THE CONCRETE CIRCUS

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2008-11-29T04:58:00.000-08:00

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2 sketches

2007-11-20T00:12:00.000-08:00

Urban Design 9th semester

The Constant Experiment

2007-10-18T10:15:00.000-07:00

...the fluid, almost abstract function of the circus is being metonymized onto a constant transforming, refreshing and doubtful redefinition of the Circus Idea, through experimentation per place and time. It is an endless architectural experiment but maintaining the same client and generic Idea. The phenomenon of the Circus prevails over the fluidity of the program; Elephants added, guest

An urban détournement

2007-10-15T15:14:00.000-07:00

A bricolage of Tokyo, used for the context of the city featuring in an Etgar Keret 's short story called "a hole on a wall" (Μια τρύπα στον τοίχο, Καστανιώτη publications). Here 's a preview of an animation we did as a team of five collegues(Aristoteles Maragkos, Theodosis Hsaias, Chrysoula Korovesi, Fereniki Fotopoulou, Michael Vlasopoulos). The linearity of the City follows the narrative of

The ArchitecturallY AbsurD

2007-10-08T03:31:00.000-07:00

An UrbaN MishmasH 02

2007-10-06T09:00:00.000-07:00

Νοηματικό Συνονθύλευμα 01

2007-09-30T17:45:00.000-07:00

...Και με μια απλή φωτογραφία ο Charles Jencks επισημαίνει πως ο μοντερνισμός μου πέθανε(Η γλώσσα της μεταμοντέρνας αρχιτεκτονικής 1977). Ο φακός στις 15 Ιουλίου 1972 συλλαμβάνει μια ακραία έκφραση των δυνητικών αναγκών του μετα-μοντέρνου(τουλάχιστον χρονικά) ανθρώπου. Η δυνητική κατακραυγή δηλώνεται στον χώρο που δεν την ικανοποίησε με την μορφή συστάδων δυναμίτη. Για άλλη μια φορά η καταστροφή

Χάρτης Ιδεών

2007-09-28T07:31:00.001-07:00

Axonometric View(Concrete Circus)

2007-07-22T10:29:00.000-07:00

The RUpture evolves...(Concrete Circus)

2007-07-22T10:22:00.001-07:00

Sketching the rupture process..(Concrete Circus)

2007-07-22T10:17:00.000-07:00

Un_Nesessary Automations

2007-06-24T13:53:00.001-07:00

A JukeBot..

2007-06-24T13:17:00.000-07:00

Stop motion animation puppet featuring in a short movie we did, me and my friend/collaborator Aristotelis Maragkos.

The Concrete Circus

2007-06-15T10:41:00.001-07:00

The following project deals with a dichotomy of architecture in "object" and "event". The concept of the Circus as a procedure of rupture between those two.The Circus is a mobile "ghost" structure. Incomplete, indeterminant and packable. The teleology of the building and destruction of a concrete circus is a metonymization of its legitimate function: the ephemeral erection and the packing within

The Story of the Urban Arc

2007-06-15T10:37:00.001-07:00

Once People constructed a dense city...They packed and folded their culture into a giant Urban Arc and fled..Fled away from danger and a legitimate past bounding them with the Place.The construction took a couple of years to complete...During that time they embedded their consensus in a diverse, heterogeneous and perverse built environment, praising proximity, difference, multiplicity,

2+1 Definitions of the City

2007-06-15T10:28:00.000-07:00

City 17 is a fictional city from the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2 (2004)"Virtually all theories about the city are true, especially contradictory ones. The city works both as a medieval village with the equivalent of 13st century inhabitants pottering about, and a global network of 24 hour traders." Charles Jencks(1996 :26)City is:"...a collection of

...Strategy

2007-06-15T10:19:00.000-07:00

"...But refusing to be obsessed by form, I realize that I have become obsessed with strategy..." Jean Nouvel, Any-thingStrategy: a word coming from the cosmos of military, just like the word avant-garde. Reminds me the manifestation of architecture through Lebbeus Woods quotation: "Architecture is war" (The end of architecture?> Vienna Conference 1992). "Strategy" indeed has a lasting

Interiority

2007-06-15T10:04:00.000-07:00

"The space inside that building, is the meaning of that building". Frank Loyd WrightΠεριεχόμενο> The greek word for what it is inside or included in something. Interestingly enough it also stand for or . That reminds me of another interesting word: Im-portance. Looks like the usage of language implies the same thing as architecture: Being inside of something has to do with deepening in its

What is a carcass?

2007-06-08T07:01:00.001-07:00

A carcass can be the macabre remains of a dead body, as well as a building in the state of construction or destruction. Eitherway it somehow relates with endings and beginnings. The view of a carcass disturbs equally all of us, as it exposes the structural order, the meaning, the "guts" of an organism, without ideological

In_Side

2007-06-06T11:12:00.000-07:00

" I've often thought that there should be beauty contests for the *insides* of bodies. "These are the words of the character Dr.Elliot Mantle (Mantle vs. Dis-Mantle?) performed by Jeremy Irons in the David Cronenberg's movie "Dead Ringers". (Bari Wood & Jack Geasland book: The twins)"The meaning of architecture is not in the floor, walls or ceiling, but in the world contained inside." Okakura

Urban Womb

2007-05-30T23:27:00.000-07:00

This is my entry for the "New Creators" competition that was thrown by the greek free-press Athens Voice, part of the anual graphic designers' competition Ε.Β.Γ.Ε. 2007. They requested a cover design for the particular

JuKeBots_com1X

2007-05-30T08:05:00.001-07:00

This is the story of a marionette jazz trio and their last but not least performance. The spark of the musical improvisation intoxicate their feeble, mechanical, ad-hoc joints and drives them into an inevitable, wonderful dance of destruction...

Juke Bots_03

2007-05-16T18:30:00.000-07:00

This is the piano player-marionette featuring at the comic "JukeBots". In search of a color palette suitable for an imaginary retro-industrial jazz club...

Απο-δόμησις/ Dis-Mantlement

2007-05-12T10:53:00.000-07:00

This is the obscure story of a character named "Primal Matter". His ostensibly meaningless everyday life becomes an epic of his complete dismantlement. His sad calamity leads to an optimistic regeneration...p.s.:If you need the english version of the comic, comment or e-mail me (M_vlasopoulos@hotmail.com)

What' s with the juke bots?

2007-05-08T04:35:00.000-07:00

Smarter than puppets...More stylish than bots...More musically profound than a jukebox...They are Juke bots! Order your own juke bot NOW! Dial 00890-132435444 or e-mail us at www.jukemybot.orgITS FREE!!!!!The first 10 to sign up WIN an extra string cleaning utility kit to keep your juke bot clean and functional all the time!JUKE BOTS: Designed for your ears!...

Afrodites_01

2007-05-07T07:28:00.000-07:00

Hybrid Structs

2007-05-07T07:24:00.000-07:00

2007-05-06T13:51:00.000-07:00

What is a concrete circus?

2007-05-06T07:36:00.000-07:00

The concrete circus is a contradictory term. A circus is something ephemeral, feeble, something moving always, consisting an invisible structure, almost an idea. It's a grotesque structural kit that fits inside a couple of containers. It is a city on the move. Concrete is heavy, tectonic, bulky. Together they form a potential juxtaposition of opposites, a situation where materials and behaviors

Juke Bots

2007-05-05T20:14:00.000-07:00

The metonymized object

2007-05-05T11:21:00.000-07:00