Serrated Transparency Adeilad Swyddfa by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award in Pensaernïaeth Competition Category.
EfyddPensaernïaeth· 2025
Serrated Transparency Adeilad Swyddfa
Client: Potiropoulos+Partners
Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award Winner in Pensaernïaeth Category
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The Design
About Serrated Transparency Adeilad Swyddfa
Mae'r adeilad swyddfa wedi'i leoli yn Ellinikon gyda golygfeydd môr dirystr. Mae amlinelliad yr adeilad yn cyflwyno trapeze, sy'n ymledu dros y safle ac yn mynd i'r afael â'r gornel amlwg. Caiff y gofod ei ganfod fel maes o rymoedd lle mae'r gofod amlinelledig yn cael ei herio gan drefniadaeth rhesiog yr wynebfa, wedi'i lywio gan y golygfeydd tuag at y môr, cyfeiriadedd yr haul, gan arwain at fynegiant cynnil o'r deinameg gymhleth rhyngddynt. Mae'r cysyniad yn archwilio'r llyfn a'r rhesiog mewn maes ehangach, gyda'r graddau amrywiol o dryloywder a awgrymir gan yr wynebfa flaen garpiog.
The Recognition
About the Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award
Mae Serrated Transparency Adeilad Swyddfa yn enillydd Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award, cydnabyddiaeth hynod fawreddog a roddir i ddyluniadau rhagorol sydd yn nodedig am greadigrwydd, dyfeisgarwch a chraffter. Mae enillwyr Efydd yn arteffactau medrus iawn a thrawiadol o greadigol sydd yn dilysu profiad helaeth, dychymyg a dyfeisgarwch eu dylunwyr. Disgwylir i Serrated Transparency Adeilad Swyddfa fod yn wrthrych uchel ei fri, a edmygir ac a anwylir, sydd yn nodedig o broffesiynol ac arloesol. Mae'r dyluniad buddugol hwn o Wobr Efydd A' Design Award yn ymgorffori arferion gorau mewn celf, gwyddoniaeth, dylunio a thechnoleg, ac yn rhagorol am ei sylw i fanylion. Mae Serrated Transparency Adeilad Swyddfa yn bodloni anghenion yn odidog, yn cyffwrdd â dyheadau, yn swyno teimladau ac yn apelio at chwilfrydedd.
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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