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A PARTNERSHIP TO PROMOTE THE GREEK ARCHITECTURAL VISION
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20.5 - 9.6 2013
AT MEGARON ATHENS
THEIR FIRST
BUILDINGS
BITROU MARIA
NECROPOLIS
2009
Undergraduate
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE OF PATRAS, PATRAS, GREECE
Professor(s): SPANOMARIDIS ATHANASIOS
The plot was chosen against the A’ cemetery of Patras. The plan results from resting the geometry of existing cemetery on the plan. A geometry onto the old geometry, thus creating movements identifiable in topography. The outer wall delimits the interior space of the building, allowing the existing topography of the mountain to enter the building, creating a space that works like a garden of memories.
In the garden someone is faced with the intersection of the mountain.
The facade consists of squares by referring to the geometry of the faces that urban blocks have. The outer wall with a thickness of 5 m and a height of 16 m, torn in two, creating a corridor which is 2 m inside and hosts the mass graves.
A wall which has no contractual dimensions as one wall of the city, but starting from there, "inflate" the structure of having to "abandoned" by the souls of the dead. The spatial inversion replacing the material with the program.
A staircase leads to a platform, which acts like a terrace above a building. Another wall is hosting containers with ash and a public space. The slot in the roof space has a direction from West to East, helping to understand the cycle of day and night, and existing the cycle of life and death.
If the graveyards have as their operation the visit of threads, this necropolis wants to integrate in the design something that perhaps we have forgotten...whereas the Tomb originally has to do with memory, and then place a "pilgrimage" but firstly is a place for reflection and memories.
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Bitrou Mara was born in Athens in 1984. Studied at the school of architecture of the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras from where she graduated with honors in 2009. Attending the graduate program “Architecture-design of space” in the architecture school of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in the direction of Design, Space and Culture, as a fellow of the state scholarships foundation [IKY]. Participated in 2012 in 1₌st BIENNALE of ARCHITECTURE of Salonica “Architecture and City in southeastern Europe”, at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2012 has participated in the exhibition “Ground-works” under the auspices of the Association of Architects of Achaia, at the Conference P-Public under the auspices of the Association of Αrchitects of Chania Crete, as well as has take part at photo exhibitions and Visual installations. In 2006 has received the first distinction for the design of bioclimatic housing model in the First International Workshop “Energy Performance and Environmental Quality of Buildings”. From 2008 until 2009 has worked at the architectural office of Kostas Tsiambaos. During 2011-2012 was instructor in the Institute of Professional Training DELTA in the field Art& Design. Has as subject the correlation of the architectural act with the world of philosophical ideas through a poetic redefinition of the limits of “architectural etymology” and “architectural writing”.
