Each office, like a company, should have its own face. However, most office spaces are similar to each other, and besides, they are so boring and of the same type that you don't even want to work in them. Therefore, today it is becoming a matter of honor for ambitious companies to build a good - modern and creative - office, and here one cannot do without an architect.
NAYADA and the Russian Union of Architects decided to focus on the space that should become a workplace and a presentation platform for the company at the same time by organizing a unique highly specialized competition for the interior of an office space - “Office space: creativity, technology, innovation”.
The competition is held in three nominations: arch-solution, arch-incarnation and arch-partition (the latter sounds simply amazing). It is interesting that the organizers of the competition made a bias towards the understanding of space, and not design decoration, as is usually the case with interior solutions. However, more than half of the applications were received specifically for "Archiperegorodok", and therefore there were not three winners in it, in terms of the number of prizes, but as many as six (due to which, in others, respectively, they were taken away).
The best projects in this nomination were named "Boards" by Nikolay Korenkov, who won the jury with the fashionable environmental friendliness of the product - the partitions are made of the purest material, that is, wood. The workspace formed by the planks is both austere and homely pleasant - emphasizing this duality, horizontal planks alternate with perforated glass, but the design remains charmingly laconic.
The second place was taken by a more creative and daring project with an extremely complex and intriguing name "Discrete SELF-STANDING partition of elementary particles" of the architectural trio of Olga Banchikova, Ruben Arakelyan and Alexander Kudimov, reminiscent of a slightly knocked down village fence, delimiting office space into courtyard, courtyard and street areas, between which residents coexist. Moreover, the "fence logs" can be of any configuration and sometimes even stand upright - it is interesting that the main principle of the village fence is preserved here (not to be confused with a modern suburban fence!) - its convention. In such a "fence", if necessary, you can always push apart a few "pieces of wood" and find yourself, without unnecessary conventions, in your colleague's office.
The first place in the nomination "Archival" was taken by the architectural group Be-tone (Natalya Belugina and Mikhail Tarada), which recently sounded at the "Golden Section", which presented the interior of its own bureau for the competition. Its space is built on a combination of light and black planes, which create a rather austere atmosphere. The main focus of the entrance is on the reception desk with the company logo, behind which the entire workflow of the architectural company is hidden.
Aida Saida, already known from the Interior Capital Awards competition, won the Archi-Solution nomination, this time showing a project apparently intended for the interior of her own future architectural bureau. The lines of the walls in it smoothly flow from the ceiling to the floor, the space is delimited only by tables and conventional zones painted in green, which one day really turn into natural greenery in the form of small trees growing directly from the ground in the floor.
In addition to the jury members, everyone could vote for the project they liked on the organizers' website. The winner of the most popular People's Choice Award was the project of the office of the organizer of the competition, NAYADA, made by Dmitry Melitonyan. The project is an “office within an office”, where another teardrop-shaped space with a circular hall inside is inserted into the main rectangular hall.
Architectural workshops are often proud of their offices. They are published in magazines, but they are not often shown in competitions. The new award seems to be specifically designed to develop a theme - namely, to reward young architects for their own offices. One way or another, these spaces, by definition creative, are the easiest to model - at least when a young architect has already earned his own beautiful office.
