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Opening House in Athens
Greek Luxury Residential Development: Contemporary Home – design by Kipseli Architects
9 Sep 2017
Opening House
Design: Kipseli Architects
Location: Athens, Greece
Opening House

Located on the northern east suburbs of Athens in Greece, the house is designed in a vertical axis due to the building coverage ratio. Therefore each floor has a specific use; the ground and first floor are the house’s living space and kitchen area which have both direct access to the exterior landscape due to the sloped lot.

The bedrooms, along with a small playroom, are on the second floor and the master bedroom is on the top floor and connected to the roof terrace. This four-storey rectangular volume opens up in order to welcome light and life inside the house.
The north facade swings slightly in order to absorb the west sunlight and at the same time encloses the main entrance and stairway of the house along with the lift and the house?s atrium.

The opening gesture is underlined by using bright orange color on the hypotenuse wall of the triangle and raising the sense of an “ablaze” space. The colored wall is light-washed from above, and reflected upon all adjacent walls, creating a warm color filter that travels through the whole house. This triangle shaped space, is an interstitial void that connects the circulation zone with the private and ...