Yiannis Taliotis Portfolio - 2023

Curriculum vitae

Yiannis Taliotis

Address

50 Cranford Avenue

Enfield London

N13 4PA

Phone Number 07805798335

Email yiannisagp@gmail.com

Nationality

British Software Ability

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Sketchup

AutoCAD

Revit

Profile

Architecture student who has recently completed my Bachelor’s degree at The Kent School of Architecture with Upper Second Class Honours. Proficient user of digital software currently undertaking a year out placement in practice to gain experience before beginning RIBA Part 2 MArch course as part of my continued journey to gain ARB accreditation.

2016 - 2018

Ashmole Academy Sixth Form A-Level

2022 - 2023

Saunders Architecture + Urban Design

RIBA Part 1 Architectural Assistant

2023 - 2025

MArch Architecture (RIBA Part 2)

University of Nottingham

2018 - 2021

BA (Hons) Architecture (RIBA Part 1)

Kent School of Architecture

University of Kent

01 Project Inspire

Selected pages taken from my final third year design studio project: a community centre for a real life organisation based in the centre of Canterbury.

Alfriston Dining Hall

A competition entry I had worked on for a dining hall proposal in Buckinghamshire during my time as a Part 1 Architectural Assistant.

Digital Illustration

Selected images in various styles showcasing some digital artwork I have created throughout my academic years.

Project Inspire

Location: Canterbury, Kent

Year: 2021

Description: Located on the Current Canterbury Bus Station, this proposal aimed to reintegrate the city’s youth and educational institutions by providing a place for social gathering and cultural exchange – thus attempting to address the current issue of today’s education system. By rejuvenating the historic city wall, the site becomes a place for active inspiration through diverse activities and community involvement.

The Gardening Sanctuary

Who?

By identifying the relevant stakeholders, key educational groups in Canterbury can be bought together within the context of the proposal.

What?

Using the club as a vehicle to boost future social and economic values of the community in a sustainable way.

The primary aim of this scheme was to break the barrier of learning within a traditional educational model in order to create knowledge-seeking platforms by forging relationships with local institutions.

This was done through localised workshops which aimed to provide skill-attaining opportunities and learning spaces for young people to transfer into the future through different sectors.

Why?

Developing models which can be used to shift educational culture in order to better cultivate desirable skills in a socially conscious context.

How?

Using a superblock to enable the proposal to be more effective in creating a collaborative educational infrastructure within Canterbury.

Scenario

Working through the context of growing issues such as climate change, a conceptual timeline was developed for The Young Animators to provide resource and skill cultivating methods in order to boost social vitality and confidence of local youth.

This was successful in establishing functional and collaborative learning environments which can be adopted by the organisation in a sequential way to optimise engagement of projects whilst meeting core social objectives.

Inspiration Satellites

Production Satellites Animation Satellites

Mapping

An important step of the initial research phase of the proposal was carrying out a mapping exercise to understand the educational context within which the site sits in. This was done by identifying key educational institutions within the city and its fringe belt, classifying them based on level of education and finding existing connections between them.

Via

Via

Longmarket Square

Prototype - The Inspiration Lab

The Inspiration Lab is a small-scale modular structure proposed in the centre of Canterbury. This intervention aims to serve as a vehicle for The Young Animators to inspire and educate its members through practical and physical experiences - both in cultivating resources for the community itself as well as production which benefits the activities of the organisation.

The future of this scheme places the prototype into several locations. Its flexible nature allows it to be used as a pop-up structure to strengthen community engagement through workshop activities, thus increasing the club’s reach.

Passive Use

Club Use

Public Use

Key

1. New Canterbury South Bus Station

2. Street Level Playscape

3. Proposed Building

4. Sunken Plaza

5. Climbing Wall

6. Canterbury Retail Centre

7. High Street

8. Dane John Gardens

Site Plan

Site Sections

The upper Southeast block of the building is dedicated predominantly to facilities and amenities required by the client and its members to fulfil its educational and production needs by providing adequate resources and spaces such as digital workshops, learning spaces, and studios.

The ground floor and exterior landscape is dedicated predominantly to public access and gathering. Playscape elements were introduced to the site via a sunken plaza level in order to create greater social engagement within a new public realm whilst revitalising the historical significance of the Roman city walls.

