Katerina Vassiliou Portfolio

P O RT F O L I O

Katerina Vasileiou Dipl. Arch. Eng. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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prof ile

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research thesis

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diploma project

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academic studios

48 material experimentations

The current issue contains personal and teamwork material samples.

All work is accomplished during the period 2013 - 2016

PROFILE

personal info name: date of birth: address: tel.: mobile: e-mail:

Katerina Vasileiou 13.01.1990 Nea Mesimvria, 57011 Thessaloniki, Greece +30 2310 71 35 77 +30 69 74 52 56 20 kbasileiou@windowslive.com

education

2008 - 2016

Diploma of Architecture (300 ECTS - MArch Equivalent) Degree: 8.93/10 Polytechnic School of Thessaloniki, Greece

2011 - 2012

École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture De Montpellier, France [LLP/ ERASMUS]

linguistics

Greek (Mother tongue) | French C2 | English B2

computer skills

Photoshop | InDesign | Autodesk AutoCAD + Inventor Skethup | Rhinoceros | Zbrush | V Ray

other skills

Conceptual Sketching | Architectural Hand Drawing Physical Model Building | Material experimentation

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The deeper understanding of the physical world, tends to actually redefine the design approaches. The creative practice shifts in the design of material processes rather than the design of forms and the performative practices that accompany a predetermined idea.

Through the transformative process of the “omnipotent� matter into any desired material object, a variety of factors mediate in order to form the material properties and capacities of the latter.

This research thesis focuses on the design of a diagram as a conceptual tool, aiming to highlight the complexity and diversity of the material- based creative process.

Poetics of matter

The selected concepts-factors describing the production process of an artifact are the material, structure, fabrication, tools, environment and topology.

Each of them constitutes a major category which integrates relevant concepts that function either as definitions or as explanatory to the principal ones.

The 3 artifacts which have been chosen as case studies are the Samurai sword, the fishing kayak and the vaulting pole. The diagram has been separately applied on each of these objects, providing as output three different grids.

Type: research thesis Supervisor: Stavros Vergopoulos

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The evaluation of each grid reveals information on the interaction of the major categories and their relevant concepts. Thus, the densification of the resulting grid highlights the main factors that define the creative process and individualize the final form of each artifact.

So, the grid could be identified with the “narrative object� in-between the causes of the creative process and the outcome of the procedure.

The mutual interdependence of the above mentioned factors produces a kind of tectonic quality, as a result of the actualization of the physical form. The artifact results as a tectonic event bearing new features due to the interrelation of these different factors.

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Central axis of this thesis project is the dialectical relationship between natural and artificial, accompanied by a simultaneous obsession around the primary, fundamental nature of the material. The building is the result of its materials’ embedded “expression�, instead of a materialized version of abstract graphic imagery.

Terra Arti[ph]ycialis: Material intermediation between natural and artificial

The building is constantly transforming over time within the sequential transformation of its material. The final form evolves as a designed probabilistic event through correlations of time and environmental factors, incorporating the intelligence of the natural.

Type: diploma project Collaboration: Nina Chatzitheofilou, Katerina Vasileiou Supervisor: Stavros Vergopoulos

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In the treaty of crisis, the progressive abandonment of buildings, industrial previously character, shapes deserted landscapes of “modern” ruins. Thus, result spaces without memory, iden-

Architectural and Urban Design: “Transitional Sites”

tity or historicity, that can not be defined by a set of relationships. Disputing the holistic approach of an established plan, we aim in the inversion of this treaty via specific interventions of small scale that will trigger a series of unprecedented events.

Type: Academic studio Collaboration: Valia Fragkia, Stella Rossikopoulou, Michalis Shammas, Katerina Vasileiou

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This project concerns the design of a promenade to highlight the unique character of the existing landscape of Evros river delta. The horizontal scape, the rich patchworks of the existing flora and fauna,

Landscape Design: “Evros River Delta”

as well as the periodic floods defined the character of the design. The proposed routes are organized around Drana salt-lake in such a way as to respect the ecosystem’s funtion so as to be part of it, in a natural coexistance.

Type: Academic Studio

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This design project concerns the restoration and reuse of the ottoman horse stables of military camp Pavlos Melas at Thessaloniki. Through the analysis and the research concerning the

Restoration and Reuse of momuments and historical ensembles

historical ensemble, we questioned the bipolar of old - new, the matter of temporality and the aesthetic experience of the ruins, attempting to form our personal design approach.

Type: Academic studio Collaboration: Valia Fragkia, Giannis Karababas, Rossikopoulou, Katerina Vasileiou

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Stella

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The following mini-projects are part of a personal interest around materiality investigating architectural qualities in different scales. The occasion of these experiments resulted from either trial-error processes or accidentally out of “failed experiments�.

material experimentations

During these experimentations, questions around seemingly contradictory concepts emerged concerning the interrelation between the natural-artificial, analog-digital, haptic-optic and the way they can affect design approaches.

Type: personal interest

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november 2016