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FLOW. Steedman Competition 2010 (Honorable Mention).
FLOW is a proposal for the urban / landscape development of the Mississippi River along the city of St. Louis. It is an entry for the 2010 Steedman competition where it was awarded with a honorable mention.
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Subtle Master Planning
Master planning is not attempting to impose any centrally decided, strict direction. It is supporting already existing [...]
Protocol Infrastructure
Protocol Infrastructure attempts to approach the design of infrastructure in an alternative, bottom-up fashion, that is not based on master planning but instead on the development of a protocol that would allow infrastructure to ’self-organize’, adapting at the same time to the conditions that it encounters. The characteristics of such an approach are illustrated through [...]
Aggregate! D.Areopagiti Competition (Special Mention)
Aggregate! is an entry for the D. Areopagiti competition that was asking for a design to negotiate the back facades of the buildings between Tsumi’s New Acropolis Museum and the Acropolis itself. The competition was a result of a larger discussion in relation to the new museum and its relation to the existing urban tissue [...]
Para*site. St Louis Follies Competition (Second Prize)
Parasitism is one version of symbiosis, a phenomenon in which two organisms which are phylogenetically unrelated co-exist over a prolonged period of time, and where the one of the two profits of the symbiosis while the other does not. In the city, many spaces are created using existing buildings as their structural systems. Spaces made [...]
Algorithmic Body
Algorithmic body is an experimentation on growing processes in an architectural context. It aims on one hand to develop an abstract architectural algorithmic process where the initial generative principle is internal to the process itself, without having to rely on aspects of the program or the site. On the other hand tries to test that [...]
MAP: 5th SUS Competition (Honorable Mention)
The concept for this project was to explore the versatility of aluminum as both an aesthetic material and a structural material. Aluminum – in addition to being a beautiful finish material – is a strong, yet lightweight material. The challenge then, was to develop a design as versatile as the material itself – in design, [...]
Foam Brick
“Foam Brick” is a proposal for a modular brick unit made out of foam that can be used in order to create soft partitions and walls. The bricks are held together with the help of cylindrical connectors that are also made out of foam.
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Design: Dimitris Gourdoukis
Date: 2008
KU School of Architecture (WA 2nd cycle Awards)
A design/research project, for a new school of architecture for the KU. The research begun as an exploration of the properties of lattice structures with rigid joins and the ways that they can be applied to architecture. Starting point was Frei Otto’s research on the same subject and it was evolved into a study of [...]
What if NY City Competition. (Honorable Mention)
An entry for the “What if New York City…” competition, which was awarded an honorable mention. The idea is a development of the “inflateit” project. Here the focus is on the implementation of the project while inflateit was more about the development of a protocol.
Rhombi-tri-hexagonal tiling is a formal expression of a geometrical pattern where [...]
Temporary Outdoor Gallery
The design for a temporary gallery space with dimensions 10’X20’X10’. Ten transversal wooden ribs define the structure while the space between them gets filled with 1’X1’ translucent PVC panels. The panels carry holes, the size of which is defines by an attractor field (panels closer to the attractor have larger holes than the ones that [...]
InflateIt
InflateIt is an idea for the development of a protocol for the production of modular housing units.
The process begins with the generation of random elevation patterns. Those patterns are getting tested in a light simulator software (ecotect) for different locations, seasons and times so an initial database of solutions is created. Each time that units [...]