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Piraeus, Greece
100m2
completed
2024
John Karahalios
Elisavet Plaini
Andreas Psaroudakis
Nikos Labrou
Grade Engineering
Nikos Papageorgiou











The project concerns the redesign of a top-floor apartment in a 1970s housing complex.
The floor plan was reconfigured situating the public areas toward the most prominent side, the building’s eastern party wall. This condition happens due to the steep terrain of the site, that elevates the apartment relative to the adjacent structure, offering unobstructed views of the Faliro Bay.
To address the irregular geometry of the existing ceiling—shaped by structural beams—and to rationalize the distribution of new mechanical and electrical systems, a new grid of false beams was introduced. This grid created ceiling zones and recesses, forming a distinct spatial layer, visually differentiated through its color from the white walls.
On the front elevation of the building, facing the street, the two bedrooms and the music room are arranged in a linear sequence, with the latter functioning as an intermediate space. Each of the three rooms, along with the bathroom, is defined by a unique color, applied consistently to all vertical and horizontal surfaces, generating a strong chromatic identity.
Iroko wood flooring extends throughout the apartment, with the exception of a tiled zone in the entrance and kitchen area. The same iroko wood is used to clad the lower kitchen cabinets, giving the material a three-dimensional presence within the space.

Plan

Floors | Walls | Ceilings

Axonometric View