General introduction and History Background: Yandex (Russian: Яндекс) is a Russian Internet company which operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 60% market share in that country. Yandex ranked as the 5th largest search engine worldwide, based on information from Comscore.com, with more than 150 million searches per day as of April 2012, and more than 25.5 million visitors (all company's services) daily as of May 2012. The first office developed for Yandex by za bor architects is in the same building of the Benois business center in Saint Petersburg, but on a lower floor. In 2008 it was a brilliant premiere published by almost all the leading architecture and design media in Russia. Yandex Saint-Petersburg office II is almost twice as large as the previous one – it houses the entire fourth floor of the building and has a corridor about 200 meters long (total floor area 3310 sqm)

Vision and mission: The company's mission is to provide answers to any questions users have or think about (explicit or implicit) Yandex attracts more than 56 million users from all over the world.

Objectives and purposes: To provide relevant results, which we structure and present in an editorially neutral and user-friendly manner. To provide local search results in more than 1,400 cities. Offering convenient access to our search engine through personal computers, mobile phones, tablets, and navigation and other digital devices. Offering a wide range of specialized search, personalized and location-based services, including Yandex.News, Yandex.Market, Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Maps.

Building Location: Building Type: Office, Industry: Internet.

Organizational chart:

Building Occupants: CEO 1 Chairman of the board Director 5 Business Development 2 Yandex money CFO CTO Commercial 4 Consultant 3 Product marketing Monetization Commerce Accouter & Administrator Financer Information Architect

FLOOR PLAN

Designer & Design Concept: Za bor Architects.  Arseniy Borisenko & Peter Zaytsev. Architect In Charge: Design Concept: The concept re-interprets common 2D pixilated items, and proportionately scales them into life-sized interactive art-objects.  The architects had at least two challenges – first to organize a very complex space outstretched along a central corridor axis. The second challenge was to make the office a showy and impressive.

Special equipment & Furniture Inventory : Visitors are welcomed at a desk resembling a text box and a giant arrow pointing towards a certain direction even the iconic Pacman is represented within the decor. The most bizarre objects are used for zoning, conference halls and meeting spaces for informal communication and are scattered along the entire workspace This unique office space, which is a 24/7 operation, is fully equipped for the comfort of its employees with recreational zones, a gym, cafeteria and lounge areas for the fortunate people who work in this excitingly different, colorful environment, In addition, a gym, cafeteria, showers, lecture halls and several coffee-points are seen throughout the inner scope of the development. Familiar computer symbols are used for shelves, cupboards and separations and employees work amongst giant cursors, pixels and arrows throughout the various sections of the 200m long space.

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Zoning: Workstation (offices) Conference rooms Lectures hall Lounges Area Bath Bathrooms

Zoning: Public Private Semi Public Semi Private

Functional relationship:

Area calculation: Space Area Percentage Major/Minor Workstations 47.5% Lecture halls 361.6m² 5.9% Bathrooms 298.1m² 4.9% Conference Room 230.2m² 3.8% Lounges Area 193.3m² 3.2% Cafeteria 134.6m² 2.2% Unassigned Area 1960. m² 32.5% Total 6032m² 100% 67.5 %

Critical Opinion: The design depends on lots of color that in my opinion will motivate the employees and provide the brain enough energy to make it active, Also the design concept reflect the company identity. Beside the space planning is elegant and have been used well.

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