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Al. Papanastasiou 207542 50 ThessalonikiGreece

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Ioannina, Greece22 October 1984

Marina Gousia

STUDIES

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Faculty of EngineeringDiploma of Architect Engineer2002 - 2009Grade of diploma: 8,27

Title of thesis:Viviendas de bajo costo: Architecture to the poornessGrade of project: 9,75Tutors: C. Conenna, C. SpyridonidesPresentation: 12 March 2009

Title of research project:From the houses of the poor to the architecture for the poorGrade of project: 10Tutors: C. Conenna, C. SpyridonidesPresentation: 9 October 2007

Instituto de Cooperación en Habitabilidad Básica / Universidad Politécnica de MadridXI Course of Especialization: Cooperation for the Development of the Human Settle-ments in the Third WorldPostgraduate programme, title of specializationJanuary-June 2008Grade of degree: 9

Title of project:Proyecto de ordenación territorial y plan general de desarrollo del municipio San José de CusmapaTutor: Felipe Colavidas

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid / Universidad Politécnica de MadridParticipation in semestral programme Socrates – ErasmusJanuary-June 2008

Graduated in 2002 from the Music School of Thessaloniki

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Studio of the architect Janis ChatzigogasArchitectural compositionOctober 2009 - present

The Vidal Partnership /Heineken U.S.A.Shopper marketing Strategy / Visualizatión 3D of markets - colab.: arch. Oscar SanabriaJanuary 2010

Neurological surgery, Tríkala, GreeceInterior designNovember 2008 - March 2009

Studio of the architect Stelios TerzisResidential design / interior design of surgeries, shopsFebruary - December 2007, September 2008 - June 2009

Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, ColombiaInternship programme IAESTEInvestigation and urban design of a neighbourhood of social interestAugust – November 2006

Archaelogical excavations in Despotico of AntíparosDesign of achitectural members and wallsJuly 2005

Opera of ThessalonikiScenography and costume assistant for the representation “Greek Passion” of Martinu directed by Pamela HowardMay - June 2005

Theatre group XNOYScenography and costumes for the represantations:Romeo y Juliette of Bost directed by Efi ZiogaLes Mouches of J. P. Sartre directed by E. ZiogaMarch - April 2005 / November 2005 - January 2006

Film “Homeland” directed by Syllas TzoumerkasParticipation with auxiliar roleOctober 2008

Post office of SifnosProgramme of the General Secretariat of Youth “Vacation and voluntary work”August 2009

Olympic Games Athens 2004Voluntary workAugust 2004

WORKSHOPS

EWSEMS: Eastern and Western Southern European Market SquaresMimar Sinan Fine Arts University / Faculty of Architecture, IstanbulSocrates Intensive Program2-17 June 2006

Sensibilità, creatività, sostenibilitàSAIEnergia, BolognaInternational workshop held by Mario Cucinella28-31 October 2009

EXHIBITIONS / CONGRESSES

LOW COST AND LOW ENERGY SUSTAINABLE HOUSINGSaie - Salone internazionale dell’edilizia, BolognaParticipation with the thesis28-31 October 2009

Beyond Media: VisionsParticipation with the project “Urban Strategies / The city regains its park” in the exhibi-tion Spot on Schools, FlorenceJuly 2009

5th European Biennale of Landscape ArchitectureParticipation in the International Exhibition of Schools of Architecture and Landscape with the project “Re-designing the park”, Barcelona25-27 September 2008

Un-built / International events of architectural research 2008Vyzantine and Christianic Museum of Athens in collaboration with SARCHAParticipation with the project “Urban Strategies / The city regains its park”15 July - 30 August 2008

Quintos encontros internacionais de arquitectura: search and researchSantiago de Compostela, SpainAssistance in the congress8-10 November 2007

Meeting “Visual and architectural education”School of Architecture, Univ. Aristotle of ThessalonikiParticipation with the project “Rubik’s cube - compositions”13-14 March 2005

AWARDS

SAIE Selection 09 BolognaFirst prize in the category student/woodSeptember 2009

World Architecture CommunityAward Thought-provoking for the thesisMay 2009

Technical Chamber of GreeceProposal for award for the thesisJuly 2009

Amics d’ UPC BarcelonaCommendation for the A.U.Th.Participation with the project “Re-designing the park”September 2008

PUBLICATIONS

Magazine Epiloges #11/688, title Prize with the “goodmorning”, January 2010Interview

Magazine Marie Claire #254, article mchero, January 2010Interview

Magazine Ecotec #50, title Ecological construction in the Third World, November 2009Interview

Radio station MARCONI programme human works, 03.11.2009Interview about the prize SAIE Selection 09 and the thesis

