Apartment Building in Glyfada III
Apartment Building in Glyfada II
Apartment Building in Glyfada I
Apartment Building in Exarcheia
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Agrinio, Greece
300m2
completed
2010
John Karahalios
Panos Kapsalis
Vassilis Kapsalis
Eleni Tsirintani
Kapsalis Constructions
The design is based on a sequence of parallel zones. They underline the gradual transition from the public to the private and they organize the functions.
Zone 1: The fences and the dense array of bushes mark the property boundaries. The house is separated by the exterior through a system of walls that are part of the whole volumetric scheme rather than being an independent condition.
Zone 2: Low vegetation organizes the buffer zone between the hedge and the main volume.
Zone 3: The public reference area at the immediate access, where the living room and the dining room are situated. The dominant feeling is the intense contrast of the black furniture against the white backdrop.
Zone 4: The axis of the interior crossing is the main a compositional element and is clearly visible since it divides the space into two untis.
Zone 5: The final zone is adjustent to the inner limit of the property where functions of everyday use and leisure are located (the kitchen, the tv room, the pool or the guest house). These spaces are formed with combinations of materials like black tile, wooden floors and the element of water, all intergrated within the dominant white volume.
The final result is the formation of three distinct entities. The transitions of everyday experience take place among them and life is projected on the internal facades they create. A fundamental principle has been the consistency of choices based on a central core of thought and its application on every scale.
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Demarcation Walls
Material Analysis
Composition Diagrams
WINNER
Domés Awards 2013
Best First Building
by a Young Architect
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Domés International Review of Architecture
09/12
issue 114, December 2012
p.56
ek-magazine
issue 181
October 2013
p.62
ek-magazine
issue 183, Best of 2013
December 2013
p.113
Ili & Ktirio
02/14 2014
issue 101
p.104
Domés International Review of Architecture
04/13
issue 118
p.68
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