Typology: Archeological research centre / city planning
Location: Athens, Greece
Date: Oct. 2024 - Jan. 2025
Academic work at PoliMi, Studio Ensemble
With: Hasmik Aramyan, Vasiliki Souti
Key words: reuse, transformation, landscape architecture, degrowth
How can Athens degrow its dense city? This project applies the principles of degrowth to establish an archaeological research centre—as a de-centralized complex working as a backdrop for everyday life. By introducing a single defining line that reconfigures public space, it removes barriers and reclamims public and natural space within the concrete jungle.
Architectural strategies reflect on space and time—not as fixed solutions but as an evolving process of transformation that reshapes the urban palimpsest. Through material reuse and design for deconstruction, the project embraces impermanence, achieving a sense of temporal monumentality.
