Coup de cœur pour le studio grec A31 Architecture qui a récemment présenté ce projet « Art Warehouse ». Située en Grèce, cette étonnante structure moderne monolithique se divise en trois zones. Une construction arrondie impressionnante à découvrir en détails et en images dans la suite.
A smooth, curved concrete shell forms the exterior of this art studio in Boeotia, central Greece by Athens studio A31 Architecture (+ slideshow).
A31 Architecture designed the space as a combined studio and gallery for an artist, creating a place adjacent to his home where he can hang paintings and simultaneously construct large sculptures.
A wooden door is set into the double-height glass-fronted entrance, accessed by an open concrete patio area.
Inside, floating steps protrude out from the side of one wall in the large downstairs workspace, leading to a mezzanine attic level that is used for storage.
The concrete steps also double as exhibition space for small sculptures.
Thin sections of concrete have been cut from the exterior to form windows and the blocks that were removed are now in use as benches and plinths.
“The space created is open, friendly, solemn, and simple,” said architect Praxitelis Kondylis. “It forms part of the nature as if it has been standing there for ages.”
Other warehouses we’ve featured include one with an orthogonal exterior made from clay bricks infused with metal shavings, a former slaughterhouse with reclaimed roof tiles and a textile warehouse clad in white stone.
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Photography is by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis.
Here’s a project description from the architects:
Art Warehouse in Boeotia, Greece
The Artist’s warehouse is a monolithic Modern structure. Its orthogonal plan is divided into three zones: firstly, the cantilever with the balcony in the south, where the entrance is situated. Secondly, the artist’s workspace and finally the attic in the north which serves as a storage space.
A straight staircase connects the two levels, while the cantilevered concrete steps can serve as exhibition stands for the artist’s work.
The most important demand was an open space structure of a significant height suitable to the needs of the artist in order for him to hang paintings and construct huge sculptures.
Another wish has been the integration of the new structure with the surrounding nature. A part of the landscape was incorporated in the open-space sculpture gallery, hosting the artist’s creations.
The space created is open, friendly, solemn, and simple. It forms part of the nature as if it has been standing there for ages. It’s dome, a timeless and interregional architectural coronation element spanning from antiquity to Modernism, interacts with the intimate space of the artists house, the “cell”.
The wall openings, which relate to the Sun’s trajectory, the interior lighting and the ventilation, stem from transverse horizontal sections in the building shell. The sliced concrete blocks that are removed now function as benches for people and pedestals for sculptures.
Architect: A31 Architecture (Architect and project author – Praxitelis Kondylis)
Structural Design: A31 Construction (Engineer – Panagiotis Karras)
Construction: A31 Architecture and Construction Ltd
Plan Area: 4.000 m2
Building Area: 75 m2
Budget: 70.000 Euros
Client: Alexander Liappis, Painter
Spot: Dilesi, Boeotia, Greece
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Focus sur le travail de ce photographe grec George Christakis, âgé de 24 ans et né à Crête. Déjà très réputé en technique pour ces scènes et ces nombreuses photographies retouchés. Un rendu surréaliste et très conceptuel à découvrir en détails et en images sur son portfolio et dans la suite de l’article.
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This family house in Athens by Greek office Tense Architecture Network comprises a boxy concrete upper floor perched atop a glazed living room and kitchen (+ photographs by Filippo Poli).
Tense Architecture Network designed the residence with an industrial aesthetic, featuring exposed concrete walls, basalt-cobble flooring and a folded steel staircase suspended by wire cables.
The ground and first floors are offset from one another and dark-tinted concrete columns support the overhanging bedroom floor.
“The main volume is vigorously elevated – nearly four metres high – in order to liberate the ground floor,” architect Tilemachos Andrianopoulos told Dezeen. “The top floor’s austerity towards the public facade realises an intentional contrast to the receptivity of the ground-floor spaces, which open up completely to the garden through the sliding glass panels.”
A system of wires is strung up around the house, intended to encourage climbing plants around the building. “The industrial material character of the house is advantageously complemented by the greenery,” explained Andrianopoulos.
A pivoting door provides the entrance and leads through to the living room and kitchen, which are divided on split levels. The steel staircase ascends towards three bedrooms on the top floor, while a concrete staircase descends to the basement.
Athens studio Tense Architecture Network also recently completed another concrete house in the Greek countryside. See more architecture in Greece.
See more photography by Filippo Poli on Dezeen or on the photographer’s website.
Here are a few words from Tense Architecture Network:
Residence in Kato Kifissia, Athens
The residence’s plot is small and an adjacent building almost blocks the southern sun. The complete “colonization” of the suburb has almost eliminated the previously exuberant vegetation in the rush to meet individualistic private housing.
As a first act, the desire to reside defines an area and makes a house, in it: a cubic shell of plants creates a limit for the residence, as area. In order to reside, one withdraws inward.
The residential space claims the whole field, as well as the sun; two parallelepiped volumes, one small and attached to the north, the other cantilevered and central, free the ground and enable the sun to enter.
When the plants are fully grown the green facade will be penetrated only by the black, central column of the shelter by exposed concrete. The basalt-watery surface on which it is anchored reflects the light in the interior.
