孤僻的房屋丨希腊丨KLab architecture

Architects:KLab architecture

Area:1000m²

Year:2023

Photographs:Panagiotis Voumvakis

Manufacturers:Delta Marbles,Korakitis,Parkeform,sikatherm

Lead Architect:Konstantinos Labrinopoulos

Structural Design:Panos Mavridis-Maria Christodoulou OE

MEP Engineers:Idea Meletitiki-Alexandros Nikolaides

Project Managers:Future Constructions

Construction:Future Constructions

Landscape Design:Nature above

Project Architect:Evangelia Kakava

Design Team:Argiro Efstathiou, Eva Sarantopoulou, Vaso Dermitzaki, Nicolas Buruzciak

City:Voula

Country:Greece

Text description provided by the architects. Our idea is to do vertically 3 single houses (villas) built on a metal structure.

2 of the most important characteristics of a single house are that it is detached, at a distance from adjacent buildings or neighbors and the 2nd is the garden with soft, green, and hard floors. These 2 were the creative-driven force of how we wanted our building to feel.

We tried to minimize the volumes that were attached to the next flat to minimize any possible interference between the people who owned the houses. We managed this by inserting a small middle floor each time, which produced a void space, especially combined with the atrium. The void space was then been occupied by gardens and outdoor covered areas.

In a way, the built part was equal or even less to the outdoor space, covered and uncovered and this is something quite new to an apartment buildings.

The building produces dramatic cutouts in its volume as the metal structure allowed us to create large cantilevered surfaces on top of light metal columns. The atrium and the volumes of the pools emphasized this almost sculptural subtraction of volume which created all these covered gardens.

The latest changes in the building regulations and also the new technologies which we have tested and introduced to our design, but also the need for new and more sustainable living conditions allowed us to fulfill our design and living experiment and produce this typical (at least for now) apartment building.

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Project location

Address:Voula, Athens, Greece