Front side on Korai street (pedestrian square). ‘E’ shaped vetrin show the orange and pineapple used in the juices preparation while the low part of the body is an ‘out-service station’ for the waiters; the ‘G’ shaped body is a metamorph LED sign.
Front side on Korai street (pedestrian square)
Front side on Korai street: night view, the groundfloor connect the public square with the commercial gallery to become a continuous space.
View from the commercial gallery.
View of the pastry display case and the orange resin floor folded.
The space runs along the glass and red corian bench and goes up in the double height, modelling itself around the big ‘E’ and ‘G’ shaped balconies.
Two big ‘E’ and ‘G’ shaped volumes float in the space: they are made of green PVC stretched film.
The concept of organic changing, metamorphosis and continuity, relates the changing of color of green, the orange and white resin finishes, the inox floor: all they are moving in a fluid growth process together with the glass-red corian bench.
View of the ‘EG’ balconies.
View of the ‘EG’ balconies.
‘Coffee machine area’ : the red corian bench shows its own mass, inserted in a block of folded steel.
View of the ‘drinks preparation area’
The red corian bench folds down and disappears into the floor in the direction of the staircase, the ‘roasting area’ and the openkitchen.
View from the staircase to the workbench.
Frontal view of the staircase with the temporary storage-exhibition of the coffee’s sacks and the poem for EverGreen printed on glass.
The staircase is characterized by a strong action of light and color, intensifying the experience of verticality.
View of the staircase from the upper level.
View of the staircase from the upper level.
The toilettes entry is marked on two sides from inox frames, while a inox ceiling runs from the top.
Gentlemen toilette entrance.
Gentlemen and ladies toilettes are identified by green and red doors with big letters XY and XX to indicate the difference in chromosomes.
View of the tables area with the ‘EG’ balconies.
View of the tables area with the ‘EG’ balconies.
View of the dionysos marble bench.
View of the triple height, from down to up: ground floor with the red corian bench, upper level with the ‘EG’ balconies, ‘white loft’.
The ‘white atmosphere’ of the loft is broken from the colored chairs and colored light reflections coming from the staircase.
The concept starts from a desire: to let the ‘customer experience’ become a ‘total
experience’. A space able to expand the customer senses by pushing them to
move, to feel forms, shapes and materials.
The EG space, as a ‘space performance’ doesn’t offer clear space solution, but just
‘undefined spaces’: multiplicity of semiologies, suggestions and metaphors, height
impact materials stimulating communication at different levels. The customer
needs to move, to explore, to search solutions, to activate the mind and senses.
Evergreen space is not an answer; it s a question, it gives you possibilities,
different roads: the role of the customer is active, they have to give their own
solution.
On the ground floor, varnished ash wood slats are used with several random tones
of green as floor and wall covering, to let the space vibrate between the different
possibilities of green. On the same floor, orange and white resin finishes are
moving in a fluid growth process where the white folds up to become a part of the
bench while the orange folds to become a wall before to turn in the direction of the
staircase and the open kitchen. The concept of organic changing, metamorphosis
and continuity, relates also the red corian bench: it moves through the space,
showing its mass and disappearing into the floor in the direction of the staircase.
Up this ‘in progress’ space, two big ‘E’ and ‘G’ shaped volumes float in the space
as two balconies; they are made of green PVC stretched film. All the materials like
also super mirror finish stainless steel, transparent coloured / fluorescent / radiant
Plexiglas, glass and glass mosaics, dionysos marble, are used to expand the
‘waiting experience’ by inducing in the customers the desire to explore, to learn
from the ‘multiplicity’ and ‘difference’.
Placed on the ground floor of a great commercial building protected by the
municipality of Athens, it overcomes the competition on the level of the spatial
continuity, modelling the new flooring to the adjacent slopes of the pedestrian
square and the commercial gallery, and opening completely the borders toward the
public spaces. The ground floor, with the big folded working and exhibition bench
for gastronomy and coffee(designed with Menelaos Koulouris), is a ‘significant
cavity’: it is an extension of the public space that now flows from outside to inside;
it runs along the glass and red corian bench and goes up in the double height
modelling itself around the big ‘E’ and ‘G’ shaped balconies. The staircase
(between the ‘red bench’ and the coffee roasting and open kitchen area) is
characterized by a strong action of light and colour, intensifying the experience of
verticality. The upper level is dedicated to the tables and also to the toilettes and
storage/dressing room.
Mr.Koulouris thinks about the process of designing of the EG as ‘stochastic process’:
“…there are process for wich knowing the past and present, the future cannot be determined; others for which the future is determined by the present, without keeping in mind the past.
Multiplicity of materials, chromatic dissonances, forms looking for order, make free the ‘aleatory variable’: amazing ability of space to form it in the mind and time, through the experience of the space itself.”
Year 2006
Work finished in 2006
Client EverGreen, Menelaos Koulouris
Status Completed works
Type Showrooms/Shops / Bars/Cafés / Interior Design / Custom Furniture / Graphic Design / Building Recovery and Renewal
