yannis bessas
CURRICULUM VITAE
YANNIS BESSAS (1997)
email: ynbessas@gmail.com
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project archive: https://oridela.blogspot.com
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about me
I studied Architecture at the University of Patras (2021) and also spent a short period of time at the TU Berlin as an Erasmus student. I have a clear predilection on spatial and regional planning, and mapping geographical objects on imaginative representations. Issues of urbanism and city complexions are mainly at the epicentre of my research and work process.
experience
present
stelios vakirtzis (architecture office, Athens, GR) raumsequenz (architekten & stadtplaner, Memmingen, DE)
Master in Architecture (5 academic years/ integrated MArch degree/ grade 8,75 /10) University of Patras/ School of Architecture expertise: urban design /planning, urbanism, spatial planning, mapping
studies at TU Berlin, Institut für Architektur (Erasmus+ exchange programme)
finalist
‘Nodal Points’ architectural ideas competition/ University of Thessaly, School of Architecture
«be creative: ART in GAMES»| BEST patras
interests
Max Adobe InDesign
2008, 2010,
ESN (erasmus student network) member volunteering participated in language workshops in Berlin
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premiere
Photoshop ArcMap
Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
member of the theater drama club of the University of Patras, and participated in the theatrical performance ‘I Gitonia ton Aggelon’
painting, drawing, history of art courses skills acquired:
sketching drawing/ painting model construction
«be creative» Adobe Illustrator acquisition courses| BEST patras participation in summer camps at various locations across Greece, promoting teamwork and coordination
european driving licence class B
LEGEND
CONTENTS
project logo project name
CRS: course name ects: credits
PRF: professor/ supervisor name AY: academic year
PRT: design partner name
credits project URL link (if available)
*more samples of work and extracurricular projects on my personal project archive: https://oridela.blogspot.com
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industrial park 25
museum of the anthropocene era
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curriculum vitae legend contents projects* planitas easter on mars primarolia (landscape formation in Patras) research thesis: Urban Cartographic Explorations diploma thesis: Valley of the Muses
industrial park 25
CRS: urban design + planning 01 ects: 8
PRF: Papalampropoulos Leonidas
AY: 2017 –2018
PRT: Kotsoula Theodora
At Eleonas, Athens in the former industrial area, an alternative industrial park is proposed, in order to support the production of energy and biogas through the recycling of the waste disposed in the wider Eleonas area. In a rather utopian, natural environment the litter transformation is processed at the same place, where people explore the industrial park and social activities are released inbetween the decompression cylinders.
museum of the anthropocene era
CRS: architectural design studio 06 ects: 12
PRF: Dragonas Panos AY: 2017 –2018
PRT: Foteinou Niovi
https://up1718-architecturaldesign6.blogspot.com/2018/07/ blog-post_85.html
The narration begins with water and non-water, with the presence of water and its absence. In other words, the issue of drought, the cracked land and the ability of water to declare its absence are raised. For the separation of the plot, the voronoi diagram is applied with absolute mathematical accuracy. As a result, one surface is divided into 48 areas (cells).
Each cell is, in a way, an independent volume that is a separate room. In other words, the feeling is given that the building is a piece that breaks into individual pieces, but still connected through the cracks. More specifically, in the interior there are sloping levels, both on the floor and on the roof, which create a spatial experience that is consistent with the installation on display.
With the help of textures, colors and other elements, the feeling of water scarcity, a dry and barren environment is given. The landscape is reminiscent of desertification, but at the same time it is a favorable receptor waiting for the water to start pouring again, to ‘fill its gaps’.
planitas
CRS: architectural design studio 07 ects: 12
PRF: Katsota Dimitra AY: 2019 –2020
PRT: –
https://fourseas.cargo.site/planitas https://fourseas.cargo.site/Northern-Sporades https://oridela.blogspot.com/2020/05/planitas.html
Skiathos has an extended tradition in literature with figures like Alexandros Moraitidis and Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851 –1911). They have been recreating the local island landscapes through their novels. According to the writings of Alexandros Papadiamantis, every spot on the island is unique, it is a story of its own. Filled with memories, emotions and natural features. Particular importance is given to the rich literary history of Skiathos, with the novels of Alexandros Papadiamantis acquiring cartographic overtones and being imprinted on the island. The maps take on new forms and they are enriched through his vivid literary descriptions.
Tourism transcripts have a figurative meaning, creating new relations between the mundane touristic ideas and the historical descriptions of Papadiamantis. Thus the proposal focuses on the contemporary types of tourism and how they could be adjusted or adopted on unique historic sites in a literary way.
