Athanasia Psaraki shared with us this house for a skater in Athens. Take a look at this impressive interior work.

Designed by Archivirus, The ramp house is a project which tries to reconsider and redefine the living space. The client requested a “skatable habitat”. The result was a curved form interior, which set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life, into motion. In that space, which actually was a roof addition to an existing three- stored building, I tried first of all to achieve a balanced co-existence between the old and the new. The dominant material was the wood and so I used a wooden pergola and wooden horizontal louvers, which wrap up the whole new structure, ergo connecting the old with the new in a harmonious way. As a result, the new volume obtained independence while still remaining an inseparable part of the whole.
The ?skateboarding’ element is adopted in every possible way. When the client asked me to design a home where she could be able to skate, I immediately eliminated the idea of just putting a mini ramp in the living room. For me, the challenge of this project was to make a living space where the ramp, the bowl and all the interpretations of those terms would actually become the building elements for this space. I wanted to make a ?ramp house’ and not a ?house with a ramp’. So I started imagining a space where the straight line would become curved and the flat surface would become a ramp or a bowl. Play...