Reconnecting the dimensions of water, city, and community – An experiment in Yerevan (Armenia)
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https://doi.org/10.69143/2464-9309/1882025Keywords:
meta-design, technological and environmental design, integrated water strategy, garden city, Circular Park of YerevanAbstract
Two research projects have reopened the debate over the future of the Circular Park of Yerevan, a feature already found in the 1924 Tamanyan plan for the Armenian capital. The meta-design experimentation tackles two challenges: the first concerns overcoming the logic of intervening on isolated built-up structures and infrastructure, re-establishing the vertical, oblique and horizontal connections between water, vegetation and soil; the second aims to reorient the Circular Park toward its original concept of common space to satisfy the needs of a city in constant evolution. Focusing on public spaces and their relationship with the essential resources for life, the study identifies the resource water, not as the material of the project, but rather as a reconnective agent that acts symbiotically with the soil, microclimate, underground and buildings, creating regulative value between society, the city and socio-economic dynamics.
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Received: 10/09/2025; Revised: 15/10/2025; Accepted: 17/10/2025
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