Site Visits
ECOWEEK includes site visits as an integral
part of the ECOWEEK International Conference and Workshops
experience and a tangible way to both learn more about the
place ECOWEEK is taking place, and to see solutions as they
are implemented 'in the real world'.. Read...
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ECOWEEK 2011: Site Visits
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> New Seafront
| Nikiforidis-Cuomo Architects
Thessaloniki's New Seafront is a linear place 3.5
km length and of limited depth. It appears to be a "thin
skin", extended along the difficult to handle with and
also provocative limit between sea and land, between natural
and constructed landscape. Planning on this limit should
coexist and "converse" with water, with nature in its
most unstable form.
The principal planning concept is to keep this strong
linearity of Thessaloniki's New Seafront by two parallel
interventions: The pavement, just on the limit between
land and sea, is a pedestrian area, an esplanade next
to the seafront, linear, continuous, offering an open
and uninterrupted field of vision, and also the sense
of an endless horizon due to the presence of water. In
the inner side of the breakwater, a shaded-walk alley
is offered that creates a quality differentiated walk.
In the opposite logic of the linear pavement, fifteen
green spaces are formed as a succession of "green rooms"
with a thematic characteristic each. The "green rooms"
follow different ways of synthetic language, glorifying
the familiar and the private although creating new collective
spaces in the urban scale.
Apart from the gardens that have already been constructed,
which are; the Garden of Music, the Water Garden, the
Garden of Memory, the Rose Garden and the Garden of Sound,
the rest of the project, which includes the Sculpture
Garden, the Mediterranean Garden, the Garden of Odysseus
Fokas, the Seasons' Garden, the Shade's Garden, the Garden
of Sand, the Garden of Sunset and Alexander's Garden,
is going to be realized soon.
The visit is included in the workshop registration
fee.
Date of visit: Sunday, April 3, 2011, at 10 am
Visit groups: Two groups limited to 25 people
each. One guided site visit will be realised in Greek
and the other in English.
Visit guides: P. Nikiforidis, B. Cuomo, E. Konstandara
& P. Tarani.
Meeting places:
Greek Language group: Garden of Sound (Istioploikos Omilos).
English language group: Garden of Music (Thessaloniki's
Concert Hall).
Pre-Registration is required to join this site visit.
Pre-Register at the REGISTRATION COUNTER on Monday March
28, 2011.
Pictures of the park: click
here
Article in Kathimerini: click
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ECOWEEK thanks Nikiforidis
- Cuomo Architects Prodromos Nikiforidis and Bernard Cuomo,
and associates Paraskevi Tarani and E. Konstandara for
the courtesy of this site visit. |
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> Site visit to
ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE, AMERICAN
FARM SCHOOL, THESSALONIKI 2010 [B]GREEN AWARD, 1st Price
| P.Makridis & Associates Architects
The three-story, 4,000m2 'Aliki Perroti Student Residence'
is located near the main entrance of the American Farm
School. It combines dormitory rooms to house 96 students
of Perrotis College, an Assembly Hall with communal spaces
of multiple functions, reading, sitting and playing areas,
an Auditorium with exclusive access, as well as a new
Restaurant.
Principles of sustainable architecture are applied to
every aspect of the structure. The shape of the building
is linear on an east-west axis, with the majority of dormitory
rooms facing south. Natural lighting and heating are therefore
maximized. All rooms have access to individual balconies
or terraces that are designed to ensure sun protection
from the south in the summer.
The complex is constructed on three levels following the
inclination of the land. It consists of simple geometric
forms with flat roofs. Sections of sloping roofs serve
as solar energy collectors connected to heat storage tanks.
These sloping roofs also work as natural lighting and
ventilation chimneys, directing natural light down into
the three floors of corridors. For this purpose, sections
of the corridors are detached from the sidewalls, creating
gaps, to maximize natural lighting and ensuring natural
ventilation in all areas.
The Aliki Perroti Student Residence gives the feeling
of harmonious dialogue with the open space. The building's
volume is interrupted by broad planted areas with drought-tolerant
Mediterranean flora. Much of the roof is planted with
pergolas creating shaded areas that provide a pleasant
resting set for the students, improving at the same time
the insulation and the reduction of greenhouse gases.
All construction materials were selected for their suitability
to the local climate, their aesthetic value and their
low maintenance requirements. Emphasis was given to the
use of highly efficient and recyclable thermal and hydro
insulation materials. The building' shell is constructed
with handmade ceramic bricks and panels of oxidized steel
(Corten).
The visit is included in the workshop registration fee.
Date of visit: Sunday, April 3, 2011,
at 10 am.
Guided visit in English.
Visit guide: P. Makridis
Meeting Place: Aliki Perroti Student Residence,
American Farm School.
