Serrated Transparency Lbina n Lxedma by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Lbrunz in Afeṣṣel n Tansekta, Lebni d Teɣssa Competition Category.
LbrunzTansekta· 2025
Serrated Transparency Lbina n Lxedma
Client: Potiropoulos+Partners
Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Lbrunz Winner in Tansekta Category
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About Serrated Transparency Lbina n Lxedma
Lbina n lxedma tella-d di Ellinikon s wallen yeldin ɣef yilel war asewḥel. Tilmest n lbina tessekcem-d talɣa n trapeze, i yettnerni ɣef usammer yerna tettawi-d ɣer teɣmert tameqqrant. Tallunt tettwali-d am yiwen uɣerbaz n tezmert anda tallunt i d-yettwaheddren tettnaɣ d uselway azrig n uɣawas, i yettwarebben s wallen ɣer yilel, tanila n yiṭij, ayen i d-yefkan yiwen n usegzi afusan n temhalin tuddin gar-asen. Tikti tettqadac ɣef wurfus d uzrig deg yiwen uɣerbaz imeqqer, s yisemden i yemgaraden n tfeṣṛa i d-yemmalen uɣawas agejdan adɣar.
The Recognition
About the Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Lbrunz
Serrated Transparency Lbina n Lxedma d amerbaḥ n Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Lbrunz, tagmat ɛlayen i yisnulfa yelhan, yeṭṭafaren tinawt, tamusni d tezmert. Imerbaḥen n Lbrunz d isnulfa yelhan, ttbanen d timusniwin n tmusni n yimahilen-nsen. Serrated Transparency Lbina n Lxedma ad yili d asnulfu yettwaɛezzen, yelhan, amaynut. Serrated Transparency Lbina n Lxedma yettemlil ɣef yimawlan, yettwaɛezzen s tmahilt-is.
Behind the Design
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- 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
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