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Patriotic War Memorial Park

Complex Geometry & Info Modelling — Public Amenity Completed

Year

2024

Location

Baku, Azerbaijan

Role

BIM Modelling, Content Creation, Coordination

Client

Azerbaijan Development Company (ADEC)

Design

Simmetrico Architettura

Team

iDEAS Engineering & Architecture Studio

Tools

RhinoGrasshopperRhino.Inside.RevitRevitNavisworks

Location map — Baku, Azerbaijan
Baku — Azerbaijan
Aerial view of the Patriotic War Memorial Park in Baku — screen monument and circular garden

Overview

Victory Park (Zəfər Parkı) is a monumental memorial complex in central Baku, built to commemorate Azerbaijan's victory in the 2020 Karabakh war. Designed by the Italian studio Simmetrico Architettura, it pairs a towering perforated portal with a circular sunken garden laid out as an ornamental national motif. iDEAS delivered the BIM for the complex, where my work covered modelling, content creation and cross-discipline coordination.

The Monument

The gateway rises as two tapered white pylons spanned by a filigree canopy — a perforated Glass-Fibre Reinforced Concrete screen drawn from a stylised tree-of-life pattern. Its freeform, doubly-curved surfaces are exactly the kind of geometry that has to be reconstructed cleanly in the model to be detailed, quantified and fabricated.

Ground view of the portal monument — tapered pylons and perforated tree-of-life canopy
The portal — tapered pylons and a perforated tree-of-life canopy

The Memorial Garden

Beyond the gate, a circular garden sits within the axial park: its planting and paving trace a symmetric national ornament around a central sculpture, framed by a ring wall and a long reflecting pool. Coordinating landscape, structure and the built ornament against one another was central to keeping the geometry buildable.

Top-down aerial of the circular memorial garden and axial park layout
The complex from above — the circular ornamental garden on the park's axis
Aerial view of the memorial park with the Baku skyline and the Caspian sea
In the city — the memorial on its axis toward the Caspian