Theo Svoronos - folio of works 2010-2015 by teo arc

Theo Svoronos architectural folio of works 2010-2015

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Independent Coursework 2014 2014 2013 2012 2011 2008

Cob Workshop - Natural Building and Design Panorama of Entrepreneurship and Career Development Film direction, theory and production Seminar/Masterclasses “Ab_Use” computation and design Workshop Sens[e-Res]ponsive Architecture Workshop EcoWeek Architecture Seminar

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS - Villard13 - ReUse: “strategie sostenibili di riqualificazione urbana”, 2013 Project for European Student Workshop, Quartu, Sant Elena 1rst Prize

- Island Shelter, 2015 - Athens after 2005: Immigration and Urban Transformations, 2013

AutoCad, Adobe Suite, 3dStudio Max, Rhinoceros, Sketch up

LANGUAGE SKILLS Greek (native proficiency) English (professional working proficiency) Spanish (intermediate) French (beginner) other interests

cinema, literature, psychology, photography, running, basketball

Design Master Thesis and Research Master Thesis Published in “greekarchitects.gr”, in A2610 Workbook and the official school website

- Family House, 2009 - “Green Veil” House Block, 2010 - Collective Housing and urban farming, 2011 - Cinema Complex, Waste Energy Plant and Park, 2012

COMPUTER SKILLS

Projects for Design Studios Published in A2610 Workbook of the year and the official school website

- “Flow”, 2010 Video Art Project for Visual Arts Studio

official entry in “Athens Video Art Festival 2010” and “A.S.T.O. Short Film Festival”

references Yannis Aesopos ya@aesopos.net +30 210 6899100 Dirk Peters dp@barcodearchitects.com +31 (0)104256650 Harris Biskos cbiskos@gmail.com +30 210 345 2856

Theo Svoronos adress // Anapiron Polemou 5, Athens e-mail // theosvoronos@gmail.com tel. // 0030 - 6979012729

aCADEMIC work

“Hortus Apertus” Island Shelter, 2015 Design Master Thesis

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Athens after 2005: Immigration and Urban Transformations, 2013 Research Master Thesis

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Cinema Complex, Waste Energy Plant and Park, 2012 Project for Design Studio No8

p. 28

“Eleonas Platform” collective housing and urban farming, 2011 Project for Design Studio No7

p. 32

“Green Veil” House Block, 2010 Project for Design Studio No4

p. 40

Small House with Bookstore, 2012 Project for Sustailable Design Studio No1

p. 44

Published in “greekarchitects.gr”

Published in A2610 Workbook of the year and the official wedsite of the school

Published in A2610 Workbook of the year

PROFFESSIONAl work

“Tourism Landscapes” Remaking Greece, 2014 Greek Participation in the 14th International Architecture Exhibition Professional project for the Ministry of Culture, under Yannis Aesopos

Athens Do-It-Together, Athens, 2014

Professional urban project for the Municipality of Athens, under Charris Biskos

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p. 52

[01] “Hortus Apertus” Island Shelter Design Master Thesis, 2015 published: “greekarchitects.gr” with: Giorgos Kourakos tutor: Yannis Aesopos

The site The uniqueness of the Strofades Islands is easily perceived through a single visit in this isolated and almost secret place of the Ionian Sea -a uniqueness not only in its geographical and geological features but also in its course over the centuries. The Islands’ various habitats are composed of rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, fertile soil, uncultivated and bushy fields and a dense cedar forest. The ‘fragile’ geology of the island complex is exposed to the almost oceanic cli-

mate – the waves are constantly altering the coastline by shattering the rocky borders of the land, while the land is constantly stormed by the mighty salty winds. The ‘fight’ will be going on till the Strofades find themselves in the same state as the nearby reefs -a small archipelago visited almost exclusively by migratory sea birds. However, the human presence is obvious from several kilometers away. The medieval tower of the Strofades’ Monastery in the south island, Stamfani, stands out in the flat landscape - historically a home of 40 monks, whose herit-

age is now preserved by one last elderly monk. The cultivated fields of Stamfani are still active under the auspices of the Holy Metropolis of Zakynthos and Strophades and the National Marine Park of Zakynthos. The latter provides the islands with two seasonal guards for the environmental watch of the vulnerable to human presence habitats. The north island, Harpyia, with its two small ruined houses is now deserted. Its name is a reference to the Argonauts’ detour (strofe ->

