MIX-USED BUILDING: SHOPS, OFFICE AND RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
LOCATION: ATHENS, GREECE
SIZE: 5,500 M2
TYPE: COMMISSION
STATUS: ON-GOING
CLIENT: OLIAROS



The given program of the mixed-use building includes parking, commercial spaces, office space and housing, arranged in the following sequence: a 6 storey parking cellar, shopping and galleries half a level below street level, superposed by restaurants, shops half a floor above street level flanked by one floor of offices and two levels of housing on the top; an architectural moussaka!



The Athens law requires all new development to provide 30% of unbuilt land for public use.



In this project we provide 30% of unbuilt and cleared to the sky as well as around 20 percent of unbuilt but covered.  Thereby providing a very accessible ground floor.  Due to its strategic position the site for the mixed-use building should ideally be a void: it would allow to connect 2 important poles of the neighbourhood, the AVDE Library square and the crossing of Megalou Alexandrou & Kolonthynthous.



Due to the difficult equation of land use and maximization of build substance, it’s almost impossible to join those ends. By cracking the ground across the site the project creates a canyon that links both ends.

Athens Building - text / images from Julien de Smedt in 2008



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Athens Building by Julien de Smedt - Project Team:

JULIEN DE SMEDT
BARBARA WOLFF
KAMILLA HESKJE
ALEXANDROS GEROUSSIS
ANDY VANN
DIMITRI BRISY
DRIES RODET
FEDERICO PEDRINI
FELIX LUONG
LENA BILLMEIER
MELISSA KIM
MIKE ROBITZ
NICOLAS KISIC
JENS VILHEMSON
JOSUA GILLET
MICHAELA WEISSKIRCHNER
SANDRA-TABEA HIRSCHLER
TAKU NAGAMATSU
THERESE WALLSTROM
WOUTER DONS



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