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2月24日上周二，由 MVRDV 设计的「欧盟 TUMO 融合大楼」正式动工，MVRDV 创始人Winy Maas 与亚美尼亚共和国总理尼科尔·帕希尼扬 (Nikol Pashinyan) 共同出席了破土仪式。TUMO 创意技术中心 (以下简称“TUMO”) 位于首都埃里温的图曼尼杨 (Tumanyan) 公园内，新增的这座融合大楼将是一座灵活开放的新建筑，悬挑于赫拉兹丹河峡谷 (Hrazdan River Gorge) 之上的山丘，串联了区域内的地标建筑，同时饱览城市、峡谷及亚拉拉特山 (Mount Ararat) 的壮丽景色。通过灵活的设计手法，这座多功能建筑能够不断适应未来多变的需求，助力TUMO 实现推进免费教育、弥合高等教育与科技产业之间鸿沟的愿景和使命。

On Tuesday, 24 February, in a ceremony with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, MVRDV celebrated the start of construction for the EU TUMO Convergence Center – a new flexible building on their campus in Yerevan’s Tumanyan Park. Perched on a hilly outcrop over the Hrazdan River Gorge, the cantilevered building connects to the region’s anchor points with views over the city, the gorge, and Mount Ararat. With its flexible design, the multifunctional building can be continuously adapted to suit future needs and will help TUMO to advance its mission of providing free education, bridging the gap between higher education and the technology industry.

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TUMO 致力于为青少年和成年人提供免费的科技与创意技能教育。自2011年成立以来，该机构已通过实践项目与自主学习的结合，培训了超过10万名年轻人。从埃里温市的主校区开始，TUMO 已逐步扩展到亚美尼亚全国及全球共25个培训中心，包括巴黎、地拉那（地拉那分部也设在由MVRDV设计完成的地拉那金字塔内）、柏林和孟买。作为此次主校区的新增建筑，融合大楼将容纳多样化的教育活动、为创新科技和设计公司提供办公空间和会议设施。融合大楼进一步补充了 TUMO 现有的功能，将年龄稍长的学生与年轻专业人士聚集在一起，提供教育和研究机会，支持初创企业，激发学生与产业之间的联系。

TUMO offers free education to teenagers and adults to develop technical and creative skills. Since its foundation in 2011, the organisation has trained more than 100,000 young people through a combination of hands-on projects and self-directed learning. Starting in Yerevan, TUMO has expanded to 25 centres across Armenia and internationally, including Paris, Tirana (where it occupies the MVRDV-designed Pyramid of Tirana), Berlin, and Mumbai. The new addition to their main campus will host a mixture of educational activities and spaces for innovative technology and design companies, alongside conference facilities. This will complement TUMO’s existing work, bringing older students together with young professionals to offer both education and research, and to support start-ups, stimulating connections between the students and the industry.

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建筑设计以大胆而简洁的手法回应了赫拉兹丹河峡谷上方的场地条件，将一个长达120米的单一体量设置在下沉式的基座之上，而体量两端则悬挑于陡峭的斜坡之上，同时，两端的大面积开窗分别朝向北面的峡谷和南面的亚拉拉特山——传说这里是诺亚方舟的停泊点。基座将建筑抬升到更显眼的高度，并形成一个斜坡，延续了图曼尼杨公园的地形。

The design of the new EU TUMO Convergence Center building offers a bold yet simple response to the site perched above the Hrazdan River gorge. A 120-metre-long monolithic bar rests on top of a sunken base, cantilevering over steep slopes on each end, while large windows on both ends direct views towards the river gorge to the north and Mount Ararat – often believed to be the resting place of Noah’s Ark – to the south. The base podium elevates the building to a more visible height, creating a slope that extends the nearby Tumanyan Park.

