Location:
Herakleion, Attica, Greece
Type:
Residence
Completion Year:
Due in 2026
Gross Built Area:
1.830 m2
Located in Heraklion, a northern suburb of Athens, Veron is a multistorey apartment building on a spacious plot with two streetfronts. The building is expected to refresh and uplift a vivid and diverse neighborhood in the city.
The building draws its special features from the dynamic grid that was employed to organize in plan and section-,those elements and decisions pertaining to structural and functional requirements, that proved challenging to orchestrate.
As a result, the architectural program is implied in the vertical and horizontal organizational axes of the facades, where cubic volumes and sections combined with linear elements, promote plasticity and create interesting focal points.
By virtue of the plot’s geometry, its elongated shape on the west-to-east direction, as well as the slope towards the west and the need for connecting the two entrance points, circulation and flow between access points, was presented with an additional challenge.
Therefore a walkway had to be established to connect the two “fronts” of the property, from the lower entrance courtyard to the upper. This double height “passage” through the building’s body, ascending from west to the east, highlights the experience of architectural space.
An important element of the facades are the fixed, prominent plant “containers” on the balconies, which combined with the courtyard flower beds, aim at not just promoting aesthetics but also contributing to the sensory experience and microclimate. Both gardens and the balconies will be filled with ornamental plants, herbaceous compositions, bushes, and trees to the greatest extent possible, so that greenery complements the architectural composition and they relate with each other to form a congruous whole.
The shades of light ochre, beige and light brown, with the alternation of rough and smooth textures, with the tonal differentiation of the – basically – earth tones, enliven the composition and complete it plastically.
