Passing more than the border amongst Turkey and Georgia is not an experience you neglect shortly thanks to the surreal, undulating concrete customs station structure looming more than the Black Sea. An crucial quit for business travelers, however situated in the sleepy village of Sarpi, gave the constructing an chance for the customer - the Ministry of Finance of Georgia - to make a lasting impression on guests that the new, modern day incarnation of the former Soviet-run nation.
The primary volume of the creating is low and extended, slender like a ship as if it his way by way of the streets to launch themselves into the water. From one finish of this structure a strange tower rises with multiple cantilevered levels overlooking the coast. , It is topped with an observation deck, and in addition to the customs facilities, has a cafeteria, staff rooms and a conference space
Berlin architect J. Mayer H. wanted to represent "the progressive upturn of the nation" in visual form, beginning from the usual architectural style of the area. While the extremely unorthodox form of the creating blends in properly with the rest of the architect's oeuvre, such as the Georgia Refreshments shown below, it is somehow fitting for a region nonetheless with bizarre Soviet monuments.
With its sculptural profile, the structure virtually appears more like an oversized piece of art in public space as a functional creating, reminiscent of the extraordinary futuristic concrete monuments of the Soviets built, which can be discovered in Yugoslavia these days , In this sense, the Sarpi checkpoint is nearly appears retrofuturistic. Some people say it looks like an abstracted profile Snoopy.
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