Cascading Terraces Boligleiligheter by Potiropoulos and Partners

Cascading Terraces Boligleiligheter by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award i Gull in Arkitektur-, bygnings- og strukturdesign Competition Category.

GullArkitektur· 2023

Cascading Terraces Boligleiligheter

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

A' Design Award i Gull Winner in Arkitektur Category

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The Design

About Cascading Terraces Boligleiligheter

Utviklingen av konseptet baserer seg på to sammenkoblede volumer parallelt med én side av tomten, i dialog med den særegne karakteren til den umiddelbare konteksten, og adresserer tomtegrensene og bevegelsen. Ved å respondere på orienteringen, utsikten, vindretningen og årstidsvariasjonene i landskapet, åpner eller lukker komplekset seg og utvikler hver gang et annet uttrykk, ettersom overgangen fra det naturlige til det bebygde miljøet etablerer et system av visuelle og konseptuelle relasjoner og parametere som iboende påvirker det arkitektoniske rommet.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Gull

Cascading Terraces Boligleiligheter er vinner av A' Design Award i Gull, en enormt prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles førsteklasses, praktfulle og enestående design. Gullvinnere er usedvanlig nyskapende, visjonære og glamorøst blendende skaperverk som gjenspeiler designernes geni, visdom og dyktighet. Cascading Terraces Boligleiligheter forventes å være en høyt rost, trendsettende og monumental oppfinnelse som gir enestående verdi. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Gull, er et spektakulært, respektert prosjekt som i høy grad gagner og flytter grensene for kunst, vitenskap, design og teknologi. Cascading Terraces Boligleiligheter skaper intense følelser av begjær, vekker lidenskap, oppmuntrer til kreativitet og fascinerer oss.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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