Serrated Transparency Ilé-iṣẹ́ by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award in Àpẹẹrẹ Ìkọ́lé, Ilé àti Ètò Competition Category.
IdẹÌkọ́lé· 2025
Serrated Transparency Ilé-iṣẹ́
Client: Potiropoulos+Partners
Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award Winner in Ìkọ́lé Category
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About Serrated Transparency Ilé-iṣẹ́
Ilé-iṣẹ́ náà wà ní Ellinikon pẹ̀lú ìran òkun tí kò ní ìdíwọ́. Àpẹ́ẹ̀rẹ́ ilé náà ṣàfihàn ẹ̀yà trapeze kan, tí ó tàn kálẹ̀ lórí ilẹ̀ náà tí ó sì kọjú sí igun pàtàkì náà. A ní ìmọ̀ràn àyè náà bí ilẹ̀ agbára níbi tí àyè tí a yà sọ́tọ̀ ń tako ẹ̀tò ìlà-ìlà ojú-ilé náà, tí ìran sí òkun ń darí rẹ̀, àti ìtọ́sí oòrùn, èyí tí ó yọrí sí ìfihàn tínrín tí àwọn agbára ìdàpọ̀ láàárín wọn. Ọ̀rọ̀-ìmọ̀ náà ṣe ìwádìí nípa èyí tí ó dán àti èyí tí ó ní ìlà nínú àgbègbè tí ó gbòòrò, pẹ̀lú àwọn ipele oríṣìíríṣìí ṣíṣí-ìran tí ojú-ilé àkọ́kọ́ tí ó ní àwọn igun gígùn ń tọ́kasí.
The Recognition
About the Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award
Serrated Transparency Ilé-iṣẹ́ jẹ́ olùborí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award, ìdánimọ̀ olókìkí gan-an tí a fún àwọn àwòṣe tó tayọ tí wọ́n yàtọ̀ nípasẹ̀ ìṣẹ̀dá, àrékérekè àti ọgbọ́n inú. Àwọn olùborí Idẹ jẹ́ àwọn ohun èlò tó ní ìjáfáfá gan-an tí wọ́n sì ní ìṣẹ̀dá tó yani lẹ́nu tí wọ́n ń ṣe ẹ̀rí ìrírí gbígbòòrò, ìrònú àti ọgbọ́n àwọn olùṣàwòṣe wọn. A retí pé Serrated Transparency Ilé-iṣẹ́ yóò jẹ́ ohun tí a kà sí gidigidi, tí a gbóríyìn fún tí a sì nífẹ̀ẹ́, tó jẹ́ ti ọ̀jáfáfá lọ́nà tó ṣe pàtàkì tó sì ní ìmúṣẹ̀dá tuntun. Àwòṣe tó borí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award yìí ń kó àwọn ọ̀nà tó dára jùlọ nínú iṣẹ́ ọnà, sáyẹ́ǹsì, àwòṣe àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ jọ, ó sì tayọ nítorí àfiyèsí rẹ̀ sí àwọn àlàyé kékeré. Serrated Transparency Ilé-iṣẹ́ ń tẹ́ àwọn ohun tí a nílò lọ́rùn lọ́nà àgbàyanu, ó ń fọwọ́ kan àwọn ìfẹ́ inú, ó ń gbà ọkàn ó sì ń fa ìfẹ́ láti mọ̀ mọ́ra.
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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