Christina Giannoulaki | Work Sample + CV Student & Professional Work 2008 - 2014
Desing M.Sc. Arch
B.Arch.
Christina’s architectural interests are constantly evolving, as she tries to keep an open mind and explore different architectural concepts, maintaining a spirit of innovation in her work and also being able to collaborate with other architects. Spesifically, her interests lie at the computational techniques in order to derive formal, spatial and conceptual construct that can accommodate new urban, institutional and commercial activities. Especially as a student in Pratt, her work was greatly inspired by nature, mathematics and science as an aesthetic context. The following pages in this pdf include her CV, two recommendation letters, one from Professor (Coordinator of Digital Instructors) Robert Cervillione and one from her former employer in A-team architecture George Stamatakis, and a small sample of her student and professional work. References : For extra references or a Recommendation letter please contact: The architect and founding director of LAVA Berlin, and professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart Tobias Wallisser at the following email address : t.wallisser@l-a-v-a.net The architect and Director at Contemporary Architecture Practice, and professor at Pratt Institute, Hina Jamelle at the following email address: hina.jamelle@c-a-p.net The architect and founding director of KOL/MAC LLC, and professor at Pratt Institute, Sulan Kolatan at the following email address: kolatan@kolmacllc.com
Student and Professional Work 2008 - 2014
CHRISTINA GIANNOULAKI
Before the employment in LAVA, she had three years of professional experience in two prestigious architectural offices in Athens specialized in small scale residential projects. Soon after her graduation, Christina worked as a junior architect in A-team architects (http://www.a-team.gr) and one and a half year (2010 -2011) in Klab architecture Athens London (http://www.klabarchitects.com/) for concept design to construction documentation. Parallel to this activity from 2010, she was part of an architectural team called NOBO - Collective that solidified its practice in 2011 through several small architectural projects and competitions as an office in Athens, Greece and in Monterey, Mexico (http:// nobo-c.com/).
CV + Work Sample
Christina is an architect with four years of professional experience. She holds a Master of Science in Architecture degree from Pratt Institute of New York and Architectural degree from National Technical University of Athens. The summer of 2014 she had the opportunity to be part of the architectural realm of Berlin by working as an architect for the architectural firm LAVA Berlin. She took active role in the all design stages of an architectural private competition about an international office centre at the city of Hangzhou in China. After this experience she seeks to expand her professional career in an architectural practice in Berlin.
Christina Giannoulaki | CV + Work Sample Student and Professional Work 2008 - 2014
PERSONAL DETAILS
EDUCATION
Professional Experience 2014 (June - September)
Post Graduate Studies 2013 ( 1 year) Place of Birth: Athens, Greece Date of Birth: January 31 of 1983 p.: (347) 506 7298, +030 697 088 1035 E-Mail: x_gian@hotmail.com
Institution: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY GAUD - Graduate Architecture and Urban Design
Degree : Master of Science in Architecture| Specialty in computational research
GPA : 3.80/ 4.00 Under Graduate Studies 2008 (5 years)
Institution: National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) | School of Architecture
Degree: Diploma of Architect Engineer
COMPUTING SKILLS 3D Visualization - Graphic Visualization
Rhino, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Vray, Mental Ray, Adobe - Creative Suite Scripting language | Simulation Systems
MEL Scripting, Water simulation, nParticles, nHair system, nCloth System, Behavioral Animation System (Locust) 2D Visualization
AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino Fabrication
3D Printing // CNC Milling // Laser Cutting
Spoken Languages English (Fluent) Toefl : 100, Ielts : 6.75 First Certificate in English of Cambridge( A) German (Basic Knowledge) Learning language through intensive courses
mos - Athens and the houses in Mani at the period 2011 -1012. The projects that I have worked as a leading architect in NOBO Collective are the apartment buildings in Alimos, the Renovation in Plateia Theatrou and several apartment renovations, as I also actively participated in all other projects of the office in all the architectural stages, the architectural development and the 3D and 2D visualization of the projects.
LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) Berlin, Germany http://www.l-a-v-a.net/
Position: Architect In Lava Berlin I had the opportunity to work for four months in a private competition of an international office centre in Hangzhou of China. The project required an urban design proposal of an 380.500 sqm office centre with a mixed program of office, hotel and retail. The architectural design of our proposal can be divided schematically in two parts, the horizontal one that designed as plinth that includes a mall and a hotel on the top (100.000 sqm) and the vertical development of two towers with mixed program of high standard offices and hotel facilities (280.500 sqm). I had the opportunity to participate in all stages of the design, from the starting point of the master plan and the mass studies until the final presentation of the whole design. Specifically, my role was more significant in the design of the master plan and also the development of the program and the interior design of the main two towers of the project.
2008- 2009 Klab architects (Kinetic Lab of Architecture) Athens, Greece - London, United Kingdom, http://www.klabarchitects.com/
Position : Co - Founder, Coordinator Architect NOBO Collective is an architectural office that was founded by five Greek and two Mexican architects that have worked in Athens for several years. It started with small architectural projects like a small vacation house in Porto Rafti, several renovation of apartments in Athens in 2010 and solidified its practice with several competitions like the “Renovation of Plateia Theatrou”, “AthensX4”, “Climbing Center in Marousi - Athens”, and several other projects like the apartment building in Ali-
In Klab architects, I worked as a junior architect by preparing, developing and editing projects under guidance of the coordinator of the office Konstantinos Lambrinopoulos or the project leader Nikos Vegianakis. More significantly, I participated in the development of the following projects: House in Dionisos, House in Saronida, Tower Houses complex Elliniko -Athens, Urban Stripes Building and Andronikos Hotel. I worked mostly by developing the projects through plans in Autocad and 3d models with 3D studio Max.
Scholarships 2012 Pratt Graduate First Merit Scholarship|$21.000 2003 Scholarship for undergraduate studies awarded from Onassis Foundation | $15.000 Publications May 2013_Thesis Research| The water is Coming Published in Pratt Institute’s “In Process 19” [ Design Studio: Sulan Kollatan] December 2012_ Scripting experiment | Published in Pratt Institute’s “In Process 18” [Computer Logic : Micheal Szivos]
December 2012_ Mixed Uses Tower in Soho Published in Pratt Institute’s “In Process 18” [Design Studio: Hina Jamelle]
September 2009_ Publication of thesis diploma in the e-magazine GreekArchitects|www.greekarchitects.gr Competitions | Projects
2009- 2011
2010 – 2012 NOBO Collective (No Borders Collective] Athens, Greece - Monterrey Mexico, http://www.nobo-c.com/
Position: Junior Architect
Awards | Publications
A-team architecture, Athens Greece, http://www.a-team.gr/
Architectural Ideas Competition | Renovation of the seafront of Koum Kapi | Crete Island, Greece, 2013
Renovation of Theatre Square |Athens, Greece, 2011| Honourable Mention
Apartment building in Alimos, Athens 2011| Design Development of a 12 apartment building for the construction company J. Kafiris & Co.
Design renovation and construction of two apartments in the center of Athens, 2011-12
Position : Junior Architect In A- team architecture, I worked for 2 years as a junior architect by preparing, developing and editing projects under the guidance of the coordinator of the office George Stamatakis. More significantly I participated in the the development of the following projects: The Car Showroom of Toyota, the Multifunction Building in Pangrati and several small houses in Athens. I worked mostly by developing the projects through plans in Autocad and 3d models with 3D studio Max.