Strofades) to chase the Harpies via the islands - the mythological flying monsters, which are now identified as the migratory seabirds Cory’s shearwater, which nest and breed on the islands during summer and their cries during the night are very distinctive and maybe ‘haunting’. They are object of observation and research of the other seasonal visitors of the island, ornithologists and biologists.

[01] “Hortus Apertus” Island Shelter Design Master Thesis, 2015 published: “greekarchitects.gr” with: Giorgos Kourakos tutor: Yannis Aesopos

Nonfictional activation: Ecological and Culture routes (or a day in Nature)

Fictional activation: Shelter (or Inverted Monastery Cloister)

Our first objective is to activate the larger Island Stamfani, by giving prominence to its unique existing features, conservatively according to specific regulations that engage the ecosystems of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos. The Monastery would be restored after a study of the Department of Architecture of the University of Patras, which provides the accommodation of six monks and a minimum amount of short term guests. The NMPZ would acquire new facilities for the accommodation of the seasonal guards and an independent accommodating and research facility for 8 researchers/scientists. Also, a reception area and 3 paths would be defined for one day visitors to explore the Islands’ ecology and history without giving space to any further human intervention to the sensitive habitats. The use of local structural elements (e.g. rammed earth, local stones, reeds, parched cedar logs) would be necessary.

On Harpyia Island, which is of less ecological importance, we imagine an allegory of a religious monastery, where 20-40 people could take shelter, inhabiting this desolate landscape. The communal life will be characterised by an institutionalised nature observation ‘ritual’, which would promote the complex comprehension of the constantly changing structure not only of nature but of contemporary life in general. The effect of the natural phenomena on the islands is so violently perceptible, that this specific site could function as a unique living space of an experimental self-sufficient community.

Its inhabitants would live in small individual shelters and would be organized according to two separate communal life principles. The first would be the functional or nonfictional one and the second would be the institutionalised or fictional one. The first would be composed of the fulfillment of basic individual and communal needs, i.e. the physical communication via two safe little harbours and supplies storage facilities, twenty small dwellings/shelters, the production and preparation of food on small gardens and the common kitchen with a large dining room, the communal assembly and the communal library with communication facilities. Each of these spaces corresponds to a different level of

individuality in an every society, from the most individual (dwelling shelter) to the most communal (library). The second principle would be what makes the community come together in a different level through an everyday ‘ritual’. It would be expressed by a path which would connect the four points of Harpyia most exposed to the natural phenomena of precipitation, wind, tide and waves, and the sun. The observation of the ever-changing natural scene on the ‘ritual path’ would be intensified by the local flora and fauna. The path would be the reference point of everyday life in the community, setting at the same time a different counting of the calendar year in the imaginary structures that bring communities together.

General Masterplan

Masterplan (+3.00)

Hermit

Settlement around the hermit - small temple

Irish monastery: influenced by hermits, Egyptian and Syrian monasteries

Monastery typology of the cloister and the “Hortus Conclusus”

New cloisters added to recieve more monks

Hermit

Settlement around the hermit - small temple

Irish monastery: influenced by hermits, Egyptian and Syrian monasteries

Monastery typology of the cloister and the “Hortus Conclusus”

New cloisters added to recieve Complex building typologies Source: Walter Horn, "On the Origins of the Medieval more monks hosting a variety of new Cloister" Gesta 12.1/2 (1973:13-52) programs

Ιερό στοιχείο, περίκλειστος κήπος και κτηριακός όγκος σε μοναστηριακές δομές:

Ορθόδοξο μοναστήρι

Καθολικό μοναστήρι

Complex building typologies hosting a variety of new programs

Βουδιστικό μοναστήρι Source: Walter Horn, "On the Origins of the Medieval Cloister" Gesta 12.1/2 (1973:13-52)

Το αίθριο περικλύει τον ναό

Το αίθριο ορίζεται από τον ναό

Το αίθριο είναι ναός

abstract diagram: enclosed sacred element

excess need of enclosure/protection: abolition of the cloister

sacred element ever present and accessible: parallel development

deconstruction of the wing into entities, linear garden as a buffer zone between sacred and functional realm.