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MVRDV 创始合伙人 Winy Maas 表示："通过在山丘之上为 TUMO 设计这座融合大楼，我们创造了一个将教育与产业这两大推动进步的主要力量汇聚在一起的全新创新平台。新设施代表了埃里温新兴科技园区的核心，它恰好也位于历史的轴线上，有如一艘即将启航的'方舟'，悬停于峡谷之上。悬挑的结构象征学校正在变革前沿、向未来翘首的姿态。我认为这是一个很好的寓意。"

“With TUMO’s hall on the hill, we created a new innovation platform that brings together education and industry – the main forces driving progress,” says Winy Maas, founding partner of MVRDV. “The new facility represents the heart of Yerevan’s emerging tech campus, but is positioned on the axis of history, an ‘Ark’ hovering over the gorge. Its cantilevered form mirrors the idea of standing on a precipice of change, reaching out toward the future. I think that's a nice symbolism.”

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建筑内部主要包含教育和办公空间，遍布五个楼层，围绕三个大型中庭分布组织。这些挑空的公共空间均与底层相连，容纳与 TUMO 的创意、社群和协作价值观相符的多样化功能：其中，位于建筑中央区域的"岩洞"沿主轴线形成主要入口空间，设有咖啡馆和数字休息室。南端的"山谷"贯穿建筑上下通高空间，宽敞灵活，内设多功能厅；北端的"峡谷"则在楼层之间创造了垂直连接，支持不同规模的协作办公需求。中庭将自然光引入建筑深处，半透明的聚碳酸酯外墙能够在白天过滤光线，夜晚则为建筑覆上一层柔和的光晕。

Inside, educational and working spaces are arranged across five storeys and structured around three large atriums. These “public voids” all connect to the ground floor and accommodate diverse programmes aligned with TUMO’s values of creativity, community, and collaboration. In the centre, the “Grotto” forms the main entrance space along the principal axis, with a café and a digital lounge. At the southern end, the “Valley” rises the full height of the building, hosting the event hall in a generous and flexible space, while on the opposite end, the “Canyon” creates vertical connections between floors, supporting co-working environments at different scales. The atriums bring daylight deep into the building, enhanced by a translucent polycarbonate façade that filters light during the day and gives the volume a gentle glow at night.

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纵向剖面图

longitudinal section

在建筑周围，MVRDV 的方案将公园内的岩石景观延伸至场地，形成一系列供不同活动和非正式交流的户外空间。为了激发人们进入室外场地活动和探索，MVRDV刻意用景观路线串联起公园现有的特色与新增的功能区域。西侧的桥梁成为建筑的入口，穿过中央的"岩洞"空间，并延伸形成一个可俯瞰河流的观景平台。

Around the building, MVRDV’s proposal extends the rocky landscape of the nearby Tumanyan Park onto the site and forms a series of outdoor spaces for different uses and informal encounters. To invite movement and exploration across the site, scenic routes connect existing park features with new elements, such as seating and relaxation areas. An access bridge from the west forms the entrance to the building, running through the central Grotto space and extending out as a viewing platform overlooking the river.

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基地平面图

site plan

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MVRDV 在设计中整合了多项可持续措施，从而降低隐含碳和运营碳排放。建筑楼板采用"气泡板"式结构，减少混凝土用量和建筑的总重量。此外，设计本身注重长期适应性，楼层围绕两个核心筒组织，为 TUMO 和其他机构提供了灵活的空间布局。开放的结构满足未来各种可能的空间调整需求，从而延长建筑的使用寿命。为了减少运营碳排放，建筑的中庭被视为热缓冲区域，配备独立的供暖和制冷系统，可以应对较大的温差变化。空气循环风扇和低温地板采暖有助于维持中庭的舒适条件，同时减少为维持工作空间恒定温度所产生的能耗。

The project’s approach to sustainability includes a variety of features to reduce both embodied and operational carbon emissions. The floor slabs are designed with a “bubble-deck” approach to reduce the amount of concrete required and the total weight of the building. In addition, the building is designed for long-term adaptability, with floors organised around two central cores that allow flexible layouts for both TUMO and other organisations. This open configuration allows spaces to be reconfigured over time, extending the building’s lifespan. To reduce operational carbon, the building’s atriums are treated as thermal buffers, with separate heating and cooling systems and a higher variance in temperature throughout the year. Anti-stratification fans and low-temperature floor heating help maintain comfortable conditions in the atriums while reducing the energy required to keep working spaces at a constant temperature.

