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Cascading Terraces الشقق السكنية by Potiropoulos and Partners

Cascading Terraces الشقق السكنية by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 جائزة A' Design Award الذهبية in تصميم العمارة والمباني والهياكل Competition Category.


ذهبالعمارة· 2023

Cascading Terraces الشقق السكنية

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

جائزة A' Design Award الذهبية Winner in العمارة Category

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The Design

About Cascading Terraces الشقق السكنية

يعتمد تطوير المفهوم على مجلدين مرتبطين بالتوازي مع جانب واحد من الموقع، في حوار مع الطبيعة الخاصة للسياق المباشر، ومعالجة حدود الموقع وحركته. استجابة للتوجه، والمناظر، واتجاه الرياح، والتغيرات الموسمية للمناظر الطبيعية، ينفتح المجمع أو ينغلق، ويتطور في كل مرة مظهر مختلف، حيث أن الانتقال من البيئة الطبيعية إلى البيئة المبنية ينشئ نظامًا من العلاقات البصرية والمفاهيمية والمعلمات التي تؤثر بطبيعتها على الفضاء المعماري.

The Recognition

About the جائزة A' Design Award الذهبية

Cascading Terraces الشقق السكنية هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award الذهبية، وهي تقدير رفيع المكانة للغاية يُمنح للتصاميم من الدرجة الأولى والرائعة والمتميزة. والفائزون بالذهبية هم إبداعات شديدة الابتكار وعالية الرؤية ومبهرة ببريقها، تعكس نبوغ مصمميها وحكمتهم وبراعتهم. ويُتوقع أن يكون Cascading Terraces الشقق السكنية اختراعًا عظيم الإشادة ورائدًا وضخم الأثر يقدم قيمة غير مسبوقة. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award الذهبية مشروع مذهل ومحترم يعود بالنفع الكبير ويوسّع حدود الفن والعلم والتصميم والتكنولوجيا. ويخلق Cascading Terraces الشقق السكنية مشاعر رغبة قوية، ويثير الشغف، ويشجع الإبداع، ويفتننا.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The development of the concept is based on two linked volumes parallel to one side of the site, in dialogue with the particular nature of the immediate context, addressing the site boundaries and movement. Responding to the orientation, views, wind direction and the seasonal changes of the landscape, the complex opens up or closes, developing each time a different appearance.
Dimensions & Packaging
Approximate Total Building Area: 4580 square meters
Tags
architecture, residential, apartments, Greece, design, terrace, concrete, nature
Production Technology
In terms of materiality, raw concrete and white textured render are prominent in the building skin and fencing, developing a simple yet effective language. This approach, as expressed here spatially, implies materiality, temperature, density, weight and acoustic qualities, elements that are abstract but are derived from thorough experience.
Design Challenge
This emergent microcosm provides an intricate experience based on the dynamics between the man-made and the natural, the point of focus and the background, the familiar and the unknown, triggering sensations and emotions that capture the moment. Throughout this journey, experiences, spaces and materialities converge, either as parallel or as complimentary events.
Research
The arrangement addresses a series of choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones towards the landscape-via the terraces- and towards the site. A series of cascading terraces is developed resembling F.L. Wright Fallingwater. The design also considers the play of light on the textured surfaces, the depth of color, the manipulation of the form and the overall aesthetic qualities.
Inspiration
The design approach prioritizes the utilization of the main view which opens up towards the SW and NW due to the site s location and topography of the suburb of Kifissia. The internal arrangement attempts to address a series of carefully choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones that are extrovert towards the landscape, via the terraces, and introvert towards the site. This results in a series of cascading terraces at a slight angle with each other.
Project Duration
Design: 2021
Location: Athens, Greece
Operation Flow
The overall design approach was not preoccupied by a certain aesthetic correctness, but first and foremost to establish as a key parameter, the potential of a multi-sensory experience between the building and the landscape, and also aiming at the substantiation of individuality in architecture through the expression of the architectural object.
Team Members
Architectural Design: Potiropoulos and Partners
3D Visualization: Batis Studio
Image Credits
3D Visualization: Batis Studio

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