Project Name: The match Studio Name: Urban Farm House 365 Days Architecture Students: Glykeria Argyropoulou, Roula Banou, Stella Savvidou
Professor: Kotionis Zissis Contributors: Efi Dimitrakopoulou, Ph.D. Candidate UTH University: Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
University Location: Volos, Greece Year:2020
The “Match” is a design project that focuses on the residential challenge between urban and natural landscapes. Investigating who might be the expanded and hybrid ways of living in the countryside, the condition of in-between, life and activity (outward) and the de-layering of work are now being sought. The design approaches the daily life of the post-industrial subject, which in this case is a single mother with multiple qualities and a farmer, focusing on the heterogeneous roles and the effectiveness of each individual.
In Greece, this " amphibious" situation between the cities of labor and the countryside of leisure will be intensified and will cause these "secondary phenomena", the transfer of urban habits and structures to the countryside, resulting in the relative lifting of the city-country bipolar and the creation of a semi-outdoor life. An almost temporary residence structure of minimal living in the countryside with characteristics of minimal energy footprint, bioclimatic design, autonomy as well as environmental treatment of construction materials. “Match” aspires to serve as a prototype connection that foregrounds "culture/nature", "inside / outside", "city/countryside".
