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Sport centers are significant energy consumers. This article outlines the engineering design for ... more Sport centers are significant energy consumers. This article outlines the engineering design for a comprehensive energy performance upgrade of the indoor sport hall in Arkalochori, Greece, and presents the projected results. The indoor sport hall constitutes a major sport facility in the mainland of Crete, hosting a broad cluster of sport municipal activities and the official basketball games of the local team in the 2nd national category. Having being constructed in the mid ‘90s, the facility exhibits very low thermal performance, with considerably high U-factors for all constructive elements (from 4 to 5 W/m2∙K), still use of diesel oil for indoor space heating and domestic heat water production and ineffective, old lamps and luminaries covering the lighting needs of the facility. The energy performance upgrade of the indoor sport hall was holistically approached, through all possibly applicable passive and active measures: insulation of opaque surfaces and replacement of openings...
Energies
Sports centres constitute major energy consumers. This article presents the proposed energy perfo... more Sports centres constitute major energy consumers. This article presents the proposed energy performance upgrade process and the achieved results for the municipal sports centre in Arkalochori, Greece. The facility consists of a swimming pool centre, an outdoor 8 × 8 football court, and two tennis and basketball courts. It operates with considerably high energy consumption due to the lack of any measure towards its energy efficiency improvement since its initial construction in 2002. Due to the significantly high heating cost, the swimming pool centre remains operative only during the summer period. The energy performance upgrade of the facility was holistically approached through all possibly applicable passive and active measures: insulation of opaque surfaces and replacement of openings, construction of a new, bioclimatic enclosure for the swimming pool’s centre and conversion of the current outdoor facility to an indoor one, installation of heat pumps for indoor space conditionin...
Hipotesis Serie Alfabetica, 2010
Comentarios Una vez, en la búsqueda de los espacios intermedios, me di cuenta que la manera más f... more Comentarios Una vez, en la búsqueda de los espacios intermedios, me di cuenta que la manera más fácil para encontrarlos es mirar el diccionario. Todas las palabras que tienen enfrente los prefijos ínter-,semi-,pro-,tras-,trans-,pre-,etc, son espacios, lugares, sentimientos, situaciones que se encuentran entre dos polos. Entre dentro y fuera, entre ahora y después, entre la muerte y la vida, etc.
La propuesta que se hace es el enfrentamiento del acto de proyectar arquitectura como constructor... more La propuesta que se hace es el enfrentamiento del acto de proyectar arquitectura como constructor no de edificios sino de situaciones. El objetivo de la ponencia es la aproximación a las experiencias, las acciones y los medios que nutren la capacidad del arquitecto de construir situaciones, es decir, la capacidad del arquitecto de poder sentir y presentar la arquitectura como algo que le envuelve y no como algo que tiene figura. Se hace enfoque especial en la construcción de situaciones en la ciudad contemporánea, que por varios autores se caracteriza como ciudad en ausencia
The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urb... more The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urban space to digital emerging realms . The composite nature of urban spaces -material/ digital -is understood as an opportunity to reconfigure public urban spaces without high-cost, difficult to apply interventions and, furthermore, to reactivate them by inserting dynamic, interactive and playful conditions that engage people and re-establis h their relations to the cities. The structuring of coexisting and interconnected material and digital aspects in public urban s paces is proposed through the implementation of hybridization processes. Hybrid spaces can fa scinate and provoke the public and especially younger people to get involved and interact with physical aspects of urban public spaces as well as digital representations or interpretations of those. Digital game's design in urban public s paces can be comprehended as a tool that allows architects to understand and to configure hybrids of material and digital conceptions and project all in one, as an inseparable totality. Digital technologies have for a long time now intervened in our perception of traditional dipoles such as subject -environment. Architects, es pecially in the past, have been res ponsible for material mediations and tangible interfaces that permit subjects to relate to their physical environments in a controlled and regulated manner; but, nowa days, architects are compelled to embody in design, the transition that is happening in all as pects of everyday life, that is, from material to digital realities. In addition, the disjunctive relation of material and digital realms is ceding and architects are now faced with the challenge that supposes the merging of both in a single, all-inclusive reality. The case study is a design project for a game implemented simultaneously in a s pecific urban space and on the internet. This project developed as the spring semester course New Media in Architecture at the Department of Architecture, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece is situated at the city of Xanthi. Composite cities can use design strategies and technological tools to configure augmented and appealing urban s paces tha t articulate and connect different realms in a single engaging reality.
