Notwithstanding its name, Liberty Tower is a medium-rise workspace facility adjacent to the major Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue in Mesa Geitonia, Limassol. The building occupies a rectilinear plot, oriented north-to south with service street access on both, and it accommodates just over 2,750 m² of office space distributed across four primary levels. Each of these levels can be organised either as a single office or as two autonomous workspaces. The two floors below these 4 levels, as well as the half floor above them, host functional accommodation – such as, parking spaces (in the former), MEP infrastructure and storage facilities. The Project’s principal entrance is on grade with the street on the north but raised in respect to the Avenue (on its south).
Architecturally speaking, the intent was that the 4 key levels of the Project formulate collectively a ‘pure prism’ – i.e. a pristine rectilinear volume – ‘floating’ above a sectionally differentiated, and partly green, plinth. By extension and contrast, this prism is articulated in terms of façade as a series of ‘strata’ – reminiscent of Denys Lasdun’s work. These strata emerge from the horizontal stratification of a sequence of bands that wrap completely the volume and accentuate their horizontality – thereby yielding a project whose relation to context is both continuity and mild differentiation.
Collaborators: UHA (Façade Design)
