Villa Troy Munus Primarium: Domus Habitationis by Renos Constantinou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Architectura Competition Category.
FerrumArchitectura· 2022
Villa Troy Munus Primarium: Domus Habitationis
Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Architectura Category
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About Villa Troy Munus Primarium: Domus Habitationis
Textus Libri: Villa Troy est domus privata in suburbiis maioris Nicosiae sita. Area interna tecta trecentos quadraginta metra quadrata continet, et domus familiae quattuor personarum servit. Spatia habitationis in forma irregulari litterae L inter tabulata et hortum disposita sunt. Planum apertum ad terrae gradum lounge, cenaculum et triclinium continet, quae circa vacuum duplicis altitudinis in vestibulo se explicant. Lapidea tegumenta in muro anteriore muros Troiae revocant, et quinque bracchia metallica hastas antiquas recordantur. Aedificii positio ventilationi naturali et luci diurnae favet.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum
Villa Troy Munus Primarium: Domus Habitationis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Villa Troy Munus Primarium: Domus Habitationis creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Villa Troy Munus Primarium: Domus Habitationis ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Living spaces, arranged in an irregular L-shape, are placed amidst a cluster of outdoor areas, including verandas and a garden.
The open-plan ground level accommodates the lounge, the living and dining rooms. The double-height void at the vestibule becomes the core around which those three integrated parts of the house develop.
The building’s placement enhances natural ventilation and lighting, and large openings add to the connection between inside and out. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The 340 square meters internal cover area, private house in the outskirts of greater Nicosia was designed to feature contemporary aesthetics, acquiring permanence with the use of timeless materials. Concurrently, the house caters to the needs of a family of four, facilitating communication and comfort.
- Tags
- Trojan home, Villa Troy, timeless materials, contemporary, sustainable design
- Production Technology
- The choice of stone cladding on a loadbearing wall on the façade, as well as on the enclosure at the back of the property, hints at the walls of Troy.
Metal, applied in many components, is another significant material from that time: the façade features five ornamental brackets whose angular form alludes to the trojan war spears. The original metal door and the vertical metal railings shape the home enclosure.
The open-plan ground level accommodates the lounge, the living and dining rooms. The double-height void at the vestibule becomes the core around which those three integrated parts of the house develop.
The fireplace, dominating the ground level, functions as divider at the limit between the vestibule, living room, and dining area. Its glass enclosure on three sides allows the hearth to be visible from all adjacent spaces.
The base of the fireplace is clad in ceramic tiles emulating fair-face concrete; this material also dresses the dining room wall, featuring the portrait paintings of Paris and Helen. The fair-face concrete ceramic pairs well with the floor tiling, emulating Calacatta marble. This material covers the entire ground floor of the house, assigning luxury and elegance. - Design Challenge
- The name of the project is Troy and we wanted to design something which bring the design in a modern design of today , that make it difficult but interesting to indicated methods of the design and timeless materials which represent that era.
- Research
- We wanted to design something based on the Mediterranean design and a sustainable design.
A global environmental crisis under the guise of climate change is development model planning has been promoting across the word.
We install photovoltaics panels and the house is design to become a zero energy efficient - Inspiration
- The architect Renos Constantinou chooses to bestow the house with identity, alluding to the owners’ names: Paris and Helen. Mythology provides inspiration for designing a contemporary Trojan home, the Villa Troy
- Project Duration
- The project started on January 2019 and finished in September 2021.
Our office was responsible for the Architectural design, Interior design , project management , supervision, lighting design and structural design - Operation Flow
- The open-plan ground level accommodates the lounge, the living and dining rooms. The double-height void at the vestibule becomes the core around which those three integrated parts of the house develop.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to ACA Architects, 2022
- Team Members
- Architect:
Renos Constantinou
Andreas Constantinou
Team members:
Angela Constantinou - Image Credits
- Pantelis Hadjiminas
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