THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTRE WITH “INTERCONTINENTAL” HOTEL

Authors
A. Skokan, V. Kanyashin, M. Skorokhod, M. Dekhtyar, K. Berdnikova, I. Voronezhsky, A. Arutyunyan

With the assistance of
P. Zhuravlyov, V. Sergeyev, V. Stadnikov

Address
Yerevan, Yerevan, the site of former Youth Palace

Client
OOO “Avangard Motors”, Yerevan City hall, Union of architects of the Republic of Armenia

The total area
93 900 sq.m

The main task of the project was an architectural concept which would be in keeping with the two-scale of Yerevan - cozy in historic center and high-rising on the fringes. High-rise accent of the composition - the thin hundred-meter slab of the hotel faced by the main facade the south – “looking at Ararat”. The wish to enter dialogue with the bible mountain commits to restrained and clear solutions. Therefore the building has a simple rectangular silhouette.

 

Three two-storey blocks containing the service premises serve as a pedestal for the high-rise slab. Thisdevelopment in respect of the scale should remind the picturesque historical buildings of the city – such as on the Kond Mountain. The multifunctionality and technological effectiveness of a modern structure necessitates to organize the accurate modularity of all structure (the approved 9х9m plan) that forces to remember themilitary regularity of the layout of the Yerevan fortress abolished in the 19th century.