IRGEN SALIANJIPORTFOLIO

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EDUCATION:Department of Architecture Engineering, University of Thessaly, GreeceBachelor Diploma [full 5 year degree, 300 ECTS], 2008 - 2014

UNIRC Universita Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Facolta di Architettura, ItaliaErasmus Student, Architecture and Urban Planning, Academic Year 2010 - 2011

ACADEMICS:.UTH Department of Architecture Engineering, Volos GRAssistant of Design Studio (3rd and 4th year students): <<Fabel: A Metropolitan Village>>Duration Spring Semester Academic Year 2013-14

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS PROJECT LIST: 2015-Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Dessau, Germany2014-Guggenheim Museum Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland2013 - ‘INTERWAVING’ Redesign of Freedom Square, Thessaloniki, Greece - SPATIAL WOMB Visitors’ Center SNCC, Athens, Greece - ACT[IN]CONTAINES Trimo Urban Crash, Ljubljana, Slovenia - finalist - ‘INVERTED NATURE’ Cruise Hyperdock, Geiranger, Norway 2012 - Bioclimatic School in Creta, Herakleion, Greece - Porifera Central Library, Helsinki, Finland 2011 - Metro Station 20, Sofia, Bulgaria - Trimo Urban Crash, Ljubljana, Slovenia - finalist - PanAmerican Olympic Games 2015 Closing Ceremony Pavilion, Torondo, Canada 2010 - Solar Park South, Reggio Calabria, Italy - Peireus Tower ‘changing the facade’, Peireus, Greece

Irgen Salianji is a graduate of Architecture Engineering Department [5 years full diploma] at the University of Thessaly in Greece and UNIRC Facolta di Architettura in the city of Reggio Calabria in Italy. His professional experience includes internships at OMA_Office for Metropolitan Architecture, SHIFT architecture and MONOLAB Architects in Rotterdam.He is a research-oriented conceptual thinker and enthusiast of contemporary culture and approach on urban/architectural issues.

He has been honored in several international architecture com-petitions such as TUC student competition (‘10 & ‘13 finalist) and together with Christos Bletsas and Charis Siaravas have competed in open competitions such as PORIFERA Helsinki Library/ Finland 2012, Bioclimatic School in Creta/ Greece 2012, Sofia Metro Station 20/ Bulgaria and Solar Park South/ Italy 2010.

i.salianji@gmail.com2e Virulystraat 1BRotterdamtel 0 644915190

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

.Shift architecture, Rotterdam NLInternship Plus+Duration 15 November 2014- 28 February 2015-Klooster Housing Project, Tilburg, NL-C-City, Kerkrade, NL-Row House Renovation Project, Rotterdam, NL

.OMA_Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam NLInternshipDuration 03 June 2013- 31 October 2013-ECP Masterplan, Paris, France-Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc, Bordeaux, France (Competition Winner)-Other Middle East Confidential Projects

.MONOLAB Architects, Rotterdam NLInternship Erasmus Placement ScholarshipDuration 15 September 2012- 12 March 2013-Tall buildings tool, Research and Development-CPO, Housing for Collectives, NL-THE YELLOW urban ideas competition, Salt Lake City, USA

ARTICLES/ RESEARCH<<Architecture and the city in the dawn of the new decade>>, 2010-11<<dencity: global metropolitan village in densification>>, 2013-14<<why (not) Tirana>>, 2014-

LANGUAGES.English (Proficiency), Greek (Mother Tongue), Albanian (Mother Tongue), Italian (Fluent), Spanish (Basic)

SOFTWARE SKILLS.Microsoft Office, Autocad, 3D Studio Max, Rhinoceros, VRay, Grasshopper, Archicad, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, In design etc), Archicad, Revit

NATIONALITYGreek and Albanian

BLOG/ WEBSITEirgensalianji.tkarchitectsforurbanity.blogspot.comfacebook/ArchitectsForUrbanity

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tiranatirana, albaniadiploma project UTHindividualsupervisor Costis Paniyiris

