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NIKOLAOS BOTTIS
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Contact Info:
Phone: +30 6956013954
Email: nickbottis9@gmail.com
Linkedin: Nikolaos Bottis, Architect MArch
Address: Aisopou 1A, Anatoli, Ioannina, 45221
BIO:
Born in Karditsa, Greece, he graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Ioannina. Excelled in projects involving Architectural Synthesis, Architecture Theory, Analysis as well as Art Projects. Tackling a a plethora of different design needs, raging from small scale objects to large scale projects. He participated in an architecture competition in 2022, the process of which resulted in a colaboration with the UIA, and since 2023 he begun freelance work for in Ioannina. Interested in strategic planning, housing, sustainable cultural heritage, design methodology, focusing on the clarification of the social meaning mechanisms of architecture. Always focused on learing and growing as a professinal Architect as well as an individual.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
[2024] Freelance Architect, for Vavvas Konstantinos
[2023] Freelance Architect, for Evangelos Katsanos and Dimitris Karvounis
[2022] Renovation of four city center appartments in Ioannina, (Private Project)
EDUCATION: Department of Architecture, University of Ioannina
LANGUAGES: Greek, Native Speaker English, MSU Proficiency and IELTS Italian, KPG ( State Certificate ), B1
SOFTWARE: Rhino, Autocad, Grasshopper, Enscape, Twinmotion,Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office
ACADEMIC PROJECTS:
DESIGN:
[2024] Landscapes of Suburban Infrastructure: Proposal fot the relocation of Ioanninas KTEL Bus Station and the development of a covered Farmer’s Market (Thesis Project)
[2023] SKG Airport ( Architectural Design VII ) with Konstantina Pistofidi
[2023] The Ioannina Lakefront Revitalization ( Urban Design II ) with Nikolas Giagkou
[2022] University of Ioannina, Architecture School ( Architectural Design VI ) with Konstantina Pistofidi
[2022] Mirage ( Architectural Design V ) with Elisavet Prevezanou
[2021] Zitsa Wine and Research Museum ( Architectural Design IV ) with Nikolas Giagkou
[2021] Wake Pireus ( Architectural Design III ) with Katerina Gkeli and Terpsichore Papapanagou
[2020] Agiles ( Architectural Design II ) with Katerina Gkeli
[2020] Office House ( Architectural Design I )
[2019] Platanos ( Urban Design I )
[2019] Corporate Building ( Architectural Technology I+II)
[2019] Floating Guest House ( Environmental Design & Management )
THEORY:
[2024] Conceptual Archetypes and Architecture: The Acropoliw Museum Example, ( Research Thesis )
[2021] Fortress of Solitude: Historical look at the Exhibition’s Planning ( History of Art IV )
[2021] A look at: Takis Zenetos’s Electronic Urbanism and Tele-Activities ( Architecture Theory III)
[2021] Zagori, Opportunities for Sustainable Tourism and Growth ( Landscape Architecture I : Mediterranean Landscape )
[2020] Hong Kong - West Kowloon: Cultural and Recreational Center ( Architecture Theory II: Architecture and Landscape )
[2020] The Visage of a Neo-Hellenic City ( Architecture Theory I: Architecture and Urban Landscape )
EXHIBITIONS:
[2022] MIRRORING, Fingerprint at the Benaki Museum Shop ( Special Topics in Design III) with Petros Nasiakos and Eirini Karagianni
ART PROJECTS:
[2022] There is a Monster in the Lake! ( Special Topics in Design IV) with Petros Nasiakos
COMPETITIONS:
[2022] UIA Great Green Wall Single Stage Student Ideas Competition with Konstantina Pistofidi
01.
HOLIDAY RETREAT
DESIGN ASSISTANT & 3D VISUALIZATIONS FOR APOSTOLOS PANOS (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE)
This Holiday retreat in Gia, Greece was a renovation of an existing House to transform it into a holiday retreat for the family of the owner. Designed after the Aegean Island house archetype, it is divided into 3 new apartments designed to accommodate all 3 members of the family with their respective spouses and children, without interrupting each others privacy, while maintaining shared spaces for gatherings and outdoor sitting and dining.
