Urban Cubes / KLab

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Athens, Greece
  • Architects: KLab
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1200
  • Photographs
    Photographs:B. Louizidis

Text description provided by the architects. Throughout the last half century, Athenian villages along Greece’s mountainous coasts in Cyclades have been defined by a typology of multistory buildings with identical floor sizes, a façade of narrow balconies across each unit, and a deeply recessed penthouse to provide for a larger veranada.    In contrast, the commercial areas of the district became defined by a practice known as “antiparochi” – the owner would transfer the plot to the contractor in return for the desired number of units – and resulted in a mosaic of styles and constructions (“urban cubes”) as the changing provisions of the Building Code constantly altered the permissible height and ways of counting building areas.

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Cite: "Urban Cubes / KLab" 16 Apr 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/226752/urban-cubes-klab> ISSN 0719-8884

© B. Louizidis

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