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DIMITRA GRIGORIOU | selected projects

SOUTH RIVER FALLS

Aesthetic Assessment- Plant Community; Mass/Void Analysis LAR-6221 | F15 | Plant Form and Function I Dimitra Grigoriou | 29 Sept. 2015 Narrative The study area is very interesting because it presented several distincitve condittions in the course of our path through the forest and it seems that it is a main transition area of the forest. The spot is located about 200 ft away from the creek, before the last turn for the path that leads to the water and it is in a gap phase due to a fallen tree. In additon to the gap created by the fallen tree, another distincitve characterisic of the study area a rocky edge on the higher part of out path transect, which could also have affected succession in the area. The overall sense of the area is this of a more open and bright space; there is significantly more light comparing to other areas on the path and a breeze can be felt at times. The views from this spot are wider and can reach a distance of almost 200 ft. In addition to the unrestricted views, the sound of the water from is very vivid, which creates a connection with the creek. The humidity is increasing and it is particularly evident on the leaves of the groundlayer and on the rocky side. The key species of the overcanopy are tulip poplar trees, which are significanlty taller than the other trees. There are a lot of sugar maple trees, and a ot of leaves can be found on the ground. On the higher side and adjacent to the rock, there are a lot of diverse shrub and grass species, that seems to be growing thanks to the humid conditions created by the rock.

KEY SPECIES Magnoliaceae Liriodendron tulipifera - Tulip Poplar Aceraceae Acer saccharum - Sugar Maple Urticeae Laportea canadensis - Canada Nettle

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Mass/Void diagram | looking across

60 ft

Mass/Void diagram | overhead

University of Virginia | Master of Landscape Architecture 2017 National Technical University of Athens | Diploma in Architecture 2014 e: dimitragrigoriou@gmail.com | t: +1(708)527-5488

Canopy | Liriodendron tulipifera - Tulip Poplar

Understory | Acer saccharum - Sugar Maple

Groundlayer | Laportea canadensis - Canada Nettle

SITE INVENTORY Magnoliaceae Liriodendron tulipifera - Tulip Poplar Aceraceae Acer saccharum - Sugar Maple Aceraceae Acer rubrum - Red Maple Urticeae Laportea canadensis - Canada Nettle Asteraceae Solidago candensis - Canada golden-rod Polygonaceae Persicaria maculosa - Ladyâ€™s thumb Amaranthaceae Alternanthera philoxeroides - Alligator weed

Dimitra Grigoriou | 01 Contents

Ecosystem + Infrastructure: Landscape Restoration Strategies in the fire-afflicted area of Helia | Peloponnese, Greece

Urban Waterscapes | Madrid, ES - Richmond, VA

18â€? Above and Below: Processes of making alternative ground

Territory

Cartographies for a Name(less) Field | Charlottesville, VA

Exchange - Mediate - Activate: Redefining boundaries along the Anacostia River | Washington, DC

Promenade Theater: Designing a planted theatrical sequence for the UVA Arts Grounds | Charlottesville, VA

Rhizome Garden: Desigining with Hemicryptophytes and Cryptophytes

Leaf Adaptations to Microclimate: Mediterranean plants | Crete, Greece

Under the bricks: Downtown Mall | Charlottesville, VA

The Hut: Design for a timber Mountain shelter | Greece

Light Lab | Quebec, Canada

Climbing the Distance | Athens, Greece

Spatial House: Interpretation of the ephemeral city | Pireaus, Greece

scale

Beyond the move: A landscape-grown tourism for community resilience beyond relocation| Shishmaref, AK

Landscape

Plant + Structure

Installation

Dimitra Grigoriou | 02 Diploma Thesis

ECOSYSTEM+INFRASTRUCTURE: Landscape Restoration Strategies in the fireafflicted area of Helia, Peloponnese | Greece National Technical University of Athens | 2014

Structural Diagram

Site Plan

Student: Dimitra Grigoriou

Advisors: Ariadni Vozani Dimitris Papalexopoulos

The project proposes the development of landscape restoration strategies and techniques in Helia County (Peloponnese, Greece), an area having suffered great losses during the 2007 and 2009 conflagrations. The project describes a technical methodology of re-claiming and mainly re-inhabitating the landscape in a sustainable way. Helia constitutes a widely diverse mediterranean ecosystem; it includes a variety of species, ecological processes and physical settings. Here lies Kaiafas Lagoon, one the largest greek wetland and part of the National Park of Kotichi and Strofylia and the Natura 2000 Network. After analysing and mapping and the quantitative and qualitative systems of the area (ecological/anthropic/geomorphological/geological processes/ administrative constraints/land use plans/special characteristics) we create a methodology for restoration and reorganisation of the territory. The project places special focus on the semi-mountainous areas of Helia (Xirochori area), which currently confront a series of environmental threats. The protection of these traditionally marginal areas of the greek landscape is essential for the maintenance of the ecological diversity of the ecosystem, as well as for the well-being of the local settlements. The strategy proposes a simultaneous improvement in environmental and socio-economic aspects through the integration of infrastructure (technical vocabulary) and implementation of new uses for protection and regeneration of the area in regional and landscape scale.

