Serrated Transparency Immeuble de bureaux by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Immeuble de bureaux by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Architecture, Bâtiment et Structure Competition Category.

BronzeArchitecture· 2025

Serrated Transparency Immeuble de bureaux

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Immeuble de bureaux

L'immeuble de bureaux est situé à Ellinikon avec des vues dégagées sur la mer. Le tracé du bâtiment introduit un trapèze qui s'étend sur le site et répond à l'angle proéminent. L'espace est perçu comme un champ de forces où l'espace délimité est contesté par l'organisation striée de la façade, guidée par les vues vers la mer et l'orientation du soleil, aboutissant à une expression subtile de la dynamique complexe qui les unit. Le concept explore le lisse et le strié dans un champ plus large, avec les degrés variables de transparence suggérés par la façade principale dentelée.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Serrated Transparency Immeuble de bureaux est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Serrated Transparency Immeuble de bureaux est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Serrated Transparency Immeuble de bureaux satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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