Workspace Eurokommerz

2007

The office of the company “EuroKommerz” in one of the historical buildings on the territory of a former Moscow Cotton-Printing Factory

This office space measures 137 metres in length, 24 metres in width and more than 4 metres in height, and is divided into two sections by a partition

The walls are made of brick

Parallel to the long side on three axes, there are cast-iron columns acting as vertical supports

Built in the mid-19th century

The main architectural solution is the metal construction of the pedestrian entresol with an adjoining ramp and staircases

The overall length of the assembled construction is 102 metres

Because the design, planning and installation of the project had to be done to a tight time schedule, maximum use was made of modern design technology and of the laser processing of sheet material (sheet steel, composite wood panels, oak veneer sheets) and of
the profile bending of sheet material (metal).

Turning, milling, polishing work was used only in especially important places which are subject to maximum pressure (the stanchions of the entresol and of the ramp, the transition hubs, the elements connecting the modules of the entresol and so on)

All welding work was carried out in special frames to guarantee the maximum
accuracy and avoid the thermal deformation of the modules

All the fasteners (with the exception of the handrail in the entresol) are concealed

At all the joins of the entresol modules – the zones of the stanchions, a thermodampening
layer of caoutchouc has been used to compensate for expansion of the construction of the entresol during temperature changes

The metal surfaces are corroded (rusty) steel and have a chemically created patina, fully imitating the existing cast-iron columns

in collaboration with Vladimir Kuzmin

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