PORTFOLIOKaterina Examiliotou

25/04/1986

examiliotou.a@gmail.com+31 (0) 648 428 798Schiedamsesingel 177, 3012 BB Rotterdam

Master of Architecture/Democritos University of Thrace, department of Architectural EngineeringSections included:Architectural Design and Construction/Urbanism an Spatial Planning/Art and Human Sciences/Material Science

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Networks and Interactive Landscapes/intervention in the area Limnio in the city of Xanthi/December 2007/Xanthi/Greece

4th International Sinan Symposium/Water and Architecture/April 2008/Edirne/Turkey The significance of Philosophy in Architectural Education/October 2009/Patra/Greece

E-life2011/2nd Panhellenic Interscientific Congress of the Hellenic Association for the Study of Internet Addiction DisorderThessaloniki/April 2011(presentation)

Heterotopias_ Internet: virtual space / heterotopia / invisible city, Research thesis published on “E-life: 2nd Panhellenic Interscientific Congress of the Hellenic Association for the Study of Internet Addiction Disorder”, 2011

Kosti E.Keventsides_architectural office/Athens/July,August 2010

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Kosti E. Keventsides Architect [Cornell University]

Adjunct professor, architecture and urban

design,Democritus University of Thrace

kostikeven@gmail.com

52 Aristidus str. 15232 Chalandri Athens, Greece

Tel. +306944646229, +302106818000

references

c o n t e n t s

a r c h i v e _the new library?[g radua t i onp ro j ec t / 2010 -2011 ] [ t eam: t .apostolidis/k.examiliotou]

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old quarry_video art workshop facility[2009][ team:t .apostol id is/s.alvanoudis/k.

examiliotou/p.tempriotis/]

by the harbor_entertainment center in thessaloniki[ 2 0 0 8 ] [ t e a m : t . a p o s t o l i d i s / s . g i w t a k i / k .examiliotou/p.tempriotis]

heterotopias_internet as a virtual space, an heterotopia, an invisible city[research thesis/2010][team:t.apostolidis/k.exa-

miliotou][500word summary]

seeking the balance_urban refugee

housing complex in Athens[ 2 0 0 9 ] [ t e a m : t . a p o s t o l i d i s / s . g i w t a k i / k .examiliotou/l.palaiogianni]

a r c h i v e _the new library?k n o w l e d g e / c o m m u n i c a t i o n / e x h i b i t i o n / e n t a i r t e m e n t

p l a y

e x h i b i t e

c o m m u n i c a t e

h i d e

a p p e a r e

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m i s b e h a v e

i n f o r m

l e a r n

d e s t r o y

t r a v e l

d i s c o v e r e

e n t e r t a i n

d i s c u s s

c r e a t e

l i v e

DATA_cubes

site specific_Thessaloniki

concept/users

The archive is a new kind of library which in-corporates the way peo-ple act, learn, live through the internet. Its concept applies the ideas of mul-titasking and overlapping that internet is all about.

The main goal is to cre-ate a space where the real and the digital being are present at the same time, a space where peo-ple communicate, learn, expose/exhibit, enter-tain, an interactive public digital archive where the data can be a document, a book, a piece of art, a song even a person.

This data is being difused to the city through two dif-ferent nets, a real one:the Underground and a digi-tal one:a Wifi net. The lat-ter attempts a potential digital urbanism as it can transform a public square into a reading room.

_the initiated

_the potentially initiated

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ο ν ε ι ρ ε ύ τ η κ α …

και είδα όλη την πόλη από ψηλά, και είδα το λιμάνι, τους γερανούς του να υψώνονται ως τον ουρανό. Και είδα πύργους ακόμα πιο ψηλούς να διασπείρονται στην πόλη και να οργανώνουν το α ρ χ ε ί ο. Κάτι από Βαβέλ είχαν και σκηνοθετώντας το όνειρό μου πάλι τους άλλαξα μορφή, τους έκανα να μοιάζουν με τους γερανούς κι όλη η πόλη έγινε λιμάνι, το λιμάνι από το οποίο ξεκινά κάθε πλοίο, κάθε άνθρωπος το προσωπικό του ταξίδι στις ετεροτοπίες της ζωής του. Και καθένας από αυτούς και μία ιστορία, μία ψηφίδα στο πληρέστερο δίκτυο, ένας τόπος μοναδικός και όλοι να περιφέρονται σαν τις παράλληλες που με στοιχειώνουν. Ποιο το τέρμα όμως…

_επί της Εγνατίας

_επί της Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου

_επί της Διονυσίου Σολωμού

μικρές offline στιγμές

στιγμές που για λίγο είσαι αόρατος σε κάποιους μόνο, επιλεκτικά ορατός σε άλλους, σε κάποιους ημιδιάφανος κοντά στο πλέγμα, κοντά στο δίκτυο, στις παρυφές ίσως αυτού.

