Maria Chatzikyriakou Avenue is one of the principal urban corridors of Piraeus, connecting two of the city’s major coastal routes and serving as a critical link within the wider transportation network. Extending approximately 1.25 kilometers through a densely populated district, the avenue faced significant challenges, including limited greenery, inadequate pedestrian infrastructure, insufficient accessibility provisions, and unorganized parking conditions.

Commissioned by Piraeus Plus S.A., Landscape–Roidis Studio developed a comprehensive streetscape regeneration proposal aimed at transforming the corridor into a more accessible, sustainable, and pedestrian-oriented public environment. The project was guided by bioclimatic design principles, prioritizing environmental performance, mobility, and the enhancement of everyday urban life.

The redesign introduced wider sidewalks and improved pedestrian circulation throughout the corridor, ensuring greater accessibility for people with disabilities and visually impaired users. Parking areas were reorganized to improve functionality and reduce conflicts between vehicles and pedestrians, while a proposed one-way traffic system allowed for a more efficient allocation of public space.

A key component of the intervention was the extensive use of cool and permeable paving materials, reducing surface temperatures and supporting sustainable stormwater management. The landscape strategy also incorporated expanded planting zones, new tree alignments, and enhanced green infrastructure to improve microclimatic conditions and strengthen the visual identity of the avenue.

Additional improvements included the redesign of public transport stops, the integration of underground waste collection systems, upgraded lighting infrastructure, and the creation of a coherent streetscape framework that unifies the various components of the corridor.

The project reimagines Maria Chatzikyriakou Avenue as a contemporary urban boulevard where accessibility, environmental resilience, and public life are brought into balance. Through the integration of bioclimatic strategies and public realm enhancements, the intervention establishes a greener, safer, and more attractive urban corridor that significantly improves the experience of residents and visitors alike.

Landscape -Roidis was commissioned by Pireas Plus SA to redesign both the road’s aside pedestrian routes, in order to give enough walking room to pedestrians and the disabled, to increase the greenery, to use cold paving materials for bioclimatic purposes and take care of the random parking of private cars.

Landscape-Roidis’s landscape design, following bioclimatic criteria from the master plan up to detailed design, give more room to pedestrian ways, organize better the parking lots, pave parking lots and pedestrian ways with cold materials, reorganize the bus stop, place the underground garbage -cans in appropriate areas, increase the greenery and the lighting and finally creates an impressive road, friendly to pedestrians.