STUDENTS PROJECTS
PROJECTS2012
Student: Oureilidou Eleni
Supervisor: Vana Tentokali
Subject of diploma project: landscape design
School of architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Presentation Date: September 2012
The subject of this particular diploma project refers to the design of a linear route in order to enhance the value of river Evros' landscape.
Delta of river Evros, located in the frontier between Greece and Turkey at the crossroad of east and west culture, consists of a physical form in the borderline between land and sea. Purpose of this project is to create a route that begins from Lake Drana and ends to Lake Nymfon, connecting several areas of great interest. The direction of the linear route derives from the connection of various natural habitats and plant communities that are determined from the movement of the underground sweet or salty water.
First the landscape is being approached through geological matters in micro or macro scale. From this research two important metal properties are pointed out: foliation, which refers to the division of the metal's surface to layers and lineage which refers to the elements of a metal's microstructure that have standard orientation. Based on these properties, there were the first attempts on a model- the transformation of a plane surface. Foliation led to the division of the surface to stripes and on the same time, curves were inscribed on the surface in order to create folds.
The three development stages of a river were also considered in order to create a linear composition and particular folds. After all these, began the codification of the curves' system.
As far as the architectural space is concerned, foliation was transferred as a system of parallel bronze buttresses that appear and disappear because of the movement of the water every 6 hours. On the other hand, lineage directed the route by forming dykes, whose branches create dry areas protected, be the water of the flood-or otherwise holes in the water.