Location of scientific labs

Design of paths along pile zones

Anti-erosion piles are used as structural elements for the proposed uses

Landscape restoration system

Topography and stream network

1. Structural Diagram 2. Site Plan 3. Section: View of olive groves and labs 4. Analysis of site systems 5. Restoration Strategy 6. Map of Environmental Threats 7. Construction Details 8. Perspective: View of boardwalk paths 9. Perspective: View of scientific lab 10. Layout Plan 11. Methodology of design approach 12. Section: View from Xirochori stream 1

3 4

Section View of Olive Grove and Labs Ecosystem + Infrastructure

Dimitra Grigoriou | 03 Site Analysis

Map of Environmental Threats

Erosion

Soil loss

Desertification

Water Pollution

Flood

Fire

Ecological Infrastructure

New uses

Research | Education | Exhibition --PROTECTION--

detection of the problem

implementation of structural system

Proposed scientific labs Soil Sciences Natural Resources Protection and sustainable management

Existing Land Networks

Soil and Water Systems

Enhancement of human force locals

+ scientists +

Construction Details

visitors

conifer forest mixed forest shrublands agricultural with natural vegetation

olive groves mixed agricultural non-arable dunes

Perspectives

gabion wall

dry stone wall

pile structure

rock fill

Ecosystem + Infrastructure

Dimitra Grigoriou | 04

Layout Plan

Design of Scientistsâ€™ Labs in the Xirochori area

Design Methodology Synthesis

Calculation of water flow Buffer zone: min distance - 20m

Slope Analysis Terraces in steep slopes

possible locations of scientific labs

Vegetation Analysis Enhancement of the regeneration process

Curvature Analysis Detection of critical points >Pile zones

landscape tranformation

View from Xirochori stream Ecosystem + Infrastructure

Dimitra Grigoriou | 05 MLA S16 Studio

URBAN WATERSCAPES: Madrid, ES - Richmond, VA University of Virginia | 2016

Redesigning the urban grid

Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Monserrat Bonvehi Rosich

The project investigates contemporary cities and their heavily altered patterns of ground and natural systems. Cities cannot be understood without their climates and the consequent performance of rain, fog, sun, heat, humidity and other climatic conditions. Although temporal and ephemeral, these conditions are in fact real factors acting as agents on any urban surface and engaging cities as part of larger dynamic systems. The project focuses on ways the urban surface interacts with weather conditions in two paired case study cities (Madrid, ES - Richmond, VA) ; the mapping of the transparent urban water infrastructures and environmental processes reveals areas of opportunity for more creative interaction. The project questions the typical form of the urban grid and reimagines the neighboorhood in dialogue with its climate; the effect of the water in the urban environment is revealed and it becomes stimulus for interaction while activating public spaces in the neighboorhood that were not visible before. The simple water infrastructures that are used are based on techniques of substraction of the urban form and of minimal addition of simple structures in order to reveal the potential of the place.

Section Proposed alternative urban condition

1. Axon: Redesigning the urban grid 2. Section: Proposed alternative urban condition 3. Richmond, VA: Main Street Water Territory 4. Madrid, SP: Runoff Simulation in suburban area 5. Catalog of water infrastructure 6. Water moments 7. Views of Urban Typologies 1 2 3 4 7

Urban Waterscapes

Dimitra Grigoriou | 06 Main Street Water Territory Richmond, VA

Catalog of Water Infrastructure

Water ‘moments’ 3 Richmond, VA | “water grid” details of pooling structures

1” rain

1/ INLET - FILTER + REVEAL > EDUCATE

4/ POOL - GATHER > PLAY

HOLD WATER + OCCUPY

Runoff Simulation Madrid, ES

2” rain

2/ CONNECT - SLOW DOWN > MEET

3/ CRACK - CONVERGE > SEE

School Courtyard

Connecting the Neighboorhood

4” rain

Community Center Urban Waterscapes

Dimitra Grigoriou | 07 Research Studio

18” ABOVE AND BELOW: Processes of making alternative ground University of Virginia | 2017 Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Zaneta Hong

