Thermia is the old name for Kythnos, a Cycladic island in Greece, where the Nantes atelier RAUM has delivered House Thermia, a private commission with Dimitra Kanellopoulou as associate on the project.
RAUM is an atelier founded in Nantes in 2007, and building is its medium. Its work runs across contemporary art, individual and collective housing, workplaces (offices, public facilities, agricultural buildings), places of teaching and cultural buildings. The atelier also makes prototypes and screen prints, and hosts residencies, exhibitions and concerts, “un lieu en construction perpétuelle”, a place under perpetual construction.
The way the studio works begins with the particular. RAUM describes its method as “partir du particulier”, starting from the singularities of each place and each programme in order to rise toward the general, and it frames building as a relational tool between the local and the universal, between what it calls the place and the setting. The premise is neither nostalgic nor mimetic: the studio holds that it is by constructing singular situations that a building can offer a desire strong enough to transform the real.
House Thermia is one such situation, a private house at Thermia in the Cyclades. RAUM handed it over on 29 September 2026, with Dimitra Kanellopoulou as the associate on the project. The client is private, and little else about the house has been published.
Behind the atelier are its co-managers, Julien Perraud, Benjamin Boré and Thomas Durand, who all teach in Nantes. Their work has drawn the Prix Dejean in 2024 and the Équerre d'argent in 2019 and again in 2022, along with nominations for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award, among them a 2015 nod for an earlier holiday house. House Thermia carries that France-based practice onto Greek ground.
