Reworking a Santorini Mansion through Asymmetry | IMDA STUDIO

This hospitality project reworks a historic mansion through spatial interventions, where asymmetry is used to reinterpret the existing order of the settlement. In architecture, entropy is often understood as a condition where order is less obvious—emerging through variation, movement, and experience. In the traditional settlement of Pyrgos in Santorini, Greece, IMDA Studio explores this idea to rework an 1876 mansion into a hospitality project. The intervention includes the reconstruction of two excavated staff quarters, two former stables, and the addition of a new built volume, reorganising the property into inhabitable spaces.Archival research reveals that interventions in the 1970s had altered […]