Diploma Thesis by Chara Agnanti & Meropi Konstantinidou //
Although nowadays apartment buildings in big cities no longer meet the desired standard of living, they still remain the main housing solution. Therefore, it is crucial to improve the living conditions so that life in apartments becomes functional. Our approach does not refer to the creation of a new building type that will solve the issue of housing in the city but a fit to the available building stock in order to redefine and renew the concept of the “polykatoikia” and the importance of housing within it. The goal of this diploma thesis is to propose a new idea to the existing model of the Greek urban landscape, while indicating how spaces -that are often considered unused in the classic Greek polykatoikia-can be utilized. The resulting design is a mixture of old and new, in an existing shell, based on the needs of habitation and remembering the distinctive features of the area that compose a particular mosaic.
