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Papanikolaou Antonia 49, Endmodou Rostan str, 54641,Faliro, Thessaloniki, Greece twnious@gmail.com +306936554316 +302310866567 30.11.1984
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October 2003-february 2010 Degree in architecture (grade 8,28 / 10,very good) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Architectural Design, Building Technology, Conservation and Restoration, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Spatial Development, Theories of Architecture, Theories of Planning, History of Architecture, History of Art, History of the City and Urban Planning, Fine Arts, Representations, Diploma project, Dissertation-Diploma thesis. February 2006 – July 2006 Erasmus exchange program Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Urban planning and Spatial development, Human sciences, Portuguese language. September 1998 – june 2002 Unified High School Diploma 5th Unified High School of Larisa, Greece Unified High School of Ntolkos-Mpakogiannis, Larisa, Greece.
curriculum vitae
July 2008-September 2008 June 2009-September2009 TEMKAT A.E. constructions, Sokratous 11 41336, Larisa, Greece. “Anoiksi” Housing complex in Platikampos, Larisa Small shopping center in Larisa 2007-2010 Freelance graphic designer along with university studies. flyers for theatrical plays, business cards, posters
3-7 July 2005 UIA, XXII World Congress of Architecture Instanbul, Turkey.
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26-29 March, 2008 Strategies of Morphogenesis Thessaloniki, Aristotle university of Thessaloniki, Faculty of
20-28 February 2006
architecture (curator : Asterios Agkathidis-a3Lab)
Participation in photography exhibition in the photography
The aim of the workshop was to produce models and organi-
school ‘Stereosis’.
zational forms that arise as a function of application requirements and techniques in natural materials. The field study and
4 April 2008
scale initially was not taken into account. However emphasis
Participation in the exhibition “ strategies of morphogenesis”,
was given in the abstract but coherent implementation of a
Faculty of Architecture, Aristotle university of Thessaloniki.
predetermined parametric framework in order to prevent accidental and unintentional actions.
3 March 2010
http://www.a3lab.org/research.htm
Presentation of the diploma project within the framework of the diploma studio “Transitional Spaces”, professors S. Lada,
4-14 November, 2008
Al. Alexopoulou.
Student workshop 2008 ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS IN THE AREA OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF THESSALONIKI Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Municipality of Thessaloniki / Tutors: A.M.Kotsiopoulos, Titie Papadopoulou, A. Tellios, A.
Language skills
Gospodini /
Greek_ mother language
Collaborators: M. Liapi, D. Zavraka
English_Proficiency of Cambridge, Proficiency of Michigan/ flu-
http://workshop-thessaloniki-2008.web.auth.gr/
ent Spanish_Inicial-Instituto Cultural de Espanol, preparation for
14-19 July 2006
Superior/ very good
Sustainable design, adapting to native materials, Sifnos is-
German_Zertifikat-Goetthe institute/ good
land, Greece.
Portuguese_ diploma Basico, 5 months stay in Portugal/ good
The worksop included seminars about sustainable design processes and materials, and more specificaly about traditional
Computer skills
sustainable design in the island of Sifnos. Moving from theory
Autodesk AutoCAD, 3D Studio max 9, Rhinoceros 4.0, Adobe
to practice, the students constructed a small pavillion, using
CS4 package (photoshop, illustrator, indesign), sketch-up, Mi-
native materials and sustainable design techniques.
crosoft Office (word, powerpoint). Artistic skills Studies in photography- dark lab techniques (Stereosis photographic studio, Thessaloniki), member of a dancing studio, playing the synthesizer. Other activities Photography, graphic design, sketching, jewel design, cinema, theatre, painting, collecting vintage clothing and cameras. In possession of a driving license.
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diploma project
dissertation
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architectural design
landscape design
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urban planning and design conservation / restoration photography
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illustration / graphic design
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diploma project
February 2010 / supervisors: S.Lada, Sp. Papadimitriou
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collaboration with Eve Mpalogianni
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The presence of three vacant sites in the urban landscape of modern Thessaloniki, was the reason for our involvement with the problems of the urban fabric. The study area is located on the corner of Martiou Str. and Olgas str. and constitutes an exception to the rule that characterizes the region. The gap that resulted due to the property state, has changed the region’s balance, while giving it an irregular form. In contrast to the adjacent blocks, the space enclosed by the existing pending walls and facades is the reason for the growth of vegetation and the foundations of social clustering of residents around it. The collectivity of people led us to install a library run by the neighbors themselves, as an example of better use of the public space created. It acts as a socializing institution and enables individual initiative. Also by these means, we explore the coexistence of private and public uses as well as the fluid movements in a space that redefines its very limits. These limits become a main point of the proposal and form a new plasticity, more fluid and sustainable. A new form of coexistence is created, in which private and public uses act complementary.
