Point Supreme Architects Revamp a Drab Basement Apartment in Athens

　　Athenian apartment buildings, modernist, multi-storey volumes known as polikatoikies which proliferated in the second half of the 20th century, may have been lauded for offering affordable housing to millions of citizens but they’ve also contributed to the city’s notoriously ugly urban sprawl while providing far from ideal living conditions, especially for those occupying the lower, ground and basement levels where daylight and views are at short supply.For good designers however, such spaces provide an opportunity to flex their creative muscles as this recently renovated basement apartment attests. Located in Ilioupoli, a non-descript neighbourhood in the south-east of Athens, a formerly unfinished, semi-basement space has been transformed by Athens-based architects Point Supreme into a hip, effortlessly elegant apartment by embracing its cave-like character and unrefined state and imbuing it with what only can be described as magic realism.
　　Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis and Point Supreme.
　　Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis and Point Supreme.
　　Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis and Point Supreme.
　　Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis and Point Supreme.
　　Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis and Point Supreme.
　　Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis and Point Supreme.
　　With only 56 square metres to contend with and daylight influx from just one side, it was critical that the practice embrace an open-plan configuration in order to establish a sense of spaciousness and maximize natural lighting. Taking advantage of its unfinished state, the architects have avoided adding internal walls, choosing instead to demarcate the various zones by using s

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