Financial Group LIFE
- location
- Russia, Moscow
- completed
- 2007
- total area
- 560 m²
- client
- Life Financial Group
- architects
- Anton Nadtochiy, Vera Butko, Olga Sokolova
A financial institution specialising in consumer lending decided to challenge the stereotype of its business as dull and asked the architects to create a more creative office image. The architects turned to the company’s logo: a fan-like arrangement of rounded tabs. This led to the idea of creating a multi-level curvilinear composition within a rectangular volume, involving the floor pattern, the curved partitions and the suspended ceiling. The line of each element is independent, yet woven into the overall graphic composition.
Most of the office is organised as an open space, with the exception of three executive offices. In addition to the standard meeting rooms — one large and one small — a special area with a bar counter was created, also intended for communication and discussion. The workstations were selected according to functional requirements, while in all other zones the architects sought to use furniture not typically associated with office interiors. The architects also designed the reception desk and partitions made of acrylic tubes with integrated lighting.
At first, some employees considered the solution too bright and bold; however, the management wanted precisely this kind of image. Later, the rest of the team came to like it as well.