Portfolio Apostolos Spyropoulos

Portfolio

Apostolos Spyropoulos

February 2022

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Italian Village

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The Shift of 90o

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Route To My Home

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Italian Village Programme: Typology: Address: Year: Tutors:

Housing & Super Market Low-rise The Hwy, Brighton, UK 2020, Year 2 Luis Diaz (L.Diaz@brighton.ac.uk), Sean Albuquerque (S.Albuquerque3@brighton.ac.uk)

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Site Character

Moulsecoomb is a suburban area that consists of terraces, small houses of 2 or 3 floors scattered all over the hill, made out of red bricks, with generous front and back gardens. But lately, a gradual act of new blocks is getting risen (left side of the drawing), which begin to threaten the ‘villagy’ character of the area. Tall concrete and steel constructions start to overweight the continuous lines of small houses.

It becomes evident that the area is slowly transformed from a suburban status to an urban one, through the demolition of the existing buildings and the construction of taller ones. With this way, the city council tries to achieve a higher density by sacrificing the history and the cohesion of the site. Is there a way of making good use of the ground plan and come up with a proposal, which preserves the character of the area while increases the density?

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Site Experimentation The first part of the design process was the experimentation with different housing typologies and masses of existing, wellknown buildings or complexes of buildings on Lewes Road. Through this exercise of laying out and re-adjusting various strategies and volumes of mass, we can understand the site’s needs and opportunities

by researching where the examples communicate well with the existing or where the relationships can be problematic.

Therefore, we analyse the site and create a library of spatial strategies that will later comprise the design proposal.

Le Corbusier’ s Unite D’ Habitation Residential Building Marseilles, France.

Maison Edouard Francois La Closeraie Residential Building Louviers, France.

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EM2N Hegiandweg Residential Neighborhood Zurich, Switzerland.

Herman Hertzerger Haarlemmer Houttuinen Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Strategy: Setting up the Grid Process & Design development

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Establishing the Volumes 3 different volumes for 4 housing types

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Grid distortion = Giving the feeling of secluded areas by blocking the views inside the housing territory.

The distortion is achieved by moving the blocks slightly in different directions and creating a small social area in the middle.

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Grid distortion = Giving the feeling of secluded areas by blocking the views inside the housing territory.

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Re-adjusting moving the different volumes to create social spaces

Subdivision Spatial and experiential organization

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Ground Plan Scale 1:50 @ A1 6 I Italian Village

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A. 2 Bedroom Maisonette

Housing Units Plans Scale 1 : 50 @ A1

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B. 3 Bedroom Maisonette

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D. 3 bedroom Flat

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Model Scale 1 : 200 Watercolor Paper

Sun Diagram Analysis

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minimazation of timber use.

Structure & Materiality

DPATH EXPERIMENTATION AND ANALYSYS

Top unit space to bottom unit space ratio

Structural Timber rate

Structural Stone rate

Prefabricated Parts Timber Frame

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Constructed on site Parts Masonry Walls

Structure Assembling

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As the timber frame is going to be prefabricated, the joints between the change of the materials needs to be simple and adjustable.

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Stone wall Section & Insulation Fitting

Structure Assembling

Semi-chiselled Masonry

Chiselled Masonry

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Mixed Masonry

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The Shift of 90o *Award Nominations : Feix & Merlin Architects Prize Chalk Architecture Award

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Programme: Public,Offices, Retail Typology: Mixed-use Skyscraper Address: City of London, UK Year: 2021, Year 3 Tutors: Omid Kamvari (omid.kamvari@ kamvariarchitects.com), Dhruv Gulabchande (dhruv@hfm.uk.com) and Kerry Dickinson (keery_02@hotmail.co.uk)

Manifesto: The Skyscraper is one of humankind’s highest accomplishments. Whatever used to be horizontal now is vertical. However, is the human mind ready for such a transition?

daily, spatial rituals between the outdoors, the semi-outdoors and indoors, since its creation. How can we reconnect two elements that are at least more than 100 meters away?

Whatever used to be horizontal now is vertical… except humanity. In a functionalistic mentality, architects and engineers took the spaces that a human being needed to survive and forgot about the spaces and spatial sequences the human being needed to live, composing the modern Skyscraper. A structure which is failing the contemporary society. A structure that has been tormented by the shortage of the critical,

The answer is probably we cannot. However, as the saying goes ‘If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain’. We need to bring those spatial sequences to the upper floors. We need to abolish the claustrophobic anonymity from our constructions. We need to create a humane environment with identity above the ground floor. We must shift the ground 90o.

