Cascading Terraces 住宅公寓 by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 金獎 in 建築、樓宇及結構設計 Competition Category.
金建築· 2023
Cascading Terraces 住宅公寓
Client: Potiropoulos and Partners
A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 建築 Category
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About Cascading Terraces 住宅公寓
這個概念的發展是基於與場地一側平行的兩個相連體量，與直接環境的特殊性質進行對話，解決場地邊界和運動問題。隨著景觀的方向、景觀、風向和季節變化，綜合體打開或關閉，每次都會發展出不同的外觀，因為從自然環境到建築環境的過渡建立了視覺和概念關係的系統以及固有地影響建築空間的參數。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 金獎
Cascading Terraces 住宅公寓是 A' Design Award 金獎得主，這是授予一流、絕妙而傑出設計的極為崇高的認可。金獎得主是極具創新、極富遠見且璀璨奪目的創作，反映出其設計師的天才、智慧與才幹。預計Cascading Terraces 住宅公寓將成為一項備受讚譽、引領潮流、氣勢恢宏的發明，帶來前所未有的價值。這件贏得 A' Design Award 金獎的設計是一個壯觀而受人敬重的項目，極大地造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Cascading Terraces 住宅公寓激起強烈的渴望，喚起激情，鼓勵創造力，令我們著迷。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The development of the concept is based on two linked volumes parallel to one side of the site, in dialogue with the particular nature of the immediate context, addressing the site boundaries and movement. Responding to the orientation, views, wind direction and the seasonal changes of the landscape, the complex opens up or closes, developing each time a different appearance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Approximate Total Building Area: 4580 square meters
- Tags
- architecture, residential, apartments, Greece, design, terrace, concrete, nature
- Production Technology
- In terms of materiality, raw concrete and white textured render are prominent in the building skin and fencing, developing a simple yet effective language. This approach, as expressed here spatially, implies materiality, temperature, density, weight and acoustic qualities, elements that are abstract but are derived from thorough experience.
- Design Challenge
- This emergent microcosm provides an intricate experience based on the dynamics between the man-made and the natural, the point of focus and the background, the familiar and the unknown, triggering sensations and emotions that capture the moment. Throughout this journey, experiences, spaces and materialities converge, either as parallel or as complimentary events.
- Research
- The arrangement addresses a series of choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones towards the landscape-via the terraces- and towards the site. A series of cascading terraces is developed resembling F.L. Wright Fallingwater. The design also considers the play of light on the textured surfaces, the depth of color, the manipulation of the form and the overall aesthetic qualities.
- Inspiration
- The design approach prioritizes the utilization of the main view which opens up towards the SW and NW due to the site s location and topography of the suburb of Kifissia. The internal arrangement attempts to address a series of carefully choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones that are extrovert towards the landscape, via the terraces, and introvert towards the site. This results in a series of cascading terraces at a slight angle with each other.
- Project Duration
- Design: 2021
Location: Athens, Greece - Operation Flow
- The overall design approach was not preoccupied by a certain aesthetic correctness, but first and foremost to establish as a key parameter, the potential of a multi-sensory experience between the building and the landscape, and also aiming at the substantiation of individuality in architecture through the expression of the architectural object.
- Team Members
- Architectural Design: Potiropoulos and Partners
3D Visualization: Batis Studio - Image Credits
- 3D Visualization: Batis Studio
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