Alfa Vagia Beach Houses / Zapantiotis Fotis Associated Architects

Textual content description offered by the architects. The examine considerations the development of three separate trip properties in an present complicated positioned vagina Serifos seaside. The intervention revolved round restoring the connection between the buildings and the pure aid, as that they had initially been constructed at the next stage than permitted, with a view to keep away from the excessive water desk within the space. Consequently, the bottom flooring remained reduce off from the encompassing setting, whereas the buildings appeared distinctly indifferent and uncovered from the pure terrain.

The appreciable distinction in top has been staggered in direction of the seaside by two successive lowerings, aimed toward bettering the view of the complicated from the ocean. The bottom flooring of every residence responds to a primary shaded terrace on one stage, earlier than ending with a bigger terrace within the basement, dealing with West and the view.

The western terraces perform both as retaining partitions, within the type of cubic massifs, or lead, in slab, to the dry stone retaining partitions surrounding the entire. Using sand-colored bush-hammered concrete for the terraces gives the look of a stable and pure materials, optimizing their integration into the pure panorama.

The intervention then targeted on the creation of intermediate areas, inside patios and components absent from the preliminary examine, however deemed essential for the right functioning and use of the summer time residences.

Filtering the circulation of the general public in direction of the inside, this transitional house gives the residences an extra outside house, a patio of introspection important to the social lifetime of the customers, typical of Cycladic structure. Every residence thus acquires its personal enclosure, with inside patios, intermediate areas and open terraces aligned with the view.

The “linear wall” factor kinds the patios. The linear partitions are constructed from native drystone, following the design axes of the three residences, to reinstate the notion of a “laborious boundary” that was absent from the preliminary design. The delimitation of the stone wall, with its solids and voids, is articulated on the rear of the dwellings, functioning each as safety in opposition to the violent winds of the district, but additionally as a main filter separating the general public house from the personal house of the homes, thus guaranteeing the mandatory privateness for the consumer.

The factor of water via a fountain is used within the middle of a typical courtyard which turns into some extent of reference for the complicated. Ranging from the central entrance barely upwards into the encompassing house, the walker step by step acquires a view of the house, intensifying the impact of shock, to reach at this decrease stage courtyard positioned within the middle of the composition, the place all motion begins.

Axes of motion, linear partitions, planting, water options and seating turn out to be the primary compositional components, dynamically contrasting the brand new additions with pre-existing constructing envelopes. The supplies, native stone and concrete coloured by the purple sand of the excavations and metallic constructions combine the complicated into the encompassing setting and function a reference to the mining custom of Serifos.