Divercity Architects Trac

Project: Hotel
Location: Messaria, Santorini, Greece
Client: Athenaem & Intercontinental Hotels Group
Project Status: Preliminary design
Collaborators: Mplusm, architects
Sophia Vantaraki, space consultant

The Santorini Resort is a combination
of a renovation and the design of an entirely
new plot. While the renovation upgrades the existing
area by completely reorganising all buildings and public
spaces, the new plot adds another modern 30 villas
to the project. In reference to the staggered traditional
architecture of Santorini, this new plot creates a built
landscape of nested villas that follow the slope
of the natural ground. Each one is arranged around
a protected private terrace which provides shaded
areas, a pool and views over parts of the island down
to the Mediterranean Sea. Using the local and traditional
idea of creating wide walls, the facade of each villa
operates as furniture, much more than just a separation-
being able to be used and inhabited from either side
it creates a specialtransition between
the inside and outside.