MVRDV - EU TUMO Convergence Center
Yerevan , Armenia · 2019
An exterior architectural rendering precedent by MVRDV illustrating a massive educational facility combining a rational punched-window bar with a monumental glazed end facade.
- What we like about this project
- The corner of the massive end glazed volume appears to hover lightly above the sloping grass and rock terrain.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- stucco
- metal
Visual identifiers
- elongated-bar-mass
- glazed-end-atrium
- punched-windows
- white-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- institutional
Visual tags
- institutional
- educational
- contemporary
- large-scale
- glazing
- Geometry
- Long elongated rectilinear bar volume raised on a sloping landscape, terminating in a towering multi-story glazed atrium facade with projecting horizontal shading elements.
- Facade system
- Punched window concrete or composite panel system along the long elevation, transitioning to a curtain wall system at the multi-story glazed gable end.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame or steel framing with sheer wall cores.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional or educational facility, approximately six stories high with people walking in the foreground for scale.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows across the white facade and illuminating the interior through the full-height end glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, calm, and institutional under a quiet overcast sky.
- Environmental context
- Hilly or rocky terrain with native sparse planting and distant urban context visible on the right horizon.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a winding pedestrian path through rocky planting, the building presents a massive white institutional facade that opens dramatically at the short end into a tall, transparent public interface.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive horizontal windows along the long bar contrasted against the towering vertical mullion grid of the end atrium.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric-rationalist institutional architecture
- Program
- Educational or innovation center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, stucco, metal
- Visual identifiers
- elongated-bar-mass, glazed-end-atrium, punched-windows, white-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, institutional
- Visual tags
- institutional, educational, contemporary, large-scale, glazing
- Geometry
- Long elongated rectilinear bar volume raised on a sloping landscape, terminating in a towering multi-story glazed atrium facade with projecting horizontal shading elements.
- Facade system
- Punched window concrete or composite panel system along the long elevation, transitioning to a curtain wall system at the multi-story glazed gable end.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame or steel framing with sheer wall cores.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional or educational facility, approximately six stories high with people walking in the foreground for scale.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows across the white facade and illuminating the interior through the full-height end glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, calm, and institutional under a quiet overcast sky.
- Environmental context
- Hilly or rocky terrain with native sparse planting and distant urban context visible on the right horizon.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a winding pedestrian path through rocky planting, the building presents a massive white institutional facade that opens dramatically at the short end into a tall, transparent public interface.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive horizontal windows along the long bar contrasted against the towering vertical mullion grid of the end atrium.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric-rationalist institutional architecture
- Program
- Educational or innovation center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture