The project site is located in the historical district of Kutaisi, on the left bank of river Rioni. One of the main characteristics of this part of the city is its cultural diversity.  Built at different stages of the city's history,  various architectural pieces are still relevant and modern in the present and have very well-arranged, distinctive architectural language.

The main architectural accents in this district are on the cultural, administrative, or religious buildings, while residential architecture remains in the background, finished with local sand-colored Eklar stone, but it still has its authentic qualities.

Architectural intervention in this kind of environment needs a special approach. Our main task while working on the project was ensuring that the new residential building wouldn't dominate the cultural architecture, would merge inherently with the surroundings and at the same time would confront modern architectural paradigms and standards.

On the southwest of the building site, on the crossroad of Gaponovi and Niuporti Streets, there is a Park. During working on the masterplan the main goal was to place the building in a way that wouldn't “invade” park territory. For this reason, only the ground floor of the building is coming close to the park edge, other three floors are shifted farther so that the whole volume of the building doesn’t dominate the park. From the main gazing point, the building has a round form (on a crossroad of Gaponovi and Niuporti streets), we believe that this kind of spatial solution is genuine from the city planning (and spatial-geometric) point of view, since the crossing part of these two streets has shaped a round geometry during the centuries.

On Gaponovi street, alongside a south-eastern façade of the site, there are many trees, some of which are evergreen. This green barrier works as a smooth integrator for the building to its surrounding. Because of this green barrier and also because of the flat landscape from the pedestrian gazing point, the main focus of the building comes to the ground floor. That’s why we decided to put a main architectural accent on that part of the building. This characteristic element is round stone columns (diameter 1.10m). For the main finishing material for the façade, we chose the same sandy Eklar stone, which is dominant in the local architectural palette. Despite the material of the finish, the façade doesn’t repeat the classical architectural details that most local buildings have.

Hopefully, this kind of approach will enrich authentic cultural and historical multilayered characteristics and will be a solid attempt to develop the modern Georgian architectural language.