The architectural design of holiday apartments in Astris, Thassos, concerns a 3,859 m\u00b2 rural plot on the island's southern coast, among olive groves, pines and low Mediterranean scrub. The plot is long, narrow and irregular, facing south-west on a gentle natural slope. The mandatory setbacks from the boundaries, the foreshore and the stream left only a narrow, triangular strip of land available for building.<\/p>\n
The location imposed one more condition. The property lies within the redefined boundaries of the declared archaeological site of Theologos and its wider area, so the design is submitted for approval to the competent Archaeological Service and to the Architecture Council<\/a>. The building has to respect the archaeological landscape, the scale of the island and the view towards the sea. The brief comprises six holiday apartments, a small shop serving guests and visitors, an auxiliary basement and a swimming pool. Although the property fronts the provincial road, for road safety reasons vehicles enter and leave only from the agricultural road.<\/p>\n Within this zone, the design proposes a single two-storey building with a total floor area of 180.57 m\u00b2, plus a basement for plant and storage. Instead of one compact, imposing mass, the building is composed of smaller volumes with clean geometric lines, and its main fa\u00e7ade turns towards the view. The upper floor is confined to the middle of the composition. Both ends remain single-storey, which noticeably reduces the building's visual weight. The flat roofs are framed by perimeter bands of exposed concrete that stress the horizontal, so the building settles smoothly onto the ground and does not compete with the height of the existing trees.<\/p>\n The ground floor holds four studio apartments and, at one end, the shop. The two upper-floor apartments are reached by an external metal staircase on the rear elevation. The 61.56 m\u00b2 swimming pool sits in the north-western part of the plot, in direct visual and functional relation to the building. Movement within the complex is on foot only, along stone-paved paths, and car noise stays outside the guests' area.<\/p>\n The materials were chosen for durability and for their affinity with the landscape of Thassos. The ground-floor volumes and parts of the upper floor are clad in local semi-dressed stone in earthy tones. The roof bands, canopies and parapets are made of exposed concrete cast in timber formwork, and its rough, board-marked texture answers the stone. The blank walls and recesses of the upper floor receive a coloured render in a clay tone.<\/p>\n Timber pergolas on the roofs and terraces filter the light and add a light structure above the solid volumes. The window frames are dark grey, so they do not compete with the other elements of the fa\u00e7ade. The photorealistic 3D renderings of the project show the elevations with their final materials, set within the plot's vegetation.<\/p>\n Intervention in the surrounding landscape is deliberately kept to a minimum. No large fills are planned: the building follows the natural slope and is surrounded by the native vegetation and olive groves of the area. Paving around the building and the pool is laid in irregular natural stone, keeping the ground continuous. The pool sits low in the terrain and its wall is clad in stone, so it reads as a pezoula, the stone terrace wall often found in the agricultural landscape of Thassos.<\/p>\n Taken as a whole, this architectural design of holiday apartments produces a complex that fits within the narrow building zone and keeps to the scale of the surrounding olive groves. The stepped volumes, low roofs and earthy tones integrate the building into the coastal and archaeological landscape of Astris, while the main fa\u00e7ade opens towards the sea. 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