June 2022 (student) HELEXPO 2022 Εxhibition of the project carried out in the framework of the course “spatial investigations” at the HELEXPO 2022 in Thessaloniki, at the pavilion of CERTH (Centre of Research and Technology Hellas)
LANGUAGES greek english french SKILLS autocad rhino vray sketchup photoshop illustrator indesign premiere pro zefyr unity mc office
driving licence: category B (car) category A (motorcycle)
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the promise of the luna park society 01
type: research diploma thesis year: 2024
supervisor: Dimitrios Fragkos
This paper is a personal testimony, a jumble of fragments of thoughts, conversations, hearings, and readings. I don’t remember exactly how and why, but it all started with a poster that read “Come experience the most magical day of your life! Absolute fun, where dreams come true!”. It was an advertisement for a new small luna park that had opened somewhere nearby. Everyone knows what a luna park is, yet such a simple concept can hide ideas, hidden meanings and heterotopias within it. It might as well not be hiding anything, although I
believe that everything hides a little infinity at its heart if you just look at it. It varies from glance to glance, but there is always something unique and interesting that reflects some inner secrets of the eyes that look at it. That’s how a whole world of reflections and hidden promises was launched in that poster for the little luna park. Τhis work attempts to take the reader on a tour in to the paths of a poetic quest, of redefining life in the modern everyday reality and the promises of the digital world that defines today, hiding within it a little luna park.
publication: https://t.ly/a6BnC (the project was selected as one of the best projects for 2023, by archisearch)
Myanmar is a multi-cultural country that combines different traditions, religions and languages. Through the years it seems that it is really difficult for a way to be found for a peaceful coexistence of all the different groups of people. Τhere have often been prohibitions on the teaching of traditional languages as well as certain religions.
Our main idea is to design a bridge that -as the literal meaning of the bridge is to connect- connects metaphorically all the differences found in this country. The centre of our project has been the creation of a safe space. The bridge is found in Kantawgyia lake in Mandalay and it connects a small informal settlement with a park. As one approaches the bridge from the south-west side of the settlement, one can find the biggest construction which functions as an archive of lost books, texts etc. Entering the bridge one can come across some other smaller constructions that are used as safe spaces by passers-by. Someone can go and pray, just sit, read and relax. At the same time in some of this constructions one finds occasionally workshops related to traditional arts. Along the bridge one may encounter flea markets (regular and floating) containing traditional products and objects created in the workshops that take place on the bridge.
the park of Sykies as a meeting and interaction point
type: urban and participatory design
location: Thessaloniki, Greece year: 2023
team: Katerina Perdikouri supervisor: Athanasiou
The park of interest, is a big park in Thessaloniki, in the neighborhood of Sykies. The specific neighborhood has been over many phases through the years, although, it always remains a very important crossroad between the city and the outer forest of Seix Sou. The main goal for our project is for the park to become a center of gatherings and everyday activities for the residents of the area, while at the same time it will be a friendly place for the animals of the forest that get down to the city. Throughtout small additions and workshops we propose that the inhabitants choose the main changes that the park needs. For us the basic element of our synthesis is for the nature to provide, while giving a chance for the neighborhood to grow and learn within. We propose a big change in the existing border of the park, with the creation of an active limit that hosts activities (ex. small courts, children games) and common spaces that are adaptable to everyday needs. At the same time we create points of information, about the wild life of the forest, the workshops taking place or the ones that are proposed etc. In the center left of the park we renovate the existing cafe, while we enrich the area with small warehouses, full of tools for the workshops, as well as gardening tools and seeds.
site analysis
the importance of the forest (from vegetation to the little residents of the area) the transition
hedgehog
TRACES
woodpecker
fox
squirrel
badger
hare
weasel
skunk
wild boar
wokshop idea: the birdfeeders
seed storage: the procedure
fo t h e n e w s ma l l bask
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street , n e a r c i n e Asosl
f ht e ec n t r a l c o m mon s
f th e caf e n e a r t eh hskow
Residential Complex 04
type: studio 4th year, building location: Thessaloniki, Greece year: 2022
A mixed-use building in the center of Thessaloniki. The building consists primarily of housing units and secondary common spaces for upgrading the neighborhood, as well as office spaces. In the ground floor one can find a small cinema, a few cafes and a collective kitchen, but also the the central arcade hosts the market (retail market, as well as shops). On the side of the building that borders the central street of Tsimiski one can find on the ground floor, as well as the first floor the spaces that host the area of the offices. Αlong the length of the plot, a parking lot is structured in the underground space, which serves the residents of the building, leaving the ground floor space free for a multi-faceted urban design.
