Mavrokordatou Street Residence | Armon Choros Architektonikis

Mavrokordatou Street Residence located in Larnaca, Cyprus, designed by Cyprus based Armon Choros Architektonikis.

+ Project description courtesy of Armon Choros Architektonikis

It was considered that the choices had to be in dialogue with the oblong of the plot and the blind middle wall and so the actions should have been consciously in combination with these basic characteristics.

A passage up to the back of the plot pierces the narrow façade from the road and being tangent to the middle wall makes the access to the back yard, to the living spaces but also to the entrance. Simultaneously the passage is able to function as small open sitting place.

The internal circulations, horizontally and vertically, are led parallel to the passage, which they also extend. The spaces acquire transparency and including the linear indoor and outdoor circulations, create indirectly the sense of the introversion.

The process of the total volume in units attempts the amusement of strict linearity of the choices and gives scale to the work and the space. Emphasis is given also to the transparency of the internal vertical circulations.

Ground floor plan courtesy of Armon Choros Architektonikis

First floor plan courtesy of Armon Choros Architektonikis

Second floor plan courtesy of Armon Choros Architektonikis

Roof plan courtesy of Armon Choros Architektonikis

Section & Elevation courtesy of Armon Choros Architektonikis

+ Project credits / data

Project: Mavrokordatou Street Residence
Location: Larnaca, Cyprus
Architect: Armon Choros Architektonikis
Principle Architect: Eleftheria Serghidou, Vasilis Pashiourtides
Structural Engineering: Nicos Kalathas, George Demetriades
Photographer: Christos Papantoniou
Design: 1996
Completion: 2007
Construction cost: € 200.000.00

+ All images and drawings courtesy of Armon Choros Architektonikis | Photo by Christos Papantoniou