Residence in Kifissia
Kifissia, Greece
Tense Architecture Network, Greece
Photos: Filippo Poli
Project's description on ArchDaily:
Kifissia, Greece
Tense Architecture Network, Greece
Photos: Filippo Poli
Project's description on ArchDaily:
The residence’s plot is small and an adjacent building almost blocks the
southern sun. The main part of the field should remain free and become
the residence itself: an austere prism, centrally supported, hovers
above theliberated ground. At first, an area was defined: a cubic shell
of plants creates a limit for the house. In order to reside, ones
withdraws in. Three metallic columns support a net of inox ropes where
plants have already started to climb in order to generate a volume
equally important to the house’s prisms.
When the plants are grown the green screen will be penetrated only by
the black, central column of the concrete shelter. The basalt-watery
surface on which it is based reflects the light in the interior. Exposed
concrete is dark tinted where a greater depth, a sense of anchoring was
necessary. Artificial light is cautiously managed in order to protect
the night and the intimacy that dim light offers.
The shell remains intact towards the main façade. The public image of
the residence will eventually recede behind the plants and the house
will claim the whole field. The vigorously detached prism lets the sun
enter and functions as a shelter: living space lies beneath. When the
sliding panels retreat, the merging with the garden is complete.
The space that the elevated prism creates is the main compositional
gesture. The manner that this gesture is performed is crucial: it is
the manner through which the hovering prism is supported by the central
column. A calm tension is realized, a simple yet clear correlation of
forces. The synergy between structural and architectural design gives a
residence where the shell is not more important than its field. Those
are juxta-posed: one to one.
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