UNLIMITED | HIOC_ HANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL OFFICE CENTER HANGZHOU CHINA| PRIVATE COMPETITION | LAVA BERLIN The HIOC is an design proposal in a city with a rapid development, increasing population and demands. LAVA Berlin proposed an interweaving design approach for a mixed program of office, hotel, plaza and retail. The result brings together both vertical and horizontal elements to the site. This can be seen as a new symbolic icon representing a rich history of the China. The horizontal development is a constant dialogue between interior public spaces that offer entertainment and retail facilities in a mall, with the outdoor public spaces of two inter-
connected plazas that invites the people in the unique urban realm of the site. The program mixed requirements of the two towers for more private spaces (hotel) and more public spaces (offices) lead us to an innovative vertical transportation strategy that allow us to design special features of Tower 1. Panoramic elevator creates unique experience for the hotel visitors and a spaces like the Sky Lobby between offices and Hotel and the Sky Garden on the top of the building offers green design for the building and the users .
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Employer LAVA BERLIN
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Colaboration Architectural Design, 3d modelling, visualization
SKY GARDEN
HOTEL LEVELS
SKY LOBBY
OFFICE LEVELS
ENTRANCE LOBBY Columns
PERFORMANCE
90%
10%
Columns
Cores Columns
ColumnsCores
Slabs Cores
CoresSlabs
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EXPERIENCE
Sky Garden 酒店 Tower 1 // Hotel 塔楼1 // 酒店 Sky Lobby 空中大堂 Tower 1 // Office 塔楼1 // 办公 Tower 2 // Office 塔楼2 // 办公 Drop-Off 办公 /塔楼1落客区 Retail 商业裙房
Public Plaza 公共广场
Drop-Off 落客区
Employer LAVA BERLIN
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Colaboration Architectural Design, 3d modelling, visualization
Drop-Off
落客区
Mall Entrance 顶级购物中心
Tower 2 Drop - Off 塔楼2落客区
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Key Highly integrated
Fairly integrated
Poorly integrated
Spatial Accessibility Study Integration The Integration analysis shows the space where those arriving by the express lift cores will arrive into a highly connected, integrated area. This will have a buzz of activity. Following the path toward the hotel lifts, guests will pass through areas of moderate integration and good levels of activity. The most spatially segregated area of the plan is behind the hotel lifts, which will be quiet most of the time, with very low levels of activity. The plan focuses activity toward the entrance and tranquil zones toward night areas / access to the rooms on the upper levels.
5 HOTEL ELEVATOR
2 FIRE ELEVATOR
MEZZANINE
HOTEL SKY LOBBY
2 EXPRESS ELEVATOR
sky lobby | A unique public space at a prominent level on the high rise that offer to the visitor a panoramic view to the city of Hangzhou. Especially, the hotel guests have the oportunity to experience a unique vertical transporation through the two express elevators that start their journey from the hotel reception in the ground Lobby and stop at the 237m height at the Sky Lobby, offering an outstanding view towards and river of Hangzhou. The transition from the Sky Lobby to their rooms becomes trough five glass panorama elevators in the opposite side of the express elevators that give an alternative panoramic view towards the city of Hangzhou.
Employer LAVA BERLIN
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Colaboration Architectural Design, 3d modelling, visualization
HOTEL VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION PANORAMA ELEVATORS
HOTEL ROOMS
STANDARD ROOM
SKY LOBBY
HOTEL PANORAMA ELEVATORS
HOTEL RECEPTION
RESTAURANT
TECHNICAL FL
OFFICES
OFFICE LIFTS
Employer LAVA BERLIN
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Colaboration Architectural Design, 3d modelling, visualization
zheijang Tor. gate HANGZHOU CHINA| PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT | LAVA BERLIN In a prominent location of the city of Hangzhou, LAVA proposed for a private development a desing of 280 000 sqm with mixed program of office, residential and retail facilities. The site location was the main parameter for the design development as it is on the crossroads of the main highways of the city The two towers of the proposal form an ensemble and create a recognisable structure together: the Zheijang Gate. The outer form of the towers is done to make the symbolic gate visible form three
distance ranges: from a far on a city scale, from mid-distance passing by along one of the highways and on a pedestrian scale. Three elements are used to generate this: - the crown / the articulation of the towers end towards the sky, - the special treatment of the facades which are facing the opening between the towers, - the facade materialisation concept using two different types of facades varying in transparency, reflectiveness and color.
