Laboratory of Architecture #3

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

ARCHITECTS
Laboratory of Architecture #3

SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

PROJECT TEAM
Tiki Peikrishvili, Tamar Tekhova, Guram Mamisashvili, Shota Saganelidze, Kakha Maisuradze, Irakli Abashidze, Dimitri Shapakidze

PHOTOGRAPHER
Nakanimamasakhlisi

PHOTOS
Giorgi Mamasakhlisi

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Shekvetili, Georgia

CATEGORY
Cultural › Museum Pavilion>Landscape + Planning › Public Park

Newly completed architectural miniatures park will open its doors in August 2016 at the black sea coastal resort Shekvetili.

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

This small Georgian village has already enjoyed a grand opening of the nearby-located 10000-seat concert arena, a five-star hotel and an amusement park is also underway.

Recently developing coastal region will be able to host thousands of tourists and offer them sandy beaches, seaside eucalyptus forests and unique leisure infrastructure.

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

Among them one can visit a thematic park, ''Georgia in miniatures''.

Park is full of architectural monuments, which have been gathered from all around Georgia in 1:25 scale.

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

Park is aimed to display rich architectural heritage of the country.

Laboratory of architecture #3, a 10-year practicing, Georgian architectural company, has developed a park layout and a visitor center building.

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

It is located at the entrance and serves as a kind of entree for the whole area.

It is important to mention that the building is a reconstruction of a cylindrical concrete volume of the former sewer cleaning facility, which was never used and was standing as an abandoned 30-meter diameter concrete drum.

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

Visitor goes through a poetic space, flanked from one side by the 60-meter-long curved form black painted bamboo fence and a ribbed fiber concrete pavilion on the other.

Bamboo is a very native material in local vernacular architecture as it is very cheap and easy to find throughout the region.

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

However, painting it in black is locally the first experimental attempt of this kind.

The use of radical color continues in painting the educational space of the outdoor amphitheater, which is yellow and in blue staircase heading to the rooftop terrace.

Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

The characteristic intensive light of the sun plays the crucial role in forming of the dynamic and colorful composition.


Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park
Visitor center for Architectural miniatures park

Laboratory of Architecture #3
T +995 597 758863
Laboratory of Architecture #3
PQ6M+G2R, Veriko Anjaparidze St, Tbilisi, Georgia