PIN.mark

Project developed during the course “Architecture in Excess: Places of information, pleasure and desire” at Undergraduate Studies Program, School of Architecture, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2010. 

PIN.mark

PIN.mark is a design centre at the very edge of Thessaloniki, sited on the line between sea and land. The platform performs as a public space for leisure time, that seeks new ways for indulging pleasure and desire on the coastline living.  

The ground level hosts the main aquatic center, a small port for marine sports, an agora and an exhibition room. The level is functions as a sampling atifact for different conditions of interacting with water. The basins differentiate from deep swimming pools to shallow fountains. The exhibition room is capable of opening its facades bringing the complex’s core into direct contact with the existing coastal zone.

The upper level is based on a matrix of “needles” reminding the artificial poles used in coastal infrastructures. Spaces as gyms, libraby and offices are suspended along these needles, outlining the complex’s front in higher levels.

The last level perfoms as a unitary roof covering, open air and closed places. The roof hosts the design museum and is organized as a perforated surfaces that allows natural light to penetrate the inner piaza of the ground level.

Anchored at the edge of the city, PIN.mark longs as an open structure, always ready to embody new tensions for the coastal living.