The Armenian Embassy, located in Reykjavík, Iceland, takes on the challenge of designing an embassy for a country that is disproportionately affected by climate change in a physical environment drastically different from its own. Embedded into a mountainside to combat Iceland’s extreme weather conditions, the narrow hallways and skylights ensure an opportunity for natural lighting. Each of the three floors varies in levels of “utilized transparency” based on programming needs; the first floor, “transparency,” is open for public use, the second floor, “translucency,” is semi-open for the staff’s open work areas, and the third floor, “opaqueness,” consists of private spaces.…
Link copied