location
The program is developed along with the movements within the site and includes the installation of distributed building volumes in the existing pending walls. The buildings are connected by a covered walkway that hosts the book storage, and complement it. Its roof serves as an alternative route, while it provides with free movement at the ground level. The building placed in Olgas str is open at the ground level and at the same time connects the library spaces with the new public space, while differing its facade from the adjacent buildings. The entrance in Filellinon str is marked by vertical walls in order to restore the character of an enclosed area. Overall, the proposal differs in terms of geometry by blurring the boundaries between landscape and architectural design, in order to create qualities missing from the urban landscape of Thessaloniki.
primary scetches
panoramic view of the site
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February 2010 / supervisors: S.Lada, Sp. Papadimitriou
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photos of the models
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diagrams
sections
February 2010 / supervisors: S.Lada, Sp. Papadimitriou
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construction details
exterior views
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view from Vas.Olgas str
interior views of the library
the making of
February 2010 / supervisors: S.Lada, Sp. Papadimitriou
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dissertation
diploma thesis / June 2009 / supervisor L.Yioka
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collaboration with Eve Mpalogianni
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Chapters \The age of anxiety \Megastructures Plug-In City, Archigram Capsule, Archigram \New materials | the human scale Suitaloon, Archigram Cushicle, Archigram Villa Rosa & White Suit, Coop Himmelblau \New social structures | spatial models New Babylon, Constant Spatial City, Yona Friedman Urbanisme Electronique, Τ.Ch.Zenetos Tokyo Bay, Kenzo Tange \Utopia on the edge Drop City community Continuous Monument, Superstudio \Marching towards a new world ..
In this dissertation we choose to deal with the Cold War because of special circumstances that formed the technological competition between East and Western world. The stimulation of thinking which characterizes the period, is what prompted architecture, arts, and the intellect to their limits. The fact is that this historic period affects us even today in many ways, this is where we go back historically and consists our modern tradition. Like any historical background this dissertation seeks to illuminate aspects of the period and lead us to its better understanding. The connection of that era with nowadays is undeniable and many are those who perceived it as the precursor of our own. Therefore, its complete study may help in understanding the contemporary realities and how the speculations of that period return to affect many areas of modern life. During the months that followed the end of the Second World War, the growing hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States led to the dividing of the world into two camps. During 1947 and as the situation intensified for the control of Berlin, Europe was divided by the line of the Cold War. W.H. Auden in his poem «The age of anxiety» described the emergence of the ‘period of worry’, which was dominated by uncertainty about the future. The Cold War marked the beginning of the ‘arms race’ and ‘space race’. A system of suspicion, surveillance and espionage, was launched in this way, which influenced the arts, literature and design of the time. The post-war society was threatened by the menace posed by the atomic bomb. The sense of anxiety influenced many aspects of everyday life and the cold war situation shaped buildings, films and books. The designers turned the fear of the cold war into inspiration, by spotting the aesthetic avant-garde in all products of militaristic world and investing it with hopeful visions of modernity. Despite these concerns, the fifties and the sixties can be characterized as a period of technological utopianism. Designers of the period showed great faith in the idea that technology could shape a better future. In one of the absurd contradictions of the Cold War, the atomic bomb was a proud symbol of modernity, despite the persistent fear of global annihilation that was latent. The ‘space race’ that emanated from the military competition created the period’s vocabulary. At the same time, it produced a continuous stream of
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technological innovations and new materials that could be used in everyday life but also gave a new perspective on how products, clothes, environment, and even the human body, could be redesigned in the Future. The crew of Apollo 8 pulled one of the most recognizable icons of the 20th century, ‘earthrise’. This photo shows the view of the earth rising while the crew of the mission is in lunar orbit. In this picture lies the chance of discovering a new and equitable world. It indicates the change made on the way the new world was perceived, as a consequence of the cold war. Therefore, led to the creation of a global consciousness in which dimensions were dilated compared to the vastness of the universe. The numbers followed the sizes in the expansion of the scale. During the sixties, the increasing world population, consumerism, technology, environmental threat, world’s division reached a point of superlatives.Buckminster Fuller in the spirit of the season plans geodesic domes. The dome over Manhattan’s his most famous work, symbolizes a place where the climate can be controlled for the benefit of humans but also introduces the concept of the necessity for the presence of a shelter created by the nuclear threat. In his work coexist the concept of utopia and dystopia. The same dome that was designed to portray an imaginary situation where the climate is controlled so that the arts, the intellegencia, the recreation could prosper, ten years later became the ultimate symbol of future dystopia, implying that what was a choice would have become a necessity for such shelters. Architects like Japanese metabolists with their first manifest of 1960, international alliances