriot Army) Administration of Engineering, 70th Unit of Engineering

Architect, Designer at Urban Gorillas NGO

May 2016 - June 2016:

Installations “Phaneromeni 2016” Festival, Summer 2016 Ephemeral Installations at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Book and Graphic Design ‘Green Urban Lab: Activating Public Spaces’, Authors: Rene Carraz, Veronika Antoniou, Yiorgos Hadjichristou, Publisher: University of Nicosia, Publishing Date: September 2016 March 2015 - June 2016: Architect at Yiorgos Hadjichristou Architecture, Kaimakli, Nicosia, Cyprus Building Projects, Drafting and Detailing Dental Clinic, Nicosia, Cyprus Yeri Housing Complex, Nicosia, Cyprus Competition Participations National Competition for the Lemba Cultural Center, Cyprus, Summer 2016 National Competition for the Cyprus Pavilion at the Architecture Milano Biennale, Jury’s Second Choice, Spring 2016, International Competition for the University of Cyprus Medical School, Fall 2016 International Ideas Competition Big Urban Clutch, Selected as a Finalist Project, Summer 2016 Exhibitions Human Topographies - Emerging Identities Cyprus Pavilion at the XXVI Miano Triennale, April 2016 Reverberation of the Dormintlands Cyprus Pavilion at the AICA ASIA Fest 2015-2016, India, January 2016

Summer 2011:

Michael Cosmas Architecture, Internship, Nicosia, Cyprus

Workshops December 2014: Nicosia, Cyprus, ‘Fouskopolis’ Urban Gorillas Workshop led by Marco Canevacci/ Plastique Fantastique Design, construction and erection of pneumatic structures April 2013:

Nicosia, Cyprus, AA Visiting School- Cyprus UN Buffer Zone Experimental design workshop about the rehabilitation of the Buffer Zone of Cyprus

Summer 2012:

Nicosia/ Protaras, Cyprus, Cyprus Architects Association Summer Workshop Computational Design workshop with 1:1 structure construction

April 2010: Nicosia, Cyprus, Rebuilding No Man’s Land, Parametric Urbanism Competition Experimental design workshop about the rehabilitation of the 40 years abandoned city of Ammochostos, Cyprus Participation with the Architectural Association/ Design Research Lab Team led by Theodore Spyropoulos

D E N TA L C L I N I C

Nicosia, Cyprus

Yiorgos Hadjichtistou Architecture Design Year: 2013-2016 Construction Year: 2016-2017 The plot has the privilege to be located on a main urban axis in Strovolos , and enjoys the adjacent linear, green recreation of the Pediaios torrent. The proposal aims at bridging a visual contact between the urban axon and the seasonal river. Thus the ground floor is set freed from any conventional functions as the show rooms and shops which the main street is replete with. The dentists’ offices are placed on the hovering floors. The vertical circulation and connection between the semi underground and the main building is treated as a continuation of the linear park. Redirected stairs and a network of platforms provide the user with views and informal encounters. The promenadelike set of stairs enters within the ‘belly’ of the building. This spatial gesture and solution triggered the opportunity to treat all the vertical circulations in similar way. At the same time all the spaces enjoy internal dialogues between each other through a ‘backbone’ of voidsvertical courtyards, while they are all provided with magnificent views. An elegant shading skin protects the building and reflects the delicate work of a dentist.

Section: The buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voids, the relation with the neighbor natural torrent and the avenue

Plan:

3rd floorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan, circulation around a central void and doctorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; labs and offices facing the natural torrent behind the shading systems

Details on the left: Shaders on the south side of the building Details on the right: Shaders of the main stairwell

UCY MEDICAL SCHOOL

International Competition, Nicosia, Cyprus

Yiorgos Hadjichtistou Architecture Design Year: 2016 The connection of the 2 main levels of the topography and the main axis of the campus to the adjacent plots led to the decision of freeing as much as possible the ground level which organically integrates the surrounding topography through its ‘ urban pedestal’. The lifting of the main functions allows for a protected by the harsh summer heat space for socializing. The arrangement of a network of skylights with spaces and flows in between transforms them into ‘urban lanterns and enhances further the generation of an ‘urban park’. Thus the project is turned into a hubbub of informal encounters with temporary activities such as urban games, outdoor exhibitions, group meetings etc. The ‘urban pedestal which is serving as the main viewing and sitting area continues its role penetrating into the core of the hovering building, generating the main access and communal space of the users and visitors of the building. The ‘built box’ which covers the ‘urban park, accommodates the main programme in a way that it provides diverse spatial conditions and explorative circulations, while generating an interior- exterior urban landscape.

