01 — Project
The Architecture
Eight stories of considered concrete on a triangular site, designed to hold 112 residences above 84 mechanical parking bays.
South facade · 42 m · 8 stories · Kakhaberi Street
01.1
The building, in numbers.
Engineered for the Black Sea coast — high seismicity, marine air, year-round living.
01.2
A wedge on Kakhaberi.
The site is a triangle. Three streets converge on a single parcel — Kakhaberi to the west, Pridon Khalvashi Avenue to the south, an unnamed access lane to the east — and the building accepts that geometry rather than fighting it.
The plan narrows toward the north and opens to the south, where the longest façade looks onto the avenue. Two dark vertical reveals divide the elevation into three calm bays. Concrete is left fair-faced. Balconies are set deep into the volume so the rhythm reads as architecture rather than ornament.
On the ground floor, glass replaces concrete. Commercial space and the mechanical parking entry sit behind a continuous curtain wall — a transparent base under the residential mass.
01.3
Built for the long horizon.
The structure is a reinforced-concrete frame on a 100 cm raft foundation — 1,367 m³ of B-25 concrete and 95 tonnes of B500b reinforcement laid down before any wall is poured.
Forty-seven columns and five monolithic shear walls carry the load. The lateral system is dimensioned for 8-point seismic action on the MSK-64 scale, which is what Batumi demands.
Engineered with the structural conservatism appropriate to a high-seismicity coastal city. The building is designed to last beyond a single generation of owners.