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tutor: Institute de Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya_Iaac faculty
students: Institute de Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya_Iaac students
coordination: Institute de Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya_Iaac
The aim of the workshop was to construct an installation for the Biennale di Venezia. The installation was the physical representation and interpretation of Hyperhabitat, a research project developed at the Iaac Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.
Hyperhabitat studies the structure and logics of urbanity as a living organism and the connections and networks that are formed in this artificial environment. Every urban space is formed by nodes and networks; the nodes are the centers of attraction and the networks are the connections between them. Hyperhabitat studies the formation of urban environments and analyses them in terms of scale, analyses nodes and networks searching for common principles, connections, relationships that are similar to different scales of physical space. The aim is to extract principles and logics of creating urban environments in terms of sustainability and adaptation to variable social, economical and environmental issues.
The first stage of the workshop was the design of the physical space of the installation in Venice. Experimenting with different principles of design, testing the attributes of the material, designing the furniture, testing the internet 0 nodes were some of the things that the first stage of the workshop was involved in. The second stage was the construction of the installation at the Biennale di Venezia; assembling the furniture, programming the internet 0 nodes, testing the projections and so on until the whole installation was put together and ready to be visited in the opening day of the Biennale.
tutor: Andres Jaque
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi
The concept of the diploma thesis is based on the issue of sustainability and how it is interpreted in daily life. Living in a sustainable way can’t exclude the basic element of people’s everyday life: the residence. Only by contemplating the microscale a concrete argument around the issue of sustainability can be made. The research started out by studying representative examples of contemporary and prefabricated dwellings around the world in terms of environmental impact, materials of construction, infrastructure, mobility, adaptability to environmental conditions, spatial organization, technology, context, spatial dimensions, etc. The aim of the research was to extract common elements and basic differences in both contemporary and prefabricated dwellings and to classify them.
Contemporary residencies are related to the way of life; nomads use portable dwellings, in third world countries people construct houses with materials that are inexpensive and are available in the area and so on. Some contemporary dwellings are related to a geographical context, they are adapted to environmental conditions, and some other are related to an intellectual context, they seem that they could be anywhere in the world.
Most of the prefabricated dwellings implement the latest technologies in an attempt to create the “zero energy” house; the residence that produces the amount of energy that it consumes. Some of them are built based on the minimum spatial dimensions needed to perform all the activities of a house unit. Others are built out of a prototype that can be customized depending on the needs of the customer.
The basic idea of the final project is to create a double skin; an exterior and an interior “cell”. The exterior “cell” provides all the needs of the interior “cell” (the house unit). The space in between becomes something like a threshold between the inside and the outside, the public and the private, the natural and the artificial environment. The exterior “cell” is equipped with photovoltaic panels, providing electricity for the house unit, and evacuated tube collectors, supplying hot water to the interior “cell”. Hot water is also used for underfloor heating and with the implementation of an absorption chiller hot water can also be used for cooling the house unit. The exterior “cell” provides also shading and ventilation since it can open up according to the environmental conditions and to the needs of the inhabitants. Grey-water treatment is another technology that was inserted to the infrastructure of the unit by implementing a wastewater recycling system.
The prefabricated house unit is constructed in parts that can be easily transported and mantled and dismantled on site. Flexibility of the design and adaption to environmental conditions is one of the qualities of the house unit. The inclination of the photovoltaic panels is a flexible element of the design in order to adapt to environmental conditions according to geographical location but also to the needs of the inhabitants.
tutor: Izaskun Chinchilla
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi
The theme of the developmental studio of the 3rd term of the master’s course focused in the issue of sustainability. The aim was to study daily activities and by embodying small changes in the daily life of the people how we can change reality. The final assignment was to produce a video that would embody our field research, the concept of the project and the design proposition.
After the research trip at Romania and the study of its capital Bucharest, each one of the students observed closely the daily life of the people of Romania and their physical environment. The thing that surprised me more was the fact that Bucharest had a very basic not to say insufficient waste infrastructure. So my concept for the studio project focused in the field of waste infrastructure.
