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Olea House
Olea House
Patras, Greece
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Olea House
Patras, Greece
Project Featured on Dec 15, 2019
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Olea House is situated in the south suburbs of the city of Patras in Greece. The owner's desire for the construction of a modern, open-space, single store building comprising of two separate houses, became one of the key elements of the architectural design process.
The presence of a large shaped olive tree in the center of the plot's area together with its symbolic meaning to Greek city of life and culture, became the starting point and also the central element of the whole concept.
The olive tree together with the patio become vital parts of the design process. The positions of the main entrance, the living room, the kitchen and all the three bedrooms, together with the rest of the facilities makes them parts of a liner-type synthesis procedure, which seems to surround both the patio and the olive tree, but still let it grow between them. The patio's position in the building's center, close to the olive tree's area, creates a ''living'' core, being inspired by Greek Classical architecture.
The building plan pertains its view to the surrounding areas by having large openings around its structural form, allowing light and air to fill every single space in both of the houses. Although that the final structural form comprises of two different volumes, one for each of two houses, their plasticity and clean cut lines make two appear as one, thus fulfilling one of the owner's major desires.
Furthermore, the extensive use of fair faced concrete allows for the careful negotiation between the urban environment and the building's functional constraints.
The final outcome manages to accommodate the owner's needs, having two different houses designed and built as one, in a single story building. The purity of the architectural concept, the patio reflecting upon the Greek classical architecture, the modern shape and material approach, and its proportions express the wish for the Olea House to be seen as a spot of an architectural process which embodies the search for urban difference.
The presence of a large shaped olive tree in the center of the plot's area together with its symbolic meaning to Greek city of life and culture, became the starting point and also the central element of the whole concept.
The olive tree together with the patio become vital parts of the design process. The positions of the main entrance, the living room, the kitchen and all the three bedrooms, together with the rest of the facilities makes them parts of a liner-type synthesis procedure, which seems to surround both the patio and the olive tree, but still let it grow between them. The patio's position in the building's center, close to the olive tree's area, creates a ''living'' core, being inspired by Greek Classical architecture.
The building plan pertains its view to the surrounding areas by having large openings around its structural form, allowing light and air to fill every single space in both of the houses. Although that the final structural form comprises of two different volumes, one for each of two houses, their plasticity and clean cut lines make two appear as one, thus fulfilling one of the owner's major desires.
Furthermore, the extensive use of fair faced concrete allows for the careful negotiation between the urban environment and the building's functional constraints.
The final outcome manages to accommodate the owner's needs, having two different houses designed and built as one, in a single story building. The purity of the architectural concept, the patio reflecting upon the Greek classical architecture, the modern shape and material approach, and its proportions express the wish for the Olea House to be seen as a spot of an architectural process which embodies the search for urban difference.
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