Intersection of the realms: buildings/programs are located on the nods as a common ground.

Gradient distribution (privatecollective), according to monastery life.

abstract diagram: enclosed sacred element

excess need of enclosure/protection: abolition of the cloister

sacred element ever present and accessible: parallel development

deconstruction of the wing into entities, linear garden as a buffer zone between sacred and functional realm.

Intersection of the realms: buildings/programs are located on the nods as a common ground.

Gradient distribution (privatecollective), according to monastery life.

κελιά ξενώνες abbot

category

dwelling/cells

refers to

production

team

ηγουμενείο

administration

community

βιβλιοθήκη σχολή

education

sacred element

ατομική

individual σφαίρα

individual

παραγωγή αποθήκευση κουζίνα τράπεζα

ναός παρεκκλήσια μνήματα

new type

humanity

sacred/transcendental

sacred ιερό element στοιχείο

program

συλλογική

collective σφαίρα

The Shelter - Cell entrances 8

The Shelter - Cells

The every-day ritual The place of dwelling also expresses the general investigation of the concept of the flow and constant change. Is thus found irrelevant to form a monastery cell, a protective bubble of inclusion. The cell is organised in a linear plan, that concludes to the sea, providing the dweller with the nessesary reference of a starting and finishing point of everyday life and prosseses, but not allowing the mental differentiation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;inside-outsideâ&#x20AC;&#x153;. The cell is designed to produce a linear sequence of different experiences by entering. It follows principals involved in rituals (as the dive in through narrow, dark opening, the revealing of a new reality, clensing and purification ect). It acts as a prossess of preparation for a more esoteric and personal state.

Rhino/Illustrator: Theo Svoronos

The Shelter - Cells

The Shelter - Cells 12

The Shelter - Kitchen

The Shelter - Kitchen 15

The Shelter - Agora

The Shelter - Agora 17

Non fictional activation - Guard, Researcher and Visitor facilities

4 9

7 10

Rest stop Culture Natural beauty Ecology

Existing routes and paths

Places of interest

3 new thematical paths

2760m

1790m

1805m

2 11

7 10

Rest stop Culture Natural beauty Ecology

Existing routes and paths

Places of interest

3 new thematical paths

Pilgrimage Line

2760m

1790m

Eco Line

Tourist Line

1805m

2 3 5

4 9

7 10

Pilgrimage Line

Guard facilities

Eco Line

Tourist Line

Non fictional activation - Researcher and Visitor facilities

Researcher and Visitor facilities

[02] Athens after 2005: Immigration and Urban Transformations Research Master Thesis, 2013 published in “greekarchitects.gr” tutor: Yannis Aesopos

Introduction The present research thesis addresses the local implications of the global immigration phenomenon of our era. Aim is to investigate and assess the urban transformations that presently take place in Athens, triggered by it - partially or merely. While present political leadership in Europe, expresses the view that the shift towards a multicultural society was a wrong turn that EU needs to rethink, Greece is found in an unprecedentedly multicultural social condition, as well as in the process of sensitive social, economical and cultural reform. The research in the effects and transformation caused by immigration in Athens, as an attempt to evaluate present urban reality, is therefore found crucial and topical.

Structure Despite the globalized nature of immigration, the present thesis does not focus on that level. On the contrary, main effort is the listing and analyzing of local implications of the phenomenon. That would allow us to come to specific conclusions that concern the local community, and avoid generalized observations in a larger, irrelevant scale.

