Portfolio Theodoridis Andreas 2023

Andreas Theodoridis

Adjunct Assistant Professor Ι Columbia University GSAPP

Principal I United Atmospheres

Theodoridis.andreas@columbia.edu

Portfolio

architecture design engineering research

02 Message in a bottle

03 Air shake

05 Air animal

06 Terra insola

10 Info-beacon

08 Daphne’s tree room

01 Air cycles

07 Grid off/lights on

11 Loft d7

04 Guinea pigs

12 Terraincognita

09 Cloud ecologies

2022

14 Exhibit A 18 D.I.Y. office

21 Raw matter

13 Marble skin

17 Seamless house

16 L block

19 Soft space

15 X-small

20 Sliced walls

2005

Andreas Theodoridis . . . is a practicing

architect-engineer and environmental

technologist with a Ph.D. from the

Center for Architecture Science and

Ecology (CASE), a research center

of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

/ RPI based in NYC, and a research

collaborator at the Center for Architecture

Ecosystems (CEA) at Yale University. He holds an MS in

Sustainable Environmental Systems from Pratt Institute, where

he has been awarded the Green Infrastructure Fellowship and an

Award for Outstanding Merit. His research is inherently interdisciplinary,

merging twenty-five years of experience in building

construction and fabrication with applied research on building

systems and environmental initiatives on an urban scale. Theodoridis

is the founder of UNited Atmospheres, an experimental

design practice and consultancy based between New York and

Athens.

Theodoridis has also taught and lectured at leading

academic institutions, including Syracuse University and Columbia

University’s Global Networking Programs in Greece. He has

also lectured at Syracuse Center for Excellence in Environmental

and Energy Systems and has served as a visiting researcher at

the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design. He is also

the recipient of awards and distinctions, such as the Humanities

Graduate Fellowship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,

an Honorable Mention at the Architect’s Newspaper Design

Awards, the One Prize annual design and science award, as well

as an Honorable mention on the d3 Unbuilt Architectural Visions

international competition. His work has been exhibited widely in

several architectural exhibitions and fora, including the Venice

Architecture Biennale, the Design Hub of Barcelona, the Oslo Architecture

Triennale, the Le Lieu Unique Center for contemporary

culture in France, the Istanbul Design Biennale, the Museum on

the Seam in Israel, the University of Michigan, Princeton University,

and the NYCx Design week among other venues.

air cycles

01 Air cycles

Air cycles in the built environment-towards a bioremediationbuilding

envelope system for improved air quality

Research & project developed for the partial fullfilement of

the requirements for the built ecologies PhD submitted in the

Center for Ecology

Research: Andreas Theodoridis

Phd committee members: Anna Dyson, Dr. Alexandros Tsamis,

Rhett Russo, Carla Leitao, Dr. Paul Mankiewicz

Location: Manhattan - Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

Date: 2015-22

According to the World Health Organization and the European Environment

Agency, air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk today.

Although general pollutant levels have improved in the last few decades,

it is only recently that certain types of highly toxic human-made pollutants

have been emitted in unprecedented quantities, primarily in developing

regions. Moreover, within these geographic regions, the global population

is estimated to double by 2050. The climatic context in most of these predominantly

unindustrialized economic territories favors natural ventilation

and the seamless interaction between indoor and outdoor spaces. Still,

these areas mainly rely on mechanical systems to homogenize atmospheric

living standards. Air conditioning systems produce wasted heat that alters

the microclimate of buildings’ surroundings while creating additional air

pollution exhausted by the running cycles of equipment.

To disrupt this cycle of energy expenditure and air pollution

replenishment, this research proposes a hybrid air purification

modular ceramic system for building envelopes in regions where

fiscal means are limited, and natural ventilation is a viable option,

in order to regulate both exterior and interior atmospheric

pollution. This infrastructural strategy serves as a site of inquiry

towards the potential amelioration of local urban pollution

airstreams in the developing world.

Contrary to the majority of existing phytoremediative systems,

which perform as extensions of mechanical automated systems,

the proposed approach aims to redefine the function of the

building envelope as a mediating

boundary layer in environments

conducive to natural ventilation.

It represents the first of its kind

system to suggest the use of potentially

passive bioremediation systems

as a mediator of indoor and

outdoor air. The objective is to create

a low-tech, high-value system,

conceptualized as a combination of

mechanical components, with the

effectiveness and sensitivity of biological organisms. Nevertheless, rather than a

specific design and development proposal, this thesis establishes a framework for

multivariant evaluation of air pollution and the ways in which it may be remediated

by novel phytoremediative building enclosures.

While multiple variables affect phytoremediation potential, airflow was identified

as the driver of mass and energy exchange. Pressure and airflow properties of a

1. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISK FACTORS: EMITTERS & COMPONENTS 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICLES AND PARTICLE DISPERSOIDS

BIOLOGICAL

ENVIRONMENTAL EMITTERS

NON-BIOLOGICAL

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISK AIR PARTICLES CLASSIFICATION

BIOTA

PATHOGENS

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

(VOCS)

humans

plants

dust

smoking

machines

interior finishes

industrial

vehicles

buildings

Respirable particles

Visible with the Human Eye

Visible reflections

xylene

biofiltration system that regulates air pollutant removal in spaces designed for natural ventilation.

