The office of Armenian software development company BigBek is located in Yerevan?s Soviet era automotive manufacturing plant called ErAZ (Erevanskiy Avtomobilny Zavod) which is now transforming into office spaces for Armenia?s intensively growing IT community. 

© Sona Manukyan & Ani Avagyan

Architects: SNKH Architectural Studio

Location: Yerevan, Armenia

Architects In Charge: Ashot Snkhchyan, Arminé Snkhchyan, Meri Gevorgian

Area: 177.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Sona Manukyan & Ani Avagyan

© Sona Manukyan & Ani Avagyan

From the architect. The office of Armenian software development company BigBek is located in Yerevan?s Soviet era automotive manufacturing plant called ErAZ (Erevanskiy Avtomobilny Zavod) which is now transforming into office spaces for Armenia?s intensively growing IT community. The main goal of this project was to create an open workspace for up to 30 employees with a strict functional division in only 177 square meters.  Besides the main workspace, the client asked for a lounge zone, a small kitchen and a meeting room. To keep the space as open as possible we made a decision to divide the functional zones without physical barriers, by creating optical ones. Each zone has its own color which makes visible borders between them. The location of ...