Site plan
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1983
Museum and Monument for the city of Athens
Museum sections
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The thesis project proposes to transform an abandoned quarry site on a hill on the periphery of Athens central into a civic place through a reversal of the environmental deterioration by proposing the superimposition of a “cultural” landscape over the artificial “lunar” landscape. This would include a museum for the city itself taking advantage of the unlimited views to the city and a monumental structure. This piece of sculpture of urban proportions would serve as a reference point to the city, while the museum would focus on unveiling the layers of history of the city stretching beneath. The museum would be a building that looks to the city, whereas the monument would be a reference point for the city to look at. The formal vocabulary of the project maintains a clear grid pattern and a modernist syntax, while it attempts to establish a rigorous dialogue between the amorphous, unintentionally sculpture-like man-made landscape and the formal, rectilinear architectural principle of proposed programme. It also appears as a formal abstraction of the typology of the typical four-storey residential unit the city consists of, inviting a critical approach to the “making” process of the city itself.
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Collaborator: Nikos Haritos
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