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Dora Kotsona
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City Centre – Athens
Facts
• Client: Onassis Foundation
• Area: 56 ha
• Year: 2013
Completed
• Project by OKRA Landscape Architects
• Collaboration: Studio 75 architects SA,
Mixst Urbanisme, WUR, LDK, Nama,
Atelier Roland Jeol, Werner Sobek GT
• Position: Lead Architect / Local architect
Decline of the City
Decades of rapid growth in Athens caused infra-
structural problems and a social-cultural imbalance,
against a background of difficult economic circum-
stances. The decline of the city centre is clearly
visible, low quality of life and a shortage of green
in a severe environment.
The project
Changing the heart of Athens into a true contem-
porary metropolitan city centre requires transforma-
tion of the city triangle into a lively and attractive
part of the city. innovative theories of climate
control, reduction of vehicular movement and pro-
gramming public realm into practice. By creating
an integrated proposal to realize a resilient, acces-
sible and vibrant city, not just limited by its project
borders, but by linking this area to its adjacent
areas and therefore becoming a catalyst for the
whole city. A new network of public and semi-
public spaces will provide new and safe routes,
creating new places where people can enjoy and
ultimately, encourage new developments.
Economical Activation
The regeneration of the city centre will strongly
contribute to the change of Athens. It will improve
the environment of the city plus activating the area
economically

Luxury Hotel Apartments – Milos-Cyclades
The landscape
It’s about a sloping landscape, typical of Cyclades with
little water. Although the vegetation is little its formation
is very interesting. The view to the sea towards east is
amazing. There is a path leading to a private beach.
You can find here a local, black rock in small pieces
called “opsidianos”.
The project
The slopping landscape was interpreted in a private
road of colored stone mortar that “flows” and leads the
visitor around. The flow is marked by narrow strips of
black marble (refers to opsidianos).The strips are lighted
in the night and they create the lighting flow.
The interior design is inspired by the Greek light,
the most characteristic element of Hellenic landscape.
Friendly materials to the environment are used and wa-
ter management is one of the biggest challenges
for the design team.
Facts
• Client: Flexus SA
• Area: 16 ha /4500 building project
• Year: 2014-
Construction drawings
• Collaboration: Studio 75 Architects SA,
ALD Architects Inspiretect, Cubus
• Position: Design Manager /Main designer

National Theater – Athens
Facts
• Client: National Theater
• Area: 16.200m2
• Year: 2008
Completed
Tholos construction ,Ypologistiki EPE, H/M EPE,
Dreesen Thomas,Helger Bueb, Telmaco S.A.
• Position: Architectural detailing manager
The National Theater
The National Theater of Athens was designed by E.Ziller and
was inaugurated in 1901.
The project
The main objective of the project is the restoration and devel-
opment of the building complex of the National Theater and
the modernization of its operations to a level worthy of the
leading role that the organization plays in the theater and in
general in the cultural life of the country. An essential compo-
nent of this rehabilitation is the preservation, promotion and
enhancement of the historical building of the road Agios Kon-
stantinos, which is synonymous with the history of the National
Theater and is both one of the most important monuments of
the country’s architectural heritage.

Five Stars Olympia Riviera Resort Hotel Complex – Kyllini
Facts
• Client: Grecotel S.A.
• Area: 51.000m2 1500 guest rooms
• Year: 2006
Completed
Paris Liakos Architects S.A., W.A.T.G.,
Scape Design associates, Triedros EPE,
Mitsopoulos Andreas
• Position: Senior Architect
The landscape
A very sensitive landscape of sand dunes and soft soil
nearby the sea.
The project
The proposal for tourism development of the area is
drawn with respect to the environment and character
of the area. The aim was to create a special resort that
appeals to an eclectic market and will operate as the
tourism and cultural core of the area.
The organization of the building program has been in
accordance with the specifications of Greek legislation
concerning hotels, fire safety rules and other applica-
ble laws and regulations. Particular attention has been
paid to the design, in order for the buildings to be eas-
ily accessed in all public areas, outdoor and indoor,
by persons with reduced mobility.

