アンドレアス・アンジェリダキス

Hotel Blue Wave

source: angelidakis

Hotel Blue Wave is a medium sized building stemming from a single blue wave module. The project studies modes of temporary habitation such as the beach (put your towel down and claim your spot), and the squat (choose your room, stay for a few months), and they way they can socially and aesthetically enrich the hotel experience.

My name is Andreas and I’m an architect. I like buildings but I’m not sure I want to be the one building them. I like them like beaches and mountains and clouds, as part of an extended idea of nature. I finished my undergrad studies at Sci-ARC in California after dropping out from the Greek polytechnic school when I realized that they were teaching us how to design buildings but not why. Sci-ARC in the late 80’s and 90’s was all about the “why”, expanding the traditional architectural practice in every possible way. After finishing I got an internship at an art center, since contemporary art seemed like a language more fluent in criticism and versatility. Artists seemed to know how to narrow down a complex idea with a single object, and more than architects they were looking at the world from multiple perspectives. Later on I went to Columbia for a masters’ degree, where I was lucky enough to be part of the first batch of Paperless Studios, design course with the computer as the only tool. It was then that I became interested in the computer as a philosophical device, a landscape of ideas whose horizon began to appear on the early days of the internet. With that I somehow completed my scope of interests: art and buildings with a focus on how society shifts, especially through the internet which is the most significant paradigm shifter of our time.

In Athens I maintain an office that bounces back and forth between artists’ studio and architectural practice. Sotiris Vasiliou and Alexandra Syriou are part of that studio, along with a long list of outside collaborators. Currently we are working on designing and curating a large exhibition of contemporary art that includes historical design, antiquities, fashion and buildings all selected from the various collections of Dakis Joannou and the Deste foundation. The exhibition, inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s The System of Objects (1968) will open in Athens on the 15th of May. It will be followed by Paperweight, another exhibition design project at Haus de Kunst in Munich, curated by Felix Burrichter of PINUP magazine. In parallel, and together with Mia Lundstrom and many others, we’re working on an ongoing project in Sweden, investigating new models for urban development. The research takes place in the municipality of Upplands Vasby, a case study of a suburb that resulted almost entirely from the Miljionprogrammet, the construction drive of the Swedish Welfare state. The project will result in a housing expo guided by a research process and a complex series of urban experiments, workshops, publications and temporary inhabitations. An international list of architects and theorists like Keller Easterling (Yale), Tina di Carlo (AA and AHO), Kazys Varnelis (Columbia), Jorge Otero Palios (Columbia), Fritz Haeg (Edible Estates) Andres Jacques (Office for Political Innovation) and many more will contribute and support the project through the completion and continuing investigation. Sometimes I take breaks from projects and sit at home reading, or sneak in the studio to make works for exhibitions. The strangest project I worked on this year was organizing and curating the photographic archive of transvestite activist Paola Revenioti at Breeder gallery (thebreedersystem.com), a show that spoke about Athens through a complex history of sexuality and politics.

Every other week I travel to Norway, where I’m teaching a RESTORE studio at AHO, the architecture school of Oslo. Teaching has been part of my practice for the last 8 years, its a good way of expanding on ideas and staying on the edge, and a great excuse for reading. In between all these I regularly like photos of cute dogs on instagram, I post things I like on tumblr, make blog entries on blogspot, exchange opinions on facebook and browse for consumer fixes on svpply.

Somehow all of the above constitutes an architectural practice, though of course like all disciplines it bleeds onto every other kind of possible content creation, where you compete with recognized artists and highschool students for viewers’ attention.
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source: interiordoseag

Esta sección la vamos a utilizar especialmente para mostrar nuestras indagaciones sobre los Hoteles el proyecto y otros hoteles o proyectos que nos llamen la atención por la calidad (o por lo malo) de su diseño. Aquí tenéis un video del hotel blue Waves de Andreas Aggelidakis. Este Hotel es un proyecto no realizado sobre un hotel ideal. Aunque sea una utopía, como concepto es realmente interesante. Os añado la dirección del estudio del arquitecto donde podéis ver más proyectos suyos.
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source: egymiza

ودعا ملائم فندق الموج الأزرق، يرصد هذا الفندق من مكدسة، التقويس أشكال ملموسة رسمت اللازوردية مشرق. في الداخل، وتدفق الطوابق إلى واحد آخر مع توفير وصول السلالم، ليس هناك زاوية في الأفق. ويقول مصمم اندرياس Angelidakis، “إن مشروع دراسات وسائط سكن مؤقت مثل الشاطئ (وضع منشفة لأسفل ويدعي الموقع الخاص بك)، والقرفصاء في (اختيار الغرفة، والبقاء لبضعة أشهر)، وأنها وسيلة ممكنة واجتماعيا جماليا إثراء تجربة الفندق “.
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source: paperblog

Andreas Angelidakis est un architecte d’origine grecque qui utilise beaucoup l’outil de communication et d’interactions Internet. Il a développé virtuellement un ensemble de produits modulables autour de la vague bleu (Blue Wave). Ceux-ci sont présentés dans diverses expositions au travers de la planète.

Diverses organisations modulaires peuvent être développées. La Blue Wave étant un élément de base qui associé peut produire différents équilibres architecturaux pour l’habitation, des meubles (voir Photo dessous) au bâtiment.

A une grande échelle, ce concept de Blue Wave peut être modulé pour s’organiser dans la construction d’un hôtel de taille moyenne.