Angelos Floros

Presented: DOMES 2012, volume A, International Review of Architecture, Greece, 2012

Award: by Bernard Tchumi

Exhibited: Biennale of Architecture, Athens, 2012

This is a private house in Eleftheroupoli, Greece. The site is located on the foot of the surrounding hills of an agricultural land. In a site of 4000m2, a was designed a house of 140m2. The house is divided in three functional parts: the observatory, the main leaving area and the lab.

The primer element of the site is the field view. The huge observatory balcony remains the most important element and it is located on the second floor -the unique architecture element that appears on that level. It extends the tradition of semi-open spaces that characterizes the Greek and generally the Mediterranean Architecture. The main facilities of the leaving area (the living room space, the dinning area, the kitchen and the bedrooms) are located on ground level. All of these areas have an opening part, windows and doors on

the view side. The lab is established as a separate volume, on the hill, before the main entrance of the building. It is located on a lever that is higher than the main facilities of the house, being also opened to the view. The geometry of the lab is similar to the observatory volume, which is a rectangle parallelepiped that has a chamfered back-top left edge.

The project was applied to DOMES competition and awarded by Bernard Tchumi. 

It will be published on International Architectural Review DOMES 2012. The project was exhibited in Biennale of Architecture 2012 organized by the Hellenic Institute of Architecture, and in Panorama of Greek Architecture 2012 orginized by DOMES.