Plan:

Ground Level featuring the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;urban parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: all the open public spaces between skylights and classrooms

Above: Modelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view from above Bellow: Section through the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main access and the central communal space

Above: View of the northern path Bellow: Section, the relation to the local building

DIPLOMA THESIS

Network activated ephemeral installations

Diploma thesis Tutors: Kontovourkis Odysseas, Phokas Marios

This diploma thesis investigates the concept of interaction of people through the use of digital means and networks, and how this interaction can become the input of a dynamic architectural design process. The main development consists of two directions. Firstly, the design of an interaction process in a digital network and, secondly, a dynamic transformable structure fed by the interaction process. Research tools are digital tools to create networks and a platform for the interaction and the simulation of the transformation of the structure. The design development of the interaction process was defined by a set of choices, which relate to a physical intervention in the physical environment. Those choices where coded, and processed by an computational algorithm, which suggested dynamic results, both in the virtual spatial organization of the structure and its transformation. It is important how the virtual result, which is suggested by the interaction process in the digital network, is translated into a physical structure, how this structure interacts with the environment and how it creates a new architectural dynamic to the environment that approaches. After all, the architectural goal of this project owes to be a physical intervention, and its priority should be the usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interaction, not only in the virtual world but mainly in the physical. The aim is the digital means to become a tool to claim the public space and an open experiment and a dialogue in public space. The design of the physical structure is based on an hexagon based system of spatial units, which can operate autonomously and also assembled to form bigger - unified spaces, satisfying the needs that are formed by the interaction process. These spatial units are transformable and their transformation is defined by the usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; process of interaction. They consist of six flexible primary structural elements, whose curvature is controlled by a secondary support system of struts. They are filled by a pneumatic double membrane system which follows the curvature of the main structure. This project tries to investigate a series of questions which are related to modern topics of the architectural community, based on digital means of social networking and their impact on social relationships. It tries to create a new architectural syntax that approaches the dynamics of these new relationships. The key tools witch were used to complete this project were: Rhino 3D, Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino 3D for material simulation , Processing for the Network setup and G-Howl plug-in for Rhino 3D to connect Processing and Rnino 3D.

This page: Transformation stages Left page: Model photos: Section model, terrain adjusted formation

This page: Axonometric view of the structureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details Left page: Axonometric view of the moduleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s structure

Unit transformations: Coding material behavior:

structure and skin primary flexible structure (PETG plastic) related to struts (secondary structural system)

STUDIO 8 Larnaca Port Terminal

Course: Architectural Design 8 Tutors: Mitroulias George, Daskalaki Maria Collaboration with: Antoniou Glafki, Rossedes Giorgos

This project investigates the creation of the new port terminal in Larnaca, Cyprus. It is a complex of mixed uses developed in reference to the port terminal. The notion is that Larnaca given itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategic role in Cyprus, as in Larnaca is located the biggest and most important airport of Cyprus, it will be located the biggest Port Passenger Terminal and as it is a node that receives and sends passengers form abroad to the rest of the Island. We propose a complex of spaces that is build for such space in transition where people come and go all the time, all the year. We designed a very dense space where all these users in transition (long-term stay in Larnaca, short-term stay in Larnaca, instant passengers), or not in transition (local citizens) can co-exist, and how this space could be used by all these parties in harmony. Therefore, it is also designed as a landmark, a new gate for the waterfront of Larnaca and Cyprus. The site is an old commercial port that is out of use for the past few years and has become a large scale void for the for the waterfront of Larnaca and in synergy with all the industrial facilities north of the port (also out of use for the past few years) it works as the north edge for the waterfront of the city of Larnaca. That is the reason why we chose to develop this complex of uses linearly, in parallel to the waterfront, aiming at a new continuity of the waterfront. We propose a very dense linear, multi-level public space where all the users interact and a series of towers where various specific programs are developed. These towers are organized by the structure of the linear space. This linear space it even extents to the sea proposing new spaces for programs correlated with water (Passenger Terminal, marinas, Cost Guard) extending to the public space. This built complex results to an unbuilt vast space of the old port, which we propose as a new square for the waterfront of Larnaca where a number of public activities (festivals, exhibitions, concerts, markets) could take place. For this reason, we organize that space with a grid of umbrellas that can be developed in response to the proposed activities.