Design’s Logic: Analysis

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Positioning of platforms on differnt levels.

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The attachment of an office facade provides the building’s program and experiments with the form and function of the contemporary office tower.

The platforms act as Green-Social Spaces, transferring the movement and life of the ground on upper floors.

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Development of Programs Through a series of Diagrams

Arrangement of Social Spaces with the Circulation - Green Pockets.

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Massing and reformation of programs, to maximise the spatial interaction.

The proposal applies strategic positioning of elevators on specific levels and parts - sides to enforce the exploration of the social spaces. The strategy focuses on the act of movement and tries to predispose the occupant - viewer to walk through the building rather than get secluded and lie still in a moving box.

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Atmospheric Section Sketch

Experimentation with Program and Light

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3D Modelling Experimentation Experimenting with the abstract shapes and forms of the atmospheric-sketched section on the 3D space through 3D modelling. Through this exercise, we try to develop the spatial relationships of the different platforms through a promenade narrative.

Front Isometric

Rear Isometric

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KEY 1. Cellular Decking, 38 mm, manufactured by welding a corrugated sheet to a flat steel sheet, forming a series of raceways for electrical and communications wiring 2. Concrete, 80 mm 3. Rigid Insulation 100mm 4. Heating Floor 5. Concrete Screed 6. Resin 7. Exoskeleton Structure

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8. Web Joist 9. Steel Cantiliver, 1.990 mm 10. Steel Textured Decking, 30 mm, to prevent slippage 11. Steel Beam Support 12. Hand Rail 13. Mechanical Services (ventilation, plumbing) 14. High performance anchorbolt, 150 mm 15. Roof Membrane 16. Waterproof Membrane 17. Poof Drainage 18. Aluminium Facade - Curtain wall 19. Stone 20.Steel wall plate 21. Steel support plate 22. Reinforced steel beam, Super-Structure 23. Steel support, 160 mm 24. Foam insulation, 100 mm 25. I beam 26. Floor Support, Super-Structure 27. Timber batten support for ceiling finish 28. Ceiling 29. Double glazed windows

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Illustrating the connection between the ground strategy and the rest of the skyscraper.

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View From Leadenhall Street

The ground floor’s attunement to the site.

Circulation & Social Spaces Offices

Transition Plaza

Atrium

Services Basement

Facade Exposed to Leadenhall St

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The Journey Exploring the narration of the ‘Shift of 90o’ through the ascent of public spaces. The repositioning of the ground on the Vertical Skyscraper. The creation of a new community.

Sky Plaza, invigorating the Shift of 90o, one of the principal social spaces with lots of greenery.

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Meeting Point, a space in between the inside and outside, exposed to sun and nature and cimultaniously protected by their harsh conditions.

Vertical Bench, introducing stops and resting points of the Vertical Circulation.

Vertical Circulation, a mix of different lengths of staircases & ramps transferring the horizontal movement of the ground to the skys.

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Route To My Home Type: Year: Scale: Tutors:

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Spatial Excerise Semester 1 2020, Year 2 1:100 (Plan) & 1:50 (section, axonometric) @ A2 Luis Diaz (L.Diaz@brighton.ac.uk), Sean Albuquerque (S.Albuquerque3@brighton.ac.uk)

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The following drawings illustrate a spatial analysis exercise based on my personal experience of the narrative of approaching home. The story is different for everyone, but the route has some characteristics - rituals that identify with the feeling of home.

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For selecting the place (my home back in Stylida, Greece), I ‘went’ back to my teenage years. Before picking up my pencil, I tried to analyze my usual journey. The feeling of getting home is not momentary; it is a process. So, I tried to break it down into smaller scenes.

It begins from approaching the main street, where I gazed at the mountains (while walking), which were vanishing over the horizon.

After a couple of steps, I could see the red, broken down car (which has been there for years, abandoned by its owner), the lined-up cypresses, to passing the front gate. Then take a shortcut from the garden, hunch to avoid the banana tree’s long leaves, and enter the big porch, where I always leave my bag and wipe my shoes after an exhausting day. Following, I pass the final threshold (front door) and reach the big relaxing sofa from where I can play video games to take a nap.

I produced the following drawings by combining these specific details of this daily routine with different drawing techniques.

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EXERCISE TWO

ROUTE TO MY HOME

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The Shift of 90o, Groundfloor Interior View, 6/2021