Architecture Portfolio | Petrina Chronopoulou

PORTFOLIO

PETRINA CHRONOPOULOU

2017 - 2021

CONTENTS

Curriculum Vitae

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ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Kafkaesque 2047 National Bank / Cathedral

UN_____ Museum of Contemporary Art

B612 Utopian City

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This portfolio contains two sections of selected works.

Firstly, architectural and design projects developed during my studies at Patras School of Architecture, and my collaboration with an architectural firm as part of an Architectural Competition.

Secondly, personal projects I had developed while experimenting with photography.

Regeneration of the Waterfront of Patras Architectural Competition

Homo-Medicus & the City as a Hospital Research Thesis

The A11HA03 Experiment: Prototype of a Healing City Diploma Thesis

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PERSONAL PROJECTS

Photography Architectural / Abstract

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PETRINA CHRONOPOULOU

Athens, Greece

EDUCATION

University of Patras, Dept. of Architecture 5-year Diploma (Master’s equivalent)

2015 - 2021

GPA: 8.53/10

WORK EXPERIENCE

COMPETITIONS / AWARDS

Architectural Assistant Divercity Architects Athens, Greece

Oct 2021 Feb 2022

Freelance Architect, Collaboration with architect Dimitrios Ifitos Zisimopoulos Patras, Greece

Jan 2020 June 2021

Joint 2nd Prize (no 1st Prize was awarded) Regeneration of the Waterfront of Patras Municipal Competition with architect Dimitrios Ifitos Zisimopoulos

2020 - 2021

Top 50 - Home: Design your Dream Archasm Competitions with fellow student Vicky Bali

2020

Plastic Monument Young Architects Competitions with fellow students Vicky Bali, Elena Chrysochoidou & Natalia Sotirchou

2019

3rd Prize - Open Photo Open House Athens

2019

PUBLICATIONS

SKILLS

Homo-Medicus & the City as a Hospital | Research Thesis by Vicky Bali & Petrina Chronopoulou Archisearch

Dec 6, 2020

B612: How does a city evolve in the “postwork” era? | A student project by Bali Vicky & Chronopoulou Petrina Archisearch

Dec 22, 2019

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) AutoCAD 3ds Max Rhinoceros, V-Ray for Rhinoceros Enscape Hand Drafting Physical Modeling Laser Cutting Architectural Photography

LANGUAGES

INTERESTS

VOLUNTEERING

Greek (Native) English (C1 Advanced)

photography sketching pottery literature creative writting

Greek Guiding Association (NGO)

2010 - 2015

Kafkaesque 2047

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Course: Architectural Design Studio 5 Date: 2017 Supervisor: Konstantinos Labrinopoulos Location: Patras, Greece

How could the city of Patras, the video game Minecraft and Franz Kafka’s book “The Trial” be combined?

The aim of this studio was, in the year 2047, the creation of a hybrid composed of the mentioned elements, which would occupy the space of an unspecified block. The form of my proposal is the result of “digging” a solid cube, composed of the multiplication of cube units -that’s also the way video game Minecraft is played- creating the image of unfinished, a feature of many facades of Patras.

The programs it houses are drawn from Kafka’s book “The Trial”. National Bank, on the left, and Cathedral, on the right, two places of authority coming into a spatial confrontation. The choice of these programs was intended to convey the sense of the protagonist of the book, a man who seems insignificant and worthless in the face of authorities. This sense is also reinforced by the structure’s scale, which height rises up to 50 meters.

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The differentiation of the programs is achieved through a section created in the center of the building, however, they are connected at certain points, allowing view and movement. Also, various subprograms are included in the building, such as underground exchequer and ossuary, chapels, and isolation rooms.

A feature that all spaces share is their devout atmosphere due to the way natural lighting is achieved, either through openings and perforated surfaces or through the diffusion of light due to the sloping roof and domes.

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UN_____

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Course: Architectural Design Studio 6 Date: 2018 Supervisor: Agapi Proimou Partner: Vicky Bali Location: Chania, Greece

What is a modern museum of contemporary art?

