Dr. Io Carydi unfolds the core aspects of the winning competition scheme that preceded the municipality’s ongoing regeneration of the vast brownfield of 158 acres situated within the Keratsini – Drapetsona Municipal boundaries next to the port of Piraeus, Greece. The developmental phase was inaugurated with an open architectural competition process in 2017 that aimed to offer comprehensive development and rehabilitation of a large portion of the area’s coastal landscape. An industrial past of extensive depletion of its natural and ecological assets led the site to its gradual disconnection from the city and inevitably to a condition of disrepair, pollution and obsolescence.
The winning scheme that emerged through the
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