Serrated Transparency Trano Birao by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Trano Birao by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Varahina in Famolavolana Maritrano, Trano ary Rafitra Competition Category.

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Serrated Transparency Trano Birao

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

A' Design Award Varahina Winner in Maritrano Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Trano Birao

Miorina ao Ellinikon ny trano birao ary manana fijerin-tany mivantana tsy misy sakana mankany amin'ny ranomasina. Ny endriky ny trano dia mampiditra endrika trapeza izay miitatra manerana ny toerana ka manasongadina ny zorony malaza. Ny habakabaka dia hita ho toy ny sehatry ny hery izay ifandiran'ny habakabaka voafaritra amin'ny fandaminana misy tsipika amin'ny lafiny ivelany, tarihin'ny fijerin-tany mankany amin'ny ranomasina sy ny fiverenan'ny masoandro, ka miteraka fanehoana malefaka ny fifandraisana sarotra eo amin'izy ireo. Ny foto-kevitra dia manadihady ny malama sy ny misy tsipika amin'ny sehatra midadasika kokoa, miaraka amin'ny ambaratongam-pahazavana samihafa nentin'ny lafiny ivelany lehibe misy zoro-maranitra.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Varahina

Nandresy ny A' Design Award Varahina ny famolavolana Serrated Transparency Trano Birao, fankasitrahana malaza be omena ny famolavolana miavaka izay mampiavaka ny fahaiza-mamorona, ny fahazotoana ary ny fahamaotinan-tsaina. Ny mpandresy Varahina dia zavatra vita tanana mahay dia mahay ary mamorona mivantana izay manamafy ny traikefa be dia be, ny sarintsaina ary ny fahaizan-kafoy an'ny mpamolavola azy. Andrasana ho zavatra ankasitrahana be, ankafizina ary tiana, mahay amin'ny asa sady vaovao ny famolavolana Serrated Transparency Trano Birao. Ity famolavolana nandresy ny A' Design Award Varahina ity dia mitahiry ny fomba fanao tsara indrindra amin'ny zavakanto, ny siansa, ny famolavolana ary ny teknolojia, ary tsara indrindra amin'ny fitandremana ny antsipirihany. Ny famolavolana Serrated Transparency Trano Birao dia mahafa-po ny filana tsara, mikasika ny faniriana, mahasarika ny fihetseham-po ary misarika ny fahalianana.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

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