The “Lap Pool House” award, a modern house built on the
Cycladic island of Tinos, is nominated for the Mies van de Roye Award, a
prestigious European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
According to Aristides Dallas Architects, the team who
created this masterpiece, was inspired by the rocks’ cavities and ledges. The house emerges from the natural
landscape as a human-made cave recreating
geometrical points of exposure and introversion.
The entrance of the house is located at the back of the
building. People can enter through an earth crack, while cuts in the roof allow
light and air to enter the building.
The architects say that the water in the pool is one of the
main features of the house “contrasts with the rocky texture of the bare
concrete as a translation between nature and elements.”
Concrete is also the theme that encompasses the house as an
entity. “A simple slab of concrete
planted so it appears like an extension of the landscape, covers the three
building volumes in the Lap pool house and shapes the individual architectural
qualities of the open and closed space,” the team says.
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