We work in section.
Light, weight, plan
An architecture studio in Exarcheia, Athens. Eighteen years. Eleven people. Residential, hospitality, commercial, and cultural work across Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.
“We hired Alkmini after meeting her at the Berlage in 2014 and waited six years for a site we both believed in. The house is the calmest building I have ever lived in and the morning light from the upper volume is the reason we wake up early.”
“Ektoras spent three weeks on the orientation study before we drew a single wall. The naturally-ventilated atrium has saved us approximately €38,000 a year in mechanical cooling. The building is what we asked for, and a better version of it.”
“Alkmini turned down our first brief. She wrote, in two paragraphs, why removing the original timber staircase would be a mistake. We are now keeping it and the project is, on every metric, the better for the conversation.”
“I have worked with sixty architects in twenty-eight years. ArchiVision are the only ones whose tender pack I can build from without a single RFI in the first four weeks. Their drawings are the cleanest in Greece.”
“It is a small house on a small island and they treated it as if it were a museum on the Acropolis. The window seat upstairs is where my mother sits when she comes to visit. That window was Ektoras's idea on a Sunday in February.”
