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Hansen, Mixed Use Building in Athens
Hansen, Mixed Use Building in Athens
Athens, Greece
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Other Projects by AREA, Architecture Research Athens
Hansen, Mixed Use Building in Athens
Athens, Greece
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
This project redefines the ubiquitous, Athenian, mixed-use housing typology in one of the most dense urban neighborhoods of the city center, Patissia. A simple, L-shaped plan is dictated by site orientation and adjacent building mass, creating a small garden in the back part of the lot. The vertical arrangement of different programs, which in the typical housing block is integrated behind a uniform façade of duplicate floor levels, is articulated here as a "sectional" façade, whose individual floor levels appear to extend different lengths along the street , varying the relationship of closed to open space at each floor. At the sidewalk level, the majority of the building is lifted to provide a broad visual connection between the public space of the street and private garden in the back, while simultaneously offering space for two vehicles. Accordingly, the office space on the first two floors, the apartment on the third, and the "house" on the upper levels each contribute to a series of open or transparent living spaces that connect the street to the back yard along the East party line; whereas the most sheltered interior spaces are concentrated along the opposite party line. The end result is a more horizontal than vertical reading of the city, where dense urban infill coincides with connectivity and permeable movement.
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