Precedent Studies - Up to 35 Competition

Up to 35 Competition - Student accommodation
Athens, Greece
Architects Parasite Studios

CONCEPT

•The student’s life consists of a mixture of private life, together with the need for individual seclusion for learning and public life, with public interaction and dynamic relations.

•The student’s housing units are designed as a mix of private and public areas

•The mix of private areas and public areas is essential for informal learning, facilitating the interchange of creative ideas in a free and non-academic environment, thereby boosting individual evolution and a free exposure of ideas.

•The spatial solution for housing this complex relational network was to provide a large empty living space, which is both interior and exterior, consisting of common student spaces, interior courts and roof terraces, which becomes the guideline for organizing the entire building.

•Each module comprises a common space for six students and three bedrooms.

•Every space is endowed with all the necessary equipment's and is dimensioned in order to allow easy access for people with disabilities in every module of the building.

•The bedrooms are each configured for two persons, containing study areas within the same space.

•The living room wall, which supports the inner stair plays a double role as structural and functional element. This wall contains deposit spaces for living and bedroom areas, a library and a small cooking area.

•The green spaces are linked in between in order to form a continuous environment, doubled by a raised network of pedestrian pathways.

•Materials and colours to reflect the lightness of Greek architecture.