Hace ocho meses encontramos con mis amigas un congreso de arquitectura que se realizaría en el Pe... more Hace ocho meses encontramos con mis amigas un congreso de arquitectura que se realizaría en el Peloponeseo de Grecia bajo el lema "El papel de la filosofía en la educación arquitectónica".
Frente a la escision entre teoria y praxis que se encuentra la arquitectura y la investigacion ar... more Frente a la escision entre teoria y praxis que se encuentra la arquitectura y la investigacion arquitectonica y frente a los nuevos cambios universitarios y las demandas del mercado se propone, como manera de defenderse y adaptarse a un mundo cambiante, la apertura estructural de la investigacion arquitectonica. El trabajo se enfoca en las condiciones bajo las cuales la indagacion que se interroga sobre el aspecto humano en la arquitectura puede ser "abierta" no solo como trabajo accesible, de un colectivo que se basa en el amor, el respeto y la confianza, sino como estructura flexible y transformable, que sin perder su identidad es capaz de autocrearse.
II Encontro Internacional sobre Educacao Artistica (2EI_EA). presentacion del trabajo de investig... more II Encontro Internacional sobre Educacao Artistica (2EI_EA). presentacion del trabajo de investigacion realizado en el workshop "working with hands" dentro del contexto de A.T.H.E.N.S (Advanced high education network).i2ADS ? Instituto de Investigacao em Arte, Design e Sociedade (Editor)
The human being, attempting to find certainties and escape from the existential abyss, separates ... more The human being, attempting to find certainties and escape from the existential abyss, separates the world into antonyms. Over and above the binary logic, the paper approximates how the philosophy of between contrives the architecture of interstitial thought, and how this architectural approach reshapes the limits of Humanities. This retroactive disciplinary movement appears mediated by the body and corporeal images, as the projective metaphors evoke the reality and become part of it. A variety of philosophical notions, considered as interdisciplinary thinking tools, is used to approach the architectural uncertainty: transindividuality emerges as an operation at a suprastant level for a dynamic association of otherness; the deleuzian fold prioritizes relation, than dualities, and promotes serendipity states: a sense of epiphany and an impression of unforced creative process where things occur naturally. As life and architecture draw the lines in-between dipoles, in the contemporary ...
The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urb... more The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urban space to digital emerging realms. The composite nature of urban spaces ?material/ digital- is understood as an opportunity to reconfigure public urban spaces without high-cost, difficult to apply interventions and, furthermore, to reactivate them by inserting dynamic, interactive and playful conditions that engage people and re-establish their relations to the cities. The structuring of coexisting and interconnected material and digital aspects in public urban spaces is proposed through the implementation of hybridization processes. Hybrid spaces can fascinate and provoke the public and especially younger people to get involved and interact with physical aspects of urban public spaces as well as digital representations or interpretations of those. Digital game?s design in urban public spaces can be comprehended as a tool that allows architects to understand and to configure hybrids of...