Each household produces daily an amount of waste, paper, glass, plastic and metal, as well as wood, electrical devices, clothing and ceramics in a longer period of time. What if instead of dumping this waste all households could exchange their waste, recycle them and produce new products that could be used in daily bases. This small change in the way that the waste is treated can change the social and economical way of life of the people.
The module needed for the specific infrastructure network is composed by 8 units, a paper recycling unit, a glass recycling unit, a plastic recycling unit, a metal recycling unit, a wood recycling unit, an electrical device recycling unit, a clothing recycling unit and a ceramic recycling unit. The distance between the first 4 units is not more than 800-1000 meters and the time to go from one unit to the other is not exceeding 8-10 minutes on foot. The distance between the last 4 units is longer because wood, electrical devices, clothing and ceramic waste is not produced in daily bases in contradiction to paper, glass, plastic and metal waste. So the distance of the 4 last units is 2500-3000 meters and the time needed to go from one unit to the other is around 8-10 minutes by car. 5 elements, the household area, the waste storage area, the recycling area, the manufacturing area and the product storage area compose each unit. By multiplying the module one can have a different layer of interpreting the city of Bucharest in terms of waste infrastructure network.
Every unit is a kind of small “industry” having an input and an output. As input one can consider piles of garbage brought to the unit by garbage trucks and individual items brought by the people of the neighborhood. The output is recycled products that can be used in daily bases and customized products that can be ordered by every person around the world through the internet. Depending on the amount of waste gathered each day, recycled, manufactured, produced and sold each unit has a different function and nature each day.
Below you can find the youtube link of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Idnk0MaXsk
tutors: Carlos de la Barrera, Luis Fraguada
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Bagia Pantou
The aim of the scripting seminar was the students to get familiar with the logic of scripting and the potentials that it can offer in the design process of a project. The final assignment of the seminar was to create a roof for the installations of the Iaac institute. Our initial thought about the final assignment of the scripting seminar was to create a surface that would relate to the exterior environmental conditions. Orientation and sun radiation were taken into consideration from the very beginning of the design process. Relating the project also to the interior space other factors had to be considered such as the existing elements of the space; the fab lab installations, the complot space, the kitchen area, the lecture hall, etc. Starting designing the roof surface our aim was to create a skin that would act both as structural element and as shading device. Our first attempts involved the designing of a surface created randomly in order to start experimenting with script variations. By developing further the script our decisions started changing and more parameters started affecting the outcome of our project. Our intentions began to shift to another direction when we decided to create two individual skins; one acting as structural element and the other as shading device. This parameter would offer more design variations. Another factor that affected the design was the decision of creating a surface that would be generated from the floor of the space and growing towards the outer frame of the building. In that way the interior space would open to the exterior and vice versa; the exterior environmental conditions would be present in the interior of the building. These parameters were inserted into the scripting process.
By analyzing further the potentials of the script and the use of the space new parameters started being involved in the design process. Considering the function of the main space of the institute, which actually serves as an exhibition room and an event hall, lighting orientation should be taken into account. Exhibition halls need stable amount of light orientated towards the north. That parameter affected our scripting intentions in the sense that orientation should be included into our design. The entire roof surface would have dense points gathered on the south-orientated area in order to minimize sun radiation and less dense points on the north-orientated area so as stable natural light enters in the interior space of the building. An additional parameter for the next step would be the implementation of metrical units; height, width and length of the space, calculation of volumes and surfaces. Translating these parameters into scripting certain alterations occurred. The initial surface this time is designed according to metric parameters meaning the height, the length and the width of the space. The script divides the designed surface and curves are formed. On these curves, according to orientation, circles are formed with different radiuses. The pipes are formed through the lofting of these circles. After creating the structure of the skin of the roof a random division of the same initial surface occurs. On the curves generated through this division, circles of different diameter are formed according to orientation. The circles are lofted again in order to create pipes. These pipes are acting as the shading device of the skin of the roof.
