Κλίμακα + Αρχιτεκτονική (Scale + Architecture) | Eraklis Papachristou
Abstract:
Scale is a concept that can be defined through multiple approaches. Being a key element of Architecture and depending on the context in which it is placed, scale could have a number of definitions: "the adaptation of the contained space to the dimensions of the content, the size of a building as a multiple of fixed elements, the diversity of levels of conception of space, the difference in the perception of space according to the distance between subject and object, etc. ". The lecture is about the Architect's obsession with the building as an object and its production through absolutely ARCHITECTURAL terms that aim at the subsequent creation of SPATIAL EXPERIENCE. The Architect causes through scale a variety of effects. Each building is a kind of intervention in the environment (either natural or man-made) in which it is placed. Metric and technical sizes are composed in order to create aesthetic and psychological effects (Spatial Experience). Three realised buildings, at three different scales and in three different environments, are occasions to present the way the office team manages the design process up to their realisation. /p>
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Speaker:
ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ ΠΑΠΑΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ E.Papachristou Architects LLC
Date:
Thursday 07/04/22, 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Kallipoleos Ave. 75, 1678, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
Αξιολόγηση των Υφιστάμενων Προτύπων Σχεδιασμού Γυμνασίων στην Κύπρο (Evaluation of the Existing High School Design Standards in Cyprus) | Chrystalla Psathiti
Abstract:
This event explores the relationship between the school environment and school practices. It seeks to understand the school environment and to identify the role of spatial configuration and socio-political practices in school life. It also aims to identify effective high school design practices in Cyprus through the use of scientific research data. Therefore, this event is divided into two (2) parts. The first part is a presentation note by Dr. Chrystala Psathitis in which the findings of a survey conducted in all secondary schools built in Cyprus after 2000 are summarized. More specifically, the following issues are presented:
- A historical review of secondary schools in Cyprus.
- The school unit and the scope of decision making (either by the Ministry or by the management itself, the architect).
- The importance of school design for the way students and teachers perceive their school. More specifically, issues related to school safety, positive attitudes towards school, etc. are raised.
- Positive school climate and school design.
- Evaluation of existing high school design standards in Cyprus.
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Speakers:
ΡΕΑ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΥ ΙΩΑΝΝΑ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ ΙΩΑΝΝΑ ΠΕΛΕΚΑΝΟΥ ΣΟΛΩΝ ΞΕΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ ΕΛΕΝΗ ΧΑΤΖΗΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ ΧΡΥΣΩ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ
Coordinator:Chrystalla Psathiti
Date:
Thursday 10/03/22, 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Room 013, Kallipoleos Ave. 75, 1678, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
Workplace Matters: A Sustainable Transformation of the Work Environment | Binom Architects
Abstract:
Our idea of workplace has changed for ever with the pandemic, blending online and physical environments, home and corporate offices. Companies struggle to adapt their spaces to the new situation and cities fail to attract workers to the Central Business District. The response from Binom Architects is to design caring workplaces. They care about the worker, the city, and the environment. In their projects, people’s experience of their surroundings is key and sustain-ability is at the core of all decisions. The end result goes beyond the project itself, turning buildings into meaningful assets for the local communities. Binom director and co-founder Gonzalo Coello de Portugal will present a selection of workplace interventions from the last decade, and discuss how the clients ambitions were shaped into projects that last beyond the pandemic.
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Speaker:
GONZALO COELLO DE PORTUGAL Binom Architects
Date:
Thursday 03/03/22, 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Room 013, Kallipoleos Ave. 75, 1678, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
REVISITS: Architecture as a Mean of Reprogramming Dwelling Conditions | NOA Architects
Abstract:
Since the beginning of man’s need for designing and constructing his dwelling on earth, the built environment has been the main stage for everyday act. Architecture has been shaped and is shaping at the same time the living conditions in every scale ranging from a chair on which a human body rests, up to a metropolis where millions of people live, work and commute. When an architect gets a brief for a project, he/she is actually been given the opportunity to form, not only material but dwelling conditions too, thus creating the opportunities for experiencing special circumstances under spatial conditions. This lecture will focus on attempts of NOA architects to reprogram some dwelling conditions presented in a range of projects that the practice has worked on in a period of ten years.
