Free standing family house in Rotterdam with a double height dining area. The facade combines wooden and concrete elements.
In the former hockey field Leonidas at the Kralinger Esch Rotterdam is a neighborhood of 46 detached houses, aiming to build with as many natural materials and low or no energy. The houses get green garden with a hedge as a boundary.
ExS 5th house in Leonidas area of Kralingen Rotterdam. A two storey house with a combination of wood and brick on the facade.
Two townhouses in Entreegebied Amsterdam.
Due to the highway, which is located next to the plots, the houses are designed with a soundproof facade.
ExS is working on the design of a tower with a basic grid structure that will allow vertical self-building. Habraken’s Support and Infill revisited.
Renovation and building permit for the transformation of a former office building near Schiphol Airport . Hotel Venus will consist of 60 long & short stay apartments for ex-pats.
We have been selected among two other architects to design the dreamhouse of Matthijs and Winnie in the former hockey field Leonidas at the Kralinger Esch Rotterdam. Their plot is beautifully situated next to a green space.
Deckhuis is a wooden house that combines indoor and outdoor living in a functional and energy-efficient way. It is ideal for first-time homebuyers who want to expand their home in the future or for those who want to live close to nature.
We have designed a new two-under-one roof house in Plantjevlag Nijmegen for percel B59/B60. A laid back house made from wood and glas with lots of light.
The Stadsmakerscongres is a initiative of Air Rotterdam to discuss topics in Rotterdam on how to improve city planning that leads to urban renewal. This year 7 citylabs have been introduced spread out in Rotterdam which the question on how to create synergy between city planning & citymakers.
ExS designed a Bungalow house. This design is suitable for those who want to live in touch with the nature, in a small house surrounded by a garden! Design team: Annelies Bellemans, Elina Karanastasi.
Five houses in a row and two semi-detached, where the future inhabitants decided to build together and formed the “CPO Experiment 2015”. ExS architects are honoured to be chosen as architects.
ExS has designed terraced houses with saddle roof for the first time. Due to regulations, ExS expanded their range of design to explore architecture with a traditional roof and as surface for photovoltaic panels.
The peculiarities of the oval plot urged for a special design with no front or back side. The interior and exterior are in a continuous dialogue while both landscape and building create a spiral that finds its climax in a central atrium.
Veldhuis offers a variety and flexibility in living and working based on the "three zones" concept on the ground floor: the work or hobby area, the facilities (kitchen, wc, storage) and the main living area. This organization provides a functional and energy efficient solution, since all "wet spaces" are grouped together, while creating an additional space, a "cadeau" for the owners: there you can find yourself knitting, you can play or you can organise cooking workshops, a small group yoga and meditation session or a private counselling session.
Onewall house is organized around the principle of an ‘equipped wall': a long wall on the side that hosts the main installations (water and electricity). This has a double effect: 1.
A tattoo shop in the centre of Rotterdam, where ‘luxury’ features are imprinted on basic cubic furniture and an unfurbished interior shel.
The digital prints turn the textiles into lace curtains, the lamps into chandeliers, the concrete floor into carpets and the walls into art frames for the new tattoo designs.
This project celebrates the recycling of consumer objects and their reuse as articulated construction materials. It is not seen as a messiah for the salvation of the environment and for its greening and its rewilding, but rather as an aesthetic statement addressed to the local community.
“Come where? To what extraordinary adventure? She woke with a start.
To land somewhere, to climb somewhere? Where was he leading them? For after his immense silence the words startled them.
The Digi-tile explores the potentials for new ways of studying, evolving and realizing architectural ornaments in contemporary architectural design. Computer aided modeling and drafting protocols – in combination with new production technologies – have contributed to wholly new ways of shaping building elements.
A dynamic exhibition and a critical reflection on open design and art by/for all.
If you would like to collaborate with us or contribute to the debate please contact us at: welcome@exsarchitects.
“Triko” is a tile designed by ExS and manufactured by Greenwall. Triko tile was originally designed for all the parking places in Kissamos bay 10,5 km project.
The current project questions the rigidity of traditional brick facades. Keeping in mind advancements in computer aided designand newly developed robotic construction techniques, we have attempted to generate a surface by using a very traditional building material in a highly contemporary manner.
Wallpot combines urban horticulture with architecture. It is a structural material, a flower pot, a passive cooling coating, or all of these together.
It is a house with a greenhouse in the middle, that can easily transform into two houses in the future. Or…the oposite: two houses built together with common or divided greenhouse that have a lot of possibilities for transformations and expansions in the future.
The project is a study on the vicinity and privacy of different families living in intense density in an urban plot. The different types of apartments emerge in a U-shape volume around a common greenhouse.
The project is a study on the optimal privacy, togetherness and terms of coextistance of two young sisters. Flexible space is created to cover the range of possibilities in future life of the two 22 year old sisters, though greek culture on building a house directs building for a lifetime.
Ex-Box is a wooden super-eco shelter, that inside and outside have blurred borders. It is designed as a 6,50X6,50X6,50 box, exploded to smaller horizontal and perpendicular platforms, in order to get light and proper ventilation.
The trellis was originally designed for a garden in Waalre, the Netherlands as a morphing of modern and art-deco. It can be reproduced to fit any space.
‘Superplan.me’ is a research collaboration of ExS together with Dpr Barcelona, Eva Papamargariti and Vasso Plavou.
Lecture by Elina Karanastasi on the 4th of August 2014 in UIA Durban. ‘What if we had bitparcels instead of plots?’ is a retrospective analysis on a project of ExS together with Griik Architects and WeLoveTheCity Urban planners.
Type: Hotel
ExS’ role: preliminary design, building permit, tender for renovation and extension of existing modern building, interior design, decoration, lighting design, landscape design, signing, objects design
Client: ENBIT ATE, AXION CONSTRUCTION
Architect: Elina Karanastasi
Team: R.Nikolaidou, G.
This is a proposed strategy for bringing together people with innovative and socially beneficial ideas, property owners and domestic financial investors, in order to re-fill and re-feed Athens centre according to people's choices. Although spontaneous public participation is easily stimulated in the turbulent situation of contemporary Athens, it is a rather big challenge to sustain longer-term people engagement.
Most of the biological processes occur in the upper layers of the soil. However, in the urban environment the non-permeable surfaces covering the surface of the earth have caused a significant disturbance of the natural cycles.
Type: Hair salon
ExS’role: Design & Construction
Client: V. Machairas
Architects: with the team MATRIX_G.
Type: Competition
ExS’ role: preliminary-final design, building licence
Client: Τhe Grand Egyptian Museum
Team: Elina Karanastasi, G.Bacoulis, B.
Type: Competition, Recomendation
Client: GEK S. A.
Type: offices
ExS’ role: Design & Supervision
Client: AXION CONSTRUCTION
Architect: Elina Karanastasi
Team: R. Nikolaidou, S.
