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.
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
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