ADMINISTRATIVE CLUSTER

Reconstruction of the office tower

A high-rise building – tower Tatneft is a man vertical dominant of the overall composition of the cluster of office buildings of PJSC Tatneft and Almetyevsk city. The goal was to create a united cluster of PJSC Tatneft – to create a dialogue between the tower and the main office building, to design an entirely new look corresponding the brand of a company.

The look of the Tower, made in black reflecting glass, symbolizes flowing oil. A recreated contour of the reconstructed building has a cluster shape, reminding an octagon, with rounded corners, rising to the height of 15 floors with the superstructure. Originally, the building had one underground and 13 ground floors (13th - technical). In addition to a new façade of panoramic glazing, project includes adding 2 new representative floors (14 th and 15 th ) and technical rooms on a rooftop. Solid molded (curved in plan) structural glazing removes excesses and gives graceful laconic outlines to the building. Its strict toned façade as well as analogical existing façade of the main building create a united harmonic look of the office buildings of PJSC Tatneft. As a result the tower becomes a more significant vertical dominant not only of the cluster itself, but of the entire city. Maximum height of the building above the earth reaches 63,5 m.

All the rooms of the building are meant for work of office employees and administration of the company. On the representative floors VIP interiors are supposed to be designed, although functionally a set of rooms is the same as on the regular floors. The reconstruction included not only facades and constructions, but plans design as well. From the 1st to 12th floor there are standard offices for employees (4 types of plans with mixed zoning: open-spaces for regular employees, cabinets for heads of departments, meeting rooms and coffee- points), 13th floor for technical equipment, 14th and 15th – offices for top managers (cabinets of top-managers, conference halls and meeting rooms).

Reconstruction of the entrance group

One of the stages of the reconstruction of the building cluster of PJSC Tatneft in Almetyevsk became a project of a two floor entrance group to the cluster of the office buildings. From the west there is a 12 story office building, and from the south a 15 story office tower.

There was used a quotation method in the look of the entrance group – the main element of the façade facing became structural curved glass, which had been used in the tower reconstruction project. This way we united all the volumes of the business-center into a single building.

The façade of the entrance group has a peculiar contour: its wavy line seems to quote the previous perimeter. In the middle of the façade, where employees’ entrance is located, it divides in two lines horizontally. On the first floor it moves forward, creating space for entrance tambour and security turnstiles. This movement is emphasized by the line of a metal sunshield. On the second floor the contour of the floor moves back in the building creating additional windows to lighten the double-light space of the main hall.

The demolition works of the old building included bearing constructions made of reinforced concrete both vertical and horizontal. A light dome became an extremely important architectural element of both exterior and interior, which absolutely changes the geometry of the space.
A truncated cone with an inclined axis replaced a former construction of a polygonal pyramid.


After reconstruction the building gained not only a new visual look, but a modern planning decision, where all the space is used rationally, and flows of employees and visitors are allocated evenly.