The competition aimed to design an Olympic museum in Athens. The place was located near the Acropolis, between a residential area and a green hill.
Our project was intended as an interpretation of the city of Athens. The orthogonal grids, the white residential blocks, the skyline and the stones of the Acropolis were the perennial references. A higher floor would be a public space, completely outside, as a white rock garden. On a lower interior floor would be the museum. The relationship between interior and exterior was the subject of the proposal that would be more than a building: it would be an extension of city.
I feel that the project deserves a second chance because it solved several problems of the place and, unlike the winners, wasn’t a building perched on the site, but was a part of the town.