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Speakers:
SPYROS SPYROU CHARIS CHRISTODOULOU NOA architects
Date:
Thursday 03/02/22, 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Room 013, Kallipoleos Ave. 75, 1678, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
Social Infrastructures and Imaginaries: A Reading of Postwar Athens | Ioanna Theocharopoulou
Abstract:
This talk will present a reading of Athens in the post-war era. Rather than being wholly planned, like other global cities, Athens grew as a patchwork of improvisations and adaptations, ad hoc, individualistic, and pragmatic. This does not make it uninteresting. A Mediterranean version of “informal” urbanism, Athens’s “abject” and “amorphous” development based on the ubiquitous figure of the polykatoikia, was, I will argue, positive, even transformational in a social sense: it enabled migrants who poured into the city following World-War II and Civil War, to become urban citizens, aspiring to a modern way of life. The growth of the polykatoikia relied upon a set of unique processes between producers and users. These pro-cesses, that we might also think of as the city’s tangible and intangible infrastructures, depended on deeply ingrained social and cultural patterns that need to be deciphered. I use these as explanatory or critical “sites” for my interpretation.
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Speaker:
IOANNA THEOCHAROPOULOU Visiting Professor Cornell University
Date:
Thursday 27/01/22, 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Room 013, Kallipoleos Ave. 75, 1678, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
Adaptation & Architecture: How can a Building Adapt to the Changing Conditions? | Yenal Akgün
Abstract:
Architecture must embrace adaptability and flexibility to respond effectively and sustainably to the growing needs of change and create a symbiotic relation-ship between the building and its users. Adaptability helps to achieve a sustainable, effective, responsive, environmental friendly and well integrated buildings/ building parts, and thus to ensure a long term value. But there is a question: How can a building or a building part adapt to the changing conditions? This lecture aims to answer this question and investigates different adaptive systems and different aspects of adaptation in architecture. The concepts will be dis-cussed using common examples and the actual architectural and scientific works of the author.
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Speaker:
YENAL AKGÜN Associate Professor Yaşar University
Date:
Thursday 16/12/21, 19:00 - 20:00
Location:
Ground Floor, Ledras Str. 68, 1010, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
Architecture and Exhibitionism: Historic Architectural Space as a Museological Narrative | Hesperia Iliadou Suppiej
Abstract:
The talk draws from my research in both historic spaces in architecture and the creation of exhibitions in museums and within historic buildings. The methodology proposed here suggests a new way of confronting historic built space and forgotten conflicting histories. Inspired by museological theory and the participatory process of co- creating museum narratives we will go through a diverse spectrum of case- studies, where writing on and of historical space takes the aspects of constructing a curatorial narrative. Vice versa through different examples of exhibition- creating processes we will be able to trace a new way of addressing public space and individual historic buildings. The talk will focus on the importance of shared texts and narratives in the interpretation and presentation of exhibits and buildings in both museums and public space at a time when curatorial practice and historic discourse seem to reconsider representational paradigms of the past; creating narratives that challenge past histories and reassess conflicting realities engaging and inspiring readers and audiences today and beyond.
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Speaker:
HESPERIA ILIADOU SUPPIEJ Lecturer in Museum & Curatorial Studies European Institute of Design, Florence
Date:
Thursday 02/12/21, 19:00 - 20:00
Location:
Ground Floor, Ledras Str. 68, 1010, Nicosia
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‘Water of Peace’: Water Infrastructure and Conflict in Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus | Stavroula Michael
Abstract:
Modernity’s Promethean Project to modernize cities and societies, has often been described as none other than the effort to conquer and tame nature, with the Modern Hero icon best encapsulated by the Ayn-Randian middle-aged, white, male techno-crat, the heroic modernist architect. Following this modernist aspiration, water infrastructure in particular, is assigned technopolitical properties like nation- and peacebuilding. This lecture suggests the study of water infrastructures as an alternative way of reading the recent history of the built and natural environments through the study of the most heightened water infrastructure construction period in Cyprus, namely the turbulent period between the 1940s and until 1974. Cyprus is presented as an in-formative case study that attests to how water infra-structure is intricately entwined with highly contest-ed processes and visions for development and modernisation, urbanisation of nature, and within multi-scalar historic circumstances and complex geopolitical dynamics, turning infrastructures into media-tors, catalysts and symbols of power and ideology across time and scale.
