Located in order to protect a strategic fortification in Chania, Greece, the ruins of a 1600th century bastion act as the breakwater between a calm anchorage and harsh ocean turbulence. Housing the headquarters for a technology start-up, the purpose of this project was to provide a speculative proposition for new development on the site, creating a diverse centre of work / play. The concept stages were achieved through the development of individual programmatic functions across the project, which were then assembled to determine areas of intersecting program. Forming a connective tissue between mutually exclusive and unrelated programmatic disciplines, a study was then conducted into the modular façade system which bridges various areas, reminiscent of cast tetrapod breakwaters. Designed to adapt to a varying arrangement of program, the system of large concrete modular nodes are used to create curtain glass walls, able to then conform to other areas of building program. Capable of being mass produced, the nodes can conform to existing and new program while generating natural circulatory patterns.

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Utilising the resulting formation study from a schematic model, the developed design retains the formal composition of space which was developed through individual programmatic studies. Drawing upon the spatial and formal patterns which had arisen from these studies, the material devices of solid, semi-open, and void are used to inform a subsequent façade exterior. Using exposed structural systems as a substrate through which to generate filtered views or opaque barriers using cladding, components can be removed and transferred in order to generate architectural form. Connections between physically distant but fundamentally interrelated locations of program are subsequently formed by the void generated through 3D vectors within the artificial built environment. These vectors then allow for the construction of cable networks with the purpose of transferring people or information.