Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio - Marika Mavroleon

MARIKA MAVROLEON ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

MARIKA MAVROLEON C: +1 267-909-1991 E: mmmavroleon@gmail.com W: behance.net/marikamavroleon archinect.com/marikamavroleon linkedin.com/marikamavroleon

I made up in my mind -like an ideal thoughtan image of a beautiful giraffe. Beautiful because it has four legs that step on the earth and it does not fly only to have enough time to absorb the ground’s properties. Sometimes, it might even look like it’s unstable, but we know it steps sturdily on the earth.

Whether it is wet soil or a blooming meadow, the giraffe is so delicate, it will never destroy the ground. At the same time, it has its head high in the air from where it gets its food. The giraffe sees far away, it has a vision. And last, it has a heart somewhere in the middle. Because architecture without a heart doesn’t exist. *

*Inspired by the book “The beautiful giraffe” of A. Tombazis.

TABLE OF CONTENTS GERMANTOWN SKILLSHARE: Urban Design GALLERIA STOP #6: City Intervention PATCH ADAMS HEALTH CLINIC: Building Systems 113TH STEWARDSON COMPETITION: Commercial & Residential Design STRAWBERRY MANSION: Educational & Community Design HOUSING INFORMALITY: Senior Thesis, Global Issues INTERNSHIP @A&M ARCHITECTS: Abu Dhabi Int’l Airport F&B INTERNSHIP @A&M ARCHITECTS: Future Library URBAN SKETCHES: City and Context

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GERMANTOWN SKILLSHARE Urban Design Studio01 Site: Germantown, PHL

Project Type: Master Plan* Fall 2013 As a city, Philadelphia has had a school closing epidemic where 29 public schools were closed from 20112013. In the diverse Northwest area of the city, Germantown lost three major schools in that time span, two of which are monumental landmarks in history, Germantown High School and Robert Fulton Elementary School.

The current Philadelphia public school system is lacking many opportunities to develop new schools, such as arts educations, trade education, and career development. With recent budget cuts from the state, the public school system was forced to drop these valuable opportunities.

Students do not have counselors to provide a guiding hand on what to do beyond the school’s walls.

The proposed project, located in the center of Germantown, has as a goal, to restore educational opportunities through reusing the existing structures of Germantown High School and its surroundings.

The proposed campus facilitates educational exposure for the local community through education, skill shares and career development. The campus fosters local community ownership and empowerment with an emphasis on creating educational opportunities for all. *Group member: T.J. Burghart

01 | GERMANTOWN SKILLSHARE Urban Design Studio

1. Germantown Skillshare 2. Workshops 3. Community Gym 4. Educational Kitchen 5. Community Library 6. Child care 7. Residences 8. Twin residences 9. Senior Housing 10. Educational Farm 11. Production Farm 12. Educational Garden 13. PlayďŹ eld 14. Preservation Plaza 15. Cafe & Restaurants 16. Parking 17. Mixed Use 18. Playing Plaza 19.Town Hall

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Shared Program & Functions

Germantown Skillshare is based on a program through which, shared functions and activities keep the campus alive. The diagram above explains the connections and shared program that happens in the community. The program encourages human interacton and allows exchange of skills and ideas.

Moment Section C of Campus Corridor

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Section & Elevation of Library & Cafe

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It is through the intimacy of a community that education will rise.

The pathway is only a means to the end but what would we do if people weren’t there to build it. It is in our hands to guide people that need it, teach people that desire it and love people that deserve it...

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02113th STEWARDSON COMPETITION Commercial & Residential Design Site: Francisville, PHL

Project Type: Competition Spring 2014 Philadelphia, a city where art shaped the history and the culture of the people, is the home of a collection of museums, art venues, and local galleries, but most importantly an example of cultural ethos and originality. Within Philadelphia, many neighborhoods adopted their own style and identity that reected the individuals and embraced the different arts, cultures, race and habits of each neighborhood.

Francisville, a neighborhood just a few minutes away from the Philadelphia art museum is one of the areas that are still very involved with the artsy side of the city and tries to maintain a unique identity.

However, since center city and the area around the museum became the primary destination for entertainment, shopping and art, Francisville has lost its locality causing small businesses in the area to give up trying to keep the neighborhood alive.

