House in Lemesos, designed by George Papadopoulos
House is Lemesos is the best home design that I’ve been posted in this blog. This is really spoiled our eyes to look into every detail of the buildings which are harmoniously combined with the garden around the house. He is George Papadopoulos, an architect from Skinotechniki Architects Firm, who success to make home design with fresh nuances in every part of this house. The use of soft and natural color and good combination of wood, natural stone, and glass materials make this house become so natural. The beautiful garden around this house looks so beautiful in the night with the present of lighting arrangement.
Description from the architect:
The house is built between two narrow streets in the old part of the town of Lemesos, about 50m from one of the most popular stretches of sandy beach in Cyprus, and just down the road from the house I grew up. The site was previously occupied by an old carob mill that burnt down in a fire in 1989, leaving only the ruins of the stone walls.
The aim was to create a family home for me, my wife, and our four boys. For convenience and privacy, we wanted our place of work to be within the same plot but to have a separate entrance. The building had to fit into it’s surrounding environment of both traditional two storey stone and adobe single family dwellings, and some small old industrial buildings. At the same time it had to be modern, learning from traditional architecture but not copying it. Towards my aim of creating a coherent and safe environment for my family, I drew ideas from my own childhood memories of playing under huge plane trees in a house next to a mountain stream.
Last but not least, I wanted to apply ecological solutions to heating, cooling, lighting and water management.Most rooms in the house face the partly covered internal courtyard. This is a traditional way of building in Cyprus helping to keep the family together and safeguard the privacy of the occupants. A neoclassical proportional system that relates to human scale, is applied to both interior and exterior surfaces and can be seen in plan, elevation and section. (source:contemporist)
