Portfolio|Architecture/Urbanism|Sarantis Georgiou|2020 by Sarantis Georgiou

Sarantis Georgiou MSc (Hons), MArch, DiplArchEng

Architect/Urbanist Engineer 01 Landscape Ecological Planning

02 Urban Design

03 Landscape Infrastructure

04 Urban Planning

05 Regional Design

06 Procedural Architectural Design

07 Architectural Design

08 Editorial Work

09 Scenographic Design

10 Architectural/Urban Theory

Portfolio Architecture/Urbanism

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Cultivated Ecologies 01

Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure

Water Binding Time 02

Redevelopment of a part of the historic centre of Florina city, around Sakoulevas river

Diffuse Energy 03

Contextualizing the production and distribution of energy, the case of the Veneto region, Italy

Transitional Surfaces 04

a mobility-infrastructure-based framework for the re-design of Delft South-East, as a medium for residential densification and programmatic intensification and diversification

AMA, balanced 05

A renewable energy network as a driver for a sustainable peripheral development.

Multimedia HUB 06

a procedural design approach for a mat organization of the relationship between collective and individual productive-residential urban programmes, the case of media production

Programme and Form 07

Redesign of the Helsinki Central Library (competition brief)

Atlantis 08

Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture (ISSN 1387-3679)

Staging Rehearsal 09

Scenographic design for a production of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Person of Szechwan”

Narratives of the Un-Covered

Sarantis Georgiou | Architect/Urbanist Engineer | MSc (Hons), MArch, DiplArchEng Registered/ Licenced Architect: GR (ID: 148232) UK (ID: 095085H) NL (ID: 1.200306.003)

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Education 1st September 2017 - 29th November 2019

MSc (Hons) Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences (specialization: Urbanism)

Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL 13th November - 21st May 2019

Certificate Honours Programme Master Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL 1st October 2007 - 24th July 2015

Master’s (integrated)/Diploma in Architecture/Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng) Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly, GR

Experience Academia April 2018 - November 2019

Researcher (guest)

Delta Urbanism Interdisciplinary Research Group, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL April 2018 - May 2019

Editor-in-Chief

Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture (ISSN 1387-3679) 5th September 2018 - 11th November 2018

Teaching Assistant (“R&D Studio: Analysis and Design of Urban Form”, “History and Theory of Urbanism”) Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL 16th July 2018 - 29th July 2018 & 10th September 2018 - 16th September 2018

Student Assistant (Summer School “Planning and Design with Water”) Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL

Practice August 2016 - August 2017 & December 2019 - present

Architect/Architectural Engineer/Interior Designer/Graphic Designer (freelance) July 2010 - August 2010

Technical Architect (internship)

Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO), Ethnikis Aminis 9A, 54624, Thessaloniki, GR August 2015 - September 2015

Technical Architect (internship)

Delta Engineering-Consulting Engineers, 43 26th October Str., 54627, Thessaloniki, GR

Service January 2016 - July 2016

Head Lance Corporal, Non-commissioned Officer of Intelligence and Personal Relations

Hellenic Army General Staff/Hellenic Force in Cyprus/2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion, BST 902K, Nicosia, CY

Technical and Digital Skills Spatial Modelling & Analysis Urban/Landscape Land Use/Land Cover Spatial/Landscape Ecological Morphology Density/Intensity Network Analysis Mobility Network Surface Hydrographic Network Edge/Node Graph Space/Place Syntax Accessibility Movement Mediation Proximity Hydrography/Hydrology Geomorphology/Geology Flood-risk exposure 4

GIS QGIS ArcGIS 2D Design Autodesk AutoCad 3D Modelling & Photorealistic Rendering SketchUp Rhinoceros3D V-Ray Parametric Design & Modelling Grasshopper BIM Autodesk Revit Image Editing, Graphic Design & Editorial Design Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Sarantis Georgiou | Portfolio

Conferences & Symposia Georgiou, S. (2018, December 7). Productive Ecologies [Symposium presentation]. Territory as Project: Parliament of the North Sea, 2nd one-day symposium and exhibition on extreme ecologies, urbanization, and forms of life, Delft, NL

Exhibitions & Presentations Georgiou, S. (2020, July 27). Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure [Online presentation]. Graduation Thesis: Presentation Series by TU Delft Alumni. (2020, May 28– July 25). Polis | Platform for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture. Georgiou, S. (2019). Cultivated Ecologies [Mixed technique]. Transitional Territories: Year-Final Exhibition. BK Expo. (2019, June 18–21). Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TUDelft: Delft, NL. Georgiou, S., Zonghao, W. & de Bode, M. (2019). Transformation towards Synergy in the Construction of Urban Systems: Merwevierhavens [Poster design proposal]. Port City Futures Conference. BK Expo. (2018, December 17–19). Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TUDelft: Delft, NL. Georgiou, S. (2018). Productive Ecologies [Mixed technique]. Territory as Project: Parliament of the North Sea, 2nd one-day symposium and exhibition on extreme ecologies, urbanization, and forms of life. Berlagezaal 1&2. (2018, December 7), Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TUDelft, Delft, NL. Georgiou, S., Zonghao, W. & de Bode, M. (2018). Transformation towards Synergy in the Construction of Urban Systems: Merwevierhavens [Design proposal]. The ENGINE ROOM of the city: utilizing relations between subsurface and surface. International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). (2018, June 14). Rotterdam, NL. Georgiou, S. & Dimoula, A. (2015). Redevelopment of a part of the historic centre of Florina city, around Sakoulevas river [Poster design proposal]. Diploma Projects Exhibition. Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Thessaly. (2015, November 4–26). Volos, GR.

Publications & Contributions Georgiou, S. & Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. (in press). On Water-sensitive Ecological Density. Journal of Delta Urbanism. Georgiou, S. (in press). Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure. Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture. Georgiou, S. (in press). Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure. In Kuzniecow Bacchin, T., LaFleur, F. & Recubenis Sanchis, I. (Eds), NEXT: Next generation of infrastructure design under the condition of extremes. TU Delft/Delft Deltas, Infrastructures & Mobility Initiative (DIMI). Delft, NL. Georgiou, S. (2020). Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure. In Couling, N, & Hein, C. (Eds), The Urbanisation of the Sea: from Concepts and Analysis to Design (pp. 244-246, 265). nai010 publishers. Rotterdam, NL. Georgiou, S. (2019). Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure [Master’s thesis, Delft University of Technology]. TUDelft repositories. educational repository. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d8569c6f-c21a4cd2-87ff-84a81797851e Georgiou, S. (2018). Transcalar and Stratified: gradients of composite landscapes and networks. Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, 29(1), 10-13. Flores, E. P., & Georgiou, S. (2018). Infrastructural Strata: Exploring the Past and Present of Mexico City. Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, 28(4), 15-18. Farmazon, A., Heeringa, I., & Georgiou, S. (2018). Conditional Territories. Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, 28(3), 31-34. Georgiou, S. Dimoula, A. (2015). Redevelopment of a part of the historical centre of Florina city around Sakoulevas river [Diploma project, University of Thessaly]. University of Thessaly Institutional Repository. http://hdl.handle.net/11615/45927

Competitions Georgiou, S. (2021). Cultivated Ecologies: Productive Constructed Nature as Water-sensitive Landscape Infrastructure [Competition entry]. Future Architecture, 2021, Call for Ideas: Landscapes of Care