such as the groupe d’espace et de l’architecture mobile (GEAM) founded by Yona Friedman in 1957, the group Archigram in Britain and others like Otto Frei Buckminster Fuller and produced plans for new towns. Among those who we choose to mention is also Takis Zenetos which is the Greek part of the international avant garde, and Constant whose work was about the city perceived as a set of rapidly changing social relationships, and therefore required spatial interpretation and expression. All the above have as a common starting point the period marked by unrestrained competition imposed by the Cold War and also respond to existing architectural and social problems while taking advantage of the opportunities that the new tools can give. Their thoughts havecommon points and are pushed to extremes by the general trend of redefining which stems from the new reality shaped by the extreme circumstances of the Cold War. Nowadays we are entering a new system of balance-imbalance where new forces are emerging and traditional superpowers are weakened. Although the image is not entirely clear, a form of a division of the world is causing the same uncertainty and concern ... Especially nowadays we are experiencing feelings similar to those evoked by the Cold War. Nuclear energy is coming back as ‘green’, however, causing the same sense of anxiety. While devastating examples of the past should have taught us and the Cold War is over, the ‘arms race’ as the conflict continues at a steady rate. What is the location of early `60 in the historiographical map the architecture of the 20th century? The radical nature of the early 60’s with its utopian and cosmological character, face up to the collective vision of changing social and political structures as described the Modern Movement. It is fifty years after the contract start of Bauhaus in 1918, that we detect a reflection of the architectural avant-garde in recruiting world and the potential discovery of future ideal conditions. Although it is transitional period, the 60’s remain as a “decade of leadership” and thus we perceive it today. The concept of the 60’s is a modern tradition and our current perceptions of the city pits with reports of that era.
June 2009 / supervisor: L. Yioka
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architectural design
June 2008 / supervisors: N. Kalogirou, Al. Paka
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collaboration with Apostolis Despotidis, Eve Mpalogianni
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The residence is located in the area called Ano Poli in Thessaloniki. The field is about 289 m2 and it is very close to nearby building. The proposed building is 340 m2 and the operational program includes 3 different residences. Two of them are going to house two independent families and the third is going to be a student residence. The first apartment is placed in the ground floor, having access to the sheltered private open space where there is the entrance of the apartment. The apartment consists of a large single space where all the operations of the house take place. The second apartment is organized in two levels: in the ground floor where there is also the entrance, and the first floor of the building.
concept scetches
In the ground floor there is a living room and a kitchen and in the second the childrens’ rooms a wc as well as a master bedroom with a privat atrium. The third apartment is also organized in two levels but having its entrance in the south of the building with autonomous access. In the first floor the everyday spaces are placed and the three bedrooms are in the second floor. From the second floor there is access in the green roof of the building with is the main open space of the third apartment. The three apartments are divided by a wall which operates as a structural element as well as a basic synthetic element of the west elevation.
sections
section a-a
section b-b
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plan level +4.50
June 2008 / supervisors: N. Kalogirou, Al. Paka
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architectural design
26-29 March 2008 / Strategies of Morphogenesis
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The aim of the workshop was to produce models and organizational forms that arise as a function of application requirements and techniques in natural materials. The field study and scale initially was not taken into account. However emphasis was given in the abstract but coherent implementation of a predetermined parametric framework in order to prevent accidental and unintentional actions. One module builts up larger geometries. Each one, with its own mobility, has the ability to connect with other volumes and create new structrures. The different module compisitions have a flexible geometry that transforms when any of the module particles changes position.
multiplication
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synthesis and transformation
26-29 March 2008 / Strategies of Morphogenesis
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landscape design
February 2007 / supervisor: M. Ananiadou-Tzimopoulou
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collaboration with Christine Tsakiri
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The project concerns the landscape design of a gulch standing as a crack in the urban tissue, situated in the upper edge of the city of Thessaloniki opposite of Seih Sou forest. The area that frames the site remains unplanned and degraded. Alongside, the gulch is isolated from its surroundings due to its steep banks and depth, and the situation is aggravated by some unauthorized buildings throughout the site that in combination with its topography act as both a natural and an artificial limit to the wider area. The starting point of the project was the existing landscape. The natural as well as the urban environment prescribed the approach of the forms and the actions followed through a phase of definition, transformation and unification. The design focuses in the avoidance of steer architectural elements, through the integration of different spaces and attitudes in a single frame, which its coherence doesn’t depend on the form only but to the arrangement, the structure, the materials and the textures as well, or else to heterogeneity of multiple components.
