"EVOLUTION" Tower, MIBC "Moscow-City"

Our team started working on the Evolution Tower project at the end of 2011. By that time, several attempts to elaborate the façade concept of this extraordinary building were made by various companies - manufacturers of facades, but none of them satisfied the customer.

Our role

Façade consulting for the Customer including concept design and basic calculations, elaboration of terms of reference, 3D-model, drawings and tender documents, participation in tender process, project supervision.

Project Details

• Year:2011-2013
• Location:Moscow, Russia
• Facade Area:38,000 sqm
• Architect:RMJM, "Gorproject"

Project peculiarities

The height of the building is about 250m. One of the most "twisted" buildings in the world: each slab is turned to the previous one by 3 degree, the overall vertical axis rotation of the tower - 150 degrees.

Almost unprecedented form of the building, complex deformation model of reinforced concrete structure, as well as accepted by the Client in the course of design project decision to use cold-bent (cold deformed) glass for the building demanded great efforts from everyone involved. Applying cold-deformed glass (35 000 m2 – it is also had no analogues in the world). 

Building maintenance system

Unique geometry of the building required the development of special techniques and equipment for the building maintenance units – BMU (around 12m of work platform "pulling-in").