PRAXITELES LYKOS

HIDDEN LINESINHABITING THE ERIDANOS

HIDDEN LINES

Program

Running through the center of Athens, the Eridanos river engages in a quiet rebellion in the athenian landscape.

It’s pathway belongs to no particular time period- throughout time it has fluctuated and changed, however it continues to endure as an unseen element, a drawing on the landscape.

Hidden lines takes the Eridanos as it’s backbone-The pathway of the river is revived through inhabitation. The spaces seek to highlight or support efforts in the places in which the river makes itself known. All interventions will make use of the same language- multiple masses divided either by the flow of the river, or by the memory of its flow, manipulated according to site particularities.

This Project focuses on the development of the core typology of this system- the Archeaologies of the Future Museum, on the banks of the eridanos, in Syntagma square.

MATERIAL EMBODIMENT

forces acting on a landcsape of wax and clay

fast/slow

TRACKING THE ERIDANOS-

collapsed section through the path of the eridanos

where the river makes itself known

keramaikos Monastiraki

keramaikos Monastiraki syntagma lycabettus

Testing Scale/infrastructure-

keramaikos- river mouth (human Scale)syntagma lycabettus

MOnastriaki Square- Interface intervention

SYNTAGMA ANALYSIS

MOnastriaki Square- Interface intervention

analysis- Archeological Conditions on site

Analysis Model- Mulitemporal Context

MUSEUM HUB-SYNTAGMA SQUARE

The project is a library, a gallery, a cafe, and the exposed river functions as a public forum.Formally, a light shaft unites the volume of the library with the craggy shsyt and limestone of the athenian landscape. The building is given an underbelly- it faces northwest to swallow the gentler sunlight and blocks off its southern facade with stone.

The visitor is brought into the space through an extension of the space underneath the ubiquitous polykatoikia-landscape- this becomes the route of circulation that wraps around the shifting walls that define the program.

Cafe total 4,000 sq footInterior 2,000Forum 4,700Total 15,000 square feet of gallery9,200 square feet of library

It is situated at the center of Greek political life and is intended to function as a cultural resevoir- in times of intensity the space may expand to the library roof space and confront the Voulis- or make This space is intended to privilege the esoteric presence of the river and provide a canvas for other forms of expression.

Sequence of entry- perspectival exploration

The project is a library, a gallery, a cafe, and the exposed river functions as a public forum.Formally, a light shaft unites the volume of the library with the craggy shsyt and limestone of the athenian landscape. The building is given an underbelly- it faces northwest to swallow the gentler sunlight and blocks off its southern facade with stone.

The visitor is brought into the space through an extension of the space underneath the ubiquitous polykatoikia-landscape- this becomes the route of circulation that wraps around the shifting walls that define the program.

Cafe total 4,000 sq footInterior 2,000Forum 4,700Total 15,000 square feet of gallery9,200 square feet of library

It is situated at the center of Greek political life and is intended to function as a cultural resevoir- in times of intensity the space may expand to the library roof space and confront the Voulis- or make This space is intended to privilege the esoteric presence of the river and provide a canvas for other forms of expression.

LIBRARY

TRANSVERSE SECTION

Approach from grand Bretagne

LIBRARY

SECOND FLOOR, GALLERY

THIRD FLOOR, GALLERY

FOURTH FLOOR, LIBRARY

VIEW FORUM

VIEW ENTRY

VIEW GALLERY