Cascading Terraces Amazu Yo Guturamo by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Zahabu in Igishushanyo cy'Ubwubatsi Competition Category.
ZahabuUbwubatsi· 2023
Cascading Terraces Amazu Yo Guturamo
Client: Potiropoulos and Partners
Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Zahabu Winner in Ubwubatsi Category
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The Design
About Cascading Terraces Amazu Yo Guturamo
Iterambere ryigitekerezo rishingiye kububumbe bubiri buhujwe buringaniye kuruhande rumwe rwurubuga, mubiganiro na miterere yihariye yimiterere ihita, bikemura imbibi zurubuga. Gusubiza icyerekezo, kureba, icyerekezo cyumuyaga, hamwe nimpinduka zigihe cyimiterere yimiterere, uruganda rurakinguka cyangwa rugafunga, rugatera imbere buri gihe isura itandukanye, nkuko guhinduka kuva mubidukikije bijya mubidukikije byubaka bishyiraho sisitemu yubusabane bwibitekerezo nibitekerezo. n'ibipimo bigira ingaruka muburyo bwububiko.
The Recognition
About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Zahabu
Cascading Terraces Amazu Yo Guturamo ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Zahabu, ishimwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo biri ku rwego rwa mbere, bitangaje kandi by'indashyikirwa. Abegukanye Zahabu ni ibihangano birimo udushya twinshi, bifite icyerekezo kandi bimurika, bigaragaza impano, ubwenge n'ubuhanga bw'ababihanze. Cascading Terraces Amazu Yo Guturamo biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano gishimwa cyane, gishyiraho imigendekere mishya kandi gitanga agaciro katigeze kaboneka. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Zahabu ni umushinga utangaje kandi wubahwa ugura imbibi z'ubuhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga. Cascading Terraces Amazu Yo Guturamo itera ibyifuzo bikomeye, ikangura ishyaka, ishishikariza guhanga kandi igatwara imitima yacu.
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
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