Painter’s Bouziani Museum – Athens
Facts
• Client: Dafni Municipality
• Area: 1500m2
• Year: 2008
Completed
• Collaboration: Studio 75 Architects SA
• Position: Architectural detailing manager
The old house
It’s about the Museum of painter’s Bouzianis Art.
In Dafni Municipality was located his house-work
studio. The Museum is roofed in the painter’s house
and a new building next to the house.
The project
The challenge of the project was to bring together
a contemporary building with the preserved build-
ing of painter’s house in a really small plot. The
project’s program was demanding too. Except of
the exhibition halls, an underground multipurpose
hall was required and underground parking areas.

St. Spyridon square – Athens
Facts
• Client: Goulandri Fountation
• Area: 1000m2
• Year: 2012-
Completed
• Collaboration: Studio 75 Architects SA, LDK
• Position: Project Manager /Main designer
The landscape
It’s about an existing urban space in front of the church of
St. Spyridon, in a very dense residential area of Athens. It’s a
slopping landscape and there is a scale that leads from the road
to the church which should be maintained.
The project
The project consists in the redesign of the urban space in order
to serve as an outdoor space “entrance” to the new Museum of
Contemporary Art of Goulandri’ s Foundation. The concept draws
its inspiration from Paul Klee’s painting. We coped with the height
difference between the road and the existing square in front of the
church by creating “triangles” which create a green carpet.
Wherever needed, retention walls from cor-ten steel are proposed
.The choice of materials has its own importance.
The open space of the café of the museum was designed too follow-
ing the same principles.

Vacation Houses – Kythnos – Cyclades
Facts
• Client: Individual
• Area: 800m2
• Year: 2010
Completed
• Position: Project Manager/Main designer
The landscape
A sloping plot with view towards the sea.
The project
he concept was defined by the sloping, powerful terrain, the
opening of the houses to the sea view, the limitations of the reg-
ulations and in particular the maximum height 4.5 m , principles
such as functionality, bioclimatic criteria and aesthetical criteria.

Cultural center – P. Phokaia
Facts
• Client: Saronicos Municipality / Minerva Marine SA
• Area: 2000m2
• Year: 2012-
Completed
Inspiretech S.A
• Position: Project Manager /Main designer
The old school
It’s about the old building and the yard of the first
school of P. Phokaia municipality .The mayor purpose
was to transform it in a small cultural center and to
use the yard in order to create an open air amateur
cinema, leisure facilities and playground facilities.
The project
The concept was to maintain the volumes of the
old school and redesign it according to ecological
principles, such as bioclimatic sunshades, water
management through water crates, vegetation etc.
Friendly materials to the environment are used such
as colored stone mortar and infiltration tiles.

Center of Social Policy and Citizen Information – Athens
Facts
• Client: Ag. Varvara Municipality
• Area:1150 m2 underground parking areas, 1130m2
• Year: 2010
Completed
The landscape
A pretty flat plot in an indifferent district of Athens.
The project
The bioclimatic design criteria in the internal organization of space,
in the design of the openings and when selecting insulation materi-
als, joinery and interior finishing, was one of the key priorities of
the research group. The offered design ensures a comfortable and
healthy indoor environment with minimal energy consumption for
cooling, heating and the necessary illumination of the building.

Municipal Library – Pinios Municipality
Facts
• Client: Pinios Mynicipality
• Area: 450m2
• Year: 2012
Completed
The landscape
A pretty flat plot in an indifferent small city of Ileia Prefecture.
The project
The building is elongated with the long side facing south. The large openings
to the south allow the sun to come into the building during winter months, and
during the summer the building is protected from the overheating. The same hap-
pens to the openings to the east. Exposures look westward protected conserva-
tory. Friendly to the environment materials.