The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urb... more The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urban space to digital emerging realms. The composite nature of urban spaces ?material/ digital- is understood as an opportunity to reconfigure public urban spaces without high-cost, difficult to apply interventions and, furthermore, to reactivate them by inserting dynamic, interactive and playful conditions that engage people and re-establish their relations to the cities. The structuring of coexisting and interconnected material and digital aspects in public urban spaces is proposed through the implementation of hybridization processes. Hybrid spaces can fascinate and provoke the public and especially younger people to get involved and interact with physical aspects of urban public spaces as well as digital representations or interpretations of those. Digital game?s design in urban public spaces can be comprehended as a tool that allows architects to understand and to configure hybrids of material and digital conceptions and project all in one, as an inseparable totality. Digital technologies have for a long time now intervened in our perception of traditional dipoles such as subject - environment. Architects, especially in the past, have been responsible for material mediations and tangible interfaces that permit subjects to relate to their physical environments in a controlled and regulated manner; but, nowadays, architects are compelled to embody in design, the transition that is happening in all aspects of everyday life, that is, from material to digital realities. In addition, the disjunctive relation of material and digital realms is ceding and architects are now faced with the challenge that supposes the merging of both in a single, all-inclusive reality. The case study is a design project for a game implemented simultaneously in a specific urban space and on the internet. This project developed as the spring semester course New Media in Architecture at the Department of Architecture, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece is situated at the city of Xanthi. Composite cities can use design strategies and technological tools to configure augmented and appealing urban spaces that articulate and connect different realms in a single engaging reality.
LogIn Design City is a project for the revitalization of public city?s space through the involvem... more LogIn Design City is a project for the revitalization of public city?s space through the involvement of individuals, collectivities and municipalities, managed by a specific team and structured upon an augmented platform. The management system permits the organization of self-managed events and actions, offering support and assistance for the implementation of these actions in the offered spots of the city. Actions can be of cultural, commercial, educational or leisure-oriented nature and depending on their purpose the spots can be offered free of charge or with fees, creating a possibility for remuneration and providing a tool for development in underprivileged zones of the city. An important aspect is the emphasis on the digital outlook of the city, which is structured as an interface that allows communication with the management system and information upon actual, past and upcoming events.
Hipotesis Serie Alfabetica, 2012
Jornadas Sobre Investigacion En Arquitectura Y Urbanismo Iau 2009 Pag 72, 2009
Hipotesis Serie Alfabetica, 2010
Sport centers are significant energy consumers. This article outlines the engineering design for ... more Sport centers are significant energy consumers. This article outlines the engineering design for a comprehensive energy performance upgrade of the indoor sport hall in Arkalochori, Greece, and presents the projected results. The indoor sport hall constitutes a major sport facility in the mainland of Crete, hosting a broad cluster of sport municipal activities and the official basketball games of the local team in the 2nd national category. Having being constructed in the mid ‘90s, the facility exhibits very low thermal performance, with considerably high U-factors for all constructive elements (from 4 to 5 W/m2∙K), still use of diesel oil for indoor space heating and domestic heat water production and ineffective, old lamps and luminaries covering the lighting needs of the facility. The energy performance upgrade of the indoor sport hall was holistically approached, through all possibly applicable passive and active measures: insulation of opaque surfaces and replacement of openings...
Energies
Sports centres constitute major energy consumers. This article presents the proposed energy perfo... more Sports centres constitute major energy consumers. This article presents the proposed energy performance upgrade process and the achieved results for the municipal sports centre in Arkalochori, Greece. The facility consists of a swimming pool centre, an outdoor 8 × 8 football court, and two tennis and basketball courts. It operates with considerably high energy consumption due to the lack of any measure towards its energy efficiency improvement since its initial construction in 2002. Due to the significantly high heating cost, the swimming pool centre remains operative only during the summer period. The energy performance upgrade of the facility was holistically approached through all possibly applicable passive and active measures: insulation of opaque surfaces and replacement of openings, construction of a new, bioclimatic enclosure for the swimming pool’s centre and conversion of the current outdoor facility to an indoor one, installation of heat pumps for indoor space conditionin...
Hipotesis Serie Alfabetica, 2010
Comentarios Una vez, en la búsqueda de los espacios intermedios, me di cuenta que la manera más f... more Comentarios Una vez, en la búsqueda de los espacios intermedios, me di cuenta que la manera más fácil para encontrarlos es mirar el diccionario. Todas las palabras que tienen enfrente los prefijos ínter-,semi-,pro-,tras-,trans-,pre-,etc, son espacios, lugares, sentimientos, situaciones que se encuentran entre dos polos. Entre dentro y fuera, entre ahora y después, entre la muerte y la vida, etc.
