A piece of Yerevan: A New Look to The Ancient Capital
09-07-2018 17:56:38 | Armenia | Social
On July 7 Ayb High School students of the Arvestanots club presented their project “A Piece of Yerevan” to discover very typical buildings of the capital by sketches․ Students have chosen buildings which are ignored or forgotten at all. The aim of the event jointly organized with Gouroo Club and Garden was to value and save urban buildings.
The students and guests talked about their sketches and the reasons for choosing those places, and why those buildings were so interesting for them.
The special guests of the event were: Mark Grigoryan, the executive director of Public Radio of Armenia, Arsen Karapetyan, architect, the founder of D’arvestanots architectural studio and Sarhat Petrosyan, architect, the Head of independent research organization UrbanLab.
"Maybe you don՛t agree with what I have to say, but there is no old Yerevan, it did not become and would never be an old city in the sense of Old Prague, Old Petersburg and Tallinn. Even if you think that it has , then it is Yerevan of the 1920s and '40s. And the question of preservation depends on the conditions in which the architecture has been formed," said Mark Grigoryan.
Sarhat Petrosyan, another participant of the discussion, objected to this idea, noting: "Even if we don’t even have to compare Yerevan with Prague and other cities, we have to keep what we have. So, we did not keep the part from the Republic square down to the Opera House building and now it's Northern Avenue. Yes, it is necessary to preserve as the preserved structures are adding value to the city. We could not keep the old values of our city. "
Touching upon the question of the necessity of preserving everything, the Public Radio Director Mark Grigoryan added: "The city should have a common architectural look, not structures in the form of separate islands. There is no general atmosphere of Yerevan in the same way, but there are different atmosphere where people feel comfortable. "
"There are some islanded parts of Yerevan that have not been appreciated over time not because of lack of merit, but because they have been underestimated just like the Kond, the Firdus market," said Arsen Karapetyan, another participant in the discussion.
At the end of the event, the screening of the animation film “A Piece of Yerevantsi” took place. The film is also based on the sketches made by students and tells us about the trip of “a piece of Yerevanian” walking in the streets of the city.
About Ayb School
Ayb School is a new learning environment where unique educational technologies are developed and contemporary achievements of modern education are tested in order to enhance the competitiveness of Armenian education. Ayb School strives to become a model of the 21st-century Armenian school. Its mission is to shape a generation of educated and virtuous young people connected to their roots and committed to assuming responsibility for the future of our world.
Ayb School was opened in 2011 by the Ayb Educational Foundation with the financial support of hundreds of donors united around the idea of education. Ayb High School is the first social project in the non-governmental sector in Armenia, and every year over 70% of students receive scholarship (tuition fee reimbursement). Ayb School offers education for 12 years and includes elementary school (grades 1-4), middle school (grades 5-9) and high school (grades 10-12).
The teaching and learning take place by the Araratian Baccalaureate (AB) Armenian language educational program developed by the Ayb Educational Foundation. The Araratian Baccalaureate is a globally competitive educational program, which enables Armenian students to study at Armenian schools in Armenian and receive quality education meeting all international and rigorous standards and providing graduation certificates that are acceptable in both local and international universities.
It was developed by the Ayb Educational Foundation and was finalized in the framework of the National Program for Educational Excellence carried out in cooperation with the Government. The process of the implementation of AB in regional schools of Armenia has started, thus making it accessible to all Armenian children in their own regions and free of charge.
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