Keeping in mind the favored location of the area and its accessibility to the city and the Art museum, Francisville can become another destination of entertainment and give life to the neighborhood that has been forgotten.

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Elevation of Apartment Complex

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Residential - 20,888 sq ft Restaurants & Cafe - 20,800 sq ft Retail - 20,321 sq ft Art’s Garage & Theater - 3,665 sq ft The Plaza - 13,213 sq ft

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Residential - 20,888 sq ft Restaurants & Cafe - 20,800 sq ft Retail - 20,321 sq ft Art’s Garage & Theater - 3,665 sq ft The Plaza - 13,213 sq ft

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GALLERIA STOP #SIX City Intervention03 Site: Manzoni, Rome Italy

Project Type: City Analysis Spring 2013 After Rome Sixtus V organized the city by paying attention to important intersections and axis, visual connections became one of the most important characteristics of this urban project. Rome, even though a very organic plan, has several axis that organize or divide the city into fragments. Beginning from Piazza Del Popolo and moving south towards Santa Croce, an axis is spanning connecting 6 major public spots that are either monumental or intended for public use.

These spots are all equidistant except the last gap between Piazza of Vittorio Emmanuelle and Santa Croce which is almost twice the size of the distance between the other public stops. Right in the middle of this “chasma” the Aquaduct Nero is crossing vertically the main street/axis. Suddenly the site that the aquaduct lays consists of a necessary stop and a need to substitute the chasma. Following the already public attractions throughout the axis, the program of STOP #6 consists of an exhibition space linked through a bridge to a restaurant and café across the street. The exhibition is dedicated to students, everyday people and unknown artists to exhibit their unknown work while the site is entirely open to public use.

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04STRAWBERRY MANSION Educational & Community Center Site: Strawberry Mansion, PHL

Project Type: Community Design Fall 2011 A playful space can become an important node within a complex community. The Community Center for the neighborhood of Strawberry Mansion in North Philadelphia, addresses cultural and community issues within the area. As one of the most complex but unique neighborhoods, Strawberry Mansion is one of the top neighborhoods in Philly with rates high in crime, obesity and low education levels but also lacks of public spaces. As a result, these issues affect the quality life of the residents.

Through a series of playfully organized buildings, the center promotes healthy lifestyle and through an Educational Kitchen, a Library and a Market/Restaurant, it teaches residents how to cook, relax and interact. The 3 buildings are playfully designed on site to enclose the plaza and become visible from all sides.

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The main building’s envelope is a perforated pattern screen using a modular system that is repeated throughout the facade and forms a unified pattern. The modules repeated, are identical and connected to each other through points mimicking the voronoi diagram.

A Voronoi diagram is a simple mathematical object: “a set of points in Euclidean space, determine the nearest neighbor decomposition”.

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Educational & Community Center

COMMUNITY LIBRARY

RESTAURANT & MARKET

Site & Building Section through Library & Restaurant

EDUCATIONAL KITCHEN

Site & Building Section through Community Kitchen

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Educational & Community Center

Night Rendering of Facade

PATCH ADAMS HEALTHBuilding CLINIC Systems05 Site: North Philadelphia

Project Type: Health Care Design* Fall 2012 In a site where health issues are crucial and unaffordable, Patch Adams provides basic services for free but also is a center for all. “To be healthy you have to be happy”, is the philosophy behind Patch Adam’s mind. To achieve the happiness, the quality of spaces must evoke freedom of movement, quality of air and light but most importantly become a space where healing and treatment comes through nature.

This project explored in depth, building passive systems and addressed structural, mechanical, lighting and programmatic issues to provide a unified design within a healthy and sanitary environment.

*Group members: Natasha Trice, Sean Tichy

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SITE

Located on West Allegheny & 17th st, the existing site covers an area of 5 acres, some of which are heavily contaminated. After cleaning the soil, the site can be suitable for agriculture activities since it is has full exposure on natural lighting and vegetation.

The organization of program around the site is guided through the existing topography and formed in a way that all parts of farming, gardening and growing are accessible by all.

