PROJECT DETAILS

Study: 2016
Construction: 2016
Plot area: 2142.68 sq.m.
Building Surface: 80.00 sq.m.

 

AWARDS

CAM-6th Triennale of Architecture in Crete

 

PUBLICATIONS

Αwards Domes 2017   06/2016   139
Domes Greek Architecture Yearbook 2017   03/2017   141A
EK   06/2017   218
Architectural Awards 2017   EIA
www.kataskevesktirion.gr   02/ 2017

www.designhome.gr
Best of Houses – Ύλη & Κτίριο 07/2018
domus,  www.domusweb.it,   06/ 2018
Archello,  www.archello.com,   03/ 2019
Archilovers, www.archilovers.com,  03/ 2019 
AECCafe, www10.aeccafe.com, 04/2019
Archetype, www.archetype.gr,  05/ 2019


 

 

PROJECT CREDITS

Architects: Nikos Lykoudis, Ismene
Papaspiliopoulou, Konstantinos Platyrrachos
Photo: George Anastassakis

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

VACATION HOUSE
LIVADIA CHANION, CRETE

Sun- Air – Saltiness

Just outside the area Livadia Kissamou, in an arid and wild landscape where the air and the sea have rounded rocks and large boulders, a house was built in the place of an existing building- ruin that was there since 1900.

The aim was to integrate it into the landscape, and the adoption of methods of construction of old buildings in the area, so as to achieve an accommodation fully integrated like ‘growing’ from the earth.

The bearing masonry is from local stones. The lintels and window frames are made of solid wood iroko. The semicircular stone wall with built-in oven and outdoor kitchen, protects from the usual north wind of the region, and with ground relief, planting, built-in benches, furniture, fences, etc. supplement the natural continuation of the wider area.

Natural materials and traditional elements in earth tones were used. Local stone, unpainted metal, untreated wood, kourasanit, cement in soil color, wicker in shutters, pergolas and fence, tiles of baked clay, wooden planks on the floors.

The shaped floor around the house with an irregular finish, as specified by the mastic trees, in color similar to the soil, so as to obtain the continuity. Pebbles on the roof and parts of the yard as a continuation of the beach.

An accommodation, a modern cabin in the wilderness where only the sound of the sea, the wind and birds is heard.