AKROLITHOS I OFFICE HEADQUARTERS & SHOWROOM

KAAF Architects

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Interiors – Workplace. Retail. Community

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Greece

Company Name

KAAF Architects

 

COMPANY COUNTRY:

Greece

ARCHITECTURAL CREDITS

KAAF I Kitriniaris Associates Architecture Firm Team: Alexandros Kitriniaris, Dionysia Patiri, Nikitas Paraskevopoulos, Dominiki Katramadopoulou, Chris Dionysis, Savvas Demetriou.

Project Team
Structural Design: Stefanos Iosifidis MEP Design: Giorgos Iliadis Lighting Design: KAAF & Luce Ataliotis Museological Design: Popi Georgopoulou Photography: Karen Gkiounasian
CLIENT OR OWNER NAME:

Akrolithos S.A.

Project Name:
AKROLITHOS I OFFICE HEADQUARTERS & SHOWROOM
Project Country:

Greece

Project City:
Kavala
Project Category:
Workplace. Retail. Community
Project Area:
3000
Completion Date:
Project overview

The project involves the building expansion of the headquarters of a mining company, as well as the complete configuration of the internal structure of its final product exhibition space. .The architectural composition takes as its starting point the reinterpretation of the company's quarrying experience through a sense of suspension between the rocky ground and the absolute sense of freedom in the landscape pathway.

Project history

. The composition culminates in the processing of multiple exhibition surfaces as a unique spatial condition in which materials are placed as a narrative of experiential encounters, resulting in a fragmented interpretation of the visitor’s walking experience, creating multiple references and meanings that conceptually connect with the rawness of matter and the tangible condition of architecture. The transition process begins at the entrance, continues within the ground-level landscape pathway, and extends to the reconfiguration of the quarry museum space culminating on the exhibition’s first floor. This path gains greater significance when connected to the intermediate entrance of the office spaces on the intermediate level. The quarry space is experienced by the visitor as a landscape pathway with plantings, rocks, and alterations of spatial perception through multiple sensory experience.