Antiparos Observatory

Restoring the natural building canvas 

The site is situated in Giarmides area, in the central part of Antiparos island. Two existing stone houses, built at 2006, are being reconstructed, both with a panoramic east view to the sea. The redesign is based on conserving the traditional character of the buildings while highlighting their fluid and mystical character. The larger, one story house, resembles the island’s old farmhouses and is based on a prosthetic architectural logic.

The house’s open common spaces, leak to alternating private bedroom spaces, gradually discovered through moving around. On the contrary, the smaller two story house has a monolithic presence, similar to the old pigeon structures, defined by the vertical axis of movement through the spaces.

Project details

Architectural design: GEM Architects – Despina Gounaropoulou,

Vicky Emmanouilidou, Petros Bazos

Lighting design: LUUN

Photos: Stathis Mamalakis