The neighbourhood of Tavros, in Athens, has taken its name from the mountain range in southern Turkey from which a wave of immigrants arrived and settled in the 1920’s. The new Community Art Space by the curatorial team Locus Athens aspires to function as an  “open and democratic space" forging relationships with artists of diverse backgrounds, as well as with the local community itself. Located on the first floor of a building of artisanal workshops, Tavros is a piece of the modern city: an open and continuous space of concrete columns and beams. It is inhabited by a curious object: movable, light-weight and playful, an over-sized piece of furniture that changes according to need or whim. A colourful curtain travels with the object, sometimes concealing and sometimes revealing the functions of a large, suspended table: a place for a workshop, a presentation, an informal meeting, or just a desk. The minimal and ephemeral nature of the intervention draws on the refugee history of the area. As the steel structure migrates, its relationship to space changes, forming new organisations and hierarchies, and allowing new events and exhibitions to take place. 

Team:

Architects: AREA, Architecture Research Athens
Styliani Daouti, Giorgos Mitroulias, Michaeljohn Raftopoulos

Other Participants: Kleoniki Lytra 

Intern: Ionas Mountogiannakis 

Graphic Design: Nowhere Studio 

Photographer: Dimitris Parthimos

Materials Used:

Steel Structures: qoop Metalworks
Window Frames: Alumil
Lighting: vk-hellas electric
Fabrics: The Fabulous Group