Aloof Houses

Aloof Houses apartment building is in Voula, a southern suburb of Athens. It exists on a corner plot with a northeast orientation. On the west, from the third floor, you have a sea view while from the east facade, you have a view of Hymettus Mountain. Our design proposal focused on working on those elements which differentiate a suburban apartment building from a city one. Our idea is to do in a vertical manner 3 single houses (villas) built on a metal structure.

Two of the most important characteristics of a single house are that it is detached, at a distance from adjacent buildings or neighbors and the 2nd is the garden with soft, green, and hard floors. These 2 were the creative-driven force of how we wanted our building to feel like. We tried to minimize the volumes which were attached to the next flat so as to minimize any possible interference between the people who owned the houses.

Project details

Architectural design: Klab Architecture - Konstantinos Labrinopoulos

Project architect: Evangelia Kakava

Design team: Konstantinos Labrinopoulos, Evangelia Kakava,

Argyro Efstathiou, Eva Sarantopoulou, Vaso Dermitzaki

Structural design: Panagiotis Mavridis – Maria Christodoulou

E/M design: Idea Meletitiki, Alexandros Nikolaidis

Landscape design and construction of green roof: Nature Above

Construction: Future Constructions

Project Management team: Sofoklis Morfopoulos, Giorgos Andreou

In charge of licensing: Evangelia Haropoulou

Photos: Panagiotis Voumvakis 

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Partition wall system: KNAUF

Swimming pool: HYDROTEC

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