στιγμές κάπως επικίνδυνες, ένα άλμα εγκλωβισμένο σε ένα κατακόρυφο προστατευτικό δίχτυ έτοιμο να υποχωρήσει κάτω απ’ το βάρος σου.

και στον ορίζοντα το κενό! Κλίμακες στον αέρα που σαν σε όνειρο πλησιάζουν τα σύννεφα με όρους γης.

In that single gigantic instant I saw millions of acts both delightful and awful; not one of them occupied the same point in space, without overlapping or transparency. What my eyes beheld was simultaneous, but what I shall now write down will be succes-sive, because language is successive. Nonetheless, I’ll try to recollect what I can.

J.L.Borges_The Aleph

old quarry_video art workshop facilitya c c o m m o d a t e / c r e a t e / e x p o s e

The project requests a semi-permanent mutli-space where art workshops will take place for a limited amount of time per year. The requirements for such func-tion include flexible work and exhi-bition spaces as well as minimum accomodation spaces for every individual. The main challenge consists into embracing the rocky intense landscape.

The concept is to create a large scale scaffold, a grid within the quarry. Work spaces and acco-modation spaces have the same basic dimensions with the first ones spreading horizontally and the latter vertically.

The site is divided into two areas, a public one which exposes itself to the city through a big square and a more private one. The lat-ter attempts to turn towards the rock creating spaces for the art-ists’ community and encouraging communication and collaboration.

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by the harborentertainment center in thessaloniki

This project aims at the creation of a big flexible space which can host different kinds of entertainment (music hall, club, restaurant, lounge bar). The site is located by the har-bor, at an industrial area, and is marked out by an adjacent old iconic factory.

The intension here is to create a rough and brutal environ-ment which would appear as it was emerging out of the ground. This was achieved by using angled concrete sur-faces for both walls and floors.

The outdoor space is as important as the indoors and it has been handled as an urban park. The concept transforms it to a funnel, an extension of the sidewalk which spreads among the buildings and rises up towards the harbor.

seeking the balance_private/public_culture/tradeurban refugee housing complex in Athens

This project is about replac-ing small refugee houses with a large scale housing and commercial complex in order to upgrade the living conditions of the existing families, creat-ing at the same time a com-mercial and cultural center for this problematic area of Ath-ens.

The design concept encorpo-rates the scale of the existing neighborhood into the new

residence

trade-entartainment

office

culture

complex. To achieve this, the circulation cores of the build-ings are semi-outdoor struc-tures creating shared spaces among the apartments. The housing zone is developed like a puzzle, with three different types of apartments occupying the higher levels of the com-plex above the first two hosting public functions.

This research attempts to examine the architec-tural space beyond any kind of material bound-ary, posing questions like where and how we live and what the outcome is of our existence. Our main examination tool is the internet, viewed as a virtual space, as a heterotopia and also as an invisible city. Space is presented within fluid and/or overlapping limits which define connections between people or are defined by them.

The internet, being an open data system, has been structured according to the interactive re-lations among its users. These relations com-pose a network, the intersections of which are its own users who are able to change their status from transmitter to recipient and vice versa. This network consists of a parallel and virtual reality which offers the user an exit out of her/his physi-cal presence. Out there, the user is able to de-velop another possible life, enriching her/his re-ality and therefore the space she/he lives in. The overlapping of the physical and digital space, redefines the sense of “private space” as it is be-coming “public space” through a new flexible

limit which administrates the data flow, the com-puter screen.The status of a user raises a sense of relativity, which leads us to read it as a synchronized pres-ence in two different spaces. The internet func-tions as a heterotopia, according to Foucault’s definition, as it consists of coexisting overlapping spaces of contradicting character. In there, the Information along with Time are gathered in a hyper-archive which is open to adjustments and

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changes by its users. There is also an exit and en-trance process and the whole system operates as an illusional space compensating for any kind of sexual expression that may occur.

However, the digital space is considered a hetero-topia due to the fact that it serves as a digital mir-ror in which one’s reflection redefines the position in her/his physical world and creates a real placeless place.

There is an honest kind of existence within the digi-tal world due to the fact that the human presence there can remain theoretically anonymous. This digital level of existing, becomes solid -even a de-scription- as it is constructing an invisible digital city to dwell, with every choice she/he makes and every relation she/he develops. This city -continuous and international- is expanding, transforming and being destroyed like any other city. It contains the same qualities and the same form everywhere accommo-dating its cyber citizens but at the same time adapt-ing to every single one of them and their choices, paths, stops.

This digital walkabout leads to Architecture that intends to create life spaces. Nowadays, life also takes place in this digital world. There, in that het-erotopia, I have the chance to include the whole world in my house and there is a city where a part of me dwells and constructs to dwell. In this place, the spatial designed field seems to include an everyday capacity to differ, a trivial otherness, that space de-signing should consider in order to find the way to make little utopias come true.

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