The subject of this thesis is the causes, conditions, and properties of a problem that has developed in recent years about finding housing in major tourist destinations. A problem where the state mechanism is unable to help find housing for permanent or seasonal workers resulting in a situation that has a negative impact on the community as a whole.
Initially, examples of hotel units as well as entire settlements are being explored - exclusively tourist-oriented in relation to workers' accommodation with tourists. The broader social implications, and especially the spatial ones, which develop through the relation "tourist - visitor" and "worker - resident" are the starting point for the formation of work. On the one hand, the living conditions of most of the tourist-oriented and sometimes non-tourist-oriented employment (and alternate teachers, doctors, nurses, etc.) and on the other hand, a 'world' of luxury, amenities and modernization for tourists. , paying a very big price.
The work then focuses on the island of Santorini as the only Greek destination characterized by the phenomenon of hyper-tourism. A place where local authorities have devoted themselves exclusively to ensuring business profit rather than meeting social needs. In the multitude of examples, the design of tourism bears the characteristics of idealization, internal conversion, degradation of public space, spectacle and isolation.
Thus, with a different approach, through the work is proposed a hybrid building set with the essential feature of coexistence between employees and visitors. The aim is to develop relationships of care, sharing and mutual respect for the space alongside a self-serving direction of needs. With the space planning tool, we try to focus beyond the typological to the personal interaction - creating common sharing hubs. Causes that have a fertile and dynamic effect on the expansion of the "tourist-worker" social relationship produced through the configuration of space.