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Cascading Terraces Apartemen Parumahaân by Potiropoulos and Partners

Cascading Terraces Apartemen Parumahaân by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Ameh in Arsitektur Competition Category.


AmehArsitektur· 2023

Cascading Terraces Apartemen Parumahaân

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

A' Design Award Ameh Winner in Arsitektur Category

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The Design

About Cascading Terraces Apartemen Parumahaân

Pangambangan konsep ko badasarkan pado duo volume nan takaik nan sajajar jo salah satu sisi tapak, dalam dialog jo sifaik khas konteks langsuang, manyasikapi bateh tapak dan pargarakan. Maresponkan pado orientasi, pamandangan, arah angin, dan parubahan musim lanskap, kompleks ko mambukak atau manutup, mangambangkan satiok kali tampilan nan balain, wakatu transisi dari lingkungan alami ka lingkungan binaan mangadakan sistem hubungan visual dan konseptual sarato parameter nan sacaro inherent mampengaruhi ruang arsitektua.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ameh

Cascading Terraces Apartemen Parumahaân adolah pamenang A' Design Award Ameh, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan kelas partamo, mangaguikan jo cumelang. Pamenang Ameh adolah ciptaan nan sangaik inovatif, bapandangan jauah jo baka-kilauan mamikaik nan mancaminkan bakaik, kabijaksanaan jo kahebatan parancangnyo. Cascading Terraces Apartemen Parumahaân dipaokan manjadi panemuan nan sangaik dipuji, panetap kacenderungan jo monumental nan mambari nilai nan alun pernah ado. Rancangan nan manang Ameh iko adolah proyek nan mangaguikan jo dihargai nan maluaskan batas seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi. Cascading Terraces Apartemen Parumahaân malahiakan karinduan nan kuek, mambangkikkan gairah, mandorong kreativitas jo mamikaik kito.

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

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