CLIENT:
DOMOTEKA
AREA OF PLOT:
500 m2 (approximately)
The building consists of five storeys, a basement and a mezzanine level. Each storey accommodates a flat with an area of 44-53m2, apart from the top floor which provides a mezzanine level and accommodates a flat 75m2. The higher level flats offer spacious balconies, while the ground floor flat allows for private use of the garden.
The following had a strong impact to the building layout design and character:
- The neighboring with the former gasworks plat of Athens and the unique view it provides
- The historic character of the wider area with the popular neoclassical domestic buildings, the windows' frames and the wooden athenian balconies of back yards.
- The absence of any character of the surrounding buildings
The complementing of the above gave birth to a plain and austere building with large openings and balconies to the south and a sheltered main façade to the north.
Exposed concrete was used as the dominant building material configuring the building's character with its roughness, revised with its white color and the wooden cladding of the façade's projections- elements resembling familiarity and intimacy with vague memories of popular neoclassical yards.
The cuts through the middle storeys and vice versa the façade's projections contradict with each other lending intense plasticity to the building facades.
The glass balustrades at the balconies allow uninterrupted views and do not intervene with the austere character of the building.
