Kerameio is the Greek word for a pottery or ceramic workshop, related in Greek mythology to Keramos, the patron hero of potters and the mortal son of Dionysus and Ariadne. Our design for this 546 apartment development in Karnagio, the boatyard district beside Limassol's harbour, takes its name and identifying material from the listed brick and tile factory on the plot, the pivot around which the new buildings are arranged.
At the density the brief called for, the conventional answer is three vertical towers. UHA’s proposal for BBF instead lays one on its side, the horizontal block linking the two towers and wrapping around the factory to hold equal density in one connected form. Pushed, pulled and stepped at the podium, the massing reads as terrain as much as building, and rises to 137 m.
