The subject of the study was a newly built detached house in the heart of the historic Kampos of Chios in an orchard where 2/3 of it is covered by a standardized arrangement of citrus fruits. The placement of the building was done with respect for the landscape, in the section with the least vegetation, in order to achieve its integration into the natural environment without altering its character.

The tiled-roofed residence is developed on two levels with a basement and an attic. On the ground floor, the private areas of the maisonette with the bedrooms are organized, while on the first floor, the common living areas are detonated both in the southeast semi-open space with a view of the sea in the distance and in the northwest in the ‘sunroom’ with a view of the orchard.

The building is composed as a whole in accordance with the typology, proportions, colors and general morphological characteristics of the buildings of the traditional settlement of Kampos. For this reason, the external stone staircase that leads to the ‘solarium’ of the floor, the ‘tsardi’, the main terrace of the house from which the entrance to the common areas of the house is made, has been preserved. Its position is emphasized by a slight adherence to the garden and by support from a series of axils, a reference to the shape of the volumes in houses of the 17th and 18th centuries, a period of architectural flourishing in Kampos. At the same time, in order to give greater mass-plastic interest to specific volumes of the facades, on the one hand, the local Thymianous stone is used (on the external staircase and in the arched demarcation of the bedroom terrace on the ground floor) and on the other hand, exposed brick is used as a building material (in the bay window above the main entrance on the ground floor and in the volume with the arches that define the semi-open space in the southern part into a basement, ground floor and first floor) while the palette is complemented by the building’s colors in the earthy shades of stone (light brick and beige-ochre), the intense pistachio color of the frames as well as the selected areas of corroded metal – corten type (in the frames of the canopies and on the columns of the semi-outdoor area on the first floor).

The priority was to preserve the dense vegetation around the building, a main characteristic of the wider historic area, which is why the sections that will be paved with cast material are the absolutely necessary ones to ensure access and the development of basic outdoor activities.