Serrated Transparency Chivako cheMahofisi by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Chivako cheMahofisi by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award in Akitekicha, Zvivako neZvivakwa Competition Category.

BronziAkitekicha· 2025

Serrated Transparency Chivako cheMahofisi

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award Winner in Akitekicha Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Chivako cheMahofisi

Chivako chemahofisi chiri muEllinikon uye chine maonero egungwa asina zvivharo. Chimiro chechivako chinoshandisa trapeze, iyo inowedzera pamusoro penzvimbo uye inotaura nekona yakakurumbira. Nzvimbo inoonekwa semunda wesimba apo nzvimbo yakarongwa inopikiswa nekurongwa kwemitsetse kwe facade, inotungamirwa nemaonero akananga kugungwa, kunanga kwezuva, zvichikonzera kuratidzwa kwakadzikira kwesimba rakaomarara pakati pazvo. Pfungwa inoongorora iyo nyorovere neiyo ine mitsetse mumunda wakakura, pamwe nemiyero yakasiyana yekujekeseka inoratidzwa ne facade huru ine mipendero yakagwenana.

The Recognition

About the Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award

Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award wakahwinwa ne Serrated Transparency Chivako cheMahofisi, rukudzo rwakakwirira kwazvo runopiwa kumadhizaini akasiyana anozivikanwa nekugadzira, njere nekungwara. Vakunda veBronzi mabasa ane unyanzvi hwakakwana uye kugadzira kunoshamisa kunosimbisa ruzivo rukuru, pfungwa nehunyanzvi hwevagadziri vawo. Serrated Transparency Chivako cheMahofisi inotarisirwa kuva chinhu chinokudzwa kwazvo, chinoremekedzwa uye chinodiwa, chine hunyanzvi hunoonekwa uye zvitsva. Dhizaini iyi yakahwina Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award inosanganisa maitiro akanakisa muhunyanzvi, sayenzi, dhizaini netekinoroji uye yakasiyana nekutarisisa zvidiki. Serrated Transparency Chivako cheMahofisi inogutsa zvinodiwa zvakanaka, inobata zvishuvo, inokwezva manzwiro uye inomutsa kuda kuziva.

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