House 4  Agios Theodoros


House 4 was designed and built as part of a larger residential project in the early 2000s, but due to a financial crisis in Cyprus, some homes were never inhabited and were left to the passage of time and solitude. In 2024, a family acquired several of these abandoned properties from the government with the intention of renovating and expanding them to suit their needs. House 4 is the first of two houses to reimagine and adapt. Our proposal preserves much of the original interior layout, with a key intervention: extending the kitchen toward the pool and sea. For the family, the kitchen serves as a central programmatic element, prompting us to move beyond the existing guidelines and blur the boundary between the original structure and the new addition. This extension subtly reaches toward the pool, drawing attention to the Mediterranean beyond. Rather than mimicking the old, the new volume approaches the existing house as a foreign object, autonomous and distinct. It does not attempt to speak the same architectural language, but engages in a quiet, ongoing dialogue with what was already there. The result is a composition where old and new coexist, not in conflict but in continuous conversation.

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