2Σ1 52_NATURE AND SPACE STRUCTURES_Auth 2002

The course focuses on space structures, that are membranes self supported and in tension, suspended and inflatable structures, folded sheds and multifaceted shells and a tension system with bars and wires.

Objective of the course is for the students to get familiar with space structures and structures that have references from nature. For every subject, after a small presentation, students are asked to make a model, using any possible material.
For the final presentation , along with the models made during the semester, students are asked to make a model of their choice that has reference from nature or biology.











Project by: Maria Papaloizou_ Irene Shamma
Tutor: N.Tsinikas

2Σ1 60/61Γ_FROM COMPOSITION TO CONSTRUCTION_Auth 2002 -2003

In this two semester course, students are asked to design a small hotel near a lake.

Starting from the preliminary design, using parametres like morphology, views, orientation, fuction e.t.c., and continuing in the second semester with more detailed design, to specify materials and structural details.







Project by: Maria Papaloizou_Andrea Katsavra
Tutor: E.Castro

2Τ5 01_ARCHITECTURAL IMPRINTINGS_Introduction to Restora- tion_Auth 2003

Content of course: theoretical and practical approach of architectural imprinting, as tool for the design depiction, the documentation and the maintenance and re-establishment of monuments and historical buildings.

Subject of the semester was the architectural imprinting in scale 1:50 of a traditional residence in Petrokerasa Thessaloniki. The exercise included morphological, typological and constructional investigation of the building, the design attribution of constructional elements and materials of structure and the recognition of its particular pathology and likely building phases.



The imprinting is held with classic methods and bodies of measurement and is supported with the photographic documentation of the subject.










Project by: Maria Papaloizou_Andrea Katsavra_Irene Shamma
Tutors: M.Arakadaki_P.Androudis

ERASMUS_Study Subject: Studio C_ Antwerp 2004

The course asked from the students to design an apartment building in Antwerpen at a site near the city’s river. along with the apartments the building had a supermarket space, shops, offices and a 3level parking space.

Project by: Maria Papaloizou
Tutors: Janssen_Lootens

2Σ1 08_DWELLING_Concepts, spaces and examples of Habit- ation_ Auth 2004

Four exercises of designing a residence attempt to observe and clarify the transformations in the ways and in the content of habitation, from the villas of Palladio to the residences of Loos and Le Corbusier, the residences of Konstantinides, Zanetos, Alvaro Siza, and Dimitris and Soyzanna Antonakaki, to the residences of Fatouros and the New York Fives, until the residences of Koolhaas, MVRDV and Scofidio and Diller: residence with privacy/residence without the element of privacy, residence with style/ residence without style, aesthetic/operation/technology,ratio firmitatis/utilitatis/venustatis, the platitudinous /the splendid, the copy/the prototype, the primitive hut…

1st Exercise: My own Residence




2nd Exercise: The residence of other





3rd Exercise: The fussy Residence






4th Exercise: The ideal Residence

“You use Stone, timber and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces… this it is manufacture. The inventiveness is presented on the work. However suddenly you touch upon my heart, you make me good, I feel happy and say: “This is beautiful!”. This is Architecture…”
Le Corbusier, 1923

It is enough to be built so that “it is included” in its environment, to bear the - often inhuman – meteorological conditions, to be utilitarian, perhaps and beautiful, for the residents at least. You may not see in this house, the house of your dreams, in this house however the residents dream.”
“The apotheosis of sheet-metal”
In various regions of Central America the cultivators of tea and tobacco make their houses in the properties using any material one can imagine. Their main structural material are the barrels of oil, that are opened and also change in level of sheets of metal. The way of manufacture in question, is used by the 18th century until today.”

Project by: Maria Papaloizou
Tutors: A.Kalfopoulos_D.Kontaxakis_S.Lada_L.Papadopoulos_S.Papadimitriou

3Σ1 03_ARCHITECTURE OF INTEGRATION AND TRANSFORMATION _Auth 2004

Objective of the course is for the students to get familiar with the architectural and urban design, when there are restrictions like archaeological finds or old buildings nearby the site.
Subject of the semester was a library building in the town centre, over archaeological finds.

