The project consists of two Villas with guest areas and outdoor facilities, located in Santa Maria, a nature environmentally protected peninsula characterized as ‘‘Natura’’ at the North East end of Paros in close proximity to Naoussa, that overlooks the sea and the islets Fonisses, Ovriokastro and Kouronisi, and gazes towards the horizon the neighboring island of Naxos. Situated on the focal point of the lot, terraced courtyards and wide-open spaces lead to a plateau which extends between the indoor and outdoor spaces.
Found in the region of Lagonisi, the plot marks a transition between the urban landscape of the city of Athens and the unblemished nature. Emerging from the ground, following a rotation of 6°, House 6° harmoniously contradicts with the mild inclination of the existing topography, embodying the transition between private and common areas. Private areas are strategically placed in the submerged part of the building, in order to create a direct contact with the surrounding landscape. Common areas gradually unfold, ascending towards the sea view.
The Wooden Cave is a project by Tenon Architecture, that was designed and built by the architects Apostolos Mitropoulos and Thanos Zervos at the Hyades Mountain Resort in Trikala Korinthias, Greece, and was completed in 2020. The project entails the complete renovation of an existing space of the resort intended for commercial use, with the construction of a curved wooden structure within it.
The history of Dexamenes dates back to the “Era of Currants”. Since the liberation of Greece in 1830, the cultivation of currants took on impressive dimensions and currants were the main export product of the Greek Kingdom. But when the “Currants’ Crisis” broke out in 1910 in Greece, the trade of currants collapsed and there was a need to convert the unsold stock of currants into alternative products, such as wine. This was when the first wineries and distilleries were created. Dexamenes was built on the sea so that ships could be loaded with wine directly from the tanks, before setting sail for the major overseas markets. The derelict, industrial structures that characterize the site were left relatively untouched since the 1920’s, sitting quietly on one of the most unspoiled and beautiful stretches of coastline in the western Peloponnese.
Our proposal was concerned with the renovation and refurbishment of an existing building that hosted an old taverna and was revamped as a bakery and coffee shop. It is a ground floor building constructed before 1955. Its positioned along the National Highway between Argos & Nafplio and as a result its use and the architectural design is predetermined by the constant flow of people and goods in this busy road. The existing building consisted of adobe walls and a timber roof with byzantine tiles as covers.
The vacation house is located on the top of a lush valley offering a tremendous panoramic view to the Argolic Bay and the islands of Plateia, Psili and Spetses.
The design concept was focused on settling the residence in the tranquil Peloponnesian landscape of the slopping olive grove, while its layout would bless all its spaces with the impressive, magnificent views of the sea and the surrounding nature. Another fundamental design priority was to introduce an outdoor living lifestyle. This is partly achieved by eliminating the boundaries between internal and external spaces through visual and physical tricks that strengthen the flow between them, thus providing a unique experience of the Mediterranean living. Mediterranean architecture is after all an everlasting dialogue between light and shadow, inside and out.
The building is located in a Byzantine settlement on the eastern slopes of Mount Taygetus, at the edge of the Anakolon canyon, looking over the plain of Laconia. In order to climb the canyon, you pass between giant rock formations and near running water to come face to face with the majesty of Mount Taygetus in the distance. The surrounding area is one of outstanding natural beauty and forms part of the Natura 2000 Network.
I knew the area very well, even before undertaking the project. The inhabitants, who love music, had hosted our percussion group on many occasions, to take part in musical activities, seminars and traditional carnival disguises.
Just outside the town of Mykonos, having the existing old residence of the famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin as a core, a small hotel with fully equipped suites was created. This core was expanded and modified with all the internal and external surrounding spaces completely reconstructed.
The plot has a large slope and oversees the beach of Magali Ammos.
The variety of alternative paths and different accesses to the rooms create different viewpoints to the sea and the land sections of the island.
Materials: Hand brushed plaster on exterior walls, cement plaster on the internal walls and bathrooms, natural stone flooring, wood in natural color pergolas, stabilized ceramic floor and natural pebbles floorings outdoors.
Particular emphasis was given to the indoor and outdoor furnishing and lighting.
Η77 house is located in Voula, a southern suburb of Athens, Greece with characteristic topography at the foot of Imittos mountain. This 300m2 total surface project has been completed and it is built. It is a private four-storey residential building. The uppermost storey which is located inside the roof contains the master suite. The middle levels include living rooms and secondary bedrooms, while at the lowest level there are secondary rooms and a parking area.
The small house is located at the third row from the Aegean shore in the randomly built Eastern Attika suburb of Artemis. The building houses the needs for a young small family, critically responding to its context as a parody of its own surroundings.
The building aims at redefining the ‘ephemeral’ and flexible nature of living close to the coast, by achieving comfortable and high quality indoor and outdoor living spaces, revealing selected views to the sea while screening off its residents’ privacy from the close neighbors. Upon a concrete, terrazzo clad base, the two-storey volume is broken into two -volumetrically and materially different volumes- placed at right angles to each other. The white, seemingly floating pitched-roof volume delineates with its cantilevers a generous open plan ground floor space for easy indoor and outdoor living within a garden enclosure. The upper volume provides two high ceiling bedrooms and a bathroom organized around a stairwell and study. On the party wall side, a protected terrace becomes an open-air ‘room’, the outdoor extension to the stairwell. The bedrooms have access to two private loggias with full-height openable shutter panels revealing the sea view beyond a neighboring olive grove and an in-between bathroom.
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