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CARTECO Architectural Materials & Design
Member: Gold
Since: 30.08.2008
Since: 30.08.2008
235 C2, Lycourgou Street, GR-176 75 Kallithea, Athens, Greece
CARTECO presents gfra architecture
21.09.2010
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gfra architecture
Tasos Gousis, Joost Frijda and Eddie Roberts have a common background of many years of co-operation in previous associations. Continuous quest for new ideas and forms in architecture, both in small and large scale, leads to foundation in 2004 of the office gfra architecture.
In 2008 Nota Tsalta joins and supplements the team with the experience she gained at prominent architecture offices. Fotini Anagnostou becomes part of the office in 2007.
Through a realistic approach and close cooperation with the client and with the consulting engineers the aim of the office is to lift the quality of design and technology of architecture to a maximum.
The office co-operates with numerous associates on a regular basis, combining flexibility and low overhead with a large workforce/experience, with many specialisations which include: housing, office, cinema/theatre, public urban/green spaces, re-use/restoration, etc.
Project / Ecomuseum, Exhibition Pavilion for the Green Design Festival:
The ecomuseum, the place where the main exhibitions of the Green Design Festival are held, is in itself a way of expressing the environmental awareness and as such, it becomes an exhibit on its own. It is an open building, set in a public space of the city and its goal is to provoke the by passer to get in, wonder and feel free to join the exhibitions and happenings, combining entertainment and information. The exhibitions are organised as a series of boxes along a route, some accessible, some not, and they are all joined under a perforated shade.
The items used are re-usable, ordinary containers for the exhibition rooms, and wooden pallets to form the routes. In that way apart from the exhibits, also of the construction of the space is an example of the environment sensitive design.
Project / Turkish College Cultural Centre in Tirana:
For the largest private school in Albania, the new cultural wing with an auditorium, a library, a cinema and foyer and reception spaces was designed.
In 2008 Nota Tsalta joins and supplements the team with the experience she gained at prominent architecture offices. Fotini Anagnostou becomes part of the office in 2007.
Through a realistic approach and close cooperation with the client and with the consulting engineers the aim of the office is to lift the quality of design and technology of architecture to a maximum.
The office co-operates with numerous associates on a regular basis, combining flexibility and low overhead with a large workforce/experience, with many specialisations which include: housing, office, cinema/theatre, public urban/green spaces, re-use/restoration, etc.
Project / Ecomuseum, Exhibition Pavilion for the Green Design Festival:
The ecomuseum, the place where the main exhibitions of the Green Design Festival are held, is in itself a way of expressing the environmental awareness and as such, it becomes an exhibit on its own. It is an open building, set in a public space of the city and its goal is to provoke the by passer to get in, wonder and feel free to join the exhibitions and happenings, combining entertainment and information. The exhibitions are organised as a series of boxes along a route, some accessible, some not, and they are all joined under a perforated shade.
The items used are re-usable, ordinary containers for the exhibition rooms, and wooden pallets to form the routes. In that way apart from the exhibits, also of the construction of the space is an example of the environment sensitive design.
Project / Turkish College Cultural Centre in Tirana:
For the largest private school in Albania, the new cultural wing with an auditorium, a library, a cinema and foyer and reception spaces was designed.
