Zoe G. Georgiou Architect.Urban Designer
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Architecture.Urban Design 2012-2014
Zoe G. Georgiou was born in ThessalonikiGreece in 1987, and from early age showed her interest in aesthetics, colors, geometry and arts. She earned her master degree from Aristotle University Thessaloniki, specialised in Urban issues with high mark 10/10. As a proof to her interest in this scale, she followed an Advanced Master in Urban Design from ETH Z端rich. She has gained experience working in differenet countries like Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland and Turkey. She enjoys participating in workshops and exhibitions. As a young and fresh spirit she is excited to explore new limits.
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Fundamendals, Absorbing Modernity
01 Modalities of the Spontaneous Series, Places of Memory Fundamentals, Absorbing Modernity Architecture Venice Bienalle 2014
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‘...And so you continue, passing from outskirts to outskirts, and the time comes to leave Penthesilea. You ask for the road out of the city; you pass again the string of scattered suburbs like a freckled pig-mentation; night falls; windows come alight, here more concentrated, sparser there. You have given up trying to understand whether, hidden in some sac or wrinkle of these dilapidated surroundings there exists Penthesilea the visitor can recognize and remember, or whether Penthesilea is only the outskirts of itself. The question that now begins to gnaw at your mind is more anguished: out-side Penthesilea does an outside exist? Or, no matter how far you go from the city, will you only pass from one limbo to another, never managing to leave it? ‘ Penthesilea Continuous City Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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“Levent is a very ambiguous and recently shaped urban fragment of the city. It is very hard to understand what’s exactly happening there since there is no real planning process like we know… In relation to this, I looked at process patterns to understand these intricate moments… I am trying to trace what was happening underneath this current fragmented situation by tracing today’s notions to the past. There are various layers that have caused different situations which range from topography to social values or political maneuvers—and which cause a lot of things to transform. As you are following these tracks you don’t even need to mention the actors, like architects, politicians, urban planners and so on. You can shift your perspective and look at what lies behind them, focus on the static data like topography, infrastructure and other things shaping this dynamic city. Bringing the same factors together, the city becomes the actor itself.”
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BD_03 Inner Division of Existing Lots Dilluted boundaries frame
Let us try to see what lies underneath the unseen, underneath what the pedestrian of a city can not see with a simple walk in the city. If we de-code all this information into a design tool to demonstrate a multilayer of infrastructure, roads, water and electricity canals , if we return back to an x-ray of a city trying to trace how the city moves and expands. 09
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[12] Testing Panels, Infrastructure Topography and Ownership Layers [13] Superposition of Layers [14] Spotting the Typological Differentiation
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02 Collective School VCMD 2014, Dreams to Realities Salon Architects, Alper Derinbogaz, Refik Anadol | Istanbul, Turkey
“Co-operation is a skill, and what lies under a successfull co-operation is learning how to listen and discuss rather than conflict” R.Sennett Today we are sceptical about traditional education institutes like primary school and universities. Therefore the ground is fertilised to embrace a new form of self-organised collective spaces, known as Hacker Spaces or FabLabs or Co Working Places that recently pop-up across the globe.This collective activism offers a new approach on learning through different actions, processes, skills, resources, and knowledge that are exchanged and shared by its members. There is not a unifıed vision for these spaces; just overllaping needs, ideas and dreams create a lively hub. The main manifestatıon of these spaces can sum up on three main axis : community, interaction, and creativity. The utopia of Collective School address these questions by no intention to control what happens within this sphere,
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but rather provide the enviroment to act. Informality can be seen in every aspect, from the interior organisation to furniture array. Regarding the overall form, the basic design module is repeated and reshaped so as to host any kind of activity in total informality. In this sense the system of modules is flexible to changes by adding or substracting elements. Hierarchy is not so important at this utopia as much as blended atmospheres and overlapping uses. The fiction anatomy of shifting spaces, shifting uses and shifting perceptions, create illusions about the continuation of the space, while flow becomes more important than function’s categorisation. At the end, playing with the human movement and horizon again and again along the paths, makes the experience of knowledge a trip by its own.
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Smoothing the Threshold
03 Smoothing the Thresholds Investigating segregation systems |São Paulo, Brazil|, collaborator_Fani Kostourou
São Paulo is considered one of the major megacities within the globe covering an area of 1,500 square kilometers. Including its metropolitan region, its population approaching 20 million inhabitants while its growth standards stand at 9.2%. The reality of the city can be characterized as complex, consisting of opposed social groups. The pattern of spatial and social inequality that structures the metropolis today is a result of two historical processes superimposed in the spaces of the city. The view of the rich center versus the poor periphery corresponds to the pattern of urbanization. In 1980, São Paulo urbanized area expanded dramatically due to the spread of auto-construction. Workers moved to the city by millions and settled in non-urbanized areas on the outskirts.
