Serrated Transparency Bastiment de Burèus by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Bastiment de Burèus by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Bronze in Arquitectura Competition Category.

BronzeArquitectura· 2025

Serrated Transparency Bastiment de Burèus

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Arquitectura Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Bastiment de Burèus

Lo bastiment de burèus es situat a Ellinikon amb vistas sens entrava sus la mar. Lo traçat del bastiment introdusís un trapèzi que s'espandís sul site e s'adreiça a l'angle prominent. L'espaci es percebut coma un camp de forças ont l'espaci delimitat es contestat per l'organizacion estriada de la façana, guidat per las vistas cap a la mar, l'orientacion del solelh, resultant en una expression subtila de las dinamicas complèxas entre elas. Lo concèpte investiga lo lisse e l'estriat dins un camp mai larg, amb los grases variats de transparéncia implicats per la façana principala dentada.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Serrated Transparency Bastiment de Burèus a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze, una reconeissença plan prestigiosa acordada a de designs excellents que se destrian per la creativitat, l'engenh e la finessa. Los ganhaires del Bronze son d'artefactes largament abils e sorprenentament creatius que provan la vasta experiéncia, l'imaginacion e l'engenhositat de lors designers. S'espèra que Serrated Transparency Bastiment de Burèus siá un objècte fòrça considerat, admirat e estimat, notablament professional e innovant. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze integra las melhoras practicas de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia e es excellent per son atencion al detalh. Serrated Transparency Bastiment de Burèus satisfa esplendidament los besonhs, toca los desirs, encanta los sentiments e interèssa la curiositat.

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