Distinctions 21st May 2019

Honours Programme Master Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL

Languages Adobe InDesign Coding/Programming HTML CSS Processing Python Video Editing & Motion Graphics Design Adobe Premiere Adobe AfterEffects Office Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft Powerpoint Other Literature/Policy Review Statistical Analysis Curriculum Vitae (CV)

english

- International English Language Testing System (IELTS), Grade: 8.00 (2017), British Council, London, UK/IDP: IELTS Australia, Melbourne, AU/University of Cambridge: Cambridge English Language Assessment, Cambridge, UK (Council of Europe Level C1) - Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE), Grade: C (2005), University of Cambridge: ESOL Examinations, Cambridge, UK (Council of Europe Level C2) - Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE) (2005), University of Michigan: English Language Institute, MI, USA (Council of Europe Level C2)

spanish

- Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera (Nivel B2) (2011), Instituto Cervantes, SP (Council of Europe Level B2)

greek

- native language

french

italian

- learning

Cultivated Ecologies Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure

Publications Georgiou, S. (in press). Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure. In Kuzniecow Bacchin, T., LaFleur, F. & Recubenis Sanchis, I. (Eds), NEXT: Next generation of infrastructure design under the condition of extremes. TU Delft/Delft Deltas, Infrastructures & Mobility Initiative (DIMI). Delft, NL. Georgiou, S. (2020). Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure. In Couling, N, & Hein, C. (Eds), The Urbanisation of the Sea: from Concepts and Analysis to Design (pp. 244-246, 265). nai010 publishers. Rotterdam, NL. Exhibitions BK Expo. (2019 June 18 – 2019 June 21). Transitional Territories: Year-Final Exhibition. Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TUDelft: Delft, NL.

The objective of this project is the elaboration of material production as the agent through which to tackle exposure to flood-related risk. The conceptualization for this ontological integration emphasizes the primacy of active land management in sustainable and resilient urbanization and, therefore, attempts to spatialize this relationship. The project, thus, develops a design through which the specificities of landscape process:pattern dynamics are perceived from the perspective of their capacity to perform for watersensitivity. Landscape development is seen, here, as the incorporation of agriculture and forestry within a spatial extent in such a way so that the resulting composition and configuration adequately functions as flood-risk infrastructure. The outcome of the design research project is a projective landscape image of different instances of ecological density (differences in use intensity, cover intensity, use diversity, cover diversity and spatial organization). The various instances of landscape ecological space, divided into its component units (patches, corridors, matrices) are deployed throughout the spatial extent according to ecological, water-sensitive and productive principles permeating the landscape and forming a coherent horizontal and vertical surface-subsurface system.

Projective Landscape Ecological Image The outcome of this design research is the elaboration of a landscape ecological image of performative ecological density. It is conceived of a ‘landscape ecological image’ because it represents an organization of the horizontal surface of a spatial extent on the basis of its dynamics. Also, it is conceived of as ‘performative ecological density’ because it represents different compositions and configuration of nature as water-sensitive landscape infrastructure. As such, the projective landscape ecological image of performative ecological density is a landscape plan that proposes a different organization of land cover and/or land use. This plan is understood as the way through which nature can be deployed as a means of addressing flood risk and, therefore, it demonstrates the specific landscape composition and configuration for the successful accomplishment of this objective.

Master’s Thesis for the Master of Science (MSc) degree in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences (specialization: Urbanism) Academic Programme Master of Science (MSc) in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences, Mastertrack: Urbanism Institution Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL Academic Year 2019-2020 Mentors dr. arch. Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, assistant professor dr. Diego Sepulveda Carmona, assistant professor Type Landscape Ecological Planning, Water-sensitive planning/ design/engineering, Landscape Infrastructure, Strategic Spatial Planning, Tactical Spatial Design Individual Work Institutional Repository Georgiou, S. (2019). Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-related Risk Infrastructure [Master’s thesis, Delft University of Technology]. TUDelft repositories: educational repository. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d8569c6fc21a-4cd2-87ff-84a81797851e

Figure 1.1. Projective landscape ecological image for the Border Interface Zone of the ecological region of the Greater Thames Estuary (UK), showing degrees of intensity of ecological density and corresponding configuratons.

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Landscape Ecological Units The description, representation and demonstration of a projective landscape ecological image as a water-sensitive landscape infrastructure is developed through the deconstruction of the former into its constituent components and, therefore, through, also, its reconstruction. The relationship between the whole and its parts is approached on the basis of the three (3) landscape ecological units of landscape ecology: patches, corridors and matrices. All three (3) refer to different configurations of landscape elements, as characterized through the pattern:process model of landscape dynamics and, as such, they are the foundation stones of, on the one hand, different performative potential, and, on the other, of the components of the entire landscape infrastructural project. Patches represent internally undifferentiated non-linear elements. Corridors represent internally undifferentiated linear elements. And matrices represent internally differentiated elements that are neither linear nor surface-like.

Figure 1.2. Deconstruction of the projective landscape ecological image into its three (3) landscape ecological components.

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Spatial Concepts and Models of Spatial Development The specific analysis of the water-sensitive potential of the spatial extent (both in itself, as well as through its component units), and the consecutive deployment of watersensitive compositions and configurations of ecological density, are done on the basis of particular conceptual constructions of spatial development. The hydrological framework concept organizes ecological density through water-related landscape dynamics. The ecological structure/network concept organizes ecological density as a system of patches and corridors for enhanced ecological integrity. The porosity/permeability concept organizes ecological density on the basis of its uninhibited territorial appropriation. The gradient concept organizes ecological density on the basis of surface-subsurface potential. Finally, the grid concept forms a spatial foundation for the organization of an internally differentiated ecological density. The utilization of all five (5) spatial concepts is conceived of as the foundations for the development of a projective landscape ecological image. 1. the hydrological framework

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Figure 1.3. Deconstruction of the projective landscape ecological image into its five (5) spatial concepts and corresponding models of spatial development.

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Topological and Chorological Landscape Analysis Performative landscape infrastructure refers to the congruence between landscape pattern and landscape process. For this work, the criterion for this congruence is water regulation. A series of topological and chorological ‘syntactic routines’ are performed in order to ‘describe’ (correlate) the spatial extent on the grounds of the relationship between its composition and configuration, on the one hand, and the successful manifestation of hydrographic/hydrological dynamics and water regulation, on the other: best performance is achieved when surface intensity and subsurface potential is coherent across both a vertical and horizontal landscape section. The core routines are as follows: correlation between landscape composition/configuration and 1. landform, 2. slope, 3. the (strahler) order of the streams of the surface hydrographic network, 4. the hierarchy of the mobility network, 5. the betweenness centrality of the mobility network, 6. the closeness centrality of the mobility network, 7. the proximity to patches of ecological value, and 8. exposure to flood-risk.

Figure 1.4. Topological (‘vertical’) and chorological (‘horizontal’) landscape analysis for the ecological region of the Seven Kings Water sub-watershed catchment/basin (here this is done for the open green patches of the spatial extent).

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Parametric Stacking and Genealogical Landscape Classification The topological and chorological analysis is translated into performative criteria for landscape composition and configuration that pertain to the characteristics of ecological density: 1. use intensity, between cropland/pasture cover and wooded land cover, 2. cover intensity, between woodland cover and grassland cover, 3. use diversity, between a mix of wooded land and cropland/pasture covers and wooded land cover, 4. cover diversity, between higher and lower number of vegetative species cover, and 5. spatial organization, between internal graininess and internal contiguousness. The values of these are, subsequently, parametrically stacked on the basis of each landscape ecological unit, engendering a genealogical classification of different degrees of ecological density.

Figure 1.5. Genealogical classification of the spatial extent on the basis of different degrees of ecological density (thus, different degrees of projected water-sensitivity) through the three (3) landscape ecological units (patches, corridors, matrices).

