Cultural and Recreation Centre
at the site of the School of Aristotle
Naoussa, Greece
K- Architects
A. Kotsiopoulos, A. Panou, E. Zoumboulidou
E. Chalkiopoulou, A. Tellios, Th. Kouvaki
Civil engineers
I. Lavasas, L. Deda
E/M engineers
G. Lagos, K. Sarropoulos
Photos by G. Poupis, N. Kalogirou, A. Kotsiopoulos
Distinction of Honor in the competition of prizes “Architecture 2008” by the Hellenic Institute of Architecture.
Selected by the Association of Greek Architects as a nominee to represent Greece in the Mies van der Rohe Award Competition 2007.
Selection in The 21st century Atlas of World Architecture by Phaidon Press, 2008.
total built area
1.000 sqm
design
2004 -2005
construction
2005 - 2006
This cultural and recreation centre, situated close to an important – yet almost unknown – archaeological site of northern Greece, was designed so that to guarantee a good view to the site, being at the same time almost invisible from that. The building houses an auditorium with supplementary spaces in the basement and a small museum and a restaurant in the ground floor, with a large outdoor restaurant space with a steel pergola facing the archaeological site. The building has a unified external skin of aluminium windows and of wooden semi-transparent shutters, which contribute to the invisibility of the built mass, a requirement strongly imposed to the designers by the Archeological Service, after long negotiations on the final placement of the building.
Publications
DOMES International Review of Architecture, Archetypes Special Feature, 5/2019, p.61
Eleftherotypia (newspaper)
Bulletin of Civil Engineers Association of Greece
Architecture in Greece 41/ 2007, pp 132-137
KTIRIO, No 192, October 2007, pp 38-44
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, 2008, Phaidon Press
Exhibitions
5th Exhibition of Architecture, Thessaloniki, after selection, 2005
Pan-hellenicExhibition of Architecture, Patras, after selection, 2006