“GAZOHORI: Intervention to inhabitation and public space”

Students: Vogiatzi Maria Eleni, Kostagianni Maria
Supervisors: Fotiou Theano, Mavridou Maria
Advisors: Karadimas Konstadinos, Monevasitou Aleka
Faculty: National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture
Presentation date: 5 November 2009

Our project deals with the dwelling-network planning that refers to semi-permanent residence in Gazohori, in combination with the proposal for improving the urban tissue of the area (circulation, movement of pedestrians, use of land zones, arrangement of parking zones, policy of planting etc.)  In other words, it is a program that works in multiple phases under public or private management (or both according to the relevant low).

Our goal is to enforce the use of residence in Gazi, a constantly developing area, that is threatened due to excessive expansion of recreational and entertainment uses. The small building sites ,which are characteristics of  this region, allow us  to examine the possible models of minimum dwelling that are also more suited to  the city center.

Based on the study of the area (type of working-class housing, different heights of buildings, shape of unbuilt spaces), we examine the possible ways to built in the two most common types of  sites seen on Gazi (the intermediate and the site situated in the corner) and we draw interesting conclusions about architectural  design that refers to dwellings.

Finally, we choose to resolve one of the network's sites, as a materialized example of little scale housing.