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T.R.E.E. NGO TREE (Take Responsibility for Environmental Efficiency) was founded in 2009. Through its programs, TREE aims to mobilize and connect the mind, the heart and the hands. It addresses both the natural and the man-made, the global and the local, the layman and the scientist or specialized individuals and it embraces traditional knowledge as well as research. TREE's mission includes the study of the man-made and natural environment and their intricate relationships. TREE seeks to raise awareness in topics that address the environment and lifestyles that affect the quality of life and natural ecosystems. Among TREE's goals are: * To explore and promote alternative lifestyles and patterns of behavior that deal with the problems related to crises, either present and contemporary such as the financial crisis and the social and political crises, or ongoing and long-term such as the energy crisis and climate change. So far, TREE has offered a variety of outreach events to the general public and to students of architecture. TREE functions as a nexus of information and informal people-meeting opportunity.
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T.R.E.E. Workshops and activities for the public Educational and Environmental activities Since its inception, TREE has sponsored several events addressing the public. These involved several workshops, lectures and presentations involving such varied subjects as Permaculture, the Transition Initiatives movement, Mediterranean landscapes and gardening practices, community recycling and composting and Climate Change. In addition, TREE was the primary organizer of the 1st Marathon Ecofestival (25/4-1/5/2011). The concept of this event was an ambitious week long event which summoned local organic farmer, local community and the general public with a farmers market of fresh organic produce, presenters of 13 workshops, an eco-film festival with more than fifteen titles, (two of which had their premier as part of this festival) and various guided tours in the National Park of Schinias.
2nd Compost-making workshop and parallels with theories of anthropology
Nicholas Anastasopoulos/ George Loudos/Fotis Terzakis
Do we need nature? Elements of sustainability in landscape design Thomas Doxiadis, landscape architect
Climate Change, education and the everyday Nikos Chrysogelos, Nicholas Anastasopoulos, Nikiforos Plytas
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Snapshots from the cane workshop which occured within the Marathon Ecofestival (1/5/2011)
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Student workshops organized by T.R.E.E.
The Emergence workshop took place as an ECOWEEK event in December 2011. The workshop drew architecture students from several schools of architecture and explored theoretical aspects of social, environmental and architecture sustainability. A collective proposal was produced which made recommendations for thermal and environmental improvements for the building shell of the Embros Theater. The workshop brief: Emergence is a term used in philosophy, systems theory, science and art to signify the way that complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or the environment. Social & Community Sustainability, the workshop’s theme, allows associations that are relevant both to the physical and to the social aspects of sustainability, in other words both the framework we live in, buildings, streets, infrastructure as well as the people that produce, inhabit and use them. Another concept that is of much relevance at times such as ours is Resilience. This workshop will attempt to tie together and work with concepts of Sustainability, Emergence and Resilience in both physical and social frameworks. Practically, in an attempt to bridge theory and action [praxis], this workshop will involve an in depth immersion in the city’s life, provided through specific readings, invited speakers and nomadic visits at places that show signs of any of the three themes of emergence, resilience and sustainability. Our task will be to work with the physical and the social realities of such chosen places in the city, to analyze and propose realistic steps that will enhance and strengthen these attributes. The character of the workshop will engage spaces in the city such as Plato’s Academy, the neighbourhoods of Psiri and Kypseli and specific buildings of significance in these areas, such as Kafeneion, the Embros Theatre and the Kypseli market which we will examine under the light of emergence. Our methodology will involve artistic, scientific and empirical methods, presentations, fieldwork, specific contact and design methodologies and contact with the community. Full daily schedule and all details will be announced one week prior to the beginning of the workshop. The names of invited speakers and members of groups and networks will also be announced.
