“Coastal Horizon”, Glyfada, Greece
Conceived as a layered architectural landscape located right across from the Glyfada sea, the ‘’Coastal Horizon’’ residential project is composed of superposed horizontal planes that dissolve the boundary between building and environment. Rather than a singular mass, the architecture unfolds as a sequence of inhabited slabs, each offset to create terraces, shade, and deep transitions between interior and exterior. These planes act simultaneously as structure, roof, and landscape, establishing a strong horizontal order that anchors the building within its context.
Materiality plays a central role in expressing this concept. Warm wooden surfaces define the primary volumes, lending a tactile and human scale to the architecture, while light-toned slabs emphasize levitation and continuity. Vegetation is integrated directly into the built form, occupying terraces and edges to create a living canopy that moderates climate, filters light, and reinforces the project’s bioclimatic performance.
Circulation and habitation are organized around these layered thresholds, allowing dwellings to open generously toward light, air, and views while remaining protected by overhangs and screens. The result is an architecture of calm horizontality, where structure, landscape, and habitation are fused into a single stratified system—an inhabited topography that privileges lightness, sustainability, and spatial continuity over monumentality.
project info
Architectural Office: 314 Architecture Studio
Location: Glyfada, Greece
Area: 2350 sq.m. Structural Engineer: FNK -Foteini Karagianni Mechanical Engineer: SKV Consulting – Stefanos Karagiannis Type: Residential