Vasiliki Chatzinikolaou, Nikolaos Raptis, "SOMA: a contemporary junction", Diploma Work, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2023
https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.96361
At the South-East end of Syros in a creek between the villages of Achladi and Megas Gialos, is the plot of land of 26,300 m2 with access to the sea as well as to the provincial road Kato Manna-M. Gialos. At the edges of the plot there is a trace of an ancient path which is supposed to have crossed it in the past.Taking advantage of the historical diversity of the island - it is considered a crossroads of culture - and connecting the concept of the traveler with that of modern alternative tourism, the central idea is created which is based on the restoration and redefinition of the path in direct connection with the natural landscape on which it will be articulated thermal tourism unit with an area of 10,000 sq.m.In the effort to connect the Natural, Physical and Spiritual, the parallelism of the traditional modern station/node, the Church, with the modern, Hotel unit "New Temple", as well as the need to release feelings of mysticism, healing and isolation, led us to the decision of using underground constructions and in a game with Light and Darkness.