In the proposal for the urban apartment house we attempt to solve issues that came up through personal experience and from analytic research regarding Thessaloniki’s historical centre, and the situation in its building blocks’ interiors. Considering the restrictions (building regulations, legislature), the proposal develops along two axes.
  The clear space of the chosen building block 122 of Thessaloniki’s Burnt Sector is designed in such a way, that the space is attributed back to the building block’s inhabitants, in an attempt to encourage the social contacts between them, and to attain the change of the region’s microclimate.
  In the building’s design the same aspect, i.e. the creation of spaces which favor the inhabitants’ sociability, prevails. The building is turned towards its interior and the common spaces are deployed there, as well as the apartment’s balconies. On the ground floor and rooftop common spaces, like an assembly hall and green spaces, are created. The apartments are handled as independent habitats, which is projected vertically on the building’s elevations and shape. Urban mentality is encouraged, so that the proprietary feeling is not confined to the apartment, but is extended with the form of respect and care for the whole building and building block.