Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)

Thessaloniki, Greece

Architects (phase a)
A. Kotsiopoulos, M. Papanikolaou, I. Sakellaridou

K-Architects (phase b)
A. Kotsiopoulos, E. Zoumboulidou, A. Panou
E. Chalkiopoulou, S. Zerefos

Civil engineers
Statika.gr

E/M engineers
G. Lagos, K. Sarropoulos

Photos by A. Kotsiopoulos

total built area
8.000 sqm (phase a)
5.000 sqm (phase b)

design
1991 - 1993 (phase a)
2001 (phase b)

construction
1996 (phase a)
2008 (phase b)

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The complex contains four applied research Institutes and has been designed in two phases with an interval of almost 10 years. The whole spatial organization is based upon a longitudinal main pedestrian axis and independent laboratory wings vertical to the main axis (phase a) and parallel to that (phase b).

Publications

  • N. Kalogirou, “Thessaloniki: townscape and contemporary architecture”, The World of Buildings 5/1994, pp. 196-204

  • KTIRIO 76, May 1995,  pp 79-86

  • Contemporary Greek Architecture 3: public buildings, Malliaris 2000, pp. 116-125

  • Architecture in Greece, 36 (issue specialized on A.Kotsiopoulos’ work on university buildings) / 2002

  • A. Giakoumakatos, “city and knowledge: university buildings and urban tissue” in: Architecture in Greece, 36, 2002, pp 58 - 64

  • E&T, Ministry of Research, 4/2004, pp 42-43.

  • L. Tsaktsiras, K. Papanthimou, G. Mantzios, N. Kalogirou, Thessaloniki: the city and the monuments, Malliaris,  2003, p 227

Exhibitions
5th Exhibition of Architecture, Thessaloniki, after selection, 2005