Related to the entertainment of young children and teenagers

Students: Efstathia Papaioannou
Supervising Professor : Stavros Giftopoulos
Advising Professors : Rena Klampatsea, Vasilis Tsouras
National Technical University, Faculty of Architecture
Presentation Date: 31/03/11

Being the site selection crucial, it was decided that this one was the ideal, given that it was one of the basic compositional axis the everyday experience of the building by children. Having visited and ‘interpreted' the area, it was settled that the old unformatted quarry at the north-western side was a very good choice of space, although it pulled up many issues like designing near a ‘rough natural terrain'. The intense rock color, the rough texture and the advantage of being near the Children's Village made the site choice very attractive however, the designing process had to be several times constrained as the quarry is included in the ‘2nd Protected Zone of Ymittos' of the ongoing Presidential Decree related to the mountain Ymittos. Thus, the building program had undertaken many restrictions and was divided into three categories: the children's zone, the teenagers' zone and the communal zone. The diagram above is being formed around a firstly ‘conceptual' that evolved as a designing ‘way to adulthood' of the walker. Children and teenagers have the opportunity to experience spaces of different quality that have been designed based on surveys and researches on the demands of each age-category. Light- shade, full- blank, texture and sound are the principle elements of each room so as to allow the entrants to play, entertain and discover through architecture itself. This project is aiming to create a protected though ‘unlimited', to the eyes of young children and teenagers, space to discover especially in an era when the circumstances do not allow them to enjoy their legally established right to play.