section b-b
general site plan
According to the proposed design, two basic routes run through the field and connect the main entrance with the two banks of the gulch and the school. The basic joining routes lead to a square which is located in the middle of the gulch, in its most “secured” area as far as it concerns the insulation of noise produced from Lampraki str and the amount of vegetation. This is where the forest begins. The material used in the square is beton plates – a key element which is repeated frequently, creating different levels throughout the site, where people gather and socialize. These spaces act also as resting and watching points. The school yard is redesigned and expanded in size while it has the ability to remain accessible in the hours that the school is not open. The existing plants and trees were taken into consideration during the design process and remained untouched, while new ones were also placed in order to revitalize the neighborhood and make the boundaries between the urban tissue and the nearby forest less distinctive.
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section a-a
constuction details
photos of the model
detail of the central square
detail of the wooden routes
February 2007 / supervisor: M. Ananiadou-Tzimopoulou
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urban planning and design
4-14 November 2008 / Student workshop Architectural Interventions In The Area Of The Municipality Of Thessaloniki
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collaboration with Eve Mpalogianni, Leonidas Nassis
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Abutting the west walls, the area under study surrounds Mavili Square, and the church of the Twelve Apostles. Although the neighbourhood lies in the vicinity of important nodes, it has declined because of the indiscriminate post-war reconstruction that is so characteristic of town planning in Thessaloniki. Nevertheless, the area is expected to undergo a dramatic change in the next few years, since a metro station will open at the junction of Egnatia St. and Langada St. The present proposal attempts to upgrade the area by setting, as a priority, arrangements at the ground level which will support the existing gradation of the road network. Demolishing eight blocks of flats which were built a long time ago will enable us to thin out the fabric. On these sites, a network of free spaces is planned which will be formed by narrowing and widening spaces. Mavili Square and the Pasha Hamam are both within the area bounded by the large axes. The strategy of urban intervention focuses on these sites so that attractive public spaces can be created. The facades of the buildings will be remodelled, while the basements, which at this time are abandoned, will be emptied and turned into arcades to support the network, which is being refashioned. The
hamam block, liberated from the surrounding structures, will be turned into a square where a small open-air market will be held. In the dilapidated interior, a random disposition of cubes, of an ephemeral and variable nature, will be installed. The new uses will be either for business or social welfare, since the number of immigrants living in the area is high. In particular, the old tobacco warehouse in Mavili Square will be turned into a reception centre for immigrants, while, in the arcades and open air market, trade will develop which will be supported by the immigrants. The removal of certain blocks of flats is balanced out somewhat by the construction of five new buildings, which will be erected in compliance with new specifications. These are buildings which are lower in height and the clear intention is that they should stand out from the remaining buildings from the past. The new buildings will house facilities for culture and recreation. The main concern of the proposal is the overall improvement of the area with punctual interventions, the purpose of which is to create and structure new, attractive public spaces, which will contribute to the enhancement of the quality of life of the residents and will encourage visitors to become better acquainted with it.
view of Mavili square
public spaces network
attractors
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3d views
general site plan
photos of the model
4-14 November 2008 / Student workshop
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conservation restoration
February 2006 / supervisor: M. Nomikos
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collaboration with Eve Mpalogianni
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The project of the restoration and conservation consisted of three phases of approach. The first one was to analyze and evaluate the monument with the form of sketches, architectural measure drawings, construction details, pathology evaluation and history research. The next step was the proposal of methods for the eradication of corruptions and finally the idea for a reuse and the renovation of the complex. The building is located at the boundary of the regions Fragkomachala and Ladadika in Thessaloniki. The region is currently experiencing a strong change of uses. The new use of the building needs to be compatible with the today’s version of the region and therefore includes a venue that houses an exhibition hall, a cafeteria and a photography workshop. photos of Natsina’s building
pathology evaluation
views of the new building
The goal was to create a form that avoids any comparison to the old one, while drawing the visitor’s attention and stressing its historic nature.An important aspect of the proposed reuse is the element of the “route”. Both and existing buildings are organized around a central communal and more public space in the sense of the arcade developed in height. In the new building the atrium plays the role of the arcade developed in height, which implies the concept of void and full, and marks the boundary between public and private.
color proposal
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first floor plan: removing elements / adding elements / uses
section
second floor plan
February 2006 / supervisor: M. Nomikos
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photography
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illustration / graphic design
charcoal / watercolor / pencil
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flyer for a dancing theter play
poster
from the series “recycled paper re-ruined�
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special thanks
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/ if not used, please recycle /