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As you proceed from the beach of Panormos in Mykonos, you reach the area of Marathi, a purely rural landscape, where the monastery of Agios Panteleimon is located. Slate drystones, figs and prickly pears, in the background a white chapel compose the Cycladic setting. Somewhere there is built the Marathi Mykonos, a tourist complex consisting of three houses that stand out for their design.

They are owned by a family whose primary concern, when the redesign of the houses began, was to respect the visual pollution of the monastery, which has been its property for three generations.

More specifically, these three houses were developed in 1973 and the bet for the Konstantinos Eisaggeleas, who undertook the architectural design and construction, was on one hand the preservation of the existing frame made of reinforced concrete and on the other hand the creation of facades that fully harmonize with the surrounding landscape, where the monastery of Agios Panteleimon dominates and the buildings are finally assimilated into the natural environment.

Thus, the building morphologically followed simple lines with minimal balconies, giving the feeling of monastic architecture with the incorporation of Cycladic marble motifs such as the marble rafters, the lintels and the pillars on the eastern balcony, all made by hand from Tinian marble sculptor.

Based on these parameters and guided by the optimal utilization and future use of the property, the synthetic solution applied in terms of the interior layout of the premises gives priority to the comfort and simplicity characteristics of Cycladic houses.

Thus, three independent houses of different typological characteristics were created in terms of square meters and the layout of the spaces. The two houses are developed on the ground floor of a building of 50 sq.m. and 65 sq.m. respectively while the third and largest house 114 sq.m. It is developed on the floor that is accessible from the specially designed external staircase on the south side of the building.