"Difros" High-rise residential complex

84 Ethnikis Antistaseos St, Ayia Varvara, Attica, 1971-1975

Architects
Alexandros Tombazis (1939-)
Dimitris Diamantopoulos (1944-)



The unconventional and technologically innovative apartment complex named "Difros" was creatively influenced by Japanese brutalism and Metabolism. It is one of the boldest architectural experiments intervening in the amorphous urbanisation of the region surrounding Kifissias Ave.
It consists of four buildings of different heights containing apartments that are connected two at a time around a vertical circulation core. The complex is situated on landscaped open grounds and contains 43 apartments of between three and six rooms and underground parking facilities.
The architectural solution arises from the function, the logic of the ground plan and the typology of the apartments.
The fluctuation on the front of the buildings so as to create strong inset and projecting balconies on the two main elevations that are dominated by large openings, has given the volumes a strongly plastic form. On the sides, the vertical concrete walls and the square volumes of the balconies dominate.

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