Two projects by George Katodrytis / StudioNova Architects, Virus House and Dubai Culture Hub Two are published on the popular Italian web site: Europaconcorsi.com.
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Cypriot Modernists: George was voted Architect of the Year 2002, by Cyprus magazine MAN.The Virus House was developed from the idea of folding of the spatial continuum, and of the inside into the outside. Similar to paper origami, the design of the house has shifted from typology to topology. Thus,
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Making these interior spaces more large and comfortable (air-conditioning) and dressing them in domesticity (soft furnishings and ambience) is the best recipe for trapping and seducing fashion victims.
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Similar to paper origami, the design of the house has shifted from typology to topology. Thus, dynamic properties and variants are independent of size or shape, and are not changed by stretching, bending, or twisting. The formal composition, which was derived, allowed for a dynamic sculpting of the exterior: diagonal folds, cantilevers and oblique geometry, that invert the interior into the exterior, and vice-versa.
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Casa One: Concrete frame ground floor and steel frame upper level, allowing for different geometries and shifts to coexist.
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The new fabricated experience is like a kaleidoscope of unrelated fragments, which are forced into proximity; the new interior landscape is staged, in order to be consumed. Mobile furniture encourage social contact and visual interruptions encourage eye contact.
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Penthouse Extension
Diatopos Art Gallery