DIPLOMA PROJECT
archi-PELAGO
supervisor: Athanasios Spanomarides Students: Konstantinos Papanikolaou Foteinos Soulos
Προϊμιο: Αν και η αρχιτεκτονική μας εμπειρία δεν ήταν σε τέτοιο βαθμό αρκετή για να μπορούμε να επιλύσουμε τέτοιας κλίμακας προτάσεις, εμείς προσπαθήσαμε να δώσουμε μία ευκαιρία σε μια σύγχρονη ουτοπική πρόταση. Με τα εργαλεία που εργαζόμαστε τόσα χρόνια, με συνοχή ως προς τις καταστάσεις που προτείνουμε, και με την σωστή καθοδήγηση του επιβλέποντα καθηγητή, όπως και άλλων αρμόδιων ανθρώπων, επιχειρήσαμε να αναδείξουμε μερικές από τις πολύπλευρες δυνατότητες που μπορεί να προσφέρει ένα τόσο γνωστό και με έντονη παρουσία μέρος, όπως η κυκλάδες. Θα θέλαμε να ευχαριστήσουμε πρώτον απο όλους τον κ. Σπανομαρίδη για την σωστή καθοδήγηση και συμπαράσταση που έδειξε, καθ’ όλη την διάρκεια αυτού του project. Ακόμη, να ευχαριστήσουμε τους Δημάρχους Σύρου, Ιωάννη Δεκαβάλλα και Δρυμαλίας (Νάξου), Γιάννης Μπαρδάνης και τον πρόεδρο αιολικής ενέργειας Ελλάδος, Ιωάννη Τσιπουρίδη, για τις πολύτιμες πληροφορίες που μας έδωσαν. Τέλος, ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ στους φίλους και στις οικογενειές μας για την συνολική τους βοήθεια.
Cyclades
KOUFONISI
Names of the islands
Population
Coverage [km2]
Public Transportation
Athletic infrastructure
Energy production / consumption usage of renewable forms of energy
Production - flow of energy
Ship Routes
Airplane Routes
Ports
Airport [ Length / Quantity of Aerodromes]
masterplan of Cyclades 1:800.000 τοπογραφικό 1:800.000
proposal of the masterplan of Cyclades1:750.000 1:750.000 τοπογραφικό
part of the proposal 1:300.000
Delos, during the ancient years, was the holier island, regardless its small shape. The reason why it was so famous was due to the fact that in that place, according to the mythology, Apollo - Sun, the god of the daylight sun and Artemis - Moon, the goddess of the nightly light, were born. In other words, in that place the Sun was born, the most precious good of ancient Greeks. Homer says that Lito, a woman who was pregnant from Zeus, couldn’t find a place that she would be accepted to give birth. Only an almost invisible rock, that wandered across the Aegean sea, accepted her silently, although it trembled the rage of the deceived wife of Zeus. Poseidon stabilized this rock with columns made of diamond, and since then it has the name of Delos. What is more, choosing Delos as the holiest island was not at random. None of the ancient writers disputed the importance of the place. Although, it is surrounded by several island, such as Mykonos and Rhynia that has a distance less than a kilometer, the atmosphere and the lightning on the island is different. Modern researches showed that Delos is one of the most luminous points in the world, with the bigger sunlight. It appears, therefore how it led to be one from the more important and holier spaces of ancient Greece. Apart from a place of adoration, Delos had a cultural development. The fame of the island expanded quickly across the Mediterranean and the population started to boost. The temples multiplied dramatically and trade combined with wealth came into the land of the island. The ports it had, became the most important of the Mediterranean sea and especially during the period that Romans declared Delos, as a free port, where each merchant could be exchanged without any extra cost. As a consequence, we have the creation of the first multicultural and international center in the history of humanity. In other words, due to the power and the fame that the island acquired, hundreds of people arrived from the whole known world to adore and trade. In the same land, people from Europe, Egypt and Asia exchanged their ideas. The project is based on these historical data and proposes a new land, where after thousands of years, people from all around the world will be able to find themselves in the same place. This land could not be anywhere else, than in the area of Delos. This new island, with name Aegeon, just like at Delos will not be the homeland of anybody. It is devoted to all and no one’s property. There is nothing more important that could gather all the populations of the world together, than the athleticism. The last uniting element that has left to determine with the healthiest and the most rightful way to elect the best across the rest. As far as the scheme and the morphology of Aegeon, the goal is not to copy or mimic the nature, as it would be voluble. On the contrary, it is proposed, based on the fundamental guidelines of designing an ideal land - utopia, that the history has shown, it becomes from the most simple geometrical schemes [square and circle] a new land that would be characterized by its strict boundaries.
Energy Consumption 2008 Naxos Paros Mykonos Ios
88.58GW 89.64GW 112.13GW 14.87GW
Today only a 10% of the energy produced in Cyclades is from renewable forms of energy. The production of energy is at a high extend from diesel and other types of fuels, made by autonomous production points that are dispersed across the islands. Albeit efforts have been made to use more the renewable forms of energy, there is not sufficient technical knowledge and money. What is more, the local people argue that by installing such types of energy production, the topography and natural beauty of the islands will downgrade.
