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Papanastasiou Eleni

The ‘House of Absence’- Its Monograph ‘Un Coup’.
2009
Postgraduate
Columbia University, GSAPP, New York, USA
Professor(s): LOT-EK
Ada Tolla
Giuseppe Lignano
and
Thomas Demonchaux
The ‘Monograph studio’ required the design of our house and its Monograph as complementary manifestations of our very personal and persisting ideas. The ‘Monograph Studio’ forced us to develop a method of discourse, design, and material practice instead of a mere artifact of software. Those strategies required the book format, in which there is a seemingly unavoidable narrative and tangible sequence, embedded in the logic of the physical object.

The ‘House of Absence’- The book ‘Un Coup’.

The idea of this work is that space is not a pragmatic one. The impression of absence could be stronger than presence.
Absence is not about missing things. It is about imprecise identity, program or meaning. Such useless space is a space for incomplete understanding, for bittersweet freedom.
The house is designed as a frozen result of a struggle, a still of silence. An upset volume is closer to nature and painting, since geometry is actual when it has no strict outline. Light and view intrude the house obeying on the rhythm of silent music and disturbing geometry. The silent music of space structures absence and the house.
Cutting and stacking glass panes result in the overall house, forming in parallel rooms, stairs, windows and walls.
An ambiguous material can be more revealing. A glass pane and a polar bear hair are both transparent in full length/surface and almost opaque in section. The transparent sides of the stacked glass panes reveal the two dimensionality of the intentionally designed upset contour of interior space. The almost opaque sides reveal the three dimensionality of a captured volume while tracing the struggle of design.
The translucent skin’s thickness filters light and eliminates shadows. Timelessness prevails in the interior.
The mediums used to design both house and monograph are writing, photography, modeling and drawing.


CV
Eleni Papanastasiou studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Dipl. Architect Eng. 2006). Eleni, under the 2008 Fulbright Scholarship and Gerondelis Scholarship, earned a post professional masters degree in Advanced Architectural Design from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University (Msc AAD, 2010), were she received the Lucille Smysel Lowenfish memorial Prize for best final semester studio work. She has been trained in Photography in the International Centre of Photography, NY (Situational Portraiture, 2010) and in painting in Cooper Union, NY (Watercolor and Abstraction, 2010). She was a member of Kokkinou-Kourkoulas and Associates (2006-2011). Since 2010, she is an Athens based independent architect preoccupied with architectural commissions (6 to date) and architectural competitions (housing and urban design). She has been invited critic at GSAPP Columbia University and at the Department of Architecture at the Pratt Institute of New York (2010). For the period 2010-2012 she was an architectural studio Visiting Teaching Assistant for the Architectural Design Masters at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessali. Apart from Independent Architect, Eleni is currently a PhD candidate at the National Technical University of Athens (2010 to date).
'Un coup' sample 1
Building interior space
Building house and facades
sections- facades
'Un coup' sample 2
The house with an open part
Ground plans
The house
House view from interior space
The house
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