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MEGARON - THE ATHENS CONCERT HALLLAFARGEA PARTNERSHIP TO PROMOTE THE GREEK ARCHITECTURAL VISION
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Charla Foteini Maria

Restart: housing the houseless
2012
Undergraduate
Faculty of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Professor(s): Tsinikas Nikos
The proposal aims to the creative restart of people, objects and buildings whose role in the modern society seems to have expired. The chosen building is an abandoned concrete skeleton in the center of Thessaloniki. Reused object are modified to construct the walls of the building to convert it into a shelter for homeless. The basic philosophy of the construction is the reuse of objects, the “Do-It-Yourself” construction, the self-management of the shelter and the permanency.
The area is characterized by intense activity during day and night, a variety of architectural styles and the lack of housing, that makes it easier to integrate an alternative use such as this shelter. The designed homeless commune balances between existing shelters or homeless reception centers and homeless people’s makeshifts, examples of which are found in the building.
The materials used for the exterior walls are: l)plastic water pipes combined with car’s windshields that allow the lighting, 2)pallets in combination with nylon, 3)container with openings of collected glass and windows, 4)newspapers covered with pieces of car’s sheet metal, 5)carton tubes of different sizes, 6)tires with nylon, 7)sides of crates attached on a grid made from vertical rail tracks. The windows of the rooms are made from compressed bottles which are joined together in a translucent grid. The interior walls are made with a wooden frame filled with a grid of posters or magazines or vertically-placed bottles, from a composition of cabinets and from compositions of stacked wood.
The main uses enclosed are: dorm floors, kitchen-dining floor, health care and counseling services, appropriately designed floors for recreation use and the necessary auxiliary facilities. These uses are expressed through the facade by different materials and construction methods, that meet the requirements of each space.


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Foteini – Maria (Fay) Charla was born in Cholargos Attikis in 1988.
She studied Architecture in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated with “Excellent” in 2012. Currently she is a postgraduate student in the interdepartmental course “Processes and advanced materials technology” of Polytechnic School, A.U.Th.
In 2010 she worked for two months as a trainee Architect in a technical office in Volos. In 2011, she participated to the construction of a sustainable dome under the surveillance and guidance of Prof. Gernot Minke. She was a moderator to the 1st Middle East Friendship Camp, presenting her thesis “Historical Residence in Greece: typology, materials, sustainability”. With a group of Architecture students she designed and built a wooden bench in “Fragile café bar”, Thessaloniki. In a group with three Architecture students, she designed and built a small pavilion with reused materials for the Food Festival of Thessaloniki. In 2012 she participated to the design of the proposal for the open Architectural Competition (preliminary design) “Piraeus Cultural Coast”.
She also participated in the following workshops: “Residence:Design, Construct, Think”, “ECOWEEK 2011”, “Green Roofs, Green Walls, Vertical Gardens”. Also attended the “3rd Hellenic Conference of the Environmental Committee A.U.Th.”
She speaks English, French, Italian and Dutch. She worked as a volunteer at the 49th and 50th International Film Festival of Thessaloniki.
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Building and reused materials
Uses, Privacy and Facades
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