Architectural Portfolio 2019 Vassilios Koumandakis
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About me
I was born in Bethesda, Maryland in the United States but shortly after I moved to Athens, Greece, where I grew up and learned to appreciate and love architecture. After a trip to London with my family I instantly knew that I wanted to be a part of the infrastructural development of cities. I am completing the five year Bachelors of Architecture degree at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia with a minor in Adaptive Reuse. Moreover I have worked in two separate internships, one in Greece (De.Architects) and one in the United States of America (Lauren Thomsen Design). Through these internships and my educational experience, I have gained the necessary skill set to enhance my career into becoming a licensed professional Architect. My design ideology has been formed through my childhood experiences of the classical architecture of Athens but also through the modern and sustainable design in the United States and the International cities that I have visited.
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Table Of Contents
Project #1:
The Revelation Art Center
Project #2:
The Panacea Medical Center
Project #3:
Miami Street Art Museum
Project #4:
John Stewardsons Competition
Project #5:
Sukkah x Detroit Competition
Models #6:
Selected Projects
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1 The Revelation Art Center : Location : Philadelphia, PA, USA Project Year : 2016 Class: Design 5 (individual project) The Revelation art center is revolutionizing the idea of a modern art studio by creating a stage for training but also performing. Dealing with the issue of stage anxiety, the double glazed facade with the frost in a parametric pattern, creates the perfect transparency for the public to observe from the streets of Philadelphia, but also creates opaque spaces for more private programs. The first floor of the tower acts as a public plaza but also a connection to the SEPTA (Philadelphia Subway)
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Zoning Setbacks
2 Egress Staircases
Volumetric Separation
Force Distribution
Double Envelope
Envelope Frost Pattern
Balcony Spaces
Mechanical Circulation
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Zoning of the Site
Ground Floor Interior Plaza
Crime Points
Main Traffic Arteries
View of 20th St From Arch St
Light Concentration on Site
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Second Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
Exploded Axonometric Facade Detail
Detail Plan of Facade
Detail Section 1
Detail Section 2
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The Panacea Medical Center : For Thomas Jefferson University
Location : Philadelphia, PA, USA Project Year : 2018 Class: Design 8 (individual project) The Panacea Medical Center is a model of the future of Healthcare. By creating a new environment for patients and doctors, by combining design aesthetics with the hospital code to redefine the concept of a hospital for 2050. By cooperating with Artificial Intelligence Technology systems that will sense, warn but also create a chain of actions for the fastest transportation of the patient to the hospital. Operating in the center city part of the Jefferson University campus it is also a hub for medical innovation and experimentation with a Data Center for the “S.M.A.R.T.� systems to operate.
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1. I took the placoid scale (aka the shark skin scale), and
analyzed its structure and characteristics in order to find a more hydrodynamic form.
2. I applied - Gravity Forces in order to create a more hydrodynamic design for the scale. By using a parametric design plug-in for Grasshopper, called Kangaroo 2..
Philadelphia’s Smart City Research and Master Plan 3. New more hydrodynamic re-design of the placoid scale. Due to the increased height of the peaks but also
Addressing the City of Philadelphia in its current and historical standing, our class analyzed the factors of living and technology in order to create the future for life within United States Oldest city. Research proves that healthy living will be the driving factor of design and systems in the coming years. This helps cities foster the growing population flocking to them without losing a focus on reconnecting with the rest of the natural beauty of already accessible green corridors, access to pedestrian and bicycle systems, and reduction of car use within the city are paramount to shifting towards a healthy city system.
4. Attaching the edges and softening them creates a more occupiable form. Common Wind Pattern of Philadelphia
Communication Centers for Healthcare
Energy Consumption in the City
Emergency Vehicles Arteries
5. Facilitate the Program of the Polyclinic. The form got exaggerated in order to reach the program requirements
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Plaza on Market St The landscape on the north side of the Panacea Center, acts as a public park but also as an access route to the main elevator lobby
First Floor ER entrance The first floor combines the Emergency Rooms with floor lobbies that guide the public to the elevators
Pana Pa nace cea a Po Polyc lyclin linic ic
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The Placoid Scale on site
Program Separation
The Connections of the towers
Vertical Circulation
Hydrodynamic Forms of the Landscape
56-Levels
Exterior Structural Grid
Structure without Floors
Final Form
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Roof Garden Area overlooking the city
Ground Plan
Diagram For Core Separation
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Axonometric Section
Detail Section of the South Facade
3 Miami Street Art Museum : Location : Wynwood, Miami, USA Project Year : 2018 Class: Design 8 (collaboration with Max Bliss) The Miami Street Art Museum is located in a newly developed area of Miami, the up and coming art district, Wynwood. Wynwood is a unique area with a very industrial character from all the warehouses that have pre-existed. Nowadays, it is an area that holds great artistic value, as it is housing a great amount of street art, but is also a very popular spot for an alternative night in Miami. The goal of the MSAM is to create a collaboration space for both the Art Basel Foundation and Montana Cans. By creating a research and development lab for new art technologies, and also experimentation studios for artists and products, the combined works of the two companies will push these artists to new heights with their designs. Lastly the sponsored artists will be promoted as their creations will be exhibited within the MSAM. We want to show to the world how street art and architecture can coexist without the one distorting the other.
