Por t folio THEODORA LYMBOURA
FEB 2015
THEODORA LYMBOURA Architect Engineer - Urban Designer
FEB 2015
CV
Curriculum Vitae
THEODORA LYMBOURA theodora.lymboura@gmail.com http://issuu.com/theodoralymboura/docs/portfolio 12 Elgar House, Fairfax Road / NW64EX / London +44 7835209263
EDUCATION 09/2013 - 09/2014
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
March Urban Design, Grade: Distinction 09/2005 - 07/2013
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS School of Architecture
Masters degree in Architecture and Engineering, RIBA part II equivalent, Grade: 8.75 / 10 09/2003 - 06/2005
PANCYPRIAN GYMNASIUM OF NICOSIA High School (Lyceum) Grade: 19.83 / 20
WORK EXPERIENCE 04/2015 - Present
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands / London Part II Architectural Assistant
10/2014 - 12/2014
A-TEAM / Athens
Part II Architectural Assistant 09/2009 - 10/2009
TENDANCES OFFICE / Tunis
Iaeste Exchange Programme / Student internship
COMPETITIONS 02/2013
FALIRO VISITOR CENTRE / Stauros Niarxos Foundation Competition Project Title: “Transitory hosting platform”
04/2012
SOCIO DESIGN FOUNDATION / Vignette Competition
Project Title: “No foundation, no grid, home for the transitory”
WORKSHOPS & STUDY ABROAD 02/2010 - 07/2010
ERASMUS / Interuniversity Cooperation Program Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa
07/2007
TIMBER CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP
Organised by the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture Department, University of Cyprus
SKILLS computer literacy
languages
other
Excellent knowledge: Autodesk Autocad, Microstation Familiar With: Rhino, 3d Studio Max, SketchUp Presentation: Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite Greek: native language English: IGCSE, IELTS (grade: 8/9) French: Edexcel Fernch O’ Level graphic design and illustration, hand modelling, computer aided manufacturing
HONOURS 2013 - 2014 2005 - 2010
BODOSSAKI FOUNDATION BURSARY GEORGE AND MARIA TIRIMOU BURSARY
REFERENCES Mrs Beth Hughes: info@beth-hughes.com Mrs Katerina Karanikou: karanikou@a-team.gr Mr Paul Sandilands: p.sandilands@lds-uk.com
Contents 01. The Productive Enclave
8 - 27
02. Penetrating the Arcades
28 - 49
03. Inhabiting the Wall
50 - 61
04. Multiple Function Building
62 - 71
05. Public Space in Natural Site
72 - 79
06. Competitions
80 - 85
07. Digital Documentation in Design
86 - 91
08. Graphic Design - Cosmote head offices in Athens
92 - 97
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The Productive Enclave Military bases in Istanbul The project considers the military areas of Istanbul as large voids that still resist to the heightened pressure of Istanbul’s urbanisation and therefore present an opportunity to test a different form of urbanisation - development. Using the relationship of infrastructure as an architectural artifact and the landscape as a productive ground, the project defines a possible strategy to retain the “urban emptiness” while simultaneously accommodating urban expansion. With increasing pressures of land accumulation within the city’s urban centre, the project speculates that these voids will become released for development and their sites relocated outside of the city. The military zones are considered fundamental for both their natural and urban potential, and should therefore be developed for the common benefit in terms of open space and development. The total area of military and security zones within the municipality boundary is 21,410 hectares, while Istanbul constitutes 537,917 hectares. The military base located in the municipality of Esenler on the west of the city will become the site to suggest a pilot proposal for all of the military voids. Eventually the project aims to operate at the level of the territory, as all the military sites will collectively function to support the city's increasing energy and resource consumption.
01 | UCL Urban Design Project | 2013-14
Supervisors: Ross Exo, Beth Hughes, Davide Sacconi | Collaborators: Mary-Jane Wood | 11
Militarised voids - Urbanisation in Istanbul
01 | UCL Urban Design Project | 2013-14
The process of urban expansion within the city is continuously undergoing pressure to release valuable land and resources to the northern forests and land parallel to the coast. As a result, very little land remains unoccupied and 'non urban'. The militarised voids exist as both non urban and non rural spatial entities - spaces of exception. Protected by legislation, security technologies, and often surrounded by high speed highways; these spaces become a type of enclave in the city landscape.
