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"The project does not aim to transform the space into something new, but to extend its life. By minimizing intervention and maintaining reversibility, it proposes an approach where contemporary architecture operates within an existing structure without dominating it. Continuity is constructed not through imitation, but through contrast."

Lumen Coffee 1936 / snkh studio Completed in 2023 in Yerevan, Armenia. Images by Daniil Primak. A reversible stainless-steel intervention within Yerevan's oldest preserved interior from the 1930s. Lumen Coffee 1936 revives a former bookstore,...

We approached 5th International Print Biennale Yerevan exhibition design as a pure suprematist composition, working with the given conditions of the space, without masking its imperfections. It’s striking how the poor physical state of the art center does not diminish the beauty of its interior. There is a particular pleasure in engaging with a pure space, thinking through its geometry and the logic of form-making.
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Photo: Daniil Primak