Spotlight Zifergauz Russia The Gazprom Neft Digital Transformation Centre, Zifergauz, is a technological space for teams of industrial digital transformation developers. At this location, robots are assembled, drones programmed, equipment 3D printed, neural networks trained, industrial gadgets and telemetry sensors created and blockchain services for wireless networks developed. All these technologies are used at Gazprom Neft for digital geological exploration, plants automation, remote drilling management, logistic robotics and even for the company’s own icebreakers’ equipment. The architecture, design engineering, planning and interior design of Zifergauz, created by Vox Architects, is based on the idea of continuity from the past to the future, which lighting designers from QPRO tried to support. Built in mid-19th
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century, the building was originally designed to vertically store timber delivered for the Admiralty shipyards. Now, the site organically combines its historical architectural legacy with the cuttingedge functionality of a futuristic technical centre. The key idea of the project is to generate more free space, and to make the interior visually lighter. This new concept is conceived as an attempt to go outside the brick margins of the building, which are too tangible, frozen in time, and to fill the monotonous dark enfilades with fresh air and creative energy. It became possible to compensate the lack of natural light in the room with dynamic lighting and tunable white technology. An intelligent artificial lighting system managing human biorhythms helps to activate human resources, setting them up for productive work during the day, and in the