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Above: Axonometric view Bellow: General Masterplan of the port

STUDIO 6 Research Center in Salt Lake, Larnaca, Cyprus

Course: Architectural Design 6 Tutors: Phokas Marios, Matheou Maria Collaboration with: Antoniou Glafki, Kikas Michael

This project investigates notions of prefabrication and technology application in design. Given a very sensitive environment to develop a large scale program - a research center - we had to create a light weight construction which could be easily assembled and disassembled. The idea is an urban platform â&#x20AC;&#x153;floatingâ&#x20AC;? over the salt lake with minimum contact to the ground aiming to a harmonious coexistence between building and nature. This urban platform is organized by bits and pieces of sub-programs and spaces, public (exhibitions, lecture rooms, restaurant, information points, digital and book libraries) on the platform level and private (research spaces and accommodation for researchers) on the upper level. The way those pieces of program and spaces are located on the platform along with openings located on the floor of the platform (to allow contact with nature) form a continuous, open plan public space on which are formed bigger or smaller meeting spaces for public to interact with researchers, exhibition programs, installations etc.. We wanted to protect this urban platform from the elements of the nature and that is why we enclosed it in an also light weight shell, to create a ventilated space where all this interaction between people can happen. The skin is also designed with principles of prefabrication and easy deployment and assemble. The skin is based on one fundamental module, taking three different forms (a solid panel, a window and an opening window) placed on a grid structure accordingly to what type of space we want to create in the interior (a darker space for exhibition , for more control on technical lighting, a brighter space for meeting spaces etc.)

Skin construction details

Above: Section Bellow: Structural Details

STEEL CONSTRUCTION COURSE Small Research Studio

Course: Steel Construction Tutors: Phokas Marios Collaboration with: Antoniou Glafki, Kikas Michael, Kotsodimitropoulou Agkeliki, Rossedes Giorgos

In this project we experimented with the idea of lightweight construction for a small research center that it would be placed in various urban environments. We wanted to distinct the research spaces from the public space. As a result we proposed a series of suspended pods for the researchers, connected with a central linear circulation, resulting to a bridge like structure. Beneath pods we placed projection screens for the researchers to project their research, forming an exhibition like space blending into the public space.

Skin construction details

STUDIO | TU GRAZ Ephemeral installation

Course: Studio at TU Graz Tutors: Stefan Peters, Andreas Trummer

This project investigates, or rather challenges the use of fabric reinforced concrete in design. The briefing was to create an ephemeral structure for the Ball der Technik event held at the Congress Hall, an early 20th century building in city Graz. The idea was of a temporary space that would mark the event. The structure was to be placed in the foyer of the building as a kiosk for people to interact within and with it; an object to explore; as a very unexpected form in the specific context. The idea was to create a concrete shell, in separate frames that would be joined together in the site. Fabric reinforced concrete allows easier concrete apply on complex forms, and that was the reason we dared such complex morphology.

Axonometric view of the grid - shell components

10.

FOUSKOPOLIS Pneumatic structures

Urban Gorillas Workshop led by Marco Canevacci/ Plastique Fantastique Design Year: 2015 Erection Year: 2016

The Fouskopolis project is a cooperation between Urban Gorillas and Plastique Fantastique. During the workshop we held in November 2014 at University of Nicosia we designed and produced three different pneumatic structures. The result was so good that we decided to have an open call for artists in order to organise a festival: the Fouskopolis Festival. The Fouskopolis project was held for two days in each of the four Cypriot cities between March and April 2015. The sites chosen were important historical landmarks: the castles of Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos while in Nicosia the events have taken place in the Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Cyprus. The main tools adopted for the realisation of this mission consisted the utilisation of participatory action research, both in terms of direct urban interventions and observatory on-site research.

