stavros k. dendrinos portfolio

DR STAVROS K. DENDRINOS

SELECTED WORK

RESIDENTIAL

HOSPITALITY

OFFICES

CULTURE

WRITINGS

TEACHING

MASTER PLAN /

LANDSCAPE

EDUCATION

ContentsA Family house 4

Two Semi-Detached Houses 8

Three Flats over a Showroom 10

A Family Villa 12

Condominium 14

Housing Complex 16

Cyclades Housing Complex 20

Island Summer House 22

Summer House on the Peloponese 24

Notos Rooms Complex 26

Resort Master Plan 27

5* Hotel +Spa 28

School for Autistic Children 30

Agricultural Bank of Greece 32

National Bank of Greece 34

Central Cyprus Electricity Offices 35

Egoni City Hall 36

Pavillion for the Olympic games 38

Ionian Naval Museum 40

History Digital Museum 42

Pireaus Railway Station Conference Centre 44

Cultural Centre 46

Agia Sofia Axis Redevelopment 48Redevelopment of Athens’ + Calymnos’ island costal areas 50

The Burrow 52

Movement and transitional spaces as the key as-pects of the articulation of architectural concept, context and content 54

The limits of public space in modern cities 56

Teaching 58

Location: AthensProgramme: ResidentialStatus: BuiltBudget: 600,000 EUR

A Family house

Front Elevation

Plans

Rear Elevation

4Dr Stavros K. Dendrinos

5Selected Work

Axonometric Sketch

Sectional Sketch / Circulation Diagram


Kitchen and dinning area

Bathroom Stairway with bookcase

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Two Semi-Detached Houses

Principles of passive cooling and diffusion of direct daylight that were employed in the design.


Axonometric

Materiality and light

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Location: AthensProgramme: Mixed Use (Residential, Exhibition)Status: BuiltBudget: 1,050,000 EUR

Three Flats over a Showroom

Elevation


Residential Floor Plan

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Location: AthensProgramme: ResidentialStatus: Under constructionBudget: 900,000 EUR

A Family Villa

Perspective View

Front Elevation Side Elevation Rear Elevation


Ground Floor Plan

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Condominium

Perspective ViewSection A-A

Typical Floor Plan


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Location: AthensProgramme: Mixed use (Residential, Commercial, Retail)Status: BuiltBudget: 6,500,000 EUR

Housing Complexatrium-court


Plan

Front Elevation

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Location: MykonosProgramme: Mixed use (residential, commercial, retail)Status: BuiltBudget: 2,500,000 EUR

Cyclades Housing Complex


Front Elevation

Site Plan

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Location: SerifosProgramme: ResidentialStatus: On HoldBudget: 700,000 EUR

Island Summer House

Perspective view of the main facade

Top view

Sketch Elevation


Birds eye view of the house within its natural site context of the rocks, sea and sky.

Ground Floor Plan

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Ground Floor Plan

Location: PylosProgramme: ResidentialStatus: On HoldBudget: 400,000 EUR

Summer House on the Peloponese


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Location: FolegandrosProgramme: HotelStatus: BuiltBudget: 800,000 EUR

Notos Rooms Complex

Site Plan

Location: FolegandrosProgramme: HotelStatus: BuiltBudget: 800,000 EUR

Notos Rooms Complex


Location: SamothrakiProgramme: HotelStatus: Master PlanBudget: 4,000,000 EUR

Resort Master Plan

Site Plan

Concept Sketch

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Location:Macedonia

Programme: HotelStatus: MadterplanBudget: 25.000,000 EUR

5* Hotel + Spa


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Location: AthensProgramme: EducationStatus: BuiltBudget: 24,500,000 EUR

School for Autistic Children


Ground Floor Plan

Long Section

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Location: AthensProgramme: OfficesStatus: UnrealisedBudget: 8,500,000 EUR

Agricultural Bank of Greece

Concept Sketch

Cross Section

Typical Floor Plan


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Location: AthensProgramme: OfficesStatus: Competition: 4th PrizeBudget: 18,500,000 EUR

