Pedion Areos is a big park located in the center of the urban plan of Athens. It is the second bigger green space in Athens after the National Garden. It is surrounded by the streets Alexandras, Mavromateon, Evelpidon, Moustoxidi, Bosgou and Valtinon. The place, named nowadays Pedio Areos, was till the 20s an open space situated in between the underpopulated districts of Gkizi and Kipseli. At first it was isolated from the web because of the streams and the few access points. Until the 30’s, there were the equestrian faculty, the Faculty of Evelpidon and at infringement of the city plan a veterinary clinic, the Geographical Service Of Army, 3 refugee settlements, cafes, a private school and two churches. The current form of the park was given in 1934. It was directly affected from the need of saving money and time and the fact that it was not possible to remove some installations before the planning. Later, the addition of green created discontinuities in the web. Today the park maintains the same, changed only regarding the uses. It is however neglected so that now assembles marginalized people and immigrants. Nevertheless, we can observe the genuine contact with public space and the inventiveness of use.
Reasons for planning were: the use of historical layers, new activities, the natural procedure, underlining the connection between nature and time and the social stratums which characterize this space. The respect in the existing situation and the process of evolution of the structured environment imposed the re-establishment of its cohesion that up to now is split by an "impenetrable" core of green. The central idea of the new plan begins from the fact that the space that today is named Pedio Areos constituted the void in between the two streams. This characteristic connected with the structured environment creates a mesh that results from the idea of connecting the banks of streams and continuity of urban void. This mesh is combined with the axis of Evelpidon faculty that its passage through the mesh of streets is twisted. More specifically the approach in the landscape aimed at the creation of two different but connected spaces: the "internal garden" and the "exterior landscape". The "internal garden" is a space drawn in the centre of region. It is an articulation of places and different sentiments and its identity is stressed by the alternation of hard and soft surfaces. On the contrary, the "exterior landscape" emphasises the functionalism, the sense of penetrability and indispensable possibility of reading the space via three axes that penetrate the park from one utmost to the other. Additionally, the “exterior landscape” embraces the limits of its sub-areas of internal garden, assembles the uses selected for the park and emphasises the arterial corridors but also the secondary ways, between the buildings and the green, that lead to the centre of the composition, to the internal garden. The dense and tall planting is situated in the limits of region and objects to the vertical urban elements of the city. There were drawn voids that attempt they encompass the history of place, in combination with the use of planting and different sizes. Natural and artificial, specifically selected plants and uses of buildings, are combined in surfaces, creating secondary centres of activities and their "outskirts". Generally, we can say that the character of this region is that of a landscape of gardens where the big groups of trees are placed between an articulated landscape of grass and coating.