8. ‘FANEROMENI 2016’ FESTIVAL Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (BOCCF) Ephemeral Installations

Urban Gorillas NGO Design Year: 2016 Construction Year: 2016

We proposed a combined intervention of five actions to revitalize the courtyard space of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (BoCCF) through the Summer of 2016. These temporarily changed the space – by day, and by night – with the effect of creating curiosity for passers-by to enter and make greater use of it as an urban public space. The actions changed the public perception of the Foundation’s outdoor spaces and their attractiveness and accessibility as places to meet, rest and play. Moreover, the Foundation and its collections were re-presented in new and interactive formats to enhance their appeal to a wider audience. The actions created new experiential effects on visitors to space; through temporary / ephemeral interventions, a permanent change is imprinted on the visitor after experiencing the space in new ways. The actions fitted and fed each other, so that people visiting the café will experience the installations and artworks, and vice versa. Furthermore the actions enhance the Foundation’s communication and relationship with the urban neighborhood within which it is situated. The Summer Garden installations of BOCCF will become a point of reference for the city and its people.

HUMAN TOPOGRAPHIES - EMERGING IDENTITIES Cyprus Pavilion at the XXVI Milano Triennale

Curators: Yiorgos Hadjichristou, Alessandra Swiny, Veronica Antoniou Design Year: 2016

The exhibition eloquently illustrates how two prevailing struggles, Division and Crisis, can lead to a new and positive ‘Emerging Identity’ for the Island of Cyprus. Architectural works/projects from both the public and private realm have been carefully researched and chosen for the ways in which they activate architectural and social change. These are collaged, projected and blurred, creating an interactive corporeal and sensory experience. This experience evokes a new urban landscape, created from human topographies that echo the voice of an emerging identity. The requirement of the Triennale that the design component be a ‘theatrical representation of an unknown reality’ influenced the spatial proposal of the exhibit. Thus it aims to capture the presence of the visitors and transfer their interactions in an enticing corporeal and sensory experience. The exhibit is centered around Architectural shadow puppets which fill the room with multitudes of reflected images. The puppets represent the ‘products’ and ‘ingredients’, be they buildings, infrastructure, or objects, interwoven together with weather and social ritual scenographies. The experience will be enhanced by the use of recordings, projections, various modes of lighting, kinetics, fans, moving mechanisms, mirrors, transparencies, markings, text and tracings. The shadow art effect and the projections will be interwoven with sound-scape calibrations constantly changing in sequence and amplification. Puppets inspired by the traditional ‘karagiozis’ will also be used to present the human in this Division and Crisis thematic. It is through these innovative and alluring techniques that the narrative of the emergent built environment will be communicated. These Architectural shadow puppets will be in the form of key existing contemporary and historical buildings and monuments from the Island of Cyprus. The selected local architectural case studies (from both the Public & Private sector) will be blended with evolving living typologies. These will be used to create a series of emerging metropolitan environments of momentary relationships and create a ‘new’ spontaneous urban landscape. This is what we call ‘Human Topographies of Emerging Identities’.

Drawing: Early Design Concept Sketch/ Plan

R E V E R B E R AT I O N O F T H E D O R M I N T L A N D S Cyprus Pavilion at the AICA ASIA Fest

This exhibition explores and presents the work of Yiorgos Hadjichristou Architecture Office that have been built in the Island of Cyprus. Trying to transform the very unique spatial and urban environment of the island, we presented the various proposals of the office in the same scale and each one within its surrounding environment. From the old medieval historic city centers to the low density outskirts, from the modern city centers to industrial areas and from traditional village cores to bespoke landscape sceneries this is a presentation of the officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research in relation to this unique topography, landscape, the humans and society it has hosted through its history. An understanding of architectural forms and typologies that have existed and emerged and how these are transformed into contemporary expression.

Above: Part of the exhibitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s panels Below: Detail of a drawing