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Cultivated Landscape Ecologies as Landscape Infrastructural Devices The term “cultivated ecologies” refers to the construction of a landscape image from the perspective of its capacity to deliver a series of performances/ functions. For the purposes of this work, these objectives refer to the overall increase in ecological density in an integral manner, its performance as a water-sensitive landscape infrastructure and its appropriation as an operational landscape of material productive function. Essentially, the series of typologies discussed here correspond to the culmination of the representation of the territory in question from the perspective of the discussed project. That is due to the fact that the morphological units represented here have emerged from the operative synthesis of the topo-/chorological elaboration of the aforementioned programmatic claims which was, subsequently, translated into material morphological characteristics of designed space.

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The catalogue of twenty four (24) instances of cultivated landscape ecological space are established through their performative potential at delivering water-sensitive objectives (water infiltration, water channelization/conveyance, water accommodation/ retention) all the while providing the foundational basis for the sought after increase in ecological density in a manner that furthers its productive function. The list of cultivated landscape ecologies follows the following scheme: 1. it refers to patches and their internal organization (either contiguous or patchworks), 2. corridors, and 3. matrix morphologies (retention ponds and dikes). Therefore, three classifications of landscape ecological units and landscape mosaics are associated with the five performative criteria for water-sensitive performance (use intensity, cover intensity, use diversity, cover diversity and spatial organization), as well as with the three water-sensitive mechanisms (water infiltration, water channelization/ conveyance and water accommodation/retention).

Figure 1.6. Catalogue of twenty four (24) cultivated landscape ecologies: typo-morphological typologies of performative ecological density.

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Landscape Syntax: strategies and tactics The strategic and tactical manner of utilizing the catalogue of cultivated landscape ecologies as components of a whole landscape mosaic, is what is referred to in this thesis as ‘landscape syntax’. The full deployment of the cultivated landscape ecologies as design devices throughout a landscape extent results in the different landscape image discussed earlier, that is, a new composition and configuration of landscape characterized by the characteristics of designed space in reference to performative potential (use intensity, cover intensity, use diversity, cover diversity and spatial organization) and, by extension, the three domains of water sensitivity (water infiltration, water channelization and water accommodation). This is done according to both the specific vegetative cover composition and configuration, as well as according to the particular landscape ecological morphological unit (patch, corridor, matrix). Dike formations and water retention ponds are overlayed over the entire image. Through these acts, what is accomplished is the introduction of designed ecological density, according to water sensitivity, and, therefore, the retrofitting of operational landscapes of material production throughout a spatial extent, essentially altering its physical and structural organization. Seven Kings Water sub-watershed catchment/basin ecological region

Figure 1.7. Cumulative landscape syntax for the ecological region of the Seven Kings Water sub-watershed catchment/basin and the 3x3km and 1x1km focus areas.

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Matrices (retention ponds & dikes)

protect and accommodate Design and cultivate a system of dikes and water retention ponds per: 1. coastal/tidal flood risk exposure, 2. fluvial flood risk exposure, and 3. valley and lower slope position landform morphologies, on the basis of their water-sensitive potential at protection and water accommodation.

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Strengthen the system of cultivated water-sensitive landscape infrastructure for protection from coastal/tidal and fluvial flooding and for water accommodation for pluvial flooding and water run-off.

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organize and diversify Increase the productive capacity and the heterogeneity of the landscape mosaic through patch diversification and the mixing of land-cover class types per: 1. land-use/land-cover class patch type, 2. recycling re-purposing of vacant plots, plots without current landuse and/or of isolated structures, 3. per patch size and compactness degree.

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Strengthen the system of productive wooded land-cropland/pasture cover (from patchworks with intensive woodland to patchworks of extensive cropland/pasture).

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re-naturalize and retrofit Design riparian (blue-green) corridors of woodland cover (afforestation) and water channelization/conveyance per the hierarchical structure of the surface hydrographic network. Strengthen the carrying, connecting and permeating infrastructure of cultivation and water regulation through the hierarchical nature of the surface hydrographic network (from intensive riparian forests to extensive bush/hedgerow corridors).

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retrofit Design green-blue-grey corridors of woodland cover (afforestation) and water channelization/ conveyance per the hierarchical structure of the mobility network. Strengthen the carrying, connecting and permeating infrastructure of cultivation and water regulation through the hierarchical nature of the mobility network (from intensive road forests to extensive bush/hedgerow corridors).

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intensify Introduce and/or increase cultivated patches of wooded land cover (afforestation) per: 1. land-use/ landcover class patch type, 2. recycling/ re-purposing of vacant plots, plots without current land-use and/ or of isolated structures, 3. patch size and compactness degree.

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Figure 1.8. Decomposition of the cumulative landscape syntax into its constituent elements, on the basis of the spatial strategies and design guidelines that underpin their deployment/implementation. Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-Related Risk Infrastructure

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Exhibitions Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Thessaly. (2015 November 4 – 2015 November 26). Diploma Projects Exhibition. Volos, GR.

Redevelopment of a part of the historic centre of Florina city, around Sakoulevas river

Aim of the proposal is the integration of the history of Florina city (as this is mapped on the building reserve of the city, which includes remains of buildings from past eras or buildings the use of which has shifted from their past equivalent) into city’s everyday use. For the accomplishment of this aim the regeneration of a part of the city is proposed. Located in western Macedonia, Greece, Florina city has functioned as an important node throughout multiple historical periods, and, as such, its form has been radically altered in time. Most prominently, the Ottoman period, World War II and consecutive migrations (from the bordering North Macedonia and Asia Minor), have both contributed to its architectural footprint, as well as to the city’s overall form and urban programmes. One element stands as the sole characteristic of the city that has stood the test of time almost without change: the river that crosses its southern part from east to west, Sakoulevas. In its current form, urban functions are situated north of the river course, leaving its bank area, essentially, neglected. This is contradictory to the fact that major instances of the city’s history (as represented through its built capital) are positioned in close proximity to the river. As such, the proposal utilizes the river as the basis of its regeneration. Three current remains of buildings from the Ottoman era of the city are selected to be integrated into its quotidian use from citizens and visitors alike. The proposal is centred on a part of the riverbank around Sakoulevas river due to the fact that it is demarcated by the aforementioned remains. Since, the river is the only part of the city that has remained unchanged throughout historical changes that happened to the form of the city, it is linked conceptually to the three remains which are just fragments of the city’s history. Finally, the selected part is not characterized from increased daily usage, something that creates a challenge to the design and completes the aim of the proposal. Two routes are designed: one that links the three points of historical interest and one that is essentially a walk on the riverside. These routes intersect and overlap in order for the everyday nature of the walk to be linked to historical information. The “historical” route is characterized by the design of the surrounding space of the remains so as for them to become prominent. The “pedestrian riverside walk” route is characterized by the reinforcement of the linear structure of the landscape for the creation of a course and the amplification of the experience of the user, their relation with the water, the urban landscape of the city and that of its natural surroundings.

Master’s Thesis/Diploma Project for the Integrated Master/Diploma degree in Architecture/ Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng.) Academic Programme Integrated Master’s/Diploma degree in Architecture/Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng) Institution Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Thessaly, GR Academic Year 2014-2015 Spring Semester Supervisor Evelyn Gavrilou, assistant professor Type Urban Design Group Work Collaborator Aikaterini Dimoula Personal Role and Contribution all stages of the process: conceptualization, fieldwork, research, analysis, design, visualization, presentation (here, only material developed by the author, or with the contribution of the author, are shown) Location Florina city, Greece Institutional Repository Georgiou, S. Dimoula, A. (2015). Redevelopment of a part of the historical centre of Florina city around Sakoulevas river [Diploma project, University of Thessaly]. University of Thessaly Institutional Repository. http://hdl.handle.net/11615/45927

Figure 2.1. Photorealistic impression for the Ottoman bathhouse (‘hamam’) area (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula).

