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.
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Project by: Maria Papaloizou_Andrea Katsavra
Tutor: N.Kalogirou
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:
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Project by: Maria Papaloizou_Andrea Katsavra
Tutor: N.Kalogirou
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