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Project • By KLAB architecture (kinetic lab of architecture) • Supermarkets
Thanopoulos Supermarket
The main idea was to change the notion of the supermarket as it exists today in Greece -indifferent big boxes with long alleys of products. For us, the supermarket had to be resolved as an interpretation of an urban market place where you go to different shops to find different goods and interfere with other people.
Mariana Bisti
Mariana Bisti
Mariana Bisti
Mariana Bisti
Following the refurbishment, the super market extends to 1500m2 and was limited to two floors occupying a larger area than it did before on three floors. The storage areas, which in the past occupied the majority of the space of the basement, were moved to the 1st and 2nd floors, setting the basement space free for use for the supermarket. Communication... More
Project • By KLAB architecture (kinetic lab of architecture) • Nurseries
Public Nursery in Glyfada
The design and construction of public buildings in Greece is problematic, as the architect is not in charge of the construction. One of the biggest challenges of this project was to reintroduce the role of the architect as the essential contributor.
Mariana Bisti
Mariana Bisti
Additionally, we intended to give prominence to the construction method of prefabrication. Prefabrication, one of the conditions of the competition also defined the final form of the building as the basic module would have to be transported on a truck.
Mariana Bisti
Mariana Bisti
The concept of the project was to design a building that would relate to the scale of its users while also introducing a new typology, that of the urban village. The mai... More
Project • By KLAB architecture (kinetic lab of architecture) • Apartments
Aloof Houses
* at a distance, incredibly slick, laid back, but totally bad ass.
Aloof houses apartment building is in Voula a southern suburb of Athens. It exists on a corner plot with northeast orientation. At the west, from the third floor you have a sea view while from the east facade you have a view to Ymettos mountain
Our design proposal focused on working on those elements which differentiate a suburban apartment building from a city one.
Our idea is to do on a vertical manner 3 single houses (villas) built on a metal structure.
Panagiotis Voumvakis
Panagiotis Voumvakis
Panagiotis Voumvakis
2 of the most important characteristics of a single house is that it is detached, in a distance with adjacent buildings or neighbors... More