The project is an exploration of material properties and transformations for the surface of the ground, the zone 18” above and below. The ground is not perceived as a coherent surface that separates the above and below but as a thick zone, a mixture of medium and substrate that mediates and creates a new living environment. Paper is used as a medium of material exploration and formation and through processes of assembly, aggregation, and transformation, the project expands the possibilities of a simple surface of paper to be reshaped into a new material. The project deals with the surface of the ground and looks at soils as the main material that makes up the ground of our planet. Soils are studied in different scales ranging from global to molecular and looks at their importance in structuring the ground that we inhabit, as well as their role in mediating with the atmosphere and registering climate changes. Soils represent major carbon sinks of the planet; however human action is constantly changing the form and the properties of our ground and provides opportunities for new living environments to emerge in this thick zone. After studying and analyzing the unique physical properties of our soils and in particular of the highly performative organic soils (peat), a series of material prototypes are developed and explored through processes of formation (unit, assembly, aggregation, multidimensionality) and transformation (compression/resistance, surface area/ porosity, accumulation, decay). The explorations create a series of possibilities for a new material structure that: - acts on the surface of the ground, 18” above and below - revitilizes existing ground and makes new ground - transforms its environment and itself

Mediates between the ground and the atmosphere

Revitilizes existing and creates new ground

Acts on the surface of the ground, 18” above and below

Transforms its environment and itself

Above Below

1. Collage: 18”above and below 2. Physical models: Material Prototypes 3. Soil Organic Carbon, Peatland Maps 4. Peat as a product of extraction 5. Map of Climate shifts 6. Peat formation+ physical properties 7. Study site: Existing conditions 8. Geometries of a changing ground 9. Section: Materilals responding to changing ground 10. Material Formation 11. Assembly explorations with paper 12. Form+Assembly typoogies 13. Parameters of material transformation 14. Making ground: Material Prototypes 1 2 3

Material Prototypes 18” Above + Below

Dimitra Grigoriou | 08 Soils as global carbon sinks The below ground carbon pool represents the 81% of the total.

Changing Climate + Ground Expected Climate shifts for the next 50-75 years (based on KĂśppen-Geiger climate classification)

- Temperature Increase - Drying Soils - Carbon Emissions - Peatland fires more frequent

300

(MgC/ha)

Organic Soils: Peat + Peatland latitudes Northern Latitudes

Tropical Latitudes High altitudes

Peat as a product of extraction | Landscapes of Consequence

Canadian sphagnum peat represents 65% of total horticultural peat used in the United States . These imports account for 97% of US sphagnum peat imports and 85% of total Canadian production.

Peat formation + physical properties - high water holding capacity - low bulk density > low compression - slow decay - high nutrient holding capacity - organic matter accumulation

Soil Amendment Growing Medium Domestic Fuel

Natural rate of peat accumulation: 1-2 mm per year Extraction rate: more than 100mm per year

- Drained Peatlands - Loss of wetlands - Effects on water quality - Effects on wildlife - Peatland Fires - Carbon Emissions

18â€? Above + Below

Dimitra Grigoriou | 09 Changing Ground - Landscapes Exploring opportunities 18” above and below

Study Site: Blanket Bog, Yorkshire, UK

Geometries of a changing ground 80°

60°

55°

55 ° N, 2 ° W

40°

20°

0°

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-40°

-60°

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Opportunities

- amplify wet / dry conditions - amplify topography - create ‘pockets’ of humidity

Ground contracts

Ground expands

water table

Erosion

Drying Soils

Material form 1 | Mat - protects from wind and erosion - accumulates organic litter - slows down drying

Material form 2 | Roll - as ground subsides organic matter is compressed and submerged in water

Making alternative ground 18” Above + Below

Dimitra Grigoriou | 10 Form + Assembly Typologies

Unit

Material Formation

60° parallel

60° opposite

Aggregation

90°

Block

Roll

Mat

Multidimensionality

Material Transformation

30°

150°

150° ccw rotation

1-1 unit

30° parallel connection

Accumulation

Surface Area - Porosity

Decay

150°

30°

30° opposite connection 30° cw rotation

Resistance - Compression

30° cw rotation

150° ccw rotation

1-1 unit

60°

120° 90° 90°

60° opposite connection 60° ccw rotation

120° cw rotation

90° parallel connection

1-1 unit

60° ccw rotation

120° cw rotation

3-3 unit

90° 60°

30°

150° 30°

150°

120°

60° opposite connection 30° cw rotation 3-3 unit

150° ccw rotation

90° parallel connection 90° rotation 1-1 unit

MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION : Possible Responses to Change ALAR 8010 | F17 MATERIAL FUTURES : Alternative Grounds | GRIGORIOU Dimitra

18” Above + Below

Dimitra Grigoriou | 11 Making ground: Material Prototypes

Prototype 1

Resistance Absorption Accumulation Decay

Prototype 2

Resistance Absorption Accumulation Decay

Prototype 3

Resistance Absorption Accumulation Decay

2’

1’

Accumulates leaf litter

Accumulates organic matter

0’

Holds water and prevents from leaching

Loosens compacted soil and increases pore space

Helps bacteria and fungi to grow in the soil

Protects the surface of the soil from drying

Protects from erosion

Builds new soil

Absorbs water and slowly releases it to the soil

Helps plant nutrient uptake

1’

