Project in Detail
Shop & Trade – Office Building
Athens, Greece
Kokkinou - Kourkoulas Architects & Associates, Athens, Greece
Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects & Associates, Greece
2010
World Architecture Festival 2010 - Shortlisted
Erieta Attali
Shop & Trade – Office Building
The new building designed for Shop & Trade, a clothing import and distribution company, is located on Pireos St.. Pireos is a very significant ancient road that connects the city of Athens with the port of Piraeus. During the industrial revolution, this area was crowded with warehouses of diverse types of fabrication. In the past decade, there has been an effort to revive this avenue through the construction of museums, the renovation of the old gas factory, and the emergence of several restaurants and coffee houses appearing everywhere.
The structure is approximately 10,000 sq. m. that includes primarily offices, showrooms, and a market on the ground floor. There is also a 9,000 sq. m. underground parking garage to facilitate the needs of the offices above.
The building is the composition of two distinct volumes; a four-story-office-building and a one-story-commercial-space. The office block is in the shape of the Greek capital letter ?, turning its back to the adjacent warehouses and opening up to Pireos St.. The single-story-market becomes the base of a dense garden overlooked by the main office block and the main crowded avenue.
The spatial concept is different, because its momentum is revealed in a three-dimensional void formation along a busy street instead of creating a front edge condition, thus offering to all the people working in the offices amazing views of the garden, privacy, while providing an outlook of the city. Slopes to the roof top of the lower volume connect the private part of the composition with the public street at a higher level.
The building structure is made of exposed concrete. Sustainability is a driving force in its design. A variety of methods were used as geothermal, an atrium in the center of the building for the circulation of the air, automatic B.M.S. coordination of the openings and a roof garden. The facades are carefully attended and treated as woven surfaces which in fact serve as different types of screens for the intense sun. The general attitude of the design is in support of green architecture.
Lead Architect »
Kokkinou - Kourkoulas Architects & Associates
Athens
Greece
Professional Credits »
Acoustics Consultant
Mr Thodoris Timagenis
Timagenis Thodoris
Greece
Architect
Mrs Maria Kokkinou
Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects & Associates
Greece
Architect
Mr Andreas Kourkoulas
Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects & Associates
Greece
Architect - Associate
Ms Marianna Athanasiadou
Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects & Associates
Greece
Client / Developer
Shop & Trade / Dimand
Greece
Consultant Architect
Mr John Peponis
Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects & Associates
Greece
Consultant Associate
Mrs Artemis Halari
Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects & Associates
Greece
Consultant Associate
Mr George Nikopoulos
Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects & Associates
Greece
Design Group
Mr Lizardou Marianna, Papanastasiou Eleni Iliadis George, Lafazani Despoina
Kokkinou Kourkoulas Architects & Associates
Greece
Environmental Engineer
Mr Vasilis Geros
?-SIM Building Energy & Lighting Simulation
Greece
Environmental Engineer
Mr Aris Tsangrassoulis
?-SIM Building Energy & Lighting Simulation
Greece
Landscape Architect
Mrs Helli Pagalou
egreen
Greece
Landscape Architect - Associate
Ms Eleni Tsiridani
egreen
Greece
Lighting Consultant
Mr Thanassis Kanelias
Kanelias Thanassis
Greece
Lighting Consultant - Associate
Ms Myrto Kanakaki
Kanelias Thanassis
Greece
Mechanical Engineer
LDK - Consultants Engineers and Planners LTD
Greece
Project Manager
Dimand
Greece
Structural Engineer
T. Tsiknias & Associates
Greece