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κατά τη διάρκεια #3
13 hours ago
"I am in the Dark, here"*
*Al Pacino as Colonel Slade, Scent of a Woman.
είναι απίστευτο μερικές φορές πως οι ίδιοι άνθρωποι που διαμαρτύρονται για τον σκοταδισμό, την έλλειψη ειλικρίνειας, για τους λύκους και τις προβιές τους, την απάνθρωπη λογική του καπιταλισμού, τους απολυμένους, τους αδύνατους, τους απροστάτευτους, την έλλειψη παιδείας στη δημόσια ζωή, αδυνατούν να εφαρμόσουν όσα διακυρήτουν και να κάνουν πράξη αυτά που πιστεύουν στην καθημερινή τους ζωή, ον και οφ λάιν. Δυστυχώς οι λέξεις δεν αρκούν, ούτε οι χαρακτηρισμοί των άλλων.
Κρίμα.
Competition: Up to 35
Details of the building:
-18 rooms, 9 to 12 square meters
-Automated parking for 12 cars at first and second basement
- common rooms for public use - a small theater for
exhibitions, performances, screen sharing with laptops,
playstation etc.
- open air common spaces - non compulsory atrium starting at
the 1st floor - common pool, garden and deck on the rooftop.
garden and barbecue at the compulsory open air space at the
back.
- green facade potential
-bicycle storage space for 18 bicycles
-18 rooms, 9 to 12 square meters
-Automated parking for 12 cars at first and second basement
- common rooms for public use - a small theater for
exhibitions, performances, screen sharing with laptops,
playstation etc.
- open air common spaces - non compulsory atrium starting at
the 1st floor - common pool, garden and deck on the rooftop.
garden and barbecue at the compulsory open air space at the
back.
- green facade potential
-bicycle storage space for 18 bicycles
Configuration, Use and Appropriation of Public space is in many situations at the center of the current Architectural discourse. Either in disguise or openly it is probably at the center of any current contemporary discourse, both in physical and virtual worlds.
The area under development in Metaxourgeio is currently in limbo. Uncertainty, fear and doubt about the identity of the city's center dweller have driven many residents of Athens out of the city center to the Shangri-La "paradise" of the suburbs. Although the area of Metaxourgeio lies in the general center of Athens it has the bonafides of small-scale neighborhoods of times past, where sharing of public space was in the natural order of things. Common and everyday life happened outside, in a yard, in front of a coffee shop or a mechanic's shed. As romantic as the above may sound,the transition from a shared, common public space to a public space abandoned as the leftovers of everything built has eroded Common life in the neighborhoods of Athens. The move from the 50's onwards, towards constructing buildings with totally private,closed spaces provided many people with their own apartment, helped the development of the local construction industry but also destroyed the common,public spaces. This structural inefficiency in the development of Athens of course had its consequences: abandoned buildings and economic decay. We believe that Common and public spaces are not without merit, in fact they upgrade, integrate and amplify the use of any closed space associated with them. 
Viral Type: Public space infusion
The general type we propose for the area in question in Metaxourgeio is the same type used for the structuring of the specific building type at Marathonos street. Public space is infused inside the city square blocks where it becomes a broad-path network along with a garden for the rest uncovered areas of the individual plots. The network works as a single organism of public, common space only if all plot owners decide simultaneously to void all boundaries. In the case though were an owner decides to keep the boundaries of his property intact, the individual parts of the path network located in each plot function as yards for each plot. The rest of the unbuilt space is devoted togarden plants and trees. In this manner all the plots can retain Independence remaining fully functional, while upgrading their functionality, becoming integrated when boundaries are removed.
Viral Building Type: Common Space infusion
To accommodate the overall plan of the area, while at the same time having the potential for independent function the design of the building at Marathonos street accommodates a series of common/public spaces, with dual or triple concurrent functions: the entrance hall doubles as stairway, parking space and continues as a passage to the compulsory uncovered area. On the first floor a small theater along with the kitchen in a space without boundaries function as the common room. On the second floor the common room continues the views of the theater along with another kitchen. On the third floor the kitchen and the common room are a continuation of the recess
on the facade. The common rooms are all connected with a non-compulsory open air space at the side of the building that connects it laterally to the adjacent building. Although Greek regulations do not permit it we believe that a lateral connection between buildings, given the owners permission of course will enhance the function and life inside the buildings of the area. These Common or Public spaces enhance social interaction, imply that the residents are not living in student hosing but are actually at their own home. The shared kitchen for example, a space of infrequent chance meetings, is always placed inside the common room with a direct connection to the open air space at the side of the building.
To accommodate the overall plan of the area, while at the same time having the potential for independent function the design of the building at Marathonos street accommodates a series of common/public spaces, with dual or triple concurrent functions: the entrance hall doubles as stairway, parking space and continues as a passage to the compulsory uncovered area. On the first floor a small theater along with the kitchen in a space without boundaries function as the common room. On the second floor the common room continues the views of the theater along with another kitchen. On the third floor the kitchen and the common room are a continuation of the recess
on the facade. The common rooms are all connected with a non-compulsory open air space at the side of the building that connects it laterally to the adjacent building. Although Greek regulations do not permit it we believe that a lateral connection between buildings, given the owners permission of course will enhance the function and life inside the buildings of the area. These Common or Public spaces enhance social interaction, imply that the residents are not living in student hosing but are actually at their own home. The shared kitchen for example, a space of infrequent chance meetings, is always placed inside the common room with a direct connection to the open air space at the side of the building.
Privacy however is not something to be sacrificed in this design because of public space. Each student has an individual room, varying in size from 9 to 12 square meters. The ground floor houses the rooms for persons with disability while the rest of the floors house ordinary rooms equipped with either their own or a shared bathroom. Beds are located in bunk beds in most of the rooms allowing for more usable space in each room during the day. Room configurations are either with a shared semi- common or semi- private space close to the common space of the floor or occupy the maximum area allowed by the dimensions of the plot.
The facades are equipped with large windows, shaded by large orsogrill frames in front of the balconies. The facade protecting the theater at the first and second floor has a large window opening which in the open position functions a shading device, allowing natural air flow during the summer but shading direct sunlight. The orsogrill facade has a green facade potential, if the owner decides to pursue it, where the orsogrill works as a supporting frame for ivy or ficus like plants. In this manner the whole facade or almost the whole facade can cool the whole building during summer while allowing natural sunlight during winter to enter, since most of the climbing plants are deciduous.
The facades are equipped with large windows, shaded by large orsogrill frames in front of the balconies. The facade protecting the theater at the first and second floor has a large window opening which in the open position functions a shading device, allowing natural air flow during the summer but shading direct sunlight. The orsogrill facade has a green facade potential, if the owner decides to pursue it, where the orsogrill works as a supporting frame for ivy or ficus like plants. In this manner the whole facade or almost the whole facade can cool the whole building during summer while allowing natural sunlight during winter to enter, since most of the climbing plants are deciduous.
Team: Dounas Theodore, Iliadi Natalia, Papageorgiou Eva