plan of shared loft
parallel dreams
type: conceptual year: 2024
A place that is, and that is not. Where time and space get distorted. A place where one can reach only by daydreaming or maybe by an air balloon. Α modern neverland, an oceanic, heavenly or imaginary island forever lost from the ordinary human eye.
a small neighbourhood in Montpellier
type: small scale urban design erasmus studio
location: Montpellier, France year: 2023
supervisor: S. BOSC, M. ROUAUD
In a small urban area of Montpellier, we were expected to create a new friendlier and warmer atmosphere for the residents. My main goal was to embody the green element in every aspect of the design, as well as to create places that adapt to the everyday needs. I propose an open green space in the middle, ready to host activities of the neighbourhood, small rest stops, new bikestands and the creation of woonerfs all around the habitable area of the small neighbourhood.
the project was exhibited at the HELEXPO 2022 in Thessaloniki
Studying the wider area around the Tecla Sala building and the comments of the residents themselves, it appeared that the negative impressions about how they experience certain sub-areas in their everyday life are mainly related to feelings of insecurity, fear, difficulty regarding accessibility and abandonment of these areas, while places with particularities and distinctive features (high imageability) are used more often by the residents, as they are imprinted in a positive way in their minds.
The main design principles were to facilitate pedestrian movement, both with routes and public spaces, and to highlight the Tecla Sala building itself. Thus, the street connecting the metro stop, Tecla Sala and the area of the old houses becomes a bridge, is reduced in width, while bike lanes are designed on it, resulting in freeing up the space underneath. An underground square is thus created which is gradually accessed either from south or north of the area or from the courtyard of Tecla Sala (whose lines are retained, but with the necessary slopes to meet the level of the underground space). From the area with the old houses, only their facades are preserved, which are repositioned differently on the site, creating micro-square spaces that function as staging areas, reminiscing of how traditionally people in a neighbourhood might have used the spaces outside their houses as a meeting and communication point. This particular area also becomes underground not by continuous slopes but by a gradual descent of the levels defined by the footprints of the old houses. The experiments are not used independently but come to adapt to the needs of the proposal and serve as boundaries, separations, supports or signs depending on the place where they are used.
The bathroom and the work area are combined in a single composition, with a cavernous atmosphere. The bathroom develops organically like a sculpture, with the bathtub at the centre of the composition, creating a spiral movement around it. The work space, on the other hand, displays orthogonal characteristics, and as a metal structure, is embedded in the rock that delimits one side of the room. As it is at a higher level than the bath space, it functions as a point of observation of the sculpture, which alludes to Smithson’s video recordings and observations of his works from above.
As a total sculpture, the tomb comes to negotiate the boundaries between place and nonplace, but also the qualities of the boundary itself. Externally one can encounter either a hard impermeable boundary (gabion), or a permeable but “negotiable” boundary (waterfall), or finally a metallic thin frame into which one can enter. Inside each metallic volume the visitor will encounter a narrow dark corridor, with an exit to the interior space of the composition. There is a relief surface with projections and dips, made of cast material, which is passable. The surface is enclosed by a frame of water which, because of the relief, can also roll inside. The tour inside the composition is “uncomfortable” thus creating a variety of internal feelings to the visitor.
the tomb
the bath the work area
arts and the city: un-mappings
type: different possibilities of space location: Faliro, Thessaloniki year: 2022
supervisor: Nadia Kalara
Disassembly, reassembly and redistribution. The normal where nothing ordinary is contained. Whatever is indifferent, incomprehensible, incoherent, ugly, repulsive, wrong, out of place, and depressing was chosen. And then Ι slowly stopped. A new way of seeing and experiencing a simple, everyday journey. An unusual travel guide, containing within it a tale, a narrative, an image, but certainly not an interpretation.
X-rays of a cement jungle
type: photography year: 2024
An radiograph is a photograph taken by X-rays that penetrate soft molecules and air to a large extent, while their path is interrupted by solid molecules. In X-rays of a living modern ecosystem, the method differs. They are captured through time-frozen, moving moments. In the darkness of the night, flashes of life, small promises and longings, fear and anxiety, joy, carefree anticipation and expectation are seen. The setting is a man-made landscape, a new, modern kind of jungle, a concrete forest with a fast tempo. We, the spectators, fragments of the whole in a nothing, watch the reflections of the world around us. And so a new kind of modern X-ray is born.
