STATHOPOULOU EFI
selected works 2013 - 2019
ENTRANCE BUILDING AT NICOPOLIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK
HOTEL • K 29
HOTEL II
TANDEM
VACATION HOUSING COMPLEX
TANNERIES COMPETITIONS
EXPERIENTIAL BEER GARDEN
KOUM KAPI
HOT (el) ACADEMIC
THE WALL
CARLO SCARPA // PARALLEL APPROACHES
THE ATHENIAN PALIMPSEST: TOWARDS A HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE
Project type: Professional
office: Oikonomidis Architects | Architectural Assistant Part II years: 2017-2018
Location: Nicopolis, Preveza, GR
The project is about the schematic design of the first prize awarded proposal for the entrance building ‘Α’ of the Archaeological Park at Nicopolis.
The main uses are public services, functional infrastructures and a multipurpose hall. The revision altered the former direction of the whole building to take advantage of the topography of the area and the view toward ancient ruins laying close to it.
Project type: Professional office: Oikonomidis Architects | Architectural Assistant Part II year: 2017
Location: Athens, GR
The project is about the Schematic Design and the Detailed Design of the conversion of an eight-story offices building of 1970s [with total area 1100m2] into a hotel. The main residential area is located in the ‘typical floors’ [1st to 6th]. A cafe at the ground floor level and mezzanine, auxiliary uses at the basement and breakfast area at the rooftop support the new use. The new proposal concerns the structural reinforcement of the construction, the re-design of all floor plans, the addition of a pergola at the rooftop and a cantilever that highlights the main entrance at the ground floor level.
BEFORE
AFTER
Project type: Professional office: Oikonomidis Architects | Architectural Assistant Part II years: 2017-2018
Location: Athens, GR
The project is about the conversion of an unfinished seven-storey construction of the 1980s into a contemporary 4* urban hotel in the center of Athens. A great challenge was the coordination of the reinforcement of the bearing structure with the architectural study, as well as the granted of the building permit.
The main design intent is the creation of functional spaces through the use of simple, balanced forms and materials, that make the visitor feel comfortable in both public spaces and private room zones. The cafe of the main entrance on the ground floor serves as a connection of the hotel with the surrounding area. Spa areas and a gym in the two basement levels complete the overall guest experience, while a second cafe on the rooftop with lounge areas covered by a pergola and a swimming pool, enhances the unobstructed view of the Acropolis and Lycabetous during day and night. The prominent position of the building, located on an uphill area, allows the same imposing view from the rooms facing northwest as well. For the less privileged rooms, the addition of a corner planter in front of the windows creates a privacy filter and blocks the view to and from the busy Ardittou street.
BOOKLET OF INTERNAL FRAMES
BOOKLET OF INTERNAL FRAMES DETAILS
BOOKLET OF EXTERNAL FRAMES
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
BOOKLET OF EXTERNAL FRAMES DETAILS
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
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roject type: Professional office: Oikonomidis Architects | Architectural Assistant Part II year: 2017-2018
Location: Oinofita, GR
The project is part of an industrial park located in the industrial zone of Oinofyta. The production of aluminum foil cold rolling mill is taking place in its area. It consists of three autonomous adjacent buildings:
A| An open plan, three-aisled, double-height space, covered by three gabled roofs towards the N, hosts the main industrial functions in two underground levels. Elevations and roofs are composed by aluminum panels, laying over a metal framework.
B| A three-storey, composite metallic structure construction, in the SW, hosts industrial functions in its basement and double-height ground floor, changing areas in the first floor and administration offices in the second floor. The structure is also covered by aluminum panels.
C| The four-storey concrete structure in the SE hosts industrial functions in the basement and ground floor as well. The levels above host administration uses.
Scope of work was the design of common areas of circulation elevations and administration areas from concept stage to building permit (study of passive fire protection) and construction documentation. Coordination with structural and mechanical engineers was necessary throughout the whole design process.
