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Glowing Cloud
Glowing cloud is a proposal for the competition organized by the Hellenic World Foundation that was a call for solutions regarding the open space between the three existing buildings of the foundation in Athens, Greece.
The main element of the proposal is a sheltering structure that is made out of translucent boxes, which are providing shadow [...]
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 [...]
P.I.U. – 09
P.I.U. – 09 is an attempt to develop a modular typology of living units that are ‘plugged’ in a central core. Therefore two main elements can be distinguished: The core: A concrete structure that facilitates all circulation (vertical and horizontal), common facilities (washing machines, dryers etc) and in places the bathrooms of some units. The [...]
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 [...]
Eco-Forest. D.Areopagiti Competition (Second Prize)
Eco-Forest 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 design proposes the creation of a green filter between the façades and the museum. That filter, on one hand is covering and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Venice Academia Bridge Competition
The entry for the 2006 Competition, that was asking for a bridge to replace the existing Venice Academia Bridge. The proposed bridge hosts a gallery space and a café, along with the passage that allows people to transfer from one side of the canal to the other. The design is generated by two intersecting surfaces. [...]
Compose: Komvos Competition (Honorable Mention)
Kombos – Compose is a competition entry for the redesign of the entrance of the Faculty of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The faculty of Architecture occupies one wing of the building the hosts the School of Engineering.
The proposal focuses on the property of the entry point as a joint in the building, [...]