La propuesta que se hace es el enfrentamiento del acto de proyectar arquitectura como constructor... more La propuesta que se hace es el enfrentamiento del acto de proyectar arquitectura como constructor no de edificios sino de situaciones. El objetivo de la ponencia es la aproximación a las experiencias, las acciones y los medios que nutren la capacidad del arquitecto de construir situaciones, es decir, la capacidad del arquitecto de poder sentir y presentar la arquitectura como algo que le envuelve y no como algo que tiene figura. Se hace enfoque especial en la construcción de situaciones en la ciudad contemporánea, que por varios autores se caracteriza como ciudad en ausencia
The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urb... more The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urban space to digital emerging realms . The composite nature of urban spaces -material/ digital -is understood as an opportunity to reconfigure public urban spaces without high-cost, difficult to apply interventions and, furthermore, to reactivate them by inserting dynamic, interactive and playful conditions that engage people and re-establis h their relations to the cities. The structuring of coexisting and interconnected material and digital aspects in public urban s paces is proposed through the implementation of hybridization processes. Hybrid spaces can fa scinate and provoke the public and especially younger people to get involved and interact with physical aspects of urban public spaces as well as digital representations or interpretations of those. Digital game's design in urban public s paces can be comprehended as a tool that allows architects to understand and to configure hybrids of material and digital conceptions and project all in one, as an inseparable totality. Digital technologies have for a long time now intervened in our perception of traditional dipoles such as subject -environment. Architects, es pecially in the past, have been res ponsible for material mediations and tangible interfaces that permit subjects to relate to their physical environments in a controlled and regulated manner; but, nowa days, architects are compelled to embody in design, the transition that is happening in all as pects of everyday life, that is, from material to digital realities. In addition, the disjunctive relation of material and digital realms is ceding and architects are now faced with the challenge that supposes the merging of both in a single, all-inclusive reality. The case study is a design project for a game implemented simultaneously in a s pecific urban space and on the internet. This project developed as the spring semester course New Media in Architecture at the Department of Architecture, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece is situated at the city of Xanthi. Composite cities can use design strategies and technological tools to configure augmented and appealing urban s paces tha t articulate and connect different realms in a single engaging reality.
Hace ocho meses encontramos con mis amigas un congreso de arquitectura que se realizaría en el Pe... more Hace ocho meses encontramos con mis amigas un congreso de arquitectura que se realizaría en el Peloponeseo de Grecia bajo el lema "El papel de la filosofía en la educación arquitectónica".
Frente a la escision entre teoria y praxis que se encuentra la arquitectura y la investigacion ar... more Frente a la escision entre teoria y praxis que se encuentra la arquitectura y la investigacion arquitectonica y frente a los nuevos cambios universitarios y las demandas del mercado se propone, como manera de defenderse y adaptarse a un mundo cambiante, la apertura estructural de la investigacion arquitectonica. El trabajo se enfoca en las condiciones bajo las cuales la indagacion que se interroga sobre el aspecto humano en la arquitectura puede ser "abierta" no solo como trabajo accesible, de un colectivo que se basa en el amor, el respeto y la confianza, sino como estructura flexible y transformable, que sin perder su identidad es capaz de autocrearse.