In the link below you can find the script and the rhino file of the project
http://www.box.net/shared/sn7ranfcco
tutors: Rodrigo Rubio, Daniel Ibaniez
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Bagia Pantou, Maria Papaloizou, Andrea Katsavra
The Romania In & Out seminar was a research course that followed a 6 day trip to Romania. The seminar aimed at interpreting the observations of our field research in Romania. The theme assigned to our group was demographics in relation with the social and economical status of the population of Romania. The research had to be developed in all 4 scales, XL, L, M and S.
For the XL scale our research was mainly based on the comparison of Romania with 3 other European countries (Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom) and on the major migration flows of the country and all the impacts of this tendency. The comparison was focused on demographic characteristics concerning: social: population and population structure (male, female, age), birth and death rates, education levels and occupational sectors, unemployment and poverty levels, crime rates, as well as economical characteristics: average salary and main costs of living in each country, such as price of bread, milk, metro tickets, petrol, housing properties, and the GDP per capita.
Concerning the migration sector, Romania shows great migration flows over the years, especially after the fall of Communism (1989). These flows are mainly related to all the differences observed in the social characteristics of the country’s population, concerning both the evolution of time and the comparison between the social statuses of the people. The emigration generally shows larger flows (mainly for the search of a better economic related life), while the immigration shows only specific moments of increase (mostly due to asylum and employment).
In relation to the other scales – L, M, S – we focused on analyzing migration flows: emigration (outflows), immigration (inflows) and rural to urban migration, and the reasons that cause these flows and the impacts that they have on the country’s social characteristics. In the diagrams and charts developed for these scales research had been made concerning the poverty level of the country compared to emigration flows, the occupation sectors of each region of Romania, the migration flows of the years between 1991-2007 related to social and economical events that occurred in the specific period of time, the social and economical reasons that affected the emigrations and immigration tendencies over the years and the statistics that are related to the standard of living.
tutor: Willy Muller, Max Sanjulian, Michel Rojkind, Bostian Vuga
assistant: Berardo Metalluci
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi
The subject of the research studio of the 2nd term of the master’s program was the design of a building of 10.000 people that each student would decide its use and location. The project had to be based on the issue of sustainability in all of its forms: social, economical and energetic.
The location of the project is Makkah, one of the bigger cities of Saudi Arabia and the most important religious place of Islam. Muslims revere the city for containing the holiest site of Islam, the Masjid Al-Haram (The Sacred Mosque) of Makkah. A pilgrimage to Makkah during the week of the Hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
The primary industry in Makkah in modern times is to support the annual pilgrimage of the Hajj, as well as to support the pilgrims who visit the city at all other times of the year. More than 2 million pilgrims annually head to Makkah for once in a lifetime ceremony. Saudi Arabia’s government has been criticized on the lack of services, accommodation and infrastructure provision. In our days many projects are under construction in Makkah since Saudi Arabia government planners in 2001 have approved the multi-billion dollar construction to more than double the number of pilgrims who can be accommodated around the immediate area of the Grand Mosque. Makkah is one of the few locations around the earth where a 10.000 people building has a purpose of being constructed.
A building designed to accommodate 10.000 people needs almost all the facilities of an urban environment. The basic element of the building is the residential section since it is designed to accommodate pilgrims that visit Makkah throughout the year. There are 3 bedroom categories: for one or two people (20 sq.m. unit), for three or four people (40 sq.m. unit) and for four or five people (60 sq.m. unit). Facilities provided for 10.000 people should include commercial spaces, service areas, open spaces and basically all the facilities that are part of the Islamic religion; meaning baths and swimming pools as well as areas that are dedicated only to prayer.
The spatial organization of the building is based on a circular pattern. The core of the building is the circulation. Around it commercial areas, service areas, open spaces and leisure activities are organized in the form of a circle. Religious areas and the residential cores are placed on the periphery of this volume in order to have more privacy.
