AT H E N S Youseok Cho Chewy Kim Nathan Gilbert Carl Doroshenko-Nuttall
Our agenda was to plant a seed for the future growth of the city, aiming to transform the centre into a healthy heart, using this as an example and catalyst for the sustainable growth of the city. Through several key interventions focused predominantly on the urban realm we aimed to rediscover the sense of civic pride within the city, providing the city with a future identity for both the residents and the tourists to enjoy. The key principle was the provision of inhabitable public space, providing shelter from the harsh climate and also provisions for social activities. Athens has been dominated by the car during the last century so we proposed to transform the city into a walkable city, with several bold and key interventions along the main streets within the city centre. These streets provided key axes from the heart of the city out towards 7 nodes which were placed on a green link on the periphery of the centre. This green link would help overcome the current ring road barrier, reconnecting the historic heart of Athens to its vast Metropolitan area.