‘Yandex’ Internet Company Office in Yekaterinburg, Russia by Za Bor Architects designed using ArchiCAD

The Yekaterinburg office of ‘Yandex’ Company occupies the fifteenth floor of a new business center ‘Palladium’. The building is close to circle in section and consequently the office space is concentrated around the lift group and technical premises; in plan view it reminds of a horseshoe.

Yandex Office

• Architects: Za Bor Architects
• Project: ‘Yandex’ internet company office
• Location: Yekaterinburg, Russia
• Decorator: Nadezhda Rozhanskaya
• Architect Design: Arseniy Borisenko & Peter Zaytsev
• Floor Area: 700 sqm.
• Project Year: 2009-2010
• Software used: ArchiCAD

Interior View

• Photographs: Peter Zaytsev
• Floor space: 700 sq m
• Designing was made: 10.2009 – 12. 2009
• construction: 09.2009 – 05.2010.
• Opened: 23.10.2010
• Authors: Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev, za bor architects; Moscow, Russia

Image Courtesy Peter Zaytsev

Furniture and other

• Reception Desk Design: za bor architects (oak woods and glass)
• 4-in-1 watches Design: Nadezhda Rozhanskaya
• Textile in this Project: Nadezhda Rozhanskaya
• Office partitions: Nayada
• Relax chairs: Globe zero 4 (Contract Interiors)
• Work chairs & Tables: Herman Miller (Contract Interiors)
• Coffee Tables: Walter Knoll (Contract Interiors)

Software:3D Max, ArchiCAD, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, Windows XP

Image Courtesy Peter Zaytsev

Dynamic volumes and expressive furniture are za bor bureau’s visiting card; they successfully convey the concept of a prompt exponential ‘Yandex’ development, while wood and cork chosen as main facing materials illustrate the company’s humanism. Stack partitions made from thin profile in the corridors, as well as wood used in the working premises, have not just aesthetic, but also a brightly expressed soundproof effect. Quite low ceilings (3.60 m) have been visually made higher in the corridor, and the communications there have been painted in deep black colour.

Interior View

Since ‘Yandex’ offices are known for their informal attitude to working process and since they work round the clock, besides large and small conference halls and traditional general working zones the project provided for a sports hall, a kitchen, coffee points and chamber communication ‘cells’ (or pods) – spaces singled out from the corridor volume with the use of partitions.

Image Courtesy Peter Zaytsev

About za bor architects

za bor is a Moscow based architectural office founded in 2003 by principals Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev.
The bureau’s objects are created mainly in contemporary aesthetic. What distinguishes them is an abundance of architectural methods used both in the architectural and interior design, as well as a complex dynamical shape which is a visiting card of za bor projects. The interiors demonstrate this feature especially brightly, since for all their objects Peter and Arseniy create built-in and free standing furniture themselves.

Interior View

za bor architects have been involved in more than 30 projects including three residential houses, an office building, a cottage settlement, more than ten offices. Among the clients of za bor architects there are media, business and government companies such as Forward Media Group, Yandex, Inter RAO UES, Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry and others.

Image Courtesy Peter Zaytsev

Interior View

Image Courtesy Peter Zaytsev

Image Courtesy Peter Zaytsev

Yandex Company Office

Yandex Office

Yandex Office

Image Courtesy Peter Zaytsev

Interior View

Tags: Russia, Yekaterinburg

Categories: ArchiCAD, Offices

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