Tbilisi Public Service Hall by Studio Fuksas in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Description from the designers


The Tbilisi Public Service Hall is situated in the central area of the city and it overlooks the Kura river.

The building is 28.000 mq. It is made up of 7 volumes that contain offices (each volume is made up of 4 floors located on different levels). These volumes are placed around a ”central public square”, which is the core of the project, where there is the front office services. Offices are connected to each other by internal footbridges that stretches on different levels.

Volumes and the central public space are towered above by 11 big ”petals” that are independent both formally and structurally from the rest of the building. Three of those big petals covers the central space. The petals, different for their geometry and dimension, reaches almost 35 meters and they are supported by a structure of steel pillars with a tree shape, visible, as well as the petals, externally and internally from the building.

The Tbilisi Public Service Hall includes: the National Bank of Georgia, the Minister of Energy, the Civil and National Registry.

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Georgian Airport Takes Flight Through Concrete

German architects J. Mayer H. Architects’ newly-constructed SAG Airport in Mestia, Georgia employs an innovative use of engineered concrete to render swooping, ascending forms for this small Medieval town’s municipal airport. The project, developed alongside a new House of Justice and Police Stationcomplex, is typical of Mayer’s recent projects, many of which manipulate planar concrete forms in a variety of dimensions, giving a sense of movement, structure, and wonder to typical buildings. The architecture of the airport is evocative of Mestia’s skiing traditions, resembling the quarter- and half-pipe take off ramps used in the sport to gain vertical height and speed. Here, these forms are interpreted literally, relating to the airplanes with their own vertical mobility.

The building is an example of efficiency and simplicity in design, as it was built over the course of three months, and is, with regards to partii, comprised of three elements: a concrete floor, glass walls, and a concrete roof. The roof and floor are used to frame the vast and epic landscape located beyond the transparent walls. The floor plan is similarly trifurcated, facilitating two internalized viewing areas- one of which is structured as an amphitheatre- as well as a tall observation deck. This project utilizes streamlined construction and design techniques to arrive at expressively rendered, minimal spaces.


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