First approach:
Search for a ‘suitable’ form...?

Second approach:
Observing the context
Typical situation of the city center
_seamless urban tissue with the horizontal balconies prevailing in the image
_row of shop-windows at ground level point of interest for the passer-by
_abuse of public space



Setting the main objective with a question:
How could we bring as many people in the library to make use of the knowledge inside?
Can a building lure somebody to read a book?



_Decision 1
A slab at level +4.
It will have the character of an open public space accommodating uses like a cafe, the exhibition space and an open space for reading.



_Decision 2
Repeat the same action twice to accommodate the rest of the programm.
The building is devided in 3 parts.
In every part
_the slab is the ‘infrastructure’ with spaces used by the working staff of the library.
_the space above wiht a heigh of 7m is the ‘public space’ used by the visitors

_Decision 3
The first slab is differentiated. Its mission is multiple.
It wants to respect and show off the history underneath.
It wants to function as a ‘magnet’ for the people.
It wants to recall a shop-window and be a landmark.
It wants to be the entrance for a library.
It tilts and made translucent.

_Decision 4
Make the route through the parts of the building a continuous change of experiences.




3 public spaces and 3 infrastructures-3 different worlds with a course that links them and differentiates them. The first level from the pavement, acquires the bigger intensity. It transforms in order to become the continuity of the urban public space, to stress the existence of the archaeological finds, to become a “magnet” - “beckon” of the library.





The character of Apellou street does not encourage the completed view of the buildings, and for this emphasis is given in the inwardness of the building and particular importance in the level of “window”, that is to say in the level of height of person in the pavement.





Project by: Maria Papaloizou_ Hermes Adamantidis
Tutors: A. Kotsiopoulos_R. Sakelaridou_A. Giakoumakatos_C. Conena_M. Papanikolaou

3Σ4 09_CITY AND URBAN DESIGN_Auth 2005

The region of study constitutes the Eastern limit of the city of Thessaloniki and it presents the characteristics that are usually presented in the limits of modern big urban centers, as ambiguity of structure, lack of cohesion and weakness of perception of space in its entirety, elements that contribute in the impression of a crumbled picture. The anti-urbanization of the region becomes immediately perceptible and causes a first comparison with the urban environment of the center of the city. The layout is sprawl and the road network in the bigger part erratic and complex serving mainly individual points of interest. These have as result the absence of evident axes of movement and vistas something that becomes intensely perceptible observing the relation of the region with the marine forehead. The picture of the sea is completely broken away from the region as even in a small distance it becomes perceptible from the visitor with difficulty. Moreover an inversion of scale prevails in the city acquiring much bigger sizes in horizontal level. The intense density of urban landscape disappears and the speed of movements is increased as the cover of big distances requires the use of car.

Dynamics
In a more analytic approach the original dynamics of the region become perceptible as they are presented in the current situation. In spite this fragmentary picture the region has acquired a unified character and identity in the conscience of the people of the city that is accountable exclusively in the concentration of big number of similar super local uses, those of trade and amusement. This new situation offers experiences of recreation in the utmost of the city very different from that of the corresponding urban web, that have become part of the everyday routine of a big percentage of citizens. It becomes obvious that the particular region can receive uses and scales that are impossible to incorporated in the city. It achieves also the satisfaction of multiple needs and wishes of a big crowd of visitors at the same time and space.



Landscape of consumption and speed
The nature of enormous commercial centres set incompatible the appearance of the scale of residence. These superstores are enclosed, facing the open space as something of no importance. Thus this space is used mainly as parking space and rarely it receives planting making it hostile. The use of car is promoted with the suitable infrastructures but also from the general scale that the region acquires from the commercial centres. The experience of walking becomes incurious as the alternation of representations is slow while on the contrary it suits more the movement with car. Thus the speed that the region requires and presents is perfectly different from this in the city.





