ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELEMENT, NEW OFFICE BUILDING FOR PRODEA AT MAROUSSI

RS Sparch

ARCHITECTS
Rs Sparch

AREA
14000 m²

YEAR
2022

MANUFACTURERS
Geberit, Schneider Electric, Rados Sa, Alumil Sa, Apostolakos Giannopoulos General Partnership - Solid Solution, Doutsiouk Bros Private Company, Egreen, H.mitrogiannis-i. Tsiamas Industrial And Commercial Sa, Isomat Industrial And Commercial Sa, Novamix Domohimiki Industrial And Commercial Sa, Plaka, Remav, Smeka Sa, Technical Sa

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
D.bairaktararis And Partners Ltd

MEP ENGINEERS
Atee-temek Sa

LEED CONSULTANT
D Carbon

LANSCAPE DESIGN
H.pangalou And Partners

ACOUSTIC DESIGN
Th.timagenis And Partners

ARCHITECTS
N.tsompikou, I.kloni, L.ioannidou, K.skalkogianni, M.christopoulou, N.sidorakis, G.diaskoufis, Ch.agnantopoulou, A.sechremeli

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Manolis Manios

DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Ch&v Development S.a.

SURVEYOR
Anastasios Mountaneas

LOCATION
Marousi, Greece

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

“We wanted the building to open up to the plaza, to the view. To look ethereal. Αs if the slabs with their sharp corners and soft curves fly, in their continuous movement from floor to floor.”

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement is getting its name from the L that shapes it. It is a building that talks about the movement.

Poetic intentions, geometricity, materiality, and nature work together to this end.

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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The client wanted an office building of high environmental standards.

The plot was challenging. It was facing three streets, but it was divided in its middle by another property with a building. The L shape, already decided by the brief, was thus given.

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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Having to solve the problem of how to make the entrance placed in the corner of the L visible, we decided to empty a significant part of the ground floor in order to create a generous diagonal passage.

In this way, not only we connected front and back and made the entry prominent, but also, we gave emphasis to public space by creating a plaza and a garden, and we focused on making the natural element central to our concept.

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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element is organized on the ground floor and four floors above ground for offices, and two-story underground parking.

The internal layout is simple and straightforward, with a connecting lobby in the middle to allow for different tenant occupancy.

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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The restaurant is projected as an independent soft-curved glass pavilion.

Its projected concrete canopy intensifies the diagonal passage and creates a linear boundary on one side of the plaza.

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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A reflective ceiling ‘doubles the height’ of the passage while water surfaces invigorate it. Planted roofs on the 1st and the 4th floor provide the users with valuable open-air space.

Our architectural intention for an ethereal form is expressed through the composition of concave concrete slabs/planes that project or retreat on the different floors.

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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Movement can be seen as ‘real’; as such, it is expressed in the vertical, pierced aluminum louvers that follow the movement of the sun during the course of the day, or in the light breeze that invigorates the plants on the roofs and the garden.

Movement as an architectural intention, though, can also be seen as ‘poetic’ or ‘phenomenal’ in the choreography of the projecting concave slabs and their sharp corners, or the people’s reflections on the passage’s reflective ceiling.

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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Simple architectural gestures and choice of materials (fair-faced concrete with white cement anodized pierced aluminum for the louvers, and the semi-transparent second skin of the double-height ground floor, or the semi-glossy aluminum for the ceiling and the lobby wall finishes), create an elegant atmosphere.

Element is a LEED Platinum building.

ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
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ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
© Yiorgis Yerolymbos


ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
Ground Floor Plan
ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
1st Floor Plan
ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
2nd Floor Plan
ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
3rd Floor Plan
ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
4th Floor Plan
ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
Roof Plan


ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
North Elevation
ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
East Elevation
ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
South Elevation
ELement, New Office Building for Prodea at Maroussi
West Elevation


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