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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

House In Ekali : By Architect Thanos Athanasopoulos

Ekali, Athens, Greece
Architect Thanos Athanasopoulos
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
This single-family house is located in Ekali, a suburban area of Athens. The property is surrounded by high pine trees that shade the lot, which let to the decision to create a continuous openable glass envelope around the south and east sides of the ground floor. The sliding glass walls allow daylight to enter into the deep plan while defining a large open living area, transparent towards the fenced garden. The scheme shapes the main open area on the south-east corner of the site, where the pool is placed attached to the building.
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
Bedrooms are located on the upper floor, and towards south they hover above the living area as autonomous private units. They are carefully placed to create a generous semi-open space as well as double-height areas at ground level.
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
The main building volume is covered by a pitched double-curved roof which is clad with conventional ceramic roof tiles. The roof-tile cladding cascades down the surface of the north wall, creating a rainscreen that contributes to the environmental performance of the house and conceptually to the visual impression of a seamless protective blanket.
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz

Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
This element, which provides coherence to the whole scheme reinterpreting the traditional ceramic-tile roof, is part of an attempt to shape an appropriate architectural identity –material and spatial- in a suburban context where traditional imagery and contemporary desires are fused and confused. Our strategy also involved the selection of completely conventional materials and construction methods: white plaster, marble, stone veneer, wood. A typical palette of anonymous greek suburbia is therefore applied, in ways that are not conventional.
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz

Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz

Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz

Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
Photo © Courtesy of H. Louiz
site plan--drawing Courtesy of Architect Thanos Athanasopoulos
ground floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Architect Thanos Athanasopoulos






































The people

Architects: ArTA | Architect Thanos Athanasopoulos
Location: Ekali, Athens, Greece
Type Of Project: Single family house
Structural Engineers: Michael Athanasopoulos, A. Karagiorgos
Client: Tania Kostala, Manolis Fthenakis
Gross internal floor area: 370 m2
Lighting consultant: Dimitra Kamba
Proyect Year: 2010
Photographs: H. Louizidis

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