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pitched timber roofs unify greek renovation project by local firm oblq
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designboom | architecture & design magazine
oblq reconfigures home in greece as vacation flatsPlatforms & Roofs is a renovation project in Argostoli, Greece, by local architects oblq.
It concerns the modification and reuse of an existing residential building into two independent vacation flats.
New fixed height pitched roofs unify formal inconsistencies into distinct bars with openings redesigned according to the new interior layout.
The platform is a mediator, a threshold that allows for smoother transitions from artificial/hard/clean/dry/domesticated interior spaces to natural/soft/messy/wet and mostly uncontrolled exterior spaces thanks to its abstract form.
the roof forms a system composed partially out of timber truss and Roman clay tilesthe architects reconfigured the volume and exterior spaces into a ‘difficult whole’