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Overall Design Strategy The proposal aims to give prominence to the different eras that characterize the city’s history. For this reason, the strategy develops around the integration of existing architectural monuments with the life of the city: the goal is for the fragments of history to become part of the everyday use of urban space by its residents and/or visitors. Based on the neglect faced by the riverine area, and due to the river being the sole element to have continuously featured within the city’s history, a segment of the river course is selected to be upgraded. Said segment is delineated by three (3) of the existing remnants of architecture of the Ottoman period, and it is approached from a hybrid urban design/landscape architecture perspective. At the same time, an urban route connecting the three (3) fragments is retrofitted within the urban fabric, enhanced, also, by site interventions around the monuments.

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Figure 2.3. Component redevelopment strategies and tactics for the overall redevelopment urban design project. Water Binding History: Redevelopment of a part of the historic centre of Florina city, around Sakoulevas river

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Figure 2.4. Plan (credits: Sarantis Georgiou), and impression and programmatic detail (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula) for the Ottoman bathhouse (‘hamam’) area.

The Ottoman Bathhouse area is redesigned as a small plaza/square, occupying what is now an almost abandoned open urban space. The area forms a relationship with the water through a stepwise platform descending to water level, creating a a variable interaction with the water: during high tide season, the water enters the public realm. Perforated platform for the appreciation of the water and the surrounding landscape plan

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Figure 2.5. Plan (credits: Sarantis Georgiou), and impression and construction detail (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula) for the perforated platform for appreciation of water and surrounding landscape area.

A platform is proposed just above the body of the water of the river so as that an adequate space for the viewing experience of the extra-urban landscape is established. The platform is perforated in order to provide the necessary contradiction between the mountain and the river, as well as for continued interaction with the water. Fragment of mosque tower (‘minaret’) area plan

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Figure 2.6. Plan (credits: Sarantis Georgiou), and impression and construction detail (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula) for the fragment of an Ottoman mosque tower (‘minaret’) area.

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Diminished platform for the appreciation of water and the urban landscape at ‘Aristotelis’ cultural center area plan

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Figure 2.7. Plan (credits: Sarantis Georgiou), and impression and construction detail (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula) for the diminished platform for appreciation of the water and the urban landscape at the “Aristotelis” cultural area. N

The route is divided into two different levels, with the newly introduced one being on the water so as to act as a new viewing angle towards the surrounding urban landscape Furthermore, the sense of seclusion is enhanced with benches facing towards to opposite building while at the same time being surrounded by trees. Wall fragment of Ottoman aristocratic residence area plan

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Figure 2.8. Plan (credits: Sarantis Georgiou), and impression and construction detail (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula) for the wall fragment of an Ottoman aristocratic residence area.

The other edge of the site is redesigned as a small plaza with the aim of enhancing both the experience of the ruins as well as to be an open public urban space. Finally, another currently underutilized open space is redesigned as a small park.

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Figure 2.9. Impression of the urban park/forest, and tree and material detail (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula).

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Diffuse Energy Contextualizing the production and distribution of energy, the case of the Veneto region, Italy

This research and design project concerns the planning and implementation of a new energy system in the central Veneto. The implementation of a new infrastructural project is conceived on the basis of its contextuality in respect to the conditions of the site: 1. the actual patterns of territorialization and urbanization, 2. the conditions of the ground and its implications for the appropriation of the surface, 3. environmental data, 4. potential challenges, and 5. risks. Special emphasis is given to the public nature and character of the proposed energy system. The area in question is at the interface of Porto Marghera and central Veneto. Otherwise referred to as ‘città diffusa’, the Metropolitan Area of Venice provides a complex context that, nevertheless, creates the possibilities for a contextual energy system in order to promote the decentralization and distribution of energy, addressing environmental concerns, and, at the same time, propose a new project of urbanization. The proposal attempts to re-cycle existing unused and/or under-utilized infrastructure. The aims and objectives concern both the provision of energy autonomy to a network of manufacturing and logistics hubs dispersed throughout the region, as well as augmenting the environmental qualities of the various landscapes within the region. The project is characterized by a ‘territorialization’ approach, that is, an approach that seeks to provide a new backbone for further appropriation of the space. The part that reflects this ‘territorialization’ to the highest degree, and is, thus, the first to be implemented, is the manipulation of the hydrographic system. After that, a regional reforestation project can take place and, finally, the architecture of the individual hubs and their immaterial networks can be realized. The implementation of this project is perceived to be able to aid in the advancement of the, already, dispersed/diffused territorial economy of the region. Focusing on further establishing conditions of dispersion and diffusion, the proposed decentralized-distributed energy system is set to promote an even more flattened territorial economy, hence, to contribute in the continued progress of the territorial project of the Veneto region by responding to changes that have occurred in the regional and national economy these past few years.

Restructuring the ‘Città Diffusa’: territorialization and urbanization

Research and Design Studio Infrastructure and Environment Design (IED) Academic Programme Master of Science (MSc) in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences, Mastertrack: Urbanism Institution Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL Academic Year 2017-2018 Spring Semester/Q4 Mentors dr. arch. Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, assistant professor dr. Hamed Kosravi, assistant professor ir. Filipo Lafleur Guest Tutors and Critics dr. Paola Vigano. professor Type Landscape Infrastructure, Water-sensitive Planning/Design/ Engineering, Strategic Spatial Planning, Tactical Spatial Design Individual Work and Group Work Collaborators (for the groupwork part) Marcelo Mathias Marieke de Bode Ricardo Avela Zonghao Wei Personal Role and Contribution all stages of the process: conceptualization, fieldwork, research, analysis, design, visualization, presentation (here, only the individual project is shown) Location Marzenego river basin, Veneto region, Italy

Approaching the infrastructural project as the backbone of urbanization, and bringing it to the foreground by imbuing it with qualities of the everyday life, the proposed system functions as a trigger for a renewed appropriation of the land. major infrastructural axis minor infrastructural axis new infrastructural development new spatial synergies new wave of urbanization/territorialization Figure 3.1. Steps in re-appropriating the territorialization/ urbanization of the ‘città diffusa’: 1. existing infrastructural condition, 2. introduction of energy hub, 3. configuration of zone relationship, and 4. new wave of urbanization.

Decentralized and Distibuted Network System Configurations The energy system is planned as a decentralized and distributed network of autonomous hubs operating in unison. In the event of surplus of energy the hubs are proposed exchange power, in the event of energy deficit Porto Marghera is called forth.

network edge configurations energy production infrastructural hub hub energy autonomy zone Figure 3.2. Attributes of the proposed energy system; 1. energy autonomy based on hub-operation, 2. distributed energy network between hub-zones, 3. centralized energy network based on the Portgo Marghera hub, 4. complete distributed energy network.

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The proposed infrastructural project consists of multiple interventions: a regional reforestation project for the production of biomass, water management devices and mechanisms for the production of hydroelectric power, the employment of phytoremediation techniques for the mitigation of environmental degradation, water management devices and mechanisms that respond to potential hydraulic risk, the recycling of existing infrastructure, the re-appropriation of existing infrastructure on the basis of conditioning the required raw materials for the energy system and, finally, the deployment of a series of energy production hubs in sites that lie at the crossroads of the majority of the aforementioned criteria.

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Figure 3.3. Spatial design (strategic and tactical) for the ‘città difusa’.

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Figure 3.6. Landscape infrastructural elements for: 1. hydroelectric energy production, 2. water overflowing channelization, and 3. afforestation for phytoremediation and re-naturalization.