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Snapshots from the charette, the crit and various moments of the workshop
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Student workshops organized by T.R.E.E. AMOR1- [At my own Risk] / A workshop for students of architecture and the arts An alternative approach to the local A workshop that took place during : 27-31/7 and 14-18/9/ 2009 at Nea Makri, a coastal town in Attica. Instructors: Nicholas Anastasopoulos,architect Nikos Kazeros, architect Dr. Maria Theodorou,architect Jennifer Nelson, artist
Two workshops for students of architecture. One workshop on tensile structures and one workshop on building techniques with the use of clay.
Workshops took place during : 26-27/5 and 2-3/6/2012 at Marathon, Attica.
Instructors: George Foukas, architect Nanna Matrakidou, architect Eleni Kairi, architect consultants: The Engineers of the Earth group.
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Tensile structures and building with clay workshops
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National Park of Schinias at Marathon The National Park of Schinias at Marathon was founded in 2000, in order to protect and manage an exceptionally rich historically and environmentally unique and sensitive area in the periphery of greater Athens. Marathon lends its name to the famous Marathon run*, practiced today throughout the world. It owes its claim to fame originally from the legendary runner Phidippides, who covered the distance between Marathon and Athens running, in order to announce to the assembly the victorious outcome from battle between the Athenians and the Persian army that occurred in 490 bC. In addition to a historic significance Marathon boasts the sound of Schinias, a unique natural environment where at least four distinct ecosystems harmoniously coexist at close proximity and in a relatively small area of land and sea. Suburban sprawl being a primary threat, along with the deterioration of the wetland habitat and recurring threats of fire for the coastal pine forest, the National Park status to this area was meant to guarantee its protection and existence in the future. http://greenmarathon.wordpress.com/
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* the distance of 42.195 kilometres or 26 miles and 385 yards
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National Park of Schinias at Marathon The National Park was founded alongside works for creating an artificial lake that would accommodate the sports of rowing and kayaking for the Olympic games of 2004. Besides the artificial lake which feeds from the Makaria spring and related facilities which form the Olympic Rowing and Cayak Center, the park incorporates a rare coastal pine forest spanning a four kilometer coastline, a wetland which is host to more than 350 species of birds, a peninsula with low bush flora of mediterranean plants of remarkable variety and complexity and a clear sea sound which is home to a prairie of the Poseidonia seaweed and many fish.
Views of the artificial lake above fed by the Makaria spring
The coastal pine forest
The weltand
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National Park of Schinias at Marathon
Rowing sports gallery view
Indoor exhibition center
Design/ Information material: Nicholas Anastasopoulos+OMO graphic design
During appointment as President of the Management Board of the National Park and under this authority, a series events were organized aiming to promote the public's awareness about the park's significance with a campaign for environmental regeneration through involvement in a variety of activities of educational and recreational nature. New institutions were introduced, including the indoor and outdoor exhibition and an information center, the bird-watching morning events, the bike festival and the Marathon ecofestival, to name a few.
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Snapshots from various events organized at the National Park of Schinias
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Patras University Department of Architecture
Department of Architecture and Environmental Design
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Parsons School of Design/ THE NEW SCHOLL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH Department of Architecture and Environmental Design
Richard Hsu
James Miles
Marco Rivocecchi
Michael Zeniuch
Karen Yoykon
Amira Joelson
Maria Wagner
Maria Wagner
Architectural analysis and composition with the use of digital tools. Analysis of known works of architecture was performed with the use of AutoCAD and Form.Z software. Experience from the formal elements analyzed was later used to define design principles used in composition.
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National Technical University of Athens School of Achitecture
Koutalianou A.
Katsampi K.
Iliopoulou A.
Papageorgiou E.
Frantzi E.
Tangalakis K.
Vlahos P.
Pliotas V.
Pacy E.
Ioannidi D.
Jovanni A.
Sifaki S.
Second semester design studio project. Temporary exhibition space and cafe in the Metaxourgeio neighborhood of Athens.
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National Technical University of Athens School of Achitecture
Vokali A.
Alexaki Ch..
Alevizou P.
Papageorgiou E.
Dimitriou P.
Iliopoulou A
Verteouri A. .
Koumpouli A.
Georgio P.