Project Team: Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Kostas Mavros, Nestoras Kanellos
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Le erbe aromatiche greche sono famose per essere molto rinomate in ambito culinario ma la loro commercializzazione resta purtroppo ancora localizzata. Daphnis and Chloe è un progetto di Evangelia Koutsovoulou che sta cercando di realizzare grazie al supporto di kickstarter per aiutare ad esportare in tutto il mondo questi prodotti greci.
Per ora le erbe in commercio sono quattro: origano, salvia, timo e alloro. Le trovate qui.
Coup de coeur pour le travail de Hornung & Jacobi Architecture qui ont imaginé ce superbe projet appelé sobrement « Villa F ». Située sur l’île de Rhodes en Grèce, cette résidence moderne parvient à se marier à merveille avec son environnement naturel. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.
This angular rural house in Greece by Athens studio Tense Architecture Network has over half of its concrete body buried beneath the ground (+ slideshow + photographs by Filippo Poli).
House in Sikamino has a 60-metre-long and narrow shape with angular edges that thrust out into the sloping topography, creating a partially submerged upper floor and a completely buried lower level.
“The composition seeks to vigorously merge the residence with its elongated site,” explains Tense Architecture Network.
Grass covers the roof to create an artificial hill over the top of the house, intended to evoke the shapes of the Euboea mountains in the distance. Residents use the ground for planting herbs.
Glass walls bring daylight in along any exposed edges and open out to wooden terraces.
Spaces inside the house are broken up into a non-linear arrangement, with living spaces in the centre and bedrooms at the ends. A car parking area is also included on the lower floor.
Other recently completed Greek houses include a ridged limestone house in Milos and a weekend house in Paros. See more architecture from Greece.
See more photography by Filippo Poli on Dezeen, or on the photographer’s website.
Here’s a description from Tense Architecture Network:
Residence in Sikamino, Attica.
The field is elongated, rural, planted with olive trees. The land is dominant. How could a residence rise out of the ground, how could it be confined to a roof? The residence is its roof. A 60-metre-long one. While approaching the plot, it can be perceived as a slightly elevated strip of earthy crust in front of the distant mountains of Euboea. It can be walked on.
The roof is born from and returns back to the ground; it is planted likewise: helichrysum, rosanthemum, lavender, gauras, thyme. The roof’s shape is rhomboid and the living space is hosted under its central, maximum width area, while the sleeping quarters occupy the edges.
The composition seeks to vigorously merge the residence with its elongated site. An additional, fully underground level has been introduced to facilitate the increased needs that the intent agricultural life requires. A curvilinear car ramp enters the rhombus in transverse, therefore creating an opening towards the cultivable part of the field. Building shell is of reinforced concrete, exposed on roofs and walls. Iron frames, sun-protecting blinds, metallic shutters palliate the sense of transparency. The sculptural clarity of the extended, concrete roof was attained by means of inversion of all beams but one, which abuts at the central column: the hearth.
Project team: Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Kostas Mavros
Collaborating architect: Thanos Bampanelos
Above: site plan – click for larger image
Above: ground floor plan – click for larger image
Above: basement floor plan – click for larger image
Above: cross section – click for larger image
Above: south-east elevation – click for larger image
Above: north-west elevation – click for larger image
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Spectators at the stadium of Greek football team Olympiacos can dine overlooking the pitch at a restaurant with an undulating ceiling and a bar made from cooking pots (+ slideshow).
Designed by Greek studio LM Architects, the V’ammos Restaurant is positioned directly above the stands to give diners a panoramic view into the 32,000-seat Karaiskakis Stadium, located in the south-west of Athens.
The architects made reference to the stadium’s coastal situation by giving the space a wave-like ceiling. “We were inspired by this association and the outcome is the replication of the movement of the sea waves,” architects Mariza Angelidi and Lila Galata told Dezeen.
“The construction was adapted to hide the structural elements and the electromechanical installations, while at the same time allowing access to these units,” they added.
Around 300 metal cooking pots were stacked up in a line beneath a wooden counter to create the bar at the back of the restaurant.
Furniture includes tables with round and square surfaces, designed especially for the restaurant by LM Architects.
Other eateries we’ve featured from Athens include a rustic pizzeria and a dimly lit patisserie.
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Photography is by Studio Paterakis.
Here’s a project description from LM Architects:
V’ammos Restaurant in Piraeus
Karaiskakis Stadium
The shell that houses the restaurant- Karaiskaki Stadium, which is built over the water, was a benchmark in the design proposal.
The wave of the sea that existed in place is introduced in the design of the space in the form of an optically moving roof element. This element, which is the result of parametric design, dominates the environment and gives identity to the restaurant.
Strong feature of the composition is the elongated bar, consisted of 300 cooking pots. The bar is an art installation itself, where the identity of the object is lost to highlight the visual impression created by its repetition and correlation in space.
The linear layout of the floor plan is framed by successive separate rooms and the overwhelming ambience of the stadium.
Total Surface: 300 sq.m.
Design: 2012
Construction: 2012
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