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Water Management Mechanisms, Landscape Infrastructure Elements and Multifunctional Device Typologies Taking into account ownership status, existing structures and the existing mobility and hydrographic system, the augmentation of the river’s riparian zone is proposed as a 1st line of programmed flooding. Through the exploitation of the site’s topography and the existing canal system, a project of establishing territorial rooms for programmed flooding is proposed. The hydroelectric energy production project operates through the site’s section, leveraging on its topography and is comprised of a series of weirs (high plain) and a series of dams (lower plain) The territorial project operates under a framework of collaboration between different water management devices and mechanisms that, in unison, regulate the influx and discharge of water, while channelling it through re-mediation. The various mechanisms and devices designed to tackle flood risk (riparian zone augmentation, ditch network augmentation and territorial flooding plains) are conceived of as both public spaces and re-mediation devices for the contaminated soil as well as for the polluted water streams. Integral to the territorial project is the re-appropriation of existing unused or under-utilized infrastructure. Now defunct. previously operating quarries become part of the water management and re-mediation process, as well as a new public space typology scattered across the territory. Similar to mining quarries, the project incorporates existing landfill locations as parts of the regional project of energy production, public space augmentation and risk mitigation. Complementary to the water management mechanism and devices and crucial for the goal of energy production, public space augmentation and risk mitigation, the regional reforestation project operates through all different territorial actions

Figure 3.7. Multifunctional landscape infrastructural programmatic device typologies for different site conditions: cropland, riverine, sub-urban and urban.

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Transitional Surfaces a mobility-infrastructure-based framework for the re-design of Delft South-East, as a medium for residential densification and programmatic intensification and diversification

The city of Delft is faced with multiple challenges concerning its built stock and the composition and configuration of its urban plan. On one hand, the area predicts a substantial increase in the number of residents, which necessitates the densification of the built environment, particularly in reference to residential space, but, also, to the host of other contemporary everyday urban programmes. On the other, the majority of its extent outside the historical centre have been developed according to the principles of programmatic segregation, following a, rather, strict hierarchical categorization of uses. This establishes the imperative for a higher mix of urban programmes.

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The aim of this studio project, is to account for both the need for densification, as well as for intensification and diversification of use of the urban landscape. It does so through an infrastructural approach, where a redesign of the mobility network is utilized as the medium through which to put forward a new urban plan. Such an urban renewal/ regeneration is founded on the framework approach of the mobility infrastructure as the conditioning element of land use, land cover, built form, occupancy and property.

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Tutors ir. Marco Lub, teacher Type Urban Planning, Urban Design, Infrastructural Urbanism

Collaborators (for the groupwork part) Anhubuti Chandna Felipe Chavez Gonzalez Jinchuan Xie Thomas van der Schaft Personal Role and Contribution all stages of the process: conceptualization, fieldwork, research, analysis, design, visualization, presentation

building height | household volume | social to individual housing | public functions concentration | target group mix to housing type mix

(here, only the individual project is shown) Location Delft, the Netherlands

Figure 5.1. Principles of the organization of the plan/design and its constituent elements (formal and programmatic).

Figure 5.2. Axonometric representation of the spatial plan/design.

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Design components programmed roofs Further to the imperative for programmatic intensification and diversification, public and/or collective space is extended vertically to the roofs of the built form. Such urban gardens are perceived as a second field of urban life, and are structured according to the rhythmic hierarchy of the built form configurations. built form programmes housing amenities commerce/culture offices collective spaces public space

Built form is programmed on the basis of a hierarchically organized mixed-use pattern. built form typologies diversified townhouses non-diversified townhouses sculpted tower/slab sculpted courtyard block perforated courtyard slabs ground level perforated slabs sculpted slabs stacked slabs non-perforated courtyard slabs plinth with tower(-s)

built form The volumetric diversification of the built form is based on both courtyard-like as well as permeable configurations. Thus the new plan allows for increased efficiency in the use of space and, what is more, an augmented potential for programmatic diversification. Typologies and programme follow the overall rhythmic hierarchy. open space Open space is conceived of as a network of disparate elements on the basis of 3 aspects: 1. the urban forest device that both permeates and connects the entire plan, 2. the differentiation between 2 fields of occupation, and 3. the programmatic diversification between urban forest, urban plaza/square, urban parks and urban gardens. The overall plan intensifies the use of open space through its connection with the built form and the hierarchy of rhythms on which the plan is based. urban forest urban plaza/square urban park urban garden

urban blocks and built-form footprint Urban blocks are formulated through a clear layout, with the aim of overall intelligibility of the urban plan. The footprints of the built form are structured around the permeability of the urban plan, while both follow a rhythmic hierarchy. Figure 5.3. Exploded axonometric representation of the components of the spatial planning/design. Transitional Surfaces: a mobility-infrastructure-based framework for the re-design of Delft South-East, as a medium for residential densification and programmatic intensification and diversification

Multi-modal Public-transport-, Bicycle- and Pedestrian-based Mobility Network as Structuring Infrastructure of Movement and Programme As stated in the beginning, the mobility infrastructure forms the foundation for the organization of the composition and the configuration of the urban plan. The emphasis on the mobility infrastructure is placed thanks to both its structuring function, as well as to the need for an urban plan that would respect and encourage mass transport, bicycle and pedestrian mobility. According to the characteristics of the plan, six (6) different street types are proposed, such that, on the one hand, mass transport and car mobility would be able to service the entire area, and, on the other, bicycle and pedestrian mobility would infuse the complete urban plan. The different streets are, then, associated with the various elements and characteristics of the urban plan (land use, land cover, built form, occupancy and property).

Figure 5.4. Mobility network hierarchy: street types.

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2-way street for 1-lane-per-way coupled mass transitcar mobility with central median, inside bicycle lane, pedestrian lane and building frontage area 2-way street for 1-lane-per-way coupled mass transitcar mobility with central median, outside bicycle lane, pedestrian lane and building frontage area 2-way street for 1-lane-per-way car mobility, inside bicycle lane, pedestrian lane and building frontage area 2-way promenade street for 1-lane-per-way car mobility with central median, inside bicycle lane and public pedestrian area

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1-way street for 1-lane car mobility with outside bicycle lane, pedestrian lane and building frontage area 1-way street for car mobility with pedestrian lane and building frontage area building frontage pedestrian zone bicycle lane car lane mass transit lane buffer zone 1 (between pedestrian zone and bicycle lane) buffer zone 2 (between pedestrian zone/bicycle lane and car lane central median Figure 5.5. Street types.

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mass transit lane car lane bicycle lane pedestrian lane urban plaza/square area urban open green area surface water Figure 5.6. Schematic sections of major infrastructural axes: (from top to bottom) urban plaza (primary mass transit line), secondary mass transit line, and urban-park forest. Sarantis Georgiou | Portfolio

Project Phasing The implementation of the project is accomplished in three (3) stages, each of which is related with the overall performance of the urban plan, as well as with the reorganization of the residential built stock. The sequential implementation of the urban plan follows the establishment of the new urban core, the various elements along the axis, and, finally, it is completed with the design of the remaining urban tissue that connects the disparate parts into a whole system. In reference to the built stock of residential units, this is done progressively, with fewer numbers in the beginning that culminate in larger umbers at the end. As such, this process allows for continued evaluation of the implementation of the proposal.

Figure 5.7. Phasing of the implementation of the project, with emphasis on the changes in the housing stock (total area, houhold types, number of housing units).

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Figure 5.8. View of the urban plaza/square with emphasis at the intersection between the promenade street and plaza/square area.

Figure 5.9. View of the urban plaza/square with emphasis at the public space of the plaza/square area. Transitional Surfaces: a mobility-infrastructure-based framework for the re-design of Delft South-East, as a medium for residential densification and programmatic intensification and diversification

AMA, balanced A renewable energy network as a driver for a sustainable peripheral development.

