. Efstathia Palyvou . . Accredited & Qualified Msc Architect Engineer . . PhD student . MA Interior Design student .
Portfolio of work 2000 - 2016
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MA Interior Design School Projects (on going) Architecture examples (years 2007-2015) Interior Architecture 3D renderings (Vray renderer, plans in sketchup, Autocad, revit) Creativity skills (model making, collages, free hand drawings) School Projects (BA & Msc Architecture Engineering school projects) Other Architectural Courses
MA Interior Design School Projects (on going)
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Jane Austen’s House: An interactive book The project aimed to create an interactive book to represent the interior qualities which were found during the visit to J. Austen’s house. The haptic experience as well as the sound and the smell were curated through the interactive pages of this book. Analysis of the interior and the exterior as well as the relation between J. Austen’s House and Chawton’s House Library were also recorded.
Chawton’ House Library : A Hanging Story The project aimed to create a pause within the wilderness which would encourage the visual and sensory engagement of the visitor. Fragments from J. Austen’s novels are carved on wooden pieces,
hanging from the trees while the pattern of a carpet differentiates the
‘flooring’ of the wilderness. The visitor looks up high, creates his own narrative, reads his own story.. The wilderness takes over and allows the hanging elements to decompose and become one with the nature. The visitor is experiencing interior elements in the exterior and is
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engaged by vision, sound and tactility in a journey through J. Austen’s work.
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Studio Workshop: measuring space with the body The project aimed to create a board game based on the fast or slow rhythm in which a student reads the space. The project used a palm as a measuring unit. Useful observations were made as to the proportions of our body, such as that an arm is approximately 4 times the palm. The journey which would be recorded had to include two thresholds and at least two doors. The concept of the die came later on as it was mandatory to define the rhythm for the gamer. Two dice were created an ‘on time’ one and ‘in hurry’ respectively. The board consisted of a square divided in three pieces, which were numbered individually with 1,2,3. Depending on the rhythm the appropriate die was thrown. On time die: illustrated numbers in twos such as 1-3, 2-1 etc. then the piece would move in the appropriate squares. In Hurry die: illustrated single numbers such as 1,2 etc. the piece would then be moving only in the single numbers squares as the piece would be in hurry and thus it would do larger steps. The dice were made to fit the palm, which was the measuring unit. The gamer’s piece illustrated the measuring unit.
Theory Project: Tactile Childhood Memories The project aimed to create a device which would engage the tactile and the sensory. Through this process a new subject would be developed called : ‘Space reader’. The idea is around a box which excludes the vision while it stimulates the rest of the senses through
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the haptic experience : hearing, smell, taste and touch. The vision was excluded as it is not considered to be one of the senses which engages and promotes the interior experience of the haptic. Eyes ‘stroke’ the exterior but do not carry any interior tactility. The draft idea was represented though a 5x3x5 box, with a hole on top allowing only one finger to explore its internal tactility. The textures inside engaged mainly the touch, the smell and the hearing at this stage.
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Tactile Childhood Memories The second phase of this project consisted of boxes which would offer separate stimulus for each of the senses. The textures where carefully chosen
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and also included hot and cold objects. The artifact is my device to train the potential ‘space reader’ through a process which will allow him to recall early, if not the earliest, childhood memories. The artifact explores the ways in which the body is spatially engaged with a device in terms of tactility. It also explores the way a body creates memories. Either a memory which would call the ‘space reader’ to find the next stimulus through repeated processes, or a memory which is produced using the means of the human body as a creative device.
Some of the textures in the boxes.
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Theory Project: Tactile Childhood Memories
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The boxes were arrayed vertically and were engaging from top to bottom : the hearing, the smell, the taste, the haptic of the hand and finally the haptic of the foot. The ‘Space Reader’ was blind folded and was asked to explore the boxes one by one through his sensory. The important observation through this emerged after the last box at the bottom where the ‘Space Reader’ was asked to manipulate an unknown ‘substance’, with their foot in order to create an artifact on a piece of paper. This could have been their name (memory of the written) a favorite object (descriptive memory) or a figure (representative memory). The substance was a transparent petroleum jelly. The intention was to exclude the visual stimulus (no colour) once more and to manifest the way in which memory is stored, decayed or preserved through the years.
