Cultural and Recreation Centre

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Project Name: Cultural and Recreation Centre
Construction year: 2006
Website: www.sxoliaristotelous.gr
Address: Isvoria area , NAOUSSA - Greece

Architect(s) : A. Kotsiopoulos & Partners (www.kotsiopoulos-architects.gr)
Project Category: Cultural

Latitude: 40.6202
Longitude: 22.0792

Cultural and Recreation Centre at the site of the School of Aristotle in Naoussa (donation by the late Ch. Lanaras and the Lanaras family)

This cultural and recreation centre, situated close to an important – yet almost unknown – archaeological site of northern Greece, was designed so that to guarantee a good view to the site, being at the same time almost invisible from that. The building houses an auditorium with supplementary spaces in the basement and a small museum and a restaurant in the ground floor, with a large outdoor restaurant space with a steel pergola facing the archaeological site. The building has a unified external skin of aluminium windows and of wooden semi-transparent shutters, which contribute to the invisibility of the built mass, a requirement strongly imposed to the designers by the Archeological Service, after long negotiations on the final placement of the building. The building consists of a steel (above ground) and concrete structure (below ground) creating a double linear rectangular volume, based on a 4X4X4 meters modular system. This metric system incorporates floors, insulation and ceilings along with a fully developed “skin” of semi-transparent wooden shutters that corresponds to the demand of a neutral shell for this important archaeological site. This is the second attempt by our practice for the total coverage of the outer surface of a building with a wooden “skin” (after the Ano Poli house). This skin functions as solar protector throughout the summer, without obstructing the breathtaking view to the unique landscape of the archaeological site, while at the same time allows the sun to enter freely during the winter.

Contributed by A. Kotsiopoulos & Partners