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Project • By Design Emotions Atelier • Hotels
Corte Interna
A complex of three stone-built buildings is located west of the city of Chania in the village of Kalivani, near Balos.
Built on a plot of 420 sq.m., the buildings, measuring 220 sq.m., are arranged around an inner courtyard with water as the connecting element between the building volumes.
Pointed arches, doorways with semicircular or low-arched lintels reveal the Venetian imprint on Cretan architecture.
George Anastasakis
The two-story building is the first one you encounter as you enter from the main road of the village. The ground floor accommodates the living areas and a bedroom with its own bathroom. On the first floor, there are two bedrooms with en suite bathrooms and a WC.
One of the main interventions in this building was... More
Project • By 3+ architecture • Private Houses
Cocoon Villas, Crete
* Within the boundaries of a purely tourist settlement on the northern coast of Crete, the refurbishment of a group of 4 incomplete residences, without existing landforms, and their conversion into a complex of luxury holiday villas, led to contemporary architectural approaches in a seemingly unaltered shell, by re-developing the dialogue with the landscape at varying scales.The natural terrain, among olive trees and in sparse or no vegetation, is uphill from the road level, with a rapid incline in its middle and milder at the top, where the residences are located.Due to the limited ability of intervention in the building shells, elements that have the character of "mantle" are used, contributing to the reformation of the volume o... More