C_29 / Optimist

C_29 / Optimist

c_29 / optimist

314 Architecture Studio

STATUS
Built

CONSTRUCTION
Such

DESIGN TEAM
Pavlos Chatziangelidis, Giota Chala, Theodora Papadopoulou, Stelios Dilintas, Andrea Bratu, Karolina Balionyte, Angeliki Kokkosi, Maria Nikolousi, Elvin Demiri

PHOTOGRAPHS
Panagiotis Voumvakis

BUDGET
$50k - 100k

AREA
0 Sqft - 1000 Sqft

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Chalcis, Greece

TYPE
Commercial › Retail

C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist

The optical shop C_29 / ’Optimist’, is an interwar listed building of a total surface 90m2 and is located in the centre of Chalkida.

C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist

The space is airy and expands along the central market and the back courtyard / patio which is formed in the core of the building.

The building itself is a composite construction with the ground floor being made of bearing masonry and the two floors of reinforced concrete bearer and filling brickwork.

C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist

The main design aspect was the creation of a gradient technique in the texture of materiality in order to emphasize the reflection and the absorbance of light.

This gradient tool continues to exist and plays a significant role even to the choice of materials, resulting in their sound existence or their theoretical absence in the formed space.

Some utilitarian objects are transformed into prismatic sculptures.

C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist

The courtyard space is defined by an imaginary cube. What is more is that the plan does not allow visual contact to the courtyard and the shop.

Therefore, there is formed a wall at an angle of 45 degrees in the intermediate space fully covered by mirror , which results in visual continuity between the two spaces.

C_29 / Optimist


C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist


C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist


C_29 / Optimist
C_29 / Optimist