KEY

Active Modular Phytoremediation Systems

Environmental particles 1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

(1 mm)

(1,000 μm)

(100 μm)

(10 μm)

(1000 nm)

(1 μm)

Common Air Filters

Although benzenewith this work the technical applicability of the most optimized prototype version has been established for the

HEPA up to 99.97% efficient to 0.30 μm

proposed system (AMPc), the intention was not only to provide an explicit technical solution, but also to suggest an encounter

with cultural settings, based on the premise that when people lose their relationship ULPA up to with 99.9995% the efficient environment to 0.12 μm due (100 nm)

toluene

(0.1 μm)

ABIOTIC POLLUTANTS

Pol

pollen

Bac

bacteria

PM

particulate

matter

Vir

viruses

ammonia

radon

proved itself a valuable tool to characterize airflow properties, opening new experimental opportunities for air filtration

formaldehyde

sulfur

dioxide

carbon

dioxide

carbon

monoxide

O 3

ozone

nitrogen

dioxide

lead

PM10 - PM 2.5 - Human Hair Magnified

novel envelope system’s module were studied as part of simulations using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), which

technology development. The CFD simulations was part of the process of defining the framework of this new envelope

to air pollution, they also lose their societal cohabitation and cohesion patterns.

PM2.5

PM10

Man- made emissions 1

Human body 2,3

Material properties 1,4,5,6

Biological 1

Pathogens 1

60μm

AVERAGE HUMAN

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

(10 nm)

(0.01 μm)

(1 nm)

(0.001 μm)

mist drizzle rain

cloud and fog

smog

fine sand coarse sand

clay silt

fine dust

atmosphereic dust

cement dust

asbestos

alveolar

capillary

lead emission

artery

human hair

carbon black

arteriole

RBC

paint pigment

granular

activated carbon

moss spore

AC

macropore

AC

mesospore

AC

micropore

insecticide dust plant

spore

pollen

virus bacterium

Reduced filter effectiveness

(0.0001 μm)

PARTICLE SIZE / μm

Relative impact per Factor

Outdoor to Indoor

3. AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS - INDOOR AIR QUALITY & COMFORT LEVEL

(comfort level - humidity)

4. HEALTH EFFECTS OF RESPIRABLE PARTICLES

(exposure duration & biological conditions )

Ambient Air Quality Ambient Air Quality

Guidelines / W.H.O. Standards / Ministry

of E.P. of the P.R.C.

National Ambient Air Quality

Standards / United States E.P.A.

Air Quality Standards /

European Commission

National Standards for

Criteria Air Pollutants /

Australian Dep. of E.&E.

...

LEED

...

Future Air

...

Blueair Aware

PM10

particulate

matter

24 hour

1 year

150 (Interim target 1)



50 (guideline)

70

50

30

20

(Interim target 1)

(Interim target 2)

(Interim target 3)

(guideline)

150 (Secondary level)

50 (Level one)

70

40

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

150 (Not to be exceeded more than once

per year on average over 3 years)

24 hour

(primary & secondary)

50 (Permitted exceedences each

year 35)

40 (Permitted exceedences

each year n/a)

50

50

20 (Healthcare only)

59

500 !!!

(less than ...)

PM2.5

particulate

matter

xylene

benzene

toluene

formaldehyde

sulfur

dioxide

carbon

monoxide

O 3

ozone

nitrogen

dioxide

lead

24 hour

1 year

1 year

10 minute

1 hour

3 hour

24 hour

1 year

1 hour

8 hour

24 hour

1 hour

4 hour

8 hour

(daily max)

1 hour

24 hour

1 year

3 month

(rolling av.)

1 year

75

50

37.5

25

35

25

15

10

500 20 (guideline)

500 (guideline)


150


50

20 (guideline)

200 (guideline)

40

(Interim target 1)

(Interim target 2)

(Interim target 3)

(guideline)

(Interim target 1)

(Interim target 2)

(Interim target 3)

(guideline)


100 (guideline)

(guideline)

75

35

35

15

500

150

60

20

160

100

200

200

80

80

40

40

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

10000 (Secondary level)

10000 (Level one)

4000

4000

200

160

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

(Secondary level)

(Level one)

35 (98th percentile, averaged over 3 years)

15 (annual mean, averaged over 3 years)

12 (annual mean, averaged over 3 years)

195

(99th percentile of 1-h daily maximum

concentrations, averaged over 3 years)

1310 (Not to be exceeded more than once per

year)

40080

10300

(Not to be exceeded more than once per

year)

(Not to be exceeded more than once per

year)

140 (Annual fourth-highest daily maximum

8-hr concentration, averaged over 3 years)

190 (98th percentile of 1-h daily maximum

concentrations, averaged over 3 years)

24 hour


1 year (secondary)

1 year (primary)

1 hour

(primary)

3 hour

(secondary)

1 hour

(primary)

8 hour

(primary)

8 hour


1 hour

(primary)

25 (Permitted exceedences

each year n/a)

5

350

125

10000

120

200

100 (Annual Mean)

1 year

40


0.15 (Not to be exceeded) 3 month


0.5

(Permitted exceedences

each year n/a)


each year 24)


each year 3)


each year n/a)

(25 days averaged

over 3 years)


each year 18)


each year n/a)


each year n/a)

8 hour

(daily max mean)

25 (Advisory reporting st.)

8 (Advisory reporting st.)

Total Volatile Organic

Compounds (TVOCs)

523

210

52

10300 (measured over 8 hour

period)


period)


period)

8 hour

(daily max mean)

225

56

0.5

15

500


700

3

300

(for buildings in

EPA

non-attainment

areas, for PM 2.5 or

local equivalent)

33


10300 (or no more than

2290 above outdoor

levels )

196 (for buildings in

EPA

non-attainment

areas, for Ozone or

local equivalent)

10300

(Not to exceed)

15

(less than ...)

10300

(or less ?)

"Even very low

concentrations of ozone

can be harmful to the upper

respiratory tract and the lungs.

The severity of injury depends on

both by the concentration of ozone

and the duration of exposure. Severe

and permanent lung injury or

death could result from even a

very short-term exposure to

relatively low concen-

"Even very low

trations."[67]

concentrations of ozone

can be harmful to the upper

respiratory tract and the lungs.

