Cascading Terraces Nā Hale Noho by Potiropoulos and Partners

Cascading Terraces Nā Hale Noho by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Gula in Hoʻolālā Hale, Kūkulu a me Hōʻuluʻulu Competition Category.

GulaHoʻolālā Hale· 2023

Cascading Terraces Nā Hale Noho

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

A' Design Award Gula Winner in Hoʻolālā Hale Category

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The Design

About Cascading Terraces Nā Hale Noho

Hoʻokumu ʻia ka hoʻomohala ʻana o ka manaʻo ma luna o ʻelua mau puke pili e pili ana i kekahi ʻaoʻao o ka pūnaewele, ma ke kamaʻilio ʻana me ke ʻano kikoʻī o ka pōʻaiapili koke, e kamaʻilio ana i nā palena a me ka neʻe ʻana o ka pūnaewele. Ma ka pane ʻana i ka hoʻonohonoho ʻana, nā hiʻohiʻona, ka makani makani, a me nā hoʻololi o ke kau o ka ʻāina, wehe a pani ʻia ka paʻakikī, e hoʻomohala ana i kēlā me kēia manawa i kahi hiʻohiʻona ʻokoʻa, ʻoiai ʻo ka hoʻololi ʻana mai ke kūlohelohe a i ke ʻano kūkulu ʻia e hoʻokumu i kahi ʻōnaehana o ka pilina ʻike a me ka manaʻo. a me nā ʻāpana e pili pono ana i ka hale kūkulu hale.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gula

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Cascading Terraces Nā Hale Noho i ka A' Design Award Gula, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā pae mua, kupaianaha a kūʻokoʻa. He mau hana hou loa, ʻike maka a nani hoʻolaʻa nā lanakila Gula e hōʻike ana i ka ʻuhane akamai, ka naʻauao a me ka mākau o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Cascading Terraces Nā Hale Noho he mea hoʻokumu i hoʻomaikaʻi nui ʻia, e hoʻokumu ana i nā ʻano hou, he nui, e hāʻawi ana i ka waiwai ʻaʻole i ʻike ʻia ma mua. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Gula he papahana kupaianaha, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi nui a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. Hoʻāla ka hoʻolālā Cascading Terraces Nā Hale Noho i nā manaʻo makemake ikaika, hoʻāla i ka ʻiʻini, hoʻoulu i ka hana noʻeau a hoʻopūliki iā mākou.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The development of the concept is based on two linked volumes parallel to one side of the site, in dialogue with the particular nature of the immediate context, addressing the site boundaries and movement. Responding to the orientation, views, wind direction and the seasonal changes of the landscape, the complex opens up or closes, developing each time a different appearance.
Dimensions & Packaging: Approximate Total Building Area: 4580 square meters
Tags: architecture, residential, apartments, Greece, design, terrace, concrete, nature
Production Technology: In terms of materiality, raw concrete and white textured render are prominent in the building skin and fencing, developing a simple yet effective language. This approach, as expressed here spatially, implies materiality, temperature, density, weight and acoustic qualities, elements that are abstract but are derived from thorough experience.
Design Challenge: This emergent microcosm provides an intricate experience based on the dynamics between the man-made and the natural, the point of focus and the background, the familiar and the unknown, triggering sensations and emotions that capture the moment. Throughout this journey, experiences, spaces and materialities converge, either as parallel or as complimentary events.
Research: The arrangement addresses a series of choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones towards the landscape-via the terraces- and towards the site. A series of cascading terraces is developed resembling F.L. Wright Fallingwater. The design also considers the play of light on the textured surfaces, the depth of color, the manipulation of the form and the overall aesthetic qualities.
Inspiration: The design approach prioritizes the utilization of the main view which opens up towards the SW and NW due to the site s location and topography of the suburb of Kifissia. The internal arrangement attempts to address a series of carefully choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones that are extrovert towards the landscape, via the terraces, and introvert towards the site. This results in a series of cascading terraces at a slight angle with each other.
Project Duration: Design: 2021
Location: Athens, Greece
Operation Flow: The overall design approach was not preoccupied by a certain aesthetic correctness, but first and foremost to establish as a key parameter, the potential of a multi-sensory experience between the building and the landscape, and also aiming at the substantiation of individuality in architecture through the expression of the architectural object.
Team Members: Architectural Design: Potiropoulos and Partners
3D Visualization: Batis Studio
Image Credits: 3D Visualization: Batis Studio