master planning concept, Armenia
”Christian Armenia” Complex

Year 2020 (design commission)

The main charge of the project was to develop a master planning concept for the site in Armenia (679 ha) that was chosen for the setup of the statue of Christ. The project has nothing to do with Hatis Mountain or the statue initiative publicized in media. This is a separate and much earlier initiative, and here, the statue is provisional and it’s located on a small abandoned hill, primarily as an art object.

Programming rationale is about creating a gradient of active spaces distributing the fleeting and dwelling citizens of the site (examples of programming include the expo spaces, visitors’ and congress centers, museum and a sculpture garden, campus spaces). This smart programming approach takes into account the short and long term development of the region, connecting it economically both locally and globally.

The main concept is about a certain spatial contract, in which the absolute horizontality and non-territoriality are the guiding principles. This brings out an an-archic and uninterrupted view of the world that’s endemic to the Armenian culture.

skyscraper complex in Armenia
Structural Geodesics

Year 2009 (experimental work for publications)
 

The proposal observes the city as an active threshold mediating between two territories of collectivity–geographic and semio-cultural/mediatic. Hence, the context of operation is the city of Yerevan and the "Armenian world," territory that is disparsed geographically, yet connected culturally, through the retrospectively informed commons.

Architecture of the proposal, then, operates as a utility for the non-architectural discursive intervention, to create tension within the apparent consensus around those commons.

high-speed train station, California
Horizontal Diagrid Structure

Year 2011 (design research)

The high-speed train station will structure the relationship and distribution of speed with its surrounding context, eventually changing the urban development pattern. The research is curating the points of diffusion into a single spatial layout, to script the urban programing in the vicinity.

x-commons(.com)
memorial proposition

Year 2014 (research addendum, proposition) | you can read more about the project here

vahan-architecture(.com)
some of the published work

Years 2008-12

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