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动工仪式现场

groundbreaking ceremony

TUMO 现有的培训项目已经能够确保该地区12至18岁的青少年免费接受技术和生态学教育，从而增强这些青少年在全球劳动力市场中的独立性。未来，新建的欧盟TUMO 融合大楼将进一步加强与本地社区的联系，为成人学习者提供培训服务、促进产业与高等教育之间的衔接，极大地提高埃里温年轻居民的社会和经济韧性。

The existing TUMO programme ensures that 12- to 18-year-olds in the area receive free education in technology and ecology and thus strengthens the independence of these teenagers within the global labour market. The EU TUMO Convergence Center will further strengthen ties with the local community by catering to adult learners, linking industry to higher education, vastly improving the social and economic resilience of Yerevan's young residents.

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动工仪式现场

groundbreaking ceremony

2月24日动工仪式的出席者包括：MVRDV 创始合伙人 Winy Maas、TUMO 创意技术中心创始首席执行官玛丽·卢·帕帕齐安 (Marie Lou Papazian)、亚美尼亚共和国总理尼科尔·帕希尼扬 (Nikol Pashinyan)、国家教育、科学、文化和体育部长詹娜·安德烈亚相 (Zhanna Andreasyan)；埃里温市长蒂格兰·阿维尼扬 (Tigran Avinyan)；以及欧盟驻亚美尼亚大使瓦西利斯·马加戈斯 (Vassilis Maragos)。

The start of construction was celebrated on 24 February in the presence of Marie Lou Papazian, founding CEO of the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies; Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia; Zhanna Andreasyan, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport; Tigran Avinyan, Mayor of Yerevan; and Vassilis Maragos, EU Ambassador to Armenia.

MVRDV建筑规划事务所由Winy Maas、Jacob van Rijs和Nathalie de Vries创立于荷兰鹿特丹，致力于为当代的建筑和都市问题提供解决方案。MVRDV的创作基于深度研究与高度协作，各领域的专家、客户及利益相关方从项目初期一直参与设计的全过程。直率而真诚的建筑、都市规划、研究和装置作品堪称典范，让城市和景观朝向更美好的未来发展。

MVRDV的早期项目，如荷兰公共广播公司VPRO的总部，以及荷兰阿姆斯特丹的WoZoCo老年公寓，都获得了广泛的国际赞誉。MVRDV250余位建筑师、设计师和城市规划师在多学科交叉的设计过程中，始终坚持严格的技术标准和创新性研究。MVRDV采用BIM技术，公司内拥有正式的BREEAM和LEED顾问。MVRDV与荷兰代尔夫特理工大学合作运营独立智库和研究机构The Why Factory，通过展望未来都市，为建筑及都市主义提供发展议程。

MVRDV was set up in 1993 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV engages globally in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. A research-based and highly collaborative design method engages experts from all fields, clients and stakeholders in the creative process. The results are exemplary and outspoken buildings, urban plans, studies and objects, which enable our cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future.

Early projects by the office, such as the headquarters for the Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO and WoZoCo housing for the elderly in Amsterdam lead to international acclaim. 250 architects, designers and other staff develop projects in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative design process which involves rigorous technical and creative investigation. MVRDV works with BIM and has official in-house BREEAM and LEED assessors. Together with Delft University of Technology, MVRDV runs The Why Factory, an independent think tank and research institute providing an agenda for architecture and urbanism by envisioning the city of the future.