This thesis explores the architectural design of a palliative care unit organized around an open, community-accessible garden. The garden is not treated as a mere outdoor space but as an active element of care and social interaction, capable of connecting the building with the city and integrating everyday life into the therapeutic environment.

 The proposal seeks to redefine the concept of palliative care, moving away from its traditional perception as isolated and marginalized. Instead, care is approached as part of a continuous journey that accompanies individuals through different stages of life, emphasizing the quality of daily life, emotional support, and the preservation of dignity.

 The study is framed within the context of the limited provision of palliative care in Greece, where the lack of organized structures and minimal institutional integration often result in hospital-centered patient management. Through architectural design, the work critiques the tendency of modern healthcare facilities to operate as closed, detached systems, disconnected from the urban fabric and collective experience of the city. Here, care is reinterpreted as a spatial and social condition, capable of coexisting with public space, fostering visibility, interaction, and gentle social engagement, without compromising the need for privacy, calm, and protection for patients and their families.

 Particular attention is given to the relationship between the building and the landscape, the management of transitions between public and private realms, and the creation of spaces that support different everyday activities: staying, caring, waiting, reflection, and gathering. Through layered spatial experiences, the building functions as an intermediary place between the city and the individual, moving away from a strictly institutional character and adopting qualities that evoke habitation and lived experience.

Keywords: Publicspace, Treatment, Quality of life, Urban Green Space, Social Integration

Supervisors: Gavrilou Evelyn, Phokaides Petros

Reference Number: 1201

 In modern times, climate change has contributed to increased interest in mountainous destinations and created new opportunities for their development. This thesis examines the broader context of mountain tourism and the development of skiing in Greece. It studies tourism activities focused on sports and outdoor recreation in mountainous Corinthia, with particular emphasis on the area of Ziria, throughout the year.

 Through the study of mountain, alternative, and sports tourism, as well as an examination of ski resorts in Greece, the thesis explores the potential for increasing both visitor numbers and overnight stays in the area. The research focuses on the Ziria Ski Resort. The area was selected due to its numerous advantages, including the distinctive natural, geomorphological, and cultural characteristics of Ziria, its proximity to Athens, and the researcher’s personal experiences and connection with the site. At the same time, the characteristics of the area, its climate, the existing conditions are analysed visitor numbers, and the site’s visitors are profiled. Field research led to the identification of organizational and safety deficiencies within the site, which the architectural proposal addresses.

 The starting point of the proposal is the absence of an organised accommodation facility providing overnight stays in the immediate area of the ski resort. The proposal introduces a small-scale tourism facility that supports the use of the ski resort and provides accommodation, dining, and opportunities for other activities throughout the year.

Key words: Mountaineering, tourism, skiing, seasonality, winter activities

Supervisor: Paniyiris Costis

Reference Number: 1264

 This document takes the form of a instrumentarium, constituting an environment that gathers “random encounters." Guided by a naturalist-tracer or a naturalist-artist, it examines how timbre, as a concept of the suspended, is applied to spatial and territorial regeneration.

 Timbre constitutes a correlative relationship between its terms; for musicians, it becomes a kind of totem to communicate the objective relationships between sound and color that have been integrated into subjective relationships between human and sound, human and color. A totem serves to interpret dreams, myths, and anything on the threshold of the untransmittable. It is an instrument of tuning, a “tuning-subject". In timbre, as in a totem, the parts, the fragments, and the traces of the recognizable combine to offer the unrecognizable—an image of myth. Thus, I choose a terrain that functions as a totem-timbre, a corresponding hybrid of myth.

 The quarry is a terrain of dual reality, an opening toward Chthonia, suspended in intermediate space and time, between the fertile and the barren. The quarry sites in Tourkovounia are the point where the terrain extends extensively into a smooth and striated space, and intensively into the “vertical and precipitous habitat" (Agamben, 2020). I infiltrate this terrain and design totemically in all three directions: regarding the fathomless depth, the abstract lines and traces, and the fleeting presences of the past in the present. I place a graft—an intruder—into this "body without organs" and leave it exposed to all the forces of nature, in complete entropy, to create a new "refrain," a new existential "tuning axis" of connection and correlation with life itself, existence, or the universe "to say what has not yet been said, to make new traces of orientation emerge within the world" (Mouriki A., introductory text in Cézanne’s Doubt. Eye and Mind, Merleau-Ponty, p. 15).

