K-Studio designed Helios restaurant & bar on Athens Riviera, as a continuation of the modernist architecture of the existing main building of the Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel.

This project is located in the Nafsika Hotel pool area, with part of it positioned in front of the hotel building, parallel to the pool and looking to the sea, and the other placed perpendicular to it, in an L-shape cornering the pool and closer to the sea.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

The first structure, closest to the hotel, is the restaurant and bar for which K-Studio were asked to provide seating for 180 covers arranged in zones of lounge, low dining and standard dining.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Four Seasons’ operators wanted this place to be as much a place of relaxation as it would be a restaurant and bar.

K-Studio wanted the identity of the spaces to be a continuation of the modernist architecture of the existing hotel building, an emblematic building with a strong orthogonal grid.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

They used this grid as a guide to zoning the spaces and extended it within our building, placing a pergola on top of it to create free-flowing space below and alongside the pool, and avoiding any competition with the building behind it.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

“The white aluminium pergola respects the grid and integrates with the linear, orthogonal identity of the building”.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Making the pergola of aluminium, allows it to withstand the abrasive seafront environment but also means it is visually a lot lighter than the building, like a sketch over it.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

This pergola quickly became a sequence of pergolas with varied heights to allow a distinction between each and creating the opportunity to create zones beneath them.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Yiorgos Kordakis

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Yiorgos Kordakis

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Yiorgos Kordakis

“K-Studio established two cores: a food bar and a drinks bar”.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

These two attraction points have different types of seating either side of them and a free-flowing circulation and visual connection between them, showcasing the artful creation and presentation of food and drink that is a signature of the Four Seasons brand.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Yiorgos Kordakis

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Yiorgos Kordakis

“The floor divides the grid of the pergolas, in half, creating smaller areas at varying heights to allow for coziness within the openness”.

So whilst the pergola connects space, the floor separates it. A sequence of hanging curtains creates an ephemeral boundary between the zones, adds playful animation to the spaces and a soft sense of privacy.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

At the cocktail bar and its surrounding lounge area, the floor breaks up and spills out onto the beach in front, creating small areas of laid-back seating with fire pits, for even more casual gatherings.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Extra care has been taken to incorporate the existing trees and rock formations thus integrating the building well into the site.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

The pergola is woven around and between them and allows them to push up through it in “stitching moments”.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

The overall impression is of an elegant white structure that celebrates the design, character and ethos of the adjacent building, extending its formalistic architecture into a more diagrammatic space, filled with light and movement.

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Architectural Design: K-STUDIO, Photo © Peter Landers

Facts & Credits:

Project Title: Helios Restaurant & Bar, Type: Restaurant & Bar, Location: Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel – Vouliagmeni Athens – Greece, Architectural Design: K-Studio, Design Team: Giorgos Mitrogiorgis – Alexis Chortogiannis – Christos Spetseris – Vassilis Eleftheriadis – Dimitra Pavlakou – Nantia Karampini – Eleni Aroni – Meni Gentimi – Thodoris Kantarelis – Stavros Kotsikas – Lila Simou, 3D Visuals: K-Studio, Surveyor: TOPOANALYSIS, Planning Consultant: Periklis Konstantinidis (AETER), Structural Engineer: HELLINIKI MELETITIKI, Mechanical Engineer: LDK Consultants (Nektarios Kampanos – Spyros Kostopoulos – Themistoklis Alexakis), Lighting Designer: LDG, Sound Consultant: TIMAGENIS, Landscape Architecture: doxiadis+ (Thomas Doxiadis – Aggeliki Mathiudaki), Main Constructor: AKTOR, Kitchen Consultant: Humble Arnold Associated, Metal Works: Georgios Mitras, Status: Completed 2019, Area (m²): 710 m² (Helios restaurant) – 410 m² (Helios bar), Text Description: K-Studio, Photography: Peter Landers – Yiorgos Kordakis

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Suppliers:

Chairs and Stools: MIA COLLECTION, Fibres: CANEPLEX, Kitchen: XENEX

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