DESIGN PROPOSAL: THE LABYRINTH
The Labyrinth, a hospitality accommodation in Kato Petali, Sifnos, is an architectural intervention reinterpreting the geometric principles and psychological experience of the existing village. The development is designed to enrich and harmonize with the existing community while inviting those of temporary stay to immerse themselves in the landscape, music, food, people, way of life, and architecture different from their own. Architecture is a language, and to understand it, one must experience it and engage with their senses. In developing the architecture of this site, I have cultivated an architectural dialogue understood by movement through spaces where the changing of direction, the texture and materials of walls, and isolated framed experiences shape user experience and sense of place, connecting them to the environment.
DESIGN PROPOSAL: MEANDER
Meander, a series of retreat accommodations offered by the hospitality development in Skaloto, Sifnos, individually designed with an increasing amount of site exposure. The intervention encompasses the physical and psychological experience of meandering down the site and man-made stone retaining walls, which have become the landscape. Developed as a pause facing the ocean ahead, each dwelling straddles a stone wall built on and within the earth so as not to interrupt the existing elevation. Users are guided to connect with the natural elements of the earth as each defined space isolates experience and view, enhancing its effect. The materials and textures used are a continuation of the architectural language cultivated in the village development.