Competition Wan Awards 2013

The WAN AWARDS 21 for 21 category is a major international competition now in its third year, an initiative aiming to highlight 21 architects who could be the leading lights of architecture in the 21st century. Outstanding, forward-thinking people and organisations who have the demonstrable potential to be the next big thing in the architectural world.

1st Project: International Architectural Competition-Innovative Bioclimatic European School Complex in Crete, Greece

The school has an international and cultural character and it’s located in a landscape with a strong ”locality” and thousands of years of history lost in the mists of legends and traditions. From this place started God Zeus transformed into a bull trying to steal Europe. The shape of the school is essentially an arrow that shows the path that the couple followed. The years passed, Europe gave its name to a continent and the island of Crete is the southernmost part of it. Our building is actually acting as a memorial connecting a myth with reality.

2nd Project: Winning project_3rd prize Regeneration – Promotion of the Balkan Square, former Strebenioti’ s Military Camp of Neapoli, ThessalonikiThe fact that inadequate proportion of greenery corresponds to the citizens of the municipality led us to design a park covered to its maximum area with green. The park is developed in two levels. This serves the connection of several uses, the exploitation of the view to the sea, the respect to the physical slope of the ground and the maximization of the greenery. Holes on the upper level ground are used so as to connect the levels and to naturally light the lower one.

3rd Project: Revival of the Silo, GuangzhouOrbis is a statement against the idolization of modern design. A deconstructed and chaotic environment can become a place where young artists and designers will generate innovative ideas and creations. Aim of the project is to turn the silo into a landmark of Redtory and mark the entrance of the entire area. Become a cultural beacon that will light the skies of Guangzhou and attract new visitors and creative minds in the territory.

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This project refers to the design of a ground floor private residence with surrounding fencing, in the farm area of Epanomi (municipality of Thermaikos) which has a total area of 11557.50 sq.m. The ground floor house has been designed and developed based on the topographical details of the area . The building has visual engravings on the southwest, its entrance is located on the northeast and evolves around a outdoor living room. More specifically, the exterior seating area consists of a semi-outdoor area with a pergola, which includes the entrance to the house.

The main living spaces are located in the northwest part of the property. There is the kitchen with the dining room and the living room, as well as two bedrooms and a laundry space. To the southeast there are three guest bedrooms, one with a private bathroom and two with a shared one.

The external staircase located on the main patio leads to an outdoor seating area, which is designed on the roof, with a pergola. On the exterior space of the building one more pergola creates a shading system that serves the outdoor parking space. The outdoor space also hosts a hot tub, in connection to the master bedroom.

The central and connecting element of the composition is the atrium, from which there is access to the all the interior spaces. The design offers privacy where it is needed with large openings to the surrounding view.