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The ‘Space Readers’
‘Space Reader 1’
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‘Space Reader 2’
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‘Space Reader 3’
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‘Space Reader 4’
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‘Space Reader 5’
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The produced artifacts
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The decayed artifacts
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Theory Project:
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Tactile Childhood Memories Final Artifact (draft) The final artifact is an interactive book, which can be explored in an unusual way, mainly because of its contents and its instructions. The draft of this idea is illustrated on the left of this page. The book contains the main observations about the sensory in a tighter way. It describes the ‘Space Readers’ one by one, telling their own story, as one can witness while browsing a childhood album, constructing a narrative about the haptic, the stimulus and the memory.
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Theory Project: Tactile Childhood Memories The final artifact consisted from an edible cover, which encouraged the ‘Space Reader’ to leave their own imprint on this book or even taste it. Fragments of the textures were partially imprinted, altered by more fingerprints or pinches from bits that were removed during the taste process. The first part of the book was the documented perfomative installation and the narratives of the space readers. The next page engaged the ‘Space Reader’ to construct their own mask, take their own measurements of their head and wear it. Additionally asked them to explore the pages – which were detachable – in their own way, shake them, throw them, open them, fold them etc. The main objective was for the ‘Space Reader’ to browse this book with no conventions or any particular reading style. The instructions were given to liberate the acquired conventions about the reading pattern. How does a child read? Under a bed, behind a door, with its legs in the air, behind the washing machine? The pages followed the same principle – hearing, smell, taste, tactile – and at the end, the ‘Space Reader’ produced its own artifact.
Architecture examples (years 2007-2015)
Interior Architecture
3D renderings (Vray renderer, plans in sketchup, Autocad, revit)
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bedroom innovation proposals, 2014 summer cabin house,marathonas 2010
Nail bar proposal, 2015
Creativity skills (model making, collages, free hand drawings)
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Design Studio I, ‘perception of the urban net & city impressions’, 2001 Mixed use of papers, cartons, garbage bags, glue & photographical pieces
Design Studio II, ‘re-habitation of an old building’, 2002 Mixed use of cartons with different hardness & texture
Create you own style seminar, Velios school of arts, 2013 Hand made tiles for project needs : sand tile for bathroom flooring & pebble tile for shower
Visual merchandising & retail management seminar, Velios school of Arts, 2014 Window display models. Mixed use of materials : rope, fresh plant leaves, sand & glue . Case study: “h & m” flag store in Syntagma square (for seminars purposes, not realised.
Free hand drawings (pencil) 2000
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draft sketches for contest
draft sketches, house proposal 2009
School Projects (BA & Msc Architecture Engineering school projects)
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design studio _small scale design_’bodylanguage_ashtray & baby's rattle’, 2002
Elective Design Studio III ‘|urban|shelters in highlands of mountain Holomontas’ 2002
design studio, small building complex with mixed uses in the city of Volos”,2003
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elective design studio, A road’s museum, 2004
design Studio IV, ‘itinerants lodging Centre, with abstract parts for urban use by homeless groups, in Metaxourgio’ 2004
Design Studio V, ‘civil airport in Aghialos area ’ 2005
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underground museum, of physical discipline and body incarceration, based on the literature of DeSade,2007
Carnal imprints, taken as outlines from Sade's gravures, are being transformed into 3D space
Other Architectural Courses :
From ‘Nothingness to Place’ From ‘Place to Space’
Other architectural courses
From ‘Nothingness to Place’
https://issuu.com/stathoulapalivou_architect_/docs/architecture_1o1_nothingness_to_pla
Other architectural courses
From ‘Nothingness to Place’
https://issuu.com/stathoulapalivou_architect_/docs/architecture_1o1_nothingness_to_pla
Other architectural courses
From ‘Nothingness to Place’
https://issuu.com/stathoulapalivou_architect_/docs/architecture_1o1_nothingness_to_pla
Other architectural courses
From ‘Place to Space’
https://issuu.com/stathoulapalivou_architect_/docs/final_presentation_booklet
Other architectural courses
From ‘Place to Space’
https://issuu.com/stathoulapalivou_architect_/docs/final_presentation_booklet
Other architectural courses
From ‘Place to Space’
https://issuu.com/stathoulapalivou_architect_/docs/final_presentation_booklet
Other architectural courses
From ‘Place to Space’
https://issuu.com/stathoulapalivou_architect_/docs/final_presentation_booklet
Thank you !
. Efstathia Palyvou . . Accredited & Qualified Msc Architect Engineer . . PhD student . MA Interior Design student .
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