Tavros

Athens, Greece

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Tavros

Athens, Greece

Firm

AREA, Architecture Research Athens

Type

Cultural › Cultural Center

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2019

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

BUDGET

$10K - 50K

The neighborhood of Tavros, in Athens, has taken its name from the mountain range in southern Turkey from which a wave of immigrants arrived and settled in the 1920’s. The new Community Art Space by the curatorial team Locus Athens aspires to function as an “open and democratic space” forging relationships with artists of diverse backgrounds, as well as with the local community itself. Located on the first floor of a building of artisanal workshops, Tavros is a piece of the modern city: an open and continuous space of concrete columns and beams. It is inhabited by a curious object: movable, light-weight and playful, an over-sized piece of furniture that changes according to need or whim. A colorful curtain travels with the object, sometimes concealing and sometimes revealing the functions of a large, suspended table: a place for a workshop, a presentation, an informal meeting, or just a desk. The minimal and ephemeral nature of the intervention draws on the refugee history of the area. As the steel structure migrates, its relationship to space changes, forming new organizations and hierarchies, and allowing new events and exhibitions to take place.
Photographs: Dimitris Parthimos