Located in Nicosia, Cyprus, this pavilion was constructed as an extension to the existing home of an architect. Designed by Kythreotis Architects in 2013, the pavilion is situated in a 2,000 square meter plot of land, along the Pedieos river, in the Ayios Andreas district of the city of Nicosia, Cyprus, and is designed to co-exist with a refurbished 1940’s listed house.
The T shaped site enjoys an 80 meter long exposure to the river, on the east, along which, the garden gently slopes down to meet the river bank and merge with its natural habitat, thus blurring the boundary between the man-made and the natural. The architecture of the pavilion building represents a minimalist expression of structure, space and context. Spatially, it consists of a 9 by 11 meter, semi-basement exposed concrete space, containing a bedroom, bathroom, seating room and a kitchen, acting as a self sustained guest house, and a 12 by 11 meter, open plan, elevated pavilion space, mainly divided by its furnishings, sofa, dining table and chairs, while a low oak and rough concrete cabinet serves as a bar and kitchen. The Pavilion is composed of two horizontal elements, the floor plane, a concrete slab, floating 80 centimeters above the ground, clad with 3 centimeter thick reclaimed hardwood planks, and the ceiling plane, a metal decking / light concrete slab, clad with tongue and groove teakwood strips.