Objective
Objective is the incorporation of residence and other services (characteristic of the centre of the city) in the region of study maintaining at the same time the particular identity and dynamics, that is to say the intense commercial character and the sense of speed. For this the design proposal is focused in the department that runs through all the length of the street of rapid circulation where the previously mentioned characteristics are presented in the bigger degree, placing at the same time the reflection on the way of expanding the city on a such strong limit.
Considering the given sovereignty of commercial shops in the level of street and that the environment that creates deters the appearance of residences, the planning in two levels is proposed. One (+0) follows the existing scale of the region and receives super local uses leaving a big degree of freedom in its configuration with base the each commercial needs while it corresponds in the big speeds of street. The other (+6) follows a smaller scale much more near to that of the city and it incorporates the residences and other uses that correspond in the scale of neighbourhood. The element that separates the two levels is a platform which accommodates the commercial uses and constitutes the ground for the residences regulating gardens and quasi public spaces. The platform protects the residences from the noise of cars and reverses the limit of motorway in the level of residence with the installation of bridges. The union of the two levels becomes in concrete points and presents a standardised provision. These are programmatically `boxes’ that penetrate the platform and incorporate the linear communications, a big ramp (smooth passage) and parking places in the ground floor and in the level +3 serving simultaneous the commercial shops and the residences. The optical communication between the two levels is ensured with the suitable openings in the surface of platform. The factor of layout near the motorway is bigger as also the allowed heights of buildings. The tall buildings receive moreover uses as offices and enterprises and constitute one still acoustic dam for the residences that are found behind them.

Project by: Maria Papaloizou_ Hermes Adamantidis_Andrea Katsavra_Irene Shamma
Tutor: K.Spyridonides

ARCH 2 O_Diploma Project, Auth 2005-2006

ANALYSIS of the REGION

The Eastern coastal front of Thessaloniki, stands in front of a dense urban grid and gathers various and important activities of the city (Music Hall, athletic facilities, spaces of recreation, the coastal pedestrian zone). The water, sovereign trait of the city, undertakes multiple parallel roles, as a natural element and as a part of the urban total. The region however, presents a downgraded environment broken away from the urban continuity, while its connection with the life and the activities of the city remains problematic, both in its shaped and unshaped departments.



Objective of the project is the rearrangement of the region by pointing out the element of the water as a main characteristic of the area and the integration of the urban element into it - “building” thereby, in water, a continuity of the city.

FIRST approach
Cores of activities are formed in islands created by the continuities of the road axes, aiming at a more powerful urban structure, a new form of urbanism.

SECOND and THIRD approach
Investigating the relation between building and ground
Encountering building and ground, not as different elements but as one, (as an encompassing mass and as background at the same time), a surface is created and afterwards transformed into a “shell”. This new form unfolds along with a flowing space, with result the liquidation of limits between building and ground.





FINAL approach
Finally an “island” (a multifunctional form, a “mixer” of uses) is created. The ground is changed into a surface that is cut, or elevated to lower again, in order to encompass spaces.









Both the form and the circulation are created by the urban structure, and the main axes of the city are changed into “entries” of the “island”. “Shell” and ground are hybridised, distributing thus the circulation on the entire surface of the island. The green “climbs” on the surface with irregular limits, contrary to the linearity that characterizes the form, and transforms the island into a big urban park. Underground (- 5m.) parking spaces are created to service not only the island, but also the wider area, as a solution to the existing problem create the arbitrary parking of vehicles on the coastal pedestrian zone. On the first level, the existing uses are maintained (Music Hall and athletic facilities) but are placed in new spaces, while at the same time a space of recreation (with shops and cafeterias) is created. On the second level, the roofs of the buildings are changed into floor, into a big public space for walking, social aggregations, events.

This Diploma Thesis has been selected (along with other 5) to represent the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at the III Florence International Expo of the Best Diploma Projects_Architecture, Environment & Territory and Design:

www.florence-expo.com
www.florence-expo.com/show/search.asp _ ARCH 2 O


Project by: Maria Papaloizou_Andrea Katsavra
Tutor: N.Kalogirou