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Architects: decaARCHITECTURE
- Area: 393 m²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:decaARCHITECTURE, George Messaritakis
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Lead Architects: Alexandros Vaitsos, Carlos Loperena
Text description provided by the architects. The Ring House is located on the southern coast of Crete only 165 nautical miles from the Sahara desert. Two concrete beams follow the topography of the hill to define the outline of the house. The ring is articulated by these concrete beams. It provides protected shaded areas, well-ventilated interiors, surfaces for solar collection panels and protects an inner garden planted with varieties of citrus trees and edible plants. Altogether the house and its garden are designed to form a temperate microclimate, an oasis within an intensely beautiful but physically demanding environment.