Inspired by Chania -the city itself is a “museum”- we answer this question by creating an open building, “without a shell”, exposed to public life. We took elements from the city, such as the side streets, the game of light and shadow, the densification and the dilution of the buildings, the element of greenery and the sounds of the city, and incorporate them into the museum, either through its materials or through its organization.

The museum is divided into three sections, which create three densities respectively. At the upper level of the site are the workplaces, in the middle are the main exhibition areas and at the lower level are the educational programs and entertainment areas. Each section has its own entrance.

In addition, as the sea is an orientation point for the city, we also included four landmarks in the museum: a hammam, a concert hall, an auditorium, and a garden inside the existing abandoned ABEA factory.

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The tour of the museum is achieved through two different paths, a complex one at ground level where the visitor is oriented by the reference points mentioned, and another that connects the accessible terraces of the exhibition halls, making them staging areas while viewing towards the sea. Therefore, the museum aims to wander and discover. It is a place without obvious hierarchies.

And finally, because of the population variability of Chania, due to tourism, the museum can be spread or restricted by following the needs of the city.

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B612

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Course: Architectural Design Studio 7 Date: 2018 Supervisor: Leonidas Papalampropoulos Partner: Vicky Bali Location: Patras, Greece

How does a city evolve in the “post-work” era?

How do people live, if not for working?

Our first thought was that this new city should have a distance from the already existing one. The purpose of this distancing was to search for a white canvas to create something new, free from the way of life as we know it today.

The average modern man aims to be able after retirement to experience everything that he wasn’t able to because of his work, which was his priority. Under the new circumstances he now has the opportunity to live his dream but he ceases having a goal. In our new city, we wanted to combine these two, the dream and the goal. That is, man is living in the ideal world that he creates for himself.

Now, how is this new world created? The already existing city is preserved and transformed into an energy source for the new one. By isolating a building block, we see that three pipes are installed per block of flats. Each one of them serves a function, movement, catering, waste, and as a whole they constitute the support of the individual worlds. The first room, designed the same way for everyone, with dimensions 3x3x3m, is placed 30 meters above the ground. This is the space for creating and ordering the subsequent rooms. Orders arrive with the assistance of balloons and are placed at the spot that the inhabitant has chosen. Evolution continues, the worlds are built and their culmination is symbolized by a totem that indicates the death of the inhabitant.

Evolution Diagram

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The relationship of the old with the new city is an energy one; more specifically the blocks of flats maintain their casing and their interior is arranged like a modern power plant. At the same time they also constitute the entrance to the new city.

Externally, the worlds appear to be identical, while new shapes and spaces are created in their interior, according to the desire of each inhabitant.

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As we approach, we observe that the individual worlds create small neighbourhoods. You may live in your own world but at the same time you are a component of an ensemble, with which you may interact.

In order to understand, we decided to see the creation and the evolution of the new city through the eyes of an inhabitant.

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Through the eyes of the inhabitant.

Every tower, thus, is the goal of the inhabitant, the evolution of his life and finally his memory.

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Regeneration of the Waterfront of Patras

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Municipal Competition Date: 2020 - 21 Team Leader: Dimitrios Ifitos Zisimopoulos Location: Patras, Greece Award: Joint 2nd Prize (no 1st Prize was awarded)

The proposal transforms Patras into a Mediterranean metropolis. The beach, the (Sunday) walk, Floisvos, the trip, the event, the celebration, the factory, the athletes, the theatre, acquire a new meaning in the urban landscape. A coastal route intersects the spaces, composing the main axis of movement and the city’s narrative. At the same time a linear grove of coniferous trees runs along the coastal front, connecting the swamp of Agyia and the south park in a single ecosystem. The reference area of the metropolis is the waterfront. In the center of a new public space, a square connects the three jetties. The intermediate sea is also part of the square. Outside the historic city center the interventions vary. The south park is being redesigned and expanded, integrating the area of Agios Andreas. On the beach of Agyia, a result of constant extensions to the sea, the story is reversed: tens of thousands of square meters of land are returned to the coast. The new coastline introduces a new public space in Patras: the urban beach.