The severity of injury depends on

both by the concentration of ozone

and the duration of exposure. Severe

and permanent lung injury or

death could result from even a

very short-term exposure to

relatively low concentrations."[67]

Pollut-

Environmental Agency - Institution

Indoor Air Quality

Averaging Ambient Air

Period

Concentration Level

units : µg/m3

Concentration Level

units : µg/m3

EXPOSURE TIME

EXPOSURE LEVEL

1. New York City Department of Health 2. Environmental Protection Agency 3. U.S. Department of Energy 4. Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab 5.

Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Lab 6. Int'l Journal of Geographic Information Science 7. American Meteorological Society 8. NYC

Dept of Health, Mayor's Office, Queens College CUNY, Univ. Pittsburgh, Hunter College, ZevRoss Spatial Analysis

message in a bottle

02 Message in a bottle

An installation on circular material economies for the

2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale

Research/Design/Fabrication: Andreas Theodoridis, Lydia

Kallipoliti, Rhett Russo

Collaborators: Erik Pedersen, Seraphim Le, Dakota Pace

Location: Oslo, Norway

Date: 2019

Message in a Bottle is an assemblage of interlocking plastic bottles

that are intended for water, medical supplies and then used as

building elements to create a shelter in the event of a natural catastrophe.

Each bottle includes a “micro-message” – a story of how

to reuse plastic bottles, making evident their effect on the global

plastisphere- visible to viewers with the help of optic lens. The installation

is designed as an interactive playspace, where bottles can

be used as building blocks containing secret messages.

Message in a Bottle fosters a dialogue on topics relating to recycling

of industrial products as building materials and on alternative

practices where materials exist only in phases and have multiple

lives. Based on the economic theory of “degrowth,” the project

questions the limits of linear progress imposed in all aspects of

production and daily life and in particular the material ramifications

of persevering growth, only serving the growth of capital itself, rather

than the making of cities of urban environments.

air shake

03 Air shake

A speculative research installation on the future air quality

and occupation of public spaces in Athens, past the

financial crisis. Athens,Greece.


Kallipoliti

Collaborators: Xueping Li, Erica Vinson, Dakota Pace,

Seraphim Le

Location: Pl. Theatrou, Athens, Greece

Date: 2017

AIR SHAKE examines the character of air pollutants in Athens in

2027, in order to imagine both an array of future diseases and

cures. We document phenomena of leaching caused by a variety of

chemicals that have been released into the atmosphere and their

scientific, economic, and social attributes. AIR SHAKE projects current

urban habits in plausible future scenarios extracted from the

present, based on the impact that different mixtures of air impose

on human bodily systems. The project imagines an array of diseases

that have begun to manifest in 2012, with Athens registering the

highest levels of atmospheric pollution in decades. As a result of the

debt crisis and the citizens’ denial to yield to the overblown energy

taxation, the continuous combustion of random cheap available materials, has resulted in the excessive release of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other

eling the livelihood of citizens and their right breathe in the city. The projection of four speculative diseases onto the urban environment takes form as a series of healing environm

between the air pollution and the imagined disease.

The AIR SHAKE installation operates around two systems that together create an immersive experience. First, there is a series of chimneys, which present the city upside-down, s

to heal city dwellers. A secondary system is visualizing the air shakes each chimney spews in a virtual reality environment, accessible through a series of movable tablets installed

is imagined as a virtual healing environment that allows the physical embodiment of the visitors to project and immerse themselves in a series of future atmospheres.

carcinogens, eventually disembowents,

making visible the linkage

pewing different shakes of air mixes

in the room. The installation space

AM_1

AMPHIBIAN MAN ELEVATION

77 cm

77 cm

AM_5

70 cm

AM_2

45 cm

AM_4

260 cm

39 cm

AM_3

295 cm

88 cm

AM_8

228 cm

235 cm

145 cm

AM_7

150 cm

AM_6

217 cm

155 cm

160 cm

155 cm

150 cm

450 cm

Feedback

Man

85 cm

Exoskeleton

Man

45 cm

150 cm

140 cm

165 cm

Weightless

Man

30 cm

Excrement

Man

450 cm

150 cm

105 cm

175 cm

125 cm

Amphibian

Man

guinea pigs

04 Guinea pigs

A research project of immersive scholarship for the 3rd

Istanbul Design Biennial, “Are We Human” curated by

Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley.,Greece.


Kallipoliti

Collaborators: John Rhett Russo, Emily Klein, Chendru

Starkloff, Royd Zhang, Mary Tieu LaFave, Ivan Leon, Ellen

Wong

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Date: 2016

GUINEA PIGS presents five species of engineered men: AMPHIBIAN

MAN, EXOSKELETAL MAN, EXCREMENT MAN, FEEDBACK MAN and

WEIGHTLESS MAN. A series of three-dimensional immersive projections

narrate the stories of these figures, as fictional characters

offset from the texture of reality; like the living ghosts of archival research.

The five episodes bring together the imaginary of design culture

at a given moment in time with the “raw” technical investment of

engineering research and development. In parallel, each Guinea Pig,

is presented in narrative texts, archival material, and patent draw-

ings suspended from the ceiling and observed from a designated station on the floor, enabling the visitor to lie down and assume a horizontal position in the exhibition space.

The change of posture from vertical to horizontal turns the viewer him/herself into a guinea pig, into an object that is observed, monitored and documented by the curators.

GUINEA PIGS are not merely speculations of human subjects, but also funded experiments to create superhuman abilities documented in manufactured prototypes, reports and

patents. Either drawn or merely reproduced by architects and designers, these figures illustrate that the line between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.

air animal

05 Air animal

Submission for the competition Folly 2014 organized by the Achitectural

League of New York for the Socrates sculpture park.

