KAPUT

Article

This article was written for Kaput web magazine. It is an attempt of connecting the work of artist Nikos Alexiou with the pattern making techniques that are often used in architectural projects. 

URBAN OASES

Workshop

Ecoweek workshop took place in Thessaloniki in March 2011. We supervised a team of students together with architects Lois Papadopoulos and Maria Stefanidis. The title of our participation is Urban Oases: Greening Thessaloniki’s Black Holes.

ANOKATO

Installation 

This is an installation that we designed in collaboration with architects Spiros I. Papadimitriou and Aris M. Klonizakis for the Architecture and Climate Change Exhibition of the second Green Design Festival that took place in Syntagma Square in 2010.

PARALLAXI

Scenario

In the summer of 2009 we were asked by Fotis Sagonas to present a possible scenario for Thessaloniki’s waterfront. 

THE ARCHIVE EPISODES

Series of Architectural Events presented in The Archive 

DESIGN BY NATURE

Installation 

In September 2008 we curated and designed the Exhibition Design by Nature presenting writings and images created by architect Iordanis Stylidis. The exhibition was presented at the first Green Design Festival that took place in Syntagma Square in Athens. 

OUT OF THE PATTERN

Animation 

“Out of the Pattern” is an animation illustrating the pop-up concept of the space of The Archive. 

GLASNOST

Installation

This project was created in September 2007 for the exhibition “Other Places” curated by Apostolos Kalfopoulos, for Biennale: 1. We were invited to present an artwork that would express the heterotopic space of the school, from the architect’s point of view. We created a PVC pattern of an existing old school that we placed as a hanging open envelope. The concept was to illustrate the need for an educational system that opens in order to interact to the society around it. 

ILI&KTIRIO

Articles

Between 2005 and 2007 we wrote a series of architectural articles for Ili & Ktirio magazine.

BETWEEN THE LINES

Architectural Competition REIMBURSEMENT

Architectural Team: Korina Filoxenidou, Apostolos Kalfopoulos and Katerina Kotzia

In 2005, the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement organized an architectural competition for the transformation of the face and character of the Movement’s branch offices all over Greece.  The concept should be applied in an 80 square meter ground floor space with a glass facade. A number of triangular self-lit columns were placed in free formation in order to create a border between the glass façade and the rest of the space. The green sun, which is the symbol of the Movement served as the main graphic element. Each column had a small part of the sun pasted on each one of its edges. The image of the sun was clear from a distance but it was gradually deconstructed as one entered the space. 

K&K ARCHITECTS OFFICE

Interior Design

W(A)NDERLAND

Short film

Created by: Fotini Filoxenidou, Korina Filoxenidou, Katerina Kotzia and Thomas Takas 

This is a short film we did in May 2000 while we were working on the Architectural Installation at Olympion Theatre. It was presented together with nine other short films all made by architects, especially for “Megacities”, a film tribute to Architecture.

15 MINUTES OF FAME (2)

Short Film  by K.K. 

“I am not tired” 

15 minutes of fame is a 30’’ video serving as its creator’s personal advertisement in a hypothetical job interview. The ad would replace the common portfolio with a more direct self-presentation that would reveal the essence of each candidate’s qualities. The project was created as an assignment for the postgraduate course MA Design Studies in Central Saint Martin’s, in 2000

15 MINUTES OF FAME (1)

Short Film by K.F. 

“Water and soap” 

15 minutes of fame is a 30’’ video serving as its creator’s personal advertisement in a hypothetical job interview. The ad would replace the common portfolio with a more direct self-presentation that would reveal the essence of each candidate’s qualities. The project was created as an assignment for the postgraduate course MA Design Studies in Central Saint Martin’s, in 2000

ZORRO'S LADDER

Communication Medium

The aim of this project was the creation of an innovative communication medium. At that time we used to live with an adolescent cat that was very anxious to find a way outdoors. We decided to build a green porous cylindrical bridge, connecting the 3^rd floor flat with the ground floor back yard. The ladder had a switch on, which, when pressed by the cat, it activated a red lamp in the living room. This was the cat’s way to tell us he was back home. The project was created as an assignment for the postgraduate course MA Design Studies in Central Saint Martin’s, in 2000