SOUTH VIEW BEFORE
NORTH VIEW BEFORE
SOUTH VIEW AFTER
NORTH VIEW AFTER - WITH SECTION OF NEW YARD
B GROUND FLOOR PLAN VIEW
APPARTMENT A - KITCHEN/DINING AREA
APPARTMENT A - LIVING ROOM
WEST VIEW (ABOVE: AFTER - BELOW: BEFORE)
APPARTMENT B - ENTRANCE VIEW
APPARTMENT B - BEDROOM VIEW
02.
PETRA EXHIBITION SPACE
DESIGN ASSISTANT & 3D VISUALIZATIONS FOR DIMITRIS KARVOUNIS
Reconstruction of the Former Primary School, repurposed as a Folk and History Exhibition Space in Petra, Zagori
EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
BIRD’S EYE VIEW
EXHIBITION ROOM
CAFE-BAR
LANDSCAPES OF SUBURBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
Proposal for the relocation of Ioannina’s KTEL Bus Station and the development of a covered Farmers’ Market
Combining two otherwise unrelated urban infrastructures, the intercity KTEL and the public market, into a single building, aiming to create a suburban hub of interest. Situated in the former location of the municipal gardens, this project seeks to merge, restructure, and incorporate farmland into the market space and vice versa, linking these areas to the bus terminal through a smooth transition. The integration of these three elements forms the main design axis, where the connectivity requirements and the issues arising from this merger are resolved by a structure that blends with and becomes part of the landscape.
This thesis proposes a new outlook on the suburban landscape and its management. It envisions a structure that addresses issues related to urban infrastructure, agriculture, and intercity transport without detracting from the surrounding landscape. It serves as a meeting point for urban and suburban movement, production, and the sale of agricultural products under a new spatial entity that highlights and unites these otherwise disconnected functions.
MAIN
In the city of Ioannina, the gradual increase in traffic density strains the urban fabric and creates congestion issues. As this density grows, it impacts the city’s infrastructure, making transit to and from heavily frequented areas more challenging. Two facilities that would benefit from being relocated out of the city center are the Ioannina public market and the intercity bus terminal (KTEL). Moving these to the suburban area presents an opportunity to redefine the role of the suburban landscape in urban planning. Instead of merely fulfilling immediate, human-driven needs (like industry), this approach integrates human factors and the adaptation of space to the landscape.
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
MARKET MOVEMENT
TERMINAL MOVEMENT
The structure utilizes a tripartite separation, both in function and construction, with concrete, metal, and glass used to reinforce the unity of uses. With clear geometric lines and a deliberate organization, the building is designed to blend with the landscape, managing the natural and artificial boundaries to create a central point for both agricultural product cultivation and distribution as well as for intercity transportation.
The market’s layout enables a direct pathway from the farmland to the market stalls, enhancing the visitor experience. The transition from the outdoor farm area to the semi-outdoor market space, then to the nearly urban plaza and cafes, and finally to the enclosed bus terminal represents a journey from rural to urban, providing a new perspective on the connection between the two through their fusion into a structure that embodies the transition from urban to natural landscape.
GROUND LEVEL MARKET FLOOR PLAN VIEW
PREFABRICATED LINKAGE FOR STEEL BEAMS
PLACEMENT OF ETFE MEMBRANE
PREFABRICATED LINKAGE FOR CONNECTING STEEL BEAMS TO STEEL COLUMNS
PREFABRICATED LINKAGE FOR STEEL COLUMNS
ROOF CONSTRUCTION DETAIL
SECTION A-A
SEGMENT MAQUETTE
MID-LEVEL TRANSITION AREA
BUS TERMINAL ENTRANCE
DEPARTURES WAITING AREA
04. GEONODE
The GEONode is a sustainable and bioclimatic housing system. Using the Voronoi pattern to divide a piece of land in order to create any number of residences with any number of rooms around a courtyard that is customary of the region. Using the local materials, and techniques, conbines with the western know how, the GEONode proposes a system that can be built easily with little expertice required and also cheaply as the majority of the materials are redily available in the region.
