National Technical University of Athens-School of Architecture
Thesis Project, Summer Semester 2013
Student: Papageorgiou Dimitrios
Professors: Kafritsa Maria, Karamanea Panita
 
Main subject of our diploma thesis, was to analyze and manage landscape as natural city infrastructure, a factory/production process rather than just focusing on natural and aesthetic values of it.
 
After choosing Eastern Attica as our case study, we followed an extensive analytical path which allowed us to categorize in different network grids natural and man-made characteristics of our area. This tactic, made possible for us to layout a map/diagram, ultimately a guide for what we call a “design acupuncture”. Each area in focus, is now analyzed both as a web of denser and sparser individual networks as well as a concrete object.
 
The combination of these new-found possibilities of analysis and our big interest on water processes, led us to the highlighting of a blue corridor through Eastern Attica. A connection across multiple points of interest(natural,cultural,recreational) which utilizes basic natural flows and is strengthened by city sewage, after a thorough cleansing in alternative water treatment plants across the area of interest.
 
Out of all these blue spots, we decided to focus our intervention in the quarry area at the hillside of Merenta hill. We intend to create a holistic design strategy, through which, the quarry and adjacent settlements connect through urban water production, creating a recreational green park as well as a water treatment plant



Archisearch - CENTRAL LAKE AREACENTRAL LAKE AREA
Archisearch - WATER TREATMENT AREAWATER TREATMENT AREA
Archisearch - MASTERPLANMASTERPLAN
Archisearch - DESIGN PROCESSDESIGN PROCESS
Archisearch - INTERVENTIONINTERVENTION
Archisearch - QUARRY DIAGRAMS OF SPATIAL ANALYSISQUARRY DIAGRAMS OF SPATIAL ANALYSIS
Archisearch - HOLISTIC APPROACH BEFORE_AFTERHOLISTIC APPROACH BEFORE_AFTER
Archisearch - BLUE CORRIDORBLUE CORRIDOR
Archisearch - STRATEGIC ACUPUNCTURE DIAGRAMSTRATEGIC ACUPUNCTURE DIAGRAM
Archisearch - NETWORKS ALTERATIONSNETWORKS ALTERATIONS
Archisearch - EASTERN ATTICA_ANALYSISEASTERN ATTICA_ANALYSIS
Archisearch - WATER TREATMENTWATER TREATMENT
Archisearch - WATER INFOWATER INFO
Archisearch - POINT OF INTERVENTIONPOINT OF INTERVENTION

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