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...

 

ECOWEEK 2011: Site Visits

   


> 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 here (Greek)
   
  ECOWEEK thanks Nikiforidis - Cuomo Architects Prodromos Nikiforidis and Bernard Cuomo, and associates Paraskevi Tarani and E. Konstandara for the courtesy of this site visit.
   
> 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.
   

> 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.

   
> 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 here
   
> 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 here
   

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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