thanasis

​Designed in a property with not very obvious strenghts. The brief asked for two homes to occupy a narrow lot bound on two sides by other houses, and an unfinished orphanage on the third.

​

By identifying old growth pine trees within the property and views to a beautiful olive orchard from a future second floor, the design sought to create two homes of two identies, each which takes advantage of a different strenghts of the site.

 

The two homes are at different levels and of different characters. The larger occupies the ground floor and takes on the typology of a courtyard home. The second home is expressed as a delicated steel framed linear home which floats above the ground, framing the olive orchard and mountains above.

 

By having the two homes occupy a different elevation on the site, the two homes maintain a sense of privacy from one another, each with its own identity, all within a very small site.