The multitude is an irreducible multiplicity. Hyperplasia (a term borrowed from pathology) is an infrastructure designed to be used by the singularities that compose the multitude. Open to their practices, their material and programmatic interventions. It is a diverse composition of places, ready to accept the singularities’ heterogeneity and the correlations that will be created.

The commons are the collective natural and cultural resources the multitude manipulates with participatory practices. The infrastructure is an urban common. This common ground  can include potential public and private functions, exceeding the existing bipolar between them without negating it.

Potentiality is the not yet actualised, potentially realisable, an element beyond normality. It is the “other”, the unpredictable, the unexpected outcome from the system. The infrastructure is intended to include potential urban conditions that will be formed through the desires, the needs and the unforeseeable  behaviours of the multitude. Those potentialities cannot be predicted and therefore designed as they are the outcome of the paradoxical mechanisms of the multitude’s ingenuity.

The proposed infrastructure is placed in Panepistimiou Square in Volos. It consists of horizontal and vertical elements that form a three dimensional grid. Striped of specifications and functional/symbolic notions it is a tissue of empty spaces, ready for the narrations, the shifts, the conflicts and the cohabitations to come. Designed to accommodate potential programmatic conditions, conceived and implied by the intellect of the multitude, and the network relations that it will create. Perhaps it is an experimental social workshop that allows within itself, the reproduction of all those elements that  form the multitude.

Supervisor: Kotionis Zissis

Reference Number: 571

Supervisor: Manolidis Kostas

Reference Number: 613

 The area was chosen due to its proximity to the campus of the faculty of Engineering. The plot is located on “Athinon” Avenue at the border between the districts of “Neapoli” and “Palaia”.

 The purpose of this study is to further upgrade and develop these two districts of the city of Volos, by creating a complex that serves both the students of the local University as well as the residents of these two districts. The city of Volos accommodates every year a large number of students and the existing dormitory has the ability to house only 40 of them. The idea is to create a space that would offer both housing for the students as well as serve other uses accessible to all residents of the nearby area.

 The main goal was the dormitories to have an orientation towards the river of “Krafsidona” so that the rooms have the best possible view and to be oriented towards the "quiet" side of the plot. The wings of the rooms join together following the lines of the plot, and in conjunction with the auxiliary buildings "embrace" the plot by creating two internal free spaces (green and concentration areas).

In the first auxiliary building on the face towards the “Athenon” Avenue, commercial uses are mainly placed (shops, offices, etc.) to attract and to the facilitate public access, as well as some facilities intended to serve students such as laundry, bookstore and restaurant . The second building, on the corner of “Heiden” and “Alamanas” street, student areas such as  cafeteria, playroom are placed as well as a terrace-concentration area whose roof is united with the roof of the main building, unifying them architecturally.  

 Each dorm room is 6,5m x 3,5m and will include:

• A small W.C. with a sink, a basin and a shower
• A kitchen with a sink and a small kitchenette as well as a table with two chairs
• A bed
• A closet
• A small study area with a desk and a chair.

Supervisor: Manolidis Kostas

Reference Number: 599