Sky Garden Sky Garden
Offices
Residential
+266.00
SKY LOBBY
SKY LOBBY
+238.00 +266.00
SKY LOBBY
RESIDENTIAL TECHNICAL OFFICES TECHNICAL SKY LOBBY
+238.00
RESIDENTIAL TECHNICAL OFFICES TECHNICAL
+183.00
Offices
RESIDENTIAL
+238.00
OFFICES TECHNICAL
RESIDENTIAL
TECHNICAL
SKY LOBBY
Ground Lobby
OFFICE
Ground Lobby
OFFICES TECHNICAL
+123.00 +119.00
+238.00
+266.00
TECHNICAL
+183.00
+266.00
+183.00
+183.00
OFFICES TRANSFER / REFUGE TECHNICAL
RESIDENTIAL TRANSFER / REFUGE TECHNICAL
+123.00 +119.00
OFFICE TRANSFER / REFUGE SKY LOBBY OFFICE
RESIDENTIAL +123.00 RESIDENTIAL +119.00 TRANSFER / REFUGE RESIDENTIAL TRANSFER TECHNICAL / REFUGE
OFFICE TRANSFER / REFUGE
ENTRANCE LOBBY
OFFICES TRANSFER / REFUGE TECHNICAL
+123.00 +119.00 OFFICES
+68.00
TECHNICAL
RESIDENTIAL OFFICES
RESIDENTIAL TRANSFER / REFUGE
Employer LAVA BERLIN
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Colaboration Interior Design,Structural proposal, vertical transportation
ENTRANCE LOBBY
+68.00
TECHNICAL OFFICES ENTRANCE LOBBY
+8.00 +0.00
Shape
SlabsSlabs
Shape
Core
Cores
Columns
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Columns
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Structural Layout // Lower office 4 Express Elevators Residential
3 Public Elevators
Fire Elevator/ Goods Lift Fire Escape Stairs
Green Atrium
Fire Elevator/ Goods Fire Escape Stairs
5 Public Elevators
Fire Escape Stairs Fire Elevator/ Goods
5 Public Elevators
3 Public Elevators Fire Escape Stairs Fire Elevator/ Goods Lift
OFFICE
Employer LAVA BERLIN
RESIDENTIAL
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Colaboration Inte rior Design,Structural proposal, vertical transportation
Structural Layout
ELEGANT FORMATION| mixed uses tower in soho, NY FALL SEMESTER | PRATT INSTITUTE 2012 The proposal comprises of a mixed uses Office and Hotel Tower in the diverse context of Tribeca, strengthening the functions of the surrounding buildings in the vicinity. It is located at the busy and crowded junction of Canal street and Varick street, forming a
Critic Hina Jamelle
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catalyst between Chinatown in the east and affluent workplaces in the west. The building features an Intricate and Delicate structure at lower and higher levels creating a more transparent ground and roof top as they blend to more solid panels at the middle levels.
Team Christina Giannoulaki _ Karan Maniar
The site acts as a focal point to various streets and buildings in the area and is to an extent reflected in the rotation of the building. The flow of structural columns to walls with openings and again to more structural elements reflects the gradual change or mix of the interior functions of the building and
Critic Hina Jamelle
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also their changing relationship to exterior. The relationship between the offices and hotel is carefully blurred so that at ground level the workplaces have more programmatic weightage which gradually transfers to hotel rooms as one moves vertically in the building.