Double house – Athens
Facts
• Area: 300m2
• Year: 2009
Completed
The landscape
The plot is located in a hill with view towards the sea and it is sloping.
The project
The challenge of the project was to open the house to the sea view and in
the same time protect it from the sun of the south orientation. In order to do
this, blinds were proposed on the facades.

Cultural Centre – Pinios Municipality
Facts
• Client: Pinios Mynicipality
• Area: 650m2
• Year: 2012
Completed
The landscape
A pretty flat plot in an indifferent small city of Ileia Prefecture.
The project
The building is elongated with the long side necessarily looking to the West due to the pres-
ence in the plot of another building. In order to protect the building of the strong insolation
of the west orientation we create a second skin of aluminum blinds and panels facades.
The side panels positioned in front of the staircase and in front of the volume of the multipur-
pose hall. Towards east the building adjoins the adjacent and there is no openings, as well
as to the south. The design is environmentally friendly.

Five stars Apartment Hotel – Amorgos – Cyclades
Facts
• Area: 2500m2
• Year: 2011
Completed
• Position: Senior architect/Main designer
The landscape
A sloping plot with view towards the sea.
The project
The buildings have simple geometric form, according to
local standards and fit perfectly into the natural landscape.
The volumes are in contact with each other or connected
with semi-open spaces or courtyards, creating a single
architectural ensemble with unity and cohesion, in line with
local standards of “residential”. The scale of the buildings
is approaching the local standards. The final surface of the
walls is either masonry or coated white surface.

Sport pool facilities – Athens
Facts
• Client: Municipality of Kifisia
• Area: 5, 50 ha,1000m2 building 2000 m2
underground parking area
• Year: 2011
Completed
• Position: Main designer/Project manager
The project
The project program is about green area, recreation facilities, outdoor swimming pool facilities serv-
ing Olympic technical specifications, outdoor and underground parking area. Sustainable principles,
water management, access and use by disabled people and people with eyesight problems.

Museum Palau Solterra en – Torroella de Montgri – Spain
Facts
• Client: Fundacio Villa Casas
• Area: 2.300 m2
• Year: 1999
Completed
• Collaboration: Joan Llopis architect
• Position: Architect
The project
It’s about the renovation of a Palace in Torroella de Montrgi ,Cata-
lonia, Spain. The building shell was reinforced where needed and
all the interior and decoration was rehabilitated.

Europan 5 New housing landscape. Travel and proximity
Facts
• Architectural competition Europan 5 with theme
“New housing landscape. Travel and proximity”
• Area: 5ha
• Year: 1998
Completed
• Collaboration: M. Marlanti, E.Kouri, X.Zotika
• Position: Member of the design team
The landscape
It’s about a deteriorated landscape of railway tracks
into the residential tissue of Ag. Anargiroi area in Attiki.
The project
The concept was to smooth the existing boundaries
between the transport network and the city and to
respond to the city split caused by the railway tracks.
The proposal was based in three layers of interpreta-
tion: construction elements system, paving system,
green system.

National Architectural Competition for the restoration of green area in Filothei – Attiki
Facts
• National Architectural Competition for the
restoration of green area in Filothei – Attiki
• Area: 3ha
• Year: 2008
Completed
• Collaboration: Anna Kaneli, Despoina Tsafou,
Nikos Zikidis
• Position: Member of the design team
The landscape
It’s about a deteriorated green space that forms part of series of green areas of the zone. A stream,
buried in this time and all the related native vegetation are designating a fragile natural system on
the border of a heavy traffic road.
The project
A delicate approach towards the existing riparian vegetation, the use of the water element in order
to remind the buried stream and the smooth handling of the terrain form the proposal. We coped
with the border of the heavy traffic road using new vegetation and by creating retention walls
which go down towards the road smoothing the difference height between the two parts. A special
care about water management and study of the lighting.

