The rich light and dense vegetation in the Café’s entrance create the wonderful sense of a garden situated within the city. The evocative floating façade-sculpture by Stelios Kois, a trademark of the new Cycladic Café, generates a subtle interplay of light and shadow, while the lighting design by Eleftheria Deko complements the natural sunlight that floods the entrance’s space during the day.

The proposed façade is designed to provide shade and privacy in the desired location, act as a thematic scheme for the museum and constitutes a pause to the visual ambiguity of the aggregation of buildings that comprise the street facade. For breakfast, brunch, café or lunch.

• Menu by Begnis Catering
• Reservations: T. (+30) 210 7228321 (ext. 129)
• Museum entrance is not required for the Cycladic Café

Kois Associated Architects, which drew its inspiration for this particular project by the Museum’s collection of Cycladic Art.

Parallel marble benches stand alongside plants that reach up to the ceiling of Aethrio – a project researched and directed by doxiadis+ (Aggeliki Mathiioudaki, Architect, Landscape Architect).

We envisaged the museum façade to float above the street in order to create a clear and unmistakable entry point, to draw people from outside, to provide shade, shelter and an urban meeting point. The proposed façade creates a new entrance and connects the atrium that is flooded with light during the day with the street.

The atrium with the café and the nearby shop becomes the destination of the route, an oasis of light and vegetation in the interior of a building block. This inner open space building provides for ‘stasis’ in a state of constant urban kinesis.

The façade is open during the museum opening hours letting the interior to act as an extension of the street, and closed when the museum is closing. This periodical movement not only becomes an architectonic event introducing different degrees of access and permeability, but also becomes an urban event.

Flooded with light, filtered by the elegant thickness of the linear shading element, the space acquires an almost ethereal quality.

Clean, crisp, fresh descried in a Doric way. We wanted the space to be a vessel for repose and contemplation were the design elements blend with nature and light and become the backdrop of the human activity.

We believe that the space provides for a more serene and calmactivity.