PROGRAM & FORM

The program was divided into two wings, connected through an atrium space and with access to the southern part of the site. The two wings are shifted to create a compressed zone where the entry is and are rotated in a way that southern light can penetrate the surfaces and naturally heat up the spaces during winter, while during summer a set of louvers and screens prevent the strong sunlight from coming in.

TREE COURTYARDS

To create air quality within the clinic and keep fresh air indoors, a set of interior courtyards are located within the spaces. The courtyards not only provide natural lighting and ventilation but become a signiďŹ cant part of the building’s community since they offer gathering spots. All of the courtyards are vegetated and become a crucial part of the quality life since the interaction with nature is part of a healing method and has proven to be necessary to the health.

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Mural to be painted on Exterior Community Wall

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Section through health clinic courtyard

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Section through the atrium and olive park.

Longitudinal Section through Patch Adams clinic

PATCH ADAMS HEALTH CLINIC Building Systems

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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything

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William Shakespeare, 1564

HOUSING INFORMALITY Thesis Studio06 Site: Alexandra Township, South Africa Project Type: Global Issues Spring 2014 Starting during the 1950’s, the world population has experienced an overwhelming and continuing increase in growth leading to social, environmental, political and economic issues. While the consequences vary depending on the country and culture, the causes of such high density of population are detrimental to developing countries such as South Africa. A country whose population is expected to double by 2100, has been going through hard times controlling the negative effects of overpopulation. As a consequence, informal townships exist with a disproportional ratio between land and people. Leading to an overloaded infrastructure that is inadequatre to support the high density, informal settlements are formed to house the excessive population. This type of housing is usually built with no sanitation facilities causing people to pollute soil and water with human waste. This affects the environment than in turn, affects people’s quality of life.

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Due to an extremely dense population living in the township of Alexandra, many of the residents are forced to live in cramped, poor and unhealthy conditions. As the population continues to increase and space becomes scarce, many residents are settling and building informal settlements anywhere there is “left over” land such as the banks of the Jukskei River that is crossing Alexandra Township. High density informal housing in marginalized spatial conditions such as floodplains, create a negative dialogue between occupants and civic life. While government seeks relocation of occupants from the river floodplain, the occupants seek for safe housing options.

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VIABLE LIVING, HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTAL AND SPATIAL CONDITIONS CAN CREATE A SUSTAINABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RESIDENTS, THE RIVER AND THE CIVIC LIFE.

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THE ISSUES OF ALEXANDRA As the population continues to increase, residents are occupying areas such as the banks of the Jukskei River, the only available land that can illegally “house” residents who are building their own homes out of cheap materials. With inadequate infrastructure, the banks of the Jukskei River do not provide basic amenities for human inhabitation, leading to pollution, overloading the infrastructure and causing environmental issues.

However, the most crucial issue that Alexandra is facing regarding river inhabitation is the fact that people keep building on the banks without knowing they are inhabiting a floodplain zone. The presence of people below the floodplain, results in raw sewage entering the river, causing pollution and ongoing erosion . In return, the intense annual rainfall causes extreme flooding that most of the times destroys people’s homes.

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5,500 INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

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The pollution of the river and the danger-

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Alexandra Township. Part of the plan was

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cated residents, are described as poor,

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a refusal for relocating.

about 5000 people.

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DESIGN

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FORMALIZE HOUSING OF THE JUKSKEI INHABITATION, BY ELEVATING HOMES ABOVE THE FLOODPLAIN AND PROVIDING AN INFRASTRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK THAT IMPROVES CIRCULATION AND ELIMINATES CRAMPED CONDITIONS.

ADDRESS PROBLEM OF POLLUTION AND HOUSING INSECURITY AGGRAVATED BY FLOODPLAIN INHABITATION.

THE PLATFORMS In an area where space is scarce, close proximity to other homes becomes necessary to house the excessive population.

At the same time we need to provide communal and private space, but also efďŹ ciently organize the circulation of the site.

To achieve this, an elevated platform holds 6 homes rather than individual homes built on site. Following the irregularity and organic shape of the site, new forms are being created.

Criteria: shared + private space, manipulation of heights to maximize space, manipulation of angles to allow for a variety of thresholds and different experiences.

Floorplan : The 6 units, attached to the platform, share resources such as water and waste management. This way, the Jukskei occupants belong to a community where the collective interest surpasses the individual.