Dolphins’ Recreational Urban Area and Park Development in Odessa – Ukraine
Facts
• Area: 20 ha
• Year: 2005
Completed
• Position: Senior architect
The site
The site of Dolphins’ Recreational urban area and Park development an area of 20Ha
(200.000sq.m.) is situated at a close distance to the city centre of Odessa along the East-
ern coast line. Two central roads cross the site from North to South and a pedestrian road
network is developed within the site along its’ north-south axis, as well as a perpendicular
from west to east connecting the city of Odessa with the coastal line. The existing “telefe-
rique” is adjacent to its’ northern boundary, while the existing tennis court club, meteorologi-
cal station and recreational area (restaurant) are integrated into the development.
The project
The architectural study tries to incorporate the existing condition of the site with the inclina-
tion of the ground and the dense planting, while simultaneously constitutes a self-existent
recreational completed development which can function independently but will not be
isolated from the city of Odessa. The buildings are developed in the eastern part of the
site in a harmonious entity with the configuration of the environment. The direct relation
of Odessa with the sea - as well as the preferential place of the site near the coast line,
constitutes the inspiration of the architectural design proposal. The concept was the creation
of a hurricane, which drifts the waves of the sea as well as the sailing boats to the harbour
– city with its’ lighthouse. This concept was realized with 6 building types. The differentia-
tion of the buildings define the conceptual annotation of the 6 types : ”hurricane” – Type 1,
“waves” – Type 2, “boats” – Type 3, “harbour” – Types 4-5, “lighthouse” – Type 6.

Stream rehabilitation in Catalonia – Spain
Facts
• Course of Master of Landscape Architecture
”Stream rehabilitation in Catalonia-Spain”
• Area: 38ha
• Year: 1999
The landscape
It’s about a deteriorated stream area in Catalonia Spain.
The project
Methodology is absolutely important in such large scale
projects. Site analysis in the composing layers: paths,
roads, cultivated areas, hydrographic basins, pastures,
elevation maps etc. Strengthening of riparian vegetation in
the stream bank and in the areas where the inclination of
the terrain is suitable is proposed. Also new cultivation
areas with sort need if irrigation, new areas of pastures.
Very important aspect of the proposal was the color study.

Nurseries – Attiki
Facts
• Client: Ag. Municipality of Marousi, Municipality
of Saronicos, Municipality of Aharnes,
Municipality of Gerakas, Municipality of Halandri,
Municipality of Menidi, Municipalty of Ano Liosia etc.
• Area: 800-2000 m2, underground parking areas
• Year: 2009-2012
Completed
• Position: Main Designer/Project Manager
The landscape
Different sites around Attiki county.
The project
he projects are about nurseries with capacity 60-30
Kids. The project program follows special specifica-
tions and is designed in order for the kids to be safe.
Included in most of the cases professional kitchens for
the food to be prepared and underground parking.
Special interior and outdoor design with a lot of care
on safe details, playgrounds etc. Bioclimatic design
criteria.

Various plazas around Greece
Facts
• Various plazas around Greece
• Area: various
• Year: 2001-2010
Completed
• Collaboration: Studio 75, M.Marlanti
• Position: Main designer/ Project manager
The landscape
Various plazas around Greece, from small villages plazas to central plazas
of urban areas. Mediterranean landscape, vegetation with short need of
water, slopping terrains, flat terrains, with view or not, with good or bad
orientation etc.
The project
Approaches respecting the characteristics of the existing landscapes, the
Greek light, the land form, the rules of vegetation, the colors, the meaning
of the place, the views, the orientation the seasons of the year, the comfort
of the people who use the plazas and the clients demands.

Facts
• Area: 6.000m2
• Year: 2010
Completed
• Position: Senior Architect
The project
There are two options for the project. One is inspired from the symbol of the
cancer constellation that can be read both ways, representing in a theoretical
level the double reality of Libya: the coexistence of tradition and evolution.
The second solution is inspired from the coil that represents the evolution of
Libya and its progress. The organization of the plan for a typical level with the
central staircase reinforce this choice.
Office building tower NOC in Tripoli – Libya

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