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Serrated Transparency Gedong Kantor by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency Gedong Kantor by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Perunggu in Arsitéktur Competition Category.


PerungguArsitéktur· 2025

Serrated Transparency Gedong Kantor

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

A' Design Award Perunggu Winner in Arsitéktur Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency Gedong Kantor

Gedong kantor ieu perenahna di Ellinikon kalayan pamandangan laut anu teu kahalang. Wangun gedongna ngenalkeun bentuk trapesium, nu ngalegaan dina situs jeung ngarojong ka pojok anu nonjol. Ruangna dianggap salaku widang gaya dimana ruang anu didelineasi dikontéskeun ku organisasi berlajur tina fasad, dinavigasi ku pamandangan ka laut, orientasi panonpoé, hasilna ekspresi halus tina dinamika kompléks antara éta kabéh. Konsépna nalungtik anu mulus jeung anu berlajur dina widang anu leuwih lega, kalayan tingkat transparansi anu béda-béda anu diimplikasikeun ku fasad utama anu bergigi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perunggu

Serrated Transparency Gedong Kantor mangrupa juara A' Design Award Perunggu, pangakuan anu pohara bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain unggul anu dicirikeun ku kréativitas, kacerdikan jeung kawaspadaan. Para juara Perunggu téh artéfak anu lobaan kaahlian jeung kréatif pisan anu ngabuktikeun pangalaman anu lega, imajinasi jeung kacerdasan para désainerna. Serrated Transparency Gedong Kantor diharepkeun jadi objék anu dihargaan, dikagumi jeung dipikanyaah anu profésional jeung inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Perunggu ieu ngalebetkeun prakték pangalusna dina seni, élmu, desain jeung téknologi, sarta unggul dina perhatian kana détail. Serrated Transparency Gedong Kantor minuhan kabutuhan kalayan éndah, nyentuh kahayang, nyenangkeun rasa, jeung narik rasa panasaran.

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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