Tchoban Voss Architekten GmbH

Benois House

Benois House
© Roland Halbe

BENOIS HOUSE

Tchoban Voss Architekten

CLIENT
OOO Teorema

INTERIOR LIGHTING
decart group

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Sergei Tchoban

DESIGN TEAM
Igor Markov, Eugen Pfeil

AREA
30400.0 m2

PROJECT YEAR
2008

PROJECT MANAGER
Paul Olufs

PHOTOGAPHS
Roland Halbe, Christian Gahl, Aleksey Naroditsky

ART DIRECTION FAÇADES
Valeria Kashirina

FAÇADE AND INNER GLAZING
Panorama

DIGITAL GLASS PRINT
Okalux

GLAZED ELEVATORS
Thyssen-Krupp

CATEGORY
Institutional Buildings, Renovation

LOCATION
Sverdlovskaya naberezhnaya, 44, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Text description provided by the architects.

The project is situated on the right bank of the river Neva in front of the Smolny monastery in the mordern Kalininsky District in St. Petersburg.

Benois House
© Roland Halbe
Benois House
© Christian Gahl

A partly damaged industrial building is situated on the border between the former garden of the Kuschelev-Besborodko-palace and Piscarevski prospect, where 1877/78 and 1882 the famous russian artist Alexander Benois used to live. The building was renovated and remodeled into a multifunctional business centre.

The design of the new construction is dedicated to the artist A. Benois, especially to his theatre designs that made the Russian art and culture world famous being a part of the Diagelev’s Russian Seasons.

Benois House
© Christian Gahl
Benois House
Courtesy of nps tchoban voss

Benois’ drafts for theatre costumes were a basis for the digital figurines at the façade glasses.

The façade with festive and comical ornaments should mainly remind of the façades of the Tuscany palazzos that A.

Benois liked a lot, he has made many drawings of them during his trips to Italy.

Benois House
© Aleksey Naroditsky
Benois House
© Christian Gahl
Benois House
© Roland Halbe

At the same time it should remind of the fancy-dress balls given by the Earl Besborodko for Catherine the Great that A. Benois described in his aide memoires.

The floor-to-ceiling printed glazing is combined with the transparent glass elements in an aluminium-post and rail-construction that straddles the whole façade being a substructure.

In the place of the bend in the building caused by the street course a point held insulation glass façade is inserted within the complete height of the façade. Behind this “joint of the façade” are the elevators installed.

Benois House
Site Plan
Benois House
Floor Plan

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