Function|Vacation House with Guestroom and OfficeLocation|Kato Livadi, Kythira Island, GreeceType|Commission - ResidentialClient|PrivateSize|Plot Area: 1,500.00 sqm - Built Area: 200.00 sqmStage|Detail DesignArchitect|Alexandros Kitriniaris Collaborator|Tsabikos PetrasStructural Engineer|Panos VafiopoulosMEP Engineer| Anastasios Katsaros
Awards
Distinction|8th Biennale of Greek Architects, Greece
Distinction|8th Panhellenic Architecture Exhibition
Publications
Cozy Home|Print, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 2021Domes Architecture Yearbook|Greece, December 20168th Panhellenic Architecture Exhibition Catalogue|Print, Patras, Greece, September 2016Kithiraika Newspaper|Print, Greece, February 2016Aition Magazine|Print, Greece, September - October 20158th Biennale of Greek Architects Catalogue|Print, Greece, September 2015
Exhibitions
Hospitality Expo|State Fair Grounds, Nicosia, Cyprus, January 2020
Xenia Expo|Metropolitan Expo, Athens, Greece, November 2018
Medwood Expo|Metropolitan Expo, Athens, Greece, April 2018
8th Panhellenic Architecture Exhibition- Sana|Patras, Greece, September 2016
8th Biennale of Greek Architects|Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, September 2015
Lectures
8th Biennale of Greek Architects|Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, October 2015
Description
The building complex of 200sqm. is a family vacation house while its functional program is divided into three modules, which consist of the guestroom, the main house and the office. Our attempt is to create an open cavity in the ground, which coincides with the meaning of the void. The formation of the void is implemented through three cognitive tools, which are described in succession as contact, intersection and distance, while being in correspondence with the three sections of the building complex.
The first spatial gradient is associated with the mental tool of "contact" and grows between the guestroom and the void as an outdoor seating area under the shade of the wooden beams and an old olive tree. The second spatial gradient is associated with the mental tool of "intersection" and grows between the main house and the void as a bridge on the first floor and a semi-outdoor space at the ground floor for the functional connection of the house. The third spatial gradient is associated with the mental tool of "distance" and developed between the office and the void as a courtyard area of the swimming pool.
Therefore the void is described as an open platform of activities which narrates multiple spatial gradients for the familiarization of space, both in relation to the natural landscape and to the building complex as a whole.
