https://babasikas.com Petros Babasikas Office Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:34:50 +0000 https://babasikas.com en https://babasikas.com/Homepage-1 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:23:49 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/Homepage-1 https://babasikas.com/AMLS Wed, 18 Aug 2021 22:54:04 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/AMLS Aegean Marine Life SanctuaryLand- & Sea-scape Remediation, Adaptive Reuse: the Archipelagos Institute for Marine Conservation The Aegean Marine Life Sanctuary is a multi-diciplinary research, veterinary and educational facility in the island of Leipsoi, Greece. It accommodates the rehabilitation of captive or injured animals, provides expert veterinary and medical care, and supports innovative research projects. It drives the multi-level healing of a post-industrial coastal landscape, marine environment and an existing building using small scale, high impact techniques and solutions-based initiatives, testing a model for the development of future wildlife sanctuaries. Developed for and in collaboration with the Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation, AMLS allows for the direct participation of Leipsoi’s local communities of fishermen, herders, builders, small industries and schools in the making and running of a new institution. The renovation and new infrastructures aim to a carbon-positive impact, including the use of recycled materials, low-impact technologies, sustainable waste and water management, traditional building techniques and landscape stewardship, and connected architectural elements: a shading canopy, vertical and parking gardens, dry-stone weirs and terraces, custom seafloor rehabilitation, and a series of lightweight human shelters in the valley around the Sanctuary cove. Design Principal: Petros BabasikasDesigners: Phat Le, Milan Nikic, Yvonne Fu, Jihee Kim, Bahia Marks, Elmer Lyu, Veronika Salamun, Karl LamLandscape Designer:  Connor Stevens Archipelagos Institute Director:  Thodoris Tsimbidis Archipelagos Institute Scientific Director:  Anastasia Miliou Archipelagos Institute Project Manager:  Nikki Cotterill 02.2020 - 09.2021 https://babasikas.com/Cliff-Tower-House Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:09:25 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/Cliff-Tower-House Cliff + Tower HouseArchitecture, Landscape Remediation This project  documents a complex cliffside terrain for minimum impact. It combines a nine square grid house with a tower, both integrated into the cliffside via minimum digging, dry stone retaining walls and water cisterns. The base is a patchwork, growing around a series of massive boulders, a courtyard, the cisterns, terraces of cultivation, dry stone walls and ancient trees. 3 glass pavilions and 3 tower levels frame sea views, axial and curving downhill paths. A series of massive stone walls sourced from the cliff curve around the boulders; these, together with a column grid with found capitols hold a cantilevering green roof with exposed beams. The building collects water, sun, and shade. Design Principal: Petros BabasikasDesigners: Ray Zhang, Jim Kurt Ereno Structural + Environmental Engineering:  Future Constructions 11.2021 - ongoing https://babasikas.com/EMST-Public-Space-II Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:10:24 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/EMST-Public-Space-II EMST Public Space, IIStrategic Redesign, Reuse and Reprogramming, Entrance Area: Athens National Museum of Contemporary ArtA series of modular, multi-use objects combining in different assemblies, one of six elements re-programming and re-organizing the public entrance and circulation spaces of EMST into a space of gathering, exhibition, and encounter.  The objects are steps, seats, desks, bookshelves, tiers, play-blocks, planters, plinths, study spaces, architectural fragments and scale models of historic Athenian buildings. Phase II of a series of acupunctural Design Interventions, as framed in the “EMST Public Space” Toolkit for the Contemporary Art Museum’s Adaptive Reuse via small-scale, high-impact interventions.  