Connection VII is a new addition of facilities to the research center ‘NCSR DEMOKRITOS’. The goal of the interventions is to respect and harmonize them in the natural environment of Hymettus, and to strengthen the operations of the center with new spaces of complementary importance - presentations, research, relaxation, sports, and hospitality. The complex includes 7 fundamental building infrastructures and another 5 open space structures. These include accommodation quarters for researchers, restaurants, indoor and outdoor amphitheaters, an exhibition center, workshops, sports facilities, and relaxation spaces, while the complex connects both conceptually and practically with the city and the landscape through a continuous walk that crosses the whole intervention. Connection VII aims to provide the visitor an overall experience of knowledge for science and the natural environment in which he/she lives and often forgets.