Design Strategy Diagrams

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Homo-Medicus & the City as a Hospital

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Course: Research Thesis Date: 2019 - 20 Supervisor: Leonidas Papalampropoulos Partner: Vicky Bali

Ηow could the city of tomorrow be?

What its relation to healthcare?

The concern of how the city of tomorrow will possibly be like brings to surface a new question about the relation between that city and healthcare. The essential meaning of healthcare, as well as of every aspect that is linked to it, is not exclusively defined by the science of medicine itself. Throughout the centuries the variation of healthcare’s interpretation is the result of social, political, and economic conditions that characterize every historical period. However, assuring health is a natural consequence of authorities and privilege.

Today, due to the intense invasion of healthcare into daily life, modern man evolves into a subject of medicalization, “Homo-Medicus”. Simultaneously, the essence of healing alters from hospital caring to a type of aid inside the urban environment of a city, which in turn disputes the typical compound limits of a hospital. In addition, it seems that religiousness variation, throughout the ages, determines hospital typology. Consequently, a new model of “urban” caring is evolving into the City Hospital, which is directed towards the idolization of healthcare.

Homo-Μedicus: The subject of Medicalization.

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The typological evolution of the hospital based on the religiousness of each era.

This new model of daily healing is derived from the example of Gerotopias. Societies, designed exclusively for senior citizens, can provide daily, urban rate caring and subsequently offering a new approach to the religiousness of the health system. Τherefore, the analysis of these societies, based on modern medicalization, shows that Gerontopias can possibly fulfill the requirements of a future healthcare city.

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The evolution of threatments.

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The A11HA03 Experiment: Prototype of a Healing City

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Course: Diploma Thesis Date: 2020 - 21 Supervisor: Leonidas Papalampropoulos Partner: Vicky Bali Location: Kamena Vourla, Greece

Is this a real plan of a future experimental City of Health?

Or a virtual reality game to promote the new Vitamin E? Based on our research thesis, we create a future city with the sole purpose of ensuring the physical, mental and social health of its inhabitants. The town of Kamena Vourla, in Phthiotis, Greece, known for its healing character due to its thermal springs, becomes the place where this new city parasitizes, exploiting area’s geothermal fields. The olive groves of the area, are used in such a way as to provide Homo-Medicus’ food, which is now exclusively a new form of Vitamin E that is produced in the factories created in the city.

So, this future city is developed in the center of the existing one and takes advantage of the renewable energy source of geothermal fields, the fertile soil, as well as the temperate climate of Kamena Vourla. It is separated from the existing one by a moat, creating a space that serves as a thermal spring.

In the center of this city, the new symbol of religiousness is located. The image of a perfect body type, in ancient Greek standards, embodies the modern meaning of absolut health that HomoMedicus strives to achieve.

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The new city is divided into three wards, each of which covers one of the three health conditions required for general well-being, the Endurance Ward that ensures physical health, the Introspection Ward that ensures mental health, and the Factitious Family Ward that ensures social health. Each ward has both group and individual activities, corresponding to the type of the ward, that helps the inhabitant achieving perfect health.

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This future city is designed in a way that makes Homo-Medicus believe that they are a part of a game. Each inhabitant has a unique code name that allows them to enter the city and collect the necessary points to achieve the maximum score of health.

Photography Architectural / Abstract

The subject of my photographic work is architectural details, as well as details of everyday objects and nature. By almost always shooting in black and white, I focuse on the game of light with shadow, contrasts, and textures. I finds great interest when what I have captured cannot be determined.

I want my artwork to evoke a unique experience for each viewer and reveal their unconscious mind while explaining the sensation that the vagueness of the images engenders.

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How does it make you feel?

Now, what do you see?

I strive to understand the human mind. This is my effort to confront the fear, the dark, and the chaos that lives inside of us. Only by understanding our complex inner world, we find the truth about our existence.

Through ambiguity, we see our true selves.

Thank you for your time!

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