Serpentine House Residencia by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serpentine House Residencia by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Plata in Diseño de Arquitectura, Edificación y Estructuras Competition Category.

PlataArquitectura· 2024

Serpentine House Residencia

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

A' Design Award de Plata Winner in Arquitectura Category

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The Design

About Serpentine House Residencia

El gesto arquitectónico de una forma fluida alargada en L a lo largo de los dos bordes principales del terreno busca crear un umbral entre el paisaje circundante y el negativo resultante, un patio de escala similar a la huella del edificio. Esta forma fluida se estrecha y se ensancha para crear tensión con el patio cerrado, pero es rígida a lo largo del perímetro del terreno, formando un borde bien definido. La forma del edificio se extiende a través de una serie de grandes pérgolas para cubrir partes del patio y crear una secuencia más bien escenificada de espacios cerrados, abiertos y semiabiertos.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Plata

Serpentine House Residencia ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Serpentine House Residencia sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Serpentine House Residencia es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Located in one of the South suburbs of Athens in a promising area the site sits between the seacoast and the old airport an area defined by large plots of land with low rise residential buildings and in relative scarcity of urban reference points of the surrounding scenery.
Dimensions & Packaging: Large openings that punch the fluid form, reframe and narrate the act of inhabiting highlighting the buildings connection with nature all flood with natural light.
Tags: architetcure, residential, house, Greece, design
Production Technology: The building form streches through a series of large canopies to cover parts of the courtyard and to create a rather staged sequence of closed, open and semi open spaces, where at the same time seekind different levels of transparency and opacity with large openings towards the garden.
Design Challenge: The main challenge was the positioning and articulation of the building, as well as the interaction of the flows in the various spaces. Strategically placed at the centre of the articulated building form and intended to act as a meeting point is the kitchen, where one can oversee the formal and informal activities as part of everyday life.
Research: The architectural gesture of a long L shaped flowing form along the two main edges of the site seeks to create a threshold between the surrounding scenery and the resulting negative, a courtyard of similar scale to the building footprint. This fluid form narrows and widens to create tension with the enclosed courtyard but is rigid along the perimeter of the site, forming a well-defined edge.
Inspiration: The form of the house narrows and widens to create tension with the enclosed courtyard but is rigid along the perimeter of the site, forming a well defined edge, opposing the absence of any relationship with the context. The curved edges of the building soften the rigid appearance towards the surroundings while the courtyard and the external scenery are connected in a balanced synergy.
Project Duration: LOCATION: Hellinikon, Athens Greece
DESIGN: 2022
Operation Flow: The building programme is spread over two floors with the main living areas in the ground floor and the sleeping areas on the upper floor, along with the family room, to keep the noise levels in control, with the exception of the master bedroom which is located in an a private corner of the ground floor plan, taking advantage of the orientation, and with direct access to a secluded area of the garden and the swimming pool, for those warm summer nights.
Team Members: Architectural Design: Potiropoulos+Partners
3D Visualization: Batis Studio
Image Credits: 3D VISUALIZATION
Batis Studio