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They bought cheap lots of land in areas without infrustructure, spending decades of savings and family labour in improving their dream homes. On the other hand, the middle and upper classes remained in the center benefited from the good services and infrastructure, and regularised and subsidised access to land. Thus, metropolitan regions have been marked by a dichotomy between the ‘legal’ city,the centre inhabitated by the upper and middle classes, and the precarious peripheries, inhabitated by the rest. As a result of these diversities,‘Sao Paulo is today a city of walls’, as mentioned by Teresa P. R. Caldeira. It is mainly characterized by a pattern of physical and psychological segregation, established by citizens’ strategies as a part of security.
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Brazil | world’s fifth largest country || 190 million population ||| 83.75% of the population defined as urban
São Paulo |10 million inhabitants || 20% of population is unemployed ||| 1.6 million people live in precarious conditions |||| 35% of the city’s outskirt is protected nature
Paraisopolis | second largest favela in the city || 55,590 inhabitants ||| 20,832 homes |||| an upgrading and regularization process began in 2005
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This favela represents an interesting condition-“ a city within a city”- as it is located within the expanded center- in the middle of the “formal urban fabric” (something uncommon for SP, most of its favelas located in its peripheries). Paraisopólis has a hospital (Albert Einstein), schools, a CEU (constructed in 2008), 3 formal bus lines in the major streets, etc. In addition, the favela was built on private land, with existing street delineations, and lot subdivisions (normally, informal settlements tend to grow in public and not private land since it is easier for settlers to secure their homes and not evict from the land). As a result, the settlement grew within delineated blocks, respecting the major streets/access ways already present. In this sense, Paraisopolis represents an easier upgrading situation (with regards to basic infrastructure) than the usual Brazilian favela, even though the topography is still quite abrupt, holding large hills and very low areas with high risks of landslides and floods. [01] The Topography [02] The Regulated Lots [03] The Transportation Network [04] The Existing Built Area
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04 Construction Working with steep topography |Cabuçu de Baixo, São Paulo, Brazil
The edge of São Paulo is a wide region where city and natural landscape overlap in a relentless game of penetration. In this middle zone between landscape and the city, the range of recognised qualities suggests a vibrant field of coexistence. The edge can be perceived as on the verge of something describing maybe an extremity, but on the other hand can also be seen as a limitation that ascribes a framework, that holds and limits a situation (in our case maintain the limits of a city, or define the border of different scapes). Having in mind that we are dealing with the edges of the metropolitan area of São Paulo, it is obvious that between the different scapes, cityscape and landscape, we rarely have very defined and clear lines, that separate the differences. Usually due to uncontrolled aspects we are ending up to blurred and unclear shapes.
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The conceptual model is how we can materialize these feasible edges on a model that would have a restrained character. The result was a dynamic net of relations, that will act as catalyst that could accelerate the processes of mixes. Penetration The abstract invasion of one space condition into another and each of them interacts to each other in a unique way, so that the disrupted pieces of each are recomposed into a new entity destroying the delicate balance line that distinguishes one from the other, breaking through and creating holes in its unit and changing urban portrait. The focus of the project has been the remaining protected forest in-between the favelas of Cabuçu de Baixo. In order to define the character of the intermediate zone between nature
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and urban fabric, the edge was perceived as a transitional situation changing accoring to differnet tensions that were imposed on it. According to future scenarios, people leaving in favela will continue to built in the precarious conditions of the steep topography of the area, being constantly in the verge of washing out by landslides, floods and erosions. Having analysed the typology of favelas and investigating the pattern relations on the edge, some diagrams were made to demonstrate the complex relations of the ground, the housing units and the mixes. The grid as huge net was used as a designing tool that could adjust to the topography of the area and have a restrain character for both urban expansion and soil erosion.
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Flirting with infrastructure and pure engineering, the grid transformed from a design tool to an actual net of concrete applicable on the topography, creating a new terrain on the top of the existing.This 3-dimensional matrix would be a flexible ruler for safe growth, landscape design and a more refined,useful system of soil restrainer. The grid is artificial, sharp,transparent industrial and ordered but the whole atmosphere generated by the grid is blurry and ambiguous like trees structures. We can have the beautiful duality of both the artificial and the natural.
