Petroula Gkanidou

Architecture & Programming

Summer House - Serifos, 2010

This project is a proposal for a summer house in Cyclades, Greece. As an intern, I was re-sponsible for the 3D modeling and visualisations of the house, both in exterior and interior de-sign.

Student Housing & Community facilities - Athens, 2012

This project is a competition en-try for a student housing in Ker-ameikos, Athens. My role was 3D modeling of the proposal as well as consultancy on the conceptualisation stage and 2D drawings production.

Twin Summer House - Sikinos, 2013

My involvement in this project was a multitask of 3D visualisa-tions, drawings for planning ap-plication and logistics for plan-ning approval.

Conference Centre Astir Palace Athens, 2012

This project is a proposal of a conference centre extension of 3.000 seats in Vouliagmeni, Ath-ens. My role was 3D modeling of the proposal as well as consul-tancy on the conceptualisation stage and materiality palette.

International Trade Fair ofThessaloniki - Diploma Project, 2011

The settlement of an Internation-al Trade Fair with environmental-ly friendly principles is a special urban design project, which can cause significant transforma-tions in the urban physiology. The strategic intention of the de-sign is the creation of a cultural – environmental park.

The proposal gives emphasis to the use of the geographical ad-vantages of the area with fully equipped facilities and respect for the people and the environ-ment. The Intention of the de-sign is the area to be open and “alive” at all times and attract visitors and residents of the city to develop multiple activities.

The area is divided in 5 zones that represent a different activity.

existing lines

the axis

degradation to three levels

import of forms

1st zone Entrance - Information

2nd zone Art - Science

3rd zone Entertainment - Consumption

4th zone Exhibition

Design Centre - Academic Proj-ect, 2010

The idea of the composition de-rives from the concept of the magnet, ie a center that will at-tract people, ideas, crafts and activities. Spatially the idea was translated in a building - pole that tows cubes, the primary unit of the synthesis, which are converted to spaces closed, semi-open and open.

The design focused on creating large spaces with emphasis on broad semi-open spaces in the transition from outside to inside. The latter are part of the func-tion that is held to each neigh-bouring enclosed space.

Form Creation based on human movement simulationAcademic Project, London 2014

This project is an approach to un-derstand how pedestrian behav-ior could affect the surroundings and more specifically a structure meant for sheltering purposes.

Having Carnaby Street as a visual environment layout, pedestrian behavior is simulated by agents.

The agents’ positions are re-corded and grouped with the use of a k-means clustering al-gorithm.The centroids of the clusters serve as nodes of a mesh structure.The height of the nodes is affected by the number of points that are as-signed to each cluster (the more points the higher the node).

The nodes are connected togeth-er within a predefined distance.

area of interest - agent movement

agents’ position over time

cluster centroids - nodes of the structure

Perspective view of the final structure