The architectural project on a major road of the city, Veikou Avenue, cites ‘perspective’ in an environment of insignificant building facades. The converging streets connect the avenue with urban suburbs and function on the eastern side as a ‘frame’ which presents a view of the hills of Psychico, a dramatic visual relief from the built up vertical streets, it offers depth and rhythm and merges the structural element with nature.
The rectangular volume of the building follows the discipline of the permitted building line while allowing a view of the hills in the distance from the street. Explaining and emphasizing the elements of ‘perspective’, the architectural concept understands the ‘voids’ of the building shell as ‘interruptions-escapes’, symbolically representing similar elements in the roads approaching the avenue and the developing dialogue with the adjacent hills. In this way, the urban foreground appears to be raised sky high, the shell of the structure is seen as a system of ‘void-frames’ in motion with the background of the sculptured hills and further strengthens the sense of perspective.
The exterior of the building is covered with wood panels in a random fashion – a natural material which draws nature into the dense residential area. The whole arrangement clearly opposes the logic of stereotypical appearances and interrupts the monotony of the outlines of the nearby buildings.
