Tense architecture network/TAN is woven since 2004 by Tilemachos Andrianopoulos and Kostas Mavros as a network of collaborators and works of architecture. Architect Thanos Bampanelos joined in 2009, civil engineer Athanasios Kontizas supports it right from the start. The practice’s work includes several awarded residences as well as first prize competition proposals –among them a Town Hall in Crete and the rehabilitation of the Venetian Arsenali and their wider surrounding space in the port of Herakleon. Residence in Kifissia was awarded a special mention by the Hellenic Association of Architects and Residence in Sikamino was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Mies Van der Rohe Award 2013. Tilemachos Andrianopoulos is a Lecturer at the School of Architecture in National Technical University of Athens.

Residence in Sikamino

The field is oblong, agricultural, planted with olive trees. The earth dominates. -How can a residence be a rise in the ground, how can it be confined to a roof? The residence is its roof: a 60 meters long one. You can walk on it. While approaching the plot, it can be perceived as a slightly elevated earthy crust, with the mountains of Euboea in the background. The Sykamino residence seems to be effectively two-faced: It is gentle but at the same time it is not. It is integrated into its field but nevertheless opposes itself to it. It disappears at certain points, but insistently manifests its vigour. Its amalgamation is consciously imperfect, incomplete. It is not a camouflage-building, a building-landscape. Its architecture declares its presence, and above all, its openness. 
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