Pre-Registration is required to join this site visit.
Pre-Register at the REGISTRATION COUNTER on Monday March
28, 2011. |
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> Exhibition 'Leonardo da Vinci - Inventor
and Scientist'
The Exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci - Inventor and
Scientist" is a unique cultural event. Visitors have
the chance to admire 118 handmade replicas of world
famous drawings, notebooks, rough sketches and letters
of the archetype man of Renaissance, presented in thematic
fields. At the same time, they can examine and operate
25 3D models, which have been constructed by specialized
craftsmen, who followed the drawings of Leonardo da
Vinci with extreme accuracy. Furthermore, they will
have the chance to learn about the Renaissance through
12 multimedia stations, which operate in the exhibition
facilities, along with texts and 8,000 pictures. Since
1997, the exhibition has been hosted in science, history,
natural history and art museums in three continents,
with over 4,700,000 visitors. Indicatively, the works
were exhibited in Sweden, the Netherlands, the U.S.A.,
South Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, Switzerland, Germany,
Austria, Singapore, Canada, Slovenia and Bulgaria. More
specifically, in Europe the exhibition has attracted
more than 1,800,000 visitors until today, and has been
presented in different cities.
Entrance to the exhibition costs 4 euro per person.
The cost of this tour is not included in the workshop
registration fee.
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, at 10:00-12:00.
Visit guide: Exhibition staff
Meeting place: 'Mylos'
Andreou Georgiou 56, Thessaloniki.
Participation is limited to 30 people.
Pre-Registration is required to join this site visit.
Pre-Register at the REGISTRATION COUNTER on Monday March
28, 2011.
Read more about the exhibition: click
here
> In case you missed this tour and you wish to
visit the exhibition, you can do so on your own, and
join one of the tours on site.
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> Macedonian Museum
of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
In the history of the Modern Greek visual arts, the
Macedonian Centre of Contemporary Art and the Macedonian
Museum of Contemporary Art represent a remarkable achievement
of individual initiative, initiated in 1978 with a collection
donation by Alexandros Iolas.
Entrance to the museum is free - only for ECOWEEK participants,
by showing your ECOWEEK Registration tag. Otherwise, the
entrance is 2 euro per person (the cost of this tour is
not included in the workshop registration fee).
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, at 14:00-15:00.
Visit guide: Macedonian Museum staff
Meeting place: Entrance lobby of Macedonian Museum.
Participation is limited to 30 people.
Pre-Registration is required to join this site visit.
Pre-Register at the REGISTRATION COUNTER on Monday March
28, 2011.
Read more about the Museum: click
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> Site visit to
Historic Thessaloniki
How can one visit Thessaloniki for a workshop and
not visit this historic city? Thessaloniki dates back
to Alexander the Great, and has been home to a patchwork
of cultures and religions, expressed in the historic Architecture
of the city. The site visit will include sites of historic
and architectural interest within the boundaries of the
historic city center.
This unique site visit costs 25 euro per person (incl.
4-6 euro entry to each Byzantine and/or Archaeological
Museums). The cost of this tour is not included in the
workshop registration fee.
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, at 10:00-14:00.
Visit guide: Maria Kiriakidou, Easy Guide (Thessaloniki)
Meeting place: The White Tower ('Lefkos Pyrgos').
Participation is limited to 50 people and minimum participation
18 people.
Pre-Registration is required to join this site visit.
Pre-Register at the REGISTRATION COUNTER on Monday March
28, 2011.
Read more about Thessaloniki (wikipedia): click
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ECOWEEK GUIDED SITE
VISITS
ECOWEEK 2005 & 2006 & 2007 included guided site
visits to passive solar and ecological houses with architects
Alexandros Tombazis and Kostas Tsipiras in Aegina island.
ECOWEEK 2008 included a special site visit to the New
Acropolis Museum in Athens, immediately after its completion,
and one year before it was officially opened to the public.
The site visit was guided by architect Michael Photiadis,
who, together with architect Bernard Tchumi, designed the
new museum.
ECOWEEK 2009 included a number of special guided tours
to the former international airport of Athens at Hellinikon
guided by Landscape Architect Thomas Doxiadis; to the new
recycling factory by Envitec SA at A. Liosia; a guided tour
to the passive-solar offices of Meletitiki with award-winning
architect Alexandros Tombazis; a guided tour and lecture about
the first energy autonomous building in Greece courtesy of
Sol Energy Hellas; a tour at a windfarm in Attica guided by
Vestas SA - manufacturer of the wind turbines; a guided visit
to the methane biogas factoray at A. Liosia courtesy of BEAL
SA; and a visit to one of the first green roofs of Athens,
on top of the OSE building in the center of Athens, courtesy
of Landco SA.
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