Vresthena Residential Extension

Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas

VRESTHENA RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION

Spyros Tzinieris Architects

ARCHITECTS
Spyros Tzinieris Architects

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Spyros Tzinieris

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Sika, Lafarge Holcim, Legrand, Aluminco, Alba Plus- Stosa Cucine, Berling Sa,
Batsakis Glass, Durostick, Ideal Standard

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Vresthena, Grreece

CATEGORY
Houses, Extension

Text description provided by architect.

At Vresthena village, Laconia, a settlement at mountain rage of Parnonas, 800 m.

Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas

Elevation, the building interventions of the 1960-1980 era- usually without any notable architectural characteristics- constitute the functional and morphological continuity of the older stone buildings.

However, the modern interventions should be consistent with their integration in the new requirements, usages, and forms of the settlement, without mimetic sentiment which would reproduce characteristics that don’t give prominence to that particular location and its qualities.

Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas

Making the best of these quality characteristics of the existing building (stone structure) and those of the settlement (amphitheatric development, dense vegetation, etc), a steel extension with glass was formed, in order to accommodate the most extroverted activities (dining and lounging).

The steel structure clearly distinguishes the modern extension, takes a distance externally, but blends with the 1980’s elements (concrete beams and columns) in the interior.

Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas

Its grid gradually lowers the height of the existing building, letting the glass offer the needed transparency towards the settlement and the surrounding landscape, forming a terrace, at the same time, for the upper floor.

Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas


Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas
Vresthena Residential Extension
© Pygmalion Karatzas


Vresthena Residential Extension
General Floor Plan
Vresthena Residential Extension
Ground Floor Plan
Vresthena Residential Extension
First Floor Plan
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