School of Mineral Resources building complex at the Technical University of Crete, Chania Greece

A. Kotsiopoulos, N. Arvanitopoulou, D. Daki, G. Horozoglou, V. Karalazos, E. Spartsi, in collaboration with H. Bougadellis and Associates in the construction drawings (phase I), and A. Bobou-Arachovitou, G. Arachovitis, E. Paikou (phase ii),

Civil engineers: Domi S.A., M. Zarkadoula and partners, E/M engineers: A.Tsalapatas – G. Koritos – OMH Ltd. (S. Kolokontes, A. Michas),

Total built area: 12000 sqm, project: 1990-1993, end of construction: 1996

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The School of Mineral Resources building complex is a structural part of the whole idea of the autonomous ‘islands’ in the Akrotiri campus. It follows the type of a cloister with successive courtyards, different in spatial character - depending on their predominant function - as well as in architectural idioms. In fact the second phase of the building was dealt with rather as a project concerned with the extension of an existing building, than a second phase of a whole. The arcades and the central brick building played a crucial role in connecting the two parts and in signifying the differences in the character of the three yards: the first of the laboratories the second of the lecture rooms and the third the basic meeting place of the island as a whole.

Publications

  • Architecture in Greece, 32/1998

  • Ktirio, 105/ April 1998,  p. 61

  • Architectural Work in Greece 3, edited by Ktirio, 1998, pp 18-21

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