Intercontinental Hotel Yerevan

Architecture

mq 30,669

Armenia 2011

Winner: Honorable Mention

LOCATION: YEREVAN, ARMENIA

CLIENT: MERCEDES BENZ

YEAR: 2012

STATUS: COMPETITION – HONORABLE MENTION

AREA: 30,669mq

TYPE: HOTEL

The design strives for a language of harmony between architecture and natural setting. The complex blossoms discreetly from a prominent location, on top of the hill. Wrapped by a light veil of greenery, the development, fully integrated with nature, offers from its elevated platform, an iconic view, legible from all points of the city: the high visible organic presence reinvigorates the location.

The form adapts itself to the topography of the site, amplifying with dynamic elasticity the shape of the area and the mass rises as vibrant, open-air amphitheater that enhances the attractiveness of the center, as undisturbed and regenerative escape.

A plant-covered illegible metal grill, as vertical garden, surrounds the  proposal, playing a mimetic fusion with the context. The vegetal skin, besides offering a barrier against strong winds, displays a scenographic impact. Residence and hotel’s blocks, separated but contiguous, run one after the other with the fluidity of their sleek curving forms. Although they remain autonomous, they break the idea of rigid sections, in the aspiration to encourage interaction and save privacy to the network of different programs.