Team Christina Giannoulaki _ Karan Maniar
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Geometrical Analysis Different stages of monarch butterfly lifecycle
Critic Hina Jamelle
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Team Christina Giannoulaki _ Karan Maniar
Process _ the transformation stages of formations of a butterfly from a larva stage is interpreted in form of a diagram based on the factors affecting the change. Various moments of the diagram are developed into the spatial unit which are then transformed into a series with a particular thesis representing the change. The thesis here focuses on converting surfaces to openings and vice versa. In a way its a transformation between solids and voids
The exterior Facade of the building is an architectural system that combines the structure of the building and the openings. The organic transphormations of the openings create a kaleidoscopic effect in the interior space. The envelops of the facade refract the light inside the space by illuminating it with an indirect way. This
Critic Hina Jamelle
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effect keeps the space shaded and lightened at the same time. Furthermore the invention of the facade defines the quality of the interior space, the limits and the interior arrangement. The interior spatial development based on an panoptical logic as the structure offers multiple perspectives of the site’s environment.
Team Christina Giannoulaki _ Karan Maniar
tHE WATER IS COMING | THESIS RESEARCH SPRING SEMESTER | PRATT INSTITUTE 2013 The urban environment of our cities indicates that humanity historically searches for different meanings in its architectural development and most of the time excludes the natural parameters that are linked with the balanced coexistence between the human being and nature. Today, in anticipation of the upcoming environmental changes that will define the future of our cities, architecture has to find this lost balance and re-establish a new meaning that will make our cities
Critic Sulan Kolatan
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Student Christina Giannoulaki
more adaptable to their evolving environment. This thesis research is inspired from the smartness and the beauty of the systems that exist in nature and suggest an architectural proposal for the future problem of flooding at the edges of Manhattan. The proposal is an invention of a hybrid system able to correspond to the future conditions of inundation merged with the city’s infrastructure, encouraging an urban development that incorporates a life closer to the water.
Main Issue_ The future climate changes, especially the warmer temperature and the rising sea level will pose extensive hazards to the edges of Manhattan island and its infrastructure. The New York City Panel on Climate Change projects that by the 2080 the sea level will rise gradually up to 23 inches because of the warmer temperature and the increasing of the annual precipitation. Incorporating the long - term historical ice - melt rates the final projection for the sea lever rising ranges by 41 to 55 inches by the 2080s. According to this research, great threat for the existing infrastructure is also the short duration climate hazards, extreme events like heat waves, brief intense precipitation, storms, hurricanes and wind events that will increase the rise of the sea level more abruptly and will cause periodically flood hazards to the coast areas. The topography of Manhattan and the resent research of Manahatta project that provide a large topographical data about the landscape of the island before its extensive occupation, four hundred years ago, indicate that the potential inundated areas by rising sea level will be a zone of several blocks along the edges. The most critical
infrastructure impacts will be the street, basement and sewer flooding, increased structural damages, inundation of law - lying areas and wetlands and reduction of water quality. In contrast to our urban environments, nature has its own successful mechanism of adaptation. Especially natural landscapes has the appropriate resilience to reshaped according to climate changes. By looking closer to natural examples, the project suggest a merging of the city’s infrastructure with sustainable systems that can correspond successfully to the future conditions of inundation. Moreover, the proposal tries to introduce a new more sustainable circulatory system for the vehicles in the city. The existing motorway system (highways and urban grid) seem inefficient to satisfy the new needs of the contemporary dwellers. The proposal is the invention of hybrid system in conjunction with the old natural flood barriers of Manhattan that incorporates new motorway and pedestrian systems of roads in order to encourage an urban development that incorporates a life closer to the water and nature.
View at Pine Street
Critic Sulan Kolatan
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Student Christina Giannoulaki
Process _ The project begun with the topological diagram in the site. The financial district, prior to urban development, was all in the water up to Pearl St. All this part will be again underwater until 2030. The imminent inundation will severely affect the infrastructure of roads, sewers, the basements and the first floors of the buildings. The logic behind the first topological diagram was the development of a system of channels, swales that will circulate among the flood - planes that will be also the bases of the buildings. The protection of the buildings wasn’t the only parameter in that diagram, the logic
Critic Sulan Kolatan
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Student Christina Giannoulaki
includes the intention of expanding the public space and narrowing the private space. It was the first study concerning the reestablishment of the boundaries between the private and the public, and also the boundaries among the different kinds of movements in the site. The basic logic of the different parallel circulations in the site that will developed thoroughly as drawings and three dimensional models, is inscribed in that primary drawing. Also the construction of the diagram depends on the geometrical characteristics of the minimal surfaces that derived from specific Knot diagrams.
