Architect’s Note

When I undertook this project along with the responsibility to complete it, I felt as if I was beginning a journey like the ones architects make.

I walked numerous times through the empty building, without having in mind what the rooms should look like, since I figured that the building itself was going to talk to me.

It was only six rooms and a restaurant, a small-sized building for a hotel, but it was complicated for me to find its soul among the concrete, the bricks and the iron beams.

One afternoon, as I was walking through the construction site that was supposed to become a hotel, I unconsciously made a small boat from a note paper. This paper boat reminded me of the children’s song about a boat.

This was its name!!!

UNTRAVELLED

And the name of the journey was…

DREAM.

It was the only itinerary the boat was aware of.

A journey to everyone’s dream.

I dedicated this project to some of the Greeks that went across. I held on to them in order to think and act.

To these Greeks that carried not only the entire country with them, but also its people.

D. Koukoudis