Kolonaki

Ypsilantou Residence is the transformation of an existing apartment guided by a fundamental principle: designing with what is already there. Rather than treating the apartment as a neutral shell to be replaced, the project begins by recognising and amplifying its inherent qualities: its balanced proportions, abundant natural light, the depth of the floor plan, the sequence of spaces, and the traces of an architectural sensibility rooted in the Athenian modernism of the interwar period. Margarita Yoko Nikitaki The intention of TRAIL, together with the apartment’s owners, was not to recreate the architecture of the 1930s, but to reinterpret its atmosphere. The ambition was to translate into contemporary living something of the cla... More