Hellinikon Metropolitan Park
Athens
Forum and Workshop by Elia
Zenghelis
Athens and Spetses
13-20 September 2003
The
Berlage Institute organizes an international forum and workshop
for young architects in collaboration with the Mies van der Rohe
Foundation (Barcelona) and the Institut Français d’Architecture
(Paris). This event is the third of a series of three within the
framework of the GAUDI program. Local partners are the Greek
Ministry of Culture and the Patras School
of
Architecture.
Brief
The brief is to investigate the possibilities of creation
of a new type of metropolitan park on the site of the former
airport at Hellinikon. The Hellinikon site provides 530 hectares
for
the development of parkscape with various urban programs. The
brief for the studio is attached.
Preparation (homework)
In preparation for the workshop, each participating school is to
form a team that will produce a proposal for its allocated sector,
in accordance with the requirements set out in the attached brief.
These proposals will be presented on the first day of the workshop
in Athens, in a full-fledged review.
Reader
A careful study of the Reader should be made: the reader is being
prepared by Professor Yannis Aesopos and his team at the Patras
School of Architecture. The reader will be distributed
to the participating schools on the 15th of July.
Master
The workshop will be mastered by Elia Zenghelis, architect and
partner in Gigantes Zenghelis Architects, Brussels. The assistant
to Elia Zenghelis will be Pier Vittorio Aureli. The workshop
will be coordinated and the forum debate will be moderated by
Vedran Mimica, assistant dean of the Berlage Institute.
External expert for the workshop is Adriaan Geuze (West 8, Rotterdam).
As guest lecturers will be invited (among others) Peter Eisenman,
Bernard Tschumi, Andrea Branzi, Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Stefano
Boeri.
Participants
The workshop will have 32 participants from four countries:
- L’Ecole
d’Architecture de Lille (France)
- ETSAB (Spain)
- Berlage Institute (Netherlands)
- Patras School of Architecture (Greece)
- Participants are selected by their
schools.
Collaborators
- Mies van der Rohe Foundation/ETSAB, Lluis Hortet, Xavier Costa
- Institut Français d’Architecture,
Jean-Louis Cohen, Fiona Meadows
- Greek Ministry of Culture, Maria Theodorou
- University of Patras - School of Architecture,
Yannis Aesopos, Nicos Polydorides
- Berlage Institute, Vedran Mimica
Accommodation
The accommodation in Athens on 13 and 14 September and on 20
September will be announced. On the island of Spetses (15-19
September),
participants will be accommodated in the facilities of the
Anargyros School, an old boarding school built in the early
1920’s.
The Patras School of Architecture will provide a dormitory
and a studio space in two adjacent buildings, both on the beach.
Expenses
Participation and accommodation are free of charge. Travel expenses,
meals and other costs are covered by the participants and/or
their schools.
Publication
The results of the workshop and a report of the forum will be published
and exhibited. The expected date of publication will be summer
2004.
Registration and information
For registration and information please contact Françoise
Vos at tel. +31-10-4030398 or vos@berlage-institute.nl.
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