Magazine VIMADECO #25, article the newest, November 2009Title Ecological profile

Television station ALTER programme here and now, 30.09.2009Interview about the thesis

Newspaper THE NEWS #19.544, article horizons, 29.09.2009,Title Prize for a house made of bottles

Radio station SKAI programme life.gr, 29.09.2009Interview for the prize SAIE Selection 09

Magazine CORPUS #68, article archaelogical news, February 2005Title New temple of Apollo discovered in Despotico

LANGUAGES

GreekMaternal language

EnglishCertificate of Proficiency in English / University of Michigan (2001)First Certificate in English / University of Cambridge (1998)

GermanZentrale Mittelstufenprüfung / Goethe-Institut (2001)Zertifikat / Goethe-Institut (1998)

SpanishDiploma de español como lengua extranjera (Nivel intermedio) (2007)+ 10 months in Colombia an Spain

COMPUTER PROGRAMMES KNOWLEDGE

AutocadArchicadSketchUpArtlantis StudioAdobe PhotoshopAdobe IndesignAdobe IllustratorAdobe DreamweaverForm ZMicrosoft OSMicrosoft Office SuiteMac OS

INTERESTS

photographymusic (piano, saxophone)sewingtravellingweb design

portfolio thesis A.U.Th.

research project

project of postgraduate programme of ICHaB

competition: Intercontinental Hotel, Business Center, Houses

fifth course project A.U.Th.

internship project U.Salle Bogotá

workshop Sensibility, Creativity, Sustainability

neurological surgery

annual project of composition A.U.Th.

competition: logo design

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In the village Ángel 2 of Nicaragua and under conditions of extreme poverty, malnutrition, lack of road net, markets, potable water, sanity, electricity and with the danger of landslide in certain places, are designed sustainable houses of low cost incorporated in a frame of interaction and public space. Taken as a unit a plot of rural dimensions to guarantee autonomy, the plots of the families are placed organically accord-ing to the special morphology of the ground. Each one of them is formed by a house with possibilities of expansion, a rain-water collector tank, a fertilizer latrine, while the rest of it is disposed for cultivations. The design of the house facilitates its formation according to the users’ needs, preferences and uniqueness. For the construction are used local materials, such as wood and earth, which is combined with plastic bottles through the system of ECO-TEC for the construction of strong walls. The public spaces are disposed exclu-sively for the use of pedestrians and children. Also, they are formed by natural elements, like packed earth for the horizontal levels, wood for the benches and trees for shading.

Viviendas de bajo costo: Architecture to the poornessthesis, U.A.Th., School of Architecturetutors: Claudio Conenna, Constantin Spiridonidesconsultants: Felipe Colavidas, Julián Salas, Nikos Panagiotopoulos

PRIZES | SAIE Selection 09 / WAC Thought Provoking / Proposal TCG

From the houses of the poor to the architecture for the poorresearch project, U.A.Th. School of Architecturetutors: Claudio Conenna, Constantin Spiridonidesproject group: Evi Bellou, Marina Gousia

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Is architecture able to contribute to the improvement of life of people living in slums? Until what level could that happen? Do the habitants want to change the conditions of their lives? These are some of the questions that were set in the beginning of the project, so they could get an answer at the end through the research.The process was consisted by the following steps: 1. definition of the term “slum” 2. search around the phenomenon of the urbanization of poverty 3. impact to women 4. impact to the formed city 5. speci-fication in Latin America 6. specification in Colombia (civil war, relocation of the population, children) 7. specification in the neighbourhoud of Bogotá, La Merced (urban formulation, nets and free spaces, house typologies, construction) 8. general solution strategies 9. architectural attempts 10. study of the solutions of a student competition 11. study of professional examples

General plan for the development of the municipality of San José de Cusmapa, Nicaraguaspecialization project, postgraduate programme, ICHaB Univ. Politécnica de Madridtutor: Felipe Colavidasproject group: Lidia Fernández, Silvia Gómez, Marina Gousia, Laura Vispe

The project is part of the programme “Aldeas del Milenio” that is about the development of some certain places of central America and Africa. It is centred in the municipality of San José de Cusmapa, in the north of Nicaragua. The progress followed was: collection of the information about the country, analyzation of the information concerning the municupality, diagnostic process (problem tree, map of poverty), study of development possibilities, formation of development programmes (ground manipulation, economical de-velopment, urban planning and housing, health and nutrition, roads and transportation, infrastructures) and, finally, development of the programme of urban planning and housing in one of the places that the expansion is favoured.The project is about one of the poorest municipalities of the country, without infrastructures and road nets that connect the villages in between, but also with the municipalities around it. That’ s why the pro-grammes are proposed in economical and completely realistic limits. The development is based on the financing by the municipality, the government or the donations of NGOs, for example in the nutrition programme.