The building is comprised by components. Each of the component “groups” the uses and facilities of the building forming zones of spaces with specific metric attributes. The components are embodying both the infrastructure of the building and the organization of the uses. The building consists of 124 floors and its overall height is 372 m. The uses are distributed in the whole volume instead of being gathered in specific areas. Every floor has a different percentage of each main use according to the sq.m. that it occupies each time.
Electric energy as well as the heating and cooling of the building are provided through geothermal energy. Electricity is produced through the "hot dry rock" geothermal process; first, high-pressure water in pumped to underground rocks and breaks them up, then water is pumped from the surface down through the broken hot rocks. When the water heats up, it is brought back to the surface through a second well and used to drive turbines for electricity. The grey water of the building after being treated in order to be pure and not pollute the underground environment could provide the water needed for the specific geothermal energy process.
For the heating and cooling of the building a geothermal heat pump system is used. The system operates based on the stability of underground temperatures; the ground a few feet below surface has a very stable temperature throughout the year, depending upon location's annual climate. A geothermal heat pump uses that available heat in the winter and puts heat back into the ground in the summer. A geothermal heat pump is a heat pump that uses the Earth as either a heat source, when operating in heating mode, or a heat sink, when operating in cooling mode.
The infrastructure of the whole building is organized in parts. There are four main components that embody both the structure and the infrastructure of the building organized vertically and horizontally. Vertically infrastructures are separated forming autonomous fields of “flow” transfer while horizontally infrastructures are mixed forming levels of “flow” networks. These four components follow a specific pattern of organization into space in order to ensure a constant infrastructure “flow” working in the form of a natural cycle. Component A is in the center of the cycle, six B components are attached to component A in such way that they can share only one vertical infrastructure “flow” while these six B components share two other vertical infrastructure “flows” in the form of a cycle. Components C and D are organized on the periphery of that cycle sharing only one vertical infrastructure “flow” depending on their position into space. Components C and D can also operate as individual separated units in terms of water infrastructure since they have two more vertical infrastructure “flows” that allow them to recycle grey water into their own unit; grey water is recycled on the bottom of the components and is pumped up on the top and distributed again through an additional vertical infrastructure water “flow”. In the horizontal axis all components share the same level of “flow” networks operating together.
The design of the building depends on the components. By piling up the component of the circulation the “movement” core of the building is generated. The commercial and service area components, six in number, are organized circularly around the circulation core following a rotation of 60o degrees from the centre of the volume. The residential area and the religious area components are attached in one side to the commercial and service area components staying in the periphery of the main core of the building. The structure piles up until it reaches 372 meters in height to serve the accommodational needs of the pilgrims.
tutor: Michel Rojkind
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi
coordination: Institute de Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya_Iaac
The subject of the second workshop of the 2nd term of the master course was the design of a skyscraper for 10.000 inhabitants. The requirements were to choose a geographical location for the building, analyze the area of the site, propose a specific use for the building by taking into consideration the community that would live in it, propose the most suitable renewable source energy according to the location, the activities of the community and the use proposed and also create a structure that would hold the building together.
The geographical location chosen was Makkah, a city in Saudi Arabia. Makkah is one of the most important religious destinations in the world. Every Muslim is obligated to visit Makkah at least one time in his lifetime so every year the city is submerged by an enormous amount of pilgrims.
The use proposed for the building is actually a shelter for all these pilgrims. The energy that all these inhabitants will consume while living in the building it will be produced by themselves. Every Muslim prays 5 times a day. If one considers the fact that 10.000 people move 5 times a day to a specific space in order to pray there is a huge amount of energy produced. By using sensors of movement this energy can be captured and transformed into electricity. Also the sound of prayer is another source of energy that can be used for providing electricity. Scientists are experimenting on various formulas in order to transform sound into usable energy source. In time there will be a technology that will be able to capture and transform sound into energy that could be used to provide electricity.