Forest Built up areas Agricultural land Military bases
Supervisors: Ross Exo, Beth Hughes, Davide Sacconi | Collaborators: Mary-Jane Wood | 13
Pilot military void in Esenler - Site analysis The site is located in a peripheral area that is paradigmatic to the wider condition of Istanbul, whereby it encounters various urban typologies designed as a case by case condition. The area is located North of the O-3 European highway, it provides an opening to the forest to the North and experiences an increasingly urbanised fabric to the South. Toki and Kiptas developments to the West, with increasing edge pressures, opposed with informal Gecekondu settlements to the East side. In the case of the pilot site in Esenler, the void consists of land currently used for military training purposes, with existing barracks and out buildings. With low lying parts located in a water catchment area, a dam and reservoir exist to the south west of the site. The area is bounded by multi-lane high ways, and is only passable by the road running south west to north east, along the municipality boundary. Operating on such a large scale, it is necessary for the site to receive infrastructural forms in order to host and direct development. The inactive military void is transformed into an infrastructual platform, as a response to the surrounding condition of urban fragmentation and the lack of spatial and functional integration between fabric types.
Central Park, New York, 341,15 ha
Hyde Park, London 252,93 ha
Parc Guell, Barcelona, 17 ha
01 | UCL Urban Design Project | 2013-14
Esenler military base, Istanbul, 3176 ha
The military void lays at the centre of an extensive landscape of typologies which vary in function and form.
Forest
Airport
Toki, Kiptas, Onurkent
Agricultural land
Hospitals, Universitites
Gated communities
Mining
Leisure
Military zones
Industries, Manufacturing
Formally planned areas
Primary high way
Nuclear research centre
Informally planned areas
Secondary high way
Supervisors: Ross Exo, Beth Hughes, Davide Sacconi | Collaborators: Mary-Jane Wood | 15
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Current Condition: In the southwest of the site, there are a water catchment area, a dam and a reservoir. Also there are only a few dirt roads which traverse the site. The interior landscape is occupied by a limited, mostly low, vegetation.
Supervisors: Ross Exo, Beth Hughes, Davide Sacconi | Collaborators: Mary-Jane Wood | 17
An enclave of complementary infrastructural artifacts - Masterplan strategy
The project emerges at the very edge of the securitised boundary, wherein the series of the design"instruments" attach themselves to existing infrastructures and are projected into the enclave space. Combinations of infrastructural tools will be implemented in response to the existing terrain. Collectively occupying the site as a series of objects, they provide both permeability to the void and platforms of production. The infrastructural elements applied in space become artifacts with their own character and function. The green surrounding landscape amplifies their singularity while at the same time reinforces the whole as a complete network. Using the metaphor of the archipelago, arguably these landmarks become islands of porous boundaries that even if they are self sufficient they coexist within a larger whole. 01 | UCL Urban Design Project | 2013-14
The inactive military void is transformed into an infrastructure platform while in the interior the vegetation is reinforced to become a natural forest - "a green archipelago" for the public.
Supervisors: Ross Exo, Beth Hughes, Davide Sacconi | Collaborators: Mary-Jane Wood | 19
Landscape Terrain
Design Tool
Slope
Frame
Valley
Bridge
Hill
Retaining wall
01 | UCL Urban Design Project | 2013-14
Landscape Configuration
Infrastructural Elements
Infrastructural Frame
Water Bridge
Agricultural Terrain
Energy Plateau
Supervisors: Ross Exo, Beth Hughes, Davide Sacconi | Collaborators: Mary-Jane Wood | 21
Scale of infrastructural elements
Four categories of objects are created, each serving a specific function of productivity, and providing access to the enclaved site.