Based on the understanding that circular economy is a model which pursues to rethink and improve current linear economies, “AMA, balanced” aims to operate a modular flow that affects economy in all stages of extraction, production, transportation and consumption: energy. This aim is based on the fact that the analyzed region presents conditions of unequal levels of development, which does not offer proportionate opportunities for every inhabitant. The proposal explores how a new renewable energy system can be implemented in order to transform the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA) to a prosperous and evenly balanced region. Understanding that the transition to renewable energies is not only urgently needed but it is also an opportunity to correct the efficiency of current economic urban development, this proposal seeks to mark the guidelines for a smart grid that can stablish a decentralized network that uses energy and waste as key components to power northern part of the periphery of the AMA to flourish. The strategy is composed of 2 parts: a bio-process framework and a smart grid. The framework of bio-processes refers to the organization of material flows and their transformation into electricity. This operation is manifested in different spatial scales: from the region to the neighbourhood: going from larger to smaller scales, the processes refer to the distribution of materials as a whole, all the way to the nano-scale activators where the citizens participate into the scheme. Each urban area has its own digester and biogas to energy plants, the input for which are the biomass from urban agriculture and bio-waste of each household. This scheme further decentralizes the energy generation and strives for energy autonomy. Starting from neighbourhood scale, households and the other components of the electricity system are plugged into the same smart electricity grid. The aforementioned activators are the urban element that connects the 2 parts of the system: electricity storage hubs operate as multifunctional infrastructure that deals with the distribution and transformation of material flows. We design four types of hubs for four neighbourhood typologies in the Netherlands: courtyard, row house, detached house and high-rise house.

Research and Design Studio Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis Academic Programme Master of Science (MSc) in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences, Mastertrack: Urbanism Institution Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL Academic Year 2017-2018 Spring Semester Q3 Tutors dr. Luisa Calabrese dr. Diego Sepulveda Carmona Type Regional Design, Strategic Spatial Planning, Tactical Spatial Design Group Work Collaborators Fransisco Monsalve Lieke Marijnessen Simin Chen Personal Role and Contribution all stages of the process: conceptualization, fieldwork, research, analysis, design, visualization, presentation (here, only material developed by the author, or with the contribution of the author, are shown) Location Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA), the Netherlands households urban agriculture urban green regional agriculture regional forestry regional grassland industry services local digester bio hub biogas-toelectricity plant bio plant AEB wastewater treatment plant regional output synergies electricity range cropland field cropland woodland grassland industry built space

Figure 4.1. Regional spatial plan for a bio-based energy system at the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

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Spatialization and Material Flows The implementation of the project rests on two (2) premises: on one hand, the organization of material flows between the urban centres and the periphery, and, on the other, the design of a network of components for a new electricity production and distribution system on the basis of the urban environment. For the former, the various instances of urbanized landscape that characterize the periphery of the AMA are brought together through a series of transformation components that regulate the flow of materials and electricity. For the latter, each distinct typo-morphology of urban environment is approached as a different case-study on the basis of which to apply a collective electricity production, distribution and consumption framework. Urban environment typo-morphologies courtyard typo-morphology

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solar panels cultivation electricity output (charging stations) electricity input (solar panels) distribution network production network system components (electricity storage hubs) Figure 4.2. Indicative implementation of the electricity framework for four (4) suggestive typo-morphologies of urban environment.

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Figure 4.3. Schematic sections for the organization of material and electricity flows within the periphery of the AMA. AMA, balanced: A renewable energy network as a driver for a sustainable peripheral development

Multimedia HUB a procedural design approach for a mat organization of the relationship between collective and individual productiveresidential urban programmes, the case of media production

The objective of this studio project is to research the spatio-temporal relationship between residential and work programmes, both as human activities and as uses occurring in space. For the purposes of this work, ‘creative economy’ programmes of (multi-) media production are selected. The project is founded upon a manifesto of home-work relationships and their urban manifestation. On one hand, the urban block is approached as the unit of the organization of the urban environment. This is both a formal decision, as well as a functional one. That is, the urban block is the framework upon which collective programmes defer to and, as such, the urban condition is associated with constellations of urban blocks characterizing constellations of hybrid residential-working environments. On the other hand, individual programmes are thought of as permeating the urban fabric and, therefore, the urban block functions as their clustering. As such, the political/spatio-temporal manifesto of the relationship between, firstly, consumptive and productive urban functions, and, secondly, individual and collective habitation, is elaborated around the notion of the organization of labour. Social time and individual scheduling are brought into a system of spatiality between the duality of the collective and the personal space. This leads to the establishment of a series of uses that would constitute a utopian work-environment. Such an environment would be characterized by an interrelation between distinct disciplines, it would promote collaboration while at the same time harbouring solitary work and, ultimately, it would be connected with the public sphere as an open cluster. Hence the title: MultimediaHUB. Form-wise, the above are constructed through a procedural mat approach. Said approach is grounded on the design of a single living organism, a spatio-temporal unit, that would at once be autonomous, self-revolving, self-regulated, as well as a point of reference for the rest of the city. Using, thus, a modular approach, distinct parameters were employed on the assemblage of a singular unit, both on the basis of formal, as well programmatic relationships. Finally, the distribution of the uses throughout the sum volume, considered areas of concentration, meaning that, in order to enhance the notion of a cluster, uses were grouped together as another means of centrality.

Architectural Design Studio VII Academic Programme Integrated Master’s/Diploma degree in Architecture/Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng) Institution Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Thessaly, GR Academic Year 2013-2014 Autumn Semester Supervisor Zisis Kotionis, professor Vasso Trova, professor Costis Paniyiris, professor Type Procedural Architectural Design Group Work Collaborator Aikaterini Dimoula Aikaterini Solomou Eleni Rigaki Personal Role and Contribution all stages of the process: conceptualization, fieldwork, research, analysis, design, visualization, presentation (here, only material developed by the author, or with the contribution of the author, are shown) Location Athens, Greece

Figure 6.1. Photorealistic axonometric representation of the spatial design proposal.

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Design Process (massing/volumetry) 1. volumetric foundations

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1.4 levels

1.5 application of grid

2. volumetric perforations

2.1 extension of adjacent streets on ground level

2.2 top-to-bottom volume subtractions

2.5 identical subtractions to those of lower level for the establishment of open space (5th level)

2.3 subtraction of elements per unit (ground, 2nd, 4th levels)

2.6 establishment of further public open-air and semi-open-air space and corresponding subtractions (1st, 3rd and 5th levels)

2.4 further subtractions of elements relative to and expanding upon the previous for better lighting conditions (1st and 3rd levels)

2.7 expansion of public use areas (ground level)

3. volumetric openings

3.1 walls across site limits

3.2 openings across subtracted volumes and public-use areas

3.3 walls on non-public-use areas across public space

3.4 openings on public-use areas across site limits

Figure 6.2. Volumetric design process (massing). MultimediaHUB: a procedural design approach for a mat organization of the relationship between collective and individual productive urban programmes, the case of media production

Design Brief The project results in a multi-level mat building: urban, individual and collective programmes are configured around public space, where the imperative is for the composition and configuration of form and function to follow a set of predefined procedural rules of assembly. Said rules operate both on the horizontal as well as the vertical level, that is, built programmes and their inter-relationships are organized both through uni-level proximities and adjacencies, as well as the vertical circulation and distribution of programme. This is done so that the verticality that characterizes the individual level property regime of contemporary city be dissolved into more collectively permeating spatial and temporal use. As such, the built form is described as a constellation of built-unbuilt volumes organized around a set of vertical permeations and horizontal routes.

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Figure 6.3. Topographic diagram of the design proposal.

