portfolio 2023
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Women’s house in Senegal
KAIRA LOORO ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
Group Project
Year 2021
Dimitropoulou S., Pirgioti A., Stouri I.
Athens, Greece
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The idea behind the design concept was to design flexible and open spaces around a central meeting point, to create a sense of safety, security and familiarity.
We firmly believe that these are necessary qualities for a space that should respect, protect, celebrate, and reinforce women’s rights and achievements.
The placement of the buildings derived from the flow of movement throughout the site, following the movement on the main and secondary streets around it. The central point of the building complex revolves around a central sacred tree, so that the local culture and social interactions are celebrated and respected. Seating areas, water and natural elements are the main characteristics of this outdoor space.
The functions are distributed throughout the site in closed or semiclosed spaces, according to the degree of privacy or publicity required. The buildings hosting the activities are circular, or parts of a circle, and they are flexible so they can operate simultaneously or individually. This is achieved through the connecting units and the space in-between.
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Rupturing the icosahedron:An alterable space of action
Diploma Thesis Project
This project aims to propose the design of a space that will hold performances, exhibitions, installations, meetings and conversations of art and research. A space that can be assembled and disassembled in order to be easily transported to other locations. The form of this place is alterable, producing every time a form that serves the function and is always related to the movements and actions inside it.
Year 2020
National Technical University of Athens.
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What initiated the concept and design process was the question of how movement is related to the already designed- and not- space and how it [the movement] can bring architecture and our conceived spatial structures back to life. The design tools, thus, were the structure of the human body, the change of directions in the three-dimensional space, different forces that contribute to this change, equilibrium and the lack thereof. At the same time, the final forms were highly dependent on the functions, the actions happening within, as well as the time in which the above take part.
The plan of a movement trace, the dynamic geometries of the human bodies, the trajectories of movement sequences serve as tools which originally defined the formation of the four dimensions that created the space
More precisely, I attempt to create an environment of experimentation, based on the movement that is encircled inside an “icosahedron”, as a result of my theoretical research on human movement in space and on dance semiology. The main questions that this space attempts to answer are:
What kind of movements can be realized in and because of an “icosahedron”?
What functions can this type of space undertake and, thus, how can it be transformed through them?
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relating the icosahedron to the cube
traces of an exploded icosahedron
platform assembly trials
experimenting with multiple levels and the open - close relation
exploring the geometry and volumes - case studies
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final proposal
The way the triangles are assembled and held together gives them the potential to take different forms, by keeping the same logic behind the structure. Three points are always steadily fasted, on the ground and in the horizontal beam-cannel, while the fourth one is free to move. The movement is the result of a two-dimensional rotation between the two interconnected sides of the triangles that form the pieces of the initial icosahedron. The proposed functions and forms are as follows, but not strict and absolute, open to exploration and suggestions.
FINAL DIMENSIONS:
The final dimensions of the platform and the metal frames are all following the analogies of th Golden Section
MOVEMENT:
The triangles, as parts of a ruptured icosahedron can only make on movement: they rotate around a common side. At the same time two vertexes of each part are placed with a suspension system on the metal frames, and one vertex is connected with the same system to the floor.
MATERIALITY:
Aluminum beams to lower the final weight. Shockproof flooring to accommodate performance needs Off=white canvas to fill the traingles, in order to remind one of the nomadic character and the temporality of this space.
Metal beams are placed underneath the platform, as it requires stability. Also, there is a system of 24 pedestals so this space can be placed on any kind of landscape.
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Nimfon Sq. Vouliagmeni
Lighting design - urban
Year 2020
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Danilof light + perception studio
Project Details:
Location: Vouliagmeni, Greece
Client: Municipality of Vari
-Voula - Vouliagmeni
Architect: Athens Creative, A.
