Matsushita IMP Building commercial area renewal

This project involved renovating the commercial area of the Matsushita IMP Building, an office building located in Osaka Business Park. Since the previously planned train station still remains underground in this building, we used the station as a concept design motif, hoping that it would become a hub where people gather, just as it was originally planned.

Throughout the facility, the round columns extending across multiple floors are finished with a powerful mortar-like texture and metal framing, creating a base for a colonnaded space reminiscent of a train station. In the western atrium, this framing forms a continuous arch shape, like a train station arcade, and, in harmony with the existing curved ceiling, creates a sense of unity with the atrium.
Within this framework, we incorporated the black/gold/verdigris colors, stone walls, and plum blossom shapes of the building and the adjacent Osaka Castle into the FF&E (front and rear window) and interior design, creating an affinity with the memories that this land has inherited for 400 years.
Furthermore, as many companies developed environments that allowed employees to work outside the office during the COVID-19 pandemic, we explored how commercial office buildings could be adapted to new work styles by creating workspaces in the common areas of commercial spaces.

We've placed furniture throughout the commercial area to accommodate a wide range of needs, from meetings to individual work. Each piece of furniture incorporates various features, such as sofas with L-shaped expandable tabletops, high-back chairs that restrict the view to enhance concentration, and counter chairs with coat hangers.
By arranging plants like partitions, we also considered creating a comfortable atmosphere, making it a space that can be used primarily as a workspace on weekdays and as a resting area for tourists on weekends.

We aimed to create an open workplace where a diverse range of people could gather—not only office workers in the IMP Building, but also those working in Osaka Business Park, and even visitors—and where new ways of working and new forms of communication could emerge.