TOTEMENT/PAPER

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Moscow

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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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Open

Website:

http://paperteam.ru

22MAY 2013

«Alliance 1892» Cognac Distillery Museum&Warehouse / TOTEMENT/PAPER

Posted in Architecture - Architecture by TOTEMENT/PAPER | Tags: Wood

The applied task — to design an «Alliance 1892» Cognac Distillery warehouse for tuns with cognac spirits and its checkpoint — while considering all the parts of the project has led us to creation of an extremely symbolical architectural ensemble.

Starting with the notion that the initial material cognac manufacturing deals with is a grapevine (a most mystical image in Christian symbols, embodying the sense of Tree of Life as well as Eucharist and Paradise (Holly Fire)) and wine (Divine Blood), — we decided to place the form under the authority of literary symbols, which are to create the images of harmonious interaction of various symbols and signs, sometimes opposite and antagonistic, but making stable pairs, giving rise to a new symbol.

Internal and external, male and female, low and high, closed and opened, wood and metal – here is just a short list of pairs, which we used in order to create shapes of the buildings.

A low wooden building, serving as a warehouse, embodies an image of Earth “giving birth to” – it is an image of a woman protecting and bearing.

It is bound to the earth tightly, grows into it, grows from it and protects and preserves a birth in it.

It is an Yin sign, deep, cool, low — internal.

A high capacity made from metal is reaching for the sky and is associated to light, mind, external, male.

It is slightly liable and mobile, opened (the capacity has simply been torn and burns like a candle at night, lighting up the insight of the object made of a grapevine).

The low part of the capacity is turning into a ladder, which as a triangle runs into the horizontal capacity, allowing visitors to examine the warehouse interior, without entering.

At the same time a tail of the wooden block on the other side also gets into the corpus of the high capacity as a triangle.

In this plexus they give birth to a space between and inside themselves, organizing the around space together.

With such complicated (almost mystical) interactions it is quite natural that both buildings have been designed basing on the same geometrical platform (by which they are connected to the cognac distillery main building and to the site geometry as well).

Each line both horizontal (according to the plan) and vertical (facades and sections) has been determined by a complicated geometrical scheme, which itself has formed the capacities of the buildings, and the architects appeared to be just tools of this structure, after it had been created by them.

The third object — a checkpoint, is the beginning — the gates to the following stage of the project — the creation of a park — a new line.

City:
Kaliningrad

Design team:
Levon Ayrapetov, Valeriya Preobrazhenskaya, Yegor Legkov.

Status:
Work in progress

Website:
http://paperteam.ru/

Website (references):
http://totement.ru/

Year:
2010 - present time

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