Social Housing: Residential Microchip / Gonatas+Lantavos Architects

Nov 2010

By Irina Vinnitskaya — Filed under: Housing , Axios, Gonatas+Lantavos Architects, Greece, Thessalonica

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Gonatas+Lantavos Architects designed the Social Housing Project for the competition sponsored by the Greek Social Housing Organisation and the Hellenic Institute of Architecture. Located in Axios, a municipality 27 km from the center of Thessalonica in Northern Greece, the residential complex is composed of small buildings that make up the larger complex. The existing landscape and context of the site helped formulate the design approach as an electronic microcircuit of connections.

Read on for more information and images after the break.

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The small buildings are clustered around the site to create a wall of protection, thereby creating an internal courtyard which operates as a communal space for the residents of the complex. This allows public life to evolve in the outdoor “room.” The space is organized by vegetation that offers a breakdown of the large space and allows for different events to occur simultaneously such as a meeting place and playground. Between each building there are green pathways that provide a connection between each of the components of the complex, as well as to the external roads.

The internal paths, greenways and locations of the buildings reinforce the microcircuit in which many components operate together to build upon a system. The distribution of apartments among the many buildings allows a wide range of views available to residents enhancing the importance of the human scale among the structures.

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The morphology of the building consists of apartments varying between two or three bedrooms, a living room and dining space, a kitchen and a bathroom. The organization of the apartments allows for direct access to the central staircase between the front of the building and internal communal space, connecting residents to the facilities at the basement level. The complex also utilizes ecological principles such as photovoltaic panels, green roofs, natural ventilation and rain water collection.

Architects: Gonatas+Lantavos Architect
Location: Axios, Thessalonica, Greece
Project Title: Social Housing: Residential Microchip
Project team: Dionysis Gonatas, Vangelis Lantavos, Maria Lantavos, Katerina Tsakrikadaki, Pantelis Bakirtzis
Site area: 6512, 88 sqm
Building area: 3256, 29 sqm
Design year: 2010

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Cite:
Vinnitskaya , Irina . "Social Housing: Residential Microchip / Gonatas+Lantavos Architects" 27 Nov 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/91853>

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EMERSON GÁMEZ says:

excelente. todo.

# November 27, 2010 at 18:31

zfconnor says:

I like the design.

# November 27, 2010 at 18:42

llama says:

this project is completely contextless, which is a bit of a problem when trying to talk about a social housing project- or most architectural proposals for the matter. Are we to try to understand this social housing project just as a series of cool renders of units around a central garden. what is a “wall of protection” needing to protecting from? why is it 27km from the city. all you’ve shown us is a design inside a bubble, that’s only half a social housing project.

# November 28, 2010 at 02:47

MPArch says:

Not my cup of tea… But not bad if this is actually going to be a built social housing project.

# November 28, 2010 at 15:29

ML says:

There are two things that must be mentioned:
The site was given by the organizers of the competition, and it is found on the edge of a small town (in Axios area) mainly consist of one or two floor buildings.
The protection of the internal green spaces from disturbance is important as the area will be subject of future development by private investors as well as from the Greek Social Housing Organization who also owns another two, large scale neighboring sites.

# November 29, 2010 at 11:15

Kaveh says:

in my opinion the presentation of the project is a little simple and if there was more accuracy on rendering, it could be better than this… but the idea of the building forms is good…

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