Under the Steps reexamines the interaction between tourism and landscape in Greece. Specifically, it focuses on how to build touristic infrastructure in the typical Greek scenery next to the beach, taking the iconic landscape of Cyclades islands as a potential plot. The experimentation begins with alternate ways to integrate the building into the landscape without trying to hide it, but by highlighting it. Furthermore, the relationship between public and private among tourists and visitors of the beach is under consideration throughout the design process.

The design of the small hotel starts with the formation of the outer shell in a way that is inviting towards the visitor of the beach and not repulsive like similar facilities usually arel. The emblematic gesture of a huge staircase will give the solution. Looking like it emerged from the landscape, it gives the feeling that the building belongs to the scenery and the visitor of it, while all the private activities are hidden beneath it. All the walls of the building bearing the tiered concrete plate of the roof, are built from big concrete blocks forming only some small openings at the joints of them. Subsequently the visitor familiarizes with a building that seems to be more part of the landscape rather than a private hotel.