A synergy of striking architecture and energy efficiency

The office building of the well-known shipping group Angelikousis stretches across seven floors with a superstructure of approx. 16,000m² and four basement floors of also 16,000m². It is divided into two functional sections, the office building and the nautical building.

The long horizontal lines of a ‘floating in the sea’ fluid form expands or contracts, adapts to the urban scale, and differentiates the building from its surroundings. This creates a strong corporate image in the cityscape and enters into a dialogue with the intense Attic light. A ‘thick wall’ strategy transforms the external aspect into a ‘movie-strip’. An ellipsoidal atrium gives spatial intelligibility and generates a play of light and shadows. Agemar covers 30,616 square meters of floor area in two buildings.

Building A, Administration, houses the entrance foyer, company museum, and library on the ground floor, open-plan offices on five floors, owners’ and executive offices on the sixth floor, and an owners’ lounge, a canopy, and an extensive roof garden on the top floor.
Building B, Crew, has an amphitheater and a restaurant on the ground floor, offices on three floors, and a roof garden.

The two buildings connect underground on four levels, with a company gym and a twenty-five-meter swimming pool, bridge and engine simulators, and auxiliary spaces on the first underground level, and parking for 330 cars on the other three.

As if in a metaphor of a boat at sea, materiality distinguishes between the white of the floating upper part and the gray of the base, white marble cladding CNC cut with a stainless-steel substructure in the upper part of Building A, a GRC prefabricated claustra and gray sanded marble for the base. Building B, on the other hand, is covered by a vertical garden. Hager underfloor boxes as well as systo switchgear were selected for this huge project.

Project: Agemar Headquaters

Location: Athens, Greece

External partners:

- Photographs: Nikos Daniilidis

- Manufacturers: Vitrocsa, Abopart, Armstrong Ceilings, Chilewhich, Corian - Dupont, Epexyl, Knauf, Marathon, STELNIC, Schüco, Smili, Steelcase, Sto Color, VitrA

- 3d Modeling: A. Georgiadis

- Interior Design: Ch. Theodoropoulos, I. Kloni

- Architect: sparch Sakellaridou/Papanikolaou

- Model: K. Moustakas

Products and solutions: Underfloor trunking system, systo, cubyko, witty EVCS

Photo requirements: Nikos Daniilidis

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