SPIN47 by Ioanna Vlachaki Studio in Neos Kosmos, Athens, reworks a former industrial retail space into a 100 m² live–work environment distributed across three levels. Developed in close collaboration with architect and client Alice De Nardi, the project preserves the site’s raw industrial character while introducing an ecological material strategy and a system of monolithic, movable elements. These transformable components enable fluid reconfigurations for domestic, creative, and collective uses, allowing the space to continuously adapt to changing needs.
SPIN47 unfolds across three levels—ground floor, mezzanine, and basement—organising domestic life, creative production, gatherings, and artist residencies within a single, continuously adaptable spatial framework. The architectural concept and spatial strategy are grounded in a close dialogue with client Alice De Nardi, an architect specialising in raw and bio-based materials.
Alice’s contribution informed a design approach attentive to material honesty and ecological thinking establishing a shared language that bridges authorship and inhabitation.
The intervention preserves and amplifies the site’s industrial character. Layers of paint were selectively removed to reveal traces of time and use, while electrical installations were reconfigured as exposed elements, articulated through galvanised steel conduits that become part of the architectural vocabulary.
Original mosaic floors were restored and retained throughout, reinforcing a sense of continuity and embedded memory.
In the basement, ecological lime plaster was applied to the walls, enhancing breathability and moisture control while underscoring the project’s material-driven and craft-oriented ethos.
A sculptural circular metal staircase connects the three levels, acting simultaneously as a circulation core and a strong vertical marker.
On the ground floor, the programme unfolds as an open and transformable field integrating studio, kitchen, living and dining functions. Flexibility drives the design: a single fixed kitchen counter anchors a series of movable lacquered MDF modules that operate as storage, tables or display elements.
In this context, furniture assumes an infrastructural role, enabling rapid spatial reconfiguration.
Full-height textile blinds along the double-height façade allow the space to shift between public openness and domestic intimacy, while newly introduced beige-painted metal elements establish a dialogue with the preserved industrial shell.
The mezzanine accommodates the bedroom, organised around a monolithic MDF volume that integrates sleeping and storage functions.
Defined by precise geometry and restrained finishes, the element acts as both furniture and spatial partition, offering a calm counterpoint to the rawness of the envelope. Below, the basement is conceived as a threshold between private and communal domains. The bathroom emerges as an autonomous tiled volume, incorporating showers, bathtub and WC into a singular, sculptural form. Its tactile materiality and spatial openness evoke a hammam-like atmosphere, transforming bathing into a sensory, almost ritualised experience.
SPIN47 is defined by a holistic design approach that operates from overall spatial organisation down to construction detail.
By preserving and elevating raw industrial fragments while introducing carefully designed multifunctional objects, SPIN47 becomes both deeply personal and openly collective — a space for living, making, gathering and creating, reflecting the individuality and expertise of its owner while remaining adaptable, open and shared.
Facts & Credits
Project title: SPIN47
Architecture: Ioanna Vlachaki Studio
Project location: Neos Kosmos, Athens
Construction | project management: Athina Feidaki, Kostas Trichias
Photography: Antonis Sarris
Client: Alice De Nardi