Voronoi division comes from the cracked earth that becomes all the more frequent due to global warming, thus trying to make an otherwise bad image, to an opportunity for growth and reforming.
The way the houses are organized into courtyards and a larger housing community, is derived from the local way of living and respects the local religion and culture. the rest of the site can be divide into either green voronoi tiles, or compressed dirt roads that can also be used for sheds or public spaces
This competition entry led us to coorporate with the UIA in Presenting the experience of the competition process as well as the visit to the World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen in 2022. The colaboration was published int the UIA Website.
SITE FORMULATON
CRACKED EARTH - VORONOI
SECTION T-T
GENERAL AXONOMETRIC
EXPLOADED AXON SECTION OF HUT
SECTION - CONSTRUCTION DETAIL
SECTION
TOP VIEW
AGILES 05.
Combining apartments as well as a puplic space uniting 2 streets, Agiles is a project that aims to reinforce the sense of neigbourhood by looking inward and encouraging residents to interact with each other as well as the public.
Seperated int 3 zones, the Public Space is on the ground level and is ment for everyone, the Shared Space, directly above the public space, made for the residents, and the Private Space, refering to the private residences of the occupants.
Agiles, an inward look at the neighbourhood.
CONCEPTS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN SPACES
TYPICAL APPARTMENT LOWER FLOOR PLAN
TYPICAL APPARTMENT UPPER FLOOR PLAN
MAVROGIANNI STREET
MAVROGIANNI STREET
AXONOMETRIC CONCEPTUAL VIEW
MAUROGIANNI STREET VIEW
NORTH VIEW (PAPANDREOU STREET
WEST VIEW
SOUTH VIEW (MAUROGIANNI STREET)
EAST VIEW
06. MIRRORING
The Fingerprint object set, focuses on redefining the concept of identity. Today, our biological identity seems to be defined less and less by the characteristics we were born with. It is shaped by us and by the imprint of our - gradually more and more frequent - decisions on the image and function of our virtual as well as our biological body. So to the extent that our biological characteristics participate in the formation of our social identity, we can say that it is gradually becoming more and more malleable.
Shifting the interest from the owner of the fingerprint to the material on which the fingerprint was made, the Fingerprint objects, made by Nikos Bottis, Petros Nasiakos and Eirini Karagianni, attempts to comment on the new autheticity that emerges, those related not to the trits we have inherited but with the ones we choose four ourselves and future generations.
The Fingerprint set of objects, relates to the Mycenean gold ring and specifically to its sealing use, which is aimed at pressing the sigil in other objects. In this way, the ring is linked to the identity of the wearer.
07. CONCEPTUAL ARCHETYPES AND ARCHITECTURE: THE ACROPOLIS
MUSEUM
EXAMPLE
In the ‘90s, famous designer Philippe Starck attempted to design a motorcycle for Aprilia with the purpose of redefining the archetype of movement on two wheels. However, in spite of his undoubted talent and personal experience as a motorcyclist, the motorcycle he designed failed to capture the wanted result and to win over the common opinion, thus creating a reasonable question, in defining the cause of this failure.
This dissertation, which aims to study this question, embodies the argument of when someone attempts to design something, that is already defined in the collective consciousness, firstly he must manage and format a meaning that itself defined an archetype. He is thus called upon to outline and create through this an object which at the same time defines and is defined, acting as the medium (media) between the idea and its material being. In a way, the design is called, through the produced object, to identify a space, which at the same time functions as a mirror of another, different (heteros) space (topos) .
Starck’s case seems to illuminate a limit. A limit which, when exceeded, the essential reflective experience of the mirror, the very reason for its use, is cancelled and the design fails. The fundamental concept of reference or the conceptual archetype wants to be seen within it, as if the mirror were facing in the wrong direction and the desired image was outside it.
BOOK COVER
The Acropolis Museum is chosen as the research example of the dissertation and at the same time as the framework for projecting these thoughts, as on the one hand it transfers the object of planning to the level of architectural creation, on the other hand it tends towards, a second limit: As it must define a Heterotopia, the ultimate space, the cradle of western civilization, designing the Acropolis Museum, in reality defines the archetype of architectural creation itself.