The 5-storey, soon-to-be-completed building on a pilotis located in Voula, Athens, comprises multiple apartments of single and double height as well as a parking basement and a rooftop garden. The resulting volume retreats from both the road frontline and the neighboring plots, allowing the largerst possible area development per level, while securing the highest living standards.

The protruding volumes of the balconies are seperated into two zones of unequal length that contain either one or two floors. This grouping organizes and guides the viewer's gaze while reducing the construction’s volume from the street level.

It is rather customary that the side views of Greek buldings, especially multi-storey apartment blocks, receive less design care, due to their proximity or immediate touch with adjacent ones. In this case however, the distance between this building and the surrounding ones, along with the design approach favouring a total vocabulary unfolding, led to a contingent treatment.

The front facade zoning is hereby expanded on a horizontal fashion, without extreme fluctuations in the protruding volumes. The rest of the surfaces participate in a differentiation of material finishes, as the openings are over/unde-lined by thin streaks on the outer thermal facade, while the thickness of each floor's slab can be traced visually through the entire length of the surface.

The apartment design rather than suggesting a logic of configuration based on the alteration of materials or color coding, is formed mainly on the relationship between outdoor and indoor spaces, ie on the permeability of the floors, introducing various thresholds of semi-outdoor and outdoor living.

The interior design is dominated by natural materials in warm and neutral tones, such as wooden floors and marble bench blocks. This mix creates a quiet, relaxed environment and alongside the earthy, bronze shade of the frame openings and other metal details, marks a soft contrast with the exterior planted landscape.

Credits:
Construction & Project Managment: A. Kalantidis - E. Stathis g.p.
Structural Eng: A. Kalantidis
Mechanical Eng: J&G METAXA E.T.E. & A. Kampouraki
Lighting Design: Delta Theta Lighting
Visualization: Studio Katrakis