Laying a common ground with the reader, useful terms, immigration policies and local cultural aspects are introduced. Theoretical models explaining immigration are also presented, in order to allow for personal points of view on the reader to be developed, before going into further details. The paper’s main part, the research on Athenian transformations, is divided into 3 parts:

1. the distribution and characteristics of migrant households and the way they reshape the urban landscape, 2. the influence of immigration on urban public space, and 3. the effects of the city’s re-actions to these triggers. During every step of this multi-leveled research, observations are made in order to work towards a final conclusion. The issue of altered, inaccessible or missing data, lead the project to resort to field research: Interviews with locals and immigrants in key spots, mapping of commercial activities and door to door visits, were used to fill the gaps where needed.

1991

7th

6th

5th

15 %

4th

16 %

3rd

25 %2001

2004

2nd

Immigrant percentage of total population in Greece

30 % Sources: Hellenic Statistical Authority, «Globalization, Urbanization and Migration» 12 %

1,4% Κονγκό 1,7% Ερυθραία 3,8 % Συρία 2,1% Παλαιστίνη

2009

= Rio De Janeiro 1%

= Tokyo

2011

2% 7%

1rst

7,5 %

ground

20 % 50 %

rental 0%

6th

0% 0%

4th 3rd

2nd

30 %

1rst

7,5 %

12 %

ground

20 %

9.9 % West suburbs

14.7 % Piraeus

25 %

9,4% Bangladesh

basement

11 % ownership

Africa

= Barcelona 0 %

43.8 % Municipality of 1% Athens

16 %

2,9% Irak 1,2% Iran

14%

5th

15 %

arround Athens

50 % 15.9 %

rental

ducing 30% of GDP of Greece

Sources: Geographies, νο 19, 2012, D. Balabanides (2012) 67% works illegaly insurance)

Sources: Ministry of Public Order & Citizen Protection, To Vima ning 7% of its housing petries

51% workers industry/building/farming, 32% service, care 12% oﬃce employee/vendors,

Asia

10 % North-east suburbs

23% Afganistan

total

= Paris

Source: To Vima

12.269

20%

Immigrant houshold distribution in Athens, by floor

lives in Athens, 40% of which in Municipality of Athens

= San Francisco

7th 5.7 % South suburbs

12,4% Albania

30%

Country of origin (arrested illegal immigrants in Athens, 2011)

43.8 % Municipalit Athens

43.8 % Municipality of Athens

7. 8.

51% workers industry/building/farming, pruducing 30% of GDP of Greece 32% service, care 12% oﬃce employee/vendors, 5% scientists/ technisians/bussiness owners.

of total Greek population is igrants

Europe

30%

11 % ownership

of the Athenean population, migrants

15.9 %

14,4% Pakistan

Source: To Vima

3,9% Μαρόκο

Area of residence (immigrants Area of residence in Athens), (immigrants 2011: in Athens), 2011:

10 % North-east suburbs

30%

and 67% works illegaly (no insurance) pruducing 30% of GDP of Greece

arround Athens

67%

0,9% Τυνησία 2,6% Somalia

14.7 % Piraeus

15.9 %

6. 7.

9.9 % West suburbs

77% of immigrants ﬁnd a job through friends and relatives and 67% works illegaly (no insurance)

Source: To Vima

14.7 % Piraeus

77% 67%

arround Athens

5. 6.

20,1% Other

5.7 % South suburbs 5.7 % South suburbs

Source: To Vima

9.9 % West suburbs

Country of origin (arrested illegal immigrants in Athens), 2011:

= Miami, London

Area of basement residence (immigrants in Athens), 2011:

of immigrants ﬁnd a job through nds and relatives

77%

10 % North-east suburbs

77% of immigrants ﬁnd a job through friends and relatives

37%

workers industry/building/farming, service, care oﬃce employee/vendors, scientists/ technisians/bussiness owners.

