Τhe field of action is Gerani, Attica. The guide to the preparation of this thesis are the conclusions collectively drew during our research paper entitled "the sense of density, A CALENDAR OF RECORDING EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATIONS IN THE CENTER OF ATHENS".

We focused on four elements - performances which appeared and performed in the city:

1.The panopticon view from the hills

2. "the fall" of the body in city tissue, "fall of Icarus"

3. the thickenings and the dilutions,.as well as

4. the hidden hyper thickenings.

Originally we study four hills of Athens: Lycabettus Hill, Strefi, Tourkovounia, Acropolis (associatively Santorini). We tried to analyze the "uploads and the immersions, habitation, movements, hill excavation and the placement of buildings in order to isolate typologies, uses and functions, escalations and flushes of the phenomenon.

We tried to apply the conclusions of this analysis to the typical building of athens, polykatoikia, considering it as one more hill. Subsequently, we focusing now on the block between the streets Anaxagoras - Menander - Sophocles - Geraniou. We performed a lifting attempt on the buildings in order to "tease" the regulation on maximum permissible height of the the Building Code. In order to do that, we used digital applications and empirical "patchwork". We have reached a new height regulation applicable throughout the Gerani area.

Next stage of "cut and sew" was applyed on the new model of city and by extension on buildings.  We were based on the findings of the first analysis on the hills and, therefore, their application on 5 buildings of the block adjacent to each other through the uncovered inner area of the block. New additions floors, deduction of the volume from lower floors, internal and external application of new movements (stairs and elevators), opening the uncovered inner area of the block, stepping the back facades. All the above referring, one by one, in a different hill in Athens tissue. A utopian realism directly applicable in Athens presents new opportunities for new sites with new standards of data, qualities but mainly new experiences for the residents of the city.

Supervisor: Gavrilou Evelyn

Reference Number: 596

An inter-parish building complex called

Eltheto (meaning e.g. Your kingdom «come», from the Lord’s Prayer, Matthew 6.9) will be designed at the foot of Mount Pendeli in a plot opposite the station Doukisis Plakentias, housing spatial needs of three neighboring parishes of the Halandri community.

The Church has the mission to witness and to teach, to serve and to share not only by using the existing worship buildings.

The inter-parish center features other than worship spaces, reception areas, offices for counseling and dialogue, workshops, a media library, a restaurant and and short-stay units for people in crises.

Typology

The overall structure of the complex aims to become a city within the city, based on the typologies used  by an ancient Greek house or a typical  Greek Orthodox monastery, where the courtyard is a dominant and unifying element.

Design principles

The whole complex is guided by the principles of:

-functionality

-unity and connectivity

-spatial orientation 

-transparency

-spacial continuity in the urban realm

-accessibility for the disabled

-simplicity

-sustainability

-safety

The worship spaces are planned to create:

-a sense of transcendence

-focused attention

and facilitate individual and communal participation, while using moderate symbolism and order inspired by the liturgy

For the lecture / exhibition hall, attention is paid to acoustics and moderate natural lighting.

Ambience and flexibility characterizes the proposed design of offices / workshop and reception areas, the media library and the classrooms while coziness is chosen for the restaurant.

Privacy and connectivity define the short-stay units adjacent to the fitness center.

Materiality-Energy use

White exposed reinforced concrete is generally used.

Lightweight concrete is used for the dome of the church and the chapel.

Perforated acoustic absorption panels will improve the acoustics.

A Raumklimadecke will care for heating and cooling.

Flat roofs allover the complex allow the installation of photovoltaic panels to produce electricity.