The structure and spatial organization of the building is based on the movement of the pilgrims that gather 5 times a day to a specific area in order to pray. The core of the building is the religious area. The organization of all other uses, accommodation, food courts, open spaces, commercial areas, leisure activities, circulation and infrastructure, is based on the religious area. All inhabitants have easy access to the religious area since this is the main flow of movement of the building.
tutor: Max Sanjulian
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi
coordination: Institute de Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya_Iaac
During the 2nd term of the master course we attended two workshops that were related to the research studio and the project we were assigned to develop for it. The aim of the first workshop was to realize the scale of a building constructed to accommodate 10.000 people. The subject of the first workshop was to analyze the different relationships and interactions that occur in a cruise-ship, which is the most self-sufficient context closer to the project of the research studio in terms of scale, and develop diagrams, connections and a program for a building project. The project is based on the analysis of the cruise-ship in terms of uses, human activities, accommodation, infrastructure and the relationships between them. The analysis ended up in an attempt, through proportions, to determine the square meters that each one of these elements would need for a building project of 10.000 inhabitants. The cruise-ship is like a network with nodes and connections. Human activities, accommodation and facilities are the nodes and the infrastructure and relationships between them are the connections. A cruise-ship is organized around a core that contains all human activities and facilities with the accommodation area build up around this core.
A building of 10.000 inhabitants in terms of diagrammatic form doesn’t differ much from a cruise-ship, but the key element for a project of such scale to function properly is the distribution of the core’s activities and facilities. So a first approach to the project was to organize the building around a “decentralized” core of human activities and facilities and on the periphery of this core to place the residencies. In relation to the proportions and area calculations of the cruise-ship the determination of the square meters needed to accommodate 1 person, 2 people, 3 people and 4 people was extracted. By different combinations of these volumes one can have a variety of formations. A floor of a residential core contains 20 people that occupy an accommodational space of 420 square meters and 100 square meters of infrastructure. By increasing in height a residential core can accommodate 1.000 people in 50 floors. Implementing 10 residential cores fulfill the accommodational needs of 10.000 people.
The same approach was followed for all the other human activities, infrastructure and facilities that are implemented in the building’s program always in proportion to the measurements of the cruise-ship. Human activities and facilities are also organized in cores, 4 of them, that are in close relationship between them forming the main centre of the building’s diagram. Some of them are introduced in the residential cores following the principals of the “decentralization” of the core of the volume.
tutor: Florian Foester
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Peerapong Suntinanond
The seminar of experimental structures was studying new techniques of construction and the potentials that they can offer. Flexible structures, innovative materials, variety of design and construction solutions, distribution of acting forces to a network of micro elements are some of the advantages that experimental structures offer. The final assignment of the seminar was the proposition of an innovative structure that would be based on new techniques of construction.
The intention was to use an experimental structure for the project of the research studio II, a skyscraper of 10.000 inhabitants. Since the location of the project was Makkah in Saudi Arabia, a city that is located in an extremely arid and hot environment, the research began by studying organisms that survive in extreme environmental conditions, such as deserts.
Cacti are representative examples of plants that are adapted to extremely arid and hot environments. The structure, development and function of their cells allow them to survive for a long period of time without water. Cactus cortex is divided into an inner water-storing region and an outer photosynthetic layer. Water-storage cells have thin, flexible walls that can contract or shrink readily such that the cell’s volume diminishes as water is transferred out. An unusual feature in the evolution of cacti is the production of a cell called wide-band tracheid (WBT). These are short, broad tracheids whose secondary wall has either an annular or a helical pattern but is never scalariform, reticulate or pitted. The main role of WBTs is water storage. Because the secondary wall is either annular or helical, most of the primary wall is unlignified and unobstructed so water can enter and leave the cell easily, but more importantly, the rings of the annular type and the helix of the helical type do not hold the WBT to a rigid, fixed length. As the cell loses water, the thin, flexible primary wall can simply bend inward between the rings or gyres of the helix and the cell becomes shorter. No matter how much water the WBT gives up to surrounding tissues, its own volume can shrink to match the volume of water left.
