Green building institution

Student: Ververis Dimitris
Professor: Moraitis Konstantinos
Consultans Professors: Vasilatos Panagiotis
Presentation Date: July 2010
Dissertation Thesis at the National Technical University of Athens School of Architecture
March 2010

The goal of this study is the design of such a building aimed to become "The Green Building Institution", inside the National Technical University Athens campus area, taking into account that this Foundation will be dedicated to constant interaction with new engineers, and at the same time used for educational purposes.

This new building is intended to be an educational foundation that focuses on the study and promotion of "green buildings". More specifically, the institution targets to the category of buildings that uses planting as a structural element of its architectural composition. To this end, the building tries to become itself "green", thus to be combined with the surrounding ground and the natural environment and become part of them. To achieve this goal, the building for its most part is set to an underground structure, whereas the part above the ground surface is transformed into a living organization, using extensively planting both in horizontal and vertical planes.

 The main scope of the architectural design was defined by the analysis of the topological relief, as it determined both the axis of the building's structure and the circuits that characterize it. The great ramp that elevates to the upper layers of the construction shell, offers an alternative promenade that pertains more to the sense of wander, in proportion with the free movements in the inner space of a garden. In this way, the ramp is not characterized as a morphological idiom, but giving rise to the overall architecture of the Institute.   

The institute consists of conference halls and showrooms, workshop venues, a small digital library, a bar-restaurant, open air cinema, management offices and electromechanical facility rooms.