Sunshine City SOLARIUM

Sunshine City Co., Ltd. directly manages the vacant section of the dining floor on the 3rd floor of Sunshine City Alpa to create a new style of community lounge.
We were in charge of planning support, design, layout and construction.

The space consists of a lounge space where workers can work at their desks and a kitchen space where different businesses operate during lunchtime. It can be used not only for work but also for meals, refreshments, and events. . In addition, there is also a café space where BYRON BAY coffee, which is popular for organic coffee, has a store, and as a place to connect "people and people" and "people and things", a wide variety of people gather and promote new communities. As a base for , it is a lounge space that does not dare to stipulate how to use it.
The facility's name, SOLARIUM, means 'sundial' in Latin, so it is an original name suitable for this place where various people gather and interact depending on the time of day.


[Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests]
Due to the changes in the corona crisis, the options for where to work have increased, so there was a demand for a proposal for a flexible community lounge that could accommodate them.
This project required the creation of opportunities for communication and the flexibility of the space as a proposal for co-working with a kitchen that could only be possible because it is located on the dining floor, and as a community lounge that can be used by local people as well as workers.


【solution】
All the main tables are equipped with casters so that they can be used in a variety of situations. In addition, so that you can work and eat comfortably, there are box-shaped seats that can be used for individual work, a sofa area where you can take a break, and a high counter where you can have a casual conversation with coffee in one hand, so you can choose according to your purpose and mood. We have a wide variety of seating available.
In order to communicate that it is a place to connect with the local community, we asked Mr. FACE, an artist from Toshima Ward who is active globally, to create a work on the theme of "diversity" and "town of Ikebukuro". It is boldly laid out on the glass surface of the space.
By wiping out the image of Sunshine City so far in a good way, it expresses that it is a place that takes a step forward and accepts new values.


<Our project members>
[Sales/Project Management] Minami Hiramatsu
[design, layout] Manabu Yamanobe, Noriaki Tamura, Kan Fujimura
[Production/ construction] Takashi Kodama