2’

18” Above + Below

Dimitra Grigoriou | 12 Arctic Research Studio

BEYOND THE MOVE: A landscape-grown tourism for community resilience beyond relocation. Shishmaref, AK University of Virginia | 2016

A Landscape map for the future of Shishmaref Resilience through Reinhabiting the Territory

Shishmaref

Collaboration: Dimitra Grigoriou Liza Court Bryce Vogel Instructors: Leena Cho Matthew Jull Beyond the Move proposes a locally-run landscape tourism enterprise as a means to address serious insecurities in the rural Alaska Native community of Shishmaref. Because of aggressive climate change-induced coastal erosion, the conversation surrounding the future of Shishmaref has been dominated by “the move”: the relocation from a vulnerable barrier island to the Seward Peninsula mainland. A locally-run landscape tourism initiative can address issues that will not be addressed by relocation: the explicit community call for a stronger cash economy, which can generate funds to mitigate the persistent problems of overcrowding; climate-related food insecurity; and lack of home sanitation systems. This proposal offers a time-flexible approach that combines tourism and relocation infrastructures, without either project depending fully on the other. The proposed strategies for a landscape tourism initiative look closeley into the specific and unique climatic and evnironmental conditions of the region, the local modes of living, as well as the traditions and the subsistence lifestyle of the people. The people of Shishmared, as an Inupuiat community have a different concept of “home” than the lower 48 states: as a community that lives primarily on subsistence hunting of land and sea mammals as well as fishing, “home” is the territory of hundreds of square miles where they source their food. The community practiced seasonal nomadism until the twentieth century, when state and federal policies made them settle in one place. Despite these changes, Shishmaref’s people retain vast local knowledge of their large territory thanks to their subsistence lifestyle. That knowledge positions them as ambassadors and curators to a rich landscape. Beyond the Move suggests a renewed idea of “home” for the people of Shishmaref and encourages them to look beyond the relocation from one place to another but encourages them to reinhabit the larger territory and develop the future of their community through engaging with the landscape.

West Tin Creek

1. Map: Reinhabiting the territory, Designed Moments 2. Arctic Light: Northern Latitudes + Insolence 3. Arctic Light: Seasonal Patterns 4. Light as a design element 5. Albedo feedback and Rising temperatures 6. Vegetation: Tundra Plant Forms and Ideal Conditions 7. Study Transect: Low Tundra communities 8. Design Parameters and Constraints 9. Phasing: Strategies 10. Trail Network 11. Phasing: Spatial Implementation

Designed Moments 1. Micro-insertions for walkability in the tussock tundra. 2. Protected nesting areas and birdwatching stations. 3. Infrastructure for Bioblitz activities. 4. Markers for navigability in the lichen tundra.

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Beyond the Move

Dimitra Grigoriou | 13 Desiging with the Arctic Landscape Arctic Light

Light as a design element

Northern Latitudes + Insolence Surface

Shadow

bright-dark-visible-blurry-proportion-pattern

Heat

long-short-distinct-linear-continuous-intemittnent

Climate - Phenomena

Illumination

warm-cool-radiating-reflecting-absorbing-conducting

diffused-direct-dim-faint-linear-dappled-filtered-concentrated

Climate - Phenomena ALAR 7010 : Mediating Phenomena _ Light LAR 7020 : Olfactory Comfort, Temperature -Pressure - Humidity

ALAR 7010 : Mediating Phenomena _ Light

Seasonal Patterns

LAR 7020 : Olfactory Comfort, Temperature -Pressure - Humidity Albedo Feedback / Arctic Light + Rising Temperatures

Physical Experiment: Material Qualities and Albedo Feedback

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PHASE 02 | CLIMATE TEMPERATURE - PRESSURE - HUMIDITY | PHENOMENA CATALOG

