Cascading Terraces Apartamente Rezidentiale by Potiropoulos and Partners

Cascading Terraces Apartamente Rezidentiale by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Aur in Design de Arhitectură, Clădiri și Structuri Competition Category.

AurArhitectură· 2023

Cascading Terraces Apartamente Rezidentiale

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos and Partners

A' Design Award de Aur Winner in Arhitectură Category

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The Design

About Cascading Terraces Apartamente Rezidentiale

Dezvoltarea conceptului se bazează pe două volume legate paralele cu o parte a site-ului, în dialog cu natura particulară a contextului imediat, abordând limitele și mișcarea sitului. Răspunzând la orientarea, vederile, direcția vântului și schimbările sezoniere ale peisajului, complexul se deschide sau se închide, dezvoltând de fiecare dată un aspect diferit, pe măsură ce trecerea de la mediul natural la cel construit stabilește un sistem de relații vizuale și conceptuale. și parametrii care afectează în mod inerent spațiul arhitectural.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Aur

Cascading Terraces Apartamente Rezidentiale a câștigat A' Design Award de Aur, o recunoaștere nespus de prestigioasă acordată designurilor de prim rang, minunate și remarcabile. Câștigătorii Aurului sunt creații extrem de inovatoare, vizionare și orbitor de strălucitoare, care reflectă geniul, înțelepciunea și măiestria designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Cascading Terraces Apartamente Rezidentiale să fie o invenție foarte lăudată, creatoare de tendințe și monumentală, care oferă o valoare fără precedent. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Aur este un proiect spectaculos și respectat, care aduce mari beneficii și împinge limitele artei, științei, designului și tehnologiei. Cascading Terraces Apartamente Rezidentiale creează sentimente intense de dorință, trezește pasiunea, încurajează creativitatea și fascinează.

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