The Cultural Center in Yerevan is located at the heart of a sports complex for Paralympic athletes a commission that placed accessibility at the very center of the architectural problem, not at its margins.

Yerevan is a city caught between classical grandeur and modernist ambition. The cultural center had to belong to both worlds and serve athletes who depend absolutely on the quality of its spatial organization.

The core concept was simple in its ambition and complex in its execution: to make the ramp the architecture itself, not an add-on to it. The entire building is generated by a continuous circulation path at a constant 3% slope, enabling full mobility for Paralympic athletes from entry to every program element  museum rooms dedicated to sport, shared community areas with cultivated gardens, psychological support spaces, a library, and a cafeteria.

The most difficult technical challenge was providing adequate climate control in a city with extreme winters while maintaining the spatial openness and natural light that the program demanded. The solution was a glass dome, supported on a steel frame with an integrated multi-layer fire protection system, which covers the upper garden space and acts as a thermal and luminous regulator for the spaces below.

The interior garden, planted with species native to Armenian cultural tradition, forms the emotional and ecological heart of the building. The combination of the ramp, the dome, and the garden creates a building that reads internally as a contained landscape a single continuous world from entrance to summit.