Serrated Transparency कार्यालय-भवनम् by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारः in स्थापत्य, भवन एवं संरचना अभिकल्पना Competition Category.
कांस्यम्स्थापत्यम्· 2025
Serrated Transparency कार्यालय-भवनम्
Client: Potiropoulos+Partners
A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारः Winner in स्थापत्यम् Category
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The Design
About Serrated Transparency कार्यालय-भवनम्
एतत् कार्यालय-भवनम् एलिनिकॉन-स्थले निर्बाध-सागरदृश्यैः सह स्थापितम्। भवन-रूपरेखा समलम्बाकारम् प्रस्तुनोति यत् स्थलं व्याप्य प्रमुख-कोणं सम्प्राप्नोति। स्थानम् इदं बल-क्षेत्रवत् प्रतीयते यत्र परिसीमितं स्थानं मुखभागस्य रेखाङ्कित-संगठनेन प्रतिद्वन्द्वितम्, सागरं प्रति दृश्यैः मार्गदर्शितम्, सूर्यस्य अभिमुखत्वेन च नियन्त्रितम्, येषां मध्ये जटिल-गतिविज्ञानस्य सूक्ष्मा अभिव्यक्तिः समुत्पद्यते। अयं संकल्पना विशाल-क्षेत्रे श्लक्ष्णस्य रेखितस्य च अनुसन्धानं करोति, यत्र दन्तुर-मुख्य-मुखभागेन आसूचिताः पारदर्शकतायाः भिन्न-स्तराः विद्यन्ते।
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारः
Serrated Transparency कार्यालय-भवनम् A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारस्य विजेता अस्ति; अयम् उच्चप्रतिष्ठितः सम्मानः सृजनशीलतया उद्भावनकौशलेन तीक्ष्णप्रज्ञया च विशिष्टेभ्य उत्कृष्टेभ्योऽभिकल्पेभ्यो दीयते। कांस्यविजेतारः प्रचुरकौशलयुक्ता उल्लेखनीयतया सृजनशीलाश्च शिल्पकृतयः सन्ति, याः स्वाभिकल्पकानां विपुलम् अनुभवं कल्पनाशक्तिं साधनसम्पन्नतां च प्रमाणयन्ति। Serrated Transparency कार्यालय-भवनम् अत्यन्तं मूल्यवान् प्रशंसितः प्रियश्च पदार्थः, उल्लेखनीयतया व्यावसायिको नवोन्मेषयुक्तश्च भविष्यतीति प्रत्याशा क्रियते। A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारं जितवद् एतद् अभिकल्पकार्यं कलाविज्ञानाभिकल्पप्रौद्योगिकीनां श्रेष्ठतमाः पद्धतीः समावेशयति सूक्ष्मांशेषु ध्यानाच्च उत्कृष्टम् अस्ति। Serrated Transparency कार्यालय-भवनम् अस्माकम् आवश्यकताः सुन्दरं पूरयति, कामनाः स्पृशति, भावान् मोहयति, जिज्ञासां चाकर्षयति।
Behind the Design
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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
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