Xeni Alexiou

x e n i a l e x i o u p o r t f o l i o architectural & design projects | 2017

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made in japan residence in countryside 0% imprint accomodation in nature archaelogical museum of patras museum in the city fabric cultural neighborhood & residences theme park at port’s jetty | seafront the city within the city social experiment & performance the holy bachelorette in the wedding cave performance & installation | athens festival posters’ sample the observatory of space sample of personal project

MADE IN JAPAN residence in countryside ideal frame

4,2 x 8,4 x 12,6 m

analyzed in wings m i n i m a l i s m light | shadow zen philosophy dynamic of void compact

0% imprint vouraikos river rapids nature general characteristics of the accomodation: duration: 1 day - 3 months 2 persons use: pleasure | recreation | naturalist | tranquilty comfort level: free camping joined and impregnated wood kind of wood: pine dimensions of wooden blocks: 0.40 x 0.40 x 0.80(+) m metallic base

INTERIOR REALM OF THE ACCOMODATION IN THE INTERIOR OF THW ACCOMODATION, THE WOODEN BLOCKS CREATE SEATS, MARBLE KITCHEN, BEDS, STOREROOMS SPACE OF WC | CHEMICAL TOILET SEMI-TRANSPARENT BLOCKS OF POLYCARBONATE | DIMENSIONS 0.40 x 0.40 x 0.40(+) M | AS STOREROOMS INTO THE INTERIOR - POLYCARBONATE CABINETS | PENETRATION OF LIGHTING

CANAVAS DESIGN

interior view

new

archaeological museum of patras facilities amphitheater exhibition hall laboratories multitasking hall educational center dodumentation center administration technical assistance and infrastracrure cafe shop entrance | info center

port’s jetty

st george square

port facilities gounari street

trion navarhon street

archaelogical museum psila alonia square

amphitheater

roof garden | direction to the sea

link stair level: trion navarhon street level: psila alonia square

facade main entrance level: psila alonia square

cultural neighborhood & residences | seafront facilities library amphitheater reading space space of exhibition entrance | info space urban green stripes cafe & restaurant audiovisual laboratories space of concerts | cinema residences | space of hospitality

site plan

...at the turn of the 19th century it became art: the art of losing the way, the art of overtaking. some became artists in kind. or perhaps, merely, moved on. in paris they called them flâneurs. a passenger who observes the metropolis, a gentleman (or woman) who wanders in urban fabric. addicted to wandering, she cross the streets, anonymous into the crowd, with only purpose to enjoy the observation of constanlty changing scenes. she is a passive spectator of urban happenings, wherever crowding happens. wandering may seems individual, but it has puplic character. arcades... protected from the rythm of metropolis, the different scenes seemed small independent cities, with covered worlds in miniature. without the arcades, flâneur would be misserable, and without the flâneur, the arcades as well, wouldn’t have the same glory.

Wandering is the first identification and reading tool. deconstructing the city, there are hard elements that constitute the city. these are the roads, the buidling blocks and their buildings, and the uncovered areas of the building blocks as well. the city center doesn’t leave any urban gap, any discontinuity. everything is full. into the saturated urban landscape inherent soft elements too. a constant game of presence and absence of human activity. [...] tonight we improvise. starting an embodied process, he\she crosses arcades and pavements. his/her gaze detects a different style from the usual. a mettalic structure steps on the grey pavement tiles and got lost into the recess of the block. she/he follows... the interior uncovered area of the block becomes the scene to develop multiple naratives, contrasting multiple spaces and different times in real space.

contested narratives | scenes of the city the city within the city

cubes of spatialized emotions

we simulate the architecture with a rample through the city, where there is a variety of stimuli. architecture: the idea of a constant process, where alternation of colours, spaces, materials and shadings got revealed. the power of coherences and collage, the artistic interpretation of emotions and subconscious, the libertine and subjective flow of action are preceded. the spectactor is called to embody all these as immediate experience, as a process that happens at present tense, as a thetrical performance in progress. each cube aims to interpret the symbolism and the visualisation of the process, to mediate the emotion, expressing a range of abstract intentions and ideals.

the interior uncovered of the blocks becomes the scene to get developed multiple narratives, juxtaposing in real space multiple spaces and different times. the visitor becomes a flâneur who enters the city’s fabric (flâneur’s way of concentration of senses). human experience of the space. space displaced in time and function. condition of scene place. we overtake the image, the visual perception of the spectactor - receiver. how an actor embodies the scene? the scenic area creates discontinuities, canalizing and imposing the movements of the body and vision perception. coexistence, isolation, visual juctions are allowed. [...] theatrical performance in progress

repetead process

linear process

THE HOLY BACHELORETE IN THE WEDDING CAVE | ATHENS FESTIVAL 2015 ADONIS VOLANAKIS STUDIO performance & installation

SPACE OF THE PERFORMANCE & installation | the weaving of the loom and the PEIREOS 260

wedding dress

posters theatrical performance

the garden of wonders iakovos kampanelis

observatory of space plenty of space for everybody personal project

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