Both Axi:Ome books are finally out! The first one (spacial practice) contains the earlier projects and the second one (damdi is.32 - between practice and education) the latest projects. It might sound strange coming from me, but I don't think that there are many practices with such quality and consistency of work, so these two books are really valuable!
You can find the first one here and the damdi here.

The design for a temporary gallery space. Dimensions 10’X20’X10’. It explores the idea of having two ‘layers’ of transparency. One defined by the transparency/translucency of the material of the panels; the other defined by the size of the holes of the panels.


The grasshopper definition for the panels here.

The project for the New School of Architecture at Kansas University was awarded in the 2nd cycle of the World Architecture Community Awards. Here is a link to the project page and here a link to the posters. Thanks to those who voted for it!

“foam brick” is a proposal for a modular brick unit made out of foam that can be used in order to create soft partitions and walls. The bricks are held together with the help of cylindrical connectors that are also made out of foam.

Education in Vacuo is an exhibition taking place at the Athens Byzantine Museum from 15th of June to 30th of August. It displays several diploma projects from the A.U.Th. from 1998 to 2006, all of which were developed with as. professor Vana Tentokali as advisor. Our participation comes under the name 'folding the suburbs' and goes back to 2004.
A lot of thanks to the organizing team for the great installation!

Our two entries for the D. Areopagitou 2008 competition. Theme of the competition was a design that will rethink the relation of Tschumi's New Museum, the Acropolis and the two historical building that are found between the two. Our first entry got a mention and the second one the second price. The competition site here.
(in collaboration with Katerina Tryfonidou, Theodora Christoforidou, Fotis Vassilakis, Vasilis Ntovros)

The competition entry for the 5th SUS aluminum competition has been published (along with the rest of the prices and mentions) on the 23rd issue of the Japanese magazine ecoms. Ecoms site here and details about the project here.

This is the entry for the UIA 2008 competition. Two stochastic algorithms are used for the generation of the project. The first one is generating random boxes with the aim to create the spaces that will host the program (info point, exhibition area, press area). Certain criteria are set (distance between the volumes, shape of the public area etc.) which have to be met in order for the algorithm to position the space. The second algorithm is finding the bounding box of the 3 spaces and is then stochastically generating vertical cutting planes that define a structural system that creates a canopy above the 3 volumes. A rather weak linear element - that of a plane cutting a box - is repeated and weaved in such a way that the result becomes rigid and structural.


The light strategy followed is shifting the focus of what is being perceived as the dominant element during the day and during the night, from the structural canopy (day) to the glowing rectangular volumes (night).


(in collaboration with katerina tryfonidou, fotis vassilakis, dora christoforidou)

Some experiments with L-systems and how they can be used as form generating processes. Here is an example for a highrise structure. The l-system in this case is used more as a procedural modeling tool, than a truly generative system, but still recursion plays an important role for the development of the form.