Designed by Khmaladze Architects, Located on a highway connecting the city to the airport, the site is sparsely developed. Surrounded with fields and pine trees. the project houses coffee production plant, its offices, coffee tasting, and small coffee exhibits.

Inside, all programs are arranged in a continuous unobstructed space, with glass partitions as boundaries in between. From the highway, the building is a homogeneous concrete folded volume with no visible openings that would define its programs, on the backside it opens up towards the pine forest. From above, it blends into surroundings by a vast green roof, where occasional openings in forms of atriums, terraces, and skylights bring natural light indoors. This reduces the impact of a large building footprint visible from the planes taking off and landing next to the site.
The city required a building that escapes the regular factory appearance, the client – a strong visual identity. The program required to fit both, coffee plant, office and public areas with coffee tasting and small exhibits.

As a response, a box-like volume of a plant adjusts to program components by wrapping around. It stays high to fit equipment and lowers where possible. Same with office, the shell wraps around work, meeting and socializing spaces arranged on floors suspended on various levels. The three atriums filled with vegetation and numerous skylights bring daylight to spaces below. From the highway, the monolithic mass with no v...