Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award yn Brûns in Arsjitektuer, Gebou en Struktuerûntwerp Competition Category.

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Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

A' Design Award yn Brûns Winner in Arsjitektuer Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou

It kantoorgebou leit yn Ellinikon mei ûnbeheind útsicht op see. De gebouomtrek yntrodusearret in trapezium, dat him útspriedt oer it terrein en de promininte hoeke oansprekket. De romte wurdt waarnommen as in krêftfjild wêr't de ôfbakene romte útdage wurdt troch de strepearre organisaasje fan de fasade, beynfloede troch de útsichten nei de see, de oriïntaasje fan de sinne, wat resultearret yn in subtile útdrukking fan de komplekse dynamyk tusken harren. It konsept ûndersykket it glêde en it strepearre yn in breder fjild, mei de ferskate graden fan transparânsje ymplisearre troch de tannige haadgevel.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award yn Brûns

Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou is in winner fan de A' Design Award yn Brûns, in heech prestisjeuze erkenning foar treflike ûntwerpen dy't har ûnderskiede troch kreativiteit, fernuft en tûkens. Brûnswinners binne tige feardige en opfallend kreative artefakten dy't de grutte ûnderfining, ferbylding en betochtsumens fan har ûntwerpers befêstigje. Fan Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou wurdt ferwachte dat it in tige heech achte, bewûndere en dierber objekt is dat opmerklik profesjoneel en ynnovatyf is. Dit winnende ûntwerp fan de A' Design Award yn Brûns yntegrearret de bêste praktiken yn keunst, wittenskip, ûntwerp en technology en is treflik om syn omtinken foar detail. Serrated Transparency Kantoorgebou foldocht behoeften prachtich, reitsjet winsken, betsjoeveret gefoelens en sprekt nijsgjirrigens oan.

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