Over time, habitation has evolved motivated by the need to serve the daily routine and climatic conditions present in the given age and according to each region’s demands. Therefore, habitation reflects the operations conducted in the household, the position each of its members hold in it and consequently depicts how society works, through its various spaces and their arrangement.
The plot selected is situated in Holargos and its area is approximately 490 square meters. In its current state it includes a recently built apartment building consisting of five floors/apartments which replaced a detached house with the capacity of one apartment. The latter arrangement is characteristic of the fashion buildings are built in the area.
The purpose of this proposal is to investigate the preservation of the suburban character of the area while still embracing the continuous increase of the population density. The design highlights to ensuring the independence of the tenants within the coexistence conditions dictated by the housing complex.
Additionally, our analysis explores the following 21-century dipole; on one hand the modern way of life of the ever moving citizen, clashing with the static way of life as imposed by the quarantine during the restrictions due to the pandemic. What is demanded from this modern approach to housing, is the versatility of the space and its ability to change both in terms of time and in terms of the swapping between those two aforementioned extremes.
Five typologies of residential complexes are proposed, each consisting of five apartments. The design and building plan have resulted from the study of the general composition of households in the area, the nature of their construction and the observation of the life modern inhabitants lead as well as additional needs that have arisen due to Covid-19 and subsequent regulations imposed including quarantine.