Four (4) primary programmes are established: 1. residential space, 2. individual studios, 3. collaborative studios, and 4. public studios, with decreasing degree of privateness. A further two (2) functions are considered throughout the process of design: 1. circulation, and 2. public space. The latter emerge from the assembly of the entire volumetric massing, through clearly defined procedural rules. The procedure follows the standardization of programmtic relationships, their interpretation as a spatial unit, its application throughout the spatial extent of the site and the subsequent volumetric subtractions according to climatic and programmatic criteria. Having established a mass that respects the requirements of the design, the distribution of uses is then approached through a double-faceted process: both horizontally, as well as vertically. The resulting composition and configuration is composed of programmatic relations in the level dimension, and volumetric clusterings in the vertical dimension.

Public Studios Collaborative Studios Individual Studios

Public Studios

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Individual Studios Collaborative Studios

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4. application of the unit throughout the site

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3. relational spatial unit

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Residential Space

Individual Studios

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Individual Studios

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2. programmatic relations (standardized form)

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1. programmatic relations (general form)

Figure 6.4. Development of spatial programmes, their programmatic relations, the standardized spatial unit and its application go the site.

Figure 6.5. Exploded axonometric representation of the distribution of spatial programmes per building level (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Eleni Rigaki). Sarantis Georgiou | Portfolio

Programmatic schematic sections

Programmatic procedural rules 6 levels 5 levels 4 levels 3 levels 2 levels 1 level

vertical circulation public studios collective studios individual studios residential space public space

Figure 6.7. Procedural rules for the distribution of spatial programme in reference to vertical assemblage of levels.

Figure 6.6. Schematic sections of the vertical distribution of spatial programmes.

Programme Distribution (massing /volumetry) open-air and semi-open-air public space

closed public space

-public open-air & semi-open-air areas -public & private green space - horizontal circulation

-public uses: recreation, retail, services, toilets -lounge/meeting areas -vertical circulation

residential space

individual studios

collaborative studios

public studios

public workshops/studios/exhibitions/ presentations/briefings etc. Figure 6.8. Axonometric representations of the volumetric distribution of the various building programmes in reference to the overall building volume and massing. MultimediaHUB: a procedural design approach for a mat organization of the relationship between collective and individual productive urban programmes, the case of media production

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Figure 6.9. Elevations

Floor plans geound level

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Figure 6.10. Overall floor plans (credits: Sarantis Georgiou) and zoomed-in floor plans (creditsL Sarantis Georgiou and Eleni Rigaki) for each of the sic (6) levels.

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Structural Configuration The configuration of the load-bearing structure follows the (2) fundamental characteristics: on one hand, the built form is organized around a rational structural grid, where individual volumes are added and subtracted without compromising the integrity of the framework, and, on the other, the levels are designed as either with or without an internal level.

Figure 6.11. Structural grid (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula).

Figure 6.12. Floor levels typology (credits: Sarantis Georgiou and Aikaterini Dimoula).

Load-bearing Structure ground floor

1st level

2nd level

3rd level

4th level

5th level

Figure 6.13. Axonometric representations of the configuration of the load bearing structure for each of the sic (6) levels of the overall built-up volume. MultimediaHUB: a procedural design approach for a mat organization of the relationship between collective and individual productive urban programmes, the case of media production

Programme and Form Redesign of the Helsinki Central Library (competition brief)

The aim of the studio project is the design of a multi-programmatic building with emphasis to its urban context. The work is based on the material provided for the 2012 Architectural Competition for the Helsinki Central Library. The proposal attempts to develop a built composition/configuration that, at the same time, incorporates its surroundings, while being an autonomous organism. For this purpose, the practice of the “atrium” was used as a reference and, therefore, the building is composed of volumes circling around open spaces. More specifically, the facades interact with the surrounding elements, with open facades facing public space and closed facades facing adjacent buildings. As such, the massing of the buildings opens up and closes with reference to the surrounding urban environment. This design mechanism is, except for the overall volumetry, applied to the design of the floor plan, further integrating the vertical with the horizontal spatial dimensions. The plan at ground level is open so as to enhance the idea of public space, while above, the building progressively starts to incorporate the idea of the “atrium”, developing around the confluence of a circular horizontal and vertical motion. The use of the various spaces and services is also characterized by a circular motion around open spaces. Finally, public space, open-air and semi-open-air space, is aimed to be a vital element of this urban, yet autonomous, organism, and, therefore, takes up a large portion of the site.

Architectural Design Studio V Academic Programme Integrated Master’s/Diploma degree in Architecture/Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng) Academic Year 2013-2014 Autumn Semester Institution Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Thessaly, GR Tutor Iordanis Stylidis, associate Professor Type Architectural Design Individual Work Location Helsinki, Finland Figure 7.1. Photorealistic impression of the view from the atrium of the public space of the ground floor, facing towards the main entrance, the multi-purpose hall, the cinemas and the two (semi-) open-air spaces.

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Spatial Design 3rd floor children’s space learning workroom/multimedia, games & construction space

saunas

reading area visitors’ workrooms

reading area

cinema

2nd floor visitors’ conference rooms

saunas

café/restaurant & bookstore “oasis” reading area

reading area cinema

1st floor sound/image & TV/radio studios

administration

multi-purpose hall ground floor

cinema exhibition area

visitors’ offices and rooms

multi-purpose hall basement

cinema exhibition area

infrastructure and storage 0m

infrastructure and storage

infrastructure and storage 150 m Programme and Form: redesign of the Helsinki Central Library (competition brief)

Figure 7.2. Exploded axonometric representation of the three-dimensional space for the floor-plan of each level

Longitudinal Sections

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Figure 7.4. Elevations

photorealistic impressions

Figure 7.5. Photorealistic impression of the view from the atrium of the public space of the ground floor, facing towards the main entrance,.

Figure 7.6. Photorealistic impression of the view from one of the two (2) (semi-)open-air spaces.

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Programme Distribution basement

ground floor cinema supporting studios for the cinema exhibition area multi-purpose hall visitors’ offices & workrooms open-air & semi-open-air area circulation cinema & multipurpose hall lobbies/foyers lounge/meeting areas public toilets staff toilets multi-purpose hall storage area/ backstage & cinema storage area

infrastructure circulation

1st floor

2nd floor

cinema cinema supporting studios library collections reading areas café/restaurant & bookstore visitors’ conference rooms “oasis” saunas semi-open-air area circulation saunas reception area & cinema lobby/foyer lounge/meeting areas public toilets library & cinema storage areas

cinema exhibition area multi-purpose hall multi-purpose hall supporting studio sound/image & TV/Radio studios semi-open-air area circulation administration lounge/meeting areas public toilets multi-purpose hall storage area/ backstage

3rd floor cinema library collections reading areas visitors’ workrooms learning workrooms/ multimedia, games & construction area saunas children’s area semi-open-air area circulation saunas reception area lounge/meeting areas public toilets children’s toilets library collection storage area

cinemas exhibition areas multi-purpose hall library collections reading areas open-air & semi-open-air areas circulation

195 m2 195 m2 195 m2 710 m2 305 m2 4,000 m2 3,730 m2

visitors’ offices, conference rooms & workrooms sound/image & TV/Radio studios cinema supporting studios multi-purpose hall supporting studio

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café/restaurant & bookstore “oasis” saunas administration learning workrooms/ multimedia, games & construction area

355 m2 125 m2 175 m2 90 m2

125 m2

children’s area lobby functions, reception areas & foyers lounge/meeting areas toilets storage areas infrastructure Total

150 m2 480 m2 260 m2 480 m2 215 m2 410 m2 12,450 m2

Figure 7.7. Programme distribution per floor and calculation of area per programmatic class Programme and Form: redesign of the Helsinki Central Library (competition brief)