The proposal keeps a distance from the geomorphology of Cyclades and proposes organized networks of navigable wind parks and pelamis that convert the energy of waves into usable form of energy. The Aegean sea is famous for the strong winds and waves that has all around the year. That is why it is proposed, at several areas potential cores of energy production, that can be adjusted, in terms of quantities, depending on the needs of each period. The wind parks are situated in a certain way, so as not to create traffic troubles in the circulation of the ships, as the distances make it possible to pass through both the wind parks and the pelamis farms. Moreover, the way that these elements are placed and their orientation, make possible the maximum exploitation of the natural forces.
Each pelamis can produce 750 KW and 2.75GW each year. On the other hand, each turbine can produce 5MW and 4GW yearly. So, according to the latest analysis of the energy consumption of Cyclades with 33 pelamis or 22 wind turbines we can cover all the necessities of the islands of Paros and Naxos, for example. It is obvious that with such types of energy production we can avoid offending the Cyclades landscape, and guarantee endless energy, respecting the environment, and using only the natural forces.
Homer, the epic writer of literature and poetry, is said to have died at the island of Delos. It is as if he wanted to gaze the sea exploring his next journey or he just wanted to remember his trips across the sea. At that point, a new land is being created, devoted to the travelling experience, like all the ships of the Aegean, has settled one and only goal. To welcome travelers from all around the world and offer them a new, different experience. By creating axes from the grave of Homer and the extended distances of the island of Ios two key points are being created. This distance generates the motive of the grid, through which the island reveals itself. A clear scheme that is as potential as the needle of the compass that is being magneted towards the north direction. The most faithful comrade for those that roaming is part of their life. At the land, where Homer died, under the hot Cycladic sun, this island is the perfect place for the first tree to root itself, absorbing from its roots all the knowledge and the history of the islands, and nesting, on the southern part, migrating birds. Birds that are ready to fly, make their own journey, their own Odyssey.
Aegeion masterplan 1:20.000 τοπογραφικό Αιγείον 1:20.000
athletic complex
beaches
marine
student - athletes residence
university
rowing
main pedestrian road tram line
cyclades park
port
underwater research
sea
longitude section of the island
Beijing 3,600 sq.klm.
olympic stadium
Athens
3,400 sq.klm.
Aegeion
3,000 sq.klm.
coverage of athletic infrastructure at cities that held Olympic Games
The functional needs, the orientation, the structural being of the island in combination with the guidelines that we have set, lead to the final form of Aegeon. When entering the island, the guidelines become grids, where different situations occur. Athleticism sets its own rules on the way that the areas of the athletic places are being settled in the island. Big emphasis was given at the comfortable circulation and easy access throughout Aegeon. One of the fundamental needs of the island was to guarantee a nonstop offering of possibilities in the area of Cyclades. To do so, it is proposed to have continuous programmatic exchange between education and athleticism. In other words, there is space on the island that the University of Aegean could have, as at this moment there are insufficient infrastructures. Also, we propose the creation of an athletic academy that will make use of the athletic areas all around the year, apart from the big athletic events that the island will hold occasionally. Through this the flexibility for the reversibility of the functions is achieved, depending on the needs combined with continuous updates and refreshes, at an international scale.
culture
athleticism
timetable of athletic, cultural and academical functions of 4 years
education
athl. events
athl. functions
educational functions
timetable of the island’s function of 4 years
Parallos masterplan 1:25.000 τοπογραφικό Πάραλος 1:25.000
floor plan 1:5.000
ground level 1:5.000
arrival level 1:5.000
departure level 1:5.000
entrance facade 1:2.500 [part a]
part of departure level 1:1.000
part of arrival level 1:1.000
west facade 1:2.000 [part a]
outside view of the stadium
The parts of the airport that include the spaces for the arrivals and the departures have two sides. The air side towards the airplanes and the sea and the land side facing the terminal city. The first is separated into four parts [the dark, the airplane zone, the clear and the land one], whereas the second one is totally clear, with sufficient view, at all levels, towards the landside and the movement ramps.
entrance facade 1:2.500 [part b]
to terminal city transit movements arrivals movements departures movements buggage movements
movement diagram
check in area
west facade 1:2.000 [part b]
The entrance hall is the place where all the movements begin and end. It offers all the necessary information that the traveler will need. On the right the check in area is revealed, a long room that leads to the stairs, where the traveler chooses his destination.
entrance facade 1:1.000
section 1:1.000
part of west facade 1:500
departure waiting area
check in area
main pedestrian road
hills
movem
ments
section A 1:2.500
stadium
rowing
section B 1:1.000
view of the stadium
entrance - stadium
level -1 -4.00
level 0 +0.00
level 1 +5.00
level 2 +11.00
level 3 +14.50
level 4 +18.00
south facade 1:1.000
east facade 1:1.000
west facade 1:1.000
sources: - Spyros Asdrahas, “The Greek Archipelago,” The Dispersed Urbanity of the Aegean Archipelago, Venice Biennale, 2006. - analysis from: john h. daniels faculty of architecture, landscape, and design university of Toronto, Master of architecture, lesson: ARC3016Y Architectural Design Studio 6: Option Studios - Δομές, issue 49, August 2006 - Δομές, issue 50, September 2006 - Verb, “crisis”, ACTAR, 2008 - The modern Terminal, Brian Edwards,E&FN Spon, 1998
Internet: -
oikokyklades.blogspot.com www.kykladesnews.gr www.e-kyklades.gr www.ert.gr www.dei.gr www.pelamiswave.com www.change-of-climate.com www.flickr.com www.energymap.dk www.cres.gr