🔸The Summer Refuge🔸Episode 3: Peloponnese House by
@pointsupreme stands for authenticity and the familiarity of vernacular.
In The Summer Refuge series, curated by Archt. for
@archisearch , we focus on summer houses that shelter time, memory and dreams closely connected to nature, to rural landscape, to vernacular architecture, and to notions such as ‘summer idleness’, ‘disconnection’, ‘slow living’, and Martin Heidegger’s ‘Dasein’ namely the art of being present in the world.
The third episode, follows Point Supreme in the recent restoration and redesign of a two-story traditional stone-built house in the mountains of Peloponnese, designed for a family of four. Built a century ago by folk wisdom born out of necessity, the house reflects, in the present day, a different way of life—one inseparable from the cycles of nature, coexistence with animals, and manual labor. The rough, raw character of the structure is restored, and preserved in its entirety, with stone, wood, plaster, and mud continuing to define the project’s spatial experience. Distinctive elements of rural Greek architecture such as the “liakoto” (sunroom), the “ontas” and the built-in “krevata” (day bed) are introduced translating the traditional into the present. Using as tools the magnetic force of the archetype, the familiarity of the vernacular, and the rough grounding of the handmade, Point Supreme brought back to life a house—a refuge within nature—stripped of unnecessary luxury, a house vast “like glory or ignorance,” a house seemingly drawn from the verses of Cavafy and Ritsos.
On this occasion, the architect and editor-in-chief of Archisearch.gr,
@melina.arvaniti.pollatou , spoke with the studio’s co-founder,
@konstantinos.pantazis , about architecture as an “art of adaptation” – a political act that is exercised upon the material world, like an archaeological excavation, functioning very consciously as an agent of civilization.
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@filipdujardin ,
@gmessaritakis
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