Atlantis Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture (ISSN 1387-3679)

Volume 29: Thematic Agenda Traditional categories of spatiality are proving inadequate and are being rendered obsolete in light of emerging phenomena. This calls for a restructuring of the framework(-s) of our worldview. The ‘unfixed’ and the ‘forever-changing’, the relationship between the ‘never-ending’ and the ‘finite’, the ‘intertwined’ and the ‘all-encompassing’, the ‘(non-)existence of the autonomous’ and the ‘multi-’ or ‘trans-scalarity’; all qualities of the nature of spatiality and, at the same time, constructions of our understanding of it, give rise to new conceptual tools. In keeping with the latest advances in our disciplines’ discourse and building upon last year’s theme of “Action/Reaction: Exploring Challenges in Practice”, we are now shifting our focus to the ‘object’. The object, though, is understood not as a ‘thing’, but rather as a ‘field’: the area where actions and actors come together in a unity and, in essence, is created by and through that unity. An abstract and absolute space is constructed and transformed through activities, actions and practices that give it shape, content and meaning into a ‘territory’. Is this ‘real’ or ‘imaginary’, small or big? Does it conform with pre-existing conceptual and concrete borders? Do they pertain solely to human activities or to the untameable natural forces? Or both? These questions are, of course, relative. The important issue is that we are talking about the kind of processes that form the very notion which guides us in our understanding, approach and intervention Hence the word: “territor(e)alities”. This year, “Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture” will try to explore the concept of spatiality, focusing on the network of processes that give rise to places: what actions and which networks of them make a piece of land, however small or big, appear and act (or, at least, according to our view of it) as one. Territories are understood as spaces that are conceptually constructed by an agglomeration of practices (or, even, a single dominating action) and, in effect, become concrete and real. We will be zooming in and zooming out, we will be isolating and unifying, all for an investigation of the content and meaning of Urbanism and Landscape Architecture in the 21st century and beyond.

Institution Polis | Platform for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), NL Editor-in-Chief Volume 28: Issue 28.4 Volume 29: Issue 29.1, Issue 29.2 and Issue 29.3 Editor Volume 28: Issue 28.1, Issue 28.2 and Issue 28.3 Volume 29: Issue 29.4 Type Editorial Work Personal Role and Contribution as Editor-in-Chief: moderating the content of the magazine (thematic agenda and topic development, calls for submission management, article reviewing), editing, publishing Issue Repository https://issuu.com/atlantismagazine

Figure 8.1. Excerpt pages from the Thematic Agenda of Volume 29 (Issues 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4) of “Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture” (source: https://issuu. com/sarantisgeorgiou/docs/territorealities_thematicagenda_ atlantis_20182019).

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as Editor

as Editor-in-Chief

Volume 28: “Action - Reaction” Issue 28.1

Issue 28.2

Issue 28.3

Issue 28.4

Figure 8.2. Represenation of the covers of the issues of Volume 28 (Issue 28.1, Issue 28.2, Issue 28.3, and Issue 28.4) (source: https://issuu.com/atlantismagazine).

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as Editor-in-Chief Volume 29: “territo[e]alities”” Issue 29.1

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“Constructed Geographies”

“Contested Domains”

“Challenged Realms”

“Emerging Appropriations”

“to territorialize is to exert a set of acts of (relative) violence upon a portion of space, making it perform according to specific cultural demands; in other words, to ‘construct’

“to territorialize is to (attempt to) ascertain sovereignty over the space required by a system of cultural (re-)production’

“to territorialize is to respond to forces originating from exteriority and alterity, seeking to undermine autonomy and to substitute, replace and/or displace an existing order’

“to territorialize is to transgress the (perceived as) fixed in light of new possibilities, hypotheses, demands and desires’

Figure 8.3. Representation of the covers of the issues of Volume 29 (Issue 29.1, Issue 29.2, Issue 29.3, and Issue 29.4) (source: https://issuu.com/atlantismagazine). Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture (ISSN 1387-3679)

Staging Rehearsal Scenographic design for a production of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Person of Szechwan”

The aim of the studio project is the development of a scenic design for a production of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Person of Szechuan”. The design proposal is based on the intricacies of Brecht’s mode of theatre play. The two (2) main characteristics of Brecht’s works are: 1. the importance of the ‘intermezzo’ as a structuring narrative device, and 2. the importance of the scenographic design as the medium through which to instil to the audience that the play is not a representation of reality. As such, the above two (2) concepts lay the foundations upon which the design proposal rests. In order to integrate the two (2), the proposal incorporates the notion of the ‘rehearsal’ as the indicative condition where both characteristics converge. From the perspective of the ‘intermezzo’, the design suggests a division of the stage into clearly defined areas for the different parts of the play: the part in the front is related to the immediate relationship between the actors and the audience, the part in the back is related to the actors waiting to enter the stage, while the middle part is where the action of the play occurs. As such, the various ‘intermezzos’ have their own space to be unfolded, all the while the audience is privy to the fact that the remaining cast is also an audience waiting for their turn, thus, emphasizing the fictional (and not real) condition through which the play operates.

Scenic Space Design Academic Programme Integrated Master’s Degree in Architecture/Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng.) Academic Year 2012-2013 Spring Semester Institution Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Thessaly, GR Tutor Eva Manidaki, teacher Type Scenographic Design Individual Work

The importance of the scenic design, thus, is associated with the construction of a space that can be easily identified as a construction: there is no resemblance to a real condition but, rather, the space itself is, indeed, nothing more than the place where the production of a theatrical play is told.

Figure 9.1. Axonometric representation of the scenic design proposal.

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Narratives of the Un-Covered

The special research topic attempts a different approach at the open space of urban building blocks. The aim is to establish a framework for an approach where the open space is converted into a literary construction. The path is through mapping existing or attributing new features at the open space (according to the theory of urban space of Rob Krier and the anthropology of Marc Auge) that are in accordance with (or promote the implementation of) the selected literary background (the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin). A part of Krier’s theory is presented where the open space is treated as a unique urban space due to the status of its ownership, characterized as “collective ownership”. It is conceptualized as a “cusp”, an “in-between”, a “crossing”, a “threshold” between the purely public urban space and the purely individual private space, and this element is defined as its substance. It is considered as relevant to the urban square and is approached as a space that may include activities typically related to the square (except existing ones) and it becomes the space of the neighbourhood. The typological boundaries consist of an invisible “tower” that intersects the surrounding buildings, so that we do not just talk about geometric limits (judging Krier’s theory as inadequate), but functional boundaries, boundaries of style and character. Through the anthropological theory of Marc Auge, the open space is understood as an “urban non-place”, according to the relations that it integrates, its program, and its own identity and that of its elements. Designated, thus, as an “urban non – place”, it is treated as the “myth” and the “plot” of a literary work, with the typological boundaries as the its “heroes”. The “myth”, the “plot” and the “hero” are matters open, unfinished, multiple and multi-layered. The open space is an incident, namely the incident a “polyphonic novel”.

Special Research Topic Academic Programme Integrated Master’s Degree in Architecture/Architectural Engineering (MArch, Dipl. Arch. Eng.) Academic Year 2012-2013 Spring Semester Institution Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Thessaly, GR Tutors Filippos Oraiopoulos, emeritus professor Type Architectural/Urban Theory Individual Work

Figure 10.1. The cover page and the contents page (containing the chapters: “the mythos/the plot”, “the hero” and “the inversion”) referring to the characteristics of the un-covered space of urban blocks as a polyphonic novel (source: http://www.arch.uth.gr/el/ projectpopup/index/1183).

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