Project architects: Andreas Theodoridis, Lydia Kallipoliti

Collaborators: Tope Olujobi-Nhan Bui

Location: Astoria, Queens, NY, U.S.A.

Date: 2014

Air Animal is a multilayered felt skin hosting species of lost plants in a series of

hydroponic pods integrated within the structure’s envelope. The folly is conceived

as a suspended garden within the larger garden of Socrates Park; it condenses natural

elements, while at the same time lifting them off the ground, allowing for views from

below.

The structure is comprised of a structural frame, made out of bent iron bars used for

reinforced concrete and a thick felt envelope, custom fabricated out of animal hair.

The felt skin is stitched and patterned like a piece of clothing tailored to weave with the

specific form of the structure. In the upper part, it integrates pockets with clay pebbles,

the hydroponic growth medium for the seeds. The folly’s form was based on

the logic of a thermal chimney and the harnessing of air currents to

warm air and thus aid the early growth of plant species. Any temperature

difference between interior and exterior will produce year-round artificial wind because

of the principles of convection, generating an ambient thermal field which provides

heat for the lost native species. The AIR ANIMAL is not only a functional envi-

ronmental solution that creates mild wind currents

and purifies the air; it also creates islands

of life –human and animal- in the macroscale of the

map. The AIR ANIMAL is a strange object, which is partially

constructed and partially grown; it partially fuses with the

landscape and partially stands as an object. In the expanded

field of Socrates Park, the folly raises an uncanny presence

questioning the line between natural and artificial elements.

GENERATED AIR FLOW

SUPPORTED ECOSYSTEM

HYDROPONIC PODS IN FELT POCKETS

50F

75F

TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE

THERMAL HEAT CONVECTION

AIR INTAKE

terra insola

06 Terra insola

Design Installation at the ancient wall ruins of

Chania,Crete,Greece.

Research/Design/Fabrication: Andreas Theodoridis,

Camille Lacadee, Danielle Willems, Lydia Kallipoliti, Francois

Roche, Ezio Blasetti, Stephan Henrich

Collaborators: Johnny Boquet-Boone,Cecil

Barnes,DanielleGriffo,Hasti Valipour Goudarzi,Gary

Edwards,Martin Lodman,Maximiliam Lauter,Melodie

Yashar,Shalini Amin,PierreBourdareau,George

Avramides,George Louras,Jonathan Requillo,Alexandra

Saranti,Raquel Sanchis Ulacia, Luis Felipe Paris, Robinson

Strong, Kim Se Hyun, Leonidas Leonidou & Lorenzo Villagi

Location: Chania, Crete, Greece

Date: 2013

Terra insola is a collective enterprise of scientific storytellers, speculative

archeologists, regenerative engineering, deviant-mythologists

and dirty-physiologist exploring the mythic figure of Ariadne as

an archetype of a modern feminist, living within a suspended time

between two stages of her life, in the time between her relationships

with Theseus to Dionysus.

She is bound by a daytime routine and

her perpetual commitment to a machine,

releasing herself from all constraints

and achieving self-sufficiency. In

desexualizing her innate nature she reaches

a degree of serenity and ‘ataraxy’. She

lives in an idyllic biotope without context

or reference, extracting fluid sap from the

eucalyptus tree that sustains her nourishment

in an anthroposophic exchange, and

mixes her physiological substances (such

as urine) with the earth that surrounds her

to secrete ceramic for the structure that

shelters and interlaces her. The structure

itself is a metaphor of an endlessness

creation, an architectural process that

emerges within an infinite loop. The myriad

of spiraling mazes and glazed clay components

that wrap her body and her mind are

developed by and with a machine tamed

and domesticated by Ariadne to extend

her desires and construct her needs in a

reflexive, affective and contingent agenda.

La “Demoiselle”, the nickname she gave

to her “productive” pet seems to engage

an intertwined, co-dependent relationship

that emerges from sympathy to empathy.

LED ballon clouds

backward motor - generating electricity based on Faraday’s principle

human cranking the motor by rotating a handle attached to the drill

magnet

coil

capacitor

How Faraday’s ShakeLight works

grid off/lights on

07 Grid off/lights on

Design Installation for New Museum’s Ideas City Festival in New

York and the World Science Festival in 2013.

Research/Design/Fabrication: Lydia Kallipoliti, Martha Giannakopoulou,

Katerina Kourkoula, Andreas Theodoridis

Collaborators: student interns from the Cooper Union in New York

Location: Bowery, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Date:2013

When Sandy hit New York, the lights went off leaving over 170,000

New Yorkers in the darkness for five days. This disruption of power

extended beyond the economic or productive sphere; it permeated

every aspect of urban life and created a fundamental rupture with

the perception of urban space.

Grid off; Lights on is a prototypical installation generating

energy autonomously detached from the urban grid of power

supply. Street visitors become the source of energy as they

interact with a series of bubble clusters, cranking backwards

rewired drills (and other reused machines) that are encased in

the bubbles.

G R I D O F F | L I G H T S O N |

The public interacts with the clusters by cranking a series of

arm levers, and thus lighting up clouds of balloons hooked to

the clusters through a series of LEDs. The mechanical energy of

people on the ground level creates an illuminated off-grid cloud

skyline, a new aeriform landscape for the city collected from the

capital of its citizens. The project cultivates an urgently needed

dialogue on urban illumination as a climate adaptation strategy,

while at the same time offering an urban cloud landscape that

addresses the social and aesthetic relations that inform and are

informed by the presence of light.

A UNIT IS EXTRACTED FROM THE GRID

AND ELEVATED IN A VERTICAL TREE STRUCTURE

daphne’s tree room

08 Daphne’s tree room

Design and Construction Commission following a national

tender for the recreation of Faliron Bay in Athens along

Renzo Piano’s masterplan. Sponsored by the Stavros Niarchos

Foundation.