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Project Thesis Creating a space where Architecture and Street Art can coexist and reinforce one another rather than distort each other. By combining a Fixed Research and Development center, with an Ambulatory Circulation and Gallery space, large cantilevers and natural light connects the two programs and draw the public through its galleries.
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1. Setback for utilization of outdoors space
2. Cantilevers for Shading
3. The Ambulatory Program
5. Level Hierarchy
6. Light wells Penetration
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4. Assigned a Planning Grid
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7. Vertical Circulation
8. Entrance Sequence
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9. Heliogram
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Ground Floor Plan
Detail Section of North Facade
Montana Spray Offices
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1st Level of Street Art : Application of spray on wall.
2nd Level of Street Art : Application of Paint on Canvas & 3rd Level of Street Art : 3D Sculptural Art
Section through the Exhibition Ramp
4th Level of Street Art : Creation of different perception of space.
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Lookout
Individual Studio Collaborative Studio Individual Studio
Individual Studio
Collaborative Studio DN
Offices
Storage ---
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Men's Restroom Women's Restroom Cafe
Kitchen / Storage
Third Floor Plan 1 A101
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Level 3 1/8" = 1'-0"
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Digital Technologies
Collaborative Studios Spray Development Spray Booth Paint Shop
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Individual Studio Collaborative Studios Individual Studio
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Individual Studio
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Second Floor Plan 18
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Level 2 1/8" = 1'-0"
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9 Coat Room Bicycle Storage
8 7 Entry
6 Individual Studios
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Lecture Hall Lobby
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Model Shop
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Lecture Hall
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Sculpture Shop
Mechanical
Restroom
Restroom
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Night Rendering with Street Art illuminating from the interior of the cantilever
First Floor Plan 1
Level 1 1/8" = 1'-0"
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Ramp Exhibition Space on the 2nd floor
Workspace for Artists and for Public display
North Elevation
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4 Renovo Novo-Library for the Youth “The Swell� : 118th John Stewardson Memorial Fellowship in Architecture Location : Renovo, PA, USA Project Year : 2019 Class: Design 10 This prototype of the Novo-Library is not that of a typical library. This new structure will act as a facilitator for information and knowledge in the rural town of Renovo, PA, and the neighboring towns. Focusing on educating the youth of the community by providing access to a major source of information, guidance and the latest technological equipment. Considering the morphology, history and demographics of the town. The new library will reconnect the town with the world just like the river did connect Renovo to Philadelphia.
1. Water Ripple
3. Ripple Extrusion
2. Elevation Points
4. Wave Sequence/Roof Topo
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Exploded Axonometric
Interior Rendering of New Technology Learning Center for the youth
Floor Plan on Site
Exterior Night Rendering looking at the entrance
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5 The SEAM Sukkah : Sukkah X Detroit Competition Location : Detroit, MI, USA Project Year : 2018 Internship: LTD (Lauren Thomsen Design) Material permanence leads us to interpret most architecture as static in nature - the built realization of a complete design idea. A sukkah is a temporary structure by definition, and thus an inherent challenge to traditional architectural understanding. The Seam Sukkah demonstrates the joining of both worlds as two material systems - one natural (sod) and one composite (steel) - are placed side by side and in support of one another. This project harnesses and exhibits the tension between these two elements to evoke the familiarity and comfort associated with typical dwellings while also providing a constantly changing agricultural landscape that is fleeting, and therefore special. The Seam Sukkah invites multiple interpretations of meaning and reminds us that good design is a combination of both fact and feeling. It begs us to consider and appreciate dueling orders, different cultures, religions, and perspectives, and opens us to the dynamism latent in our built environment.
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Exploded Axonometric with Construction Guide
Plan and Section of Installation
Night Rendering from Inside the Sukkah
Sketches During Schematic Stage
Study Model During Schematic Stage
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6 Models Of Selected Projects Working with models and materials outside the software programs has always been detrimental to my design process. While building a model one can understand a building in its truest form, where gravity and material strength are real. Throughout my academic years in Thomas Jefferson University I have experimented with a variety of materials and model making techniques. In the first years everything I was making was hand crafted but as my software knowledge started broadening I was very interested in 3D printing, Laser Cutting and CNC engraving. Moreover I experimented with materials that I never knew I could use for to create a model, like reed, bamboo, wool, melted plastic, stencil imprints and corrugated plastic. Also i learned how to model parametrically with units both in the imperial and the S.I. scales.
Sectional Detail Model of the Miami Street Art Museum
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Sectional Detail Model of the Miami Street Art Museum
Massing Model of the Miami Street Art Museum
Final Model of the Revelation Center
Experimentation with Reed and its Tensile Strength
3D Printed Projects for the Gates of Rome
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