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ATTIC ECTOPIA
16 November, 2012The attic landscape reemerges as a congregation of faceless transportation networks striving arrogantly to bypass the city rather than lead to it: exiting from the speedway arteries towards the urban fabric becomes the exemption to a norm of ceaseless and senseless movement.
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FRONTAGE SHOWCASES AND THE POST-URBAN UNCANNY-A RECTROACTIVE MANIFESTO FOR HELLENIC PROFESSIONAL SPACES
01 January, 2010ANTI-IDEOLOGY: A condition desirable or not, commercialism shapes the outskirts of most hellenic urban centers, in an un-assumed, untold, unconscious but uniform manner. This text is the means of exploring a condition that -regardless of the importance of its impact- remains neglected, even excluded from architectural discourse.
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SUBTERRA * SUPRATERRA
22 May, 2009RUNNER-UP PROJECT, EUROPAN 9 ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION.
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FRAGMENTARY IMPUNITIES > VALLADOLID TRAJECTORIES (PART B')
5 November, 2008At first view, the Las Raposas site appears as a non-urban underdeveloped zone with poor influences from the surrounding environment.
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FRAGMENTARY IMPUNITIES > VALLADOLID TRAJECTORIES (PART A')
5 September, 2008At first view, the Las Raposas site appears as a non-urban underdeveloped zone with poor influences from the surrounding environment.
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Stratifying Axialities> Celadina ReCelled (PART B)
11 April, 2008The area of Celadina directly North of the rail tracks currently presents conditions of partial degradation, abandonment and improper land use.
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Stratifying Axialities> Celadina ReCelled (PART A)
14 March, 2008The area of Celadina directly North of the rail tracks currently presents conditions of partial degradation, abandonment and improper land use.
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Gwangju Asian Cultural Center, Korea – International Competition Entry, October
7 December, 2007Photonics Post-Virtuality: the building realizes virtuality in a pragmatic way. Through photonics, a utopian world of illusions comes alive; the bonds between reality and chimera become tighter. The project announces the uncanny world of obsessive communication through artificial intelligence, dissolves the barriers between the fictional and the natural suggesting a new status of existence. International Competition Entry for the Asian Cultural Center, Gwangju, Korea.
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HARBORING CAR-BAN-ITIES [Port Nord Organizational Protocols]
8 October, 2007The Port Nord site is located in central France, at the outskirts of the city of Chalon sur Saone. The intervention area is a typical central-European waterfront no-man's-land, a derelict logistics sector appropriated by industrial activities and transportation circuits; currently largely obsolete, a territory hostile to human habitation amidst a surrounding context of physical beauty...
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De-institutionalizing Education: Notes on Academic Initiatives(i)
7 July, 2007The academic agenda of an institution is demarcated during its early phases of inception and remains an integral component; the “divine” aspect of its mission. Joseph Rykwert, analyzing the founding of cities and urban development at large in his book “the Idea of a Town” sets a relevant approach towards issues of urbanism.
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HORROR VACUI: JOSTLE, HUDDLE AND HELLENIC MODERNITY
21 June, 2005Tales of Narrowness/Density/Depression/Forgiveness as pretext for Cultural Memory.
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