3STOREY HOUSE / KIFISSIA | ALEXANDER BABANICOLOS

3STOREY HOUSE IN KIFISSIA (Papastergiou Residence) Kifissia, Athens, Greece 2011. It is more than commonplace the notion that the form incorporates and retains the idea which created it. Due to a certain process, to the “hardness” and resistance of the “material” used, the form attains, maybe by chance or inevitably, it’s characteristic, unique existence. Not being certain for such a chance, in the end of a complicated process, the “ThreeStoreyResidentialSingleFamilyBuilding”, has to obey to the obligatory five meter retreat, caused by the three streets that surround the plot. Consequently it has to attach to the south border, losing the south elevation. Nevertheless this first obligation, together with a restriction in high, gives to the house the characteristic appearance of a peculiarly pentagonal cube with a tilled roof.The house in the first floor has an L chapped area of secondary spaces (entrance, staircase, elevator, and kitchen), surrounding the internal cube of the two storey high living room to witch, in a higher level, sees the owner’s study room. In the third floor we find the sleeping rooms, together with two bathrooms, the one being private in the parents’ bedroom. The wooden roof, in this floor, is exposed to the eye. This composes an interesting ambiance, due to the juxtaposition of the plan and the structurally more strict construction of the roof.Form safeguards the idea that brought it to existence. Due to coincidental and external reasons, creative though, it becomes what it is: The Form.