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Choreography Center, Kakheti, Georgia

The Kakheti Choreography Center seeks to create a fully open environment — a composition of interconnected urban rooms that collectively form a continuous field of cultural engagement, activity, and exchange. It reinterprets the region’s linear agricultural landscape into an architectural promenade, where movement and discovery define the spatial experience.

Situated at the threshold between forest and cultivated land, the building establishes a new civic landmark within Kakheti’s vast linear terrain. The architecture translates the rhythm of vineyards, forests, and mountain horizons into a linear sequence of spaces that invite exploration both inside and outside the building. Movement through the building is carefully choreographed yet flexible, offering ‘escape routes’ that extend toward the forest on one side and the vineyards on the other — creating a setting for both planned and unplanned interactions.

Structured upon a modular grid, each volume carries a distinct programmatic and spatial identity, contributing to a mosaic of typologies and experiences. The ensemble accommodates both formal and informal uses: an open-air amphitheater for traditional Georgian dance, a rehearsal hall, hotel, cafeteria, wine cellar, ethnographic museum, and a network of intermediate patios, terraces, and circulation zones that encourage spontaneous interaction.

The design aspires to create a collection of urban and natural spaces united within a single linear framework. This framework becomes both infrastructure and landscape: an ecosystem that cultivates cultural vitality, celebrates the spirit of Kakheti, and bridges the rhythms of human movement, architecture, and the land itself.

Architects

Vano Ksnelashvili, Nikoloz Maisuradze, Nika Tsagareishvili

Model

Nika Tsagareishvili

Photographer

Grigory Sokolinsky

Size

8,500 sqm

Location

Kisiskhevi, Georgia

Year

2025

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