Works#2024

紀伊國屋書店様におけるおもてなしの場となるサロンを、旗艦店である新宿本店ビルの最上階に復活させるプロジェクトです。1964年のビル建設当時、創業者である田辺茂一氏によって文壇の社交場となるサロンがつくられました。その後時は過ぎ、失われてしまったその空間を現代によみがえらせるべく、2021年から2023年まで行われた新宿本店リニューアルに引き続き、今回新たなプロジェクトとして、当社はデザイン・設計、制作・施工などを担当しました。

This project involved concept design, interiors renovation, and environmental features of the children's corner of Nakano City's Ekoda Library, located in a quiet residential area where children from the neighborhood gather. On the first floor, we replaced the old interiors materials with new ones and created a bookshelf unique to the children's corner, where large books and picture-story shows can be stored. We also created a magazine area for parents to enjoy, creating a space where parents and children can spend time together. In this space, where children are greeted by the library's original characters, "Shishimaru" and "Egotan," inspired by the "Ekoda Lion Dance," an intangible folk cultural property designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, we aimed to give children the impression that libraries are fun places. On the second floor, we installed a new counter and chairs. By using acrylic material for part of the counter, it has become a space where you can quietly read while feeling the faint warmth of the sunlight.

We exhibited "Being Furniture" at DESIGNART TOKYO 2024, Japan's largest concept design and art festival (with the theme "Reframing - The Beginning of Transformation"). "Being Furniture" is a project that reconsiders the relationship between people and objects. We create many things every day in our spatial concept design projects, but behind the scenes, we feel that there is a big issue with these things being discarded or no longer used while still fully usable. When we think about a situation in which an object is used for a long time and with great care, it is often the case that a relationship is formed that gives rise to an attachment to the object. In such cases, we noticed that we have gone from a sense of "owning and using" to a sense of "being with" the object and caring about it. Therefore, we thought that noticing this change in sensation might be one way to solve the problem. The furniture presented in the project is not particularly sturdy or functional. Rather, it has a certain instability and whimsy that makes us want to care for it. If furniture changes from "being" to "being there," how will we interact with it? Through a series of experimental concept design in this project, we ask society about the transformation in value between people and objects. Our company's vision is to "open up all kinds of spatial possibilities starting from the 'creativity' of each individual," and we are working to create spaces that enrich people's hearts. As part of this, we continue to exhibit at concept design events both in Japan and overseas in order to take on the social issues we face from a creative perspective and create a cycle of communication, exchange, and innovation through our output.

This is a project for the all-day dining restaurant "MONDO Sagami Ohno" that will open on the 7th floor of Odakyu Hotel Century Sagami Ohno. The restaurant will have a spacious space of over 666 square meters and a huge wood-fired oven, which will be the symbol of the restaurant "MONDO". Based on the theme of "from the mountain to the table", the restaurant will bring out the original flavor of the ingredients through wood-fired cooking, and serve simple and innovative flavors. Guests can casually enjoy authentic Italian cuisine, including a lunch buffet featuring carefully made handmade bread and steaks baked in a wood-fired oven. The restaurant will also feature "BAR ROJY", where you can casually enjoy authentic cocktails and rare old whiskeys, and "Kogasaka Bake Sagami Ohno", where you can purchase freshly baked bread and baked goods, proposing a free, warm and unique restaurant experience to the people of the city.

Set in the 1920s America during the era of construction, this bar is based on the "speakeasy" concept, a culture at the time where people would smuggle alcohol behind the scenes, disguised as beauty salons or law offices. JANAI HOTEL is the third in the "JANAI" secret bar series, which incorporates the speakeasy system to create a place where only those who find the concept interesting can gather. Opening a painting that at first glance does not look like a door, you enter a secret bar that can only be reached by those who have cracked the password. We were in charge of design, layout, and architectural design the tenant.

This project is a phased renewal project that will take place over a period of approximately three years from 2022 to 2024. This is the third phase, and involves renovating the 46th floor "SKY VIEW" and "Entrance," transforming the building into a place that will generate new excitement and interaction.

This is a renovation project for a permanent comprehensive sales gallery that will act as a base for communicating information about the housing brand "Gracia" developed by Sotetsu Real Estate, where customers can experience the brand's worldview through actual properties and video. The Sotetsu Line, which is deeply rooted in the Yokohama area and is loved by many, is now connected to the Tokyu Line through mutual direct service, improving convenience. As a result, the salon was opened in Shin-Yokohama, which functions as a hub connecting Yokohama, where Sotetsu Real Estate is based, with other prefectures, making it easy for customers living in the city center to visit. The facility includes a lounge where events can be held, a presentation room where each property can be experienced in VR, and a concept room that expresses the "quality" of the Gracia brand. We were in charge of interiors concept design, environmental features, and display.