Avlonitis - A. Anagnostopoulou
Contractor: Ario - D. Protonotarios
MEP design: S. Venieris & Partners
Greenery Design: A. Roussou, P. Fevranoglou
Surveying Engineering: Galanis - Kallianos OE
Stage: Completed
Photography: Yiorgis Yerolympos
Services: Lighting Concept, Developed & Detailed Design
International LIT Awards 2021: Honourable Mention in Landscape Lighting
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Mykonos EMRLD
Lighting design - hospitality
Year 2021-2023
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Danilof light + perception studio
Project Details:
Location: Mykonos /
Client: Private /
Project Management & Designer: 360 conceptdesignstudio, A. Tsikordanos /
Architect - Construction: B-Group, E. Bratopoulos
Stage: Completed
Photography: Vaggelis Paterakis
Services: Lighting Concept, Developed & Detailed Design
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Social Housing in Metamorfosi, Athens
Urban Design
Academic - Group Project
Year 2019
Dimitropoulou S., Pitsouli M., Stouri I. National Technical University of Athens.
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AREA & SITE ANALYSIS
The slightly controversial character of Metamorfosi area, home to large-scale industries and trade but at the same time to small residences and neighborhoods, creates two opposite “scales”. The main characteristic is the many social housing units in the broader area, whose interconnection , spatial and special needs formed our design strategy. Places where people could meet ( eg. to exercise, to play, or to walk in nature) were of vital importance in such a crowded and not quite wealthy neighborhood.
As a result, our proposal attempts to create a central meeting point for all residents, both of the particular unit and the rest of the neighborhood, keeping in mind the presence of nature, by preserving an open view and passage to “Dilaveris” hill.
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2 types of residencies: Studios and two-bedroom apartments
Linear relation of apartments, connection through the common exterior corridor
The entrance is always in the common spaces of each apartment, keeping bedrooms more private
The kitchen and living-room form a unified space
Studios
Small balconies connect the apartments with the corridor
Entrance through these smaller private spaces
The lifted “bedrooms” offer some degree of privacy within the apartment
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two-bedroom apartments
Entrance following the circulation on the exterior corridor
There is a smaller exterior space, more private, designated for every two next-door apartments
Thus the design principle was to create small meeting places for the residents, forming small “neighborhoods”, squares, public “balconies” in the interior of a unit. A common corridor which runs horizontally though the façade of the buildings functions as a common space, it creates meeting points and can give space to smaller private balconies. The unit can fit up to 170 residencies, providing at the same time common spaces in separate buildings throughout the site : working labs, library, day-care center, common kitchen and an outdoor gym and seating area. This creates a public space wide enough tov welcome people from the broader neighborhood and bring them closer together.
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Bauhaus meets commons
Open source product design
Hands on workshop: furniture design and fabrication, re-purposing and material research
Kardampiki
Loriti
Stouri
Theodroglou
LUDD Makerspace
Goethe Institut,
Year 2019 Harlafti V.,
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in collaboration with
Athens.
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A chair’s functional quality begins and ends at its horizontal element, that which forms, in other words the seat. Using Breuer’s original chair (Lattenstuhl) as a starting point we choose to design an addition to fill the seating’s void, using the technique and form of folding Two wooden beams (of a 28mm circular cross-section), connected with a malleable material are attached to Breuer’s compact and orthonormal canvas; they define the space which will bear the weight, they lock into place at crucial points of the construction and form the seating space - thereby, the chair. The design of this light construction came as a result of t he need to clash the austerity of the original model; from its suggested form to its materiality. n order to subvert the sturdiness of this object, our suggestions play with the concepts of movement, plasticity and kitsch to express multiple scenarios.
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), silicone, rice paper, nails and plastic grass all bare attributes of mass aesthetics, while remaining uncanny concerning their functionality. In this way. the contrast on Breuer’s suggestion is an open and perpetual game which entices the user to quench his/her need: to add or subtract, to preserve or reject, to induce the change he/she has chosen him/herself, in an open-design object. Besides, the creative dialogue between a user and an object is a part of his/her emancipation, it being the great challenge that Bauhaus introduced.
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