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i. Water Bridge The infrastructural element of the bridge is a gesture which generates an absolute horizontal linear motion in the larger terrain. Stretching some points of the existing circulation network inwards it encounters moments of verticality when it provides access to the public downwards in the valley and upwards to the water towers. Using the form of an aqueduct, it obtains the character of a clear axis that even if it traverses the landscape in a long distance, it still maintains the uninterrupted circulation of the water and people beneath it. This infrastructural element addresses the issue of the water that Istanbul is dealing for the last decade. Poor water management is responsible for the significant water shortage. In addition the urban expansion has overtaken fields, forests, wetlands and other areas where water resources lie. In the site that is a natural water catchment area, exists a dam that has the capacity to reinforce the water infrastructure network of the local region.
ii. Agricultural Terrace The gesture of the agricultural terrace uses the natural terrain of the hill to generate regulated new contours for cultivation. Utilising the element of the wall to retain the soil, it manages to create a moment of doubleness. At this precise moment where the landscape has been modified a new verticality is present. The surface of the wall is occupied by residential units that run along its facade, creating a double wall. A liveable small scale community space is constituted in this way to counterbalance the large infrastructural scale of the terrace. This intervention aims to activate one of the oldest traditions of Istanbul, that of the bostan - gardens. The first bostans were introduced in the city walls. In this threshold between the city and the surrounding rural landscape, the inhabitants generated small scale garden allotments. Whilst some exist, the few remaining bostan communities are under constant threat of urban development.
iv. Energy Plateau Having identified moments of level terrain across the site, the object uses both the retaining wall and bridge element in order to create a single entity which provides suitable land for renewable energy farms, alongside with allocated space for development. Implemented as a closed loop, the device attaches itself to existing intersections along the boundary road, providing vehicular access into the void. Using bridge elements, the infrastructure projects itself further into the void, reaching a moment of verticality which provides access.
iii. Infrastructural Frame The element of the frame touches the terrain through a continuous sequence of columns. These verticalities in their parallel configuration manage to amplify the shape of the landscape beneath them as they outline its contour line. Even if similar to the bridge still they introduce a different relationship with the terrain and suggest another function and future development. The frame becomes a receptor for future exploitation. It is the opening to capitalise within the enclave but at the same time it marks the limits of the expansion.
Supervisors: Ross Exo, Beth Hughes, Davide Sacconi | Collaborators: Mary-Jane Wood | 23
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01 | UCL Urban Design Project | 2013-14
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01 | UCL Urban Design Project | 2013-14
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Penetrating the Arcades The void as a tool of design Arguably the centre of a city is a principal point of interconnections, transactions, circulations. It captures partly the essence of the city. The city centre of Athens within the historic triangle notes a significant downgrading the past years. Many shops are abandoned and only few inhabitants live at the higher levels of its buildings. Local small industries, manufacturing units and storehouses are constantly being replaced by new bars and cafes. As a result, the main character of the area is transformed and the centre is undergoing a subtle but gradual process of gentrification. The future of the whole area is uncertain and unstable while the present entertainment-oriented trend is nothing but ephemeral. Within this context, the project aims to establish a new entry of though over the phenomenon of degradation. It promotes an intervention that would cause a different type of development. A development oriented to creativity and exchange. The main objective is to revitalize this area by unlocking pedestrians’ movements, supporting existing and introducing new cultural functions, which will act complementary to the former ones. The city can be understood as a theatre where everybody can be at the same time the object of observation and the observer itself. The city as a stage is constructed around flows. Flows of people, sounds, images, symbols, meanings. It is a dynamic amalgam of everyday stories which interrupt the holistic and absolute unity of the whole. If circulation and flows can provide the possibility of the “event”, gaze is the sparkle to a scenario, a performance. Considering that gaze triggers connections and creates stories, the project tries to “activate” parts of the city and turn them into platforms of encounter. Architecture in this project becomes a specific and extremely elegant gesture. With surgical precision, it uses the city’s own material to initiate the recuperation of the centre. It identifies the space of the arcade as an urban void which would be revised to provide a new “passagen” to the centre of crisis.
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 31
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
The city is constructed around flows. Flows of people, sounds, images, symbols.
Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 33
Arcades / Linear void Void is a space with meaning, a space of possibilities, not merely the negative of the urban, the leftover. It encloses the capacity to reverse degradation. It is a space that exists beyond the built and structured. It is not simply a vacant space, it exists as an urban entity full of contingencies. It is a place of otherness and indeterminacy where everything is feasible. Arcades are considered such spaces, with the ability to control and direct flow. These urban void corridors can establish an interior network of circulation for pedestrians in the area which is able to become a dynamic inlet of “human fluidity”. A catalyst to face abandonment.
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Lycabettus Hill
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Omonoia
Ermou st. iraki Sintagma
Monast
Acropolis
The area is surrounded by well defined axis. In the South, the pedestrian of Ermou street is the main shopping street in Athens. It connects Sintagma square, where the parliament is located, with Monastiraki square, where the train for Piraeus port departs. In the East, Stadiou street contains all the big publication stores, banks, offices and theatres. This artery connects Sintagma with Omonoia square. Omonoia was the principle ”entry point” of emigrants in late 40’s and today is a crossroad between immigrants, students and tourists. Finally in the West, Athinas street is significant for the oldest and most central fish, meat and vegetable market. This axis is also consisted by local handcraft, handicraft and retail shops. All of these centralities in the periphery, with their unequivocal characters, result to an ambiguous atmosphere in the interior. Firstly the internal urban fabric encompasses remnants from the 16th century where Athens was under the Ottoman empire occupation. In addition there is a multiplicity of uses, that are usually divergent. Storehouses are placed next to bars and cafes, galleries and theatres next to retail shops and banks next to stores and churches. Also there are a lot of buildings that are declared to be preserved and restored, but they are left in decay.
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
In the East, the first row of blocks along with some inner big blocks in the North, have arcades which are designed according to the European prototypes of the 19th century. On the contrary, in the interior of the historic triangle there are smaller arcades which usually lead to a dead-end.
Arcades
Void within urban blocks
Arcades
The circulation network is hierarchised from outwards - inwards. The roads in the periphery carry the heavy traffic load and they are connected with secondary roads from East to West. In the interior, tertiary roads pass through the area, while the network of pedestrian roads is very dense and it provides a strong benefit for the local market and shops.
Urban fabric
Open public space
Pedestrian roads
Urban void
0,24%
Block void 6,35% Public space
7,04%
Space of circulation 32,81% Proportions of urban elements
Structured space
53,56%
Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 35
Typology of arcades - Block of intervention Types of Arcades
Number of arcades / per block
1-2 3-4 5-7 8-10
Number of empty shops / per block
1-5 6-10 11-16 17+
Number of arcades with posssibility of penetration / per block
1-2 3+
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
Volumes of linear voids.
Volumes of the “un-built” in the interior of the block.
Aiolo
u str eet
Volumes of the urban “built”.
Network of Pedestrians.
St. Irene square
The project aims to respect the diversity of the area in the interior of the historic triangle thus, it suggests a strategy which reinforces its multilateral character utilising as design tools the area’s own material. The linear void of the arcades, the void in the interior of each block and the emptiness of the preserved buildings. It’s objective is not merely a solution to the problem of decay and abandonment in the centre. It is more a suggestion, a new way to think of the city and architecture. In a quest of a site of intervention, a survey took place concerning the characteristics of the arcades in the area. The significant information abstracted generated three maps that led the project into a deeper analysis of a specific stripe of blocks. Eventually the intervention was focused in only one block in the middle of the stripe. This particular block becomes a paradigm - a pilot site on which the suggested strategy is applied. In the West the stripe contains blocks that date back to 16th century, thus they are smaller and interconnected with pedestrians. The flow of circulation starts from the square of Saint Irene that is perpendicular to the pedestrian of Aiolou and is obstructed right in the middle where the block of selection is situated. The project intends to remove the obstruction of the flow using the element of the void. Utilising the arcades which penetrate the block, the design gesture joins the linear voids of the arcades with the void of the “un-built” in the interior of the block and in result it creates an uninterrupted circulation on the ground floor of the whole block. If this strategy is eventually applied in the blocks in the East and the area in general, then an introvert network of circulation is going to be developed and flow is going to be revitalised. Flow is that dynamic urban condition which is able to reactivate the emptiness and reverse decay and abandonment. Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 37
Thiseos 7-9
Thiseos 11
Thiseos 13
Current Condition
Perikleous 46
Recreation Passage - Arcade Void - No use
Romvis 18
Romvis 22
Services
Romvis 20
Trade
The block of intervention is bounded by the streets of Perikleous and Kolokotroni and by the pedestrians of Romvis and Thiseos. It is penetrated by 11 arcades but the project focuses only in seven of them. A commonality that appears to them all is that the shops in their interiors are mostly empty. All of them provide the vertical circulation and the entrance for the upper levels of the buildings, they have a double height of 6m and their width ranges from 3 to 4.50m. In the corner of Perikleous and Thiseos streets, an old mansion that was a hotel is now abandoned. This property encloses a courtyard that can be accessed from two arcades which are closed at the moment.
