Our main idea is to join the two parks at the end of the intervention (Pedion Areos and Lotos
Likavitou) with a green mass that will flow all along the intervention, bringing back the
greenery to an area that used to be a green zone in the outside of the old Athens walls and
creating a green corridor that joins the old Athens with the new Athens
That green corridor is formed by: (1) the existing trees preserved; (2) the new trees added; (3)
a continuous floor all along the project with a pattern that is an abstraction from olive tree
branches; (4) The artificial activity/bioclimatic trees we create.
We analyzed very well the case in all aspects: traffic, activities, buildings, borders, accessibility,
etc… From that analysis we found a way to reorder traffics and locate the different activities
that we found necessary to introduce following different themes of classic Greek culture linked
to specific spaces of the intervention: Concorde and Arts around Omonias, Democracy around
the Parliament, Body shaping around the Archeology Museum and Philosophy around the
University.
With these themes and our design strategy the result is an urban park‐like intervention that
creates a global green aspect and fills with life and activities the heart of Athens.