Cascading Terraces Apartaments Residencials by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award d'Aur in Arquitectura Competition Category.
AurArquitectura· 2023
Cascading Terraces Apartaments Residencials
Client: Potiropoulos and Partners
A' Design Award d'Aur Winner in Arquitectura Category
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The Design
About Cascading Terraces Apartaments Residencials
Lo desvolopament del concèpte es basat sus dos volums ligats parallèls a un costat del site, en dialòg amb la natura particulara del contèxt immediat, abordant las limitas del site e lo moviment. Respondent a l'orientacion, las vistas, la direccion del vent, e los cambiaments sasonièrs del paisatge, lo complèx se dobrís o se barra, desvolopant cada còp una aparéncia diferenta, alara que la transicion de l'environament natural a l'environament bastit establís un sistèma de relacions visualas e conceptualas e de paramètres qu'afèctan inerentament l'espaci architectural.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award d'Aur
Cascading Terraces Apartaments Residencials a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award d'Aur, una reconeissença immensament prestigiosa acordada a de designs de primièra qualitat, meravilhoses e excellents. Los ganhaires de l'Aur son de creacions extrèmament innovantas, visionàrias e esbleugissentas, que reflectisson lo prodigi, la sabença e la proeça de lors designers. S'espèra que Cascading Terraces Apartaments Residencials siá una invencion fòrça lausada, que dintra de tendéncias e monumentala, que provesís un valor sens precedent. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award d'Aur es un projècte espectaclós e respectat, que fa un grand ben e fa avançar las frontièras de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia. Cascading Terraces Apartaments Residencials crea de sentiments intensos de desirs, evòca la passion, encoratja la creativitat e fascina.
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
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