Lace Hill / Forrest Fulton Architecture
For Forrest Fulton Architecture‘s competition proposal, the Alabama-based firm designed a 900,000 sqf biomorphic spatial surface that connects the adjacent city and the landscape. The architecture focuses on creating an urbanistic landscape that morphs the common urban element of Yerevan, the superblock, to the site, a truncated hill along the natural amphitheater of the Yerevan. This new model of development supports a “holistic, ultra-green lifestyle” with overlapping natural and urban phenomenon.
More images and more about the project after the break.
The artificial “hill”, which is clothed in native plants irrigated with a recycled gray water system, creates viewing seats for the Yerevan and Mt. Ararat. The exterior perforations recall the intricate details of traditional Armenian lace needlework. These apertures are not mere surface treatments but rather terraced exterior space that provide amazing views.
A series of tower-voids serve as cooling towers which allow light to flood the interior while also passively cooling the space. As northern wind passes over the tower-voids’ ponds, the project acts as a giant evaporative cooling mechanism for the semi-arid city below.
On a sustainability note, the project is infused with different passive and active eco-friendly techniques. The planted surfaces on the hill absorb solar heat, filter air and water-borne toxins, and support insect and animal life. Geothermal wells and radiant floors efficiently heat and cool spaces. Recycled gray water irrigates agriculture and hill plantings.
Programmatically, the activities in the project are linked to sun exposure. Living spaces run the long south face of the hill, maximizing direct sun, terraces, and views. Offices, which need indirect light, are along the north face of the hill. A narrow office floor plate stepping down toward the south provides adequate, diffuse daylight. Retail, restaurants, exhibition halls, a cinema, and a health center line the promenade at the first level.
The proposal’s “productive surface” offers the potential to fuse performance, function and sustainability into a new kind of mixed-use complex.
Area: 85,000 sm (915,000 sf)
Client: Avangard Motors, LLC
Location: Yerevan, Armenia
Status: 2010 Competition Entry
Design Architect: Forrest Fulton
Project Team: Jared Fulton, Andrew C. Bryant, Derrick Owens
does anyone get that feeeling that they have seen this before. Alas RIP Jan Kaplicky and Future Systems
to el rad:
exactly…
the interior lighting reminds me of ronchamp somehow.. anyway informative post :)
woah! did Jan Kaplicky had a resurrection in Alabama??
some take the “great artist steal” comment quiet literally.
seriously, people that is just wrong.
they are similar in terms of being the color green and having holes, but the comparison could stop there. kaplicky’s library has all the grace of a green sheet draped over a child masquerading as a ghost. the project above at least appears to have been approached with both intellectual and formal rigor. scale alone puts the projects in two different leagues. one is simply a slick library, the other attempts to be a city/culture defining monument. that’s the difference in form derived from idea vs. form derived from image.
Very interesting project!
It we be good to see a section so that we could understand where the programs are located.
Party on.
There are some sections in their website.
Man this project is even more crazy than I first thought!
Check them out: http://forrestfulton.com/lace-hill-over-yerevan/
There is some really interesting process stuff here also:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40654330@N06/
THANKS JESSE~!
VERY USEFUL INFORMATION
I start worrying about the volcanic ash… :)
future systems? giant bird poo? or melting square on a hill.
have they found gold or oil in Armenia?
Actually, not enough sunlight inside this dome… these plants can not exist in darkness… I not belive in this idea.
Please Archdaily, start selecting better the projects that you publish….
It’s an interesting idea but it’s MASSIVE. Way too big for it’s surroundings.
What’s up with people suggesting huge artificial mountains.
I saw something similar from a compition (in massive form) called “The Burg” in Germany I think.
Look more like a depression to me rather than expressing real architecture and thus solving problems.
cant avoid thinking in a giant flying cow
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