Demetri Gnafakis

Over-Exposed

After living a life over exposed to the screen, a house has been designed to reunite the body with the core rituals of our past, where we can follow our own needs, whilst living in harmony with our body and nature. Subterranean sanctuary focuses on the core rituals that embody a home, bringing ‘rooms’ back to their fundamentals to create raw, sacred spaces that transport people back to a time where the notions of living were impacted by how we felt in a space, not what we held.

The home is divided into four different zones that revolve around a ritual - Rejoice, Rest, Reflect, and Rediscover. These spaces are weaved into the landscape as an extension of the site, connected via a central courtyard that links each space to each other. A sense of security is obtained as one inhabits their own pavilion, but also in the form of intimacy through the visual connections that are established between the site’s corners. Juxtaposing the modern rituals held above ground, traditional activities have become buried, where the privacy of one’s life begins to subtract into the land, providing a sense of enclosure, rather than exposure.

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01 Site Isometric
02 Ground Floor Plan
03 Basement Plan
04 Sectional Perspective
05 Arrival
06 Rejoice
07 Rediscover}