archivirus in design-district.gr
01.04.2013
Design-district.gr visited the exhibition 'ΙΔΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΚΑΙΝΙΣΗ 2013' that took place at Texnopolis-Gazi in Athens, during 8-10 of March. Archivirus was there and Athanasia Psaraki talks about one of their recent projects 'bring the light in'.
The project ' bring the light in' participates in the exhibition "ΙΔΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΚΑΙΝΙΣΗ 2013"
07.03.2013
7th BIENNALE of Young Greek Architects
09.12.2012
archivirus is participating in the 7th Biennale of Young Greek Architects
with the ramp house project.
tony hawk and friends checked the ramp house!!!!
10.08.2012
An unexpected email hit the archivirus' inbox on August 7th.It was a guy named Jesse Fritsch co-producer of the production company http://www.900films.com. He was asking if it was possible to skate the ramp house with the Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk.Of course the answer was YES!!!The event took place like a flash...15.00 the first call-16.00 the date-20 minutes sk8-18.00 flight to Santorini island.Thanks guys for your quick visit!!!
7th BIENNALE OF YOUNG GREEK ARCHITECTS
11.07.2012
we are happy to announce the results of the
7th BIENNALE OF YOUNG GREEK ARCHITECTS
that will take place on December
at Benaki Museum in Athens,Greece.
'the ramp house' will be there!
facelift process
11.07.2012
archivirus is comissioned the facelift process
of a recently built single family house
in Kamatero, Athens.
The clients being unhappy with the result
asked for some help to
get some satisfaction in the end...
let's do our best not to disappoint them!
Greek Architecture Panorama 2012
14.05.2012
archivirus is exhibiting 'divorced houses'
in “Greek Architecture Panorama 2012”
organized by DOMES International Review of Architecture.
The exhibition opens at 7pm on the 12th May at Technopolis Gkazi, Athens as part of Design Lab.
danae project
21.04.2012
archivirus is commisioned the renovation of a single family house in Voula.
the construction is on!
stay tuned...
BHMADECO
18.02.2012
BHMADECO, a monthly magazine
about interior design and furniture, embeded
in a weekly issued greek newspaper ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ
presents the ramp house.
Don't miss the latest issue on 19th of February.
14F/21GR
01.02.2012
Join us on Tuesday, February 7th, at 20:00, at the New Benaki Museum, for the opening of the 14FR/21GR Exhibition.
'the ramp house' is featured among work
from 14 French and 21 young Greek architects.
a video shoot took place for first time
in the ramp house,
filmed and edited by ronny skevis,
will be shown in public.
don't miss it!!
14F/21 GR
30.12.2011
archivirus is invited to participate in the
''14F/21 GR'' Exhibit,
that will take place in the beginning of February at Benaki Museum.
For more info stay tuned...
ΙΔΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΚΑΙΝΙΣΗ 2013
01.04.2013
archivirus and aronis-signed showroom
participated in the exhibition
'ΙΔΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΚΑΙΝΙΣΗ 2013' with the project 'bring the light in'.
check out some photos!
7th Biennale of Young Greek Architects
09.12.2012
the opening of the
7th Biennale of Young Greek Architects
took place on 21st of November
at Benaki Museum.
the ramp house was there!!
Greek Architecture Panorama 2012 at Design Lab
14.05.2012
archivirus participated with the project
'divorced houses' at the
"Greek Architecture Panorama 2012"
exhibition which took place on 12-14th of May at
Technopolis Gkazi, Athens as part of Design Lab.
14F/21GR
08.02.2012
The opening of the 14F/21GR Exhibition
took place on 7th of February.
'the ramp house' was featured among
really interesting projects.
The exhibition reveals the limits of
architectural practice through photographs,
physical models and digital screenings.
The crowd was big and the works worth seeing...
index_arch[gr
05.08.2007
archivirus was invited to exhibit work at the exhibition with the theme index_arch[gr] which was organized by the annual assembly of 400 architecture students (EASA), which takes place over a two week period every August. Index_arch[gr] took place at Eleusina from 22nd of July till 5th of August in 2007 and aimed to highlight and expose the work of young Greek architects.
archivirus is an experimental notion conceived by athanasia psaraki in 2006. it focuses on architecture and design and operates through research, experimentation and on-going dialogues with the surrounding environment. This interdisciplinary research initiative is concerned with all stages of building process, from conceptual ideas till material organization across all scales of design, thought and practice.
a r c h i t e c t u r e i s l i k e a v i r u s
i t d e p e n d s o n o t h e r l i v i n g c e l l s
f o r i t s r e p r o d u c t i o n a n d g r o w t h
athanasia psaraki
t: +30 210 9850089
cp: +30 6977983715
e-mail:
a: 23 Aretis st., 166 74, Athens, Greece
client: Kapopoulos
location: Golden Hall / Athens / Greece
architectural design: archivirus in collaboration with Dimitris Thomopoulos & AS Architects
date: 2008
Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. Art can have various forms and the need for its display demands the design of specific spaces where the audience can come closer to the displayed art. Of course art display is not the only issue since in most cases art also serves commercial values. The “hanging art” project, came up when we were asked to transform a really small space – 50 sq.m.(situated inside a big shopping mall), into a commercial art gallery where art becomes the actual product for sell. We tried to think of different ways to display art, so it would be easier for the customer to buy. A shopping mall is consisted mainly of clothing stores , where clothes are hanged and the customer is able to examine the product before he decides to buy it or not. So the idea was “hanging art”. Why not? The first task to be solved was how art paintings could be hanged. Hanging panels from a special structure on the ceiling, varying in sizes and constructed of metal frame and wood, serve this purpose. Thus the panels become the hangers where the art paintings are placed .The second task to be solved, was the interactivity between the customer and the panel, in such a way that the panel would stop to be a fixed in place hanger and would adopt all the elastic elements of an actual clothe hanger which can be easily rotated and maneuvered. To achieve such a goal was rather easy with a simple mechanism constructed on the ceiling. The metal poles, the panels are hanged from, end up on roller guides following a certain route on the ceiling and allowing them to rotate and move to different positions. In that way, a transformability of the space is also succeeded and the small art gallery can turn into an open space which can serve different purposes. The display equipment of this art space is completed with some structures for the sculptures, which seem to be stripes whipped from the floor. A technique which gives the aesthetics of bare concrete is used as the basic material for the entire gallery with the “hanging art” to differentiate.