12,4% Albania

23% Afganistan

10 %

Collapse of USSR

15 %

Olympic Games

20 %

Dublin ΙΙ

12,4% Albania

23% Afganistan

total

12.269

25 %

Arab Spring

Source: To Vima

Memorandum EU,ECB, IMF

To Vima

total

ry of origin (arrested Country illegal of origin immigrants (arrestedinillegal Athens), immigrants 2011: in Athens), 2011:

20,1% Other

0,9% Τυνησία 2,6% Somalia

20,1% Other

0,9% Τυνησία 2,6% Somalia

3,9% Μαρόκο

12.269

3,9% Μαρόκο

owning 7% of its housing propetries

2,9% Irak 1,2% Iran

9,4% Bangladesh

propetries

1,4% Κονγκό 1,7% Ερυθραία

36% of the Athenean population, is immigrants owning 7% of its housing

2,9% Irak 1,2% Iran

total

percentage in total population 30 %

9,4% Bangladesh

655.780

1,4% Κονγκό 7% Ερυθραία

total

50% lives in Athens, 40% of which in the Municipality of Athens 36% of the Athenean population, is immigrants

3,8 % Συρία 2,1% Παλαιστίνη

total

655.780

Africa

1.259.900

the Municipality of Athens

Africa Asia

3. 4.

total

12% of total Greek population is immigrants 50% lives in Athens, 40% of which in

AsiaEurope

2. 3.

total

1.259.900

3,8 % Συρία 1% Παλαιστίνη

10.815.197

12% of total Greek population is immigrants

14,4% Pakistan

1. 2.

total

14,4% Pakistan

10.815.197

Europe

National Statistical Source: Service, National Eurostat Statistical 2012 Service, Eurostat 2012

Immigrant household distribution, 2001

Immigrant household distribution, 2013 based on personal field research

immigrant places of religion

immigrant community centers

immigrant shops

(by size)

(by type)

immigrant related NGOs

abandoned shops

abandoned buildings

(by size)

(by number)

Foundings/Conclusion:

Athens is depicted by the research foundings as a city undergoing a rapid change of structure (social and spatial).

cat. 1

These foundings can be presented in 3 categories: 1. movement/relocation of specific activities, characteristics and qualities in the urban environment

Re-location of housing Re-location of housing Re-location

Vertical segregation Greek “Polykatoikia” Vertical segregation Greek “Polykatoikia” Vertical segregation -

of housing

Greek “Polykatoikia”

(De) Centralization (De) Centralization (De) Centralization

Reverse (De) CentralReverseization (De) CentralReverseization (De) Centralization

?? ?

cat. 2

2. the rise of new aspects/properties of public space in Athens 3. emerging new social balance and its spatial expressions

Rising importance of the neighborhood Rising importance of the neighborhood Rising importance of

New social roles of public New socialspace roles of public New socialspace roles of

Cultural significance of different localities Cultural significance of different localities Cultural significance

New use of public space New use of public space New use of

the neighborhood

public space

of diﬀerent localities

public space

Fragmentation and polarization of space Fragmentation and polarization of space Fragmentation and

Rising social importance of space Rising social importance of space Rising social impor-

Social introversion - the thrive of the Private Social introversion - the thrive of the Private Social introversion - the

polarization of space

tance of space

thrive of the Private

cat. 3 «Super-diversity» «Super-diversity» «Super-diversity»

1. Immigrants inhabit and revitalize areas that were abandoned during the decentralization of the last decades and the movement of the middle class towards the suburbs. That prevented the gentrification of the city center by the reintroduction of dwelling (preservation of multiple programs coexisting) and the simultaneous presence of various classes (using vertical segregation allowed by the type of the Greek multistoried “polykatoikia”). At the same time,

an other process of decentralization takes place: immigrant households move to the center periphery, state services trying to attract vulnerable social groups are relocated to the outskirts of the city, and commercial activity seems to reorganize and concentrate in bubbles towards the suburbs.

2. Despite the social introversion that was detected, research in every level showed the rising importance of public space: reinforcement of the role of the neighborhood, attachment of cultural elements on public space, , increasing appropriation of public space and use as an informal extension of the household, unifying role as common reference of different ethnic groups and as a binding element that leads to the formation of new social groups.

3. Social groups -and personal identities- are rapidly becoming cross linked, ever changing and harder to define. In this context of “super-diversity”, social and spatial segregation are unlinked from one another. However, it seems that public space in return, has fragmented into defined places of homogeneous character, often being the fundamental connecting aspect between individuals.