Project architects: Andreas Theodoridis, Stella Nikolakaki,

Ezio Blasetti, Lydia Kallipoliti

Location: Moschato, Piraeus, Greece

Date: 2013

Daphne is an elevated public room extracted from Renzo Piano’s

masterplan grid for Faliron Bay in Athens, Greece. The

observatory is an environmental intervention along the spine of an

artificial tree; branches illuminate the park with different light colors

based on temperature thresholds. The project is currently under

construction.

Temperature Sensor

Arduino Compatible

Arduino board

LED interactive

lights sensors

sample outdoor

temperature and

are wired to arduino

boards, embedded in

the structure of metallic

beams. The arduino

processes temperature

data and sends signals

for different LED light

colorations. According

to the weather conditions,

different the

observatory is colored

reflecting the varying

weather conditions.

cloud ecologies

09 Cloud ecologies

Competition Entry for an energy-generating pavilion at Fresh Kills Park. Received

a Special Mention in the interactional design competition for unbuilt

visions d3 in the category of “built ecologies” (2013);Shortlisted as a Finalist

project in the international design competition for sustainable urban

futures One Prize 2012. Featured in ArcDaily, Archinect, Bustler and other

online media.

Project architects: Andreas Theodoridis, Stella Nikolakaki, Ezio Blasetti,

Lydia Kallipoliti

Collaborators: Katie Okamoto

Location: Fresh Kills, Staten Island, NY, U.S.A.

Date: 2013

Cloud Ecologies is a constellation of ten outdoor ground pavilions and eleven

air balloon clusters dispersed throughout Freshkills Park, formerly the

world’s largest landfill. The ground topography of pavilions anchors the balloon

clouds, which harvest high-altitude wind energy. The ground system and the air

system work reciprocally; not only to generate energy, but also to create islands of new life.

Although the City of New York has immediate plans for the restoration of Freshkills Park,

the chronic accumulation of waste has been detrimental to the site’s

capacity to sustain biodiversity. Each ground pavilion brings new life in two ways:

SLIDE SAND PLAY POLE SAND

SLID

first, it introduces program –fishing, roller sports, observation,

play et-al; second, the pavilions’ perimeter becomes

an enhanced thermal zone and thus a catalyst for biodiversity.

Each structure is composed of thermal chimneys

and piezoelectric cables that generate an ambient

temperature field, providing heat for native species, sharing

space with outdoorprogramming for human visitors.

The unity of weather patterns, ecosystem and human

inhabitant is realized not only as a pragmatic solution to

Staten Island’s growing energy needs, but also as an

immersive re-experiencing and re-imagining

of our natural habitat. In New York ‘s fastest growing

borough, the populations of people and native species can

come to the same place to thrive

E

info.b eacon

10 Info-beacon

InfoBeacon was awarded 3rd prize in a National

Architectural Competition for a Tourism Pavilion in

Chania organized by the local municipality in Crete,

Greece.

Project architects: Andreas Theodoridis-Stella NIkolakaki

Collaborators: Giorgos Papadakis-Konstantinos Mouzakis


Date: 2012

InfoBeacon is a proposal for a tourist pavilion in Chania, Crete,

Greece. As the title suggests, the pavilion functions as a

beacon of information for the urban traveler, guiding him

throughout the daily practice of traversing the city. One of the main

objectives was to design a pavilion, which may be easily mounted

and demounted, retract and expand and adjust to the rhythms of

change and temporarily a city undergoes. Different elements including

foldable metallic frames, straw surfaces, fabrics for shading and

hinged foldable furniture are modified in consonance with local needs

providing shading, units for working, lighting, advertising surfaces etal.

InfoBeacon was conceived as a cubic structure with

foldable, retractable and expandable surfaces offering

variations of the cube spatially, materially and environmentally.

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11 Loft d7

Renovation of a modernist-era apartment into a

contemporary energy-use-efficient loft.

Project architects: Andreas Theodoridis

Location: Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece

Date: 2011

The d7 loft apartment is the outcome of a maisonette of the 80s

renovation situated on the last two floors of an apartment building

(polykatoikia) in an area of Athens named Nea Smyrni.

The 6th floor was the upper part of the maisonette with two bedrooms

and secondary amenities like a small kitchen and toilet. Due

to unfortunate design decisions, this maisonette level had neglected

the building's orientation toward the south sun, the Acropolis

and the Aegean Sea, and the islands in the background. Small openings

for windows and connection openings to the floor balconies and

a labyrinthic plan had obscured the relationship between indoors

and outdoors.

After separating the space into two individual apartments, the 6th

floor went through a radical gut renovation to reverse its relationship

with the building surrounding environmental conditions. Communal

areas were prioritized in terms of space percentage dedication,

with large openings establishing an uninterrupted, seamless

experience of the indoor and outdoor spaces as one common

floorplate space. Sustainability principles were applied regarding

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1. Hall

2. Living / Dining

3. Kitchen

4. WC

5. Bathroom

6. Master Bedroom

7. Kid’s Bedroom

2

energy conservation and insulation

strategies by reusing existing space

components and materials like the

old bedroom's wood floor and the old

fireplace's structure in the living and

kitchen area, among other things.

The result was a dialectic relationship

of existing and familiar architectural

components with contemporary

furniture and equipment in a rejuvenating

space for a small family of 3

to 4 members. Finally, a concealed

connection access to a private part

of the building's terrace was established,

with the creation of a hybrid

staircase glasshouse bathroom

space on the northeast corner of the

house. While this "backspace" was

suffering from the absence of natural

light, now it serves the bathroom and

the primary bedroom with ample light

while regulating the space temperature

with passive means.

