Architecture Drawn from the Green Cape of Batumi

A building earns its place on a coastline when it belongs to the landscape before it belongs to the skyline. In Green Cape, Batumi, minutes from the Botanical Garden and open to the Black Sea, that principle guides NEXT Collection, a residential complex designed by SPECTRUM Architecture to be read as a continuation of the subtropical setting it stands in. Across 20,335 square metres, the project rises 58.5 metres over fifteen storeys, and from its first lines the boundary between architecture and landscape was drawn to dissolve.

A Living Facade

That intention takes its clearest form in the green facade, conceived as a living surface. Planting climbs the exterior as a continuous ecosystem, carried further by terraces, patios, and rooftop gardens that thread vegetation through the building at every level. The subtropical climate of Green Cape does the rest, supporting a wide variety of species that shift the building's character from one season to the next, so the facade wears one character in spring and another by late summer. This is architecture engineered to grow, its plant palette embedded in the design from the very first lines.

Three Wings, One Composition

Beneath the greenery, the massing resolves into three independent wings joined at a central podium. The arrangement opens each wing toward panoramic views of the Black Sea while gathering the complex into a single, unified base. Fluid forms and organic materials settle the volumes into their setting, and a restrained palette keeps the composition quiet against the drama of the coast. Large windows draw daylight deep into the interiors, extending the relationship between inside and landscape that the facade begins on the exterior.

Interiors That Open Outward

Inside, that relationship becomes the organising idea of daily life. The apartments are planned around high ceilings and a durable material palette, and each opens onto a generous private terrace that carries living space into the open air. Every unit gives onto broad terraces, landscaped zones, and uninterrupted views of the sea, so residents move outward through a sequence of softening thresholds, each room giving way to the open air. Room to adapt is built in, letting each home shift with the changing needs of the life inside it.

A Roof Above the Sea

The design reaches its height on the roof. Here a garden, a pool, a restaurant, and a bar open toward the Black Sea, gathering the building's shared life at its highest point and holding it within the same greenery that defines the base. The planting of the roof answers the planting below, so the composition reads as continuous from the ground to the sky, and the horizon itself becomes the edge of the experience.

The Discipline Beneath the Greenery

The environmental ambition rests on a durable frame. Fibre-reinforced concrete gives the structure its resilience, and considered building systems support long-term efficiency across the life of the complex, so the planting strategy and the architecture that carries it are built to last. This care for permanence lets the biophilic idea move beyond gesture into an infrastructure the building can sustain through years of use.

Where a coastline lends its climate, its light, and its living landscape to a single design, architecture takes root in the place it shapes. NEXT Collection reads the Green Cape closely, and returns it to Batumi as a building that grows with the coast it belongs to.