Public buildings
2021
Taking advantage of the natural land inclination, the building structure is developed on two levels, accommodating per level the distinct uses of the nursery school and the daycare center for the elderly.
2019
The proposal’s goal is to highlight the Florina School of Fine Arts role as an important higher education public building. The design balances the interior with the outdoor space and the indoor operating areas of the building open to patios, courtyards and semi-outdoor areas.
2015
The Fortress of Cresmina is a significant landmark on a prominent landscape, a place of cultural heritage and historical significance. The proposal explores the boundary between building and open-air public space, offering a transitional surface functioning as an enclosed landscape, framed by the castle walls and leaning towards the sea. The roof of the Art Center is treated as an artificial ground, an evolving surface creating ruptures of light and smooth inclinations towards the view, allowing the building’s performance as a cultural facility, as well as a public space
2012
St. Catherine School, based in Likovrissi, Greece, invited in 2012 several teams of architects to participate in a competition for its new premises in a location nearby the existing building. The school building complex consists of three parts, the classes, the theatre and the Learning Resources Centre. The proposed arrangement allows for the interdependence of the various functions while the central courtyards allow for the maximum interaction between the users of the various parts of the school complex.
2011
Busan Opera House drives a direct link between Korea’s past and Korea’s future image. In order to do so, the proposed scheme describes the idea of the Korean garden within the building’s shell and the new Opera House within the Korean garden. The boundaries of the artificial, manmade construction lower to the water, in a manner that visitors can have an immediate experience of nature.
Shortlist - 2010
The purpose of the new Maribor Art Gallery is to create an urban hub, an attractive recreational space. The proposed scheme deals with the manipulation of the void. A public space is created between volumes that grow from the ground and expand through their ‘foliage’ upward. Α sheltered common ground is then developed, which connects the different parts of the building between them and with the external space.
2008
This ideas competition organized in the framework of the 23rd UIA Congress Turin 2008 was illustrating the theme: ‘Transmitting Architecture’. The design deals with a pavillion which upon closer interaction reveals its ambiguity through the merging of sinuous curves, structural performance and programmatic functions into a single continuous form and a shell structure which varies from opaque to transparent, producing a three-dimensional moiré.
Honorable Mention - 2007
Bezalel Academy was established in 1906 as the “Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts”, it is one of Israel’s leading academies in its field. The City of Jerusalem has been developed throughout history with emphasis on viewpoints, and view corridors, and the prominence of the cathedral warrants the creation of such a view corridor to the East. The proposed scheme deals with the concept of the boundary between the building and the public space. The campus functions as an open amphitheatre. It is a gesture towards the city, a pair of palms, which is lowered towards the center of the public plaza, reinforcing the view towards the cathedral.