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3
Gesture of Intervention / Proposal
Music Arcade Theatre Arcade Dance Arcade Bazaars Stage Hostels
The gesture suggests the opening of six dead-end arcades in order to create internal through-passages and connects them to a linear open space inside the block. This interior public platform expands through another arcade in Perikleous street and it operates as an urban theatre stage. At the same time a scaffold is placed in front of the interior facades of the buildings and generates a vertical circulation. It receives platforms for spectators and actors as well as viewing points towards Acropolis and the overall horizon of the city. Furthermore, the activation of the new through-passages, is achieved by placing new cultural uses such as dance, music and drama schools, as well as arts and crafts markets.
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Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 39
1. Romvis 18 2. Romvis 20 3. Romvis 22 4. Thiseos 7-9 5. Thiseos 11 6. Thiseos 13 7. Perikleous 46
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
Loft plan
Basement plan
Ground floor plan
Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 41
Perspective view from Thiseos street
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 43
Perspective longitudinal section
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 45
Perspective transverse section
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 47
Construction details of scaffold
D1
D2
D3
02 | NTUA Diploma Project | 2012-13
D1
+15.00
+12.00
+ 9.00
D2
D3
+ 6.00
Supervisors: B.Babalou, A.Vozani | Collaborators: Christina Serifi | 49
03
03 Inhabiting the Wall From the scale of the unit to the ensemble This project is a large scale intervention, emphasising on social housing at a site in Tavros, a traditionally working class area. The aim is to provide both a new definition of large scale housing in order to be hospitable for the varied lifestyles of contemporary urban dwellers and a much needed public space for the wider area.From the urban scale down to the scale of the appartment the project intends to question the inhabitation patterns which the density of Athens provides. The site of intervention is bounded from Pireos street in the North which connects the centre of the city with the port of Piraeus. This axis carries heavy circulation and has a lot of noise. The main uses on both of its sides are mainly commerce, office buildings, night clubs and museums. In the South the railway lines run parallel to Pireos street and they seperate the site from the neighbor area. Both of these axis constitute a spatial border and manage to isolate their interior. The only relation the site has with the area of Tauros is with the large building block houses, in the East. The area of intervention is treated as the last piece of the sequence, of these housing blocks.
03 | NTUA Design Studio 9 | 2010
Supervisors: V.Ganiatsas | Collaborators: I.Theodoropoulou | 53
Scale of the unit - Apartment Typology
TYPE B
TYPE A
A typology array is proposed which generates possible sizes of apartments by varying their length and keeping their width stable at 5m or 10m. Finally only 10 types are chosen to be further designed, as they can accommodate a better insolation, ventilation and functionality in their interior. This multiplicity aims to cover the needs of the different contemporary habitation patterns.
