MVRDV - EU TUMO Convergence Center
Yerevan , Armenia · 2019
An exterior architectural rendering by MVRDV showing an elongated multi-story building featuring a large multi-story glazed end facade integrated into a naturalistic landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The way the massive end volume appears to slightly cantilever or float above the uneven, boulder-strewn terrain.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- elongated-mass
- glazed-end-facade
- punched-windows
- cantilevered-volume
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- institutional
Visual tags
- institutional
- educational
- curtain-wall
- sloping-site
- rendering
- Geometry
- An elongated rectilinear volume set into a sloping naturalistic foreground; the narrow end elevation is dominated by a multi-story glass curtain wall set within a heavy structural frame.
- Facade system
- Combination of precast or concrete panels with punched strip windows on the long facade and a floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall at the terminus.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with long-span floor slabs and a heavy structural grid supporting the glazed end.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional or educational facility spanning multiple floors, dwarfing the human scale figures walking along the foreground path.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight with diffuse shadows and a warm internal glow visible through the massive end glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and open, bridging naturalistic wild meadows with large-scale rigorous modern architecture.
- Environmental context
- A sloping, grassy site dotted with wildflowers and natural boulders, with distant urban context on the horizon.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an open field and paved paths, the massive horizontal bar contrasts against the wild landscape while the glazed end acts as a massive glowing light beacon.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular, repetitive punched window bays along the long side facade contrasted by the monumental vertical mullions of the end curtain wall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric and contextual institutional architecture
- Program
- Education and convergence center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- elongated-mass, glazed-end-facade, punched-windows, cantilevered-volume
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, institutional
- Visual tags
- institutional, educational, curtain-wall, sloping-site, rendering
- Geometry
- An elongated rectilinear volume set into a sloping naturalistic foreground; the narrow end elevation is dominated by a multi-story glass curtain wall set within a heavy structural frame.
- Facade system
- Combination of precast or concrete panels with punched strip windows on the long facade and a floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall at the terminus.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with long-span floor slabs and a heavy structural grid supporting the glazed end.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional or educational facility spanning multiple floors, dwarfing the human scale figures walking along the foreground path.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight with diffuse shadows and a warm internal glow visible through the massive end glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and open, bridging naturalistic wild meadows with large-scale rigorous modern architecture.
- Environmental context
- A sloping, grassy site dotted with wildflowers and natural boulders, with distant urban context on the horizon.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an open field and paved paths, the massive horizontal bar contrasts against the wild landscape while the glazed end acts as a massive glowing light beacon.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular, repetitive punched window bays along the long side facade contrasted by the monumental vertical mullions of the end curtain wall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric and contextual institutional architecture
- Program
- Education and convergence center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture