The project explores how the existing spatial forms of a pen can be transformed in contemporary conditions. The history of stock-breeding in Greece, starts in the past with nomadic families, moving between different altitudes, in order to find better feed and weather conditions for their animals. This seasonal movement, still active today, spreads along the landscape a physical world of stonewalls, artificial shadows, wooden frameworks covered by roughly-made materials, canals of water (constructions with a fragile, flexible and incomplete form). Settlements, pasture-lands and flocks create a landscape of colors and sounds.
The need and usage of space differs through a year’s period, according to weather conditions and reproductive periods of the animals. The space of a goat stable consists of a sequence of inner and outer yards, able to manage the movement and separation of the flock.
The case study of the new building is capable to host 300 – 400 adult animals with their nanny-goats. It is placed on a site abut on two existing settlements, with a slight inclination of the ground. The founding of the new building and its roof are adjusted to the lie of the land, to use the natural flow of watering, feed and drainage. The basic idea is to construct a three dimensional grid where material frames move to create sequences of space.


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