Grove House
On the east coast of Peloponnese, overlooking a small, sheltered cove and surrounded by a landscape of olive groves, fruit orchards and vineyards, sits Grove House. The villa is a country house immersed in its natural habitat and in keeping with the local vernacular. The character of the house is defined by the way that it retains its architectural heritage whilst redefining traditional boundaries between internal and external space.
A pitched roof of Byzantine terracotta tiles hovers above walls of caustic stone (which was taken from the ground during the excavation phase). These walls, through a carefully curated sequence of openings and interventions, choreograph a nuanced architectural experience of the expansive view over the landscape to the sea.
Following the undulating topography, volumes are broken up and stitched into the landscape as a dynamic variety of positive and negative spaces, each with their own particular relationship to their surroundings according to their use. In this sense the view, irresistibly commanding, plays an integral role in the narrative of the house without dominating it.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN K-STUDIO LANDSCAPE DESIGN KTLA K-STUDIO DESIGN TEAM DIMITRIS KARAMPATAKIS | GIORGOS MITROGIORGIS | CHRISTINA STAMOULI | EIRINI VOULIOURI | MARINA LEVENTAKI | CHRISTINA CHARISTOU SURVEYOR HARIS VAXEVANERIS TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS VAP ARCHITECTS PLANNING CONSULTANT MARIA MPOSGANA STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT DIMITRIS MPAIRAKTARIS OFFICE MECHANICAL ENGINEER K. GLEZOS | C. ALEXANDRIS LIGHTING DESIGNER HALO SOUND CONSULTANT NOISE CONTROL LTD. | ANDREAS TSOLIAS MAIN CONTRACTOR DORIKI TECHNIKI | PORTOTECHNIKI PHOTOGRAPHY CLAUS BRECHENMACHER & REINER BAUMANN