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Open International Competition on the Development of an Ar-chitectural Concept for an International Business Center with an Intercontinental Hotel in the City of Yerevan, Armeniacompetitioncollaborators: Chrysoula Fotsitzi, Marina Gousia, Sofia Chatzigeorgiou, Christina Krystallinou, Christina Tsompanoglou

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The principal objectives of the proposal is to create a new land-mark for the city and to preserve the green area of the site. This is achieved through a tower of 101m, which includes the hotel complex and whose sculptural shape will rise from the green hill as a visual landmark recognizable from all sides of the city. The design takes advantage of the inclination of the area in two ways. Firstly, a ramp that connects the complex with the urban tissue, offering a promenade for the visitors, is designed. Sec-ondly, the same vocabulary is used for the design of the resi-dential complex, whose form follows the inclination of that part of the plot. That concept intensifies the verticality of the tower, preserves independency for the residencies with ideal surround-ings and creates a part of green free landscape in the centre of Yerevan.The form of the tower is chosen as a reference to the monolithic architecture of the buildings found in Yerevan, though inter-preted in a contemporary way, by using a light, semi-transparent material. This perforated element not only enables the view from inside out but also makes the tower distinguish during the night with the illumination of the inner spaces.

APARTMENTS SUITES

selection for second round

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Object of the theme is the regain and the ref-ormation of the space of the HELEXPO in Thes-saloniki after the transference in new position and the imputation of an open space to the city.The proposal aims at a park of mixed uses that concludes public functions, like open market - art laboratories, parking, green, squares of different character and design museum, part of the school of fine arts, ice-rink, museum of contemporary art, sports center in the existing buildings. These new uses are placed in a grid that receives the linings of the city and distorts them. In that way, a patchwork of uses and ma-terials is formed in levels that each one of them gets its own inclination. Elements of the last reformation of the entrances to the HELEXPO are maintained, integrated and reused in the new one, so to connect it to the former one.

Urban strategies: The city regains its parkproject of urban design, A.U.Th. School of Architecturetutors: Titi Papadopoulou, Tasos Teliosproject group: Marina Gousia, Lena Kanta, Chloe Saita

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Barrio La Merced, Bogotá D.C.project - internship, Universidad de la Salle - urban laboratory, Bogotá, Colombiatutor: Mario Tancredi

The object of the project is the improve-ment of the living conditions of the dwell-ers of the neighbourhood La Merced of Bogotá.This is achieved through the improvement of the existing situation, but also of the ex-ploitation of the free spaces: 1. construction of market and houses 2. formation of con-centration place, that due to the inclination is favoured by a small open air theatre 3. construction of a pool - Bogotá is far away form the sea and the children may never have the opportunity for contact with the water 4. exploitation of the old brick ovens as a musem space of itinerancy 5. square - entrance to the museum space.The proposal exploits the large inclinations of the ground.

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Sensibility, creativity, sustainabilityworkshop, SAIEnergia 2009, Bolognaheld by Mario Cucinella

The subject of the project was to let a significant quantity of light to enter in a space of 30x30x30 with architectural, sustainable and esthetical qualities. The proposal is inspired of the thick walls of the old traditional houses, whose windows have a small out-er hole, that opens to the inside and the light per-vades the house, and of the form of the chimneys. A single module is selected to fill a 3x3 grid repeated while turning around itself. An additional quality of light is achieved by turning the module twice upside down creating inside a sense of spot light.

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Neurological surgery in Trikala, Greece

The aim was the design of a modern surgery room for a new neurologist with waiting room, office - ex-amination room and second examination room in a low cost context. The two examination spaces are connected through a door independently of the waiting room, which was designed in such way as to be adaptable in future changes, like the placement of a reception desk.

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The garden of poetsannual composition project, A.U.Th. School of Architecturetutor: Chrysa Sahanaproject group: Antigoni Geronta, Marina Gousia

The object of the project was the design of a sculpture museum with the theme of poets’ busts. The idea of the proposal results from 2 straight lines. The first of them signals the entrance and the second breaks in smaller parts. The intersection -as the lines are in dif-ferent levels- creates an indoor place, where somebody can find the reception. An exter-nal stair leads the visitor to the level of the second, broken line that gives directions to the exhibition place. After a detailed study of the work of every poet of the list, their biographies and the general social-politic situation, are designed spaces of different meaning for each one or for a group of them. In such way, one bust is isolated, others are positioned in adapted niches or rooms. At the end of the line was created a special in-door place of projections, that constitutes in the same time the external place of the café of the museum, that is positioned on a third level.

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Sostrecompetition: logo design

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MARINA GOUSIA | T 0030 6978 480 162 | marina.gousia@gmail.com | www.marinagousia.gr