Serrated Transparency Togalach Oifis by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Togalach Oifis by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Duais Umha A' Design Award in Dealbhadh Ailtireachd, Togalaichean agus Structaran Competition Category.

UmhaAiltireachd· 2025

Serrated Transparency Togalach Oifis

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

Duais Umha A' Design Award Winner in Ailtireachd Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Togalach Oifis

Tha an togalach oifis suidhichte ann an Ellinikon le seallaidhean gun bhacadh chun na mara. Tha cruth an togalaich a' toirt a-steach trapeze, a tha a' leudachadh thar na làraich agus a' dèiligeadh ris an oisean fhollaiseach. Tha an t-àite air fhaicinn mar raon de fheachdan far a bheil an t-àite comharraichte fo dheasbad leis an eagrachadh stiallach aghaidh an togalaich, air a stiùireadh leis na seallaidhean a dh'ionnsaigh na mara, comhair na grèine, a' leantainn gu faireachdainn shubailte den diniomigeachd iom-fhillte eatarra. Tha am bun-bheachd a' sgrùdadh an rèidh agus an stiallach ann an raon nas fharsainge, leis na h-ìrean caochlaideach de thrìd-shoilleireachd a tha air am moladh leis a' phrìomh aghaidh bhioraich.

The Recognition

About the Duais Umha A' Design Award

Tha Serrated Transparency Togalach Oifis air Duais Umha A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh gu math urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean sònraichte a tha air an comharrachadh le cruthachalachd, innleachd agus geurchuis. Tha buannaichean Umha nan obraichean gu math sgileil agus gu sònraichte cruthachail a dhearbhas eòlas farsaing, mac-meanmna agus tapachd an luchd-dealbhaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi Serrated Transparency Togalach Oifis na nì air a bheil mòran meas, ion-mholta agus gràdhach, a tha gu sònraichte proifeiseanta agus ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Umha A' Design Award a' cur nan cleachdaidhean as fheàrr ann an ealain, saidheans, dealbhadh agus teicneolas an gnìomh, agus tha e sàr-mhath airson an aire do mhion-fhiosrachadh. Bidh Serrated Transparency Togalach Oifis a' sàsachadh fheumalachdan gu h-iongantach, a' suathadh ri miannan, a' tàladh faireachdainnean agus a' togail fiosrachd.

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