Ferry Terminal Lavrion

Roloff • Ruffing

Attica, Greece

comission 2001
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The position and orientation of the terminal building are a direct result of the environment. The building therefore becomes part of the urban context, an element of the town. The newly created waterfront promenade binds the terminal building to the town center.

The Terminal Building is set on pillars to enable traffic to pass underneath into the waiting lanes. Luggage and ticketing services for passengers are located on the first floor, as well as restaurant, bistro, shops, and rental offices for the various shipping companies. In the zone between the roof construction of the passenger-area and the secondary-construction of movable textile sun blinds, a roof-terrace is situated as an extension to the passengers’ waiting area. Access to vessels takes place on the first-floor level via a steel gangway construction also shaded by tensioned textile sun blinds.

A number of passive energy measures are to be worked into the scheme: small propellers on top of the roof run by the permanent coastal wind could produce electrical energy to be used in the building or be fed into the public energy supply; flaps in the north and south facades allowing the flow of cool fresh air from the shaded north side to pass the water-walls and go on to ventilate and moisturize the hot, sunny south side. The building on the roof, ie. the east, south and west elevations, will get a second façade: a movable skin of material serving to protect the terminal from the heat of the sun. These canopies will create a ventilated intermediary climate and prevent the supporting structure from heating up.