DECA Architecture

Ring House

Ring House

RING HOUSE

Deca Architecture

PLANTING CONSULTANT
Sophia Karanasiou

TOPOGRAPHER
Sophia Karanasiou

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Alexandros Vaitsos, Carlos Loperena, Maria Pappa

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Alexandros Vaitsos, Carlos Loperena

SITE MANAGEMENT
George Loulakis, Charalambos Papamatheakis

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Vangelis Fragkiadakis

ARCHITECTS
Thalia Chrousos, Alison Katri, Giannis Kitanis, Maria Pappa, Argyro Pouliovali

MEP
Evripidis Giannakakis

PHOTOGRAPHER
George Messaritakis

AREA
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Crete Region, Greece

TYPE
Residential › Private House

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

Ring House
Ring House

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
Ring House

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

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
Ring House

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 green house to grow more seeds.

Ring House
Ring House

These were then sowed over the road scars for the regeneration of the flora.


Ring House
Ring House
Ring House
Ring House


Ring House
Ring House
Ring House


Ring House
Ring House

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