Art House / Kallos Turin

Textual content description offered by the architects. Artwork Home is constructed throughout the inexperienced oasis of Filothei, a leafy neighbourhood nestled throughout the bustling metropolis of Athens. Filothei was developed within the Twenties as a backyard oasis and preserved by strict codes constraining what may very well be constructed. These codes have been without delay the limitation and inspiration for the idea that Kallos Turin developed. The consumer wanted sufficient sq. footage to deal with their world-class artwork assortment in a gallery format in addition to house for his or her prolonged households to converge.

A dense dice was the form that emerged from this mixture of code and spatial necessities. However Kallos Turin noticed these limitations as a possibility and determined not solely to embrace the dice type however to emphasise it by constructing in poured concrete. The concrete accentuates the sense of density and monolithic mass. Kallos Turin understood that this cubic quantity wanted a foil that pushed again towards the rigidity of the shape and used two key ideas to supply resistance: the sinuous traces of circulation by way of the home, and the backyard surrounding it.

The circulation from the road up by way of the positioning to the highest ranges was developed as a winding path and codified within the type of a refined sequence of curves in concrete. Embracing the unique notion of Filothei as a backyard metropolis, Kallos Turin noticed the backyard as a method to counter the rigidity of the shape and labored with Thomas Doxiades to create a densely planted native panorama as an extension of the preserved hillside from which the dice of the home emerges.

The fence on the again presents an open connection to the character protect behind the home, highlighting the fluid relationship between the property and its pure environment. The panorama hints at the concept that the crops will in the end engulf the structure fully.