Summer | most sunlight hours

Winter | least sunlight hours

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Vegetation

Study Transect

Tundra Plant Forms and Ideal Conditions

Low Tundra Communities

DIMITRA GRIGORIOU | 17.02.17

Lichen Tundra

HUMIDITY

PRESSURE

H= 49%

P= 29.8 in

CO2 FLOW

CO2=+2.1 g/h

LAR 7020 | SPRING 2017 INSTRUCTOR: ZANETA HONG

PHASE 02 | CLIMATE

Heath Tundra

Shrub Tundra

TEMPERATURE - PRESSURE - HUMIDITY | PHENOMENA CATALOG

Wet Sedge Tundra

WATER MOLECULE H20 AIR MOLECULES O2 + N2

Tussock Tundra

CARBON CO2 TEMPERATURE HIGH PRESSURE

DIMITRA GRIGORIOU | 17.02.17

LOW PRESSURE

PLANT TRANSPIRATION EFFECTS | MICROSCALE

LOCATION: WASHINGTON, DC DATE: JUNE 21, 2016 TIME: 10am

TEMPERATURE T= 88 °F

GRAMS OF WATER RELEASED

TRANSPIRATION RATE

HUMIDITY

PRESSURE

H= 49%

P= 29.8 in

CO2 FLOW

CO2=+2.1 g/h

Active Layer Permafrost

WATER MOLECULE H20 AIR MOLECULES O2 + N2 CARBON CO2 TEMPERATURE HIGH PRESSURE LOW PRESSURE

Ear Mt Summit

PLANT TRANSPIRATION EFFECTS | MICROSCALE LOCATION: WASHINGTON, DC DATE: JUNE 21, 2016 TIME: 10am

Shishmaref Inlet

Beyond the Move

GRAMS OF WATER RELEASED

TRANSPIRATION RATE

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Moving through the Arctic tundra Design Parameters and Constraints

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PHASING: TOURISM AND RELOCATION AS MUTUAL CATALYSTS | Principles for coordinating materials and construction

Snow machine use during Freeze up / Break up

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PHASE 0 | Present GETTING READY DISCOVER THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE TERRITORY VOLUNTEERS FLY TO SHISHMAREF NO CONSTRUCTION

PHASE 1 | Coordinated Infrastructure EAR MT ROAD STAKING PREPARE GRAVEL EXTRACTION SITE STAKE UPLAND TRAILS DEPOSIT MATERIAL FOR BOAT RACKS

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PHASE 3 | Future CONSTRUCT BARGE LANDING RELOCATION CONTINUES DEVELOP COASTAL AND LOWLAND TRAILS TOURISM IS FURTHER DEVELOPED

Beyond the Move

Dimitra Grigoriou | 15 MLA F15 Studio

CARTOGRAPHIES FOR A NAME(LESS) FIELD: Charlottesville, VA University of Virginia | 2015

“Strata” Diagrams

Plan view

Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Nancy Takahashi

When a name is assigned to a place it usually reflects some important aspects about its form (or materiality), about its history and cultural meaning or about the type of activities that it accommodates within the context of the city. Nameless field however, is rather difficult to name; being a mainly monofunctional space we cannot easily attribute particular characteristics or connections wihin the context. The homogeneity that characterises the area, is perceived not only through the activities but also through the amount of diversity in terms of vegetation, water and sunlight. The largest percentage of the area is a flat grass field with similar conditions, that is used for athletic activities. However, studying the area more closely proved that there are elements that break this continuity and create interesting potential to the place. The steep slopes that encircle the cite (product of the abrupt flattening of the land in order to accomodate sports fields) have evolved over time and can be perceived as a distictive habitats on the edge of the sites. Buttes as landforms represent a very diverse space, both in terms of form (flat, vertical, lower-higher point of view, softhard materials) and as an ecosystem (in terms of conditions of water, vegetation, animal life). The butte can create different habitats-spaces for activities and at the same time they provide a transition space (grey space) which is very important for the biodiversity of the area (also visual diversity). Translating the rules and charasteristics of this landfrom in an urban condition, the goal of the project is to ‘break’ the continuity of the place, while creating conditions for people, vegetation and animals to coexist and interact.

Physical model

1. Strata Diagrams 2. Photos of site model 3. Section: Main gathering space and wetland’s edge 4. Territorial Map: Steep slopes of the site 5.Soil and Topography studies 6. Landform precedent: Butte 7. The landform as an urban condition 8. Section: Elevated promenade and ‘grey zone’ 1

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Section: Main gathering space and wetland’s edge Cartographies for a Name(less) field

Dimitra Grigoriou | 16 Territorial map - Steep slopes > flattening of land Landform precedent: Butte

The landform as an urban condition

Soil and Topography studies

Section: Elevated promenade and â€˜grey zoneâ€™ Cartographies for a Name(less) field

Dimitra Grigoriou | 17 ML A S17 Studio

Exchange - Mediate - Activate: Redefining boundaries along the Anacostia River | Washington, DC

Site Plan: Activate Choreographing movement and experience through the site

University of Virginia | 2017 Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Zaneta Hong

The project questions the highly structured boundaries of the city morphology that are manifested along the Anacostia river in Washington, DC and explores design scenarios in order to amplify the experience of the space and encourage flow and exchange between the human and non-human elements of the site. A planting and irrigation strategy is proposed to initiate new conditions on the site that will slow down the movement of people and water and simultaneously choreograph strolling paths that link the city’s edge to the river. As landscape architects dealing with atmosphere, water, and the exchange of flows, we are called to rethink whether the lines and forms of the city allow exchange, flow, and movement. The project emphasizes the fact that atmosphere transcends those constructed boundaries and proposes a way to dissolve and reconfigure the lines of the site to initiate new conditions and activate the space. The proposed strategy can provide a typology that could be applied to similar sites along the edges of the river to connect and catalyze new forms of interaction between the neighborhoods on both sides of the river. In an attempt to mediate the fluid processes of exchange and the physical aspects of the site, a planting and irrigation strategy is proposed to be implemented in phases. The proposed strategy aims to: slow down the movement of people and water through the site, choreograph a series of strolling paths, that provide opportunities for faster-slower movement, amplify the experience of atmosphere by creating different densities of open/closed, humid/dry, warm/cool spaces and redefine the connection of the city with the Anacostia river.

