From a young age, architects Ermis Adamantidis and Dominiki Dadatsi spent summer holidays in Halkidiki, a forested coastal area in northern Greece about an hour’s drive from Thessaloniki, where they live and work together today as Not a Number Architects (NaNA). When presented with the opportunity to build on a tree-filled plot on Halkidiki owned by Adamantidis’s parents, the couple were eager to work on a project for themselves. Wanting to share their memories of the area with their own two children, the couple built a summerhouse on the plot. In addition to their private residence, the architects cleverly incorporated two additional dwellings into the building, which are rented to seasonal vacationers. “It’s our refuge,” Dadatsi told AN Interior.
Spread across the narrow, 2,700-square-foot plot in a linear “Z” shape that weaves between existing olive and pine trees, the three-in-one holiday house combines two stone towers with a white horizontal volume partially in stone. Dubbed “Treelithon” in reference to its trilithon-inspired form, the holiday complex’s unique shape is an expression of the architects’ site-specific approach.
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