Supervisor: Kanarelis Theoklis

Reference Number: 578

The starting point of the diploma project was the discussion about what kind of social relations is promoted by the design of housing in the existing, urban, dense centers of the Greek cities and, therefore, whether a designed block, covering the needs of modern living, spatial aesthetic quality, collectivity, the need for communication to be promoted from the architectural space and it will be consistent with the quick pace of everyday life, the idea of ​​energy independence and the ability to be functional supple and flexible, so it can be adapted to the changes of the population will be hosting. The first part concerns the study of fifteen floor plans apartment random without named their creator, the source of their finding, or any other characteristic that could affect this first, clean look, which detects the individual or the recurring common respects, the study of which will arise questions about a new spatial arrangement and relative functions. All these plans constitute a two-dimensional ideograph machine based on specific questions.

Special attention is given to areas posing as intermediaries, those in which the flow is arranged, achieved the smoothness of passage or interpretative undefined spatial .When we will make the above analysis, we will add elements and notes and we will make invasive experiments on the design, creating new spaces, comparing floor plans together, rearranging parts and join them, creating in this way a collage of floor plans, which it would be  able to trigger a new design and a new theoretical spatial vocabulary, which we will use then. The second part, relates to the purely synthetic part, the creation (consideration- design) of a block, based on data from the survey, the characteristics of the area (Aivaliotika, on the outskirts of Volos) and a specific architectural program. An attempt to set up a response compared to what else can be the habitation at the city limits, but taking into account its center.

Supervisor: Stylidis Iordanis

Reference Number: 574

IT’S ALL ABOUT WATER

Boxes at the waterfront with input – output. Our aim was the creation of a focal point, which can be penetrated without obstacles (walls), or delimited views. We open the waterfront making it available to everybody by removing the black boxes, trees and fences in order to create a better sight to the sea and the focal point. This point comes of the endings of the city and its axis, creating one more rock island to the aquatic landscape. City has defined our focal point. Our ways (roads’ axis) they have been resulted into the sea are the first one at 6m height to allow the circulation of boats and swimmers and the second one at 1.5m which is only for the swimmers. The focal point is supported from a central column which includes the elevator and goes up to 14m. The rest of the axis are insubstantial lines, limited by lights. Outdoors there are spas, observatories, concert halls, open theater, diving boards, swimming pool, café and resting spaces for the swimmers.

Supervisors: Gavrilou Evelyn, Paniyiris Costis

Reference Number: 587

In the district of Kamena Vourla, known for its hot springs and their beneficial qualities, our proposal attempts to set up the scenery of a relaxing experience. Taking into consideration the current human needs, the existing stock or public treasury and the location’s identity, we try to revise the issue of tourism in Greece.

The architecture formed is related to the naked body, the shade and light. The body is allowed to wander in a delimited and clearly defined labyrinth, where it is free to walk, stand, sit, get wet, swim etc. The space results from the interpretation of a program, called "the wellness program", which dictates the state of the body inside the site and is associated with various human needs depending on athletic or therapeutic exercise. The order of the wellness program is specific and absolute and is the key element which produces the vertical and horizontal spacial elements, positive and negative spaces, perspectives and finally the sensation of each area.

The type of space created is an inner experience, a more tactile space. Across the landscape of the composition, the surrounding area is respectively a homogeneous area, where no prominent objects protrude but continuous boundaries- natural or artificial, create spaces. The enclosed spaces form a continuous "carpet". The coherence and organization shows the physical experience of space and water hinged on narrative paths. The plan is an ongoing plot of walls that define spaces. Some of them are roofed or closed, others are open-aired. The slabs and respectively the walls "effuse" in the area, creating larger units and emphasizing the tactile narrative characteristics of the composition. No building exists, only combined architectural elements that form spaces.

The complex consists of three spatial qualities - covered space, indoor and outdoor spaces and five architectural elements; wall, column, glass, slab and water. These elements spread out and create these spatial situations based on the wellness program.

For a clearer understanding of the sense of each space, we have produced a series of images that correspond to snapshots of the wellness path through the buildings, starting from the main entrance, continuing to the spa and concluding at the apartments. The images do not aim to display photorealistic, three-dimensional representation of the buildings but to capture the emotional state or mood of the visitor at each point. For this reason, the third dimension is somehow "naive" or partially real. The space is mostly flat. Materials (stone, kourasanit, glass, and water), light, perspectives and human body compose an emotional path.