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Speaker:
STAVROULA MICHAEL PhD Candidate & Research Assistant University of Cyprus
Date:
Thursday 25/11/21, 19:00 - 20:00
Location:
Ground Floor, Ledras Str. 68, 1010, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
Representing Mass Housing as the Source of Urban Fear Cinematic, Spatial and Social Stereotypes | Phevos Kallitsis
Abstract:
Cultural codes feed on but most importantly generate images of fearful notional places, and cinema record intentionally or unintentionally the lived experiences of the city. The presenta-tion examines the intersections between city and cinema, and examines how media and cin-ematic text affect and are affected by an inter-textual perception of the fearful city. We will explore how two horror lms, Bernard Rose’s Candyman (1992) and Joe Cornish Attack the Block (2011), (re)map Chicago's Near North and South London and how their narrative in-tegrates with a wider discourse about safety and danger in the urban realm. The presenta-tion explores the creation of the need for urban regeneration and how horror cinema highlights key challenges in mass housing that links to the public, private and communal spaces and the opportunities for human inter-action.
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Speaker:
PHEVOS KALLITSIS Senior Lecturer in Architecture University of Portsmouth
Date:
Thursday 18/11/21, 19:00 - 20:00
Location:
Ground Floor, Ledras 68, 1010, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
‘Constructing Narratives’ in Malleable Courtyards | Yiorgos Hadjichristou
Abstract:
Courtyard typology was exterminated by the British Colonization. It expresses the gist of the wisdom of the tradition of the island of Cyprus forged in its his-tory throughout more than ten thousand years. All the social and environmental, sustainable ways of living that were developed in relation to the topography, the culture, the climate, to all these conditions that comprise the identity of the island of Cyprus were aggressively attacked and by the detrimental impact of the colonization. It was deleted form the modern face of Cyprus. The urban regulations that were implemented for the sake of modernization by the British were never questioned since the island’s independence until today. The presentation will try to ‘construct narratives’ as local voices of resistance through an evolution of this spatial typology, the ‘malleable courtyard’. It will attempt to stitch the terminated stories with new ones of a social and environmental, sustainable future.
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Speaker:
YIORGOS HADJICHRISTOU Professor of Architecture University of Nicosia
Date:
Thursday 11/11/21, 19:00 - 20:00
Location:
Ground Floor, Ledras Str. 68, 1010, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
Συνθήκες Eσωτερικής Άνεσης σε Κτίρια Εκπαίδευσης (Indoor Comfort Conditions in Education Buildings) | Chryso Erakleous
Abstract:
Education buildings are one of the most demanding categories of buildings in terms of the level of comfort conditions. This requirement arises from the particular ways in which the school building is used, the length of stay and the number of persons accommodated in it. These factors make it vital to optimise comfort conditions. Ensuring total comfort in the school building consists of a number of parameters determined by qualitative and quantitative analysis. This lecture deals with the evaluation of the comfort conditions of educational buildings in Cyprus through a multi-criteria analysis model. It explores issues of thermal and visual comfort, air quality, as well as the impact that these parameters have on the energy performance of buildings under current and future climatic conditions.
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Speaker:
ΧΡΥΣΩ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ Ειδικός Επιστήμονας Έρευνας Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου
Date:
Thursday 04/11/21, 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ground Floor, Ledras Str. 68, 1010, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
Κήποι (Gardens) | Draftworks* Architects
Abstract:
The lecture will review the architectural practice of draftworks* focusing on the scopes of practice, the means and concepts we use as 'umbrellas' to gather, protect and interpret groups of works. In this lecture we will refer to the 'Garden' as an 'umbrella concept' that interprets a group of our residential and nonresidential works. We will talk about the ways in which we use projects as fields and opportunities to seek knowledge and research. Conversely, we will also talk about the importance of research as a process of 'grafting' the practice of architecture. We will conclude with the importance of 'place' and by extension its characteristics: its climate, orientation, materials, physical content, memories, sensuality and uniqueness as a methodology of architectural design for our practice. We will try to do all this by telling buildings, city spaces, sketches, drawings, models and other stories
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Speakers:
ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΠΑΠΑΣΤΕΡΓΙΟΥ Draftworks* Architects
Date:
Thursday 21/10/21, 19:00 - 20:00
Location:
Ground Floor, Ledras Str. 68, 1010, Nicosia
Online Zoom meeting
