The proposal for the redevelopment of the coastal zone, the Silo and its surrounding area into the Museum of Marine Antiquities aims at creating a complex area of ​​culture and recreation. The modern museum claims the ancient Hetionian peninsula and constitutes a unique opportunity to restore its relation to the sea. Its southeastern side, the direction to the port entrance, the direction of Piraeus Street, is the direction that connects Athens with its port: the direction to the city center, the line of the long walls, the connection to the Acropolis rock. This natural diagonal, centuries present on earth and at sea, gives birth to the regeneration of the coast, the restoration of its relation to water, its sculptural and functional reintegration into the landscape. Along with this direction, the coast is formed by a sequence of hard and soft surfaces, which naturally escalate as they approach the sea.The hard limit that the port's operation has imposed gets eroded, softened, staggered as well. The projected, earthy Hetionian platform is again approaching the sea, the dynamics of its remodeling is born from the course of people and ships, its diagonal reconstruction follows this real and symbolic flow. The development of the ancient antiquities of the new museum takes place only in the main trunk of the Silo, the hives. The hives reaching a height of 27 meters, fortify the inherent verticality of the building. The architecture of the building is already present, its redesign in a museum can not invent any other architecture, but has to reveal the existing one. Aiming at creating a Museum where industrial character and ancient antiquities are composed with programmatic simplicity, the coastal regeneration anticipates the development of activities on a receptive canvas: a square of events, a central pedestrian street, a bicycle network, parks, playgrounds, an outdoor swimming pool, a restaurant, a concert hall and an "island" theater-belvedere towards the harbor. The delicate scaling of the steps, the narrow green cracks, the differences of the stone levels, the theatrical stands of the island, the elongated water notches attempt to reshape the previous harsh, harbor use and effortlessly create a coastal landscape. The proposal for the regeneration of the coast of Hetionia perceives the peninsula as an engraved natural protrusion, a stepped, terrestrial platform. The sea pointly penetrates, the land approaches it, the coast breathes.

The proposal for the redevelopment of the coastal zone, the Silo and its surrounding area into the Museum of Marine Antiquities aims at creating a complex area of ​​culture and recreation. The modern museum claims the ancient Hetionian peninsula and constitutes a unique opportunity to restore its relation to the sea. Its southeastern side, the direction to the port entrance, the direction of Piraeus Street, is the direction that connects Athens with its port: the direction to the city center, the line of the long walls, the connection to the Acropolis rock. This natural diagonal, centuries present on earth and at sea, gives birth to the regeneration of the coast, the restoration of its relation to water, its sculptural and functional reintegration into the landscape. Along with this direction, the coast is formed by a sequence of hard and soft surfaces, which naturally escalate as they approach the sea.The hard limit that the port's operation has imposed gets eroded, softened, staggered as well. The projected, earthy Hetionian platform is again approaching the sea, the dynamics of its remodeling is born from the course of people and ships, its diagonal reconstruction follows this real and symbolic flow. The development of the ancient antiquities of the new museum takes place only in the main trunk of the Silo, the hives. The hives reaching a height of 27 meters, fortify the inherent verticality of the building. The architecture of the building is already present, its redesign in a museum can not invent any other architecture, but has to reveal the existing one. Aiming at creating a Museum where industrial character and ancient antiquities are composed with programmatic simplicity, the coastal regeneration anticipates the development of activities on a receptive canvas: a square of events, a central pedestrian street, a bicycle network, parks, playgrounds, an outdoor swimming pool, a restaurant, a concert hall and an "island" theater-belvedere towards the harbor. The delicate scaling of the steps, the narrow green cracks, the differences of the stone levels, the theatrical stands of the island, the elongated water notches attempt to reshape the previous harsh, harbor use and effortlessly create a coastal landscape. The proposal for the regeneration of the coast of Hetionia perceives the peninsula as an engraved natural protrusion, a stepped, terrestrial platform. The sea pointly penetrates, the land approaches it, the coast breathes.