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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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STATHOPOULOU AFRODITI

Urban intervention network in Plato’s Academy_A city of Athens Museum proposal
2010
Undergraduate
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, ATHENS, GREECE
Professor(s): TSIRAKI SOFIA
The position, the nature and even the extent of the institutionalized museum, which consists of the placement of an extensive ground floor building within the park are redefined. The aim is to create a building that will be seen as landmark for the city while incorporating both the scale of the local neighborhood and the openness of the park -and thus- a museum that remains closely associated to both the contemporary and the symbolically charged historical landscape. The proposal consists of a type of building that serves as a threshold between park and city, growing as a boundary defined line; a structure that finally appears "non-built" but serves mostly as a path, parallel to the axis of the proposed promenade.

Exploiting the hidden urban reserve, the building is developed as a cast-cave-in depth of two floors below ground. There are two main accesses that lead, through a system of ramps, to the single foyer, located on the first level. This foldable system of ramps distributes moves bilaterally across the bottom level of the main exhibition and then gradually ascends, in a circular path that leads to the same initial space of the single first level foyer. Thus, resulting in simple closed loop movements which are necessary for such a building's proper function. Natural lighting is also achieved through this system, featured by a folding land frontier between park and building; similar to these folding geometrical landscape slopes that are used to form the boundary of the park throughout the whole master-plan. The museum becomes a point of observation, both from and toward the city, as it is traversed by points or peaks that serve as landmarks above ground, reminiscent of contemporary urban geometry.

The building carries a mixed structure of both reinforced concrete plates and extensive regional walls, and slender metal pillars -arranged in grid construction- ordered by 9x9 meters apart. The aboveground parts of the building are metal frames covered by u-glass for simultaneous insulation and transparency. Additionally green roofs, which consist of the natural flora of the park, are added toward the improvement of both the buildings' isolation and environmental conditions, while the linear, symbolic, structure of the building remains discreetly visible.

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Afroditi Stathopoulou, was born in Athens, Greece in 1985. She graduated from the National Technical University of Athens with a grade of 8.85/10, earning a master’s degree in Architecture – Engineering in 2010. Her thesis project, entitled: “Ideology, Memory, Planning. Three characters in search of the past cities within the contemporary urban fabric.”, presented in the “Plato’s Academy in the worldwide civilization” conference, completed a pattern of stimuli, analysis, praxis in order to reinterpret Athenian urbanity. Her diploma project, entitled: “Urban intervention network in Plato’s Academy_A city of Athens Museum proposal”, published and distinguished on the “Greek Architects” website, approached design as a link between distinct systems as she continued to explore the interrelation between historic and contemporary contexts within the urban fabric. Upon graduation, she had the honor of presenting his work to the local community. Working as a freelance architect, she has been involved in housing projects and competitions in architecture and urbanism. Her team was awarded 1st honorable mention in the urban design competition “AthensX4”. She currently resides in Boston MA, completing her studies at the MAUD program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
masterplan, physical model
concept
exploded diagram showing the layout of spaces within the proposed new meseum of the city
main level plan
rendered view of the proposed museum of the city
transverse sections
indoor rendering
longitudinal section and elevation
main entrance, physical model
overview, physical model
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