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1. Site Plan: Activate 2. Diagrams: Open/Closed rooms, Structured/ Unstructured Edges, Dispersed Boundaries 3. Collages: Mediate 4. Diagrams: Transpiration and Exchange 5.Washington DC: Urban Forest Tree Catalog 6. Section: Activate 1

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Dimitra Grigoriou | 18 Exchange | Trees making atmosphere

Washington DC: Urban Forest Tree Catalog Adding to the exisitng urban forest of the city

Transpiration | Processes of exchange between plants and atmosphere

Parameters affecting Transpiration Rate and Carbon Sequestration

Activate | Living atmosphere above and below the ground Exchange Mediate - Activate

Dimitra Grigoriou | 19 Plant Form+ Architecture

Promenade Theater: Designing a planted theatrical sequence for the UVA Arts Grounds. University of Virginia | 2016

Proposed Planting Plan

Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Julie Bargmann

Index of Planted Form

The project reimagines the central space of the Arts Grounds at the University of Virginia as a living theater and promenade designed through planted form. The space currently is an open and mostly barren part of the campus, that consits of hardscape, lawn and a few trees. Even though the adjacent buidlings of the Architecture and Fine Arts Schools are full of students and life throughout the day, the space is rarely occupied by people; it is mainly a space of transition that people pass by rather than staying. Promenade Theater suggests a space created through an array of planted forms and densities; on the groundplane, at the body scale and above, they create living rooms that students can engage and occupy daily. A series of linear plantings create a sequence of open and closed spaces, as well as an exciting promenade through the grounds that connects the top of the hill to the lower part of the site. The interplay of planting creates planted rooms of different sizes, from small and intimate to larger and more open, rooms receiving ample light or more shaded ones, rooms that can be accessed easily and other ones that need to be discovered. The Promenade Theater invites us to slow down and experience the space in every season and to live and work among plants.

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LAR 6222_S16_GRIGORIOU_plan.pdf

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LAR 6222_S16_GRIGORIOU_plan.pdf

1. Planting Plan 2. Study section: Experience walking through plants 3. Diagrams: Occupation, Circulation, Seasonality 4. Groundplane study 5. Section: Plant sequence along the hill 1 2 3

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Dimitra Grigoriou | 20 Groundplane study Textures + Plant Palette Occupation + Circulation

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LAR 6222_S16_GRIGORIOU_occupation.pdf

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LAR 6222_S16_GRIGORIOU_seasonal.pdf

Proposed Section Plant sequence along the hill

Section | Rolling Hills and Shrub Scene

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LAR 6222_S16_GRIGORIOU_section.pdf

Plants theatre

Dimitra Grigoriou | 21 Plant Function +Performance

Rhizome Garden: Desigining with Hemicryptophytes and Cryptophytes University of Virginia | 2017 Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Teresa Gali-Izard

Two types of rhizomes and two types of stem tyber geophytes are combined into a garden. By designing the soil through levels of irrigation we can design their growth patterns and how the plants interact with each other. Carex disticha will spread faster with a long creeping rhizome in wet conditions, whereas Carex flacca will grow drier areas in short clumping forms. The bulbous geophytes will continue growing in the same position or by producing small stolons; by occupying the soil their position affects the path of the sedges and they can change the course of their rhizomes. Plant Selection

Growing Patterns and Strategies of the Organ of Survival

The garden in winter

Growing patterns

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Rhizome Garden

Dimitra Grigoriou | 22 Plant Function +Performance

Leaf Adaptations to Microclimate: Mediterranean plants | Crete, Greece University of Virginia | 2017 Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Teresa Gali-Izard

Mediterranean plants have a series of mechanisms in order to adapt to the conditions of heat and drought. The leaf of each plant is a register of climate adaptation; the texture, color, shape and thickness of the leaf can reflect even small changes of water and heat conditions in the microclimate of the plant. Plant Selection

Changes in leaf morphology in response to drought wet

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Gaussen diagram | Crete, Greece

Microclimate created by the plants

Axon Designing throught the performance of the leaf

Leaf Adaptations

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Dimitra Grigoriou | 23

Under the bricks: Downtown Mall Charlottesville, VA University of Virginia | 2016

EcoTech

Plan | Intervention in the drainage channel

1:200

Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Eugene Ryang

vegetated filter

biofilter soil mix

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LAR 6212 - ECOTECH II - SPRING 2016 Dimitra Grigoriou granite paver 15.04.2016