TERRACE AND DETACHED HOUSES AT KALAMI, SOUDA BAY, CHANIA
Project type: Professional office: Dias Construction LTD | Architectural Assistant Part I pubLication: https://issuu.com/diasconstruction/docs/kalami.pptx year: 2015 Location: Crete, GR
The project concerns the revision of a preliminary proposal for the construction of a vacation housing complex, consisting of five houses of approximately 80m2 each, developed in two levels.
The revision altered the roof type from pitched to hipped. In addition, the surrounding environment and the planting was redesigned. A swimming pool, shared between the three residences of the terrace, and two gardens with private swimming pools, referring to the detached houses, were added as well.
Project type: Academic | Design Thesis
MArch Architecture Engineering
Technical University of Crete
project team: Kapodistria M, Stathopoulou E
professor: Tsakalakis D
year: 2016
Location: Chania, Crete, GR
The project is oriented to conservation and restoration of existing building fabrics.
The selected area of study is the old abandoned complex of the former tanneries of the city of Chania, Crete, a listed historical ensemble. The proposal consists of an overall urban, landscape and architectural approach, that takes into account the need for sensitive restoration and reuse of the existing building shells.
Thus, in order to re-integrate the region into the web of the city, five abandoned adjacent buildings of considerable size, located in the center of the complex, were selected to host a cultural core that aims to serve the wider residential area. The re-design of the public spaces, the esplanade and the entry points to the whole area of study unifies the traffic network to support the complex, while it offers at the same time an original experience to the visitor in urban scale.
The design in architectural scale follows the same principles. The five adjacent buildings function as a whole with interdependent uses, while their interior aims to create a single space flow. The former central narrow tannery and a former external existing staircase constitute the main vertical connection between all levels. Parts of all dividing masonries were removed to create horizontal connections between the tannery museum, the cafe - bar, the theater and the working hub area and its garden.
before | after
Project type: Competition, Young Architects Competitions project team: Kapodistria M, Tolis N, Stathopoulou E, Charvalakis P year: 2017
Location: Emilia Romana, IT
A second garden_ Even though it is hidden from plain view, the most pronounced element of Villa Zarri is its garden; So instead of stopping at the border of the former cellar, the garden now slopes into the building, creating a new level, three meters below. The terrain alternates between natural and man-made providing an experience similar to a relaxed garden stroll. The new garden creates different routes, serving the needs of the utilities found at the same level (multi-purpose space, small beer museum, shops).
A new level_ In order to make air for the new garden, the most dense uses, tasting hall and restaurant are elevated three meters above in form of platforms, and are connected with each other by walkways. The tasting bar traverses the whole length of the building, connecting the quiet garden of Villa Zarri with the more urban south facade of the building while at the same time providing a closer look into the brewing laboratory. The space in between is left empty, allowing for those below to experience a relaxed walk with ample sunlight while for those above to let their gaze travel around the expanse of the building.
The grid_ Τhe columns and beams that support the roof of the former cellar create a sense of structural repetition and vastness of space. The existing grid and its subdivisions become the main drawing tool and can be perceived everywhere. It contracts, expands and even stretches beyond the walls of the building and into the garden, by means of benches, gazebos and other structures.
Urban node / Transitory space Taking into account the developing urbanity of the area, the main entrance is placed on the islet south of the former cellar, in the form of an arc which indicates the expansion of the building towards the roundabout. A dedicated driveway allows for visitors to reach the entrance and then descend into the reception and the shopping area.
In order to project the building further out and closer to the freeways, an additional structurally lighter, row and column of roofs is created, allowing for more sunlight to come into the building. The new south and east facades are now transparent, giving passengers a fleeting glimpse of the inside. Therefore, by utilizing the tools of vertical movement, transparency, ambiance and landscaping the building becomes more than a place for beer lovers; it is now a transitory space between the busy urban and the leisurely rural, an experience which educates, entertains and above all, relaxes.
