Works#2024

In preparation for the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Fukui-Tsuruga line in spring 2024, Fukui Prefecture and Fukui City have launched the "Fukui Station Dinosaur Expansion Project" to promote "Fukui, the Kingdom of Dinosaurs" to visitors by placing various dinosaur displays around Fukui Station and to create a lively atmosphere using dinosaurs. Fukui City is in charge of the east exit area of Fukui Station, and has installed a parent-child Triceratops monument with the theme of parent-child love in the East Exit Plaza. The parent Triceratops is a life-sized dinosaur robot that expresses parent-child love by moving at regular times and making sounds. Meanwhile, the shelter area of Fukui Station is designed to evoke the world of land. You can interact with three baby dinosaurs, including a Spinosaurus, and the egg monument is a photo spot where you can enter and take photos. The adjacent pedestrian-only road is designed to evoke the world of the sky. There are benches for child dinosaurs who dream of becoming dinosaur researchers, as well as a sign reading "Pterosaur Conservation Area," and on the exterior wall of Echizen Railway Fukui Station facing the road ahead, a 20-meter-long herd of Pteranodons is painted. Furthermore, under the elevated railway, an internally illuminated "Pterosaur Conservation Area" sign in ocean blue tones and a bench with a relief of the marine dinosaur Plesiosaurus are installed, evoking the image of an underwater world. In this way, each area has its own theme, and the different sights to see make it easy to wander around.

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 Urbannet Midosuji Building is a new 100m-tall building located along Midosuji, Osaka's main street. It is a complex building primarily used for offices, with lively facilities located on the lower floors. Rather than being considered a standalone building, it was conceived as part of "urban development," and by gently connecting the roadside and the indoor space, we were conscious of creating interaction and liveliness in an integrated manner with the town. Furthermore, by providing office space that is suited to new ways of working, we aimed to continue supporting the various activities of a diverse range of people and contribute to the future revitalization of Midosuji and the town.

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.

With the aim of promoting Obayashi Corporation's efforts for the 2025 Japan World Exposition (Osaka-Kansai Expo), we have set up a visitor room in the Expo site office and planned a facility to attend to Obayashi Corporation's stakeholders and guests of the Exposition Association. displays The structure is centered on a circular theater reminiscent of the large roof ring of the World Expo, and the outline of the Expo and explanations and mock-ups of the pavilion of Obayashi Corporation construction are displays around it. displays The fixtures are made of a single wooden tube, and the graphics output by the plotter are displayed using clamps, expressing the "on-site feeling" that makes use of the background of the field office and the "sense of realism" that the Expo is being created in real time at this location, and the plan is to have updatable so that the "now" of the site can be displays. In addition, we displays materials that reused CLT panels used in the demonstration experiment of the large roof ring, graphics with drawing frames as motifs, and the latest construction photos, aiming for a displays space that grows together with the site until the concept design and the World Expo, which brings out the uniqueness of Obayashi Corporation.

This is an displays project for the Panasonic Group Booth at CES 2024. At CES 2024, we were in charge of the overall design, layout by the Panasonic Group in three categories: "Sustainable Energy (reducing CO2 emissions)," "Circular Economy (circular manufacturing)," and "Resource Optimization." In addition, we displays the latest products and solutions that will help improve the "quality of life" of each individual.

This is a renovation project for The Mana Village, a hotel located at the tip of Cape Ashizuri in Kochi Prefecture. The project began in 2020 to transform the former Ashizuri Pacific Hotel into one of Asia's leading resort hotels, The Mana Village. This project involved renovating three new types of guest rooms and an open-air bath. The young hotel staff and designers created the new rooms with a playful concept that was not seen in The Mana Village before, with the desire to "create fun memories for guests." This is an ongoing project that will increase expectations by sharing the hotel's transformation with guests.

This is the first overseas branch of the Chinese restaurant with the most Michelin stars in China. The interior concept design was handled by a Hong Kong-based concept design company, and our company was in charge of the local design work, which required a highly challenging design by an overseas designer, as well as construction work, which required a high level of perfection.

