Xerolithi 住宅は by George Sinas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銀賞 in 建築・建物・構造物デザイン Competition Category.
銀建築· 2021
Xerolithi 住宅は
by George Sinas
Client: Sinas Architects
A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in 建築 Category
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About Xerolithi 住宅は
自然環境に溶け込む家。険しい荒れた斜面、点在するとげのある藪、そして土地の耕作を目的として大昔に作られた地元では乾石と呼ばれる短い石の擁壁。家の主要なファサードは乾石として形成されています。空中のリボンのような軽やかさを持ったこれらの壁は、斜面に緩やかに近づいたり遠ざかったりしながら、互いに独立して動き、その間に生活空間を形成しているように見えます。土と植物で覆われた屋根は自然の景観を模倣しており、家はほとんど見えません。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀賞
Xerolithi 住宅はは、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Xerolithi 住宅はは、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Xerolithi 住宅はは、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- When one thinks of the Greek Islands, stacked white boxes come to mind. The design challenged this morphological preconception, by imagining the main facades of the house as xerolithies, starting low and gradually developing a sufficient height. They move closer and away of the slope and independently from one another, forming spaces in between them.
The traditional bamboo pergola with its wooden raw beams in their natural color can be seen throughout the length of the house, inside and outside. The beams follow the curvy morphology, like vertebrae of a long spinal cord. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The ground floor area of the house is 180sqm.
Additional 60sqm of basement area. - Tags
- Architecture, Cycladic Architecture, Landscape Design, Integrated design, Summer House, Island Architecture, Greece, Aegean, Serifos, Planted Roof, Curves, Wavy Form, Stone
- Production Technology
- The outer shell of the structure is mainly stone. Exterior walls are 50cm thick. Concrete structural system.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part of this design was taming the wavy morphology. Making it sensual yet keeping the layout of the house functional.
- Inspiration
- The main focus of the design was to create a house that blends in its natural environment. An environment comprised of steep dirt and gravel slopes, dressed with scattered wild thorny bushes, and beautiful large rock formations. Though the most important existing elements, were the short stone retaining walls, locally called xerolithies, created a long time ago for land cultivation purposes. These walls, usually not more than a meter in height formed flat stripes of land parallel to the slope and extended along the entire surface of the hillside.
The site with its xerolithies was the spark of inspiration. - Project Duration
- The project was designed in 2015.
The contraction started in 2016 and lasted until 2018.
The house is situated in Kalo Ampeli, Serifos Island, Cyclades, Greece. - Operation Flow
- All spaces have been placed sequentially to spread out as long and thin as possible. The main house is separated by the bedrooms in order to create a space for the main covered veranda along the long spine of the house.
- Team Members
- Leader Architect: George Sinas (Sinas Architects)
Team: Maria Mamoura
Interior Decoration: Olga Ktena - Image Credits
- Photographer of all images: Yiorgos Kordakis
Drawings and Renderings and sketch: George Sinas
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