PRINCIPLE

The committee decides on respect for an architectural style according to the 8 islands of the northern Dodecanese (Patmos, Lipsi, Leros, Agatonisi, Astypalea, Kalymnos, Kos and Pserimos). Even if these islands are not very far away, historical influences have very different styles on materials, colours. Leros after example has colours very inspired by the Italian period with garnet and yellow.

The architectural committee of KALYMNOS gives an opinion on the environmental impact of your project.

Every month, the committee brings together a college of architects from different islands under the chairmanship of an architect from Kos.

We had made a whole scenario imagining a fairly similar meeting in the course of what we knew in France. With a bit of ceremonial and debate.

Given a rather lapidary refusal, without any motivation on three particular points of our license, we decided to invite ourselves to the meeting to present and plead our project.

REALITY

You have worked for long months on your plan and you send KALYMNOS a thick file with all the characteristics of your project

The composition of the decision-making colleague includes only architects from KALYMNOS, not necessarily the most modern, not necessarily the most busy.

The president only intervenes by videoconference without travelling from KOS

None of the architects present during our presentation had ever come to LEROS!!!! So the architectural style of the island…

They pass on a photorealistic and they comment without ever looking at the other shots. It’s no question and feeling on Friday morning in 5 minutes between two sips of coffee!!!

Despite a written authorisation from the City Hall of LEROS, the president refused us the pool because he knew that there were water shortages in LEROS (unknown to the municipality). Even the low capacity, even the promise not to empty it, even the promise not to fill it out of season with water by truck, no obvious argument was expected.

On the other hand, they imposed a terrace wall on us despite all common sense

It is impossible to communicate with this committee and its chairman. The opinions rendered are not justified allowing any interpretation.

It also seemed very paradoxical to us that the mayor of LEROS or the urban planning department could not at any time intervene in the choices of this committee. There is the clear impression that they never even talk to each other!!!

COMMENTS

Après avoir assisté et interagit avec ce comité nous avons toujours du mal à comprendre certaines réalisations à LEROS comme la maison à toit végétal à MYLI ou la maison moderne à coté de la taverne à BLEFOUTIS (largement décriée pour son style dans cette place). Certaines maisons passent KALYMNOS en bleu et blanc et finissent ensuite en jaune et vert puisqu’après cette étape il ny a plus aucun contrôle !!