Excom Global Head Office Entrance Lobby

The entrance lobby of Excom Global's headquarters, Head Office specializing in providing communication environments, including mobile internet access, for travelers abroad.
Mobile communication services create diverse connections around the world, linking people to people and people to things. The way individual communication chains transcend national borders and generations, eventually giving rise to global movements and weaving together a single, larger entity, is reminiscent of a forest where the activities and connections of various living things create the expansion of even more life.
The design theme for this space is a fusion of the boundless connections and possibilities that Excom Global's business brings to the world with the richness of a forest, drawing inspiration from the natural forms found there, the memories of the forest's growth, and the beautiful changes that occur over time. The walls are covered with panels concept design to symbolize the forest landscape, featuring overlapping silhouettes of trees. During the day, sunlight, and after sunset, artificial light, casts soft shadows on the floor and walls through the panel openings, concept design the impression of sunlight filtering through trees and making the space feel like a forest, even though it is located inside a high-rise building in Shibuya. The striking tables and drink counters also feature "tree rings" as a concept design motif, representing the memories of the forest's growth. Bent metal plates are assembled in a concentric offset pattern, and the tabletop is made of transparent acrylic so that this process can be seen.
The layout plan divides the space into two areas: a reception area for welcoming guests and a meeting area for business negotiations. Under concept design theme mentioned above, we have devised ways to create appropriate levels of visual obstruction and transparency for each scene.

[Customer's challenges/requests]
We received a request to concept design a reception and business meeting space with an atmosphere reminiscent of a luxury hotel lobby.

<Our project members>
[Sales & Project Management] Kazushige Ishii, Kaori Murakami
[design, layout] Yoshihiro Kitamura
[Production and construction] Ikuo Chikaishi, Tetsuji Koike, Takuya Kagawa