The topic of the diploma thesis project is the design of a complex of four tall buildings, which are interconnected on the ground floor. The project is placed on a 20.000 m2 site in the center of Tirana, intervening in the inconvenient green park which exists so far behind the historical building of Tirana’s Opera. The aim of the intervention is the intensification of the use of the site and its integration into the urban realm of the city.The central idea of the project may be summarized in the following phrase: <<instead of a mediocre park, let’s have two intensified urban condensers, an ‘urban forest’ and a complex of buildings with a mixed program for the city>>. In this way, half of the plot is being constructed in its maximum volume permitted by the city’s regulations, and the otherhalf of it receives denser vegetation and trees to become more useful and appealing to urban dwellers.On the ground level, the project reproduces the (typological) micro scale and the program of the city itself on that par-ticular area of the site. In this sense, the base of the buildings (the Plinth) serves as a roof which embraces and defines four fundamental categories of activities: market/trade, contemporary art/education, cultural activities/leisure and sports. Those four different programmatic subjects are interconnected and join the urban realm on their open side to the existing or the newly designed sidewalks. The edges of the buildings on the level of the street are well defined and fully transparent so that the continuity with the urban context is not interrupted.On each of the four corners of the cross-shaped plinth, a building is raised which is of a particular size. The tallest of those four buildings (100 m) aspires to become Tirana’s new landmark. Let’s call those tall buildings ‘Towers’ (in Alba-nian ‘Kulla’), once according to the height standards of Tirana, such a tall construction is considered a Tower. Designing these four Towers the project becomes relevant to the recent tradition of Tirana to intensify its center by constructing tall buildings during the last fifteen years. The four towers have also a particular characteristic which makes them special: a big diagonal part of their lower part is missing and part of its vertical program is ‘contaminated’ with public activities, so they don’t serve only for dwelling/apartments and working/offices.

projecting urbanity

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OMA

[section 1] professional work

.OMA_Office for Metropolitan ArchitectureRotterdam NLInternshipDuration 03 June 2013- 31 October 2013

.MONOLAB ARCHITECTSRotterdam NLInternship ErasmusDuration 15 September 2012- 12 March 2013

.Shift architectureRotterdam NLInternship Plus+Duration 15 November 2014- 28 February 2015

pont jean-jacques boscbordeaux, francecompetition 2nd phase 20131st priceOMA | WSP | EGIS | Michel Desvigne | Lumières Studioproject director: Clément Blanchet

OMA has won the international competition to design the Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc, the sixth bridge across the river Garonne in Bordeaux and the first bridge design to be realized by OMA. Completion is scheduled for 2018.Positioned at the heart of the Euratlantique project, Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc provides a link between the municipalities of Bègles and Floriac. But more than simply connecting two points of land separated by water, the bridge itself also offers a generous new public space in the city.Vincent Feltesse, president of the Urban Community of Bordeaux: «It is an extraordinary architectural gesture. More than a bridge, it is an urban planning intervention in the heart of the Euratlantique project.»Its considerable 44m by 545m expanse, a continuous surface stretching well beyond the banks of the river, seamlessly connects to the land. The gently sloping surface enables a pedestrian promenade while still allowing the necessary clearance for boats beneath. All traffic modes - including private cars, public transport, bicycles and foot traffic - are accommodated by its width, with the largest allowance devoted to pedestrians.Clément Blanchet, director of OMA France: «The bridge itself is not the ‘event’ in the city, but a platform that can accom-modate events of the city. We wanted to provide the simplest expression - the least technical, least lyrical, but the most concise and effective structural solution.»The project was developed in collaboration with engineers WSP, the landscape architect Michel Desvigne, the consul-tant EGIS, and the light design agency Lumières Studio.

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quartier joliot-curie masterplansaclay, paris, francedesign development 2013OMA | DICILA | ALTOproject director: Clément Blanchet