PRE - EXISTING BUILDING
DEMOLISHED PARTS
TRANSFORMATIONS
NEW UNDERGROUND LEVEL
NEW BUILDING’S FORM
Project type: Competition, Municipality of Chania , 1st prize project team: Architects Tsakalakis D, Daskalakis G, Terezaki A
3D Visualisation Kapsalis A
Interns Karagianni V, Stathopoulou E
Special counselor Karabas T
pubLication: Greek Architecture Yearbook 2016, DOMES year: 2013
Location: Chania, Crete, GR
The proposal concerns the re-design of the esplanade of Koum Kapi, in Chania. Main concern of the design was the creation of five key points of interest. Public seating spaces with pergolas, a cantilever over the water, a sunken theater with direct sea view, staircases that benefit the direct access to the water level and sub-terrainian public WC and changing rooms compose a coastal zone that is offered for both leisure and swimming. The design of new public lights, canopies for the operation of coastal cafeterias and bars, balustrades, paving, bicycle path, and the addition of benches and trees creates a unified area fully functional day and night.
Project type: Competition, shortlisted 32 -100 project team: Kapodistria M, Tolis N, Stathopoulou E pubLication: “Room 18: The new urban hotel” (special edition), “HOT (ΕΛ)”, p. 64-65, DOMES, Athens, 2016 year: 2016
Location: GR
The hotel room changes its “content” and is transformed into an autonomous core, offering “in house” services to its users.
The proposal aims to create an open plan space, but with distinct functional boundaries. In the plan view, can be seen a sleeping area and a “wet space”, which were designed as opposed spatial experiences.
A zone of blinds is placed along the room, and as it develops in three dimensions, breaks in smaller fragments and acquires different functions depending on the needs of each space. It is a multi-functional furniture while forming a perforated border.
Colors, inspired by the Greek landscape, complete the spatial expression of the lean and light interior. Blue dominates, as it creates the necessary tranquility while expanding the contours of the room. Green implies nature, the fertile Greek countryside, and finally, the light shade of ocher creates a Mediterranean connection with the sand and sun.
Project type: Academic project | Interior design project team: Stathopoulou E, Altouva O professor: Tsakalakis D year: 2013 Location: Heraklion, Crete, GR
A 45m2 maisonette, typical unit module of a collective inhabitation project, has been optimized and resolved on a smaller scale.
The main idea is the design of individual residences that use their shared separation walls to accommodate their basic functions. The result is a three-dimensional wall, where all these functions are encase, achieving the maximum exploitation of each cubic centimeter. Each apartment needs two “WALLS” in order to be functional.
One side of the “WALL” accommodates the staircase, kitchen, WC, nightstand, and bed’s headboard, while the other side turns into a sofa, office, library, wardrobe and auxiliary kitchen area.
Project type: Academic | Disseration
MArch Architecture Engineering Technical University of Crete project team: Kapodistria M, Stathopoulou E professor: Skoutelis N
pubLication: https://issuu.com/mantwkapodistria/docs/carlo_scarpa_______________________ http://prezi.com/vaphvpusu42t/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share year: 2015
Starting point of the research thesis is the work of the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa, characterized by his own detailed design approach. After the presentation of a brief biography with references to the elements that shaped Scarpa’s architecture identity, follows the analysis of the basic principles and characteristics of his work, using some of his projects as case studies. Materials, manufacturing techniques, the handling of the light and the adaptation to the surrounding environment are just a few of them.
Then, driven by these elements, follows a brief reference to the theories developed around the notion of “localism”. Stepping on the aforementioned theoretical background, an analysis of the early works of architects who acted in different periods, countries or even continents, and have common approaches with Carlo Scarpa’s work, constitutes the main body of the thesis. How does the methods of Scarpa’s design process are related to the work of Luis Barragan, Sverre Fehn, D. & S. Antonakaki, Tadao Ando, Peter Zumthor and Vincenzo Latina? The scope is to observe the way in which every architect customizes those common features in the architecture of the site and simultaneously, the outcome of his design is related to a global architectural language.