TYPE A _ Width 10 m 10 7.5 5 2.5 0 m 2.5 5 7.5 10
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SYMBOL
TYPE
FLOORS
LENGTH (m)
A A A A A B B B B B
1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2
12.5 7.5 5 7.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 7.5 10
AREA (m2)
PEOPLE
125 75 50 150 100 37.5 50 125 75 100
1 1-2 3-4 1-2 3 3-4 1-2 1-2 4 3-4
TYPE B _ Width 5m
Supervisors: V.Ganiatsas | Collaborators: I.Theodoropoulou | 55
Scale of the neighborhood
3.5m
5m
03 | NTUA Design Studio 9 | 2010
circulation
The boundaries of a neighborhood are often blurry. A neighborhood is the space where people are given the possibility to interact, connect, communicate and share the feeling of a small community. The scale and form of this space could vary. This project defines the space of the neighborhood with the element of the “Wall”. Two wall structures are placed in a distance in order to generate an interior linear courtyard. This central space is not enclosed but it allows a passing through movement. The way the walls are slightly displaced from one another, and in tilted, permits the formation of a plateau in their upper part and a narrow passage in the other. The plateau becomes a small square for the inhabitants of the neighborhood. The “Walls” that constitute a neighborhood are 79m and 55m long. The entity of the “Wall” is a unit constituted of two parallel scaffold structures with a grid of 5 m vertically and 3.5 m horizontally. In order to organise the interior articulation of movements, they have 3 and 2 vertical circulation points respectively, and only one horizontal corridor that is pass-through. The apartments are prefabricated boxes and they are placed on the scaffold structures in order to create different combinations of relationships. The “Walls” are not fully occupied by the “boxes” but it is anticipated that when the needs for housing in the area increase, then the walls will be fully inhabited. At this stage of design the “Walls” include 25 residential units for families up to 4 persons, 25 units for couples and 12 studios. In total each neighborhood supplies around 5000 m2 of residences. In the interevention site three seperated neighorhoods are generated at its edges. By shaping the level of the ground their courtyards are isolated from the surrounding public movements and at the same time vital spaces are created below the folded ground. These spaces accomodate the needs of the whole complex and receive functions such as kinderdarden, supermarket, bazzars, workshop and recreatinal spaces, etc. The elevation of the ground forms the boundaries of the compound and it manages the circulation around and within it. Two basic axis of movement are created. The first from the North to the South and the other from the East to the centre where it meets the first axis. At their crossroad a central public square is formed and it establishes a common ground for the inhabitants of the site and the locals.
Supervisors: V.Ganiatsas | Collaborators: I.Theodoropoulou | 57
Scale of the ensemble
A
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A’
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Section AA’
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04 Multiple Function Building Public Building of SADAS Pedio Areos Park
Alexan
dras A venue
Nation a Archae l o Museu logical m
Strefi Hill
Exarchia Central Square
Patisio
n Aven
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NTUA
Green Void
Lycabettus Hill
The objective of this project is an architectural and constructive study of a public building of 3.000 m2 for the Greek Architectural Association (SADAS). The site is placed in the centre of Athens, in an area of transition, as it is between the commercial thoroughfare of Alexandras avenue and the urban inner-city region of Exarchia. The functional program includes work spaces (offices, laboratories, meeting rooms) as well as spaces open to the public (exhibition spaces, amphitheatre, library, restaurant, shops). The building is a composite construction of both metallic and concrete parts. It is a composition of volumes, where each of them contains a specific group of functions. The most public functions, like the library and the exhibition spaces, are placed into the lower volumes, while the work spaces are found in the upper ones. The ground floor distributes the movements to the basement, where the amphitheatre is placed, as well as the upper floors. It can be approached from three sides and it becomes a kind of an enclosed public square. The height in this level varies and thus the different functions and qualities of space are easily defined.