The objects are stations and attractors, contributing to the institution’s identity transformation into an Open Museum. Concept & Design Principal: Petros BabasikasConcept & Project Management:  Constantinos Petrakos Concept & Art Direction:  Chrysoula VoulgariDesign Associates:  Savvas Kakalis, Adamantia Soulioti, Anna Biza Construction:  Katsadouras Wood Creations Plants:  Giannis GryllisEMST Production: Iro Nikolakea, Danae Giamalaki EMST Management:  Athina Ioannou, Ioli Tzanetaki EMST Aristic Director:  Katerina Gregos 10.2021 - present https://babasikas.com/Oulu-Museum-of-Culture-Science Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:25:37 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/Oulu-Museum-of-Culture-Science The Vessel:  New Museum + Science CenterArchitecture + Urban Design, Oulu, Finland The Vessel, a mass-timber Museum of Culture + Science in Oulu, Finland, is a cultural building extension and a major work of public infrastructure.  Raised above a floorscape and network of public spaces, it is an inhabited urban roof and canopy:  a civic object activating cultural production, exhibition, and encounters, integrating existing buildings, public pathways, and creating a gateway to the Oulujoki historical ensemble and estuary. On its ground floor the New Museum is a vibrant public space - sequences of glazed entrance, education, commercial and workshop spaces;  enclosed, parking, and winter gardens;  plazas, service areas, bike clusters;  multiple crossroads and pedestrian arcades.  It radically transformations a degraded, generic public parking lot in Oulu’s cultural core.  On its main floor - 6m above ground level - the project is a hollow wooden Vessel, a light-filled attic space beneath a custom shingle roof, forming a spectacular space of cultural experimentation, flexible exhibition, work, and performance.  Conceived as a minimum footprint, low exposure building with an expanded, levitaing urban figure, the Vessel’s keel is held by grids of vaulted timber columns, and by earthen mounds.Design Principal: Petros BabasikasDesigners: Ray Zhang, Yi Zhou, Jia Mi, Ideh Khadjevand, George WangStructural + Environmental Engineering:  Valia Rompou Co 07 - 10.2022 https://babasikas.com/EMST-Public-Space-I Sat, 09 Jul 2022 05:54:38 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/EMST-Public-Space-I EMST Public SpaceStrategic Redesign, Adaptive Reuse Interventions, Sustainable Installations, Architectural & Infrastructural Renewal: Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art A Masterplan, Toolkit, and a series of acupunctural Design Interventions in-progress for the Adaptive Reuse of the interior and exterior spaces of the Historic venue of the old Fix Brewery and current Contemporary Art Museum in Athens.  The project sets up the future adaptation of the building and institution to a global cultural context and changing climate reality, enhancing its public character through a series of sustainable installations and interventions.  It sets a general framework for future designs and logs a useful index of ideas for the ongoing transformation of the building viasmall-scale, high-impact interventions that also transofm the neutral and generic identity of the institution into an Open Museum, a living center of cultural production accessible to all, clement, welcoming, and multi-modal, directly connected with the city of Athens. Concept & Design Principal: Petros BabasikasConcept & Project Management:  Constantinos Petrakos Concept & Art Direction:  Chrysoula VoulgariLandscape Designs:  Giannis GryllisDesign Associates:  Savvas Kakalis, Ambika Pharma, Niko Delic, Adamantia SouliotiEMST Production: Iro Nikolakea, Danae Giamalaki EMST Management:  Athina Ioannou, Ioli Tzanetaki EMST Aristic Director:  Katerina Gregos 10.2021 - present https://babasikas.com/DRIP-II Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:59:04 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/DRIP-II DRIP IIPavillion, Vertical Garden: Victoria Park: London 2012COMMISSION, Mayor of London Presents: Incredible Installations ‘Drip' is a public installation that grows as it self-destructs.  It is structured as a steel pavilion which contains an intricate vertical garden.  Inside it, two separate hydraulic systems create water movement;  this nourishes 12 halophyte plants and slowly dissolves a canopy of salt into 14 stalactites.  Dripping down and growing up, the two slowly compete against each other.  A sculpture is formed under the canopy, by water circulation and weather.  Atmosphere and gravity ultimately transform it into a steel, organic and inorganic hybrid.  The project works like an urban hourglass, creating its own weather, growing rapidly when it rains.  