Situated in Karbi, a village on the outskirts of Ashtarak, this house engages in a deliberate dialogue with its landscape. Its design is governed by two competing forces: the magnetic pull of Mount Ararat to the south, which demands near-total transparency, and the relentless northerly winds, which call for enclosure and protection. These opposing conditions give the architecture its essential logic.
The southern elevation dissolves into a fully glazed volume housing the living, dining, and kitchen spaces — a single, open interior suspended between two worlds. On one side, an interior garden draws nature inward; on the other, the uninterrupted panorama of the Mount Ararat. The volume opens generously onto shaded terraces and a swimming pool, extending domestic life into the open air. A pergola wraps the house, modulating the intensity of the Armenian summer sun and casting a rhythm of shadow and light across the terraces throughout the day.