OMA has won the competition for the new École Centrale engineering school and its surrounding urban development in the research and innovation zone of Saclay, southwest of Paris. With the concept of a «lab city,» OMA was selected from four competing international architectural practices. The project is led by Clément Blanchet, director of OMA projects in France.In contrast to the corridor / room linearity of the typical laboratory, OMA’s design is a low level, glass-roofed superblock containing an open plan grid inside, where various activities can interact and be overlooked simultaneously. The grid offers the freedom to generate a new typology for learning, cultivating collaboration while maintaining the stable condi-tions of the engineering school’s primary pedagogical function.Blanchet commented: «The design integrates urbanism with the school, supplanting the homogeneous experience of the campus. It’s an attempt to define the actual esthetic of science.»A diagonal main street slices through the grid, connecting with a future metro station for Paris at one end, and the existing engineering school, Supelec, at the other. In the centre of the project, a forum rises above the grid, offering a focal point of activity for the school. This platform accommodates a gym, administration center and classrooms for first year students, winding its way up through and above the field. This stack is conceived as a training machine offering a complementary condition to the small, intricate spaces in the horizontal field of «lab city.»The project was developed in collaboration with Bollinger and Grohman, Alto, DHV, DAL, and D’Ici Là. OMA is currently working on several projects in France, including a masterplan for 50,000 housing units in Bordeaux, a new library in Caen, and a convention centre in Toulouse.

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the yellow/ urban regenerationsalt lake city, utah, united statesinternational competition 2013project director: Jan Willem van Kuilenburg

This urban ideas competition seeks to amplify the Salt Lake City cultural amenities, acting as a catalyst for design-ked growth. Proposals will have to activate the spaces between the disparate arts, entertainment and business groups of the 69-70 blocks. We introduce The Yellow: a network like a maze, allowing tourists, visitors and citizens to enjoy a trip, a cultural safari. A journey with unexpected cultural programs over roofs and through hidden courtyards. Creative indus-tries are linked through The Yellow that traces the ruptures and gaps of the 69-70 block. The yellow brings (visitors) and integrates (expansions of cultural amenities, institutions or businesses).Salt Lake City has a powerful series of three twin blocks that cover…- History: a campus model, a green park-like environment with important historic-religious buildings, - Retail: one new retail center with public core, - Culture: an urban tissue with a small scale network that ties high culture and subculture together.The synergy of these three qualities in the city core will become very powerful making the daily thousands of visitors, tourists, consumers and citizens will merge in an environment of place making. Our target is to complete this Salt Lake City trinity and make them stay longer and enjoy this unison. Apart from the high culture programs along the grid and streets, unexpected spaces are activated through The Yellow. Several cultural buildings, parking facilities and backyards are ‘side-programmed’: enhanced by new ‘pop up’ programs that are attached to five existing cultural amenities and parking facilities. Food Garden is a deck with terraces, shared by surrounding restaurants and shadowed below a screen of ivy. Park Paradise is a public pocket parc, a green and natural oasis with water curtain within the urban turmoil.

MONOLAB architects

rowhouse renovation

klooster housing project Shift architecture

almere buiten research by design

c-city, kerkrade

inverted naturegeiranger, norwayinternational student competition 2013individual participation

hyperdock

[section 2] international competitions

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, helsinki, finland

SPATIAL WOMB, athens, greece

PORIFERA CENTRAL LIBRARY, helsinki, finland

BIOCLIMATIC SCHOOL in Creta, herakleion, greece

guggenheim helsinkihelsinki, finlandinternational competition 2015team: Irgen Salianji, Karolina Szostkiewicz, Alberto Salvador Martin

The proposal of the Guggenheim Museum Helsinki suggests a radical urban facility for the production and exhibi-tion for international and Nordic contemporary Art. The building proposed fits the required program inside a modest orthogonal volume which is dressed with row timber trunks, to fit the Tahititornin Vuori Park in the background and take advantage of Finland’s timber resources. The rough semi-transparent volume of the building contains the exhibition gal-leries and generic program, and floats above the transparent ground floor which opens to the city and contains spaces and infrastructure for the production of Arts, in common by the artists and the urban subjects. The ground floor is fully accessible and in fusion with the city’s urban continuum, thus sheltered by the ‘spatial roof’, which hosts the galleries and exhibitions of the museum, the city. In such a way, the production of contemporary Art, the city, happens on the street level, in the interior and exterior spaces of Guggenheim, exploiting the port’s and its own facilities and generosity of urban space. The compactness and spatial efficiency of the building proposed, releases the outdoors spaces of the site for large scale artistic installations and generous flows of people and art from and towards the port of Helsinki.The connecting act between the city’s program, the port’s continuity, Guggenheim’s ground floor and floating galleries’ volume is the continuous ramp (5% slope), which starts from the entrance of the Museum and ends at the top of it, leading to Tahititornin Vuori Park through a footbridge. The urban ramp is thus providing the Guggenheim with two entrances and connects it directly with Eteläsatama’s cultural routes and networks. The continuous route Park-Guggenheim- city port, and reverse, sets the Guggenheim as another major urban sequence within Helsinki’s expanding cultural structure, which can be experienced by local urban dwellers and visitors as an integrated part of their everyday routines or touristic agendas, and not merely as a standalone attraction.