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12 Terraincognita

Columbia university studio X in Thessaloniki gsapp-global networking

Terraincognita| Eco-tales for Thessaloniki’s sealine

Directed by: Lydia Kallipoliti, Assistant Professor Adjunct at Columbia

University and The Cooper Union.

Collaborators: Niki Andreadou and Manolis Tzekakis, Professors at the

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Yota Adilenidou, tutor at the Architectural

Association in London, and Andreas Theodoridis, principal of

207×207 architects in Greece.

Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Date: 2011

Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation,

GSAPP, organized a summer workshop in collaboration with the Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki, Greece.

This workshop was structured as a speculative research and design project that explores

the convergence of technology and nature in the outskirts of cities, seeking to

define new ways of life and culture that might emerge from this convergence. The exploration

would be carried out by researching the natural resources, proliferation of wild

life and organic growth, as well as the existing minimum impact vernacular structures

in the seashore of Axios’ river delta adjacent to Thessaloniki’s harbor.

The area contiguous to Thessaloniki’s main port spaning to Palaioxori is

tentatively entitled terra incognita; it is an ecologically affluent region, unique in its

01. augmented territories

Alexandros Charidis, Stephen

Chou, Theodoros Kyttas, Eliza

Montgomery, Anna Obraztsova,

Vasilis Papakonstantinou

two teams of students worked on one proposal each

02. city of mussles

Students: Elena Boutsivari,

Michael Georgopoulos,

Jaclyn Jung,

Periklis Kyriakidis,

Aaron Mark, Vasiliki-

Maria Plavou

geomorphologic formation and vernacular construction physiognomy in close proximity to the urban center. However, under the assumption

that an area of such natural wealth should be preserved “as is”, the territory is largely abandoned and forgotten. The main premise of the workshop is to project new

ecological ways of accommodating habitats for wild life, to design infrastructure that optimizes the management of natural resources as well as to integrate human life

and culture in a symbiotic relationship with the natural territory by inventing sustainable structures of minimum impact, closely linked in terms of construction logic to the

existing structures.

By designing habitats for wild life, sustainable infrastructure for the optimum redistribution and cleansing of water, substructures that harness wind and sunlight

producing electricity, it is possible to create a natural park for the study and observation of ecological life, as well as for the engagement of the citizens with nature and by

extension with farming, food and energy production possibilities in the urban sphere. This ecological hub is envisioned as a new pole of cultural, economic and sustainable

growth for the city of Thessaloniki, as an ecological territory that might revitalize the city itself by offering a center of culture, food and energy production.

Key to the development of ideas would be the concept of “minimum footprint” by offering lightweight autonomous infrastructure that returns energy to the city

through the reuse of natural resources: water, wind and solar power. Seasonal change, the passage from summer to fall, winter and spring, will constitute a significant factor

for the development of proposals. In the tumultuous conditions of global warming, the climate of Thessaloniki still exemplifies the normative passage of all seasons, in

contradiction with other geographical regions where the weather changes erratically. The proposal will be developed in mind to function in different ways in all seasons and

potentially programmatically linked to the seasonal passage.

Methodologically, we worked in different scales by zooming in and out of the territory developing proposals as organizational strategies in a larger scale, zooming

in to architectural proposals in specific locations and zooming even more to the identifications of materials and low-cost fabrication strategies for specific installations.

Similarly to working in three different scales of development, we would also develop in the proposals in different stages in time. In other words, there would be a set of

proposals that can potentially be developed in a first stage in two years, five years and ten years.

(text from http://gsappstudioxthessaloniki.wordpress.com/gsapp-global-networking/)

01. augmented territories

01.

The landscapes of river deltas are constantly

being transformed through systems

of water and matter redistribution. In our

investigations, algae was identified as a

lifeform whose growth corresponds to the

confluence of different matters and water

bodies, while its distribution is influenced

by topographic formations and water

flows. Our intervention seeks to exploit

algae cultivation and biofuel production

processes, and propose new materialities

that produce alternative landscapes, and

provide opportunities for new programs

and habitation.

01.

02.

This new approach to the Thermaikos Gulf allows for the connection of four mussel

islands through the creation and bridging of two aquatic paths, thus extending the

lively environment of Thessaloniki to the delta of the River Axios. The urban route of

the Eastern coast provides access to the islands located along the eco-tourist path

of the Western shore, which act as four poles of diversity and productivity. Each

island functions as mussel cultivation, providing opportunities for culture, education

and industry as well as a new public space for leisure activities. The annual calendar

of events follows the life cycle of the mussels and culminates with Mussel Fest, the

harvesting and feasting of the mussels in November. Furthermore, the islands are

agents of de-pollution and environmental clean up, aimed at increasing the awareness

of the battered conditions of the Axios River. Small filtration pods migrate to

different aggregations to act as filters, break walls, or for event awareness.

02. city of mussles

02.

marble skin

13 Marble skin


Location: Psychiko, Athens, Greece

Date: 2010

This project was the result of a competition in 2009.

We were asked by the embassy of Kuwait to remodel the facades

of their building. There was an extra level added to it and the facades

were in bad condition.

The requirements that the embassy posed had to do

with the use of marble, two specific types of marble

that they had already chosen, and the creation of “clean”

surfaces.

The project was finished in the summer of 2014.

After assessing the building we focused of the following

problematic areas:

1. A second level has been added which needs to be incorporated

with the pre-existing building

2. There is no correalation among the different openings of

the building.

3. The entrance way is not well defined.

4. The building is not well lit in the night time.

Proposal Concept:

The concept for this building if based of the

qualities of the marble and the fact that

it requires staight vertical alignments

between the different levels.

Since there was no such correlation, we decided

to design it through the use of the marble in

different layers.

The second part of the idea was the light

design. The building needed to be obvious at

night. This was achieved through the indentations

that were created from the layering of the

marble facades.