National Bank of Greece

Primary View Perspective

First Floor PlanCross Section A-A


Location: NikosiaProgramme: OfficesStatus: CompetitionBudget: 22,000,000 EUR

Central Cyprus Electricity Offi ces

Site Plan

Side Elevation

Cross Section displaying passive cooling and solar gain principles

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Location: Egoni, CyprusProgramme: Civic OfficesStatus: Competition: 2nd prizeBudget: 17,500,000 EUR

Egoni City Hall

Cross Section through courtyard

Side Elevation

Site Plan


Physical Model

37Selected Work

Location: AthensProgramme: Info pointStatus: UnrealisedBudget: 1,000,000 EUR

Pavillion for the Olympic games


39Selected Work

Location: AthensProgramme: MuseumStatus: Competition: 1st Prize, Under constructionBudget: 9,500,000 EUR

Ionian Naval Museum

Physical Model

Cross Section

Cross Section through Site


Ground Floor Plan

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Location: SpartiProgramme: MuseumStatus: Unrealised, On HoldBudget: 9,500,000 EUR

History Digital Museum


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Location: PireausProgramme: Conference CentreStatus: Concept DesignBudget: 15,500,000 EUR

Pireaus Railway Station Conference Centre

Cross Section

Long Section


Location: AthensProgramme: Cultural CentreStatus: Concept DesignBudget: 10,500,000 EUR

Cultural Centre

Side Elevation

Ground Floor Plan

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Location: ThessalonikiProgramme: Master PlanStatus: CompetitionBudget: TBD

Agia Sofi a Axis Redevelopment

The basic concept of the proposal is the perceptual con-

nection of time and space. The revelation of the hidden

dimension of time and history of the city in space.

It is our belief, that time and space in order to be-

come objects of perception and thought, they have

to be simultaneously present and each one solely

determined by the presence of the other. So a system

of elements is invented in order to connect conceptu-

al experience of the monuments, buildings and statues

of the given area with time and the history of the city.

A timeline, a diagram of the evolution of the city of Thes-

saloniki, of its history and monuments revealed on a

marked pedestrian path running across the whole area,

caring information about the decisive chronologies of

the monuments, the historic events that determined the

character and specifi c elements of the city and the dif-

ferent eras that specifi c buildings represent. This path

works as a means of rediscovering the specifi c area

and with focused handlings, a means of creating a net-

work of places around three major squares, that endures

and enriches existing qualities in the axis of Ahiropiitos

– Ag. Sofi a. We believe that this idea can expand and

can be the landmark of Thessaloniki as far as important

archaeological sites, monuments and buildings are con-

cerned, inviting people from all around the world to walk

in a city that you can feel its history even without a guide.

Furthermore, we intend to create here a linear park of

different species of regional plants that combained with

targeted bioclimatic politics, can reform this area into

a sustainable fi eld. A fi eld that can improve the feeling

of walking around the three squares and create an at-

tractive area to calm down, to take part of a cultur-

al or religion event, to shop, or to be a part of the cit-

ies nightlife. A low cost concept with a great impact.


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Location: AthensProgramme: Master PlansStatus: On HoldBudget: 23.500.000

Redevelopment of Athens’ + Calymnos’ island costal areas


Location: CalymnosProgramme: Master PlanStatus: On HoldBudget: 48.500.000

49Selected Work

Based on Kafka’s short story, The Burrow, in which an

unspecifi ed creature creates an underground labyrinth of

tunnels and chambers which becomes a de facto city for

one individual, we will ask children to fabricate their own

system based on the premise that they are mole-like

creatures seeking comfort, security and protection.

These children will be introduced to the possibility of

thinking of their shelter as a second skin (a home) and

also as a community endeavor that can be likened to

a village or possibly city. They will be encouraged to

furnish it with elements they think vital for their survival,

whether on a practical level through creating function-

al spaces such as kitchens or bedrooms, or through

artwork and decoration. The workshop organizers will

allude to the solipsistic nature of Kafka’s creature and

ask the participants to envision what this creature might

look like and to describe the nature of the burrow.

We will have the children consider questions which may

reveal their philosophies of shelter, housing, community

– thereby circumventing the metaphoric menace of this

story – but revealing, nonetheless, underlying attitudes

begun in childhood and which continue to infl uence the

construction of our environment as adults.

