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Zacharista Live-Work
Location
Athens
Year
2020
Zacharitsa 27 is a home-work-shop hybrid, in Koukaki, Athens. Its design allows for uses beyond the domestic, hoping for interactions with the wider Koukaki neighbourhood as an exhibition space, a shop, a workshop, a place to write or a place to host dinner. Built in 1979, it began its life as a typical post-war polykatoikia (apartment building). The home was owned and occupied by a craftswoman who made and sold crafts for weddings and christenings. The design approach has sought to respect the original building’s architecture and purpose, to fold in traditional techniques and salvaged materials and subtly merge modern amenities. The original steel spiral staircase, marble window sills and terrazzo floors have been stitched together with new terrazzo flooring and reclaimed marble patch-worked tiles. The kitchen’s reclaimed marble workbench and sink sit on brickwork and textured concrete cast on-site. The subterranean bathroom’s new concrete bath sits on old and introduced marble tiles and slabs. Zacharitsa is filled with found European mid-century furniture, locally made or sourced objects and artworks and plants.























