Green Cape Botanico

Located on Batumi’s Green Cape beside the Botanical Garden, the project by MUA integrates two residential buildings and a House of Wellness within a unified masterplan crafted for the entire territory. Set into the steep terrain, the architecture respects existing pedestrian trails by elevating parts of the structure on pillars, allowing people and air to pass freely beneath. Concrete arches and terraces echo the landscape’s rhythm, while the House of Wellness reinterprets Georgia’s Soviet sanatoriums, merging architecture, topography, and collective life.

Under a single MUA-crafted masterplan, the project confronted steep topography, a fragmented resort fabric, and the need to keep pedestrian continuity and landscape character. The strategy merges architecture with terrain: all volumes are lifted on columns to keep passages for airflow, drainage, and uninterrupted routes, while minimizing excavation and protecting vegetation. The residential blocks follow the natural slope with curved, terraced forms that enable cross-ventilation and daylight through open corridors and shared terraces. The House of Wellness, also elevated, concentrates communal and wellness spaces while visually linking to Georgia’s modernist Soviet leisure architecture. This integrated approach addressed the client’s density goals, the users’ need for comfort and openness, and the site’s environmental constraints, creating a permeable, climate-responsive ensemble where built form and landscape coexist in continuity.

The primary material for construction is reinforced concrete. A prominent component of the entire architecture is the exposed concrete mass. The design makes use of precast elements such as balcony slab borders. Various molded façade elements are also used - elevator shafts with serrated surfaces and corrugated façade planes. Because of the high value of the existing environment, the three buildings were designed to preserve existing topography by minimizing the excavation works and elevating the ground floor to serve as an open parking space. Because of the humid subtropical climate, characterized by frequent rainfall, an efficient drainage system was developed encouraging natural water runoff coupled with drainage networks which are also designed for easy maintenance. Corrosion-resistant coatings and paints ensure long-lasting durability of the facade elements.