314 architecture studio’s new residential building expands & folds like flower petals

‘The seashore rise’ by 314 architecture studio 

Located in Glyfada, Greece, ‘The Seashore Rise’ is a new residential building designed by 314 Architecture Studio and developed by Euphoria Residencies. The project takes shape over a 592.29 sqm plot of land and includes four residences spanning six levels. Inspired by the organic essence of petals and sea waves, the architects envisioned the building as flowing upwards, each level draped in curving lines. ‘The project stands as an experiment, both in terms of construction and the space the architecture takes in the city. We tried to adapt the concepts of movement and flow to the scale of a residence,’ notes the practice. 

creating variations of blooming petals 

Specifically, the team at 314 architecture studio designed each floor of ‘The Seashore Rise’ as an abstracted variation of a petal formation. The resulting design reveals a stack of volumes that seemingly mutate and expand/contract in response to one another, creating an architectural body that mimics a living organism. Program-wise, these volumetric expansions are designed, at certain points, when indoor privacy is most needed. Furthermore, ‘the border with the city that is usually formulated with a railing, acquires body, materiality, and volume. It grows, expands, and gets activated into a dynamic element. The double height of the ground floor residence releases the petals from the ground area,’ writes the studio. 

an organic design unfolding across each space 

The materiality and layout of interior and exterior spaces at ‘The Seashore Rise’ is centered around the application of a white reflective finish defining the main structure. For example, Spanish Benadresa tiles, with a high degree of reflection, were used for the floors and bathrooms in Cararra Statarario; custom built oak wardrobes were created for the bedrooms; lastly, pools and artificial lakes are integrated into the balconies, camouflaged by the organic volumes.

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project info:

name: The Seashore Rise 

location: Glyfada, Greece

architecture & landscape design: 314 Architecture Studio | @314architecturestudio

developer: Euphoria Residences

design Team:  Pavlos Chatziangelidis, Giota Chala, Andrianna Triantafyllopoulou, Alkis Vasalios, Eirini Bouliou, Caterina Palantzi, Giannis Dimitrelis.Dimitris Panagiotou, Antonis Sarris, Alexandros Papadopoulos, Anna Stagaki, Iro Dermitzaki, Popi Papachristou, Timotheos Kopsidas, Harris Grivokostopoulos, Angeliki Ragava, George Ouzounis, Sofia Stavrou, Eva Sofoulaki, Angelos Sotiriou, Christina Illiopoulou, Caterina Papoutsa, Caterina Tsili.

structural analysis: Foteini Karagianni, Stella Pilafa, George Kostoulas

electromechanical analysis: SKV Consulting Engineers, Stefanos Karagiannis

photography: Voumvakis Architecture Photography | @panagiotisvoumakis 

site area: 592.29 sqm

design year: 2019

completion year: 2022