The project at Plato’s Academy is situated in the broader context of the Archaeological Park of Athens, whose articulation brings to light the ancient topography of the city. As it stands, the site is in disrepair and for this reason the aim of the project is to re-establish the importance of the site, which has been celebrated in literary documents as the most beautiful place in Attica.

The project involves the construction of an archaeological park. Within this archaeological park, the visitor discovers remains from different historical periods. The first design concern in this scheme was the definition of boundaries within the park. The green area of this project has integrated the pre-existing elements, in evocation of the sacred grove to the Eumenides and through an avenue of cypress trees has brought to light the ancient route that led to Eleusis. 

At the excavation site, which archaeologists have discovered to be the ancient school of Plato, is the new design for the museum building of the city of Athens. The museum of Athens stands on a base whose trapezoidal shape is determined by the dialectic between the urban and the orientation of the remains of the gymnasium. The walls of the museum identify what would have been the plan of the school of Plato. The internal layout of the museum is linear which absorbs the programmatic requirements. 

The main museum space is rectilinear and is spatially conceived upon the principle of the golden proportion. The walls of the museum spaces camber in the direction of the below ground excavation. These spatial factors determine the size and sense of the final space and the main auditorium. The auditorium is pure in form and utilises the full height of the museum, this vertical space offers a release from the succession of restricted height museum rooms. The form of this volume is visible from the first space, but only accessible at the lowest level, an architectural move intended to pull circulation down to archaeological level. The project, in addition to creating a new order in the traces of the past, stands as a fact in the fragmented urban fabric of the city.