Designing a healing and restorative facility like a Maggie centre is an honour for any architect. Many architects have designed Maggie centres before such as Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and many more, it was inevitable to do research on what was designed before. Seeing this project as a snapshot in the long list of initiatives to support truly...
Architecture firm
Ark-shelter, ARCHEKTA
Location
Kalvekeetdijk 260, 8300 Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Principal architect
Viktor Mikovčák, Martin Mikovčák, Michiel De Backer
Design team
Radovan Hnidka, Ondrej Vavro, Milan Ščury, Monika Balalová, Barbora Šimašková
Collaborators
Neuro-scientist consultant: Menno Cramer
Built area
Built-up Area 251 m² Gross Floor Area 337 m² Usable Floor Area 290 m²
Material
Internal lining – Iw Trend spruce bio panel + bleaching technology. External facade cladding – thermo wood. Horizontal surfaces + furniture – lacquered oak + beige finish. Roof – Fatrafol, high quality PVC. Skeleton – cross-laminated timber frame structure patented on Ark-shelter company
Client
AZ Zeno Campus, Knokke-Heist
The Stress Center is located in Kalamaria,Thessaloniki and holds an idyllic position due to the scenographic environment and the direct contact with the sea horizon of Thermaikos gulf. Knowing that the visit to a doctor is accompanied by mixed feelings of anticipation, expectation and consequently anxiety, the main concern of the architecture desig...
Project name
The Stress Center
Architecture firm
Skarlakidis Architecture Studio
Location
Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece
Photography
studiovd.gr / Ν.Vavdinoudis – C.Dimitriou
Principal architect
Stefanos Skarlakidis
Collaborators
Timber Constructions & Furnitures: Vasilis Psomas; Steel Constructions: Vasilis Psomadopoulos
Built area
220 m² (Indoor)
Design year
December 2020
Completion year
March 2021
Environmental & MEP
Fanis Georgantas
Lighting
BOSS FOSS, Vasilis Voulgaris
Supervision
Stefanos Skarlakidis
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Client
Agorastos Agorastos
Typology
Health › Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Counseling Center
