HOUSE IN TINOS
Location: Tinos, Greece
Desing Collaborator: Penny Alevizou
Photography: Lorenzo Zandri
Construction: Aegean Construction
Completion: 2025
# Award for Best First Project by an Architect at the DOMa Awards
The project involves the renovation and extension of a residence located on the island of Tinos. The house has a total area of 115 sq.m. and is developed over two levels, following the natural slope of the terrain. Originally serving as a rural outbuilding (keli), the structure was gradually transformed through an earlier intervention into a functional dwelling. Wherever feasible, the original material fabric was exposed and preserved, allowing concrete and stone to coexist with newly introduced elements of wood and marble
The design is centred around the ideas of tactility and flow. Materials such as stone, concrete, wood, and marble were left to express their natural character, with rough textures and visible imperfections. Nothing in the plan was orthogonal; there was not a single 90-degree corner. Rather than correcting this condition, the design embraces it and uses it as a starting point for the spatial organisation to encourage a continuous flow through the house.