Issue No 7 | Page 11

πίσω στα περιεχόμενα / back to the contents > that exists on the longest side of the plot. Our design seeks to establish a unified relationship between the neighbourhood, the private garden and the public green area. In this way urban elements such as building, street and public space are not treated as absolute activities in isolation but as one single homogeneous configuration. Our house becomes part of the park and the park is included in the house, in a sense the two are interrelated with shared places such as the pedestrian pathway, the garden, the veranda, the door threshold ect. and are considered as elements of one big house-like city. In this way our garden house helps to upgrade the quality of the urban fabric and at the same time seeks out to improve the biodiversity and thus reduce the carbon dioxide footprints in the city. 11