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"CITY CIRCUIT TOKYO BAY" is an entertainment facility that combines motorsports and technology, with the largest urban circuit in Japan centered on EV (electric) karts and the only circuit course in Tokyo's 23 wards. This facility uses dedicated EV racing karts and simulators to provide a full-scale urban racing experience on outdoor and indoor courses. The indoor course is a space where motorsport fans and families can enjoy all day long, in addition to productions that utilize projection mapping. Our mission is to deliver a new urban circuit experience to everyone by utilizing EVs and other technologies, promote well-being through next-generation mobility, and contribute to the SDGs by realizing a sustainable society using EVs. As a joint planning company, we handle a wide range of areas, from business planning to adding value after operation. In the future, we will work with TOM'S to expand this business nationwide in order to expand mobility entertainment.

This new office project has as its theme "people and companies create waves (resonance, sympathy) with each other, and grow into big waves (influence)." To express Careritz Technologies' determination to "continue to be an innovative, creative, and ever-growing company," we layered the image of water spreading and moving like ripples in concept design, using the transparency of water and its unexpectedness in changing into various colors and shapes.

Orque d'Or Salon AOYAMA is a members-only salon for the wealthy run by Tokai Tokyo Financial Group. Planned in Aoyama as the third location following Nagoya in 2016 and Nihonbashi, Tokyo in 2019, the facility has been created with the concept of a new "social space that stimulates the curiosity of adults" that connects "wealthy" members with "start-up entrepreneurs". Aiming to create a salon that welcomes more customers with multifaceted and memorable surprises, we have created a one-of-a-kind atmosphere where you can enjoy spatiality, art, sustainability, and craftsmanship.

This project involved the concept design, interiors renovation, and environmental features of the "Children's Corner" at Nakano City Central Library, located a 10-minute walk from Nakano Station. Our goal was to create a space where parents and children can feel comfortable and where the joy of books can flourish. In the raised area, we created and installed benches, a bookshelf for picture-story shows, and wooden motifs, as well as rotating blocks and a mechanism for measuring height. We also designed and produced a bulletin board with a mailbox, a hemispherical chair, and a movable bookshelf, and used "Tama wood," a local wood source in Tokyo, to create the wooden furniture, in line with the concept of wood education. We also produced 11 types of book stands, including original characters from the Central Library, to create a space that is both "playful" and "warm."

The event was held at Tokyo Midtown Hibiya, sponsored by Mitsui Fudosan and Discover Japan, with the aim of creating an opportunity to think about a society that can live sustainably with greenery. It was a real event based on the theme of "Living with Wood," a special feature in the magazine "Discover Japan" published in August 2023. The atrium on the first floor was used as an introduction area to symbolize this event. In order to create a space that envelops the woodcarvings, we adopted the concept of "how to interact with wood," which is experienced with the five senses while being surrounded by the scent, sound, and light of wood. We were in displays of the design, layout, and construction of this spatial production. In addition, a panel exhibition in the underground passage of Tokyo Midtown Hibiya introduced our R&D activities, "concept design by Thinking with Hands" and displays actual prototypes.

Tokyu Plaza Harajuku "Harakado" is a new commercial facility that inherits and further develops the culture of the former "Harajuku Central Apartment." Located at the southwest corner of Jingumae intersection where Omotesando and Meiji Dori cross, it aims to be a new landmark and cultural hub in the Harajuku-Omotesando area, alongside Laforet Harajuku across the street and Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku "Omokado" diagonally across the street. We were responsible for the master plan for the entire facility environment, design, layout of each section, the concept and part of the planning for the facility's merchandising, tenant leasing for the food and beverage floors, and the design and construction of some of the restaurants.

TOTO Technical Center Tokyo, a place that collaborates with business users to create the water-related spaces of the future, reopened in April 2024 under the concept of "co-creation." The concept of this renovation is "Fine & Flow," expressing the "free, delicate, beautiful behavior of water and seamless transitions without interruption." We aimed not only to convey the attention to detail that only water-related professionals can provide and the reliable quality of TOTO, but also to create a facility with equipment and an appearance worthy of co-creation, and a proposal facility that should exist in the digital age. We were responsible for the overall design, construction, and system development.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has opened a new concept design presentation hall that combines real and digital in its Global concept design Center in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture. The hall is equipped with a curved 24K LED screen, a full-color ceiling screen, remote lighting technology, a 7.1ch sound system, and other features, making it possible to reproduce with high precision the various environments in which customers around the world actually use cars. The aim is to develop products that meet diverse needs in a more timely manner by digitalizing concept design process. We were in charge of the design, structural calculations, interiors construction, and the full-color ceiling screen. Time-based changes in light, weather, and natural elements can be reproduced in real time with a high sense of realism and immersion, making it possible to verify and check models created digitally in accordance with various market environments.

