EU TUMO融合中心丨亚美尼亚丨MVRDV

2026年2月24日（周二），在亚美尼亚总理尼科尔·帕希尼扬出席的仪式上，MVRDV庆祝了EU TUMO融合中心的开工建设。这是一座位于埃里温的图马尼扬公园校园内的全新灵活建筑，坐落于赫拉兹丹河峡谷上方的丘陵突出处，其悬挑体量可远眺城市、峡谷以及亚拉拉特山，并与区域的重要节点形成视觉联系。凭借灵活的设计，这座多功能建筑能够持续适应未来需求，并将帮助TUMO推进其提供免费教育的使命，在高等教育与科技产业之间架起桥梁。

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.

▼园区鸟瞰，Campus aerial view © MVRDV

TUMO为青少年及成年人提供免费教育，以培养其技术与创意能力。自2011年成立以来，该机构通过实践项目与自主学习相结合的方式，已培训超过10万名年轻人。TUMO起源于埃里温，目前已在亚美尼亚境内及国际范围内扩展至25个中心，包括巴黎、地拉那（其位于MVRDV设计的地拉那金字塔内）、柏林及孟买。此次在其主校区新增的建筑将容纳多种教育活动以及创新科技与设计企业空间，并配备会议设施。这将补充TUMO现有工作，使高年级学生与青年专业人士汇聚一堂，同时提供教育与研究支持，并扶持初创企业，促进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.

▼园区鸟瞰，Campus aerial view© MVRDV

▼场地轴测图，Site axonometric © MVRDV

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.

▼建筑外观，Building exterior © MVRDV

MVRDV创始合伙人Winy Maas表示：“通过TUMO的山顶大厅，我们打造了一个汇聚教育与产业的全新创新平台——这两者正是推动进步的核心动力。新设施将成为埃里温新兴科技校园的核心，同时坐落于历史轴线之上，如同一艘悬浮于峡谷之上的‘方舟’。其悬挑形态映射出站立于变革边缘、迈向未来的理念。我认为这是一种美好的象征。”

“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.”

▼建筑端部立面，End façade © MVRDV

建筑内部，教育与办公空间分布于五个楼层，并围绕三个大型中庭组织。这些“公共空隙”均与首层相连，可容纳与TUMO所倡导的创造力、社区性与协作精神相契合的多样功能。中央的“洞窟”构成主轴线上的主要入口空间，并设有咖啡厅与数字休闲区；南端的“山谷”贯穿建筑全高，以开敞灵活的空间容纳活动大厅；北端的“峡谷”则在楼层之间建立垂直联系，为不同尺度的联合办公环境提供支持。中庭将自然光引入建筑深处，并通过半透明聚碳酸酯立面进行增强，使其在白天过滤光线、夜晚则令体量散发柔和光晕。

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.

▼中庭活动空间，Atrium event space © MVRDV

围绕建筑，MVRDV的设计将邻近图马尼扬公园的岩石景观延展至场地内部，并形成一系列可供多样使用与非正式交流的室外空间。为鼓励人们在场地中自由移动与探索，景观路径将现有公园要素与新增设施（如座椅与休憩区）相连接。来自西侧的一座通行桥构成建筑入口，该桥穿越中央“洞窟”空间，并延伸为一处俯瞰河谷的观景平台。

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.

▼园区夜景鸟瞰，Campus aerial view at night © MVRDV

项目在可持续性方面采取了一系列策略，以降低建造碳排放与运行碳排放。楼板采用“BubbleDeck”中空楼板技术，以减少混凝土用量并降低建筑整体重量。此外，建筑在设计上具备长期适应性，楼层围绕两个核心筒组织，使TUMO及其他机构能够灵活布置空间。这一开放式配置使空间能够随时间进行重组，从而延长建筑使用寿命。为降低运行碳排放，建筑中庭被设计为热缓冲区，配备独立的冷热系统，并允许全年更大的温度变化范围。防分层风机与低温地板采暖系统可在中庭中维持舒适环境，同时减少维持工作空间恒温所需的能耗。

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.

▼建筑立面夜景，Building facade night view© MVRDV

现有TUMO教育体系确保该地区12至18岁的青少年能够接受技术与生态领域的免费教育，从而增强他们在全球劳动力市场中的独立性。EU TUMO融合中心的建成将进一步加强与本地社区的联系，通过面向成人学习者的教育项目，将产业与高等教育相连接，显著提升埃里温年轻居民的社会与经济韧性。

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.

▼中庭活动空间夜景，Atrium event space night view © MVRDV

该项目于2月24日举行开工仪式，出席嘉宾包括TUMO创意技术中心创始首席执行官Marie Lou Papazian、亚美尼亚共和国总理Nikol Pashinyan、教育、科学、文化与体育部长Zhanna Andreasyan、埃里温市长Tigran Avinyan，以及欧盟驻亚美尼亚大使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.

▼总平面图，Site plan © MVRDV

▼一层平面图，Level 01 floor plan © MVRDV

▼标准平面图，Typical floor plan © MVRDV

▼纵向剖面图，Longitudinal section © MVRDV

Project Name: EU TUMO Convergence

Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Year: 2019 –

Client: TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, Simonian Educational Foundation

Size and Programme: 13,500 m2, offices, coworking spaces, retail, café, event hall

Credits

Architect: MVRDV

Founding Partner in charge: Winy Maas

Partner: Stefan de Koning

Director: Gideon Maasland

Design Team: Ronald Hoogeveen, Edina Peli, Rico van de Gevel, Katarzyna Nowak, Angel Sanchez Navarro, Valentina Fantini, Prajakta Gawde, Renata Lopes Tavares, Daniele Dalbosco, Jose Manuel Garcia, Floris Dreesmann, Francesca Cambi, Mohan Yuan, Konstantina Lola, Helena Kajszczak, Sun Ah Jeong, Konstantina Kousari, Bartosz Michałowski, Marta Vilaseca Piera, Sara Abi Merched

MVRDV NEXT: Sanne van der Burgh, Boudewijn Thomas, Jaka Korla, Zhijia Xiong

MVRDV Interior: Aser Gimenez Ortega, Turker Naci Saylan, Basak Gunalp, Sofia Mermigka Angeli

Copyright: MVRDV Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries

Partners:

Co-architect: TUMO Architectural Department, Yerevan

Project coordination: TUMO Construction Department, Yerevan

Structural engineer: EOC Eckersly O’Callaghan, London

MEP: MET Majdalani Engineering and Trading, Lebanon

Cost calculation: MultiCal, TUMO Construction Department

Building physics and Thermal Analysis: EK Lab, London

Façade Engineering: EK Lab, London

Environmental advisor: Transsolar

BREEAM Assessor: Carbon Conscious Limited, UK

Acoustic Advisor: MMG Acoustical Consultants

Lighting design: Triangle, Yerevan