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A&MARCHITECTS

ARCHITECTS | ENGINEERS | PROJECT MANAGERS

INTERNSHIP WORK Abu Dhabi Int’l Airport7a Site: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Project Type: Int’l Competition Winning entry Summer 2013 Stage: Schematic Design Design Director: Lee Zygouras Industrial Designer: Dimitris Kalabokis Graphic Designer: Nadia Argiropoulou Alexandros Dikastopoulos Architectural Intern: Marika Mavroleon Job description: Autocad 2D Photoshop 3D + 2D drawings Meeting Representative

Montreux Jazz cafe is a part of the F&B (Food&Beverage) design proposal for Terminal 3 of the Abu Dhabi Int’l Airport (AUH). The winning entry of the international competition covers Terminals 1 and 3 and consists of a series of F&B sections. Montreux Jazz cafe plays with colors, textures and jazz patterns. The design proposals for both Terminal 1 and 3 was executed by a group of interdisciplinary professions.

Drawings used with the permission of A&M Architects

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Abu Dhabi Int’l Airport F&B

Montreux Jazz Cafe Floorplan

Airport context Floorplan Drawings used with the permission of A&M Architects

7a |INTERNSHIP WORK

Abu Dhabi Int’l Airport F&B

Elevation of Restaurant

Elevation of Cafe

Brand’s Material & Color Palette

Drawings used with the permission of A&M Architects

INTERNSHIP WORK Library Prototypes7b Site: Drapetsona, Drama, Chania, GREECE

Project Type: Competition, Winning entry between established European ďŹ rms.

Stage: Design Development Design Director: Lee Zygouras Project Architect Vaya Pantou Junior Architect: Zoe Roussou Industrial Designer: Dimitris Kalabokis Graphic Designer: Nadia Argiropoulou Alexandros Dikastopoulos Architectural Intern: Marika Mavroleon Job description: Survey of existing, Autocad 2D Sketchup 3D Renderings + Photoshop

Drawings used with the permission of A&M Architects

7b |INTERNSHIP WORK Library Prototypes

MODULAR PROGRAM

pick your book! community wall

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learning commons | reading lounge

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Through technology, and new media, our learning experiences take different dimensions. The idea of the “Future Library” winning entry for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is adopted by 9 towns around Athens, Greece. By targeting mainly student towns, the future library is integrated within existing local libraries and upgrades the learning experience by providing new media through technology and innovation. To keep an identity between all 9 libraries and to create a network, a “plug & play” modular program is designed as a prototype. The featured images consist of 3 prototype libraries and include surveys of existing conditions, proposed layout and visual representations.

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Drawings used with the permission of A&M Architects

7b |INTERNSHIP WORK Library Prototypes

Survey of existing Library room of Drapetsona Library

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Proposed Layout of Library room of Drapetsona Library

Drawings used with the permission of A&M Architects

community table community wall

learning commons | reading lounge

7b |INTERNSHIP WORK Library Prototypes

Survey of existing Library room of Drama Library

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learning commons | reading lounge

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community table

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Proposed Layout of Library room of Drama Library

Drawings used with the permission of A&M Architects

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7b |INTERNSHIP WORK Library Prototypes

THE BRAIN PULSE ROOM

A room to stimulate thoughts and to invent new ideas. The brain pulse room is a shared space with playful furniture and an atmospheric lighting that encourages relaxation but embraces group study.

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learning commons | reading lounge

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Section B of Drapetsona Library

THE EDIT ROOM

Many of the students living in the 9 towns go beyond just reading and studying. The edit room, a space equiped with computers and sound proof walls, is dedicated for editing of music, movies and sound.

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Section A of Drama Library molecular

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Section A of Drapetsona Library Drawings used with the permission of A&M Architects

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learning commons | reading lounge

URBAN SKETCH Travel sketches08 A collection of urban sketches and thoughts drawn and written while studying abroad in Rome, Italy. Understanding context and urban morphology is crucial into understanding a city’s character and culture. Rome, a very organic city with a dense population, is one of the most cultural reecting places in Europe. Ruins, weathered materials, symmetry and axial organization were the main elements captured in the drawings.

MARIKA MAVROLEON ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO ACADEMIC YEARS: 2009-2014