PUBLIC SPACE PROFESSIONAL
COMMERCIAL PROFESSIONAL paseo guiniguada
activating a <remaining> place in the cretan landscape the fusion of natural boundaries with the urban life
THESIS PROJECT
vertical city
SOCIAL HOUSING ACADEMIC
- kinesis the sculptor’s atelier
RESIDENTIAL ACADEMIC
COMMERCIAL ACADEMIC
spatial reorganization for the Childhood & Family Center
LAS PALMAS, GRAN CANARIA
CANARY ISLANDS
LOCA STUDIO, BARCELONA, SPAIN
DESIGN MANAGERS: GADOR LUQUE, DANIEL LORENZO
DESIGN TEAM: GOULA MARIANNA, PEIROLO SIRIA, LANDRY LEON, CICERO MARIA LUCIA
MAY 2024 JULY 2024
PRELIMINARY DESIGN
The project concerns the transformation of the spatial context with the aim of creating fluid and multifunctional spaces that promote health, hygiene, intimacy, sustain ability and inclusion. Its development was carried out in collaboration with the Technical Unit for Family and Childhood, Social Welfare Service of the Department of Social Services of the City Council of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
remediation & renaturalization of the
main urban road axis of Santa Brigida
LOCA STUDIO, BARCELONA, SPAIN
DESIGN MANAGERS: GADOR LUQUE, DANIEL LORENZO
MARCH 2024 - JULY 2024
DETAILED DESIGN
Built on the edge of a ravine, in a natural and fertile landscape with an abundance of palm trees, is the town of Santa Brigida, which dates back to the 16th century.
The entrance to it was from the Guininguada coastal road, which runs parallel to the Colegio ravine, which is part of the network of streams that flow into the Guiniguada ravine of the same name. At the intersection of the promenade, two elements important to the daily life of the residents are identified: a carob tree under which the residents gathered and a 20th-century street lamp. Along this promenade today, two of the village’s central road arteries intersect, on which all the basic functions of the daily life of the residents unfold, such as public services and the sequence of three public squares between the municipal park and the central market..
Today, adequate connection and access to them is rendered non-functional with narrow pavements, with little vegetation and a route without identity. It is proposed, an initially temporary intervention with the future aim of permanently pedestrianising the intersecting streets. The urban intervention involves the acupuncture of the area by creating an intervention system capable of being standardised and replicated throughout the 3300 m2 area.
The starting point is the existing rooted vegetation, which is freed from the beds that “choke” it and allow it to reproduce. The perimeter excavations form a landscape of areas that function as SUDS (Sustaiable Drainage Systems) which work urban with a new urban topography, the COLINAS which are hills created by the SUDS material from a permeable mix of materials. This new urban topography encapsulates rest, waiting, recreational spaces as well as urban amenities by reusing materials to maintain low cost and environmental impact.
the fusion of the natural boudaries with the urban life
THESIS PROJECT
PALAIOCHORA, CHANIA, CRETE
DESIGN TEAM_ GOULA MARIANNA, PALAIOLOGOS GEORGE
SUPERVISOR_TZOMPANAKIS ALEXIOS
PRESENTED_DECEMBER 2023
Forgotten in the delirium of the tourist season, the cape of Paleochora on the southern side of the prefecture of Chania is a non-place, disconnected from the urban fabric. The settlement presents strong contrasts in both west - east and north - south, developing among the intensely relief of the Cretan landscape. The hill Fortezza with the Fortress of Selinou as a landmark, testifies to a historical past “buried” by tourist signs while at the same time setting the boundary of discontinuity of the town.
The ‘broken’ urban connections towards the end of the peninsula set the conditions for an inactive port, for a landscape lacking scale, identity and intimacy. The aim is the urban integration of the cape with the town of Paleochora, the restoration of historical and cultural memory and the reappropriation of the place by the traveller - resident.
