Cascading Terraces Cov Tsev Nyob Hauv Tsev by Potiropoulos and Partners

Cascading Terraces Cov Tsev Nyob Hauv Tsev by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Kub in Tsim Vaj Tsev, Tsev thiab Qauv Tsev Competition Category.

KubVaj Tsev· 2023

Cascading Terraces Cov Tsev Nyob Hauv Tsev

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

A' Design Award Kub Winner in Vaj Tsev Category

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The Design

About Cascading Terraces Cov Tsev Nyob Hauv Tsev

Txoj kev loj hlob ntawm lub tswv yim yog nyob ntawm ob qhov sib txuas sib txuas ua ke mus rau ib sab ntawm lub xaib, hauv kev sib tham nrog cov xwm txheej tshwj xeeb ntawm cov ntsiab lus tam sim ntawd, hais txog qhov chaw ciam teb thiab kev txav mus los. Teb rau kev taw qhia, kev pom, cua kev taw qhia, thiab cov kev hloov raws caij nyoog ntawm toj roob hauv pes, lub complex qhib los yog kaw, tsim txhua lub sij hawm ib tug txawv tsos, raws li kev hloov ntawm lub ntuj mus rau lub tsim ib puag ncig tsim ib tug system ntawm kev pom thiab kev sib raug zoo ntawm lub tswv yim. thiab parameters inherently cuam tshuam rau qhov chaw architectural.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kub

Cascading Terraces Cov Tsev Nyob Hauv Tsev yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Kub, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim qib ib, zoo kawg nkaus thiab tshwj xeeb. Cov neeg yeej Kub yog cov khoom tsim tshiab heev, pom deb heev thiab ci ntsa iab uas qhia txog kev txawj ntse, kev txawj thiab lub zog ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Cascading Terraces Cov Tsev Nyob Hauv Tsev xav tias yuav yog ib qho kev tsim uas tau txais kev qhuas ntau, tsim kev nyiam tshiab thiab loj uas ua rau muaj nqi tsis tau muaj dua. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Kub no yog ib qho haujlwm zoo kawg nkaus thiab muaj kev hwm uas pab tau ntau thiab nthuav dav ciam teb ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis. Cascading Terraces Cov Tsev Nyob Hauv Tsev ua rau muaj kev xav tau heev, txhawb kev mob siab, txhawb kev tsim tshiab thiab ua rau peb xav tsis thoob.

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