Liknon: weaving architecture into the living infrastructure of the pathways

Liknon is a series of gentle interventions within the century-old vineyard of the Metaxa estate in Samos — elements that act more as landscape infrastructure and less as a conventional museum building. Dry-stone walls, passages, courtyards, terraces and shaded seating areas, structure a route that immerses visitors in the landscape and the cultivation of the muscat grape, integrating the experience into the terrain without altering it.
The architectural intervention employs local materials, small-scale gestures, and subtle means, while underground pathways introduce visitors to the history and origins of Metaxa.
Rather than a conventional museum, Liknon proposes a network of spaces that narrate the relationship between place, production, and culture — inviting visitors to experience the vineyard as a living laboratory of craft, knowledge, and local heritage.

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Speakers:
Dimitris Karampatakis — Founding Member & Creative Director, K–Studio
Panos Kostoulas — Architect & Founding Member, Boulouki
Houiti Konstantinidou — Director of Hospitality, Cultural Heritage & Events, House of Metaxa
Konstantinos Karantzoulis — Landscape & Surveying Engineer – Route Designer at Paths of Greece