“STONE ROUTES”, ELEONAS

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“STONE ROUTES”, ELEONAS

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Residential ›
Commercial › Office Exhibition Center
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
Cultural › Hall/Theater
Educational › Library
Landscape + Planning › Public Park
Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway

Eleonas (Olive Grove), is an inhospitable landscape marked by industrial housings, warehouses, fallow areas and major roads. It is located a few hundred meters west of downtown Athens and it is a large area of urban sprawl as opposed to the rest of Attica and the city of Athens. Wanting to change this unregulated and uncontrolled urbanization, characteristics which were no longer desired in the area of Olive Grove and based on the morphological symbolism and typology of the “Medina” and “Casbah”, I suggest something completely contrary to the "anarchy" in the region. The proposal is characterized by strict principles that define the location and programmatic structure of buildings and plantings. The parallel tracks are strict and structural and provide the Building zones and the planting sites that are placed on the rooftops, while the same tracks highlight the role of the stream just because all the main routes are leading to it. The stream acts as the regulator of movement within the intervention area as the users select routes to follow by just observing the level of the water in the stream. So in this way the paths of the park are not always standard but vary and depend on a variable and dynamic natural element, the “WATER”. The longitudinal, parallel paths start at the level of "hard" Square (concrete) and come to the soft floor of the stream (soil, mud) with some interim changes to the materials of paths and plantings.Next to the existing site is the new football stadium of Athens. The supporters coming out of the metro station, that it is also next to our site, pass in front of the site. That is another reason why I have created a hard concrete surface in front of the proposed buildings. By simply moving the buildings backwards and towards the stream, I have created a course towards the stadium for the supporters that want to get undisturbed to the stadium.The routes start from the hard floor (concrete) and lead towards the soft floor (mud-soil) of the stream with intermediate changes of materials and plantings. On the course towards the stream the routes are “deconstructed” (concrete - stone plates - soil) so the visitor can calculate how far the stream is. In this way the materials form a kind of “orientation device” inside the park. The parallel tracks-routes form the Building zones. On the ground floor public buildings are programmatically formed based on the needs of the surrounding area. Basic modulators of the programmatic structure are the stadium, the nearby Agricultural University of Athens and the site’s industrial past. Restaurants, cafeterias, small convenience stores, libraries, offices, study rooms, workplaces, sports facilities and squares are some of the programs that give life to the site. The rooftop plantings are addressed mainly to the students of Agricultural University of Athens for the needs of their workshops and courses. On the top of the buildings, above of the plantings and near the big “concrete square” is placed a housing unit with ten apartments. In general the proposal is a multiuse park that in collaboration with the stream offers to the visitor a variety of experiences.

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“STONE ROUTES”, ELEONAS

“STONE ROUTES”, ELEONAS

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