Serpentine House Residencia by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Prata in Deseño de Arquitectura, Edificación e Estruturas Competition Category.
PrataArquitectura· 2024
Serpentine House Residencia
Client: Potiropoulos and Partners
A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Arquitectura Category
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The Design
About Serpentine House Residencia
O xesto arquitectónico dunha longa forma fluída en L ao longo dos dous bordos principais do solar busca crear un limiar entre a paisaxe circundante e o negativo resultante, un patio de escala similar á pegada do edificio. Esta forma fluída estréitase e ensánchase para crear tensión co patio pechado, pero mantense ríxida ao longo do perímetro do solar, formando un bordo ben definido. A forma do edificio esténdese a través dunha serie de grandes pérgolas para cubrir partes do patio e crear unha secuencia escenificada de espazos pechados, abertos e semiabertos.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Prata
Serpentine House Residencia gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Serpentine House Residencia sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. Serpentine House Residencia é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.
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
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