Point Supreme elevates basement living with colourful design in Athens

Greek architecture studio Point Supreme transforms a neglected basement into a playfully designed apartment filled with colour and texture in the Athenian residential neighbourhood of IlioupoliPhotography: Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

An unfinished, lower ground level apartment in an existing block of flats in the sleepy neighbourhood of Ilioupoli, Athens, coming in a fairly compact size – just 56 sq m – and a small budget for a residential redesign, may not seem like the most exciting commission at first glance; but architecture studio Point Supreme’s Konstantinos Pantazis and Mariana Rentzou beg to differ.

‘The budget was small, but the owners were a lovely couple,’ the Athens based partners recall. ‘They liked our work and decided to ask us to design the space assuming that we would refuse because of the limited scope and possibilities. But we couldn’t resist taking on the challenge after seeing their strong, conscious desire to work with us.

And true to their word, the architects composed a design that feels a world away from your typical apartment interior. Embracing the existing space’s rawness and the structure’s exposed concrete, the Pantazis and Rentzou worked with a range of different materials and textures to create a tactile, playful, largely open plan home. Timber and glass partitions separate various uses and heavy, brightly coloured curtains add privacy where needed.

One of the biggest challenges Pantazis and Pentzou faced was avoiding ‘standard design decisions that would normalize the experience and kill the magic’, they add. No fear of that in this Ilioupoli apartment, where deep colour meets natural textures, all softly lit through basement windows to create a dreamy quality that makes you forget you are in Athens’ densely built metropolis. §

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