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Kapsimalis Architects converts wine cellar into cavernous summer house
Dezeen
Kapsimalis Architects converts wine cellar into cavernous summer house
Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects has converted a 19th-century wine cellar into a cavernous holiday home on the island of Santorini in Greece.
Named Summer House in Mesaria, the house is partially nestled into a steep landscape on the outskirts of the village of Mesaria.
It occupies two vaulted rooms of a former wine cellar, marked externally by sculptural white forms that extend out from the hillside.
The original building was an abandoned wine cellar, though its internal space and old equipment remained intact,” said Kapsimalis Architects co-founder Alexandros Kapsimalis.
“The building was an old subterranean wine cellar or canava, common in this kind of rural settlement, which consisted of two interior vaulted spaces, a small exterior yard and a flat terrace on the top,” he told Dezeen.
“In terms of the architectural restoration, the main facade, the exterior staircase and yard, the interior subterranean vaulted spaces, and also the previous trails are entirely kept.”
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