[03] Cinema Complex, Waste Energy Plant and Park project for Design Studio No8, 2012 published in A2610 Workbook of the year and the official wedsite of the school with: Giorgos Kourakos tutor: Panos Dragonas

Introduction The project involves the re-design of a “terrain vague”, a residual landscape between highways and watercourses. We suggest the introduction of two programs along with an experimental park: a cinema complex and a waste energy plant (commercial and industrial). The collision between the natural and the artificial element is obvious throughout the site. As a result, the constant changes -due to mechanical interventions, informal temporary shelters, the erosion of land, the sequence of the seasons, and many more unpredictable forceswere the starting point of a search into the notion of the manipulation/inscription of time.

The cinema complex ‘swings’ between two notions, the spectacle and the time (either natural time – spectator, or artificial time – direction or montage). Our programmatical allegory explores the relationship between the two realms and the power of the “machine” to entangle them.

Our project aspires both to balance these elements and to combine them spatially and conceptually, particularly through the manipulation of water in the site a system of follies which is scattered through the park hosting various functions and events. There is also obvious an effort to explore the idea of architecture as platform for interaction between users, or between users and space. Finally, water is considered to be the key element in the erosion and

evolution of the site through time, and its effects are highlighted by the design of the park.

Open air follies, paved paths and water creeks affect the erosion of land over time differently, leading to a new georgaphy.

The cinema complex is penetrated by a main axis , part of the main walk of the park, that over the watercourse concludes on the plant. 30

The cinema complex is designed to restrain the rainwater, producing a wetland of various levels and vegetation.

Halls are scattered and integrated into the wetland, allowing users to experience natural elements. 31

[04] â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eleonas Green Platformâ&#x20AC;? collective housing and urban farming project for Design Studio No7, 2011 published in A2610 Workbook of the year and the official wedsite of the school with: Giorgos Kourakos tutor: Yannis Aesopos

Introduction Eleonas is a former industrial district, now technically absent from the contemporary Athenian life, characterized by lage voids, abandoned buildings and a scattered informal patchwork of nature. The proximity to the city center allows the project to seek for oportunities to re-introduce the area to the public realm.

Basic intension of the project is to investigate possible advantages from the intersection of urban and rural life. We locate 4 types of users: farmer, dweller/farmer, dweller and visitor. The street level invades the site to form a platform of interaction between these categories.

The project involves dwelling, urban agriculture and a public park. The concept is to differenciate the type of housing by user: community and close to nature houses are developed as a fabric under the park, with agriculture areas acting as a barrier to the sourroundings, whereas urban living is concentrated in floating blocks that provide constant contact with the city (easy access and view). The park is on street level, accessible for all.

Dwelling is divided into two types: rural and urban. In every type, unit and block, strategies of space and level manipulation provide a wide variety of states between the private and the public (tools: atriums, green spaces, floor level, blinds of various opacities ect)

Dwelling

Park

Dwellings that are closer to natural elements are located under the surface of the park, and are organised in 6 neighbourhoods, signified by thematic gardens. 4 archetype units form 8 composisions of various coverage, that become the complex unit, as a reference to the blocks of Athens. Private atriums differenciate living and sleeping spaces, where as public atriums act as community meeting points. A system of mobile shades is used as a filter towards these atriums, providing a buffer zone and tranforming the outlines of the houses.

The park is organised around a main path that crosses 6 thematic gardens. By leaving the main path, the visitor is introduced into these gardens, that are of smaller scale and larger shape and space variaty. Larger plateux are also present in the project: 2 accessible green roofs work as places for concieving the total area, 2 public squares.

