React Architects

Viewmaster House

Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis

VIEWMASTER HOUSE

React Architects

ARCHITECTS
React Architects

AREA
200.0 m2

LOCATION
Paros, Greece

CATEGORY
Residential

PROJECT YEAR
2017

PHOTOGRAPHS
George Messaritakis

ENGINEERING
Christos Smyrnis

MANUFACTURERS
BRIGHT, Expa

LANDSCAPE
Paros Fytotechniki

CONSULTANTS
Nikos Christofyllakis

TING ARCHITECT – SUPERVISION
Yannis Vagias

3D VISUALIZATION
Nikol Georgopoulou, Dafni Retzepi

Text description provided by architect.

The house is located at Ageria, on the island of Paros, in the Cyclades. It faces west, towards the sea.

The buildings protrude from the natural slope, and they are aligned on a cantilever slab that floats over the land.

Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis

On their eastern side lays the patio, protected from the northern winds.

The entrance to the house is placed on the westernmost point of the plot.

The backyard nestles in the core space between the buildings and the slope, and it extends towards the south side to meet the patio.

Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis

It is the intermediate between the natural and the built, and between the main house, the common areas, the guest house and the patio.

The buildings reinterpret the basic elements of the Cycladic architecture.

Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis

White volumes interconnect with open spaces, but this time they rest on a cantilever platform, an observation point that touches the earth lightly, with a view towards Antiparos island and the hillside that plunges into the Aegean.

A gesture that creates a contemporary architectural language, integrated with the natural landscape, since the platform was part of a pre-existing agricultural terrace.

Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis

The house is designed as a series of frames towards the view, thus turning the building in a “viewing machine”.

We perceive the architectural design as a subtle definition of the Gaze, and the house as a viewing machine, but also an object that itself is subject to observation.

Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis


Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
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© George Messaritakis
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© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
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© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis


Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis


Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis
Viewmaster House
© George Messaritakis


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Terrace perspective
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West facade


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Section A
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Section C
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South Elevation
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Section D


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West elevation


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Site Plan
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Topograephy Plan

React Architects
T +30 2284 021770 M +30 694 4310771
React Architects
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