Urban Cubes / KLab

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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.