The interwoven conditions allow the overlapping of the movements without intersecting with each other. That means that the car flow doesn’t disturb any other circulation in the city. The pathways for bicycles, run parallel to the circulation of pedestrians. The loops of pedestrian and cycling roads overpass the FDR extending to the piers and return, under passing the FDR, connecting again with the urban fabric. The strands of the continuous movements above and below the FDR create a rhythmic formation of linked loops that point to the Brooklyn bridge. The whole circulation to the side leads to that upper level with an advantageous view to the river and the piers.
Critic Sulan Kolatan
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Student Christina Giannoulaki
house in dionisos
dionisos | ATTIKI | GREECE In the North suburbs of Athens, this new house with a hybrid form follows the plot’s natural inclination and takes advantage of the area’s natural sources like the sun light and the winds. All the living spaces of the house develop in different split levels which are approached through two ramps. Only the pri-
vate bedrooms of the family are in the highest level which is connected with the living space by a linear stair in the same zone with the ramps. The building grew out of a reform of the plot’s ground. It was attempted to create a sculpture which will be embodied in the natural environment smoothly.
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Employer Klab Archtitects
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urban stripes building
KOUKAKI | ATHENS | GREECE In the area of the centre of Athens named Koukaki, two major architectural modernistic build examples exist. The first is the Fix building by Takis Zenetos and the new museum of Acropolis by Tchumi. “Urban stripes” uses elements of both buildings in producing a new facade
Employer Klab Archtitects
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for an apartment building. The generic typology of a “polykatoikia” facade that exist in linearity of their balconies and the same position of the windows in every floor comes in severe conflict with the seeming randomness of the linearity of the windows that create the facade.
Colaboration design development, 3d modelling, visualization
APARTMENTS BUILDING IN aLIMOS ALIMOS | ATTIKI | GREECE
Located in a southern suburb of Athens, this building plot in Alimos has a view in the sea. The apartment building was designed in order to correspond with two distinctive purposes. The building should fit in the urban environment combined by housing complexes and other private houses by suggesting a new architectural approach of the
typical paradigm of the apartment building in Athens. The main aim of the design is to have the front volume of the building look to the sea in the north east direction, to provide to all of the apartments a view to the sea. The back volume has a more static role making the appropriate “counterpoint� to the front volume of the building which is more open.
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NOBO COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTS Christina Giannoulaki | Orestis Antoniou
CAR ShOWROOM + APARTMENT BUILDING BOULIAGMENI STREET | GLIFADA | greece
This building at Bouliagmeni Street in Glifada was designed to host two different and contradictive uses. More specifically, it combines one showroom and offices for automobile purchases, with residential apartments. The decision for the fuse of these different uses as well as
Employer A - team architects
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Colaboration design development, 3d modelling, visualization
the major constraints of this project, were mainly imposed by the site, which is defined by two different public roads. One is a highway with heavy traffic and the other is a quiet, common residential road.
HOUSE + office IN DRAFI DRAFI| ATTIKI | GREECE
Drafi is a small residential area at the foot of the Penteli mountain, and pertains to the east of Attiki. In this magnificent natural environment, the building plot provides a significant view of surrounding mountain peaks and the east suburbs of Attiki that extend to the sea. This privilege lead to the creation a rectangular box, its long side look to the view. The concrete box includes all the house spaces from which the living room with the dining room and the kitchen are in ground level, thus connecting directly
Employer Klab Archtitects
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with the pool, and the private rooms are in the first floor. The owners of the house wanted to have an extra space for their professional office which should have its own discrete entrance. Therefore, another rectangular volume, with the same length with the concrete base, is created and placed on the top of the concrete box. In order to be functionally and visually isolated from the house, the volume of the office was placed three meters behind the edge of the concrete box and was extruded at the back.
