National Centre for Research and Technological Development – Initial and new buildings combined with the Thessaloniki Technological Park, Thessaloniki

First phase: A. Kotsiopoulos, M. Papanikolaou, I. Sakellaridou, and, in construction final design, G. Albanis, N. Fintikakis, M. Kostika, P. Koukourakis

Civil engineers E. Sakellariadou, OMETE S.A. (Kostikas, Iakovidis, Kremezis),

E/M engineers: A. Tsalapatas, TEAM Ltd.

Total built area: 8.000 m2, project 1991-93, end of construction 1996

Second phase: A. Kotsiopoulos and partners : A. Kotsiopoulos, E. Zoumboulidou, A. Panou,

Collaborators Ch. Zerefos, E. Chalkiopoulou,

Total built area: 5.000 m2, beginning of construction 2004

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

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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 (first phase) and parallel to that (second phase).

Publications

  • Ν. Κalogirou, «Θεσσαλονίκη, Αστικό τοπίο και σύγχρονη αρχιτεκτονική έκφραση» (Thessaloniki: townscape and contemporary architecture), The World of Buildings 5/1994, pp. 196-204

  • Ktirio, 76, May 1995,  pp 79-86

  • Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Αρχιτεκτονική  3: δημόσια αρχιτεκτονική (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

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

  • Ε&Τ, Ministry of Research, 4/2004, pp 42-43.

  • L. Tsaktsiras, K. Papanthimou, G. Mantzios, N. Kalogirou, Θεσσαλονίκη, η πόλη και τα μνημεία της,  (Thessaloniki: the city and the monuments), Malliaris,  2003, p 227