Serrated Transparency Bangunan Kantua by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Gangsa in Arsitektur Competition Category.
GangsaArsitektur· 2025
Serrated Transparency Bangunan Kantua
Client: Potiropoulos+Partners
A' Design Award Gangsa Winner in Arsitektur Category
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The Design
About Serrated Transparency Bangunan Kantua
Bangunan kantua iko talatah di Ellinikon jo pamanadangan lauik nan indah tanpa halangan. Garis lua bangunan mampakanaan bantuak trapesium, nan maleba di sabantuak tapek jo mancakuik sudua nan manonjo. Ruang iko dirasoan sabagai medan gayo-gayo, di mano ruang nan dibateh dikonteh dek susunan fasad nan bagaris-garis, dinavigasi dek pamanadangan ka lauik, arah matahari, sehingga manghasilkan ekspresi nan halus dari dinamika rumit antaronyo. Konsep iko manyelidiki nan mulus jo nan bagaris dalam bidang nan leba, jo tingkek katerawangan nan bavariatif nan ditunjuakan dek fasad utamo nan barigi.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Gangsa
Serrated Transparency Bangunan Kantua adolah pamenang A' Design Award Gangsa, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan cemerlang nan dicirikan dek kreativitas, kacerdikan jo kabijaksanaan. Pamenang Gangsa adolah karya nan cukuik mahir jo kreatif sacaro mangesankan nan mamastikan pangalaman nan luas, imajinasi jo kacerdikan parancangnyo. Serrated Transparency Bangunan Kantua dipaokan manjadi bando nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan profesional jo inovatif sacaro nampak. Rancangan nan manang Gangsa iko mamuek praktik tabaik dalam seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi jo cemerlang dalam parhatian ka rincian. Serrated Transparency Bangunan Kantua mamanuhi kaparluan jo elok, manyantuah karinduan, mamikaik parasaan jo manarik raso ingin tahu.
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
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