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MEGARON - THE ATHENS CONCERT HALLLAFARGEA PARTNERSHIP TO PROMOTE THE GREEK ARCHITECTURAL VISION
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20.5 - 9.6 2013
AT MEGARON ATHENS

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STAVRIDOU-KOUVARA MARIANNA, KARAISKOU ARTEMIS

"BLACK BOX" | Disaster prevention and education center at Tourkovounia, Athens.
2012
Undergraduate
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE NTUA, ATHENS, GREECE
Professor(s): KOURKOULAS ANDREAS
VOZANI ARIADNI
The power of nature has always been a mystery for mankind. Natural phenomena like earthquakes, tsunami and hurricanes affect the globe on a daily basis, sometimes with disastrous consequences.
The topic of the current diploma project is the design of a disaster prevention and education center in Athens, located at Tourkovounia. The central location, the altitude, the rock’s endurance to earthquakes and the unique morphology of Tourkovounia leaded to the selection of the particular area.
The center is situated on the highest spot of the hill and offers a panoramic view of the city. Basic point of the proposal was the architectural dialogue formed between the natural plateau and the gorge that existed in that particular area, both an outcome of the mining activity that lasted up to 1978.
The idea of the building is a dipole, both functional and morphological, between offices and exhibition area. The offices are underground, protected and more private, like a “bunker”. The exhibition area is a linear way tailoring over the gorge, which sews together the two opposite hills, (bridges link exhibition rooms that are carved inside the rock). This gesture intensifies the feeling of the gorge and highlights the whole intensity of the area’s morphology.
Offices, a media lab, a files room, the lobby, four exhibition rooms and a coffee-bar form the building program.
The corten bridges are the only visible part of the building from the outside that indicate its existence, as most spaces are underground. This preserves the mystery and roughness of the land intact. The main goal of this project was the architectural handling of natural elements such as light and shadow, flotation and gravity so as for the whole space to achieve and transmit the feeling of uncertainty during natural disaster and the power of nature over man.


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Marianna Stavridou-Kouvara was born in Athens in 1988. She graduated from «Ecole Jeanne d’ Arc» and studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, from which she graduated in 2012. During her studies there, she performed her diploma project which was about the design of an underground disaster prevention centre situated on an urban mountain landscape. Dialogue between senses and architectural space and light and materiality experimentation are a few characteristics of her architectural work. She enjoys facing new challenges and experimenting on different techniques. She is currently working in an architecture studio in Athens.

Artemis Karaiskou graduated from the National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture in 2012 (Distinction). During her undergraduate degree she carried out an extensive study in collaboration with Marianna Stavridou about temporary housing after natural disasters and started exploring the role of urban design in the global scale discourses which set the background for her current research interests. She is currently a Master's student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, working on the emerging global need for energy and the affection that it has in local fragile ecologies, such as Tozeur in Tunisia where her main project is being held.
the bridges
masterplan
plan| section
concept analysis
exhibition interior
offices interior
crisis senario
model 1
model 2| topography
plexiglass model and bridges detail
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