'Drip' combines, in public space, the basic elements of an Island:  isolation, loom, perimeter, hinterland, the ebb, flow and spray of salt and fresh water, and the shadow of trees. Concept & Design: Petros Babasikas, Farzad MoreDesigner: Chrissoula VoulgariAssociate: Kassiani LeontiadouContractor & Structural Engineer: S. Stathakis / FutureConstructions EE 07 - 09.2012 https://babasikas.com/ATHENS-2030 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 02:32:36 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/ATHENS-2030 ATHENS 2030:  the City as a Resilient WaterscapeMasterplan, Urban & Landscape Design, Architectural & Infrastructural Renewal: Athens Regeneration Organization 2019HONOURABLE MENTION, Architecture & Urban Design Competition for the Regeneration of the Historic Centre of Athens A Plan, Toolkit and Manifesto for the radical renewal and sustainable transformation of a Mediterranean Metropolis against climate crisis, not through iconic buildings or public plazas, but by strengthening existing blue and green Infrastructural Networks, Maintenance Protocols and spaces of Community Engagement with a visible Architectural and Urban identity.  The plug-in design and planning, within the urban fabric, of a series of public reservoirs, cisterns, water tanks, splash pads, channels, catchment basins and public fountains;  a co-dependent, accessible network of communal, vertical, and parking Gardens;  sustainable mobility interventions including bicycle routes, sidewalk and crossing expansion, pedestrian routes and slow traffic roads;  the Adaptive Reuse of abandoned public buildings and their adjacent street fronts, arcades and sidewalks as Hubs with co-op, workshop, traditional commerce, innovation, market, work/live and communal uses.  An Urban Research project on the blue/green infrastructures and commons during key phases of the historical expansion of Athens, and an hydrological study on the Aquiferous CIty (Hydroforos Polis) connecting public architecture with landscape and hydro infrastructure.  Looking for a new Athenian Commons, replacing the economic drivers of the Automobile and the Polykatoikia with public forms of Water. Design Principal: Petros BabasikasTraffic Engineer: Kyriakos TyrologosPlanning & Environmental Engineer:  Mania LambrouLandscape Consultant & Engineering:  Leto ChristodoulopoulouDesigners: Miranda Fay, Niko Dellic, Thomas Huang, Anne Kwan, Marienka Bishop-KovacLandscape Designer:  Ambika Pharma 04 - 10.2019 https://babasikas.com/TEMPORARY-ISLAND-HOUSING Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:34:50 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/TEMPORARY-ISLAND-HOUSING TEMPORARY ISLAND HOUSINGModular Outdoor Sleep Frames on Rock Dugouts This project occupies a series of seasonal cultivation terraces on a sloped, arid East Aegean terrain for minimum impact. It contains three types of spaces:  a permanent, dry-stone, indoor dugout for sleep, wet, storage, cistern, and electrical spaces integrated into the terraced landscape;  a series of modular outdoor structures, seasonally erected and (dis) assembled for semi-outdoor sleep and living;  and extensive, shaded, in-between spaces for cooking, eating, gardening, and gathering.  These spaces are built using vernacular tectonics including clay / dried seagrass roofs, bamboo screens and panels, dry stone masonry, cisterns, pre-charred wood frame, fabric screens, terazzo and limestone finishings, responding to existing building code for assemblable structures.  The earth base and light frames collect shade, sun, and water, resulting to a Net-Zero Building. Design Principal: Petros BabasikasDesigners: Yvonne Fu, Elmer LiuStructural, Environmental + Landscape Engineering: 08.2022 https://babasikas.com/SMICHOV-SCHOOL Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:56:49 +0000 Petros Babasikas Office https://babasikas.com/SMICHOV-SCHOOL SMICHOV SCHOOL Public Primary & Middle School Competition Proposal:  Prague 2018 The Smíchov Primary School is an innovative space for learning and community engagement combining two forms. At ground level, the School is an Agora – a horizontal public space of learning, gathering, work, repose and play. Above, the School is a Prism – a smart, light, flickering volume of multi-layered, modular, structured learning, with active in-between spaces, courtyards, embedded media and efficient technologies. The Agora and the Prism provide urban visibility and accessibility, as well as spaces of inward focus, light and nurture. They form a gateway landmark to Prague, activating multiple pedagogical possibilities, open spaces and urban conditions. Principal: Petros BabasikasDesigners/Associates: Taylor Gould, Felix Lam, Zheng Li, Mariano Martellacci, Yi Wang 05.2018