Cascading Terraces Wohnwohnungen by Potiropoulos and Partners

Cascading Terraces Wohnwohnungen by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Gold in Architektur-, Gebäude- und Bauwerksdesign Competition Category.

GoldArchitektur· 2023

Cascading Terraces Wohnwohnungen

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

A' Design Award in Gold Winner in Architektur Category

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The Design

About Cascading Terraces Wohnwohnungen

Die Entwicklung des Konzepts basiert auf zwei miteinander verbundenen Volumen parallel zu einer Seite des Geländes, im Dialog mit der Besonderheit des unmittelbaren Kontexts und thematisiert die Grenzen und Bewegungen des Geländes. Als Reaktion auf die Ausrichtung, die Aussicht, die Windrichtung und die jahreszeitlichen Veränderungen der Landschaft öffnet oder schließt sich der Komplex und entwickelt jedes Mal ein anderes Erscheinungsbild, da der Übergang von der natürlichen zur gebauten Umgebung ein System visueller und konzeptioneller Beziehungen schafft und Parameter, die den architektonischen Raum von Natur aus beeinflussen.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Gold

Cascading Terraces Wohnwohnungen ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Gold, einer überaus prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, wunderbare und herausragende Designs. Gold-Gewinner sind äußerst innovative, visionäre und glamourös blendende Schöpfungen, die das Genie, die Weisheit und die Meisterschaft ihrer Designer widerspiegeln. Von Cascading Terraces Wohnwohnungen wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgepriesene, trendsetzende und monumentale Erfindung ist, die beispiellosen Mehrwert liefert. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Gold prämierte Design ist ein spektakuläres, respektiertes Projekt, das den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie in hohem Maße zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. Cascading Terraces Wohnwohnungen erzeugt intensive Gefühle des Verlangens, weckt Leidenschaft, ermutigt zur Kreativität und fasziniert uns.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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