The Lap Pool House on Tinos island. Credit: Aristides Dallas Architects The “Lap Pool House,” a modern house built on a slope of the Cycladic island of Tinos , is nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award, a prestigious European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. The Architectural Project of the Lap Pool House According to Aristides Dallas Architects, the team who created this masterpiece was inspired by the rocks’ cavities and ledges. The house emerges from the natural landscape as a human-made cave, re-creating spatial points of exposure and introversion. The entrance of the house is located at the back of the building. People can enter through an earth crack, while different roof cuts allow light and air to enter the building. The architects say that the water in the pool that is one of the main features of the house ”contrasts with the rocky texture of the bare concrete as a translation of the interactions between natural elements.” Concrete is also the theme t...
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