The project Nefos was built as the result of an international architecture design competition named Cook8 in which the organizers asked architects and designers around the world to imagine a restaurant experience for 8 people in the Benaki Museum of Greece that reflect our contemporary time.

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Architects: Naïve People Design

Location: Koumpari 1, Athina 106 74, Greece

Design Team: Felix Chun Lam, Yi Ran Weng, with the collaboration of Ziyang Luo

Area: 38.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Jiyao Weng?

Construction: Domés, Epikyklos, Veta S.A.

Client: Benaki Museum and Domés

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Text description provided by the architects. The project Nefos was built as the result of an international architecture design competition named Cook8 in which the organizers asked architects and designers around the world to imagine a restaurant experience for 8 people in the Benaki Museum of Greece that reflect our contemporary time.
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As a response we believe that with the advent of the technophile society that we are part of nowadays, we live more than ever our life through immaterial platforms created by computer algorithms. From Apple?s iCloud to our curated lifestyle on social media such as Facebook and Instagram, the physical reality of life is blurred by our immaterial existence on a Cloud that we are naming Nefos.

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