During Fall Semester 2016-17, Coastal Domains Attica studio participants explore the diachronic transformations of Attica‘s coastal landscape through selected case studies from Eleusis to Sounion and Lavrion to Marathon. Human appropriations and patterns of development along the coast differ depending on geological characteristics, technology and infrastructures, socio economic pressures and cultural values at the time of appropriation. The studio projects identify and record layered phenomena and stringent pressures caused by intense urbanisation and sprawl, conflicting land-uses, deindustrialisation and tourism development, land based and sea pollution, mainland and maritime transport infrastructure, overexploitation of natural resources and agricultural lands and speculate on developmental, socio-economic and environmental challenges through architectural strategies.
Participants work collaboratively on the compilation of the Attica Atlas, a cartographic, drawing and media archive of the conditions and transformations of coastal contexts and in turn on the delineation of the respective Panoramas ; the programmatic speculations and design projects.
A cooperation with the at the TU Vienna and the studio of Professors F. Orso, P. Rajakovics and A. Zöhrer was initiated during the Coastal Attica field trip and workshop on October 24-27, 2016 followed by a studio trip and joint workshop in Vienna between November 14-18, 2016.
Coastal Domains
University of Patras
Department of Architecture
4th year Architectural Design Option Studio Fall 2016-17
Studio Instructor
Demetra Katsota AADipl MArch(Harvard) RIBA
Associate Professor of Architectural Design
Research Coordinator
Constantinos Petrakos DiplArch, MSc
Teaching Assistant
Anna Biza
Diploma student, University of Patras, Department of Architecture
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.
Maria Alexiou
Born in Athens, GR. Maria is a fourth year Architecture student at the university of Patras and will be a Masters Graduate by 2018. She is currently interested in biodiverse materials and their use in underdeveloped countries.
Christina Athanasiou
Lives in Loutraki, GR. Christina is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras. She attends the international architectural programme, Villard 18 and she is volunteer for Art In Progress Festival: ‘Art non Art”. She had also participated in an architectural exhibition at Agora Argyri in Patras. Her interests in architecture focus on landscape and reconstruction. Speaks Greek, English and French.
Martha Bryone
Born in Patras, GR. Martha is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras. She attended AA Summer school in 2016 and Porto Academy’s Summer school in 2017. Will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2019. Speaks Greek, English and French.
Constantinos Carvouniaris
Raised in Chalkida, GR. Constantinos is a fourth year architecture student at the University of Patras and international student of Rotterdam’s University of applied sciences. He is interested in urban design and its interaction with the local communities and the social groups. Speaks Greek, English and German.
Melina-Maria Daskalopoulou
Born in Patras ,GR. Melina is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras. Volunteer for Art In Progress Festival. Attended seminars concerning theory of art and participated in exhibition. Melina's interests lie on issues of history and theory of art and architecture. Speaks Greek, English and French.
Georgia Drakou
Nikoletta Georgopoulou
Born in Athens, GR. Nikoletta is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras. She is participant at international architectural programme "Villard 18" and she is volunteer for Art In Progress Festival: ‘Art non Art”. Participant in a photographic exhibition, an architectural workshop "Citylab" and an architectural exhibition at Agora Argyri, in Patras. Interested in issues about landscape and urbanism. Speaks Greek and English.
Diogo Jorge
Born in Coimbra, PT. Diogo is a fifth year Architecture Student at the Universidade de Coimbra, Departamento de Arquitetura and curretly taking a semester at the University of Patras with Erasmus Program. He finished his Bachelor of Arts Edificatoria and started the Master Studies of Architecture in 2016, expecting to conclude with a thesis in 2018. His interests are architectural free hand drawings and visual representation.
Michalis Karamichalis
Born in Athens, GR. Michalis is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and he is currently writing his research thesis. Michalis is interested in contemporary urbanism and tourism in Architecture. He had also participated in the third architectural international congress on “Ambiances Tomorrows” in Volos, GR at 2016. Speaks Greek, English and German.
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. Spent six months on her third year studying at Politenico di Milano, IT due to Erasmus program. Interested in issues of history, architecture and art.
Michaela Koutsoudaki
Born in Athens, GR. Michaela is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras. Her interests lie on both urban and interior design projects. She is also keen on making architectural models for any projects assigned.
