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Architects: Hiboux ARCHITECTURE
- Area: 292 m²
- Year: 2021
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Photographs:Yiorgos Conidaris, Yannis Drakoulidis
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Manufacturers: Caneplexus, Kourasanit, Plethron , SITE SPECIFIC, Sofman, Technity , To Fyllo , natural greek fabrics
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Lead Architects: Maria Tsigara, Marianna Xyntaraki, Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Text description provided by the architects. The house is formed as a complex of scattered domed round volumes, and a square grid canopy connecting them, amongst 42 existing olive trees on terraces retained by dry-stack walls (xerolithies). Inspired by the pastoral round stone dwellings found in several places, among them in nearby Eglouvi, Lefkada, the stone volumes aim at conserving the terraced configuration of the ground, following the curved patterns, thus paying respect to the pre-existing habitat of the place and serving the idea of a new human dwelling among the existing non-human living (trees) or non-living (rocks) entities, with the least possible disturbance. None of the trees was cut or moved.
