The architectural “idea” renders, on both a pragmatic and symbolic level, on the one hand the curvilinear nature of the terrain of the Place, and on the other the historical metaphor, by setting the building volumes in place and directing their “movement” as if they were large scale carved stones, an integral part of the natural panorama. At the intersection of historical memory and the idiom of the landscape – as embodied in the proposed design – an architecture is created that can mobilize the senses and emotions, formulating an architecture intimate and yet unexpected, precise albeit inventive, narrative and simple still, primordial and contemporary at the same time.
What makes this project one-of-a-kind?
The curved irregularity of the coastline is a prevailing feature of the small peninsula where the project is situated, as well as of the Argolic landscape and the Peloponnese in general, consisting of low hills and terrain recesses and projections, reminiscent of a “wave drawing”, while being constantly transformed.
