Agemar Angelicoussis Group Headquarters
The story to be told by Agemar is one of openness to the horizon, fluidity, continuities, whiteness, light-and-shadow composition. Athens on the other hand is dense, varied, contradictory. Agemar is not a corporate building. It is more of a ?house? for one of the biggest worldwide maritime group of companies, a rather big house, though. In every project, there is a magic moment that changes what you look at and allows the idea to emerge. This is the moment that generates the story to be told by the project.
Photography by © Erieta Attali
This was the moment when standing ?n the bridge simulator, the architect had a sense that a sea voyage is about a destination, that is, a horizon and a direction. The proximity to the sea and the maritime nature of the client were coupled with the architect?s personal experience. A Sea Voyage became Agemar?s story. The voyage to the sea though is not only literal; Being interested in the ways our ?internal sea? influences what we do and what we are, Rena sees design as the bridging of two worlds: one, our personal world, the ?space within,? this internal sea of hopes, desires, and all we are; and the other, the external world of reality. Every creative activity integrates the two worlds or at least tries to.
Agemar is a building that talks about the horizon and the opening to the sea. Horizontality and directionality were joined in a fluid geometry that generated the flexible non-finite form.
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