Works#2023

This is a project to relocate Head Office of the Wealth Management Group. Based on the theme of "bringing the comfort of a hotel to the office," Wealth Management, being involved in the hotel business, has created a space where employees can leverage their daily work environment for business purposes. In line with the client's corporate philosophy of providing the charm and culture of Japan as "experiential value" and delivering inspiration and stable prosperity to all customers, the new office offers not only a place to concentrate but also a place to relax like in a hotel. High-quality coffee and tea are provided in the workspace, and the design is being tested to see how these "experiential values" can be leveraged for business, ultimately contributing to the prosperity of the client's business.

Tokyu Land Corporation's Sapporo branch, which continuously provides comfortable housing and new lifestyles centered on the brand "BRANZ", is based on the brand message "Environmentally advanced, from housing." We create well-being lifestyles that are friendly to both people and people, and create green homes for a sustainable future. This time, it is a renewal project aiming to create an office suitable for creating such an environmentally advanced condominium. We reviewed the value and functions required of the office, and designed it based on the concept of "Open Living" to create an environment that promotes well-being not only for customers who visit our office, but also for our employees who spend their daily lives.

This is the second store in Japan of an Italian delicatessen and restaurant from London, England. Muromachi, which focuses on pasta dishes, has an open theater kitchen in front, and the layout is such that you can welcome customers and enjoy the live feeling of cooking. With the CI color of pistachio green as an accent, and a slightly subdued color tone that matches the townscape of Muromachi, this restaurant has a different charm than the first restaurant.

This is a renovation project for guest rooms, a bar, and a façade of a ryokan located in the western part of the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture. It has been reopened as "Atara Night Nishiizu", which is derived from the Manyoshu poem "A wonderful night that is regrettable to end". In terms of guest rooms, we have five suites and one concept room for groups and families. On the first floor, we were in charge of the renovation of the bar, the design of the façade, and the live kitchen.

This project involved the renovation of "River City 21 Shinkawa," a tower residence with 505 units completed in 1995. Located on the Sumida River, facing the Chuo Ohashi Bridge, this property boasts a riverside location with abundant nature and expansive views. The Chuo Ohashi Bridge, which spans the foot of the condominium, is illuminated at night and is known as a landmark in the Tsukuda area. A promenade has been built along the Sumida River, making it a place of relaxation for local residents who enjoy walking and jogging. The residential units offer a wide range of options, from 1R and 1K single-person plans to 2LDK, with a variety of unique layouts, including Japanese-style rooms with Ryukyu tatami mats and plans with spacious storage rooms. Following a change of ownership, our mission was to add value to this pioneering waterfront tower condominium, a property with high potential where nature and the city coexist, to suit the modern era, and we undertook the design and construction.

The new "Sound" corner, which opened on the 5th floor of the Science Museum's Forest area, is displays room where visitors can not only hear sound but also "observe it with a scientific eye." Through the various "waveforms" created by four interactive devices—"Jumbo Piano," "Laser Dance," "Aqua Wave," and "Chladni Pattern (relocated)"—visitors can learn about the three main elements of sound (amplitude, frequency, and timbre) while having fun. In particular, the "Jumbo Piano" is an interactive device that converts the performance of a giant piano into waveforms in real time and projects them onto a screen, proving popular with a wide range of ages, not just children. Following the basic displays plan provided by the client, our company considered and produced the devices, content, and graphics to realize that vision.

The Sunshine 60 Observatory, which opened in 1978, was renovated in 2016 to become an "observatory where you can play," and now, in April 2023, it has reopened as a new facility, "Sunshine 60 Observatory Tenbo Park." This facility was inspired by the "pleasant parks with lawns" in Toshima Ward, which has been promoting urban development centered around four parks, and was created with the concept of a "park in the sky," aiming to create a comfortable and open park-like facility that you will want to visit again and again. In the main area on the south side, "Tenbo no Oka," where the cityscape of central Tokyo, including the skyscrapers of Shinjuku, spreads out, a comfortable viewing space unfolds where you can feel the openness that connects you to the landscape and the unity with nature by combining mirrors and greenery. You can also relax on artificial turf that you can get as close as possible to the windows, swing-type benches, cushions and net benches with varying heights, and enjoy the view that unfolds from each viewpoint, as well as the changing scenery of the sky and clouds, in your own way. New features include a crawling space and a baby room, and the café now offers baby food, ensuring that families with young children can relax and enjoy themselves with peace of mind. At night, the observation deck transforms into a sophisticated space for adults, where the changing light, sound, and scent scenes engage all five senses to experience the passage of time. The "event space" on the north side, offering panoramic views of Mount Tsukuba and the Saitama area, is designed to host a wide range of events, such as character events and art displays, in keeping with Toshima Ward and Ikebukuro's vision of becoming an international art and culture city.

We were in charge of design, layout, building execution of Ai Kogyo's fifth domestic experiential housing showroom, where customers can "see," "touch," and "feel" their homes. Located on the 5th floor of Tonarie Utsunomiya in front of Utsunomiya Station in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, this store utilizes approximately 132 tsubo (approx. 430 square meters) and serves as a place to disseminate information as a one-stop shop for home building consultations, from "consultation to contract to specification decision." Compared to conventional stores, it is compactly arranged, making it an easy-to-use and easy-to-navigate showroom. In terms of concept design, the interior is interiors with motifs of Oya stone and Tochigi leather, and while customers can feel the "Tochigi spirit" throughout, the showroom also features actual displays of the latest housing equipment, interior building materials, exterior walls, roofs, and sashes, as well as a corner where customers can experience Ai Kogyo's unique skip-level design using AR, allowing them to understand "why Ai Kogyo is chosen."

