Port Passenger Terminal – Souda Crete

1^st PRIZE OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION – 2017

 

PROJECT TEAM:

PROJECT ARCHITECTS: V.GHIKAPEPPAS – D.LOUKOPOULOS, architects NTUA

Collaborators Architects: C.Margaritis, E.Mpilla, H.Tsamitrou

STUCTURAL ENGINEERING: H.GANTES, dr.Strucrural Engineer, Professor NTUA

Collaborators structural Engineers: I.Psaras, M.Mpilly, K.Koulatsou

EM ENGINEERING: K.Georgakopoulos – S.Tsantes

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING: N.Roussos

COST ACCOUNTING ENGINEERING: G.Gougas and associates

COMPETITION PROMOTER: Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks

 

The proposal structure explores and approaches 4 themes:

–  Integration  as  a  process  of  site  triggering – the building  as  a  “local”  part   with

meaningful matches and references.

–  A spatial structure – as  an organic  part  of  port’s  physiognomy,  building  its  own

atmosphere.

–  Exploring   the   content   of   transitions   and   functional   interconnection   of   the

“world of  journey”.

–  The  landscape  context – as  a  combination  of  an  open  field  and the  sense  of

surrounding  flow  of  cargo-machines, vessels  and  travellers.

 

It is developed as a “metaphor” of a ship shape, as a synthetic structure of a curved section, whose origin refers, on one hand, as a structure of a ship vessel and its components and on the other hand, as a spatiality of a wave ideogram.

 

Three organizational topologies are combined, composing a functional system:

1. The base, as an open field, separating the ground operations of a terminal. It is organized on an inner movement axis and an atrium, having a direct perception of space.
2. The shell is a concave development of a single linear building structure, as a single internal waiting area, with an inner mezzanine facing the harbor.
3. The floor- belvedere, as an open-air square.

 

The building “turns” towards the harbor bay, “taking position”, belongs there, as an organic part, attributing its linearity and development, as dialectical relations with the  port events. The building structure has a double role, at first, as a tool of what I see, as an edge landmark of the harbor and at the second, what I see through its shell. The folding floor is inhabited, but also resides in Souda bay, as part of a genius loci, seeking to identify to this extending area. From an originally considered building-machine, to be transformed into a sightseeing-machine and finally to be an emotion-machine, for the place and the memories of a traveler, being a locus component, with a specific landscape relation, as cultural determination.