A close-up of the marble floor they ultimately designed. When marble slabs are cut down at the yard for custom jobs, Raftopoulos explains, corners and punch-outs and end pieces are left behind. Emphasis on often: The AREA team was able to purchase about 100 square feet of marble remnants from a local yard for just €300, an incredible boon to the overall project cost. "Three cubic meters of material that would have otherwise been discarded provide one of the cheapest possible solutions to a major
