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Summer House in Mesaria | Kapsimalis Architects
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Summer House in Mesaria | Kapsimalis Architects
The summer house is placed on the outskirts of the traditional village of Mesaria in Santorini, looking east to the rest of the settlement and to the Aegean sea, as also south to the surrounding landscape of vines. The main access to the house is via an old, narrow and serpentine pedestrian, which runs along the whole village, like a ‘river’, on either side of which, the village was formed.
The building was an old subterranean wine cellar or ‘canava’, comm0n use for this kind of rural settlements, which consisted of two interior vaulted spaces, a small exterior yard and a flat terrace on the top. In the main space, a built winepress, 4 underground cylindrical cisterns and a series of oak barrels were included, so as the wine to be naturally produced and stored. The second space was used as a small kitchen, while the yard and the terrace for the storing and drying of the agricultural products, as also for the collection of rain water.
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