1st semester formal design exercise practicing five successive transformations on a cube. The purpose of the exercise is to introduce the process in the design method as well as fundamental spatial principles of proportion and relative scale and polar conditions of solid| void, open| closed, etc.
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Patras University, Department of Architecture
Bertzouanis A.
Tsioris D. Analysis and interpretation of formal and structural principles
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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, GR Section I (Lecturer, 2004-) Architectural Design 5 3rd year architectural design subject: ¨Day School at Metaxourgeio, a downtown Athens neighborhood¨. Architectural Design 1 & 2. 1st year architectural design subject 2nd semester: ¨Café and exhibition space in Athens¨. Has organized and co-accompanied an educational trip of the 3rd year of the School of Architecture, NTUA to New York. 2007 Organizing and coordination of student visits to mid-term reviews (Columbia και Yale). (3/ 2007). Has co-accompanied an educational trip of the 3rd year of the School of Architecture to Barcelona (2006). SCHOOL OF ARCHITETURE, NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS (2005-present) 1st, 2nd, 3rd year Design Studios DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, PATRAS UNIVERSITY. (Associate Professor 1999-2005)
Computer-Aided Design 1 &2. (2nd year / 1999-2004) Introductory level terms and methods in 2d design with the use of AutoCAD Principles of 3D design and basic principles of photorealistic rendering. Multimedia & Design 1 & 2. (3rd year / 2001-2003) Analysis of architectural principles as embedded in architectural drawings of well known paradigms. References and projects used from the oeuvre of Adolf Loos, Peter Eisenman and NY5. Multimedia & Design 2. ‘Moving from Analysis to the web logic’’ Use of non-linear methods of description and communication as means of presenting a project or an architectural project. Introduction to Informatics. (1st year/ 1999-2004) Basic principles of computer language and everyday applications that support work in architecture. Architectural Design 3 & 4 (2nd year / 2001-2004) House design/ Housing in an urban environment. Architectural Design 5 & 6 (3rd year / 2003-2004) Education and Culture: Design of a multi-purpose building in the city of Patras Elective Subject 17a and 17b (4th year / 2002-2004) ‘’ Architectural Interventions in the city -1’’ : Proposals in the form of hybrid architectural constructs to be dispersed in the city of Patras. ‘’ Architectural Interventions in the city -2’’ : Placing emphasis to the points of contact (in practice and theory) between city and nature. Working paradigm the city of Aigio. Elective Subject 3 ΜΚ3 –Sustainability and Design. (4th year /2002-2004) Sustainability Theories and Environmental Management Practices in Greece and worldwide (Local Agenda 21). School of Interior Architecture ΑΚΤΟ/ Middlesex University (affiliate) Supervisor of research and thesis projects ΒΑ Interior Architecture 1&2. 2008 2nd year Construction Technology 1&2 2nd year Reuse 1&2. Course content and teaching of 3rd year students. (2005-) AutoCAD Seminars and Computer-Aided Design for 2nd and 3rd year in Interior Architecture. (1996- 2000)
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PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN (DIAL/ Cyberspace Campus): (1997 -99)
Design, implementation and management of the first computer lab for the Architecture and Environmental dept at Parsons. (1991 until 1993) Introduction of CAD to the Department. Principal Investigator for Form.Z. Supervisor of independent studies with CAD. Conducted seminars entitled Ethnicity and the Metropolis at Parsons School of Design with invited speakers (1991-1992). Also conducted extra-curricular courses at Continuing Education, Product Design, Interior Design/Lighting Design MFA as well as at Pratt Institute / Manhattan.
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Credit course offered for the first time in “Designing with CAD- Beginning AutoCAD” in the context of the Distance Learning Program on the New School’s Cyberspace Campus από το New School for Social Research/Parsons School of Design of New York. Virtual Design Studio. Distance learning through web content and both asynchronous and synchronous communication technologies. PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN/THE NEW SCHOLL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (1989-1994) Department of Architecture and Environmental Design Faculty.