Axon Redefining the drainage channel

LAR 6212 - ECOTECH II - SPRING 2016 Dimitra Grigoriou 15.04.2016

Layout Plan

Downtown Mall Details_Drainage LAR 6212 - ECOTECH II - SPRING 2016 Dimitra Grigoriou 15.04.2016

storm drainage pipe

Plan | Intervention in the drainage channel

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LAR6212_S16_GRIGORIOU_DowntownMallDetails2.pdf

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LAR6212_S16_GRIGORIOU_DowntownMallDetails2.pdf

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LAR 6212 - ECOTECH II - SPRING 2016 Dimitra Grigoriou 15.04.2016 LAR6212_S16_GRIGORIOU_DowntownMallIntervention.pdf

LAR6212_S16_GRIGORIOU_DowntownMallDetails2.pdf

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Section a-a LAR6212_S16_GRIGORIOU_DowntownMallIntervention.pdf

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LAR 6212 - ECOTECH II - SPRING 2016 Dimitra Grigoriou 05.01.2016

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Under the Bricks

Dimitra Grigoriou | 24 Wood+Structure

The Hut: Design for a timber Mountain shelter | Greece National Technical University of Athens | 2012

Floor Plan

Student: Dimitra Grigoriou Instructor: Fragkiskos Goulielmos

Details of surface elements

Mountain huts are structures found in remote areas, that offer temporary shelter to visitors, climbers or hikers along their journey. Whereas the space requirements are simple the design confronts the difficulties of the extreme weather conditions, the steep slope of the ground and the difficult accessibility of the area. Considering the above challenges, wooden structures provide the best solution. The fabrication of the design can be done in the workshop and then transferred in parts or in treated materials to be assembled on site. In addition, characterized as ephemeral and reversible constructions, wooden structures can be dismantled without leaving traces in the natural environment. The proposed unit offers an interior space of about 20 square meters providing the necessary areas for sleeping and resting and an outdoor covered viewdeck. The whole structure is elevated from the ground and can be adapted in different site conditions. The project analyzes in detail the structural elements of the hut and the details of the wooden construction.

Front view

Section

1. Floor Plan 2. Details of Surface Elements 3. Front View 4. Section 5. Perspective 6. Structural Diagram 7. Axon: Connection + Assembly Details

The hut

Dimitra Grigoriou | 25 Perspective

Connection + Assembly

Structural Diagram

Overview of the stucture

Plywood external skin

Wall panels | Insulation+Moisture barrier

Secondary Timber Frame

Primary timber Frame

Pile and truss foundations

The hut

Dimitra Grigoriou | 26 Installation

Light Lab | Quebec, Canada a proposal for Jardins de Métis garden Festival

Light Lab Axon of the garden

University of Virginia | 2017 Pole Petri Dish Wire rope

Climate Collaborative student team led by prof.Leena Cho

Fabric shadow Wading pool Shakable pole

The water’s surface is an incredibly sensitive register of movement and change. The gentlest breeze pushes and pulls, a fallen twig creates ripples carried great distances from the point of impact. Light Lab submerges the visitor in this simple yet beautiful phenomenon. Shallow dishes of water are suspended in the air, casting an ever-shifting palette of shadows upon the ground plane beneath. The white stone canvas of the ground is punctuated by small pools and clear yoga balls, reflective elements that engage the shimmering projections of light. This garden of shadows is in constant dialogue with its surroundings, evolving from one moment to the next. Windy days, rain drops, and the movement and intervention of visitors all provoke a unique set of responses from the suspended water and corresponding light-shadow interplays. Every piece of the garden’s structure works in harmony to enhance the effect of the water’s shadows. The design is modular, composed of adjacent groupings of water dishes. Each module is framed by four corner poles, which anchor the suspended dishes. As poles are brushed against or gently shook, the disruption spreads across the water’s surface, connecting visitors with the surrounding shadows. One corner pole also supports lighting and a sprinkler, designed to refill the dishes as they spill or evaporate. On certain modules, fabric is hung along two sides of the frame, creating another surface upon which the shadows are projected. For visitors, Light Lab elicits a variety of powerful experiences - a deepened connection with the surrounding atmosphere, playful interaction with the garden’s infrastructure, or simply enrapture with the dance of shadows on the ground.

