Teaching Direction of Architectural Space and Communication: Integration of a New Function in an Existing Shell
5th semester
4233
Compalsory
8
Fall
Dept 1: “Architectural Design”
Dept 2: “Urban and Regional Planning”
Dept 3: “Architectural Language, Communication and Design”
Integration of a new public building (cultural, educational, social, etc. character) into an existing environment with spatial qualities and important architectural values. Documenting and maintaining these values in an analytical-interpretive way. Emphasis on issues of perception and appropriation of the space, synthesis of repetitive elements and organic relationship between indoor and outdoor space, integration into the neighborhood environment and the urban fabric. The theoretical and design issue of "integration" and the "environmental" dimension is treated not as a special case of architectural design, but as a universal condition and a more general theoretical framework for making sense of architectural creation. The method of theoretical and design approach, depending on the emphasis on the individual parameters, is distinguished in three directions.
Planning consideration and re-interpretation of the urban fabric of the city, with an emphasis on the reuse of the architectural heritage of the Modern Movement. Through the thematic focus on twentieth-century neo-Hellenic architecture, the course seeks to reveal the values embodied in important works of Modernism and explore the conditions and possibilities of their transformation, evolution and transformation, with the aim of serving the needs of the modern era.
The School of Koula Pratsika (today: State School of Orchestral Art), one of the most interesting works of the architect Georgios Kontoleon, built in Athens, Kolonaki, at 55 Omirou Street, in the 1930s, is chosen as the field of study. the adjacent six-storey apartment building, at 57 Omirou Street, built in 1958, also belongs to the scope of study. For educational reasons, it will be considered that only its load-bearing body is preserved, and ways of transforming and connecting it with the shell of the Pratsika School will be sought.
Assistant Professor