The third element was the use of the arabesque

motif that was the basis for designing

the “fence” of the embassy.

pre-existing condition of the

embassy building

current condition of the embassy

building

A marble “skin” is placed on the

outside of the existing building hiding

all the extruding elements including the

balconies.

The new building is a “clean” volume that

imposes with its “weight” on its surroundings.

the “skin” is comprised of marble tiles

of the same size . These tiles have the

minimum possible gaps between them

- they have chamfered edges so that the

“back is never visible. In this way they create

a homogeneous surface.

In order to avoid an entirely regular configuration,

the new facade has an “irregular”

organization, grouping

the tiles together.

These groups are created through

the organization of larger gaps

between the tiles.

an arabesque motif was designed

with a strict geometrical repetition.

It became the “enclosure” for the

embassy’s grounds.

the organization of the tiles was a process

having many alternatives.

The building method was always a major

priority.

drawing of the main facadestructural

drawing of the main facade

architectural

A metal frame was designed to hold up the

new facade.

The indentations around the openings create

the vertical alignments and the large

gaps add the necessary irregularity.

The ligting design enhances

the geometry of the facade. It

is not yet finished, the big gaps

between the tiles will be lit by

LED tape.

the arabesque motif that was

designed for the “fence”

exhibit A

14 Exhibit A


Location: Metamorfosi, Athens, Greece

Collaborators: Konstantinos Chrysos-Marianthy Tatari

Date: 2010

During a yearly exhibition for architectural materials we designed a

space that would promote the work of young greek architects within

the exhibition space of a particular company.

Both the products of the company and the work of the architects was

to be showcased in a continuous flowing space.

x-small

15 X-small


Location: Ampelokipoi, Athens, Greece

Date: 2010

The client wanted to create a cafe and bar in a very small corner shop.

The surface area of the space at hand was about 13 m2 with an additional

basement that would house a small kitchen and bathroom.

In those 13 m2 we had to create a comfortable, conceptual

and highly practical space with a very low

budget.

The primary element of this project was the design of a new facade

that would be able to accomodate the use of the extremely small exterior

space that was available to the owner. This exterior space would

be the main sitting area as the interior was very small.

The new facade would be multifunctional,

opening up the interior and at the same time serving

as usable surface for sitting and serving.

A metal frame was designed incorporating

fixed windows, vertically sliding window, as well as

unfolding wooden surfaces.

An old fashioned mechanism of weights and pullies

was devised that made possible this “working

facade”.

open closing closed

The cafe is only

seen from the road

“diagonally”. This

lead to the positioning

of the name also

in a “diagonal” way.

The budget was kept

low through the use

of OSB wood as the

basic material.

L block

16 L block

Project architect: Andreas Theodoridis-Stella NIkolakaki


Collaborators: Georgia Nikolakopoulou

Date: 2009

In a famous suburb of Chania, we were asked by a contractor to design an appartment

building that would have a varietion of appartment sizes.

The site had a view of the sea and that was our primary objective, to maximize the

view from all appartments.

The other issue was to try to move away from the sterotype of repeated

floor plans for the different levels of the building.

The idea was to combine split-level appartments with single level appartments, thus

creating L shaped spaces both in section and in plan.

plans of the L shaped appartemnets

second floor plan layout

third floor plan layout

seamless house

17 Seamless house



Date: 2008-2009

In a suburb of Chania city, right next to the sea, with a view of the entire

old Venetian harbor, we were asked to design a house for a family

with one child. The brief included a 40 m2 office space, a guest room

and potentially a swimming pool.

The basic concept for this house was the maximization

of the site’s unique asset, the view. The goal was to design

exterior and interior spaces in such a way that this quality would be

enhanced. So the existing inclination of the site was utilized so as to

“raise” the exterior open spaces and the main living areas. This had

a dual effect. On the one hand it indeed maximized the view from the

entire property and on the other it devided the house into two distinct

parts, thus increasing privacy.

The office became a separate element whose roof is a part of the overall exterior space of the property, a terrace-like extension of the interior living spaces.

On the same level we place the daughter’s master bedroom that has a separate connection to the exterior, as well as a guest bedroom and several utilities.

The level of the terrace/exterior open space is the level of the main living areas. This is where the main entrance of the house is located and it is one continuous

space from the inside to the outside.

The top level is were the main master bedroom is located and it is completely private from the rest of the house.

The house is also devided vertically with an atrium that houses the staircase. This atrium devides the living area in terms of privacy and creates a transition to

the double-heighted living room.

guest bed.

living area

master bed. 2

office

plan-level 0 plan-level 01

master bed. 1

section A-A

plan-level 02

section B-B

d.i.y. office

18 D.I.Y. office


Location: Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece

Date: 2008

"Designing our own office became a project that would be designed

and manufactured entirely by us...and friends.

From the cleaning of the pre-existing warehouse to the construction

of the furniture it was a d.i.y. endeavour".

The office was previously storage space/garage.

There was everything from a car to a telephone

pole.

All this was removed and the entire space remodeled.

We used this as an experiment in construction

techniques and materials. We

tried to use everything ourselves and learn in the

process.

The car was replace by an old VESPA . The cement

floor became industrial flooring, the entrance ramp

became a set of steps and a huge metal-frame

destk was set hanging from the concrete ceiling.

The rest of the furniture was recycled and

remodeled pieces that we found in various

locations.

soft space

19 Soft space


Location: Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece

Date: 2008

Castor Group is a company that imports fashion clothing and accessories.

They are the main dealers for labels such as Marella, Laltra-

Moda, Compagnia Italiana, A-Style, Full Circle, Scunk Funk Buffalo,

Wonderbra and more. Their headquarters are on the fourth floor of

a shopping mall called Ionia Centre in Nea Ionia, Athens. We were

asked by the company to convert two of the shops in the basement

of the shopping mall into showroom–space for potentially up to five

different labels.

