Residence Sikamino, Viotia

MIES VAN DER ROHE Award 2013_SHORTLISTED

The field is elongated, rural, planted with olive trees. The land is dominant. –How could a residence rise out of the ground, how could it be confined to a roof? The residence is its roof. A 60 meters long one. While approaching the plot, it can be perceived as a slightly elevated strip of earthy crust in front of the distant mountains of Euboea. It can be walked on. The roof is born from and returns back to the ground; it is planted likewise: helichrysum, drosanthemum, lavender, gauras, thyme. The roof’s shape is rhomboid and the living space is hosted under its central, maximum width area, while the sleeping quarters occupy the edges. The composition seeks to vigorously merge the residence with its elongated site. An additional, fully underground level has been introduced to facilitate the increased needs that the intent agricultural life requires. The reception of the residence’s edges by the land of Attica and the subsequent birth of the green roof by the same land, create an acute shell, gently inserted in the olive groove. The passive energy conservation achieved by the immersion and the earthy covering is inten¬sified by the protecting, cantilevered hovering of the roof. The synergy between architectural and structural design is absolute, the structural analysis did not follow. The latter was researched right from the start, chiselling the interiors, determining the form, which was in turn determined by the in¬clined field itself: the informally rhomboid shape of the residence was imposed by its inherent length as well as by its orientation towards the Euboean gulf sea. Building shell is of reinforced concrete, exposed on roofs and walls. Iron frames, sun-protecting blinds, metallic shutters palliate the sense of transparency. The sculptural clarity of the ex-tended, con¬crete roof was attained by means of inversion of all beams but one, which abuts at the central column: the hearth.The Sykamino residence seems to be effectively two-faced: It is gentle but at the same time it is not. It is integrated in its field but nevertheless opposes itself to it. It partially disappears and yet insistently manifests its vigour. Its merging is consciously infinite, incomplete. It isn’t a camouflage-building, a landscape-building. It is a building: its architecture wilfully declares present. And mainly, open.

 
construction
2013
status
Commission
Team
Tilemachos Andrianopoulos Kostas Mavros Thanos Bampanelos
Structural design
Athanassios Kontizas
Landscape Consultant
Andrew Michael Clements
Photography
Filippo Poli
Feautured in Archisearch II
Featured in Dezeen
Featured in Archisearch I
Featured in Metalocus
Featured in Designboom
Featured in The Greek Foundation
Perspective Drawing
Model_Ground floor
Model_Rooftop
Fence Detail
Section
Details
Elevation
Perspective Drawing
Structural Detail
Site Plan
Furniture Details
Underground Floor Plan
Model
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Perspective Drawing
Perspective Drawing
Perspective Drawing
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Residence Sikamino, Viotia

MIES VAN DER ROHE Award 2013_SHORTLISTED

The field is elongated, rural, planted with olive trees. The land is dominant. –How could a residence rise out of the ground, how could it be confined to a roof? The residence is its roof. A 60 meters long one. While approaching the plot, it can be perceived as a slightly elevated strip of earthy crust in front of the distant mountains of Euboea. It can be walked on. The roof is born from and returns back to the ground; it is planted likewise: helichrysum, drosanthemum, lavender, gauras, thyme. The roof’s shape is rhomboid and the living space is hosted under its central, maximum width area, while the sleeping quarters occupy the edges. The composition seeks to vigorously merge the residence with its elongated site. An additional, fully underground level has been introduced to facilitate the increased needs that the intent agricultural life requires. The reception of the residence’s edges by the land of Attica and the subsequent birth of the green roof by the same land, create an acute shell, gently inserted in the olive groove. The passive energy conservation achieved by the immersion and the earthy covering is inten¬sified by the protecting, cantilevered hovering of the roof. The synergy between architectural and structural design is absolute, the structural analysis did not follow. The latter was researched right from the start, chiselling the interiors, determining the form, which was in turn determined by the in¬clined field itself: the informally rhomboid shape of the residence was imposed by its inherent length as well as by its orientation towards the Euboean gulf sea. Building shell is of reinforced concrete, exposed on roofs and walls. Iron frames, sun-protecting blinds, metallic shutters palliate the sense of transparency. The sculptural clarity of the ex-tended, con¬crete roof was attained by means of inversion of all beams but one, which abuts at the central column: the hearth.The Sykamino residence seems to be effectively two-faced: It is gentle but at the same time it is not. It is integrated in its field but nevertheless opposes itself to it. It partially disappears and yet insistently manifests its vigour. Its merging is consciously infinite, incomplete. It isn’t a camouflage-building, a landscape-building. It is a building: its architecture wilfully declares present. And mainly, open.

 
construction
2013
status
Commission
Team
Tilemachos Andrianopoulos Kostas Mavros Thanos Bampanelos
Structural design
Athanassios Kontizas
Landscape Consultant
Andrew Michael Clements
Photography
Filippo Poli
Feautured in Archisearch II
Featured in Dezeen
Featured in Archisearch I
Featured in Metalocus
Featured in Designboom
Featured in The Greek Foundation
Perspective Drawing
Model_Ground floor
Model_Rooftop
Fence Detail
Section
Details
Elevation
Perspective Drawing
Structural Detail
Site Plan
Furniture Details
Underground Floor Plan
Model
Model
Perspective Drawing
Perspective Drawing
Perspective Drawing
Perspective Drawing
Structural Model
Ground Floor Plan
Details
Perspective Drawing
Structural Plan
Content
  • Megara /
  • Volos /
  • Sikamino /
  • Euboea /
  • Heraklion /
  • Kifissia /
  • Kallitechnoupolis /
  • Cyclades /
  • Piraeus II /
  • Kimolos /
  • Kozani /
  • Dubrovnik /
  • El Hiero /
  • Athens III /
  • Piraeus II /
  • Istanbul /
  • Saronida /
  • Sofia /
  • Glyfada /
  • Heraklion I /
  • OnEarth /
  • Nicosia III /
  • Viotia /
  • Villia /
  • Glika Nera /
  • Souda /
  • Nicosia II /
  • Neapoli II /
  • Neapoli I /
  • Drafi /
  • Athens II /
  • Piraeus I /
  • Arkalochori /
  • Heraklion II /
  • Athens I /
  • Nicae /
  • Chalkis /
  • Ptolemaida /
  • Nicosia I /
  • Aspropirgos /
  • Pylaia /
  • Athens IV /
  • Athens V /
  • Elefsis /
  • Athens VI /
  • Kifissia II /
  • Drafi II /
  • Alimos /
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