04 | NTUA Design Studio 7-8 | 2009
Supervisors: G.Liakatas, A.Pexlivanidou | Collaborators: C.Serifi, G.Demetriades | 65
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1. basement / 2. first floor plan / 3. second floor plan / 4. third floor plan
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5. fourth floor plan / 6. fifth floor plan / 7. sixth floor plan / 8. plan of rooftops
Supervisors: G.Liakatas, A.Pexlivanidou | Collaborators: C.Serifi, G.Demetriades | 67
Section AA’
04 | NTUA Design Studio 7-8 | 2009
Section BB’
Supervisors: G.Liakatas, A.Pexlivanidou | Collaborators: C.Serifi, G.Demetriades | 69
Construction details
04 | NTUA Design Studio 7-8 | 2009
Supervisors: G.Liakatas, A.Pexlivanidou | Collaborators: C.Serifi, G.Demetriades | 71
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05 Public Space in Natural Site The treasure of the “Panorama”
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City Centre
Green Void
The hill of Lycabettus is placed near the centre of Athens and it’ s one of the few remaining public natural sites of the city. The site of intervention is located at the top of the hill where the ground is excavated and used as a parking space. At the site there is also an open theatre where performances and concerts take place. The aim of the project is to reactivate the plateau and incorporate it to the city’s everyday life. The design is based around a narrative of a treasure hunt. A game where all of the participants find themselves under the quest of a mysterious valuable prize. Four paths beginning from different locations around the hill lead to the plateau on the top. During the ascension, varied site specific interventions unfold the correct route and they become the “clues” towards the prize. At the end, all the paths meet at the plateau where the final “tribulation” takes place. There three walls “conquer” the landscape and establish a peculiar dialogue with the surroundings. The scale of this artifacts is unfamiliar to the person and it becomes unwelcome. This though, is reversed when the bold structures reveal the hidden view and unfold gradually the panorama of the city. The participants finally capture their prize.
05 | NTUA Design Studio 8A | 2009
Lycabettus hill, picture by G. Demetriades
Geomorphology of intervention site
Supervisors: I.Terzoglou, T.Pantzaris | 75
05 | NTUA Design Studio 8A | 2009
Supervisors: I.Terzoglou, T.Pantzaris | 77
05 | NTUA Design Studio 8A | 2009
Supervisors: I.Terzoglou, T.Pantzaris | 79
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6a
Transitory Hosting Platform Faliro Visitor Centre
The pavilion’s main objective is to host and inform the visitors of the construction site of the new cultural centre of Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), in Faliro. It is situated on a pedestrian by the site which has a gradual slope and leads down to the sea side. The intervention is constituted of a wooden horizontal platform and two volumes of 7m wide and 14m long. The platform receives the flow of the pedestrians and it has multiple levels indoors and outdoors to generate different spatial conditions. The volumes are located on the platform and they are misplaced to create the main entrance. One of them is lifted to become a better view point for the construction site. This specific volume encloses more flexible functions such as the exhibition area and the information desk. On the contrary the other one accommodates the need for a small amphitheatre where lectures, courses and projections can take place.
6a | SNF Competition | 2013
Collaborators: C.Serifi | 83
6b
No Foundations, No grid: Home for the Transitory SDG Vignette Competition
NO FOUNDATIONS, NO GRID: HOME FOR THE TRANSITORY Athens is a city founded on grids. Column grids, building grids, block grids shape the urban ground, reflecting the mechanisms of the quick and massive development of the city the last decades (from 60’s to 90’s). The grids constitute repetition patterns for the basic habitation unit “Polykatoikia”. ... and so, the city grows and spreads based on repetitive gridded clusters of private space.
6b | SDG Competition | 2012
The building “dissolves and its constructive elements are liberated from the grid while natural elements and free space penetrates the “interior”.
Deconstructing the grids of the Athenian tissue, an old cellule is selected as a representative example. Reinserting new traces and flows, a new transitory space is produce. A hybrid space that exists in the transition of public and private space / of past and present / of gridded and fluid urbanity. braking the limits imposed by the grids the new dynamic creates a HOME FOR THE TRANSITORY.
Collaborators: M.Markaki | 85
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07 Self Supporting Surface Structure Digital documentation in design and construction The design process involves the analysis of a surface structure into a triangulated mesh. By determining each face’s relationship with the direction of a given light source, the algorithm calculates the dimensions of each panel’s aperture and produces a list of cnc cuttable surfaces. Providing with the diameter, position of support points and number of desired connections, it finally designs the metallic frame structure, and sphere connectors and exports a table of structural elements for assembly
07 | NTUA Design Studio | 2010
Supervisors: D.Papalexopoulos | Collaborators: M.Skitsas | 89
07 | NTUA Design Studio | 2010
Supervisors: D.Papalexopoulos | Collaborators: M.Skitsas | 91
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08 Graphic Design Refurbishment of Cosmote Offices
8a | Cosmote Offices | 2014
Supervisors: K.Karanikou | 95
8a | Cosmote Offices | 2014
Supervisors: K.Karanikou | 97