thanasis

Introduction

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Inspired by childhood memories of growing up in Nikolitsi, "balcony for a greek village" is an events and leisure center aimed to re-establishing a center for the village

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Evolving the classical archetype of a programmed platform, the stoa defines the southern limits of Nikolitsi’s newly designed Platea acting as both an edge and an extension of the Platea’s terraced platforms. Local courtyards where landscape blends with built forms inspires the stoa’s ambiguity as to whether you are inside or outside while a linear arrangement of rooms recalls vernacular dwellings in which all spaces had direct access to the courtyard.

 

The form is treated to a singular monolithic material highlighting its colonnade and light shaft to the south as architectural anchors.

 

With its rose textured concrete and open plan, this pavilion is to become a bridge between Nikolitsi’ past and future, with a flexible form which is to change and adapt over time.