Types of questions we will ask the children to consider:

• Is this burrow for one or many? If many, how do you

turn around, pass by each other, and share space?

• Does the shape matter? Does the size matter if it is

for one? For more than one?

• What functions does the burrow have? – i.e. is it for

immediate needs such as food/sleep/loo? or is it to

keep other creatures out?

• Is there a climate inside? What happens with breath?

• Will it provide room for other functions? If so, what kind?

• Is it one burrow among many? Do others connect to it?

• Is it only a fantasy space? Can it be an imaginary

space inside your head?

• Is it safe? Does it need to be protected? What

makes it safe, or how would you protect it?

• Which is more important when creating the burrow

– do you look from the inside to outside, or consider

the outside the more important?

In practical terms, the project will be divided into three

elements and overseen by three teams of adults:

• Creation of the skin/shapes and decoration outside

• Adjustments and decoration inside

• Creation of the artworks and writings to be included

both in the interior of the shapes and on an ‘artwork

wall’ where reactions to the project are documented

through a combination of writing and art work.

Location: LondonProgramme: LandscapeStatus: CompetitionBudget: TBD

The Burrow

The Site


Construction Concept Design Attributes

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Doctoral thesis

Movement and transitional

spaces as the key aspects of

the articulation of architectural

concept, context and content

Abstract

The aforementioned research fi eld, as formed through my

thesis, is aiming to highlight the prepositional movement of

the human, the transition, as a primary element of the per-

ceptual articulation and the notional record of architecture,

ultimately as a primary element of the understanding of its

identity but also of the “world” in general.

As argued extensively in his thesis, our fi rst experiences

of the world originate from our movement in it, from our

transition from a defi ned in terms of space and time posi-

tion to another one. The movement defi nes our relations

and our actions, our place in the world as a material or

social environment. It is our medium to communicate with

the others. Our direct experiential as much as our more

complex cultural perception is structured based on kinaes-

thetic experiences.

It is therefore attempted to validate the research hypoth-

esis that through this deliberate movement we perceive

and eventually understand the elements composing the

“world” we are supposed to live in. This procedure, is di-

rectly correlated to the human need for habitat and is an

expression of the human provision.

The previous research undertakings presuppose the con-

stitution of a basic theoretical and methodological basis.

The theoretic validation of the axiomatic sequence of this

basic reasoning constitutes the Part A of this research and

spreads over chapters 3-4. As the main philosophical ap-

proach of the research is selected the phenomenology.

We remind that the term “Phenomenology was introduced

in philosophical literature in the 18th century by Johann

Lambert (1728-1777) to declare the tutoring of perceptible

experience.” It was later associated with the philosophi-

cal approaches of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger,

and also with that philosophical approach of Immanuel

Kant, in which the two most important preachers of phe-

nomenology were quoted directly or indirectly.

Here follow the principles and axioms which comprise

the main research in Part A:

1.The human being, as every kind of being, is associated

with the notions of space and time.

“Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) analysed the phenomeno-

logical dimension of the objects of experience, in contrast

to the a priori character of the preconditions of the latter,

meaning the forms of supervising time and space and the

classes of mind.”

2.The movement of human in time and space is a process

to recognise and distinguish the identity of the phenomena


movement, structure, idea are the main tools of this the-

sis through the approach of phenomenology. But they are

also the main issues we will deal with later.

Although phenomenology has many times become the ba-

sis for theoretical discussions on Architecture, the close

relation of being with time and provision (M. Heidegger)

and in immediate relation with movement and change (I.

Kant) was rarely a start of such theoretical searches. The

methodological circumvention of E. Husserl’s conscious-

ness, phenomenological deduction, and the evaluation of

this process through provision (M. Heidegger) and transi-

tion, through the dipole change-movement (I. Kant), is an

important element of this thesis.

Part B of the thesis

In the second part of the thesis we approach how all

that elements, which are inseparable from the human

nature, express the human need to understand the

world and take action within it, to inhibit the world (in

other words what we have described as provision), are

expressed in architecture.

During her/his transition, the rational and intentional move-

ment within the world, the human creates structural cor-

relations in her/his mind independently of inhabiting the

natural or built urban environment. In this sense, archi-

tecture should serve this need in the best possible way.

