Loukas Residence / Vardastudio Architects & Designers

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Emba, Cyprus
Loukas Residence / Vardastudio Architects & Designers - Wood, Door, Facade
© Christos Papantoniou

Text description provided by the architects. This residence is a round shaped fair face concrete building, with a semi detached rectangle entrance. The long narrow windows following the form of the structure look out to the wrapped back yard with the timber floors and semicircle swimming pool.

Loukas Residence / Vardastudio Architects & Designers - Table, Lighting, Chair
© Christos Papantoniou

Sometimes a client’s request may lead into a new concept that you might never have thought before. That’s what happened at that project. At my first meeting with the client, he asked me whether he could have a “round house”. My first reaction was: “But… my work is a bit different of what you ask…”. I had second thoughts though, so I decided I would do it, under one condition: I would do it in my own way!

Loukas Residence / Vardastudio Architects & Designers - Table, Chair
© Christos Papantoniou

Indeed, space experience in unique. The house has a natural flow, it is spacious and structure is characterized by total simplicity. The plot is in a busy road, so the semicircle acts like a natural road boundary. Internal, everything is rotated around the semicircle pool that acts as a referee point of the whole project, as it can be seen by every spot in the house. By that semicircular volume, underhungs a wooden one, where the office is. By that way the visual view of the circle is interrupted.

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Cite: "Loukas Residence / Vardastudio Architects & Designers" 12 Dec 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/302639/loukas-residence-vardastudio-architects-designers> ISSN 0719-8884

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