This complex of luxury villas in Mykonos features a northeast orientation providing absolute privacy from the street level as, due to the plot’s steep slope, the villa’s entrance is almost at the first floor’s level.

The houses’ main structure is based on the monolithic volumes of Mykonian architecture. Due to the plot’s shape, the houses are designed next to each other, creating a single composition, which is visually and functionally divided by placing them on different levels. The strict geometry of these volumes and the outdoor space design, creates contrasts with the curved lines of each house’s pool.

The materials selected reproduce the traditional principles of the local Cycladic architecture, while the contrast created from the use of the plaster’s white colour with the stone’s grey-brown colour, visually divides the complex’s scale and harmoniously integrates in its environment. The beige coloured cement mortar combines the above two colour tones in a palette of soft and earthy shades.

This complex of three vacation villas is situated on a plot with a steep slope and lush vegetation, in the village of Antipata of Kefalonia. The main goal of the architectural study was the creation of a complex that would be harmoniously integrated with its surrounding environment, adjusting the buildings themselves with the human scale, framing at the same time the distant view to Ithaca and Lefkada.

The complex reproduces aesthetically and experientially the atmosphere of a small settlement, while creating a sense of security and privacy for each house separately, due to their placement on different levels. Each house consists of the main living areas, two bedrooms with private bathrooms and an outdoor area with a pool and sitting space.

In terms of form, parallel stone walls form linear volumes, in which are enclosed spaces sheltered with the traditional double-pitched roof of Kefalonian architecture. The sliding doors of all areas are oriented overlooking the Ionian Sea, intensifying the element of transparency on the facades of the villas unifying, at the same time, the interior with the exterior.

The beige stone with the corresponding mortar colour in combination with the plaster of the same tone, creates a whole, with a variety of texture, providing, with the use of wood, an even warmer tone to the whole complex.

This complex of three vacation villas is situated on a plot with 180 * view, in Lixouri, Kefalonia.The buildings are shaped as monolithic “cubes” while rendered with a diversity of materials. By splitting the building’s scale and with the parallel use of horizontal and vertical elements, the building is harmonized with the human scale, framing the views and at the same time providing security and privacy.

A key element featuring in all three houses is double pitched roof, an important element of the traditional architecture of Kefalonia. The roof is being reproduced as a form in the exterior, expanding the living spaces, offering shading at the same time, through its structure, while creating an interesting interaction of light and shadow and intensifying the sense of interior and exterior spaces into a single entity.

The selected materials reproduce in a sense the traditional architectural standards, while the villas’ forms oppose the respective traditional forms, creating a very interesting contrast and diversity of forms and textures. Thus, the building’s base, as the most solid element, as well as the pools and supporting walls, are built from local stone with white mortar, while the building itself is finished with coloured plaster.

On a plot in front of a public square, we were commissioned to design a contemporary house for a family of four. The small area as well as the orientation of the plot, led us to a design in which the building’s volume itself “generates” the corresponding outdoor spaces, sheltered or not. The residence is essentially composed of two rectangular volumes, a less solid one on the ground floor through which emerges a solid second one, that seems to hover, reaching the plot’s end, while creating a strong boundary towards the public square.

The handling of voids and fills follows the spaces being developed within this cubistic housing. Thus, the ground floor where the living areas are located, is placed in retreat while at the same time, through a large glass wall, it “opens” to the plot’s front yard, providing direct contact with the outdoor space. On the contrary, the first floor, where the bedrooms of the house are located, being on the second level, reaches the plot’s boundary, providing controlled contact with the public square. The strict geometry and shape of the building “lightens” at the top of the highest volume, where it unfolds through a single-pitched roof, while housing the first floor’s attic.

The white plaster is combined with the anthracite colour of both the roof’s cantilever and the window frames, in a game of contrasts and geometry. Finally, the perforated metal fence, in combination with the dense planting, provide the appropriate privacy to this residence.

In the apartment complex “Dryades” in Kifissia, work of the internationally renowned architects Tombazis Alexandros and Mouzakis Ioannis in 1975, we were commissioned the reconstruction of a four-member family apartment, which occupies the fifth and sixth floors of one of the six towers. The construction of this complex was realized with prefabricated concrete elements for the slabs and walls, and in-situ concrete construction for the flooring, elements which were very innovative at that time. Therefore, a key element of our design was to map the strong architectural principles of modernism throughout the building and highlight them, through a simple design of interventions aiming at a combination of contrasts and uniformity.

The architectural elements that highlighted the historical value of the complex were not only preserved but highlighted as well in our design, and those that needed to be replaced were replaced with modern materials, while retro materials and colors, mainly in the bathrooms, were redefined following the modern trends. Both the choice of materials, the various furniture and lighting, as well as the constructions that we designed, are strongly reminiscent of the characteristics of the 70’s while at the same time, they exude the dynamism of the modern era, reminding us of the inseparable relationship and the influence of various art trends in architecture.

Forty years later, modernism is an insurmountable movement of art and architecture, an inexhaustible reservoir of design ideas and, consequently, of lifestyle.

Aiming at the natural landscape’s least possible intervention while having as a priority the ground’s slope restoration, a buried development of the house seemed as a natural choice in the initial synthetic process for reasons of integration, but also to serve the owners’ needs. The design was oriented towards a linear development which penetrates the ground, providing an unobstructed view and access to the exterior space from any area of ​​the house.

In terms of form, the house is divided based on its respective uses into two wings, on both sides of the entrance’s the axis, which unfolds from the house’s underground level into its ground level. The living, dining room and kitchen are located in the East section, while in the west section, one can find the bedrooms with their private bathrooms.

The use of large sliding doors in the house’s facade, contribute experientially to the panoramic views of the Moni island and the Saronic Gulf, while unifying visually and spatially the interior with the exterior. In the planted roof with the ground’s natural slope, vertical voids are created for lighting and ventilation purposes.

The choice of Aeginian stone, which is a characteristic material of traditional Aeginian architecture, in the form of dry stone wall, fits harmoniously into the natural landscape. This dry-stone zigzag of the facade, forms the house’s spaces, in a dialogue of textures and colors with the solid cantilever of exposed concrete that holds the upper level’s natural ground.