This facility is a PR facility for a fuel cell system* developed by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. that uses solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) as a power generation device. It was opened in conjunction with the start of trial operation at the company's Tochigi Plant. *A stationary power generation system that generates electricity highly efficiently using bioethanol The master concept design was provided by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.'s concept design department, the basic and working drawings was handled by the Nomura Arcs design team, and construction was handled by our company. The master concept design was adjusted to a level that could construction, and design changes associated with changes to the SOFC itself, including surrounding equipment, were flexibly accommodated during construction. It embodies an advanced master concept design.

This is the 15th directly managed store by Seiban, known for its "Tenshi no Hane" school bags. Each store is concept design with a unique concept that draws on the local characteristics of each town. There are many greenways in the town of Yokohama Kohoku that blend into the daily life of the area, and these greenways are not just roads but also parks where children can play. Therefore, the concept for this store is "SEIBAN GREEN PARKWAY", and by incorporating the organic curves of the greenways, green elements, and the various colors encountered in nature, we concept design a space that makes you want to go deeper.

As a symbolic project to enhance the value of the Tobu Skytree Line, a commercial facility called "TOBU icourt" has opened in the Dokkyo University area. The facility is based on the concept of a place that offers "a comfortable life for everyone that satisfies the five senses of body and mind". Taking advantage of the characteristics of the area, which is home to educational and cultural facilities such as Dokkyo University and Matsubara Danchi Memorial Park, the facility has opened a total of 24 stores that meet the daily needs of diversifying lifestyles, including a major supermarket that offers food lifestyle suggestions. In addition, the facility will play a role as a base for promoting urban development that enhances the appeal of the area while further collaborating with the local government, residents, universities, and other local parties. It aims to continue to liven up the area through new connections born from exchanges through events with the facility, such as holding events in the adjacent park. We were in charge of the development planning, leasing, concept design /design supervision, facility naming, and logo development for this facility.

Benoit Niant Ginza is a chocolate brand created by Kaneka Corporation. The store is the first flagship store in Japan for the chocolate brand Benoit Niant, which was launched in 2005 by Belgian cacao craftsman Benoit Niant, a former engineer. It is a place to acquire new fans in Japan and also functions as a base for Kaneka to promote the brand. Benoit Niant is known for its single-origin chocolates made from cacao from a single farm and variety, and produces everything from roasting to the finished product in its own workshop. The spirit and philosophy of "CRAFTSMANSHIP," born from the desire to be a "cacao craftsman" before being a chocolatier, was reflected in concept design of this shop. concept design elements were extracted from the scenery of a Belgian workshop, and colors and textures such as the blue of the conching machine and the bronze of the scales were incorporated as concept design elements to set new key colors for the brand in Japan. In addition, Kaneka's product "Kaneka Organic Light Emitting Diode (Kaneka OLED Lighting)" was used for the interior lighting, adding the function of a showroom. Kaneka OLED Lighting is characterized by its soft light emitted from a surface and the fact that it is unlikely to cast shadows on objects. We concept design a space that serves two purposes: as a chocolate shop and as a lighting showroom.

"SOSiLA" is a new brand of logistics facilities that connects people and society. The themes are efficiency in logistics, environmental friendliness, safety and BCP support, and amenity for a comfortable working environment, and Narashino Akanehama Building No. 2 was the brand's first renovation project. We were in charge of planning from the concept onwards, as well as the design and construction of the approach, vestibules, and elevator hall.

Sea, one of the co-creation spaces established by Okamura based on the concept of "a place where waves and connections are made," is a place where people who gather in Tokyo in various contexts can shed their restraints, connect with curiosity, and create co-creation. In conjunction with the relocation and renovation of the Okamura Garden Court showroom, we were in charge of construction of the design supervision and interiors construction work, and collaborated with Okamura's creative team.

The Bulldog Sauce Tatebayashi Factory has been reborn as the TATEBAYASHI Creation Center, and a tour facility has been opened to convey the appeal of the sauce. The facility was created after carefully listening to employees' deep feelings about their products. The history area, which conveys the company's long 120-year history, uses the symbolic square bottle as the interiors motif, and the bulldog, which is also the company's logo, talks about the sauce himself in cartoon-style graphics, and is designed with operational burden in mind. displays area, which highlights the company's commitment to its sauces and their use of the bounty of nature, includes elements that allow visitors to learn independently, such as small hands-on fixtures and a sugoroku graphic that traces the process from product conception to manufacturing. In the factory tour area, in addition to videos and graphics that convey the manufacturing process, the learning element is strengthened with graphics that convey the speed of production and safety, and elements that can be used for social studies field trips are scattered throughout.