Serrated Transparency ISakhiwo Samahofisi by Potiropoulos and Partners

Serrated Transparency ISakhiwo Samahofisi by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Ibhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award in Uyilo lweZakhiwo, Isakhiwo kunye neMilo Competition Category.

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Serrated Transparency ISakhiwo Samahofisi

by Potiropoulos and Partners

Client: Potiropoulos+Partners

Ibhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award Winner in Uyilo lweZakhiwo Category

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The Design

About Serrated Transparency ISakhiwo Samahofisi

ISakhiwo samahofisi sikwe-Ellinikon sinemibono yolwandle engathintshiswanga. Umzobo wesakhiwo uveza umilo wetrapiseyidi, othe watotoba phezu kwalo lonke indawo uze wajongana nekona ebalulekileyo. Esi sithuba sibonwa njengenkundla yamandla apho isithuba esichaziweyo sixambulisana nolungiselelo olugqalileyo lobuso besakhiwo, oluqhutyelwa yimbono ejongene nolwandle, ukujika kwelanga, nto leyo ekhokelela ekuboniseni ngobuchule ubudlelwane obunyibilikisayo phakathi kwazo. Le ngqikelelo iphanda okugudileyo nokugqalileyo kwintsimi ebanzi, kunye namanqanaba ahlukeneyo okucaca avezwa bubuso besakhiwo obuphambili obuqabileyo.

The Recognition

About the Ibhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award

Serrated Transparency ISakhiwo Samahofisi ngumphumeleli weIbhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award, ukuqatshelwa okuhlonitshwayo kakhulu okunikwa imiyilo ephawulekayo eyahlukaniswa kukuyila, ubukrelekrele nobukrelekrele. Abaphumeleleyo beBhronzi ziimveliso ezinobuchule obukhulu nezidala ngokumangalisayo ezingqina amava aphangaleleyo, ukucinga nokwazi ukuzenzela kwabayili bazo. Serrated Transparency ISakhiwo Samahofisi iyathenjwa ukuba ibe yimpahla exatyiswa kakhulu, edunyiswayo nethandwayo enobungcali obuphawulekayo nezinto ezintsha. Lo myilo uphumeleleyo weIbhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award ubandakanya iindlela ezilungileyo kakhulu kubugcisa, inzululwazi, uyilo kunye nobuchwephesha kwaye ugqwesile ngenxa yokunikela ingqalelo kwiinkcukacha. Serrated Transparency ISakhiwo Samahofisi iyanelisa iimfuno ngokumangalisayo, ichukumisa iinqwenelo, ikhwebela iimvakalelo kwaye itsala umdla.

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