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spatial wombathens, greecenational student competition 2013individual participation

The central idea of the visitors’ pavilion can be summarized as a spatial womb which gets activated from visitors and generates architectural experiences and interaction. The results of the site analysis provide the basic axis and trajec-tories for the composition of the interior spaces and the orientation of the principal parts of the project, such as the entrance, the exposition spaces and the secondary facilities. The main concept is therefore the creation of a fl exible and sensible organic structure which provides concrete answers to the issues raised by the context.The interior space is predicted to function on tree major alternative versions:- In case that the exhibition is small (60 sqm) and there is a big presentation given, the capacity can be maximum of 150 people sitting.-In case that there is a bigger exhibition (80 sqm) and a smaller presentation, the capacity can be minimum of90 people sitting-In case that there is a vast exhibition (110 sqm) and a very big presentation, the organizer could arrange also an out-doors presentation with a minimum of 200 people sittingThe relationship of the visitors’ centre with the SNFCC construction site is the basic guiding design elementof the project. A wide glass facade on the north part of the pavilion is watching straight towards the construction site, placing it actually as a ‘’live background’’ of the exposition area and the amphitheatre/ lecture hall. The proximity with the city is also expressed through the extraordinary view to the Faliro’s waterfront and port,so that the visitors can enjoy it from the elevated viewpoint. On the other hand the visitors’ centre pavilion is attracting visitors by it’s original shape and diff erent light qualities formed on its prismatic envelope, once stimulating their curiosity.

visitors’ center SNCC

poriferahelsinki, finlandopen international competition entry 2012team: sophia vyzoviti, irgen salianji, charis siaravas, pablo de souza, christos bletsas, karolina szostkiewiczFinnish Landscapes have provided deep inspiration for the generation of architectural forms. In this spirit, we propose a formal concept for the building of Helsinki Central Library developed as a dialogue between the luscious curves of Fin-ish coastlines and the rational rectangular urban grid. In the shape of a porous slab the building becomes an abstrac-tion of a new artificial landscape situated at the cultural cluster at the heart of Helsinki downtown. Responding to the particular qualities of the location which is a threshold between a green cultural hub and a railway landscape, ‘porifera’ becomes a porous border, a strong linear urban figure that is transparent and permeable. Supported by big vertical ‘pores’, the hollow solenoids that enclose the core of the library´s collective programs and provide structure, ventilation and lighting shafts, the buildings interior is a natural evolution between the complex and dynamic curves of the ground floor, that fit perfect within an open plan layout for fluid programs, and the straight lines of the second and third floors, that hold the library’s collections and reading rooms. The ‘pores’ provide isolated ideal spaces for reading, working, meeting and concentrating, the quiet oasis. In their extension to the upper floors they appear as open air spaces inside the building, courtyards providing open air reading in gardens and introducing to the interior fresh air and sunlight. The public functions of the Library are placed primarily on the ground floor, creating a direct connection with the city life. The first floor is dedicated to “learning and doing”, forming a smooth intermediate floor to the collections areas. The forth floor of the building hosts the publicsauna in an enclosed atrium and the staff facilities. The parameters unanalyzed and addressed in this proposal acknowledge the relationship of the citizen with educa-tion, the emergence and support of existing forms of urbanity, the density and stratification of the library program, the interaction with city life and the possibility of spontaneous appropriations of the building that may invigorate the library function.

