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Residence For Musicians

Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas

RESIDENCE FOR MUSICIANS

GEM Architects

ARCHITECTS
GEM Architects

CITY
Naousa

PHOTOGRAPHS
Costas Vergas

PROJECT YEAR
2016

AREA
160 m²

CATEGORY
Houses

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Petros Bazos, Vicky Emmanouilidou, Despina Gounaropoulou

COUNTRY
Greece

MANUFACTURERS
Concrete surfaces Develime, Crystal pools, EXPA, Fabrica furnitures, Sto Limited

OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Mei Agelaki, Vicky Gavala, Elena Emmanouilidi, Yiannis Bazos, Christos Smyrnis, Dimitris Grigoriadis

Text description provided by architect.

This summer house of 160 m2 is situated in a quiet and elegant neighborhood in the town of Naousa, at the island of Paros. It's a house for a family of musicians.

Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas

The house's white volumes are structural and remain simple and cubic.

They follow the voids and masses of the neighboring buildings, proliferating from the views to the sea and assimilated to the context.

Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas

They evolve around the swimming pool and the interior "protected" courtyard, the microcosm of the house.

Exterior space flows like a spiral from the ground floor courtyard to the top terrace, which has a magnificent view to the sea and the town of Naousa.

Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas

Next to the pool, the music studio, serves also as a guest room.

Materials used are simple and minimalist: concrete floors and roofs, dark grey metal frames, bright white Cycladic walls.

Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas

The house follows the principles of bioclimatic design.

Thermal insulation on the roofs and a new technology thermal insulation system for the walls, protect the interior space from the extreme weather conditions created by the strong Northern winds in this part of the island.

Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas

The house works in a twofold manner with its main facade on the street becoming a cinema screen during the night where the wind creates a mute choreography of the moving shadows of the plants projected, a silent invitation for music to enter the scene.

The house has won the award for best completed project within the year 2017 from the Greek Society of Architects SADAS-PEA.

CONCRETE COATINGS

Concrete coatings characterize this building. Easy to maintain, these surfaces are built in the house referring to traditional Cycladic architecture where furniture was part of the building’s structure. 

Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas

These surfaces were treated in high contrast in order to exceed their poetic, rural and “primitive” nature.

Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas


Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas
Residence For Musicians
© Costas Vergas


Residence For Musicians
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Residence For Musicians
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Residence For Musicians
Ground Floor Plan
Residence For Musicians
First Floor Plan

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