Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award in Brons in Argitektuur-, Gebou- en Struktuurontwerp Competition Category.
BronsArgitektuur· 2025
Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou
Client: Potiropoulos+Partners
A' Design Award in Brons Winner in Argitektuur Category
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The Design
About Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou
Die kantoorgebou is geleë in Ellinikon met onbelemmerde seesig. Die gebou-omtrek stel 'n trapesoïde voor, wat oor die terrein uitbrei en die prominente hoek aanspreek. Die ruimte word waargeneem as 'n kragveld waar die afgebakende ruimte betwis word deur die gestreepte organisasie van die fasade, gelei deur die uitsigte na die see, die oriëntasie van die son, wat uitloop op 'n subtiele uitdrukking van die komplekse dinamika daartussen. Die konsep ondersoek die gladde en die gestreepte in 'n breër veld, met die wisselende grade van deursigtigheid wat geïmpliseer word deur die gekartelde hooffasade.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award in Brons
Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou is 'n wenner van die A' Design Award in Brons, 'n hoogs prestigieuse erkenning wat toegeken word aan uitstaande ontwerpe wat gekenmerk word deur kreatiwiteit, vindingrykheid en skerpsinnigheid. Wenners in Brons is ruimskoots vaardige en opvallend kreatiewe artefakte wat die groot ervaring, verbeelding en vindingrykheid van hul ontwerpers bevestig. Daar word verwag dat Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou 'n hoog aangeskrewe, bewonderde en gekoesterde voorwerp is wat merkwaardig professioneel en innoverend is. Hierdie ontwerp wat die A' Design Award in Brons gewen het, inkorporeer die beste praktyke in kuns, wetenskap, ontwerp en tegnologie en is uitstekend vanweë sy aandag aan detail. Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou bevredig behoeftes pragtig, raak aan begeertes, bekoor gevoelens en spreek die nuuskierigheid aan.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The office building is located in Ellinikon facing Vouliagmenis Avenue with unobstructed views of the sea. The context is formed of new and older office and residential buildings, lacking architectural significance, and the local grain is relatively loose where the buildings have a lot of breathing space within their sites and significant green areas.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The concept investigates the smooth and the striated in a broader field, with the varying degrees of transparency implied by the jagged, serrated main facade and how it filters the natural light and the views from and to the building.
- Tags
- architecture, office buidling, athens, design, potiropoulos, offices, workplace
- Production Technology
- Straight and curved glass sections form the serrated edge and reflect the light in different ways altering the transparency of the material from different angles, creating a dynamic, almost cinematic movement of the building as we engage it from the main street.
- Design Challenge
- The serrated facade also implies the relationship between built form and nature. How the building brings the green element inside, through the main atrium at first, and through the geometric ambiguity of its reflections, green, on the facade, making it part of the whole.
- Research
- The concept investigates the smooth and the striated in a broader field, with the varying degrees of transparency implied by the serrated main facade and how it filters the natural light and the views from and to the building. Straight and curved glass section form the serrated edge and reflect the light in different ways altering the transparency of the material, from different angles, creating a dynamic, almost cinematic movement of the building as we engage it from the main street.
- Inspiration
- The design approach for the proposed building is simple for the overall massing yet quite complex as the architectural intention entails a specific method for the development of the facade. The building outline introduces a simple geometry, that of a trapeze, which expands over the whole site and addresses the prominent corner. Clean lines for the floor layouts are proposed, perforated by a centrally positioned atrium. The smoothness of the plan is juxtaposed by the striation of the facade.
- Project Duration
- Location Εllinikon Athens Greece
Date 2024 - Operation Flow
- The space is perceived as a field of forces where the delineated space of the plan is contested by the striated organization of the facade, navigated by the views towards the sea, the orientation of the sun, resulting in a subtle expression of the complex dynamics between them.
- Patents
- Architectural design Potiropoulos and Partners
- Team Members
- Architectural design Potiropoulos and Partners
3D Visualization Batis Studio - Image Credits
- 3D Visualization Batis Studio
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