Central Library

bioclimatic schoolheraklion, creta, greeceopen international competition entry 2012team: theoklis kanarelis, irgen salianji, christos bletsas, charis siaravasThe plan was to erect this school complex considering a terrace structure as the best solution to express our respect for the flora and landscape. All educational buildings of the ensemble including individual classroom building of primary school, an auditorium and kitchen-are designed on a connecting base of local stone , thus forming a promenade at the centre of the complex. Local stone is used especially in the first levels because it is resistant to sun, wind and humidity. The dry wall stones surrounding this school complex provide places to sit. Classrooms are constructed out of rammed earth on the upper floors, whereas kitchen and auditoriums are build of concrete. The crucial factor for minimizing heating and cooling costs was the installation of computer driven natural ventilation with automated window shutters. The shutters are opened or closed depending on sunlight, wind force and wind direction. A central north facing garden is positioned in front of the classrooms, offering cooling in summer months, while roof terrace introduces a strong airflow and ventilation throughout the building. The solid concrete core stabilizes the temperature inside.The distributional and decentralized design of structures on the site creates intervals for the landscape, thus also promoting natural ventilation. Thanks to their east west orientation, the four educational buildings complex can make optimum use of sunlight. An open staircase which crosses horizontally the linear arrangement of the complex connecting all three levels, contributes an easier entrance in the central space of the complex, also ensures that additional light reaches the lowest level of primary school building.The classroom buildings were orientated in the east-west axis allowing the largest possible window space to face north and south and providing optimal conditions for harnessing the sun’s rays and natural daylight. On the classroom fa-cades, wooden panels have adapted to create a transparent exterior cladding. Some of them can be adjusted according to the position.

in creta

screenvolos, greeceUTH academic studio project 2012team: irgen salianji, christos bletsas, eleni rigaki, katerina solomoututor: maria vontissi

pavillion

[section 3] research/academics

urban condenser, academic research project/ book

why (not) tirana, research project/ book

urban condenseracademic project bookprofessor Zissis Kotionis, Vasso Trova, Costis Paniyirisstudent Irgen Salianji, Avrokomi Zavitsanou, Basiliki Tzora, Stefania SotiriadiUniversity of ThessalyDepartment of ArchitectureAc. Year 2013-14

Which is the new way of working and living collectively after the financial crisis?Which are the particular characteristics of informality?Urban Condenser is a project which suggests a new model of collective dwelling and working for young professionals. This new model is based on the common production of small groups of various professionals, sharing the resources and tools needed. In this way the young professionals of Greece, Europe or the world are offered a way out to the misery of unemployment or the disappointment generated by the decay of the Fordist work in the private or the public sector. Moreover the project offers a way out to the post-war and old-fashioned lifestyle of firstly taking a loan to buy a house, a car and get married, and then searching for a house to pay off. Instead, nowadays youngster could first start work-ing together and in small groups and combining their expertise and expenses in the same space that they can live and work. Such a dynamic social coexistence and collaboration could generate interactions and urban liveliness in the context of the metropolis, once it is based on the de-industrialization of Europe and the mobility that globalism and social-media/internet are stimulating.

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why (not) tirana?

Tirana may be one of those today’s vibrant spatial organisms that attracts the attention of the European or/and global economical and political structure of interests. Its emergence as an actual place in the Balkans which somebody can visit and experience, after the democratization of Albania in the early 90s’, shaped automatically various trajectories of exploitation potentials. The capital’s way of reaching the present times through a turbulent course, created already a brief post-communist, not to say contemporary, history in itself. Tirana’s new forms of urbanity have been produced through a paradoxical mixture of top-down governmental and business oriented decisions, as well as the bottom-up informality and initiatives of self-organization. On the one hand one could distinguish the city’s hunger to obtain all those urban elements of the west which would form a new European identity, on the other hand the city is trying unsuccessfully, to ignore the presence of the history and its built forms. The Europeanization of Tirana seems to be both necessary and forced. It is as necessary as it has been the overall reconstruction of the state and infrastructure of the country after the democratization, but also needed as for the collective psychology of Albanians to see their country progressing and getting transformed into a place with dignity and higher quality of life. And Tirana, as often called ‘Capital of Albanians’, has to be the exemplary act of the transforma-tion.

research projectindependent research projectIrgen Salianjiyear 2014-

ContactIrgen Salianjii.salianji@gmail.comRotterdamtel 0644915190