Section AA

Section BB

1. Foyer

2. Exhibition

3. Cafe

4. Multi-use Hall

5. Library

6. Workshop

7. Sensory Room

8. Classroom

9. Digital Studio

Wall engagement Social gathering Communal internal space Courtyard garden

Detail A: External Wall / Suspended Floor

Technical Detail

Vertical timber cladding is required to be attached to fixing and counter battens in order to create a ventilation cavity which improves airflow behind a timber rainscreen. A breather membrane and vapour control layer are also incorporated in order to prevent moisture absorption into the building.

Technical Section

Detail B: External Wall / Foundation

Alfriston Dining Hall

Location: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

Year: 2023

Description: Alfriston school, a maintained special needs school for girls aged 11 – 18, has day places for 150 pupils and provides residential care for 20 pupils via an in-site boarding school. All pupils have some degree of learning difficulty, and most have additional difficulties. The school’s aim is to ‘prepare pupils for integration into the wider community, able to enjoy and participate in life as contributing adults.’

The existing dining facilities of the school were inadequate, and as a result, the school required a new dining hall to provide a positive and healthy environment for the enjoyment of good food. Alongside this, the proposed space aimed to provide opportunities for education and learning in relation to food and social eating development.

Interior View

Exterior View

Concept

The brief given by the client was used to identify the core concepts that were to be promoted through the scheme.

Programme

Project Brief

The school campus is made up of a series of buildings, all with pitched roofs and set out on both sides of a main central spine, running west to east. The main school teaching and residential building and associated playgrounds are to the south. A series of specialist buildings border the northern edge of this axis, including a 2-storey performing arts building, a gym and recently constructed swimming pool.

The school required a new dining hall to promote a positive, good food culture. Set within beautiful grounds the building would provide a real food experience for the enjoyment of dining for both pleasure and education.

Project Themes

Initial concepts we're extrapolated to identify key on-site activities that can be adopted to support themes of community, well-being and nature.

By using The Brief and Building Bulletin Area Guidelines, required spaces for the programme of the new buildings were identified and grouped by zone.

Spatial Adjacencies

The proposal encroaches on the green belt. Although the principle of certain development within the green belt is accepted, it is more complicated to gain consent. In this case, the site is located on the edge of the green belt. The development proposal was carefully justified, with particular consideration given to the impact on the adjacent AONB. Building Bulletin Area Guidelines and Schedule of Accommodation tools were used to rationalise the project programme and produce an initial spatial relationships plan which fulfilled the brief whilst remaining conscientious of the site’s immediate context.

Key Spatial Connection

Access to External Space

Community Space

Well-being Space

Nature Space

External Space

Massing

The brief set out the required accommodation which was categorised into two key areas:

• Back of House (BOH)- entrance, kitchens, catering spaces

• Front of House (FOH)- dining, social and conference spaces

Diagram 1

Set the BOH (1 storey volume) and FOH (2 storey volume) alongside the existing swimming pool building, blocking views from the pool to the landscape.

Diagram 2

Rotate the FOH (2 storey volume) to reinstate clear views from the pool with the BOH below the level of the pool glazing. The rotation forms a public forecourt for access and deliveries.

Diagram 3

Link the BOH (1 storey volume) and FOH (2 storey volume). The 2 storey dining volume nestles within the woodland trees and draws in views of the open landscape.

Diagram 4

Acknowledge the line of the street façade and trim the elevation back to stand in line, as the natural, woodland book-end to the spinal streetscene.

Emerging Armature Plan

The single storey back-of-house volume sits down below the pool windows and the dining wing sits taller but rotated to protect the framed views from the pool.

The rotated dining wing wraps a forecourt at the entrance of the dining building which serves as an access for vehicular deliveries. The level changes are negotiated with landscaped tiered slopes, to be used as seating for spectating sport or social gatherings.

The dining hall is a double height space, with a calm and soothing timber lining, soft acoustics, filtered daylight and views through the trees to the countryside beyond.

Key

1. Existing Swimming Pool

2. Entrance Lobby

3. Dining Hall (Double Height)

4. Kitchen

5. Office

6. Store

7. Balcony (Above)

8. Tiered Seating

9. Playing Fields

Access Route Entrance

Key

1. Public Edge

2. Boarshead Cottage

3. Performing Arts

4. Gymnasium

5. Swimming Pool

6. Dining Hall

7. Woodland

Digital Illustration

Year: 2017 - Present

Description: Having studied Graphic Design at both GCSE at A-Level, I Have developed an interest in exploring visual communication of different forms of media digitally. By fusing my own stylistic interest in artists such as Olly Moss with more well-known illustration methods, I create pieces of some of my favourite icons and media.

Mesut Özil - 2017

The Dark Knight - 2008

Dunkirk - 2017

Behance

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