This dissertation attempts to propose a scenario of transforming the urban landscape through landscape and archive management that makes it both a field of civilisation cultivation and growth, and also fertile soil that may yield self-sufficiency within the city.
An attempt to create a new type of fytologio, a space that will negotiate a "green" archive, ensuring its storage, processing and exposition, will be made. To that end, storage refers to the in situ conservation of plant-genetic material, as well as storage and free movement of seeds, processing refers to planting and cultivation practices, and finally exposition refers to the exposure of the seeds themselves along with the crops, taking up the majority of the project length.
The activation of city areas which today operate as dead zones, such as camps that by definition host uses that are isolated from other urban uses (housing, employment, education, culture, trade) was the basic criterion for the selection of the property.
The urban fields’ complex is located in one of the most central points of Thessaloniki, the site where the Third Corps and some of the most important public buildings in the city adjacent to it are situated today. The purpose of the intervention is to solve difficulties arising from the existing situation in such a vital point, which could be regarded as the entrance to the city centre. Taking into consideration the need of the Greek cities for non-structured areas dominated by vegetation, the intervention attempts to reach the resolution of movements and also to integrate the region in the urban framework. A building-soil that acts as a pass is created, incorporating features of a square and bearing light uses, creating a somewhat "empty" centre. In the meanwhile, there is an attempt to obtain a reference to the adjacent buildings, by addressing needs that were either not predicted previously or unable to be met due to the existence of the camp site.