The final project of the seminar is based on the anatomy of the specific cell of the plant cactus. The structure of the component is based on a curve that by multiplying forms a closed surface. This surface can be analyzed in horizontal rings and vertical curves. The vertical curves are 6 in number and are developed in such a way that each one of them forms a 60o degree angle from the centre of the initial surface. Because of its symmetrical form every component is self-sustained.
Although it can vary in forms the way the component behaves when acting forces perform on it stays the same; when it is compressed in vertical axis its vertical curves tent to bend rotating in the same angle, when it is compressed in horizontal axis its vertical curves tend to stretch, when acting forces perform on the surface of its rings the structure tends to pull outwards. What differs is the amount of distortion, which depends on the form of the component and the material that it’s constructed of.
By multiplying infinite times the component a self-sustained structure is formed distributing acting forces and attributes to all of its parts, just like the cells of the plant cactus that they are all working together behaving as a single organism. The component can be manipulated, scaled, stretched or compressed offering a variety of formations.
tutor: Vicente Guallart
assistants: Rodrigo Rubio, Daniel Ibanez
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Bagia Pantou, Marcelo de la Riva, Rafael Gutierrez, Hemant Purohit, Arnhildur Palmadottir
The Hyperhabitat seminar was based on the logics and principles of the hyperhabitat representation of the world, a research that was developed by the Iaac institute. Each group of the course was assigned one infrastructure network; ours was the water. The aim of the seminar was the study of 4 cities in terms of water infrastructure and finding a common tool of representing and comparing the water infrastructure network of each city.
The four cities that we chose were Barcelona, Mumbai, Athens and Reykjavik. The study of the cities water infrastructure covered all phases of the water cycle: supply, distribution, consumption and waste. We focused on trying to understand how the water infrastructure works in every city, which are the sources that supply the water, what is the quantity of water supply of each source, how far are the sources of the point of consumption, if the water is filtrated and how, what is the water used for, how it is distributed, how it is consumed, what type of sewer system each city has, where does the waste go, etc.
The research ended up in a graphic representation that managed to compare the water infrastructure network of each city by using a module, which referred to a percentage of 1%. The amount of water supplied, filtrated, distributed, consumed, treated and dumped was expressed through percentages. The color of each module represented its classification (whether it referred to a percentage of supply, of consumption, of waste, etc) and its nature (whether it derived from a lake, a river, an underwater tank, etc, or if it is distributed for domestic, industrial, municipal use, etc). By using the module and developing the diagrams of all 4 cities in terms of proportions we managed to have a common tool of representation and comparison of the water infrastructure network of each city.
tutors: Marta Male Alemany, Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Bagia Pantou
The first studio of the master course involved the study of a tree. The aim of the studio was to measure the tree, to create a 3d model of it and to understand and interpret the way it grows and develops.
The tree assigned to us was cocculus laurifolius, which belongs to the moonseed family, native to the Himalayas. The specific specie is a shrub that can be trained as a tree. Some of its characteristics are the arching growing form, the slow growth and the large dense screen. Its leaves are also very characteristic with their 3 prominent veins, the pointed lanceolate shape and their dark green color.
Our field research leaded to the conclusion that the specific tree was trained to develop that geometry. Studying the trunk it was obvious that many of its branches were cut during its growth in order to gain height and become a tree. During its growth its shape and way of development were constantly changing as human intervention interrupted over and over again its development. The tree forgets constantly its previous development and produces new forms of growth in its new branches. The muscles growing from the trunk reaching to the main branches are a part of the development of the tree since it was constantly trying to counterbalance the weight of the new branches.
The final model derived from the geometry and the shape of the tree, of its way of growth and of the way it behaves to its environment. The parameters that were taken into consideration were the light, the forces of the tree and the human intervention. All of these parameters played an important role to the tree’s development and geometry.
