DECA Architecture

Ring House In Agia Galini

Ring House In Agia Galini
© decaARCHITECTURE

RING HOUSE

Deca Architecture

ARCHITECTS
Deca Architecture

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Agia Galini, Greece

LEAD ARCHITECT
Alexandros Vaitsos, Carlos Loperena

CATEGORY
Houses

CONSULTANTS
Planting Consultant: Kalliopi Grammatikopoulou

DESIGN TEAM
Thalia Chrousos, Alison Katri, Yiannis Kitanis, Maria Pappa, Argyro Pouliovali

AREA
393 m²

LANDSCAPE
DecaARCHITECTURE

ENGINEERING
Vangelis Fragkiadakis, Evripidis Giannakakis

Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis

Text description provided by architect.

The Ring House is located on the southern coast of Crete only 165 nautical miles from the Sahara desert.

Ring House In Agia Galini
© decaARCHITECTURE
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis

Two concrete beams follow the topography of the hill to define the outline of the house. The ring is articulated by these concrete beams.

It provides protected shaded areas, well-ventilated interiors, surfaces for solar collection panels and protects an inner garden planted with varieties of citrus trees and edible plants.

Ring House In Agia Galini
© decaARCHITECTURE
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis

Altogether the house and its garden are designed to form a temperate microclimate, an oasis within an intensely beautiful but physically demanding environment.

Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis

At a broader scale, the house is a landscape preservation effort. In the past, the topography had been severely scarred by the random and informal carving of roads.

The excavation material extracted during the house’s construction, was used to recover the original morphology of the land.

Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis

Furthermore, a thorough survey of the native flora was done in order to understand the predominant biotopes in the different slopes in the plot.

During the spring, prior to construction, seeds were collected on site and cultivated in a greenhouse to grow more seeds. These were then sowed over the road scars for the regeneration of the flora.

Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis


Ring House In Agia Galini
© decaARCHITECTURE
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis


Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis


Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis
Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis


Ring House In Agia Galini
© George Messaritakis

DECA Architecture
T +30 21 03604444 T +30 21 03603818
DECA Architecture
Koritsas 39, Athina 104 47, Greece