Λέξειςκλειδιά: totem, axis of resonance, refrain, transplant, entropy

Supervisor: Kouzoupi Aspassia

Reference Number: 1249

The topic of this thesis deals with the design and construction of three dwellings within the existing ruins in the village of Platanos in the prefecture of Thesprotia.

Platanos and the surrounding villages are places that were suddenly depopulated due to emigration. Today, it is completely

deserted, with only three permanent residents remaining. As a result, it has become a village consisting mainly of dilapidated houses. Specifically, behind our house there is a path along which we pass three ruined houses - those of Zouma, Boboni,

and Vangelitsa - the residents before they abandonethem.

Observing the current state of the place I visit several times a year, I arrived at a conce proposal that aims to revitalize the landscape and highlight the area and its traditions.

The aim of the project is to ensure that ruins are no longer merely monuments of abandonment, but are transformed into places of temporary habitation and collective memory, both for visitors and for the owners.

Key words : Ruins, Routes, Hearth, Community, Resettlement

Supervisor: Gavrilou Evelyn

Reference Number: 1227

 This diploma explores the relationship between the body, materiality, and architectural space through the study of folding as a morphogenetic and constructive mechanism. The starting point for this research is the Tunica Dalmatica, a historical garment whose geometry, flexibility, and capacity for transformation offer an interesting model for the transition from the scale of the body to the scale of architecture. Through the process of analyzing, deconstructing, and reconstructing pleated geometries, a design methodology is developed that combines computational design, physical prototyping, and environmental adaptability.

 This work falls within the broader field of adaptive architecture and deployable systems, examining how the principles of origami can contribute to the creation of lightweight, reversible, and environmentally responsive structures. The archaeological site of Dion was selected as the application site a place with a strong historical, cultural, and environmental identity,where the architectural proposal seeks to activate the relationship between landscape, movement, and collective experience.

 This diploma thesis investigates the transition from the scale of the human body to the architectural scale through folding systems and origami-based design methodologies. The research takes the Tunica Dalmatica as its starting point, approaching the garment as a spatial prototype capable of transferring qualities such as flexibility, mobility, folding and adaptability into architectural design.

 The study is grounded in the analysis of adaptive architecture precedents and the investigation of fundamental origami patterns, including Yoshimura, Miura-Ori and Pleat Fold systems. Through computational design tools and simulation workflows, the research develops MoRRY, a recombinant origami framework that combines multiple geometric logics to generate transformable and environmentally responsive structures.

 The proposal is applied to the archaeological site of Dion in Northern Greece, where a network of lightweight deployable pavilions is designed in response to the site’s climatic, historical and spatial characteristics. The fabrication strategy relies on articulated timber components, architectural mesh membranes and 3D-printed connectors, while the design process integrates digital morphogenesis, physical prototyping and environmental performance evaluation.

 The thesis proposes an architectural approach in which geometry, materiality, fabrication and environmental behaviour operate as interconnected systems, redefining the architectural envelope as a dynamic, adaptive and responsive field.

Keywords: Origami Architecture, Deployable Structures, Parametric Morphogenesis, Climate-Adaptive Systems, Archaeological Landscape

Supervisor: Vyzoviti Sophia

Reference Number: 1228

 How can one live in a swimsuit? Through this project, we wanted to answer this question by creating a holiday home on the island of Tinos. In a place that has already been altered, such as the Aegean islands, our residence does not seek to reinforce this type of architecture, but to coexist with it, proposing a new place of presence within the landscape and a central axis for the promotion of experiential simplicity. The design methodology focuses on the area of Kardiani, choosing a sloping, south-west facing plot between Ormos Kardiani and Kalyvia beach. The architectural composition is governed by the principles of functional rationalism and bioclimatic adaptation, transforming climatic and topographical data into clear design gestures. The residence was developed in parallel with the topography of the land, and climatic data also contributed to its design.

