Situated within the evolving urban fabric of Glyfada, Papandreou Residences explores collective living through a sculptural architectural language. Conceived as a composition of fluid geometries and layered outdoor living, the project reinterprets the Athenian apartment building as a series of private, villa-like dwellings suspended within a unified form.
The development comprises twelve residences arranged as a vertical neighborhood. Three garden maisonettes occupy the ground and first floors, each paired with private landscaped courtyards and pools, extending domestic life into a secluded natural setting. Three apartments on the second floor and three on the third floor unfold as generous single-level residences, while three upper maisonettes spanning the fourth and fifth floors culminate in elevated living environments defined by openness, light and panoramic views.
The project’s defining gesture lies in its organic façade, where continuous, wrapping balconies carve and articulate each residence as a distinct spatial entity. Rather than operating as additive terraces, these fluid perimeter bands become the primary architectural device of the project.
Framing views, filtering light, generating privacy and shaping a dynamic dialogue between interior and exterior. Their soft curvilinear expression introduces a sense of movement to the building, evoking a form shaped as much by inhabitation as by geometry.
Balancing sculptural presence with environmental sensitivity, the layered envelope acts as both threshold and climate mediator, providing shade, depth and passive protection suited to the Mediterranean context. Deep overhangs, recessed glazing and integrated planting contribute to a bioclimatic approach where architecture performs through form.
Papandreou Residences proposes a contemporary residential typology where individuality and collectivity coexist, and where architecture is experienced not as repetition, but as a fluid assemblage of light, landscape and inhabitation.
Architecural Design: KKMK Architects
Design team: Karagianni Katerina, Karamali Marina,