Traditional Imagery and Contemporary House in Ekali by Thanos Athanasopoulos

October 21st, 2010 - Posted in Contemporary Home

Thanos Athanasopoulos Greek architects have completed a house of traditional and contemporary images in Ekali, a suburb of Athens. Description of the architect: The house is a family located in Ekali, a suburb of Athens. This property is surrounded by tall pine trees that shade a lot, which allows for decisions to make continuous glass envelope can be opened in the south and east sides of the ground floor. Sliding glass walls allow daylight to enter into the plan in time defines a large living room open, transparent to the fenced garden. The scheme will form the main open area in south-eastern corner of the site, where the pool is placed attached to the building.

The bedrooms are located upstairs, and to the south they hovered over the area of life as a private unit autonomous. They are placed carefully to create a semi-open space and generous double-height area at ground level. Volume of the main building is covered by a double-pitched roof curved coated with conventional ceramic tile. The cladding tile cascade down the north wall surface, creating rainscreen that contributes to the environmental performance of homes and conceptual to the visual impression of seamless blanket.

This element, which provides coherence to the whole scheme of reinterpreting traditional ceramic tile roof, is part of an effort to establish an identity appropriate materials and space-architecture-in the context of the suburb in which traditional and contemporary imagery fused and confused desires. Our strategy also involved the selection of material is really conventional and methods of construction: white plaster, marble, stone veneer, wood. A palette typical of the suburbs anonymous greek therefore applied, in a way that is not conventional. Visit Thanos Athanasopoulos’ website – click here. Photography by H. Louizidis Via…