








White Box Apartments
LOCATION: MESABELIES, HERAKLION, CRETE
RESIDENTIAL PROJECT: 4 APARTMENTS
STUDY ERA: 2020-2021
CONSTRUCTION ERA: 2023-TODAY
SITE AREA: 344 M2
STATUS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
BUILDING ARE: 240 M2
ENERGY CLASS: A +CLASS
COLLABORATORS:
MECHANICAL ENGINEER: VARDAKIS KOSTANTINOS
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: EPITROPAKIS EMMANOUIL, DETORAKIS MICHAIL
VISUALIZATION: DETORAKIS MICHAIL, TSIVIDAKIS KONSTANTINOS
White box appartments is a residential project located in Mesabelies, an area at the south part of Heraklion city in Crete. It’s a three storey building based on a pilotis which residential program consists of a loft appartment (70 sqm) and piloti garage at the ground floor, a bigger apartment (110 sqm) on the first floor and two appartments with attics on the second floor. The design of this project aims to a simple form like a box with a complex functionality as it is a three storey building with different layout in every floor.
It’s a mystery box which as a form has an introversion, but as a function comes out with extroversion. At first its given an impression of privacy for the interior apartments in a dense urban (ιστος) but with extroverted elements such as big openings, and large (ημιυπαιθριοι χώροι) , there is a filtered and controlled connection to the outer space and the surroundings, an attitude which redefines the urban living in a mediteranean city such as Heraklion.