Cultural and Recreation Centre at the site of the School of Aristotle, Naoussa

Donation by the late Ch. Lanaras and the Lanaras family

                Α. Kotsiopoulos and partners: A. Kotsiopoulos, E. Zoumboulidou, A. Panou,

Collaborators: Τ. Tellios, Th. Kouvaki, E. Halkiopoulou, 

Civil Engineers I. Lavasas L. Deda,  E/M engineers G. Lagos, K. Sarropoulos, supervision D. Altinis, construction AKTOR,

Total built area: 1000 m2, Completed in 2006

The building has been awarded a Distinction of Honor in the competition of prizes “Architecture 2008” by the Hellenic Institute of Architecture.

The building was selected by the Association of Greek Architects - together with 4 other buildings - as a nominee to represent Greece in the Mies van der Rohe Award Competition 2007.

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This cultural and recreation centre, situated close to an important – yet almost unknown – archaeological site of northern Greece, was designed so that to guarantee a good view to the site, being at the same time almost invisible from that. The building houses an auditorium with supplementary spaces in the basement and a small museum and a restaurant in the ground floor, with a large outdoor restaurant space with a steel pergola facing the archaeological site. The building has a unified external skin of aluminium windows and of wooden semi-transparent shutters, which contribute to the invisibility of the built mass, a requirement strongly imposed to the designers by the Archeological Service, after long negotiations on the final placement of the building.

Publications

  • Eleftherotypia (newspaper)

  • Bulletin of Civil Engineers Association of Greece

  • Architecture in Greece 41/ 2007, pp 132-137

  • KTIRIO, No 192, October 2007, pp 38-44

  • The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, 2008, Phaidon Press

Exhibitions

  • 5th Exhibition of Architecture, Thessaloniki, after selection, 2005

  • Pan-hellenicExhibition of Architecture, Patras, after selection, 2006