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
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
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