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Kastraki Polytope: spatial transitions on Kastraki Hill in the port of Piraeus

Sampani Asimina-Ioanna

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At the outskirts of the port of Piraeus, where the ancient walls of the Eetionian Gate once served as an entrance to the old city, a new landscape of transition between the past and the present is taking shape. Kastraki is approached not as a static monument but as a "polytope" of experiences, a synthesis of open spaces, free movement and dialogue with the environment. The architectural intervention starts from the archaeological boundary and unfolds as a linear path of revelation. The route functions as a spatial node: a mechanism to connect heterogenous but at the same time well interconnected spatial experiences with different spatial qualities, functioning as a unified whole. The uses follow the north-south axis, from the city to the ancient relics, while the vegetation follows the west-east axis: from a dense, Mediterranean urban forest to the milder, almost desert-like landscape of a harbour. The intervention functions as both a continuity and a pause; a slit in the urban fabric, transforming everyday movement into a spatial narrative, revealing the signs of time and offering a place of urban breath, memory and conversation with the landscape.

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