House 2, Ano Poli

Thessaloniki, Greece

Architects
A. Kotsiopoulos, E. Chalkiopoulou

Civil engineers
E. Mystakidis

E/M engineers
I. Tselepidis

Photos by G. Poupis, A. Kotsiopoulos

Selection in The World Atlas of Contemporary Architecture by Phaidon Press, 2004

total built area
360 sqm

design
1995

construction
1996 - 1998

The house, built on a sloping 130 sqm site, close to Saint David’s Church in Thessaloniki Old Town, is developed on three levels plus basement, covering a total of 350 sq.m. It consists of three units: a) the “base”, containing the basement with the storage and boiler-rooms and the ground floor with the library, the study room, a small courtyard and the entrance with the garage, b) the main front volume of the building covered with semi-transparent wooden shutters and containing part of the two upper floors of the house, with the living and dining rooms as well as the master bedroom and the main balcony on the second floor, and c) the northern part of the house, which functions as a background and consists of the guestroom and kitchen on the first floor and the children bedroom with its balcony on the second floor as well as of the auxiliary spaces on all floors.

Publications

  • Archetype e-magazine, 13/12/2018

  • DOMES International Review of Architecture, Archetypes Special Feature, 5/2019, p.61

  • Catalogue 4th Exhibition of Greek Architecture, Thessaloniki 1999, pp. 18-19

  • Art and Architecture in Greece, 33/ 2002

  • L. Tsaktsiras, K. Papanthimou, G. Mantzios, N. Kalogirou, Thessaloniki: the city and the monuments, Malliaris,  2003, p 226

  • KTIRIO, 159/ 2004, pp. 103-108

  • The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture (2004), Phaidon Press, p. 614

  • Mauve, Dec 2004-Jan 2005, pp. 46-49

  • Close-Up, Nο 94, February 2005, pp. 77-87

  • O. Doumanis (edit.), Contemporary Greek Architecture, Collection of buildings and texts of the last 15 years (2006)

  • T. Papadopoulou, “Weak Architecture”, Rassegna 83, p. 77-85 (full presentation of the building in the first issue of the new edition of the Italian magazine)