General masterplan

0 0 0 place market 0 market 0 place 0

136 194 136 2 apartments 194 6 2 apartments 58 6

118 240 118 2 apartments 240 6 2 apartments 78 6

110 250 110 3 apartments 250 8 3 apartments 72 8

100 310 100 3 apartments 310 8 3 apartments 85 8

visitor level visitor level

resident level resident level

atrium dwelling atrium program dwelling residents min.program vegetation residents min. vegetation

Masterplan -2.00m

95 300 95 4 apartments 300 12 4 apartments 110 12 110

90 300 90 3 apartments 300 10 3 apartments 90 10

0 0 comunity0gathering, gardens 0 comunity gathering, 0 gardens

agriculture

circulation

atrium

house

commerce

circulation

house

circulation

atrium

Wooden elements work as filters between spaces. Different programs are separated from each other in various ways, depending on the desirable amount of interaction.

apartment

house

agriculture

park/commerce

dweller

farmer/dweller

farmer

visitor

- easy and autonomous access - easy and autonomous access - easy and autonomous access - easy and autonomous access from/to the city - direct contact with agriculture - storage space - view of agriculture - individual city view - proximity to marketplace - proximity to marketplace - various speeds of crossing - individual open air space

One of the 6 unit/compositions of variable densities 36

Bedroom extending to small atrium. Atriums are used to separate private from common rooms in the house.

Urban agriculture surrounds the complex, enhancing the rural quality of the experience. 37

The park is developed above the community housing complex and is open to visitors. The units above the park offer an urban quality of livinig .

Section b

Upper level

Lower level 39

[05] “Green-Veil” Housing Block project for Design Studio No4 published in A2610 Workbook of the year tutor: Yannis Aesopos

The project proposes a new way of organising collective housing in the central area of the small city of Patras: public spaces and commercial programs invade the building which in this way becomes active accessible part of the urban fabric. The block contains apartments of various sizes, a laundry-mat and a restaurant.

The commercial programs are located on ground level, connected directly to the street and the public balconies/gardens. The shape of the site is extruded in a large system of hydroponic agriculture. This system wraps both the apartments and the public spaces of the building, and becomes a green veil towards the city, revealing a new way to experi-

ence and live in a small scale urban environment deprived of natural elements. The hydroponic system works by using a persentage of gray water of the complex, and therefore vegetation is organised accordingly (sections of purification and filtering) The metallic 3d grid is filled with the boxes/apartments, allowing sunlight to run

through the complex, and a central core of vertical movement is connected to all of the boxes as well as with every point of the “screen” with a perimeter outdoor corridor. Further future supplementation of the system is possible.

hydroponic green veil

circulation

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Bookstore (front) and house with office room (back)

[06] Small House with Bookstore Project for Sustailable Design Studio I, 2012 with: Giorgos Kourakos tutor: I. Alexandri

General The project explores the potential of a small sustainable complex in a typical Greek province city. It involves the design of a house, an office, a retail bookstore and a meeting room (available to both the office and the bookstore users at times).

It is located in the center of Patras surrounded by typical medium-sized poly-programmatic buildings. The project achieves the required sustainability levels by a series of strategies: urban agriculture faces south, a green barrier on the north acts as a windshield, the complex is located on the center and its openings are oriented

towards the south but covered with blinds, and is divided into two masses in order to maximize sunlight and preserve a micro-climate management strip between them. The north zone of the complex accommodates vertical movement and offers thermal protection during winter time and ventilation during the hot summer. The roof has an inclination of 30, and acts as a rain collec-

tor as well as energy provider using solar panels. Great emphasis is placed on the economical use of space and resources for the construction.

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use of air streams

natural ventilation

micro climate

water collection

solar energy

thermal zones

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deciduous trees on the south to filter summer sun adaptable wooden blinds inclined roof - rain water collector micro-climate managment water storage inclined roof - rain water collector and solar panels sunlight diffusion indoors high openings to the north for cooling north wing protection - circulation natural ventilation evergreen wind blocker

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ATHENS DO-ITTOGETHER Strategic masterplan development and urban acupuncture for the revitalization of Athens city center.

[07] “Athens Do-It-Together” strategic masterplan for the City of Athens Professional Project, 2013 project architect: Charris Biskos client: City of Athens

Introduction

Context

“Athens do-it-together”

The project is a strategic masterplan of ephemeral interventions towards urban revitalization, developed in key points of the historical and commercial center of Athens within a period of 6 months. It falls under the Development Program of the City of Athens “Project Athena“, a network of direct and brief interventions in the economy and public space of the city. Aim of the project is to use global relevant experience and case studies, as well as investigate new ways, to reactivate underutilized urban space and contribute to a commercial and cultural boost in an environment of generalized crisis and pessimism.