In other words, when my intentional movement leads me

from one side of the city or the building to another, archi-

tecture should support this action having embedded it in

the urban web or the building.

However, this demand faces the counter argument that dif-

ferent users might not perceive and react similarly to given

spatial sequences and structural complexes. That is why

the second part of this thesis focuses on the analysis of ar-

chitectural features, with the broader sense of habitation,

and which we would dare to call not cultural ones.

The concepts of position and easy orientation, of center

and sequence, the dipoles concave-convex, light-darkness,

rough-smooth, and the pursuit of features such as the pre-

sentation of the common and public and the concealment

of the internal and introvert, or even more the reference of

a community to a place of gathering or worship are only

some of the features that we could argue that architecture

of every shape and scale should use to activate the rela-

tionship of the human with the constructed environment.

Another argument of the thesis is that what we call rupture

of human and nature, beyond the amassment in super-

sized urban centers, is the diffi culty to identify in an con-

structed environment the structural principles which fulfi ll

the human needs for habitation and action within the world.

Part C of the thesis

Finally in the third part of this thesis, all those principles,

structural relations and features are examined through a

single example. In an effort to minimize the distance be-

tween intention and result this example is a result of per-

sonal composition in the N.T.U.A and crystallizes my in-

tense pursuit of all the issues raised by this thesis.

composing the image for the world.

3.Movement as a simultaneously physical and notional pro-

cess is a vehicle for distinguishing and changing the phe-

nomena which create the content and the image of the world.

In Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason we fi nd a

more extended reference on change and movement.

More specifi cally:

“The meaning of change together with the meaning of

movement is only possible through the presence of time. If

such presence were not an a priori -internal- supervision, no

meaning of change could exist i.e that would connect contra-

dicting categorems in one sole object. Only in time it is pos-

sible to ascribe two contradicting denotations consecutively.”

4.The expression of human provision during his/her

movement within the world as a process of identifying and

ascribing structural attributes to the phenomena which en-

circle him/her and which are being perceived through the

senses, transforms this movement to a rational and inten-

tional quest within the world. It transforms this movement

to an eternal transition.

According to Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), the method of

phenomenology is a description of the consciousness data

in a protogenic and protoempirical phase, a phase during

which objects are handled by the consciousness exactly

as they appear as pure phenomena, independently of any

reference to their causes, independently of any relevant

emotional situations, judgements, analysis, to which there

are related by the consciousness at a later phase.

Then, through the phenomenological deduction and the

eidetic deduction, consciousness attempts to move to the

aspect of the matter, to the understanding of stable and

necessary structure of objects, which are paralleled by

E. Husserl to the ideas of Plato. Phenomena are replicas

and pictures of those ideas, objects that we understand

through our senses.

Standing between existentialism and phenomenology, M.

Heidegger (1889-1976) connects the existence with time

in his book Sein und Zeit (translated as Being and Time),

which is using the phenomenological approach. Provision,

or bio-provision replaces E. Husserl’s consciousness.

5. The meaning of spatial concept as entity characterized

by the retention of the structural elements and meanings

during the succession of points of time can be perceived

only through the transition of the subject, a physical or no-

tional transition.structure of any object is attempted”. E.

Husserl goes up to the point to compare this fi xed structure

to Plato’s “Idea”. Does transition as provision is a search

for the fi xed structure of some elements of the world?

Does being is present in the world through provision and

rational movement, transition? Moreover, is the idea, the

understanding and record of the structure a notional con-

struction of the image of the world through the projection

of its image to some of its elements?

The argument of this thesis towards the aforementioned

questions is affi rmative. But it is an affi rmative to ques-

tions posed through the approach of the phenomenolo-

gy philosophical system. Being, time, provision, change,

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Conference Paper

The limits of public space in

modern cities

Section: 2. Present Urbanism

Conference: Public Space... In Search of.