Iro Leventi
Born in Athens,GR. Iro is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will be a Masters Graduate by 2018.Her main interest in architecture lies on the dialogue between nature and urbanism.
Georgia Machaira
Raised in Kranidi, Argolida, GR. Georgia is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras. Interested in the history of Architecture and transformation/ renovation of existing abandoned buildings.
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.
Orestes Papaioannou
Born and raised in Athens, GR. Orestis is an undergraduate Architecture student at the University of Patras. He will participate in Erasmus+ program in Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. He is currently interested in urban design. Speaks Greek and English.
Alice Papamichalopoulou
Born in Athens, GR. Alice is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2018. Alice’s interests lie on issues of contemporary urbanism and landscape ecology.
Petros Pitsiladis
Raised in Mytilene, GR. Undergraduate Architecture student at the University of Patras. He participated in the Fifth International Conference and Exhibition “On Architecture’’ in Belgrade, 2017, organized by STRAND Association. His interests lie in architectural theory and degrowth. Speaks Greek, English, Italian and German.
Aikaterina Ritsoni
Born in Chalkida, GR. Katerina is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras.Volunteer in Art In Progress Festival. She attends Villard 18 and she is interested in landscape architecture. Participant in photographic and architectural exhibitions. Speaks Greek and English.
Elina Sakketou
Born in Patras, GR . Elina is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras. She attended Porto Academy’s Summer school in 2017. She is interested in sustainability in architecture. Speaks Greek, English and Italian.
Johann Schulz-Greve
Born in Göttingen, GER. Johann is a sixth year Architecture student at the Technische Universität Berlin and currently absolving a semester in Patras with the Erasmus program. He finished his Bachelor studies at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar with a focus on projects about existing buildings in 2014. After returning to Berlin he gathered practical experience at Heidenreich und Springer Architekten followed by Richter Musikowski GmbH. In 2016 he started the Master studies of Architecture at the TU Berlin, expecting to finish with a thesis in late 2018.
Polymnia Scorda
Born in Athens, GR. Polymnia is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2019. She is interested in dynamic processes and diagrammatic representations that are related to architecture.
Malamatenia Siaveli
Born in Patras, GR and raised in Eghio, Achaia. Melina is a fourth year Architecture student at University of Patras. She attended The Kenya Child Care Clinic 2017 competition and took part in “Space and Architecture of Compassion” exhibition in Athens 2017.Also she volunteer in the construction of Earth Pavillion in Arta 2017. Interested in parametric design and landscape architecture.
Carine Smagulova
Born in Patras, GR. Carine is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will complete her Diploma in Architecture in 2018. Carine’s interests lie on issues of contemporary urbanism and landscape ecology.
Theodore Tselepides
Born in Athens, GR. Undergraduate Architecture student at the University of Patras and international student of Milan’s Polytechnic School. Interested in Architectural Theory and Social aspects of Architectural Design. Speaks Greek, English, Italian and German.
Georgios Tsoukalas Born in Athens, GR. Undergraduate student of Architecture at the University of Patras. Interested in contemporary urbanism and public architecture.
Maria Tziora
Born in Athens, GR. Maria is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras and will be a Master Graduate by 2019. Her interests in architecture focus on both contemporary urbanism and scenarios for futuristic urban development. She is also interested in scenography and it’s relationship with architectural design. Speaks Greek, English and German.
Anastassia Tzobanaki
Born in Chania, GR. Anastasia is a 4th year Architecture student at the University of Patras. She attends the international seminar on urban and architectural design, “Villard 19”. She attended the Extraterritorial workshop and has participated in two international architectural competitions. She is also writing her research thesis on Architecture and Wine: Wine tourism in the contemporary society and will complete her diploma in Architecture in 2019. Her interests in architecture focus on urban scale and the re-definition of tourism landscapes.
Danai-Natalia Xanthi
Born in Athens, GR and raised in Poros island, Attica. Danai is a fourth year Architecture student at the University of Patras. She attended The Kenya Child Care Clinic 2017 competition and took part in “Space and Architecture of Compassion” exhibition in Athens 2017.She is interested in landscape architecture and sustainability.
Athina Xenouli
Born in Athens, GR and raised in Marmari, Evia. Undergraduate Architecture student at the University of Patras. Athina enjoys questioning the given and approaches architecture as a means of creating new realities.
