No phase in life offers such plethora of experiences as when being a student. Emotions and moods rush from intimacy and concentration to exuberance and celebration. No time is as social and diverse and never is one’s mind as open. The way we live in these years fundamentally impacts the person we become. A typology that responds to this condition is essential.

The city of Athens and particularly the districts of Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio are characterized by a potpourri of building types, most of them closed and senseless, facing narrow streets. Backyards dictated by code are left dirty, unused and out of sight. Life in these neighborhoods has an edge, is intense and diverse, yet its current urbanism does not allow this life to infuse the blocks.

Shifting the allowable massing on the lot and aligning it along the party wall, opens up a range of possibilities. A common yard, generated through a required 4.55 m setback, allows the characteristic urbanity to become an integral part of the living experience, while providing a communal zone as buffer between the public and intimate realms of life. It offers a new type of porous urbanity - one that filters rather than shields. The yards can proliferate to form an internal network, reviving the city blocks from within. The strategy can be applied in variations (back to back or back to front), thus diversifying the qualities of the shared spaces.

The architecture in this new urbanity can be straightforward and clear. Four floors and a basement hold 18 rooms, outside terraces and a communal laundry room. The yard provides perfect daylight, intimacy and views. It extends the spaciousness of the rooms. Layering spatial qualities, from focused and private at the interior, towards shared and social at the façade, allows students to quickly shift between these modes. A façade of slim sliding doors, shaded by the balcony above, provides daylight and natural ventilation. The balconies double as horizontal circulation, enhancing social exchange. Some balconies have extended platforms in the sky that stretch to the party wall. They are communal spaces; a yard in the sky… and “eyes on the street”.

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人的一生没有任何时期能像学生年华一样充满多样的经历。情感与心情从亲情和聚精会神的学习之余迸发出来，生气勃勃，充满庆贺。没有别的时光能像学生年华那样多样、广交，也没有谁的思想能比学生们更开放。我们在学生时代所做的一切从本质上影响我们将来成为什么样的一个人。作为一个学生宿舍的设计，反应这种状况的住宅类型就是一个必须考虑的命题了。

雅典城特别是它的KM区由以许多封闭而无观感的建筑类型为特征。这些建筑通常面朝窄小的道路，而其后院则因为建筑规范的要求而常常凌乱无章，无人使用，也无人注意。学生在如此区域中的生活总有应该是热情而多样的，但目前的城市现状却不容这多彩的生活融入到建筑中去。

在法规允许的范围内移动基地上的体块并把它与界墙对齐使得一系列想法成为可能。由后退4.55米这条法规产生的公共后院在作为一个公共与私有之间的缓冲的同时，也使希腊典型的社交生活成为这个宿舍生活体验整体的一部分。这个设计提供了一种新式的多孔都市风——过滤而非阻挡着都市的繁杂。所形成的庭院可以进而发展成为一个让城市布局重见活力的内部网络。这个策略可以因地制宜地进行改动（背对背或背对面），进而使共享空间多样化。

在这种新都市风格下的建筑是直白而简洁的。四层楼和一个地下室构成了18个寝室、室外阳台和公共洗衣房。而后院则提供了完美的日光、私密度和视野，并把寝室的宽敞延伸到室外。把具体而私密的内部空间向外叠加到公共而社交的立面上，使得学生们可以迅速的在工作学习与娱乐休息这些状态之中转换。一系列轻巧地滑动门构成了立面的主体，而每层也都由上层的室外阳台楼板提供阴凉，在保证了通风的同时也确保了日照。所有的阳台也具有水平通道的作用，促进不同寝室学生之间的交流与互动。一些阳台一直延伸到界墙上，构成特殊的共享空间——视野朝向街道的空中花园。

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