Designed for the Russian Copper Company (RCC), the building cuts an angular yet warm profile in Ekaterinburg
Foster + Partners has completed its first office building in Russia, a copper-clad headquarters for copper company RCC. Located in the city of Ekaterinburg, the 15-storey, 18, 450 sq m building consists of modular office units arranged to create a rhythmic facade of repeated triangulated projections.
Foster + Partners’ design aimed to reimagine the conventional cellular or open-plan office into something more comfortable and flexible, with domestic-scale rooms. Based on working needs, a modular system was devised: each two-storey module comprises a pair of offices, stacked one on top of the other, and expressed externally through the double-storey cladding module. The modules are arranged in rows on either side of a central hallway, which functions as a breakout space.
Foster + Partners’ first office building in Russia completes
20 April 2021 By Fran Williams. Photography by Oleg Kovalyuk
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The Russian Copper Company (RCC)’s new 18,450m² headquarters in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals has become Foster + Partners’ first office building to complete in Russia
According to the top-ranked AJ100 practice, the 15-storey building ‘reimagines’ the conventional cellular office to create flexibility using modular office units enveloped in an energy-efficient enclosure.
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The headquarters for RCC (previously RMK), one of the world’s largest producers of copper, features a façade formed of triangulated elements drawing inspiration from the crystal lattice of copper.
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has designed an appropriately coloured office block for the Russian Copper Company in the city of Yekaterinburg, which is the studio s first project in Russia.
Overlooking the Iset River in the centre of the city in central Russia, the 15-storey office block was built as the headquarters for the Russian Copper Company (RCC) – one of the country s biggest copper mining companies.
Foster + Partners is designing the headquarters for RCC in Yekaterinburg
The distinctive tower was designed to directly reference the company s mining activities.
Its triangular-shaped cladding was informed by the crystal lattice that makes up copper on an atomic level, while the stainless steel cladding panels were coloured using a Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) process to create a copper-coloured finish.
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