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Bar Guru Bar
klab architects | |
| location | Athens |
| function | bar |
| contributed by | klabarchitecture |
The commission was to create an additional floor to the existing building as well as to design proposals for the jazz bar on the upper floor and for the design of the new exterior façade. klab architects gave a great deal of consideration to the idea of duality and the transformation between day time and night time activity in the area. Their response was to create a skin of rusted steel that could become a 'bunker' during the morning and open up during the night. The context of the area was a neglected urban centre and a piazza that no one knew existed. The adjacent buildings were used for light manufacture, and their condition was one of decay, mostly covered by metallic panels. This condition was used as an inspiration in choosing the materials for the surface of the façade. The rusting material of the façade is a metaphor for the transformation in a deteriorating phase. The building is also transformational with the kinetic movement of steel plates that open to form window shutters
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