Serrated Transparency Inyubako y'Ibiro by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Inyubako y'Ibiro by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze in Igishushanyo cy'Ubwubatsi Competition Category.

BuronzeUbwubatsi· 2025

Serrated Transparency Inyubako y'Ibiro

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze Winner in Ubwubatsi Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Inyubako y'Ibiro

Inyubako y'ibiro iherereye i Ellinikon ifite amashusho meza y'inyanja atacitse. Imiterere y'inyubako yinjiza imiterere ya trapeze, ikwagura ku kibanja cyose kandi ikoresha igice cy'ingengo rikomeye. Umwanya ubonwa nk'umurima w'imbaraga aho umwanya wateganijwe ugombana n'imiterere yashyizwe mu murongo y'imbonwa y'inyubako, uyoborwa n'amashusho yerekeza ku nyanja, icyerekezo cy'izuba, bigatuma habaho imvugo yoroheje y'imikoreshereze igoye hagati yabo. Igitekerezo gisuzuma uburyo bworoshye n'ubwimyongoroze mu murima mugari, hamwe n'impamvu zitandukanye zo gutagaragara byashyizwe ahagaragara n'imbonwa y'inyubako nkuru ifite imipaka.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze

Serrated Transparency Inyubako y'Ibiro ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze, ishimwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo by'indashyikirwa birangwa no guhanga, ubwenge n'ubushishozi. Abegukanye Buronze ni ibihangano bifite ubuhanga bwinshi kandi bihanga cyane, bishimangira uburambe, ubwenge n'ubushobozi bw'ababihanze. Serrated Transparency Inyubako y'Ibiro biteganyijwe ko izaba ikintu cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifite ubunyamwuga n'udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Buronze gikoresha uburyo bwiza mu buhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga kandi kirarenze mu gutaha ku tuntu duto. Serrated Transparency Inyubako y'Ibiro ishimisha ibyo dukeneye, ikora ku byifuzo byacu, itwara amarangamutima yacu kandi ikurura amatsiko yacu.

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