This project involved renovating our facility, which housed a space museum and planetarium displays JAXA-donated items, due to its aging infrastructure, to create a facility where children can experience the "City of Space." The first floor, formerly a natural science museum, was remodeled into the "Nobishiro Space Lab," unifying the entire facility with a space theme. Our company was responsible for everything from design, layout of displays spaces to exhibit execution, construction of the interactive exhibits.

Based on the concept of "Play, Drink, Connect," this is a new kind of amusement complex that fuses games, food and beverages, events, and merchandise. Working closely with customers from the upstream stages of business development, we built target strategies, facility concepts, and service models, and elevated the space concept design to one befitting Kabukicho, the entertainment city. Leveraging Bandai Namco's strength in the entertainment aspect of game centers, we have mashed up food and beverages, events, and merchandise to establish a new world of game centers where you can enjoy yourself with a drink in hand, offering a new option for nightlife in Kabukicho. With a space filled with a floating, neon-lit concept design, a multitude of the latest content gathers together, making it a place where you can play, drink, and connect—a truly captivating place that you'll want to gather for your second stop on a Tokyo night. We comprehensively produced "namco TOKYO" from planning and design to construction.

"Shirokane The Sky" is a large-scale mixed-use urban development that harmonizes with the charming residential area of Shirokane, a town that transmits its own unique culture, while also accommodating an active urban lifestyle. With a site area exceeding 11,000 m², a height exceeding 150 m, and a total of 1,247 units including the 45-story East Tower, it is being built as a landmark of the town on a grand scale. The aim is to create a town that shines the lives of diverse people, a place where families can find peace of mind, a place to enjoy the latest trends, and a place that supports their work styles. concept design of the common areas and interiors is based on the concept of "something to be proud of across generations and to the world," aiming for a timeless residence that will be passed down to the next generation through world-class modern concept design, and the magnificent entrance is a symbol of this. An extraordinary space is created using water and light. The two towers are themed on "glamour" and "dignity," and lounges and guest rooms are provided in a variety of styles. Our company was responsible for overseeing the overall interior design of the common areas, as well as construction key concept design elements such as the symbolic fins and fabric walls.

This tourist facility is themed around drift ice and the creatures of the Sea of Okhotsk. The concept of this facility is "Discovery Dive," an immersive experience of stepping into the world beneath the drift ice. Visitors can experience the extraordinary world of drift ice and the unknown world beneath it. "Drift Ice Underwater Live" allows visitors to enjoy a live, immersive experience as if they were diving beneath the drift ice, guided by divers and marine life, through 360-degree video from a diver's perspective. "A world of life and beauty woven by the miracles of nature" unfolds in the space, captivating visitors. Furthermore, by introducing the beauty created by the natural environment of the drift ice and the creatures that live there through dynamic drift ice images and graphics, the facility stimulates intellectual curiosity, and the thoughtfully designed displays are intended to raise each visitor's awareness of global environmental issues through memorable experiences.

This is a renovation project of the hotel "TheMana Village" located at the tip of Ashizuri Cape in Kochi Prefecture. Starting in 2020, the former Ashizuri Pacific Hotel will be reborn as a new “TheMana Village”. In the 2022 project, 5 new types of guest rooms and the Italian restaurant "Assurrissimo" in the facility have been expanded. Some of the new guest rooms are twin-type rooms with a large space of 96 square meters, equipped with a private sauna, water bath, open-air bath, and a special room with a fireplace in the room. Aiming to be one of the best resort hotels in Asia, this renovation project aims to provide a special accommodation experience. , is an ongoing project leading to the next renovation.

This is a renovation project for the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Natural Science, commissioned by the Japan Foundation for Science and Technology Communications. Approximately 40 years after its opening in 1981, the museum renovated the second floor's "Beech Forest Environment and Organisms" and "Experience the Power of Wind," and the third floor's "Mysterious Moving Room," into "Symphony of Forest" and "Scale Adventure," respectively. We proceeded with the consideration and production of video spaces, content, video systems, and graphics to realize the image of displays basic plan presented by the client.

This project is an upcycling initiative that displays "SCRAP," a byproduct of building and interiors materials, into "FURNITURE" for reuse and return to the Earth. According to the Ministry of the Environment, Japan's industrial waste generation in fiscal year 2020 amounted to 373.82 million tons*, with nearly 1 million tons of scrap generated per day. We, as creators who work with a variety of materials daily in our concept design work, believe we have a responsibility to take the lead in communicating to society and our communities about the recycling of limited Earth resources. We have formed a team of young creators within the company and are planning and operating this project as a social contribution activity. We enclose and complement shredded waste materials as furniture in a transparent surface made of recycled vinyl, and displays in an art-style displays to convey our message, touring offices and public spaces both domestically and internationally. This project is a traveling sustainability initiative that involves displays materials for a certain period, then returning them to interiors and construction sites as interiors resources, and finally encapsulating, supplementing, and displays the next batch of waste materials. To reach a wider audience, a launch displays was held in the entrance space of our own office to solicit sponsoring companies, and we have received support from many sponsoring companies, local residents, and educational institutions. By allowing people to "see, learn about, and touch" "interiors waste materials" that they don't usually see in their daily lives, we are creating an installation-style displays that allows everyone to intuitively grasp the message, hoping to provide an "opportunity" to think about a better future and a sustainable society. *Source: Ministry of the Environment, "Total Emissions in FY2020"