 The spatial organization prioritizes the development of outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces, which function as an organic continuation of the interior, ensuring transparency and natural ventilation. Through a minimalist approach that rejects unnecessary information, the geometric volumes and materiality of the construction are highlighted. The use of local aggregates, such as stone, ensures morphological consistency with the environment and the sustainability of the structure, while harmoniously integrating it into the Cycladic landscape. The final result is a functionally self-contained residence that blends in with the natural terrain, offering an authentic living experience in direct contact with the seafront, where you can live simply in your swimsuit.

Tinos, house, swuimsuit,sustainability, landscape

Supervisor: Paniyiris Costis

Reference Number: 1200

 This diploma thesis addresses the historical, urban, and landscape palimpsest of the Ilissos River, a natural element that was decisive for the formation of Athens, but was gradually covered, channelized, and removed from the city’s daily experience. Through the study of areas where traces of its past and present existence are preserved or identified, the project focuses on the open, concrete lined riverbed of the Ilissos in the Kallithea–Moschato area. The proposal entails the radical redesign of one riverbank and the existing waterfront layout, aiming to reconnect residents with the water and highlight the river’s memory. The design is structured through successive levels of descent, which gradually guide the visitor closer to the riverbed, creating a physical and experiential relationship with the Ilissos. Programmatic bridges, small platforms, seating areas, and resting spaces function as intermediate thresholds for approaching the water. A central element of the proposal is the management of the water cycle. Rainwater is harvested from the riverbed and the park, filtered through rain gardens, and stored in underground tanks to be utilized during dry periods or for various other park features, such as fountains. In this way, the microclimate is enhanced, the sense of a waterfront landscape is restored, and the Ilissos reclaims an active role in Athenian public space. The new park retains traces of the previous design, such as playgrounds and core recreational uses, while simultaneously integrating new functions: a wetland, lavender gardens, a municipal bicycle parking station, amphitheatres, sports courts, fountains, shaded areas, a refreshment kiosk, a canteen, public restrooms (WC), and relaxation zones. Thus, the palimpsest is expressed both spatially and conceptually, through the harmonious coexistence of memory, water, and contemporary urban life.

Key words: Linear Park, Stormwater Management, Urban Stratigraphy, Bioclimatic Design, Accessibility

Supervisor: Gavrilou Evelyn

Reference Number: 1236

 Vanishing Point is situated in the periphery of a village of the greek countryside on the brink of complete abandonment, called Tavri, located just a minute away from the Highway E51, which vertically traverses the Regional Unit of Evros. Because of the demise of the local communities, E51 accommodates the movement of residents of the surrounding area seeking employment, entertainment and community beyond the bounds of their localities. E51 is also used by tourists traveling from Bulgaria, Turkey and other countries of the Balkan peninsula, as well as lorries that carry goods in and out of the country. Moreover, there are infrastructure works taking place on the E51, aiming to transform it into a closed highway, by phasing out all of its at-grade junctions and transforming some of them into grade separated interchanges. Vanishing Point focuses on the proposal of a service area next to the now closed highway, creating a common space for local and translocal social activities, while connecting locals with travellers from far-beyond. At the same time, it is designed to reconnect the traveller with the in-between geographies which they unknowingly permeate.

 The second point on which Vanishing Point is focused on is the transformation of the deserted village into an open museum, aspiring to bridge the gap between the urban residents and the countryside, abandoned by many of their descendants. The posthuman landscape of ruins, unguided vegetation and actors from the animal kingdom that define its new essence, offers traces of the past lives of the human inhabitants in Tavri and similar villages of the Greek countryside, revealing connections that extend from the domestic scale to broader translocal networks. Vanishing point includes eight different art installations built next to important landmarks of the empty village, designed to highlight the decaying bodies of the spaces they refer to. Their placement is also intended to act as a “compass”, through helping the visitors navigate between ruins, vegetation and the sky.

 The complete catalogue of design, art and architectural elements in Vanishing Point includes the motorway service area building, the reconfigured entrance and exit streetscapes, the washrooms on the opposite side of the highway, the underground pedestrian crossing and eight site-specific art installations.

Keywords: Countryside, Deserted, Posthuman landscape, Motorway service area, Transcommunality

Supervisor: Mitroulias Giorgos

Reference Number: 1251