PLATEIA THEATROU

Diversity/cohesion

third prize

description: Architectural competition for the regeneration of Theatrou square in Athens

in collaboration with Philippos Photiadis, Dionysis Zacharias

design team: Dionysis Zacharias, Alexandra Stratou, Philippos Photiadis, P. Rahmathah, M. Alkidi

year: 2010

Received third prize in the architectural competition.

The polarities of the area (settled urban population versus migrants, renewal versus decay, potential versus addiction) are revealed honoured and resolved through a new connective network that seeks inclusion in the local and urban scale. Parallel zones of different materialities run perpendicular to the natural slope of the ground. In section, the zones translate into stepped plateaus for activities and integration. Circulation crosses the stepped plateaus, while activities happened within them.