The desolation and dereliction of designed urban space combined with the re-location of commercial use in suburban bubbles, left the city center empty and neglected. Athenian society, already going through an identity crisis, was caught up with an unresolved urban problem, that calls for action. Despite the generalized degradation of the center, new economic and social conditions led to the emergence of newly formed collectives, bringing the ideas of the “collective” and “local” in the public dialog. Fragmented urban space is now -more than ever- subject of claim and reference point, in an effort to recharge it with meaning. As such, it acts as a common ground between artistic,social and political groups.

In this context, through key point interventions for the revitalization of public space, and based on an expanding masterplan scheduled to grow for 6 months, our proposal focuses on the area known as “commercial triangle“, the heart of the city center. At the same time, it forms a platform of cooperation and interaction between groups, broadening the vision we have for the mediate future of Athens. A toolbox is formed based on various case studies and new ideas, analyzed by size, cost, construction time, visibility, green space and other variables. After careful research and analysis on different sites, points of intervention are selected and matched with the optimum, most suitable type from the toolbox.

Interventions are focused on selected key points of the city, that have fallen in a state of inertia, vacant from public or commercial use, that present a potential of high urban influence. Vacant shops and windows can host small periodical exhibitions, empty or unfinished buildings can act as large scale canvases, arcades no longer live can receive multiple programs and act as incubators for collective activities, and large public spaces can be turned into temporary landmarks.

BUILT + CRISIS = VACANCY SPACE

PUBLIC + CRISIS = EMPTYNESS SPACE

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Phase 2:

Experimental, ephemeral Enrichment of the proand highly visible interven- jects along Stadiou. First tions along the main axis reference point in the area known as the “commerof the busy Stadiou street. Branding the project. cial triangle” of Athens. Base point of the project: incubator and workshop spaces. Open call for proposals by artists and link with think tanks and platforms as “Re-Activate Athens“.

Phase 3: The network expands and adapts: from road axis, to central focal points and finally to anchor points in neighborhoods. Different interventions are used in each step, engaging the public in various ways and scales.

vacant shops

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6 urban playgrounds

πληροφορία

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yarn bombing

large scale installations

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[08] “Tourism Landscapes” Remaking Greece Greek Participation in the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, 2014, La Biennale di Venezia: “Fundamentals - Absorbing Modernity, 1914-2014” Professional Project, 2014 Commissioner - Curator: Yannis Aesopos Assistants: Maria Chassioti, Ioanna Koulouri, Georgios Kourakos, Mina Roussou, Thodoris Svoronos

Greece’s 10th participation in the International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia is directed and curated by the National Commissioner architect and professor Yannis Aesopos, under the title “Tourism Landscapes: Remaking Greece”.

“It explores the role of tourism as a vehicle of modernization of Greece through the emergence of constructed tourism landscapes: hotels and resorts, organized beaches, archaeological sites and museums, public space designs and infrastructure facilities. Moreover, it focuses on the concurrent (re)shaping of Greek national identity that is enhanced through the contact of the “other”, the foreign, new and global element, which the activity of tourism presupposes.”

Greek history and the Greek landscape jointly made up the myth of contemporary Greece. Historical and cultural continuity through the unaltered landscape defined the identity of the modern Greek state. These same elements –history and landscape– provided the foundation for Greece’s entry to a new sector of economic activity that intensified rapidly during the country’s post-War modernization period: tourism, a global industry in which Greece was to play an important role at a global scale. Tourism is by definition an extrovert activity

that presupposes regular contact with the “other”, being in touch with the new and adapting to it as well as a continuous (re)configuration of identity. In architectural terms, a constant remaking of the built landscape. The exhibition examines and presents –through examples of both built and unrealized projects as well as through new designs developed for the exhibition by Greek and foreign architects– architectures of tourism as tools for the modernization of the country and the shaping of its identity.

Exhibition on progress

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Exhibition Description