About
Being raised in an environment where construction drawings and problem-solving discussions surrounded me planted a seed in my heart that later grew into my passion for designing and creating. Raised in Athens, I often saw amongst the colourful apartments, beautiful existing buildings left forgotten and used for illegal activities. This sad reality of how we treat existing buildings and their impact pushed me to study architecture and develop all the skills necessary to bring back to life forgotten gems of architecture and create new architectural trends. Throughout my years at the university, I developed a better understanding of the built environment and sustainable building practices. Both my hand-drawing skills and digital skills have improved significantly during these three years, allowing me to coherently demonstrate my thinking process from start to completion, keeping true to my identity as an architecture student. Mastering software like Revit, SketchUp, D5, and other core graphic design tools allowed a better communication of my architectural vision through a mix of highly efficient visuals and text. My aim is to work in a practice with an interest in adaptive reuse and community improvement. After finishing all necessary stages to become a certified architect, I plan to go back and help with the revitalisation of existing forgotten buildings, improving the communities around them.
Project overview
Made in Fleetwood: A reclaimed token
Made in Fleetwood: A Reclaimed Token is my response to the cultural and economic erasure faced by Fleetwood, a coastal UK town still navigating the aftermath of the historic Cod Wars. Walking down Lord Street, the town’s main commercial artery, the decline is tangible. Yet, the community's connection to its past remains resilient. This project takes Studio 21—a vacant, historic Marks & Spencer department store—and reimagines it as a living, breathing engine for civic reinvention. Rather than wiping away the site's complex history, the intervention fiercely protects the existing Art Deco front facade, treating it as a vital piece of shared public memory, implementing a subtle modern touch. The interior space is reclaimed by the community through a number of smaller rented studio spaces, which can become a single larger studio, producing the primary source of income, with the sold artefact acting as the second. A more engaging rear elevation is created, with the ground floor opening up for the workshop space, allowing a well-lit open space to be used by visitors. The internal courtyard acts as an open exhibition of the made artefact, allowing different instances of the artefact to be seen, experiencing the whole process of how it came to be. This project uses the Lord St Genius Loci and allows its community to reclaim a piece of their past and use it for their future.
Back alley being brought to life.
Proposed Elevations.
Sustainability Strategy.
Glazing room.
