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KOSMOS BAKERY & COFFEE
Nafplio Greece
designed by Studio 2Pi Structure – Panagiotis Papassotiriou
Nafplio Greece
designed by Studio 2Pi Structure – Panagiotis Papassotiriou
photographed by Pygmalion Karatzas
KOSMOS BAKERY & COFFEE
Nafplio Greece
designed by Studio 2Pi Structure – Panagiotis Papassotiriou
Nafplio Greece
designed by Studio 2Pi Structure – Panagiotis Papassotiriou
In an present metal construction positioned within the entrance to town of Nafplio, we have been requested to design a contemporary bakery, meals and occasional station for the passer-by, customer and resident alike.
In a construct surroundings of semi-urban character, the scale of the constructing highlights a scale that’s dominant and together with the encompassing open areas urges us to deal with the reconstruction as a proposal that strikes throughout the limits of an autonomous and impartial quantity respecting on the identical time the busy street in entrance of it.
On this context we needed to handle two clearly reverse situations, stasis that accompanies a monolithic quantity and motion that’s the perpetual destiny of a central freeway.
Thus arose the thought of forming a particular shell which mirrored the motion by way of a repetitive sample on the constructing. This second pores and skin could be the binding mortar between these two situations. The shell needed to take a type that might permit the alternation of feelings between day and evening with the usage of lighting in addition to capturing the course of the solar through the day by creating shadows on it or on the encompassing space. Additionally, this shell had to have the ability to accommodate all of the features and auxiliary electrical & mechanical programs that needed to be launched.
The particular type and use of the “scales” on the facades of the constructing got here firstly from the necessity to defend the prevailing shell and secondly from a want for the duvet to be translated as a pores and skin that embraces and soothes the constructing. On this means the constructing itself creates the alternations within the lighting and never the usage of indicators that we’re used to in buildings with comparable typology. The outside lighting can due to this fact be modified in accordance with the desires and desires of the customers in order that it turns into part of the design unified and indivisible from the shell.
Approaching the constructing the component of water creates a transitional zone between the general public and the non-public area. Treating the brink in an nearly flat floor and with direct contact to the primary street turns into vital. The associations with the “scales” on the water are simple to create a reference to the coastal character of town.
So there within the interval area between water and shell, asphalt and glass we positioned two timber in reverse ends which seek advice from the historical past of the Argolida plain with its olive groves but in addition its historic relationship with prosperity and day by day lifetime of the inhabitants leaving on this nook of Greece.
As one enters the inside of the constructing, one other world is revealed. From the low outside cover area of two.30m top we all of a sudden enter the primary area which has 6.50m inside top.
The area is structured in such a means as to serve its business id. This creates three zones with the product to be positioned within the center zone positioned within the direct discipline of view of the customer.
The area is structured in such a means as to serve its business id. This creates three zones with the product to be positioned within the center zone positioned within the direct discipline of view of the customer.
Observing the area from its lowest degree, all the way in which to the highest, the supplies have been chosen and positioned to create a way of lightness from the bottom upwards. On the base we’ve chosen pure supplies, marble travertino romano classico, which offers an earthy component to the bottom with its strong high quality. The center zone is manufactured from marine plywood in a light-weight shade that basically performs the position of the component of transition from the pure and earthly to the futuristic and extra geometric shapes of the third zone that embraces the exhibition area. The third and high zone is a connection to the roof as it’s the solely component that surrounds all 4 sides of the inside and it grows perimetrically and embraces the area as a steady ribbon painted white.
The inside lighting of the constructing focuses on the promotion of the meals merchandise but in addition on the creation of a single dynamic architectural component that’s divided into two components.
The primary is the horizontal lighting part which leads guests to the assorted areas of the exhibition and consists of linear luminaires above the product home windows and as hidden lighting within the recesses of the plasterboard on the outside partitions. The second is the vertical part that seems as “fastened” lighting with a sculptural high quality and it leads the customer’s view from ground to ceiling following the rays of sunshine that be a part of by way of the steel crowns. The second half with the 2 columns of sunshine has borrowed its type from the set up of the Welsh conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans as offered on the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan.
The areas for the preparation of meals have been developed and designed with three primary parts in thoughts: cleanliness, ergonomics and visibility. Clear surfaces that permit HACCP degree well being protocols in all areas. Ergonomic design in order that the motion of staff and the transport of merchandise is finished easily in accordance with the foundations of hygiene and security. Visibility and permeability, the entire above to be in open view to the tip consumer who can consider how and by what means the merchandise he’ll eat are produced.
In conclusion, you will need to point out that the house owners additionally embraced and believed in our imaginative and prescient and intention to design a contemporary area that follows the wants of the tip customers and the specifics of its use whereas respecting the constructed surroundings round it that carries the historic and architectural legacy of town of Nafplio.
[text by the architect]
Venture ID:
Identify: Kosmos
Kind: Bakery / workshop / retail / service
Location: Nafplio, Greece
Architect: Panagiotis Papassotiriou, www.s2pia.com
Structural engineer: Anastasios Kladouhos
Electrical & Mechanical Engineer: Konstantinos Ilias
Design yr: 2019-2020
Completion: 2021
Images: Pygmalion Karatzas, www.pygmalionkaratzas.com
Consumer: Studio 2Pi Structure