This is a trial project towards "creating an inclusive stadium where everyone can enjoy themselves." For the first time, "Sensor-Friendly Tickets" will be sold at the professional baseball Eastern League official game to be held on Sunday, September 22, 2024, with the cooperation of the organizers, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Nippon Television, and Tokyo Dome.

This is a renovation plan for the office common area of Shinagawa Intercity, a large, high-rise complex that was developed in 1998 as the core of business and culture in the Shinagawa Konan area. The facility is long and narrow from north to south, and consists of three office towers, a commercial store tower, and a hall tower, with a complex structure like a city. Based on the concept of "a city where wind and people circulate," concept design to circulate people by utilizing various spaces in the building and to create a unified look among the multiple towers with the motif of "wind." In order to strengthen its competitiveness with the surrounding office buildings, we were conscious of a sense of luxury, and the wood-based space that leads to the comfort of the central garden that spreads out in front of you guides visitors beyond the building with the curved walls and ceiling that make you feel a gentle breeze blowing in, and the continuous vertical lines. We are also currently planning to create a new environment so that tenants can find comfortable places other than the office and use the space in a variety of ways.

This is an displays facility that conveys the great achievement of the electric locomotive "ED76 No. 509," which pushed through Hokkaido's heavy snowfall and brought about the flow of goods and people. The electric locomotive ED76, which was active in the early days of electrification of the national railway in Hokkaido, had to be dismantled for removal and disposal work because polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are of concern for their environmental impact, were used in the vehicle parts. As the dismantling was planned, in order to leave a valuable cultural heritage for future generations, it was decided to preserve the head part and create displays facility. Similar head displays are also held at railway museums nationwide, but this facility aims to allow visitors to experience the "strength" of the vehicle, which cannot be fully conveyed by the head alone, by reproducing the lost fuselage part at full size with outdoor-use graphic panels. The shape, color, and size of the ED76 convey to visitors the great achievement and value that the vehicle brought to Hokkaido.

The fish displays area "SeaZoo" at Kinosaki Marine World in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, is celebrating its 30th anniversary and will reopen on July 25, 2024. The concept of the newly completed displays "CUBE" at "SeaZoo" is "Towards an aquarium with more conversation." The aim is to create a new displays style that encourages curiosity, new discoveries, and free thinking by learning together through conversations with creatures and keepers, 20 cube-shaped aquariums, illustrations, and graphic boards.

Based on the concept of "NEXT HOME," this new office building project will be the foundation for the next generation for Yamaichi Jisho, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary since its founding. In response to the request from the company's president, Watanabe, that "we don't want a building that's just cool. We want a building that's alive," we held multiple workshops for all employees and the preparatory committee, and filled every corner of the new office with the thoughts of each employee, fostering a sense of it being "our office." Through this project, the motivation of each employee has changed, and new interactions have been created both inside and outside the company. An original "office for ourselves" has been born here, which will help Yamaichi Jisho solve the issues they expect from the company, such as communication, recruiting, and inheriting their DNA.

The pediatric department entrance on the first floor and the treatment room on the fifth floor of the Maternal and Child Medical Center at the Jikei University Hospital were renovated to create a space that would make the hospital more appealing and familiar to children and their guardians. This project was initiated by Professor Kimihiko Oishi, medical director and head of the Pediatrics Department at the Jikei University Hospital, who, based on his experience working in the medical field in the United States, felt that the current space in the hospital was new and beautiful, but was it a comfortable place for children? What about their families? And what about the staff who work there? Sega Sammy Holdings agreed with the desire of Professor Oishi and the pediatric ward staff to "enrich the lives of children in the hospital," and decided to support the Jikei University Hospital through content and Sega characters.

"Marunouchi Street Park" is a social experiment project to examine the future form and utilization of Nakadori Street in Marunouchi, Tokyo. The ninth "Marunouchi Street Park 2024 Winter" was held in 2019, and expanded from the previous three blocks of Nakadori Street to five blocks including Gyoko-dori Street, making it the largest scale event to date. Our company participated as a general planning partner and in charge of operations. The theme of this event was "Bright Street." We were in charge of the spatial design, construction, and operation that made use of the illuminations, a seasonal feature of Marunouchi in winter. We supported the planning and operation of the environmentally friendly resin skating rink, which is popular every year, the Glass House Market with its wide range of products, portrait content and street music perfect for the holiday season, and more. (Event period: November 14th to December 25th, 2024)

This was a head office relocation project for Hybrid, a company that helps IT departments resolve issues and strengthen organizational functions. Based on the company's mission of "leading the fusion of information systems (IT) and management/business," concept design concept was "fusion of ideas, structure, and materials," and the aim was to improve the working environment and corporate value by fusing an industrial motif with a modern, sophisticated space.