A31 worked in close collaboration with a broad team of architects & engineers, visual artists, lighting designers, landscape architects, industrial & graphic designers to complete the project.
The design concept is based on the site’s function as an exhibition and events venue. The space is intended to promote dialogue and the exchange of ideas, in order to endorse Greek architecture and encourage creative thinking in the fields of applied arts and contemporary art.
The space has a total footprint of 250m2 and is extended on two levels. The 180m2 ground level consists of an entrance, lobby-reception, dark room, a patio with waterless garden, a green wall with vertical vegetation (5m x 4.2m) and restroom. The second level with 80m2 floor space, consists of a meeting room, the administration’s office and a small sitting area which features a large-scale work by the artist Socrates Fatouros, while the vertical vegetation, extends through the atrium reaching the roof.
Purity and honesty, are the main attributes of the project’s design concept and construction. The materiality features unplastered finishes, electrical pipes on the roof and the course wall lining panels made of 2cm Ultra High Performance Concrete. As a result, the space creates an environment which invites the visitor to examine it further and explore its content.
Special attention was given to the architectural lighting and the curation of contemporary art works that have been included to the concept.