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.

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.