NOEMIA ATHENS
INTERIOR DESIGN | HOSPITALITY
YEAR
2026
LOCATION
Athens, Greece
TYPE
Hospitality
AREA
226.88 sqm
STATUS
Completed
ΑRCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION
Dashing architects
The Noemia Athens Project draws its inspiration from the ancient Kallirroi. Spring, a historic water source of Athens that gave its name to Kallirrois Avenue, near which the building is located, reinforcing this conceptual relationship. Once a place of ritual, gathering, and continuous flow, the spring becomes a key reference for the project. Building upon this layered historical context, the proposal is developed as a contemporary residential intervention in the center of Athens, comprising four short-stay apartments distributed across different levels of an existing building.
The diversity of the existing floor plans became a key design driver, leading to the formation of four distinct typologies, as each level presented different spatial conditions, proportions, and constraints. The main challenge was to integrate all units into a unified architectural identity while preserving their internal autonomy. The design approach is based on continuity through dialogue, creating a cohesive yet differentiated system in which each apartment develops its own atmosphere and spatial narrative. Coherence is achieved through shared design gestures, alignments, and carefully orchestrated transitions that enhance flow and connection between levels.
Each apartment is conceived as an experiential environment where movement, light, and spatial sequencing shape the user’s perception. Interior partitions function as active architectural elements rather than neutral boundaries, while in several units the shower is elevated to a central sculptural feature, redefining intimacy and everyday ritual.
THIRD FLOOR
Art plays an integral role through curated framed works that reference Athens both directly and abstractly. Sculptural pieces designed by the studio act as focal points, forming abstract translations of Ancient Greek imagery derived from vessels and temple iconograph.
SECOND FLOOR
The chromatic palette draws inspiration from the polychromatic language of Ancient Greek temples, reinterpreting deep blue, ochre yellow, and dark burgundy tones in a contemporary way. Integrated throughout the apartments, these colors reinforce spatial identity while establishing a dialogue between antiquity and contemporary inhabitation.
FIRST FLOOR
Materiality further consolidates the project’s identity through references to the Athenian modern and postmodern apartment block. Elements such as herringbone parquet flooring, glass blocks, and varied glass textures introduce a layered material vocabulary characterized by diffusion, permeability, and gradations of transparency. These strategies do not reproduce past conditions but reinterpret them, forming a cohesive material system that mediates between past and present while rearticulating the aesthetic language of the Athenian “polykatoikia” within a contemporary architectural framework.
GROUND FLOOR