Re-writing the estuaries

• Published in: 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 06)
• Main Authors: Seferiadou, P, Zaromyti, E
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage IET 2006
• Subjects: Beach, coastal and shelf processes; Civil and mechanical engineering computing; Coastal and estuarine oceanography; Construction industry; Other engineering applications of IT; Other structures; Surface waves, tides, and sea level; architectural design process; seafloor phenomena; urban space; estuary rewriting; history; architectural CAD; sea level; Thessalonica historic peripheral trench
• DOI: 10.1049/cp:20060705
• ISBN: 9780863416637; 0863416632

The subject of our diploma thesis is the exploration, as a double process, as much as a "reading" process and also as an "architectural design" process, of an estuaries area of a historic peripheral trench of Thessalonica. Through a double reading, historical as well as synchronic, of this watery axis, we trace some potential "starting points" for its process of architectural design in order to transform it into a place of mutation. This transformation is achieved through the following manipulations: re-establishing the communication between the urban space and the sea, and at the same time raising of the barriers between the urban and non-urban space. (2 pages)