The “Bank of Buildings” is a residential building installation that tests the limits of the apartment building unit on an urban plot wider than that of the apartment building. It consists of four “apartment buildings” at a distance from each other that, like supports, hold a roof slab, planted for the common use of the residents. Between the four legs of the complex, the public space of the city circulates within the uncovered space. The common-void is the programmatic objective. This building presupposes the others, of the “population buildings”, that come later. The concrete block in the model is the residential unit on a scale. The palette on the roof brings the public’s imagination to a proposal that maintains all the characteristics of obedience to the laws and the logic of the feasible. With a constant reference to the public and the crowd, the proposal expands the boundaries of the jurisdiction of mass housing from the apartment building unit to the scale of the building block.
In collaboration with Phoebe Giannisi, Katerina Kritou, Nikos Platsas