New utopian landscapes are popping up in selected Fonissa spots in order to interpret the writings and play along with the words giving a new meaning to the original description and setting up a figurative scenery for the traveller (planitas).
model of interventions forming the elevation of skiathos island
model map
easter on mars
CRS: architectural design studio 08 ects: 12
PRF: Papalampropoulos Leonidas
AY: 2018 –2019
PRT: –
A slice of the planet Mars is, in a way, landed on Earth and suddenly becomes an inextricable part of the surface and the surrounding landscape. This segment came from a transformation of the famous Valles Marineris canyon on Mars, now instantly accessible by Earthlings on their home planet.
primarolia (landscape formation in Patras)
CRS: applied spatial planning studio ects: 8
PRF: Pappas Vassilis AY: 2019 –2020
PRT: –
https://oridela.blogspot.com/2020/05/primarolia.html
abstract
The architectural practice is intertwined with cartography, especially in cases of urban scale and intervention in the urban landscape. The map activates tensions and concepts for alternative readings of the modern urban physiognomy.
This research paper explores the power of cartographic practice and the dynamics of the map as a tool for documenting urban realities. Main objective is to consolidate a personal cartographic attempt to respond to the challenge of critical cartography, and to validate the map as an essential tool for revealing, reading, comprehending, even enforcing and intervening in the urban landscape.
Driven by the course of cartography over time, the meaning of the map is redefined and its subjectivity is emphasized. Afterwards, two turning points in the 20th century cartographic thought are described; Debord’s psychogeography and Lynch’s mental cartography, and finally a catalytic involvement of the architect with the map. Focusing on two indicative examples of mapping, the research thinking matures and key dimensions are extracted in the direction of urban mapping.
Consequently, with the theoretical background, a fertile ground was created for the development of an alternative cartographic act. We hope that this personal and subjective approach will activate a series of cartographic readings and will arm the reader with the lens of a rather free interpretation of the map, and consequently of the city.
...It is the compass and at the same time the map that accompanies the novice cartographer in his first attempts for a mapping of the urban landscape...
The mapping methodology presented in this paper is seen as a personal view of the identification of urban cartography. It is a subjective effort that aims to unlock components of urban space. This attempt clearly captures an inner anxiety to experiment with the map and directs a structured interactive game, which supports and realises the inner impulses for cartographic concerns and actions. Through the construction, deconstruction and denaturation of theoretical concepts, a new idea is born, a new tension that describes and defines the meaning of urban mapping.
An essential objective is for the urban issues of the city of Patras to be recognised and to have a complete record of them, in the context of answers and directions for urban interventions. In a discussion of the geographical, social and urban phenomena of the city, it is not meant to lack the appropriate supporting cartographic material. In this way, the dimensions of the spatial realities are secured with their geographical location, and based on the localization and decoding, their management becomes easier.
Guided by the unleashing and redemptive power of the map for search and therefore the development of new methods, this personal narrative was created using a variety of multidimensional means of expression to imprint the data. The methodology has given a number of ‘mappings’ with a variety of subjects and character, each describing one or more elements of the urban physiognomy and capturing dynamic urban relationships, pressures and factors that define the specific node. These maps, therefore, prove to be a source of thoughts and conclusions. The number of maps that can be created is inexhaustible, but we create an illustrative sample as an interpretation of the concepts and theoretical notions studied.
Urban mapping, as an active and dynamic process of mapping the modern urban landscape, emerges as a source and presumption of thoughts, which in turn display directions of strategic intervention in the urbanscape, which harmonize with, and balance the urban ‘being’.
This diploma thesis focuses on the Valley of the Muses, an archaeological site with a mythological dimension, on the outskirts of Elikonas. The main objective is the consolidation of a spatial study for the Valley that is structured based on the triptych; place –myth –proposal, through a cartographic attempt and interpretation of topographic objects.
Through a process of recording and mapping of basic components of the space, the mythological background of the area is decoded, and based on this the proposal of intervention of spatial scale emerges. This spatial analysis is intertwined with the dynamics and identity of the place and develops around the myth of the 9 Muses. The Muses as a source of inspiration and spirituality determine the logic and the structure of the 9 interventions.
The 9 Muses, through the reflection of the myth, ‘escort’ us to 9 suggested places of intervention. These have been revealed and highlighted as appropriate through previous Valley analysis and the mapping algorithm (Muse –place indexes). Each gathers a series of compatibility elements, either topographically or historically and of the imaginary presence of the Muses.
The whole Valley emerges and functions as an open–air museum, a mythological landscape with exhibits and exhibitors, not only an exhibition of an existing work, but mainly an on–site creative act. An amalgam of art under the inspiration and guidance of the 9 Muses. It is essentially the creation of an experiential spiritual park with the aim of highlighting the cultural context of the Valley in order to revive the Hesiodic experience of inspiration for potential artists and flaneurs.
© Yannis Bessas 2022