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Lace Hill: A Living Green Mountain Building for Armenia

by Bridgette Meinhold, 05/04/10



lace hill, armenia, forrest fulton architects, sustainable building, living hill, living walls, green roof, natural ventilation, rainwater collection, greywater recycling, mixed use development, eco design, green design, green building

Birmingham, Alabama-based Forrest Fulton Architects wanted to avoid designing yet another towering glass structure for the mixed-use development. Instead they chose to create a structure whose form more closely resembled the surrounding hills of Yeravan, located between the Black and Caspian Seas. The hill development proposal is 85,000 sq meters (900,000 sq ft) and incorporates retail and restaurants on the bottom floor, office space on the north side, and a hotel and apartments on the south side, which has great solar access and the best views. Parking and car access is completely underground, so no automobile traffic mars the approach of the sloping hillside, which eventually connects to a open space and park to the west of the structure.

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5 Responses to “Lace Hill: A Living Green Mountain Building for Armenia”

  1. steve jackson steve jackson says:

    wow…..thanks! fantastic!!

  2. cosmobilly cosmobilly says:

    Amazing ! It just looks great and gives hope !

  3. bristol bristol says:

    Quite amazing; I’d love to visit so I can encourage a local version

  4. sbeaulieu24 sbeaulieu24 says:

    very interesting

  5. meline meline says:

    its amazing,,,as if mountain Ararat :)

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