TOTEMENT/PAPER

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The TOTEMENT / PAPER architectural bureau was founded in 2006. Founders: Levon Ayrapetov and Valeria Preobrazhenskaya. The bureau includes 10 architects, 3 design engineers, 2 interior designers, 1 designer-visualizer. The bureau is doing its own work on the development of architectural and constructive sections of design and working documentation. Develops interiors, carries out the function of the general designer. Specialization of the bureau: The main specificity of the work of the bureau is manifested in objects that require non-standard solutions, an individual approach and having an imagination component. This quality was manifested in the implementation of the Pavilion of the Russian Federation at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, as well as in the development of the «Alliance 1892» Wine and Brandy Distillery Museum & Warehouse in the Kaliningrad region. The team has experience in working with houses of varying complexity ranging from 1500 to 2500 square meters, the key to success of which is the accumulated rich experience of communication with customers and a highly professional approach.

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23FEB 2013

Congress Hall in Yuzhnosakhalinsk / TOTEMENT/PAPER

Posted in Architecture - Architecture by TOTEMENT/PAPER

In September 2011 our Bureau was invited to take part in a closed tender to make a project of a Business & Exhibition Center at one of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk plants. According to the tender procedure we didn’t know who were other participants and didn’t see their designs and presentations.

One year passed till we got acquainted with the winner and his design presented in an archi.ru publication dated 24.

09.2012. We consider it to be a good occasion for us to congratulate our colleagues, first of all, but also to present our 2 designs which were worked out by our team and participated in that competition.

A construction site was chosen according to a great number of conditions: its location far from the main production building in order to keep away from the ex-zone; close location to the road in order to optimize traffic scheme and access for visitors since permission to be present in any part of the plant is strictly specified regardless a visitor's status (we realized that during our excursion at the plant held by its director). But the main idea created by the plant administration was its "friendliness" to the environment.

Obviously, SakhalinEnergy does a lot to reduce harmful impact on nature (one could hardly name where else in Russia there are protected areas with Red Book flora and fauna on the territory of a huge plant), and after our conversation with the plant representatives we got an impression we had a visit to the Ministry of Nature Protection but not to the company that built the large plant with oil platforms, pumped gas and oil, laid thousands kilometers of gas pipe-lines and etc. It often happens when a maniac "green idea" serves as a cover, as an absent dress of an emperor with no clothes, since the main idea of "green architecture" - is not nature protection after all but minimization of energy production expenses, protection of resources for future use keeping in mind their limited quantity. All this haven't changed the attitude of «homo sapience» to his own dominance though all his technical achievements seem ridiculous comparing to all created without his participation.

But ok, enough of that..

. We were interested in this project due to the location and task. The island is rather Japanese (we saw Japanese buildings, ruins of lines of defense; nature which is very much alike; the two largest Japanese companies are shareholders; obviously, Japan is the main consumer of energy - reduction of traffic expenses), than Russian (chaotic buildings giving a depressed impression, much of fecklessness and provinciality).

And here on a seashore there is something "horrible and beautiful" at the same time (japans were also the builders, it looked like they just used the territory). We were greatly impressed by this evidence of glory of mankind - a mass of metal composed in a precise technique, a gorgeous monster (almost like Richard Rogers), huge tankers at filling station, army discipline, english speech and untouched hills around.

We made several designs of the building, one of them we are ready to present to your attention. The site is located on a hill above the protected zone with a sea view, a view to the plant and hills. The relief is featured.

We are almost on the cliff. The structure of the building is made in such a way without main and additional facades and without a facade as a notion at all.

It is based on the principle of "motion at rest", some duality when the inner and the outer often replace each other, horizontals start to fly, hanging rest on the hills, the walls become horizontal shelters. Horizontal motions of planes create centrifugal or centripetal motion though it is almost impossible to identify the center. The building is a body and its shape is just an intermediate stop or one "shot" of millions, very much alike, but always different, when the main aim is to reflect dynamics of motion with the help of the mass of frozen metal, concrete and glass.

Transparency, incompleteness, reference to the landscape, "uncommon angle of windows and stained-glassed windows" (rains there have the same angle), compliancy and flexibility - all this brings us to the everlasting incompleteness of South-East and Far East Asia art. Specifications - such as size, number of different zones and their interconnections, location of exhibition facilities, VIP areas, training facilities, viewing points and open-air amphitheaters are definitely marked on design schemes and worked out according to the structure of the object and access scheme for visitors with "various statuses" as well as tasks strictly defined by the plant team, - all these are just starting parameters, obligatory part of every design an architect does, a sort of a "grocery basket".

City:
Yuzhnosakhalinsk

Design team:
Levon Ayrapetov, Valeriya Preobrazhenskaya, Egor Legkov, Adelina Rivkina, Dariya Samohvalova, Evgeniy Kostsov

Status:
Proposal

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http://paperteam.ru/

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Year:
2011

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