II Encontro Internacional sobre Educacao Artistica (2EI_EA). presentacion del trabajo de investig... more II Encontro Internacional sobre Educacao Artistica (2EI_EA). presentacion del trabajo de investigacion realizado en el workshop "working with hands" dentro del contexto de A.T.H.E.N.S (Advanced high education network).i2ADS ? Instituto de Investigacao em Arte, Design e Sociedade (Editor)
The human being, attempting to find certainties and escape from the existential abyss, separates ... more The human being, attempting to find certainties and escape from the existential abyss, separates the world into antonyms. Over and above the binary logic, the paper approximates how the philosophy of between contrives the architecture of interstitial thought, and how this architectural approach reshapes the limits of Humanities. This retroactive disciplinary movement appears mediated by the body and corporeal images, as the projective metaphors evoke the reality and become part of it. A variety of philosophical notions, considered as interdisciplinary thinking tools, is used to approach the architectural uncertainty: transindividuality emerges as an operation at a suprastant level for a dynamic association of otherness; the deleuzian fold prioritizes relation, than dualities, and promotes serendipity states: a sense of epiphany and an impression of unforced creative process where things occur naturally. As life and architecture draw the lines in-between dipoles, in the contemporary ...
The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urb... more The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urban space to digital emerging realms. The composite nature of urban spaces ?material/ digital- is understood as an opportunity to reconfigure public urban spaces without high-cost, difficult to apply interventions and, furthermore, to reactivate them by inserting dynamic, interactive and playful conditions that engage people and re-establish their relations to the cities. The structuring of coexisting and interconnected material and digital aspects in public urban spaces is proposed through the implementation of hybridization processes. Hybrid spaces can fascinate and provoke the public and especially younger people to get involved and interact with physical aspects of urban public spaces as well as digital representations or interpretations of those. Digital game?s design in urban public spaces can be comprehended as a tool that allows architects to understand and to configure hybrids of...
The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urb... more The proposal highlights certain design strategies and a case study that can link the material urban space to digital emerging realms. The composite nature of urban spaces ?material/ digital- is understood as an opportunity to reconfigure public urban spaces without high-cost, difficult to apply interventions and, furthermore, to reactivate them by inserting dynamic, interactive and playful conditions that engage people and re-establish their relations to the cities. The structuring of coexisting and interconnected material and digital aspects in public urban spaces is proposed through the implementation of hybridization processes. Hybrid spaces can fascinate and provoke the public and especially younger people to get involved and interact with physical aspects of urban public spaces as well as digital representations or interpretations of those. Digital game?s design in urban public spaces can be comprehended as a tool that allows architects to understand and to configure hybrids of material and digital conceptions and project all in one, as an inseparable totality. Digital technologies have for a long time now intervened in our perception of traditional dipoles such as subject - environment. Architects, especially in the past, have been responsible for material mediations and tangible interfaces that permit subjects to relate to their physical environments in a controlled and regulated manner; but, nowadays, architects are compelled to embody in design, the transition that is happening in all aspects of everyday life, that is, from material to digital realities. In addition, the disjunctive relation of material and digital realms is ceding and architects are now faced with the challenge that supposes the merging of both in a single, all-inclusive reality. The case study is a design project for a game implemented simultaneously in a specific urban space and on the internet. This project developed as the spring semester course New Media in Architecture at the Department of Architecture, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece is situated at the city of Xanthi. Composite cities can use design strategies and technological tools to configure augmented and appealing urban spaces that articulate and connect different realms in a single engaging reality.
LogIn Design City is a project for the revitalization of public city?s space through the involvem... more LogIn Design City is a project for the revitalization of public city?s space through the involvement of individuals, collectivities and municipalities, managed by a specific team and structured upon an augmented platform. The management system permits the organization of self-managed events and actions, offering support and assistance for the implementation of these actions in the offered spots of the city. Actions can be of cultural, commercial, educational or leisure-oriented nature and depending on their purpose the spots can be offered free of charge or with fees, creating a possibility for remuneration and providing a tool for development in underprivileged zones of the city. An important aspect is the emphasis on the digital outlook of the city, which is structured as an interface that allows communication with the management system and information upon actual, past and upcoming events.
Hipotesis Serie Alfabetica, 2012
Jornadas Sobre Investigacion En Arquitectura Y Urbanismo Iau 2009 Pag 72, 2009
Hipotesis Serie Alfabetica, 2010