Serrated Transparency Isakhiwo Sehhovisi by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award in Ukudizayina Ezokwakha, Izakhiwo Nezinhlaka Competition Category.
IbhulonziEzokwakha· 2025
Serrated Transparency Isakhiwo Sehhovisi
Client: Potiropoulos+Partners
Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award Winner in Ezokwakha Category
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About Serrated Transparency Isakhiwo Sehhovisi
Isakhiwo sehhovisi sitholakala e-Ellinikon, sinokubuka ulwandle okungavimbekile. Umfanekiso wesakhiwo wethula i-trapeze, eyelula phezu kwendawo futhi ibhekana nekhona eliqavile. Isikhala sibonwa njengomhlaba wamandla lapho isikhala esichazwe kahle siphikisana nenhlelelo egqagqene yobuso besakhiwo, okuholwa ukubuka okuya olwandle, indlela elibheke ngayo ilanga, okuholela ekuvezeni okuthambile kokunyakaza okuyinkimbinkimbi phakathi kwakho konke lokhu. Umqondo uphenya okushelelayo nokugqagqene emkhakheni obanzi, namazinga ahlukene wokusobala okuphawulwa ubuso obuyinhloko obukhambekile besakhiwo.
The Recognition
About the Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award
Serrated Transparency Isakhiwo Sehhovisi iwinile uMklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award, ukwaziswa okuhloniphekile kakhulu okunikezwa imiklamo ephawulekayo eyehlukaniswa ukudala, ubuhlakani nobukhali bengqondo. Abawinile beBhulonzi yimisebenzi enobuchule obukhulu nedala ngokumangalisayo eqinisekisa isipiliyoni esibanzi, umcabango nobuhlakani babaklami babo. Serrated Transparency Isakhiwo Sehhovisi ilindeleke ukuba ibe yinto exatshwa kakhulu, edunyiswayo nethandwayo, enobungcweti obuphawulekayo nezinto ezintsha. Lo mklamo owinile uMklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award uhlanganisa izindlela ezinhle kakhulu ebuciko, esayensi, ekuklameni nasebuchwepheshe futhi uhamba phambili ngenxa yokunaka kwawo imininingwane. Serrated Transparency Isakhiwo Sehhovisi iyanelisa izidingo ngokumangalisayo, ithinta izifiso, iheha imizwa futhi ikhanga ukufuna ukwazi.
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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