ArXellence 2 Thessaloniki

International Ideas Competition for the New Central Business District (CBD), port area, project Carmen pdf

The book ArXellence 2 https://issuu.com/arxellence/docs/arxellence_book_low

Awarded Proposals ArXellence 2

programm pdf

Site Transformation

view from west

view from east

Firmitas -consistency, firmness, stability, etc.

Utilitas -fleibility, functionality, utility, etc.

Venustas -attractivness, delight, beauty, etc.

This ‘eternal’ design criteria stand behind the project Carmen for the Central Business District of Thessaloniki, to put things in order again.

The vertical rhomboid-prisms and their intersection with the lower, rectangular-prisms, create, together with the preserved historical buildings, new streets (in continuation of the existing ones), and they create a variety of new spaces like piazzas, court yards, patios, etc.

.view from aveue 26-is Oktovriou

actual site

site transformation

view from the port area

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cross-section of the vertical rhomboid-prism

The typical space type in the vertical structures have a minimum clear hight of 3.00m and a minimum span of 1.60m. This allows for classroom-, laboratory, office-, resident-, service- and many other (non polluting) activities and, you don’t have to worry about energy issues, Carmen is an independent, self-sufficient ‘power plant’, there is abundant energy production as shown on the second sheet of the presentation. The project is a contemporary interpretation of firmitas, utilitas and venustas.

structure – 8 of 74 equal main frames (with vertical circulation and floor slabs)

The earth would not be as unique a planet, equipped with an ecosphere, if the sun didn’t keep supplying it with energy

Harvesting and processing of geothermical energy and sunlight will heat, cool and power the spaces of all the various activities extending over an area of about 400’000m2.