The final model is a kind of shelter, an introverted space that is formed by ribs that intersect and weave forming new ribs. The structure is composed by a single component that has 7 starting points, 8 knots and 4 ending points. The component is multiplied, rotated and scaled until it reaches its final form.
The aim of the class was the students to get accustomed to the digital technologies and the machines of the facilities. All the projects had very specific parameters and in between these parameters the design process was expressed.
project: the pipe
tutors: Marta Male Alemany
assistant: Shane Salisbury
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Maria Papaloizou
The first project, the pipe, involved the creation of a tube of specific dimensions fabricated in the laser-cutting machine. The tube could not exceed in length 36cm and the edges of the physical model had to be a circle of 18cm in diameter. The 3d model was designed in rhino and the laser cut file derived through the rhino and autocad software. The physical model was fabricated from wood, which was cut in the laser-cutting machine.
project: the matrix
tutors: Marta Male Alemany
assistant: Shane Salisbury
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi
The matrix, the second project, was an assignment that involved the fabrication of a rapid prototyping model using the 3d printing machine. The 3d model could not exceed the limits of a cube of 6cm edge. The design should end up in every edge of the cube in a circle of 3cm in diameter, whose center was placed in the section of the diagonals of each side. The 3d model was created in rhino and the physical model was printed in the 3d printing machine using powder as a material.
project: the ripple
tutors: Marta Male Alemany
assistant: Shane Salisbury
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Higinio Llames
The third project, the ripple, involved the 3d milling of a specific surface. The surface was the same for all students, 36 x 70 cm, but the milling process should be different. The 3d model was created in rhino and the simulation of the milling process was created in rhinocam. The trajectories were random lines that engraved the initial surface. The physical model was created by foam and milled in the CNC milling machine.
project: the chip
tutors: Marta Male Alemany
assistant: Shane Salisbury, Victor Vina
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Ramon Velazquez, Renu Gupta, Weiss Michael, Rafael Gutierrez, Krystian Kwiecinski, Asaduzzaman Rassel, Higinio Llames, Ismini Koronidi
The chip, the final assignment, involved the manufacturing of a chip that would react to light and produce sound. Each member of the group had to manufacture a chip from scratch, milling the circuit, soldering the lines, placing the sensors, the led, etc. When all 9 chips where created we programmed each one of them in order to behave as individual circuits but also as a unity.
The professional experience mainly involved the design of industrial, residential and office buildings. Most of the projects were located in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece and in small towns around it. Some of buildings were constructed for private owners and some other for construction companies. Every project was designed based on guidelines provided by the government and the needs of the employer.
habitations_Thessaloniki_Greece (01/2007-03/2007)
employer: KATETH
architects: Eleni Matta, Anastasia Fragkoudi
Residential buildings are the most widespread field of architecture in Greece. They are built for private owners but mostly for construction companies. One of the biggest projects I was involved in was the design of a small settlement of 35 residencies. The settlement was located in Kardia, a small town near the city of Thessaloniki. The employer was a big construction company, KATETH, that bought the land and wanted to construct residencies in order to sell them to private owners. The residencies are developed in 3 levels, basement, ground floor and 1st floor. They are equipped with all installations and infrastructure needed for a residential building. All of them have individual parking spaces and private open spaces. One of the most important parameters that was taken into account during the design process was to create spaces and a living environment that would offer a good standard of living to the inhabitants at a minimum cost.
industrial building_Thessaloniki_Greece (4/2007-7/2007)
employer: K. Xatzigeorgiadis, T. Aitzis
architects: Eleni Matta, Anastasia Fragkoudi
In Greece industrial projects are mainly constructed for private owners that wish to accommodate their business. A representative project is a furniture industry located at Kabalari, a small village on the outskirts of the city of Thessaloniki. The building program required a working space for the staff, offices for the executives and a small exhibition area. Main concern during the design process was the organization of the machines in order for the working area to function properly. The exhibition area is organized together with the offices offering a better service to the clients. The building is constructed by metal framework and metallic panels.