The space had to be flexible enough to accommodate

the different needs of each label and at the same time

be able to acquire different spatial arrangements.

The companies that would be on display there were A-Style, Buffalo,

Minus-Ung, Full Circle and Scunk Funk. These companies promote

a more street and urban fashion. This prompted us to create a more

industrial environment using industrial flooring and raw metal.

The concept for this project was based on the notion of

the “limit” and the way one “interfaces” with space in

a more “flexible” manner in three aspects.

The two spaces that we were given were previously retail shops, but were at the

time used as storage space for the company. The central elevator was the only

direct connection to the fourth floor where the rest of the company was based.

space for renovation 02

space for renovation 01

interior of space for

renovation 02

public space

escalators

atrium

existing plan

central elevator

public space

space for

renovation

01

space for

renovation

02

01. The first aspect of the “limit” had to do

with the creation of a literarily flexible space

with malleable limits that would be able to

meet the changing needs of each collection.

This was attempted through the use of an innovative

wall-system called soft wall –

a kind of bendable, foldable and movable fabric

“wall”.

proposal plans

basement

public space “dark” corridor -

showroom

entrances

concealed

linting -

“windows”

configuration 01

maximum separation

configuration 02

reducing separation

configuration 03

reducing separation

configuration 04

rminimumseparation

projection of 30cm

height base

section of 180cm

height wall

permanent hanging

rack

mobile hanging rack

interchangeable docking positions

rack -module suspension-rod

plan of the ceiling with the addition of the grid

for the modular suspension system for the racks

rack module

This system was coupled with

a system of changeable

hanging racks.

This was a modular suspension

system that allowed the

rack modules to change locations

relatively easy. It comprised

of a grid that was attached to the

ceiling bearing docking positions

for the rack-module suspensionrods.

When needed, the module

could be detached and docked to

a new position.

The furniture also had to be

flexible. We thus designed desks

that could be divided when

needed and wheeled to new positions.

02. The second element was

the need to unify the company

offices and other showrooms that

were on the fourth floor with this

new showroom space in the basement

and the need to differentiate

the entrance to this space

from the retail shops next to it.

The response to this need was

to expand the space that was

initially given to us in order to incorporate

part of the public space

of the basement, including the

central elevator. We thus created

a distinct entrance and a direct

connection to the fourth floor via

the elevator.

03. The third aspect of the “limit” had to do with the distinction

between the inside and the outside.

The space we had to design was in the basement without any direct access

to the outside and to natural lighting.

Our response was the creation of the illusion of exteriority and natural

lighting through a series of glass panels that act as lighting fixtures and

turn the solid walls into a “softer” spatial limit.

sliced walls

20 Sliced walls

Project architects: Andreas Theodoridis-Stella Nikolakaki

Location: Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece

Date: 2007

overall plan of the 4th floor

headquarters of Castor group

initial given space that would

be divided into two separete

showrooms

proposal for the

Marella showroom

Castor Group is a company that imports fashion clothing and accessories.

They are the main dealers for labels such as Marella, Laltra-

Moda, Compagnia Italiana, A-Style, Full Circle, Scunk Funk, Buffalo,

Wonderbra and more. Their headquarters are on the fourth floor of

a shopping mall called Ionia Centre in Nea Ionia, Athens. We were

asked by the company to redesign the entrance to their

offices and showrooms and two of their showrooms:

one for Wonderbra and the other for LaltraModa.

The project had to be viewed as a whole as all the spaces at hand were

adjacent to each other. The existing spatial configuration consisted

of a large toilet space outside the company’s entrance, the entrance

with the reception desk and one big showroom of about 230 m², which

was previously used for Marella. This entire space had to be reconfigured

without blocking the use of the company so that there would be

two distinct showrooms. The bigger one was to be used for Marella

and it had to fit the same amount of clothes that the previous one did.

The need for maximazing capacity and practicality led to a curviliniar

organization of the space with “islands” that follow the flow of movement

allowing for an easier manipulation of the clothes.

The same need led to the concept of a “layered” system of organization

of all the vertical elements, including the actual surrounding walls.

This system provided a single gesture that would address all the practical

issues, i.e. surface space for accessories, the hanging rack and a

background for the accentuation of the clothes

surface for accessories

hanging rack


This project

was the testing

ground for two

things. On the

one hand we

took the use of

plaster board

to an extreme

curvilinear

condition and

on the other

we used a new

material called

extenzo – a kind

of expandable

plastic ceiling

– in a way that

it was never

used before in

Greece.


The key issues that had to be addressed in the

design of the showroom for Wonderbra were:

1. Redesigning the general organization of the

spaces at hand so that we are able to maximize

the capacity for clothes.

2. Bringing natural light into the showrooms which

was completely blocked in the previous arrangement.

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raw matter

21 Raw matter

Project architects: Andreas Theodoridis

Collaborators: Lena Chatzitzani and Kostas Kiriakou


Date: 2005

The architectural office of Chatzitzani and Kostas Kiriakou collaborated

with Andreas Theodoridis for the design of their new office

space in Chania. The site was a very long and narrow piece of

land with an old abandoned house on it with access facades to the

roads on the two narrow sides. The requirements were to create open

plan office spaces and a small apartment.

The key issues that had to be addressed were:

1. Taking advantage of the view towards

the sea

2. Taking advantage the dual access to

the roads

3. Making an interesting architectural space

that is both welcoming and “complex”.

plan-level 04 terrace

plan-level 03

plan-level 02

plan-level 01

0 3

The testing ground for this project was the use of exposed concrete in

such a way that it would blend with the diverse environment

ot the old and new city of Chania.

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