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The Displaced Stone: A Process of Quarrying Revealing the Past

Part 2 Project 2022
Dimitra Chatzilouka
Athens Metropolitan College | Greece
The word, marble, derives from the Greek verb marmairo, meaning to flash, sparkle.

Tinos provides the long tradition and craftmanship of the locals for marble art, through the centuries.

The project is placed in Vathi, on the southwest side of Tinos where Karagiorgis quarry and factory is established. Access is made either through the road or through the path that descends from the quarry to the sea.

The project for the redevelopment of the area and the re-use of the buildings focussed on-three areas: the educational trail (a path that leads to the quarry and the New Academia), the natural amphitheatre (promoting the rich natural diversity); the quarry workshop (the conversion of the old sheds where marble was processed into workshops and exhibition spaces).

The plot extends from the quarry, located 100m above sea level, to the beach where the factories are placed. The route is approx. 900m long.

70m above the sea level at the place of the old academy where the workers produced custom-made pieces from marble has turned into a New Academia where the Tinian marble art will be enhanced. The students learn marble curving, extracting the marble by themselves from the quarry while at the same time is created the initial concept of a marble block be dislodged from the mountain and then falls, displaced or be rotated influencing the process of creating buildable structures that facilitates the proposed uses.


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