Landscapes Of Cohabitation

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Landscapes Of Cohabitation

Greece

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doxiadis+

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YEAR

2011

OLR _Landscapes Of Cohabitation

Project: Island
villas development
Location: Antiparos, Greece
Area: 12 Ha
Date: 2000-2008
Scope: Site Planning,
Landscape Architecture
Collaborators: Deca architects,
Tala Migdashi, We Design
How to construct on starkly
beautiful Cycladic landscapes without destroying them. This project necessitated placing a rich
program (roads, large villas, swimming pools, terraces, infrastructure) on a
very sensitive site.
The site strategy resulted
from a careful examination of the natural and historic elements structuring the
site: the hills which define an amphitheatrical area, the seasonal streams, the
large juniper trees, the seasonal frigana vegetation, the pezoules
(agricultural terraces) and the xerolithies (dry stone walls). The site strategy consisted of
re-establishing and extending the pezoula system, and using it as a skeleton on
which other elements attach. The
vegetation strategy consisted of planting dense mediterranean vegetation close
to the houses, and progressively dispersing it out towards the landscape in
order to allow the indigenous plants to re-establish and create a seamless
transition between maintained and natural areas.
The scope includes site
masterplaning and location of main infrastructure, through to construction
documents and construction supervision.
Elements designed included retaining walls, parking areas, landscape
paving, landscape lighting, earthworks and vegetation.