ARMENIAN LIVING HILLS

GreenMuze
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May 16 2010

Designed to absorb CO2 and heat, the living mountain also utilizes
rainwater capture to irrigate the vegetation building skin as well
as using geothermal heat pumps for temperature controls.

"Lace Hill not only conserves its own resources within, but also
gives back to Yerevan, passively cooling portions of Yerevan during
the summer," describes the architects’ website of the project. "The
project forgoes making an accumulation of object buildings perched
over the city, and instead makes one building, creating public spaces
within and on it, seamlessly blending with its context. It offers an
alternative to typical development."

The human made mountain offers hotels, offices, and retail space while
providing a living habitat for birds, insects and other small animals.