A building hybrid, developing within the Cretan landscape, houses the municipal swimming pool, the new Sailing Club and cultural spaces, connecting the western coastal front with the port, which is reactivated as a sea gate. Then, the occasion is given to wander up the hill through a semi-open-air staircase that hosts part of the exhibition of the Akriton Museum, connecting the visitor through natural paths with the ruins of the Fortress and with the “heart” of the settlement of Paleochora.
contrast // dipoles
the “in-between” perspectives
SOCIAL HOUSING
ACADEMIC WORK
CHANIA, CRETE
DESIGN TEAM _ GOULA MARIANNA, PALAIOLOGOS GEORGE
SUPERVISOR _ GIANNOUDIS SOCRATES
PRESENTED _ 2018
The intervention concerns a study site in Lentariana, Chania, an urban area with an emphasis on residential use. The complex has as its theme collective housing and individual uses, within a compact shell. The integration into the study area is achieved by redefining its boundaries. Synthetically, a solid linear volume marks the boundaries of the northern boundary of the study area, and another upper one like a “ribbon” folds over it.
The public space penetrates the ground floor with a pilotis to the west, and a playground to the east. The ground floor space refers to the city with public uses, and upper floors are structured with two-storey through-houses and uses that refer to the residents of the complex. Finally, the intermediate public spaces of the complex are semi-open spaces contributing to adequate ventilation and lighting.
RESIDENTIAL
ACADEMIC WORK
CHANIA, CRETE
DESIGN TEAM_ GOULA MARIANNA, PALAIOLOGOS GEORGE
SUPERVISOR_PROCAKIS GEORGE
PRESENTED_2018
The residence accommodates a family of four where one of the four members has mobility problems. A wall that closely follows the boundaries of the study area, defines an introverted environment. This is intensified by a ramp that unfolds and embraces the surrounding area and the main house in order to unify them. The residence is composed of 2 rectangular prisms where the upper one, like a hat, is raised revealing the lower one from its interior, as a comparison of a person with mobility problems who seeks to free himself from the wheelchair.
The interior space of the residence is organized on the vertical axis, creating a wall-space. A cell in which all the functions of the residence are encapsulated, as well as the vertical axis of movement which is the key to the vitality of the system. With this movement, the space on the interior face is freed up, creating an atrium which helps to integrate the interior space with the environment. The horizontal movement system is applied with the factor of 1.30m*1.30m. where it corresponds to the full rotation of the wheelchair anywhere inside and outside the residence.
The orientation is the stimulus for the equal and opposite treatment of the 2 facades of the residence. The western facade, with an introverted character, maintains a hard front in the urban landscape but meets at least the solarization needs of the interior of the residence with the choice of optical fiber reinforced concrete as a filling material. In contrast, the eastern facade is freed by a wide glass window, uniting the inside with the outside, and it is completed superiorly by the “lace” aspect of the hat where it allows the light to enter in a controlled manner.
COMMERCIAL
ACADEMIC WORK
CHANIA, CRETE
DESIGN_ GOULA MARIANNA
SUPERVISOR_ TSAKALAKIS DIMITRIS
PRESENTED_2021
The project refers to the creation of a sculpture studio in the urban area of the city of Chania. The central idea is that nature and the city are connected within a building by flowing into each other. The northern orientation, useful for artistic creation, was the reason for large openings in the northern facade. Inside the building, the vertical unifications of the space and the appropriate design of the openings contribute to the creation of larger sculptures in scale. The thought for the building is that it will itself be a sculptural work, so the choice of materials was made with this in mind but also with the needs of such a use in mind.
Thus, on the floors, pressed cement mortar in beige was used, which in places, wooden joints emphasize movement or stance. The walls are clad in a matching color of rough plaster, and the railings on the interior balconies are of oxidized steel (cor-ten). The staircase is articulated in black metal that supports the stone porcelain stairs. The furnishing of the space is carried out with built-in cupboards closed with wooden leafs and bookcases, wardrobes and bearings made of wood as well. The north elevation is variable in the sense that the elements that make it up, are gathered together, thus dissolving the boundary between inside and outside and enabling the artist to create with ease.
On the other hand, the blending with the urban landscape, is achieved by the south elevation, which expresses the style and use of the building in a harder but more objective way.