The main intention is to emphasize the importance of critical selection and implementation in the architectural design of those elements that maintain the character of a place and examine how these elements could form a universal approach in architecture and vice versa.
Project type: Academic |Dissertation
MSc Architectural Conservation
The University of Edinburgh professor: Theodossopoulos D year: 2019
How the palimpsest of the city of Athens could be enhanced?
The continuous habitation of the city for five thousand consecutive years is present in its numerous historic layers ranging from the ancient times until nowadays. This research aims to explore the Athenian palimpsest and particularly, the dialectic relationships between its layers. In order to identify the possible connections, the study of the historical evolution of the city, divided in layers based on different historical phases.
A place, which has been inhabited for long, consists of layers of history. This history is reserved in physical elements or collective memories. The destruction or reconstruction of these attributes form a palimpsest, tangible and intangible respectively, whose character is the outcome of the existed layers and the act of their erasure to leave space for new ones to appear. The notion of the palimpsest of a city refers to both urban and architectural scale. Elements of various periods added in the urban fabric in a juxtaposed or superimposed relation. These elements, buildings or structures, are composed by their own smaller in scale palimpsests. Designing by respecting all the historical traces brings a depth to both buildings and places, engaging a dialogue between older and newer layers of history.
The addition of new layers in the urban context introduced space qualities, building heights and architectural styles, often linked with the collective memory, and hence, with the identity of the place. A series of morphologies, even if they seem unrelated, in fact they are part of the transformation process of the urban landscape. The evolution of construction and material technology of each period is expressed on the scale and audacity of the new layer. The contemporary image of the city is a collage of older small in scale buildings and the massive layer of the concrete multistorey residences, commonly known under the term ‘polykatoikia’.
The frantic rhythm of development, during the 20th century, resulted in a violent replacement of older layers by the polykatoikia. The scale and materials of the new building stock enforces the absence of dialogue with the architectural qualities of the earlier constructions. The lack of urban planning in their development and the fragmented ownership led to a deadlock; the paradox of a city with such a long history to acquire characteristics of a “Generic city”, linked with generic memories and loss of character.
These newer fragments could be perceived as a form of lacunae that after the progressive multiplication and replacement of the older structures, was established as the main theme of the cityartifact. However, despite its negative perception, it constitutes part of the current urban landscape. As it derives from the study of the Athenian palimpsest, polykatoikia emerged as a natural evolution of the Greek architecture and is not an alienated form as thought. Thus, it is part of the cultural heritage and collective memory. Several opinions have been heard regarding the massive demolition of this building stock in terms of urban renewal, as a repetition of the Greek history after the 1830s. The replacement of decayed buildings would be necessary in some cases, following the Morris perception that a building cannot be constantly reused, but this should not be the rule. By keeping the evidence of the period of massive reconstruction, the use of its traces would set the base for the creation of connections with the past.
Currently, interventions in both urban and architectural scale enhance the Athenian palimpsest, mainly in a fragmented way. Apart from the “Archaeological Park” that manages to see a large part of the city as a whole, any other intervention, both in urban and architectural scale, is isolated. There is no cohesion between them that could create an integrated perception of the city as a collage of time.
Reading the city of Athens as a Historic Urban Landscape, as a process, could reveal lost architectural and social qualities. Policies based on the Historic Urban Landscape (2011) approach, seeing the city as palimpsest could favor critical interventions on the extant building stock, historic or not, along with the education of people regarding the importance of architecture in relation to the collective memory. Such a strategy could upgrade the overall urban context and manage to reveal the deep palimpsest of the city in all of its dimensions; not only the underground one. The city and the traces of its continuous habitation in both tangible and intangible dimension could be perceived as an exhibit itself, linking the contemporary reality with the collective memory of the place. The weaving of the historic urban layers could transform the whole city into an openair museum.
