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Nature and features of the assigned competition area suggests the scenery of a Contemporary Acropolis standing
out from the city beneath: hill’s shape, landing profile of its top, boundary walls and existing entrances have been
maintained as they are and used as starting points for the design proposal.
Buildings raising from the fortified basement appear as new symbols of style, luxury and architectural quality for
the city below.
The Ararat Mountain standing southbound is an absolute reference for the masterplan design, whose focal point
leads the whole building positioning upon the basement, each overlooking southward and designed, as volumetric
records and interiors, regarding the panoramic view.
Entrances renew the existing: main entrance is placed northern, perpendicularly to the project site, nearby the
route exit, where the road network coming from the city and surrounding the hill connects. From the main entrance,
the car flows divide leading westward to Intercontinental Hotel Hall, and eastward to the outdoor and
underground parking lots, all surrounded by the northern park. All the driveways are concentrated in the northern
area, far away from the public square on the south, only for pedestrians.
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The buildings, whose stretched shape recalls the northern route’s fast flows, are placed along the surrounding wall
and wrap around the vast public square. The relationship between square and buildings is due to their basements,
whose flat volumes, strongly grasped to the hill, contain public functions linked to day and night-time life of the
external spaces.
The public square on the southern side of the area opens wide overlooking the city and the Ararat Mountain, and
stretches out up to enclose the hill with a protective trees belt on the north. Water is the main theme for the outdoor
spaces design (public square, Hotel’s entrance square and the northern park) cropping out from the ground with
large stretched ponds and models the green and paved areas.
The Acropolis Park proceeds outside the area along the walls and lands at the bottom of the hill into a equipped
park linked the city.
Buildings basements protect the upper levels from the close touch of the public spaces. The higher volumes arrange
searching the best possible view: on the north the Intercontinental Hotel Skyscraper elevates up to 101 mt,
and turns to the city and the Ararat Mountain as Urban Landmark; The Business Center Building, replacing the
existing four floors buildings, in anchored to the southern wall with its two entrance floors and slopes downward
pointing its façade to the city as a wide lightening screen.
Functional basements contain collective activities communicating permanently with the external square, both day
time and night time.
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