The Fall 2016-17 studio research was triggered between October 13-15, 2016, with the three day flow workshop, in collaboration with the Design Academy Eindhoven and the City Circles initiative. Launched by Irene Fortuyn and KETTER&Co, City Circles is a design-driven research tool and methodology aiming to disclose and unveil ways of recording and responding to urban contexts. During the flow workshop, the New City of Athens’ Gallery constituted the centre of a notional circle with an inner diameter of one kilometer. Eight teams, formed by local (= UP students) and non-local (= DAE students) explorers, developed their own definitions of flow which in combination with each team’s shared interest guided the team’s in-situ research inquiry and documentation, public performance but also the research projects’ development within a larger territory and context of investigation.
Inland to Coast
University of Patras
Department of Architecture
4th & 5th year Research Studio Fall 2016-17
Studio Instructor
Demetra Katsota AADipl MArch(Harvard) RIBA
Associate Professor of Architectural Design
Flow Workshop Instructors
Irene Fortuyn, Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE)
Demetra Katsota (UP)
Jan Melis, Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE)
Denys Zacharopoulos, Art Historian & Theorist
Contact
katsota@upatras.gr
Research Team
Elina Akiozoglou
Born in Athens, GR. Undergraduate Architecture student at the University of Patras. Participated in an Erasmus program in Milan,Politecnico di Milano, IT. Interested in graphic design and architectural representation.
Effie Arapakou
Born in Patras, GR. Undergraduate architecture student at the University of Patras. Her interests lie on contemporary urban issues and landscape approaches.
Marina Avouri
Born in Athens, GR. Marina is a fifth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2017. Marina is currently writing her research thesis about transitional places between the public and the private space.
Anna Biza
Born in Athens, GR. Anna is a fifth year student at the Architecture Department of the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2017. Participant in collaborative architectural studios and workshops. Volunteer for Open House Athens 2016. Attended ΕΣΩ, Interior Design Conference 2016 in Athens. Speaks Greek, German, English.
Georgina Giassia
Born in Athens, GR. Senior Student in the Department of Architecture in the University of Patras. After she has worked and participated in numerous projects in the 314 Architecture Studio for a whole year, she is expected to complete her Diploma in Architecture, in the 2017. Georgina's interests lie on issues of sustainable urbanism, kinetic systems and robotic fabrication.
Thomas Gkikas
Born in Athens, GR. Thomas is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete his diploma in Architecture in 2018. Thomas’s interests lie on issues of landscape urbanism.
Iro Karountzou
Raised in Athens, Iro is a fourth year architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her diploma in architecture in 2018. Iro’s interests lie on issues of history of architecture and art.
Xenofon Kekkos
Born in Limassol, CY. Xenofon is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete his diploma in Architecture in 2018. Xenofon is interested in the utopian perspective of architecture
Varvara Kourti
Born in Athens, GR. Varvara is a fifth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2017. Varvara is currently writing her research thesis about the coastal evolution of the Athens Riviera, based on a case study of Constantinos A.Doxiadis.
Stevi Meletsi
Born in Athens, GR. Stevi is an undergraduate architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2018. She is interested in new residential modules with her focus lying in spacial reuse. Stevi also finds great interest in the interaction between light and building facades and how it can be depicted through the use of lens.
Eleni Nikolaou
Born in Patras, GR. Eleni is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2018. Interested in architecture’s dialogue with the human element and how it can reform existing realities, she likes to experiment with both larger and smaller scale projects exploring how differently they affect people in a daily base.
Mariantina Papadea
Born in Athens, GR. Mariantina is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2018. Her interests lie on how architecture influences societies and futuristic urban development. Mariantina is also interested in photography and its relationship with architectural design.
Constantina Anna Sofianidi
Born in Patras, GR. Konstantina is a fifth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2017. Konstantina is interested in exploring and speculating upon contemporary urban phenomena. Her Thesis Prep and Diploma project will focus on Athens’ waterscapes and water supply strategies.
Georgios TsoukalasBorn in Athens, GR. Undergraduate student of Architecture at the University of Patras. Interested in contemporary urbanism and public architecture.