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This project is a renovation of a silk shop. The store is in a two-storey, preservable building in
the historic centre of Komotini. From our first visit, the need for highlighting the specific
features of this building was in our mind. Simultaneously, we wanted a modern element and
an aesthetic approach to the exhibition's identity.
However, we needed a modern breath and an aesthetic approach to the communicative
identity of the exhibition. These thoughts and the data we had led us to a model of contrast.
We stripped the building of any intervention it had suffered over the years. Drywall hid the
wooden ceiling of the ground floor. Plaster and colored plastics had covered the original
textures of the walls. We reverently cleaned them and kept them as they were, unfinished
and wounded. Their beauty and romance of another era remained, as if in an archaeological
excavation. The new function of the space had to keep the history of the building intact. They
had to interact but not come into contact. The breath taken by the materials of the
"excavation" had to be maintained. Thus, an inner shell was made. It constituted a second
skin far from all the elements of the existing space. Roof, masonry, floor, everything
breathes. Our new skin is light and colored to stand out. Inside it is hidden the storage
spaces, the exhibits, the electrical installations, as if it were an independent organization
which, however, coexists harmoniously with the building.
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