LIGHTHOUSE, PORT OF VOLOS
2001
National competition, 2nd place
The breakwater, for which the lighthouse is intended, defines a very distinct and pivotal line in the morphology of the harbour, bringing the industrial landscape, along with the mobile cranes and the ship masts (north), in direct contrast to the natural landscape (south). The lighthouse is a construction of extremities, erected upon the boundary between sea and land. Its distinctive character stems from the fact that it is the most extreme mark of the city (in both a utilitarian and symbolic sense), something that can be interpreted in several ways. Consisting of a lightweight metal structure in tension that spreads across the breakwater as a cobweb would, it allows the landscape to penetrate through its structural elements.