Nicosia
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Project • By studio kyriakos miltiadou • Private Houses
Domus Oliva
Could a house be designed to resemble an open garden? A garden that fosters social interaction among family members, frames the sky as part of daily life, and adapts its functions to the changing seasons. Domus Oliva is a house located in the suburbs of Nicosia, Cyprus, designed to meet the needs of a young family of four. The program is straightforward: a living room, a kitchen, a workspace, two bedrooms, and one en-suite bedroom.
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The site, with its gentle slopes, low Cypriot vegetation, scattered olive trees, and low-density residential development, serves as the canvas where architecture and program will meet. Our aim was to design a garden-house, open to nature, where residential functi... More
Project • By studio kyriakos miltiadou • Private Houses
Domus Maya
The house is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Nicosia, on a plot of a new urban neighborhood. To the south lies the familiar urban chaos of the city composed of scattered residential buildings in an inhomogeneous arrangement. To the north the vast agricultural fields highlight the extensive horizon offering unobstructed views of the trapezoidal hill of Aronas. The program is typical: a two-story house with 3 bedrooms and a guest room for a young family of four. This house is the result of a design process that seeks to reinterpret the courtyard typology found in traditional residences in Cyprus, through the contemporary ways of domestic living.
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Project • By studio kyriakos miltiadou • Housing
Domus Laetitiae / house in a refugee settlement
The house is built on the traces of a ruined building in a high-density refugee settlement in Nicosia, Cyprus. It is situated between two existing partition walls in a narrow land (189 m²). The Cypriot refugee camps were erected shortly after the summer of the Turkish invasion in 1974, to provide temporary accommodation for the Greek-Cypriot refugees who were forced to leave their homes because of the war. Today, these sites bear the signs of abandonment and decay and are more like urban crevices interrupting the continuity of the city. The restrictive building regulations that are applied in these sites, indicate a complex condition raising questions regarding their readjustment to the contemporary ways of residential living.
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