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05 Urban Rehab A Neglected Urban Entity |Thessaloniki City Center, Greece
Crisis in Greece has generated need for hosting low-income segment populations within the frames of the city. Meanwhile it appeared that the created house system ought to be self-sustained providing to its inhabitants the opportunity to maintain their community. The hint of this operation is not to transfer the problem of housing deficiency in the sleeping periphery of the city , rather to regenerate existing neglected urban blocks. Practically it is about a land recycling process. Taking these into account, the thesis project is concerned an area of four city blocks in the peripheral zone of Thessaloniki’s historic centre. This piece of land is covering about a 20.000 square meters area and has never been noticed as a significant part of the urban evolution and consequently have never been referred to an organized urban planning process. However, among these blocks the whole history of Thessaloniki is revealed, from the enormous fire of 1917, the debated season of communism until the immigrants movement of 2000.
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As a result the ingredients of this area, not only the built environment but also the proportions of the population have formed a unique mosaic of different uses, nationalities and a eventually a different style of social behaviors. The project is going to investigate all the relations that have been created during the last years including, populations, buildings, historic buildings in the area, ground floor uses, relations between built ,unbuilt and greenery. The main intention of this project is to suggest through analysis and plans, a new model of re-organisation of the area. The aim was not to demolish and ban unnecessary units and habits, but according to people needs, to demonstrate an arlternative approach to urban reality.
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Investigating throughout all the possibilities, it was clear from the beginning that the area was in demand for more public and social space. However, the horizontical surface was totally consumed by concrete masses, so the only way to create public space was to generate a new network inside, above and between these masses, mainly by penetrating the existing.
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06 Camlica Radio and TV Tower Istanbul Winning Competition Entry Salon Architects | Istanbul ,Turkey
Camlica Radio, TV Tower is a Winning Proposal by Salon Architects dated in 2011. Since the beginning of 2014 the project is on the phase of construction aiming to replace all the antennas on the EastAsian Side of Istanbul. The Tower will be an attractor for the whole area as it is going to be the tallest construction at the moment in Istanbul. The Construction includes not only antennas for radio and TV signals but also Restaurants , Visiting Floors and Observatory. The Project is an international collaboration between Turkish, English and American Enginneers.
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07 A Metro Station as Cells Parametric Approach Thessaloniki City Center, Greece | collaborator Dimitris Gourdoukis
The project investigation began with experimenting with the notion of aposynthesis as a process of generating and regenerating modules. The process of constant regeneration and the oscillation between shapes and sizes before total decay, was a starting procedure for creating our model. Starting with the basic tool of a grid , and writting the Mel Code as a process of questions regarding the size of a unit we ended up, in a transformable unit of microcells, moving according to locators. The aim was to apply the output of the programm to the given site so as to transform the planned metro station in a more proactive design result. proc cellAutom (){ int $xmax = `intSliderGrp -q -v numofCellsx`; int $ymax = `intSliderGrp -q -v numofCellsy`; int $generations = `intSliderGrp -q -v numofGenerations`; int $duration = `intSliderGrp -q -v duration`; float $h = `floatSliderGrp -q -v cellHeight`; float $d = `floatSliderGrp -q -v distbwGens`; //create the lattice of cells. for($x=0; $x<$xmax; $x++){ for($y=0; $y<$ymax; $y++){ polyCube -ax 0 0 1 -w 1 -h $h -sx 1 -sy 1 -name (“Cell0_” + $y + “x” +$x); move $x $y 0; }
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08 Housing Complex Beykoz Gümüşsuyu 2B Konutları Salon Architects | Istanbul ,Turkey
The house complex is located in a transitional zone between woods and the sea of Bosphorus in the East Side of Istanbul. The project phase was to explore the potential of the site, which included steep topography, and protected land of forest, and come up with a typology that can both accomodate client’s need for more built surfaces, and smooth transitions in between the diffrenet notions of the place.
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09 Electorn AG Renovation Restaurant and Upper floor B.Hillner Architekten | Zurich, Switzerland
The 6th floor of this Bauhaus style building followed the same typology as the rest floors with partitions and offices. However clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wish was to transform the place into a Think-Tank area where the employees could rest, discuss, where small meetings could be held and workshops could be arranged. For this purpose part of the wall system was demolished and the area was unified into an open plan. The main atmosphre of the new space would be based on a main idea of outdoor
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innerspace with a fault-grass dominating the main part of the room. Small chairs and bean-bags can be scattered along the space and flitz-made furniture could act both as sitting areas or working tables. The place can be transformed for some basic arrangement like : small conferences, lecture, meeting, and rest area.
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The Restaurant has been the same since the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s. The walls were covered by fake stone , the floor has started to erode and the whole place was air-conitioned both in summer and winters. The aim of the design was to transform the place in a unified open plan with more earth tone colors and let the natural texture of the materials to illuminate the ground floor restaurant. The renovation not only includeed new arrangemnet of the place but selection of a new sophisticated yet simple style for furniture. Dark wood and white-beige
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Contact zoe.g.georgiou@gmail.com [+41]787979504