Serrated Transparency Fale Taumafai by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Fale Taumafai by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Apamemea in Mamanu Fausaga Fale Competition Category.

ApamemeaFausaga Fale· 2025

Serrated Transparency Fale Taumafai

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

A' Design Award Apamemea Winner in Fausaga Fale Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Fale Taumafai

O le fale taumafai o lo'o tu'u i Ellinikon ma ona va'aiga loloto i le sami. O le ata fa'atulagaga o le fale e fa'ailoa mai se foliga trapese, lea e fa'alautele atu i luga o le fanua ma talitonu i le tulimanu iloga. E iloa le avanoa o se fanua o malosiaga, lea o le avanoa fa'amauina e fete'ena'i ma le fa'atulagaga laina fa'atasi o le aupito i fafo, e ta'itaia e va'aiga agai i le sami ma le fa'atonuga o le la, e maua ai se fa'aaliga maaleale o le lavelave lavelave i o latou va. O le manatu e su'esu'eina le lamolemole ma le laina fa'atasi i totonu o se fanua lautele, fa'atasi ai ma tulaga eseese o le pupula fa'ailoaina e le aupito autu fa'afeagai.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Apamemea

O le A' Design Award Apamemea na manumalo ai Serrated Transparency Fale Taumafai, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu ese e iloga i le fatufatuaʻi, le atamai ma le poto. O ē manumalo i le Apamemea o mea e iai le tomai atoa ma fatufatuaʻi mataʻina e faamaonia ai le poto masani tele, le mafaufau ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Serrated Transparency Fale Taumafai e avea ma mea e vivii tele, ua pelepelea, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Apamemea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili i le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi ma e sili ona lelei i le mataituina o mea itiiti. Serrated Transparency Fale Taumafai e faamalieina matagofie manaʻoga, pa i manaʻo, faalataina lagona ma faaosofia le fia iloa.

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