Arachova Mountain House

 
The building is one of a group of small, environmentally responsible 3-story vacation homes designed by Evangelos and Panos Chatzis, situated at an altitude of 980m on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. It is located near a rocky stream and encircled by fir and chestnut trees. Maria Kardami Design Studio has created an interior inspired by the surrounding landscape and the structure's exterior of local stone and native timber cladding.

The resulting living spaces have a contemporary quality which harmonises man-made structural elements with nature while avoiding the cliché of mountain rusticity. The visual and structural focus of the top two floors is a geometrically perforated, gunmetal grey steel screen. This acts both as a double-height room divider, and to hide the integrated metal staircase leading from the loft area to the middle floor while still allowing light to permeate the interior. 

Project details

Architectural and Interior design, styling: Maria Kardami Design Studio

Construction: Helmos Constructions

Photos: Panagiotis Voumvakis