The client?s wish was to move their rather big company, which had been occupying several offices in the downtown, into a single building in one of the city?s green outskirts. The plot for the new office building is located in Olgino, a low-density residential suburb of St. Petersburg with small two- or three-storeyed houses all around.

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Architects: AB CHVOYA

Location: Kolodeznaya Ulitsa, 2, Olgino, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia

Area: 1200.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Dmitry Tsyrencshikov

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Text description provided by the architects. The client?s wish was to move their rather big company, which had been occupying several offices in the downtown, into a single building in one of the city?s green outskirts. The plot for the new office building is located in Olgino, a low-density residential suburb of St. Petersburg with small two- or three-storeyed houses all around.
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Ground Floor Plan

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The narrow flat site has its southern short side for a street frontage and is clearly visible from a railway line behind the street and a busy motorway behind the railway. The necessary offsets and height restrictions form the three-storeyed oblong volume of the building. Twelve rigid frames of engineered wood (12 by 12 meters each) compose its structural skeleton. The long lateral wa...