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House in Ekali, Greece
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Athens, Greece
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House in Ekali, Greece
Athens, Greece
This single-family house is located in Ekali, a suburban
area of Athens.
The property is surrounded by high pine trees that shade the lot, which let to
the decision to create a continuous openable glass envelope around the south
and east sides of the ground floor. The sliding glass walls allow daylight to
enter into the deep plan while defining a large open living area, transparent
towards the fenced garden. The scheme
shapes the main open area on the south-east corner of the site, where the pool
is placed attached to the building.
Bedrooms are located on the upper floor, and towards
south they hover above the living area as autonomous private units. They are
carefully placed to create a generous semi-open space as well as double-height
areas at ground level.
The main building volume is covered by a pitched double-curved
roof which is clad with conventional ceramic roof tiles. The roof-tile cladding
cascades down the surface of the north wall, creating a rainscreen that
contributes to the environmental performance of the house and conceptually to
the visual impression of a seamless protective blanket.
This element, which provides coherence to the whole
scheme reinterpreting the traditional ceramic-tile roof, is part of an attempt to
shape an appropriate architectural identity –material and spatial- in a
suburban context where traditional imagery and contemporary desires are fused
and confused. Our strategy also involved the selection of completely
conventional materials and construction methods: white plaster, marble, stone
veneer, wood. A typical palette of anonymous greek suburbia is therefore
applied, in ways that are not conventional.
area of Athens.
The property is surrounded by high pine trees that shade the lot, which let to
the decision to create a continuous openable glass envelope around the south
and east sides of the ground floor. The sliding glass walls allow daylight to
enter into the deep plan while defining a large open living area, transparent
towards the fenced garden. The scheme
shapes the main open area on the south-east corner of the site, where the pool
is placed attached to the building.
Bedrooms are located on the upper floor, and towards
south they hover above the living area as autonomous private units. They are
carefully placed to create a generous semi-open space as well as double-height
areas at ground level.
The main building volume is covered by a pitched double-curved
roof which is clad with conventional ceramic roof tiles. The roof-tile cladding
cascades down the surface of the north wall, creating a rainscreen that
contributes to the environmental performance of the house and conceptually to
the visual impression of a seamless protective blanket.
This element, which provides coherence to the whole
scheme reinterpreting the traditional ceramic-tile roof, is part of an attempt to
shape an appropriate architectural identity –material and spatial- in a
suburban context where traditional imagery and contemporary desires are fused
and confused. Our strategy also involved the selection of completely
conventional materials and construction methods: white plaster, marble, stone
veneer, wood. A typical palette of anonymous greek suburbia is therefore
applied, in ways that are not conventional.
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