archivirus in design-district.gr
01.04.2013
Design-district.gr visited the exhibition 'ΙΔΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΚΑΙΝΙΣΗ 2013' that took place at Texnopolis-Gazi in Athens, during 8-10 of March. Archivirus was there and Athanasia Psaraki talks about one of their recent projects 'bring the light in'.
The project ' bring the light in' participates in the exhibition "ΙΔΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΚΑΙΝΙΣΗ 2013"
07.03.2013
7th BIENNALE of Young Greek Architects
09.12.2012
archivirus is participating in the 7th Biennale of Young Greek Architects
with the ramp house project.
tony hawk and friends checked the ramp house!!!!
10.08.2012
An unexpected email hit the archivirus' inbox on August 7th.It was a guy named Jesse Fritsch co-producer of the production company http://www.900films.com. He was asking if it was possible to skate the ramp house with the Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk.Of course the answer was YES!!!The event took place like a flash...15.00 the first call-16.00 the date-20 minutes sk8-18.00 flight to Santorini island.Thanks guys for your quick visit!!!
7th BIENNALE OF YOUNG GREEK ARCHITECTS
11.07.2012
we are happy to announce the results of the
7th BIENNALE OF YOUNG GREEK ARCHITECTS
that will take place on December
at Benaki Museum in Athens,Greece.
'the ramp house' will be there!
facelift process
11.07.2012
archivirus is comissioned the facelift process
of a recently built single family house
in Kamatero, Athens.
The clients being unhappy with the result
asked for some help to
get some satisfaction in the end...
let's do our best not to disappoint them!
Greek Architecture Panorama 2012
14.05.2012
archivirus is exhibiting 'divorced houses'
in “Greek Architecture Panorama 2012”
organized by DOMES International Review of Architecture.
The exhibition opens at 7pm on the 12th May at Technopolis Gkazi, Athens as part of Design Lab.
danae project
21.04.2012
archivirus is commisioned the renovation of a single family house in Voula.
the construction is on!
stay tuned...
BHMADECO
18.02.2012
BHMADECO, a monthly magazine
about interior design and furniture, embeded
in a weekly issued greek newspaper ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ
presents the ramp house.
Don't miss the latest issue on 19th of February.
14F/21GR
01.02.2012
Join us on Tuesday, February 7th, at 20:00, at the New Benaki Museum, for the opening of the 14FR/21GR Exhibition.
'the ramp house' is featured among work
from 14 French and 21 young Greek architects.
a video shoot took place for first time
in the ramp house,
filmed and edited by ronny skevis,
will be shown in public.
don't miss it!!
14F/21 GR
30.12.2011
archivirus is invited to participate in the
''14F/21 GR'' Exhibit,
that will take place in the beginning of February at Benaki Museum.
For more info stay tuned...
ΙΔΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΚΑΙΝΙΣΗ 2013
01.04.2013
archivirus and aronis-signed showroom
participated in the exhibition
'ΙΔΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΚΑΙΝΙΣΗ 2013' with the project 'bring the light in'.
check out some photos!
7th Biennale of Young Greek Architects
09.12.2012
the opening of the
7th Biennale of Young Greek Architects
took place on 21st of November
at Benaki Museum.
the ramp house was there!!
Greek Architecture Panorama 2012 at Design Lab
14.05.2012
archivirus participated with the project
'divorced houses' at the
"Greek Architecture Panorama 2012"
exhibition which took place on 12-14th of May at
Technopolis Gkazi, Athens as part of Design Lab.
14F/21GR
08.02.2012
The opening of the 14F/21GR Exhibition
took place on 7th of February.
'the ramp house' was featured among
really interesting projects.
The exhibition reveals the limits of
architectural practice through photographs,
physical models and digital screenings.
The crowd was big and the works worth seeing...
index_arch[gr
05.08.2007
archivirus was invited to exhibit work at the exhibition with the theme index_arch[gr] which was organized by the annual assembly of 400 architecture students (EASA), which takes place over a two week period every August. Index_arch[gr] took place at Eleusina from 22nd of July till 5th of August in 2007 and aimed to highlight and expose the work of young Greek architects.
archivirus is an experimental notion conceived by athanasia psaraki in 2006. it focuses on architecture and design and operates through research, experimentation and on-going dialogues with the surrounding environment. This interdisciplinary research initiative is concerned with all stages of building process, from conceptual ideas till material organization across all scales of design, thought and practice.
a r c h i t e c t u r e i s l i k e a v i r u s
i t d e p e n d s o n o t h e r l i v i n g c e l l s
f o r i t s r e p r o d u c t i o n a n d g r o w t h
athanasia psaraki
t: +30 210 9850089
cp: +30 6977983715
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a: 23 Aretis st., 166 74, Athens, Greece
client : private
location: Athens, Greece
architectural design: archivirus
date: 2008
archivirus was asked to transform a 180 sq.m. basement into a private photography studio. A construction back to the 70’s, with bare concrete columns and beams to dominate the whole space. Raw aesthetics in contradiction with the neat backgrounds a photographer would seek for. The main request was an open space as brighter as possible, consisting of a photography studio, an office, a make-up room, a kitchen and two bathrooms. The basic concept idea was a space which would be transformed easily depending on the various circumstances of the photography scene. Keeping in mind the neat character the place should adopt but being at the same time charmed by the raw structural elements, I tried to let them float in a harmonious way into a totally white space. The photography studio is isolated with sliding panels from the main area, placed at the back side of the basement and adopted a totally clean character by being painted whole white including the floor. The white color of the floor dominates the whole space of the basement while suddenly concrete columns emerge on a vertical axis from the white floor to continue horizontally (beams) on the ceiling and through the space and finally lower down to become stands and kitchen-bathroom counters. A concrete surface floats into the white space and serves several basic functions. Following a certain route ends up to punch a semi-transparent glass cube constructed of glass brick and placed in a central point at the basement. This clear volume has a dual function serving as a make-up room and at the same time as a discrete division of the space into an office to the one side and a kitchen to the other, allowing the light coming from a big opening behind, to spread through the space. The inspiration for the design of the entrance came from the “dark room”, which is related to every photographer. A black box with the one end at the upper level of the road and the other at the lower level of the basement, serves as the main entrance with the staircase to integrate into it. The outline of the box is replaced with black vertical louvers creating a game of shadows and outlines when somebody enters the place thus leaving his impression.