Colaboration design development, 3d modelling, visualization
house in saronida
ATTIKI | GREECE The strong inclination of the plot on a hill in Saronida, a suburb of Athens, made it possible to create an ascended path by stone walls which follows the contour lines of the topography. The final level of the path is the basement of the house which also makes up the base for the main building with the basic exterior living space and the pool. All the main spaces of the building have a view to the sea. The back North side of the building and the
Employer Klab Archtitects
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north east are protected, as the whole building at these two sides is embraced with a solid concrete wall with small holes for light and air in order for the spaces to be protected from direct sunlight and strong winds. In that zone the vertical movements are placed, with the stair and the lift that connects the three levels of the house. The movement zone that connects the three levels of the house by a stair and a lift, is placed in this area.
Colaboration design development, 3d modelling, visualization
competition | renovation of theater square monastiraki | athens | greece
The goal of this competition was the finding of a proposal for the building facades which embraces the Theatre square in the centre of Athens, and the reconstruction of the main public spaces of this square. In our proposal we try to create a pattern of wooden boards which aim to protect the apartments from the sun and also provide an appropriate space for plant growth on the facades. The challenge in this concept was the fragmented public space of this plaza which was divided by the surrounding roads. Specifically, the theatre
NOBO COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTS Christina Giannoulaki | Orestis Antoniou
square is an old type of classical plaza with a public building in the middle, so the spaces for people accumulation are the roads around this central building. Therefore, we tried to create an overall character for the main roads of the public space. The benches, the engraved lines on the pedestrian walkways and the trees direct the people in the gathering spaces on the square. All the road equipment is harmonized with the commercial activity in the road and has coherence with the design of the facades.
andronikos hotel
mykonos island | greece A modern rendering of Cyclades’ vernacular architecture was used when redesigning this old hotel in Mykonos and transforming its exterior space into a sculpted interpretation of nearby town. The winding ramps and stairs leading up to the free- form swimming pool create a theatrical stage; a public area that can be thought of as an extension of the hotel rooms. The spaces are designed in accordance with the principles of fluidity and surprise. Conceived as a modern cave, the room provides privacy in a surprising way. Each
Employer Klab Archtitects
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“cocoon” room is a modern interpretation of Cycladic design, characterized by fluid forms and natural curves so often found in Mykonos landscape. Natural elements used throughout the white space such as pebbles, bamboo and wood create an harmonious and relaxed environment that ease the mind and spirit while replenishing all the lost energy from the stressful city life. In the room, floor, walls and furniture, lay on a continuous surface, thus making them a fluid sculpture while cool lighting scenarios contribute to this desired feeling of relaxation.
Colaboration design development, 3d modelling, visualization
APARTMENT RENOVATION IN ASKLIPIOU ST ATHENS | GREECE
This renovation has the goal of restoring an old apartment in Asclipiou street in the centre of Athens, and also to create an interior space that will satisfy the needs of its proprietor who has chosen to live alone. Hence, it was designed as an open space with the main living spaces unified. The only two isolated spaces of the apartment are the bedroom, which is in a closed lighted box of polycar-
bonate boards, and the bathroom, which is designed as a separate volume of bricks inside the living space. The majority of the materials are inexpensive and sustainable. The conspicuous library in the living room which also has an embodied loft for office work is a sectional construction of steel sheets and wooden boards of OSB.
One of the main concepts is that the apartment is divided in two, by an imaginary line, expressed with different flooring materials, which separates the space for study and tabletop gaming from the living room and kitchen. The whole place has an industrial character that expresses the style of proprietor and connotes the comfort of solitary life.
NOBO COLLECTIVE ARCHITECTS Christina Giannoulaki | Orestis Antoniou
Student and Professional Work 2008 - 2014
CV + Work Sample