Artist’s Studio

Athens, Greece
2016

Two adjacent but separate ground floor shops of an old Athenian apartment building in the area of Pagrati, constitute the framework of the architectural intervention that converted them into a solicitor office and an art studio. The main feature of the double intervention on the interior and on the facade is the creation of two modular, small-scale constructions independent of the existing structural system. The aim of this synthetic decision is to redefine the inhabitation of a ground floor in a dense urban environment highlighting the dialectical relation between intervention and the pre-existing order.

The art studio, is a light steel construction which, starting from the facade, develops through the space and highlights the existing linear structure. This structure also functions as a synthetic tool that organises the various functions of the space, as the elements that compose it – bench, balcony, and staircase – delineate its conditions of use.

The two interventions are integrated within the existing construction thus manifesting the rules of their structural design.

…continue to the next intervention (Solicitor Office)

 

Award for the “Best First Work by a Young Architect of the Years 2013-2017”, by DOMES

Project Team

D. Pavlakou


Structural Engineer

D. Koumouras


Photographer

Yiorgis Yerolymbos