Germanina

Municipality of Geroskipou
Pafos, Cyprus

A’ Prize in International Architectural Competition for the reconstruction & development of the Germanina Site.

The competition aims to formulate architectural design and programming proposals for the rehabilitation of the listed “Germanina Estate” complex (19th century) and its incorporation into the contemporary urban life of Pafos in Cyprus.

Proposed uses include a wide spectrum of visitors services, of cultural, educational, and leisure functions. The intention is to create a central, multifunctional core that concurrently preserves both the character of the landscape and the scale and typology of existing solids and voids. Event spaces, restaurants, a chapel, a theater and a themed museum dedicated to Aphrodite are sited on a single, multi-linear circulation stroke.

A Botanical Park completes the proposal by spreading along the Museum rooftops and then circumscribing the entire estate. The Park takes the form of a florid, woven textile devoted to the Land of Cyprus. Subsections of the Park, differentiated with unique chromatic and morphological palettes, symbolize the natural topography of western Cyprus and the relationship between built and unbuilt, valleys and hills, land and sea, urban and agricultural landscapes.

The continuous, creative dialogue between culture and nature via architectural design leads to a renewed emergence of the Mediterranean landscape, which is here transformed into a veritable point of reference, a true topos.

Germanina

Municipality of Geroskipou
Pafos, Cyprus

A’ Prize in International Architectural Competition for the reconstruction & development of the Germanina Site.

The competition aims to formulate architectural design and programming proposals for the rehabilitation of the listed “Germanina Estate” complex (19th century) and its incorporation into the contemporary urban life of Pafos in Cyprus.

Proposed uses include a wide spectrum of visitors services, of cultural, educational, and leisure functions. The intention is to create a central, multifunctional core that concurrently preserves both the character of the landscape and the scale and typology of existing solids and voids. Event spaces, restaurants, a chapel, a theater and a themed museum dedicated to Aphrodite are sited on a single, multi-linear circulation stroke.

A Botanical Park completes the proposal by spreading along the Museum rooftops and then circumscribing the entire estate. The Park takes the form of a florid, woven textile devoted to the Land of Cyprus. Subsections of the Park, differentiated with unique chromatic and morphological palettes, symbolize the natural topography of western Cyprus and the relationship between built and unbuilt, valleys and hills, land and sea, urban and agricultural landscapes.

The continuous, creative dialogue between culture and nature via architectural design leads to a renewed emergence of the Mediterranean landscape, which is here transformed into a veritable point of reference, a true topos.