IOANNINA POLIKATIKIA
ClientOnassis FoundationStatusPreliminary Design 2024LocationIoannina, GreeceArea1.698m²TeamPiSaACollaboratorsIoannis KarrasPicturesPiSaAShare
The project seeks to expand the stock of affordable housing in the city for various social groups, mainly young people.
The intention is to create a building understood as an infrastructure that evolves freely in three social spheres: the neighborhood, the community, and cohabitation.
The plot is located on Tzavela Street, a central street in the commercial center of the city.
The listed building together with the new addition, each with a separate use, are proposed as another installation on this axis, sharing spaces with the neighborhood and expressing the richness of the internal community life on its most public facade. A program of shared spaces emerges from the participatory process. These are distributed in height across all floors. Circulations always accompany the shared spaces. They are open, airy and sunny spaces, to enhance human relationships, spontaneous meetings and collaborative activities throughout the building.
On the ground floor we find the communal kitchen-dining room, a bicycle area and a workshop open to the neighborhood, the lobby and two professional spaces. On the other floors the houses in 3 typologies will alternate, to ensure a variety in the façade.