3_Dimensional Urban Identity

PART 2

3_Dimensional Urban Identity

PART 1


It is a painful irony to see Athens; a city that more than any other has fabricated itself now treats its city as if it has the authenticity and inevitability of changes.

“Imprisoned by its glorious past?”

The Acropolis has Athens all under its foothill. The Olympics 2004 puts Greece into current economic crisis; social riots following economic migration, an abandon city with an empty heart. Koolhaas described “The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction,” caused by their historical identity itself.

Reflection on the ideal takes us beyond present Athens into deep historical time. My exploration in this intervention attempts a celebration of the landscape of historical concurrences and transcendent meanings. The intervention begins from where it fell, the abandoned Athens Stock Exchange. The essence will be as different as that of the centuries before us, to present Athens a new 3-dimensional urban identity.