Supervisor: Paniyiris Costis

Reference Number: 591

The current research is conducted on the basis of the redefinition of the man-animal relationship, as it is specified by contemporary animal husbandry. The problematic and the need for data quest were born, through studying not only experientially but also historically this relationship and the conditions of the coexistence of both subjects, in order to map the reality in the passing of time. The relevant conducted research, includes the statistical analysis of the production, consumption and the historical evolution of animal husbandry. Parallel to that, it focuses on the needs of men and animals and the prerequisite of their coexistence in space level. The conclusion of this research led to a renegotiation of the position of architectural work within the production associations, concluding into an idea of space narrative concerning animal husbandry with the topic of the intensification of slowness. The quest of a natural and artificial coexistence led to the selection of an old quarry, which is embraced by a natural pasture, as the operation point. The creation of an interactive park is formed by a geometrication of the physique, serving the needs of the artificial. The design process is accomplished on the print of water trace on the ground, creating a course of slopes absorption, in order to integrate into the landscape.

Supervisor: Gavrilou Evelyn

Reference Number: 583

This thesis deals with the construction of a tourist facility at an inactive quarry in Tourla, which is located at the municipality Avlidas in Salamis. The quarry is visible from Piraeus, which is a major urban center of Greece. Due to its geographic location, it is also visible from passenger ships on their route to the port of Piraeus. That was one of the main reasons for choosing this particular location, since the islands at the gulf of Argosaronikos are becoming a primary tourism destination directly next to Athens. The proximity of the residence to Athens makes him an exceptional holiday destination since it allows spontaneous short trips, lower holiday costs, as well as quick and direct transition from the routine of everyday life into an idyllic reality-pause, in a pleasant relaxed environment.

Visually the hotel could be compared, because of its shape and position, with a screen. Our initial idea was to put a plate, which is covering the quarry and follows the inclination of the slope. As a result the hotel looks like a screen, which is fallen on the multiple levels of the quarry. This plate is raised by the steps, creating an intermediate space in which the public functions of the hotel are located.
The hotel consists of 18 floors, which start from the third step of the quarry and every three floors encounter the next quarry step. These floors include double and quadruple rooms, suites and public areas. The location of the public areas is apparent on the facade, since the removal of the mass and its relocation to the back create 4 spaces - semi-open areas for outside activities, whereas the inside part of the steps hosts the areas for the indoor activities.

Last but not least the building's circulation system consists of three uniform pillars, which extend throughout the quarry from top to the bottom. They consist of a staircase and an inclined lift and strongly remind of the railroad wagons used inside a quarry. These three elements tear the levels of the quarry and constitute the skeleton of the building which supports the whole construction.
 

Supervisors: Gavrilou Evelyn, Paniyiris Costis

Reference Number: 581

The project constists of a series of survey upon a building block based in down-town Athens and numbered as 66018. At first place, a survey of “archeolgy” is made. Visits to the Urban Planning State archives and personal documentation of the block consist a full collection of elements related to the block’s construction but also to the laws that shaped juridical and property situations there. Secondly, this material is being transcripted to new forms (images, texts, graphic designs) and ordered anew, forming a new process of documentation which expects to form new architectural intentions. According to this, a new architectural program is constructed, related to the block’s basements and its public arcade network. The basic steps of formatting the block anew are: issues of property, the load bearing and non-load bearing elements of the block construction, partial demolitions. The three booklets that are produced of this project contain:

1. An “archeological” documentation of the block,

2. The transcription of the previous material to new design tools,

3. The new architectural program for the block.

The new architectural program imposed there is a series of manipulations for the constitution of an underground public arcade network (by using and expanding the old and existing one) and a living society of office workers of the Themistoklian Ancient Wall that lays down there.

Supervisor: Antonas Aristide

Reference Number: 595