Abstract

Led by provision, the human being is forced into an end-

less struggle to provide for the best possible living condi-

tions. Only by moving, carefully observing and thinking,

mostly in the way of organizing the observed, is it possible

to approach the internal order that provides meaning to

the world. However, movement in the modern cities ap-

pears to be mostly in terms of getting somewhere and

coming back, regardless of all the in-between places or

people that we come across. This leads to an era of a new

perception that focuses on the short-lasting importance

of everything. At this point the existential fear that the ab-

sence of place evokes, arises.

Modern cities are transformed into a series of points and

directions. Any perceptual or structural element existing

in the process of their creation or history is undermined or

buried under the tracks of millions of people entering the

underground or fi nding their way home from work. There-

fore, the consistency of the city is deteriorating and it can

no longer provide a network of places, “topos”, where hu-

man activities of all kind can unfold. On top of that the


irrational growth of most of our known cities, even the new

metropolies of the modern world, leads to an underesti-

mation of the role of public space as the centre of com-

munity life, a “topos” where people meet, discuss, demon-

strate, argue, fi ght, love, learn, have fun, sing, read, a

place where you can express yourself in public and feel

an active member of a society - a feeling that can provide

new dynamic relations in between people and city areas,

and bring back to the cities a new cultural, educational,

historical and perceptual structure overcoming or under-

lining the tracks of the existing one.

The growth of the cities without an overall scheme control

degenerates the role of the centre and of its surrounding

cores of public space, and leads us to a further search

of the community life aspects of urban design. Follow-

ing those thoughts, the essence of place, “topos”, as a

site composition of points and directions in the “infi nitive

theatre of movement” into space, the junction of places

through different roles of movement, the importance of

limits towards a “concrete” urban structure will be the fi rst

elements of this approach. Bringing forward the percep-

tion of limits between “earth and sky” as an element of

tremendous importance in the creation of urban hierarchy,

we can state that limits provide the organic junction of the

separate elements used in urban design.

The role of open public spaces is vital for the redefi nition

of that hierarchy and for the creation of a network of ser-

vices and actions that will allow the reactivation of urban

centres and their integration into their inhabitants’ every

day corporeal experience. The everlasting human need

for the ideal city in terms of small coherent cores of so-

cial life is only possible today by the organic articulation

of those kind of cores into large city complexes that are

forced to evolve rapidly; an evolution procedure that is

also needed to be radical and dynamic. The only way to

invert the irrational and non systematic evolution of the

cities is to carefully observe and then provide a new hier-

archy in the existing and proposed city elements in such

a way that each one of them can reveal their existent or

hidden essence. It is time that we seek simple practices

so that the coherent and dynamic character of the cities

emerges through a new network of structural and social

bearings; an essential network that will lead to the organic

re-articulation of their parts.

The approach that we are proposing is to focus on the

manipulation of existing and the creation of new bound-

aries, in the sense of articulation and conjunction lines,

movements and surfaces, which will clarify the hidden hi-

erarchy of the city’s public open spaces and unfold a se-

quence of perceptual, kinaesthetic and social correlations

among them.

This approach also examines its basic argument in two

different scales of city structure, that of the coherent hous-

ing cores or neighbourhoods, that surround the centre and

that of the large-scale city centre that will be considered

as the basic organ of the city.

At each scale we will examine three separate factors: the

manipulation of horizontal and vertical boundaries that

evoke the importance and essence of public open spaces,

the manipulation of the boundaries of the buildings that

surround and orientate them, and fi nally, the adjustment

of circulation and movements as non-material boundaries

that allow the rise of perceptional and structural bonds in

the cities.

To conclude, we believe that cities should be examined

as a whole, but different approaches should be followed

for different densities and different urban function areas.

On top of that, as “space is always de facto fi lled - it is

never without a body” buildings and open public spaces

contribute equally to the true impact of urban space.

Finally, movement and limits are the basic elements of

perception and understanding of space and, therefore,

our basic tools in our struggle to create living spaces

through architecture.

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Democritus University of ThraceArchitecture and UrbanismSenior LecturerYears 2-5

Student Work Samples

Teaching


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Dr. Stavros K. Dendrinos

Dr Stavros K. Dendrinos

Architect ARB 07933C

a: 34 Porchester Square

London, W2 6AT

UK

e: [email protected]

m: +44 (0) 7582 712 749

t: +44 (0) 207 26 21 780

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