Clear yoga ball White stone dust Dish water shadow

Dish Fastening Detail

Physical Prototype testing

Wire rope Petri Dish

Dish clips Tray 1. Axon of the garden 2. Petri Dish and Module Details 3. Physical Prototype Testing 4. Light-Shadow Movement Studies 5. Moment 1: Sunny Day - Play with the shadows 6. Moment 2: Sprinklers On - Play with the water

Module Plan

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Light Lab

Dimitra Grigoriou | 27 Light/Shadow Movement Studies location of the garden: Sunlight 48°N58’ 56” N 48°37'47" 68°07'32" 68°W07’ 32” W N N

Sunlight 48°37'47" N 68°07'32" W

Jun 22 Jun 22 - 3:00 PM 9:009:00 AMAM - 3:00 PM

Jun 22 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Aug 15 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Jun 22 1:00 PM

Aug 15 Aug 15 - 3:00PM PM 9:00 9:00 AM AM - 3:00

Jun 22 1:00 PM Module with fabric

fabric JunModule 22with1:00 PM Module w/ fabric

Jun 22 1:00 PM Module w/o fabric

Moment 1: Sunny day - Play with the shadows

Oct 07 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Sunlight 48°37'47" N 68°07'32" W N

Oct 07 Oct 07 - 3:00PM PM 9:00 9:00 AM AM - 3:00

Jun 22 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Light/Shadow Activation Types LIGHT / SHADOW TYPES LIGHT / SHADOW TYPES

Aug 15 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Ripples

Jun 22 1:00 PM Module with fabric

Ripples

Activated by Weather : Rain Activated by Visitors: Sprinklers

Ripples

Activated by Weather : Rain Activated by Visitors: Sprinklers

Activated by weather: Rain Activated by visitors: Sprinklers

Glitters

Jun 22 1:00 PM

fabric JunModule 22w/o1:00 PM Module w/o fabric

Glitters

Activated by Weather : Wind Activated by Weather : Wind Activated by Visitors: Shaking / Blowing Activated by Visitors: Shaking / Blowing

Activated by weather: Wind Activated by visitors: Shaking / Blowing

Moment 2: Sprinklers on - Play with the water Light Lab Oct 07 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Dimitra Grigoriou | 28 Installation

Climbing the Distance Parametric Construction and Digital Fabrication Athens| Greece

Design Algorithm Top view

Space Under, Independent Center for Research | 2014

Work produced as part of the Space Under Research team

The project was developed as an architectural experimentation with parametric methods of design and digital fabrication, resulting to a self-supporting and adaptable structure. This intervention was designed as a type of arc that spans three points in space, two of which are located on a different floor (ground floor and first level). Central axes of the structure are the three routes connecting each point to another. The design was developed in a grasshopper definition, setting as input the chosen points and the boundaries of the room. The algorithm provides control on the size, the variance and the rigidity of the structure and it can be adapted to different sites. The resulting model consists of 106 different components and supplementary algorithms helped us in the digital fabrication porcess and the assembly of the prototype. Subsequently the algorithm was tested and adapted in different contexts, such as for creating a small pavilllion or a shelter to be placed outdoors.

Creation of 3d grid and attracting points towards axis curves

Creation of bounding box and 3d voronoi cells which serve as the base of our geometry

Manipulation of the geometry-evaluation of final structure

Unrolling and tagging the components-preparation for fabrication

1:1 Scale Prototype Climbing the Distance

Dimitra Grigoriou | 29 Installation

Spatial House: Interpretation of the ephemeral city, Pireaus| Greece Hellastock | 2014 Collaboration: Dimitra Grigoriou Giannis Aivatzidis Thodoris Stratsianis Ioanna Fakiri

The proposed structure is a response to the scenario of having to locate a large number of people within the urban environment as well as the need to move this type of housing away from the ground and be hanged from above. Such a structure serves more than just a shelter, it proposes a dynamic way of liv ing, able to serve every kind of need by self-transforming. The structure serves its inhabitants, but it also consists a part of a wider ephemeral city, that is born and it expands within the urban fabric with its own rules. The construction of the shelter redefines the scaffold system which serves both as the firm point of suspension and the connection point between every single unit and the whole city. For the suspension, pliable linear and surface elements are used (ropes, fabric)and are connected one to the other through simple mechanisms or joints, allowing dynamic architectural forms to stand. Habitation cells which are composed of a dynamic combination of the materials mentioned above are developed in various different levels, form the entire scene of experimentation. Every single cell is getting connected both to the rest of the habitation clusters and the communal spaces which follow the same construction rules.

scaffold

rope

fabric

Spatial House

SOUTH RIVER FALLS

KEY SPECIES Magnoliaceae Liriodendron tulipifera - Tulip Poplar Aceraceae Acer saccharum - Sugar Maple Urticeae Laportea canadensis - Canada Nettle

35 ft

3 ft

Mass/Void diagram | looking across

60 ft

Mass/Void diagram | overhead

University of Virginia | Master of Landscape Architecture 2017 National Technical University of Athens | Diploma in Architecture 2014 e: dimitragrigoriou@gmail.com | t: +1(708)527-5488

Canopy | Liriodendron tulipifera - Tulip Poplar

Understory | Acer saccharum - Sugar Maple

Groundlayer | Laportea canadensis - Canada Nettle

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