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Garden House

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Garden House

Status
Ongoing
Year
2019
Location
Athens
Collaborators
Paris Besinis, Evangelia Derdemezi, Charitini Gritzali, Dora Datsopoulou, Iliana Gartsiou, Ireni Psarrou
Landscape Designer
Helli Pangalou
Contractor
Bitsos Development SA
Lighting Design
Dimitris Nasikas

Our main goal was that this residence acquires the character of a single floor building. To remain discreet, almost invisible from the street side partakes to the house a specific aura of luxury: it is rather scarce that we have the chance to expand daily life chores along the view, to move effortlessly from all main living quarters to the bedrooms. This is underlined by covering all spaces with a single slab, a unifying element, directly perceived by all sides, as it protrudes in most of the facades. Below this slab, enclosed spaces remain in recess –only in two areas rooms extend outwards, sliding underneath the overhead slab.

The back and forth outline of the ground floor, is only hinting at another enriching gesture at place: the formation of voids within the slab: A central patio mediates between living and sleeping areas, allowing not only the separation of private spaces from public but also enabling the living room to be surrounded by planted areas. This envelopment of the living room highlights the perception of the house as a single floor structure blurring the limits of planted terrace and garden. Instead of an infinity exterior pool, one perceives an infinity garden since the terrace is richly planted on all sides, avoiding any kind of typical railing and merging its plants with a richly planted garden that is actually on a lower level. The introduction of this centrally located atrium is repeated on a smaller scale two more times at the same level, giving small protected patios across the main bathrooms. This meandering interior façade that allows space for atriums and patios, gives center stage to the garden as the protagonist in one of the most richly vegetated suburbs of Athens, creating a “garden architecture.”

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