T-LOGI Fukuoka Island City is located on the only artificial island in Fukuoka City, surrounded by the sea and a container terminal. This facility was jointly developed by Tokyo Tatemono, Tokyu Land Corporation, The Nishinippon Shimbun, and Marubeni, and is the largest logistics warehouse facility in Kyushu, with a total floor area of approximately 131,000 m2. We participated in the project from the planning and basic concept of concept design, and were responsible for the design and construction of the employee lounge and approach, as well as the design of the facility's common areas.

Tochigi Health Check Plaza is a medical facility that relocated and opened on January 15, 2024 for health checkups and medical examinations. In today's world, where people are expected to live to 100 years old, health management through regular health checkups and medical examinations is more important than ever. In order to realize the wishes of many patients that their annual medical examination day be a "rich and special day," we have created a space full of hospitality, from architecture to interior and furniture concept design. In order to respond to customer requests and a wide range of concept design areas, we teamed up with NAU (now the Architectural Production Department), which specializes in total concept design on an urban planning and architectural scale, and an interior concept design team that specializes in the hospitality market, such as hotels. By utilizing each other's expertise and concept design everything from the architectural scale to the human scale, we were able to ease the psychological anxiety of patients and create a space where they can spend their time comfortably and comfortably. With a smart appearance symbolizing a cutting-edge medical facility and a space filled with elegant colors, we aimed to create a facility that would take root in the local community and be beloved as a symbol of the town.

An art monument depicting players was set up in the outdoor plaza of Okinawa Arena, the venue for "B.LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME WEEKEND 2024 IN OKINAWA." By depicting the players with life-size lines, visitors can experience the players' height, speed, jumps and other physical abilities. Expressing the world of B.LEAGUE's purpose, "Hearts Burning," concept design is inspired by communication that connects visitors and multiple venues under the concept of "PARK."

The waters around Cape Hado, where the Genkai Underwater Observatory is located, were designated as part of the quasi-national park "Genkai Underwater Park" (now Genkai Sea Area Park) in 1970 as Japan's first underwater park. This facility opened in 1974 as the only underwater observatory on the Sea of Japan side. Connected to the land of Cape Hado by an 86-meter-long pier, the observation room is 20 meters high and 10 meters in diameter, and located 7 meters deep. Through 24 underwater windows, you can see a variety of fish swimming, seaweed, and shellfish in their natural state. In addition, from the sea deck, you can see the islands of the Genkai Sea on three sides. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its opening, the facility will be reopened for the first time on April 1, 2024, and will be the first of the seven underwater observatories in the country to introduce projection mapping, allowing you to enjoy an immersive experience as if you were in the sea while watching real fish. Our company was involved from the basic concept stage and was responsible for everything from concept design, exhibit execution to public relations at the time of opening.

NOMURA exhibited a booth at the SC Business Fair 2024, the largest event in the industry where shopping center personnel gather together. The event was held at the Pacifico Yokohama displays Hall for three days from January 24 to 26, 2024, and in addition to exhibiting at a booth, we also held a free seminar on the first day of the event. The theme of this booth was "NOMURA 's Idea of Sustainable concept design." As part of our social good R&D activities, we are currently working on creating a "Sustainable concept design Manner Book" that realizes design, functionality, and environmental friendliness, and our booth was designed in accordance with the basic principles of the manner book. As sustainability efforts become more diverse, we are also continuing to take on various challenges, such as developing upcycled materials. However, this time, we have focused on understanding the characteristics of basic materials, which are indispensable materials for constructing spaces and will continue to be deeply involved in the future. The basic materials used were wood, cement, acrylic, copper, and iron. The square timbers were arranged in a grid pattern, but the space was given an undulation, allowing visitors to walk around and enjoy conversation. The ratio of the number of pieces of each material used was calculated based on the embodied carbon emissions over the life cycle of the building, and the characteristics of the materials were visually conveyed. In addition, the design symbolizes the idea of essential environmental contribution, as the secondary use of materials is possible and waste at the time of demolition is drastically reduced by using clamps (※) instead of screws or adhesives for connection. We aimed to concept design a booth that would allow visitors to think about future approaches to sustainable concept design together with us, and that would allow visitors to gain new realizations and discoveries while showing their responsibility and gratitude for materials. *We have used the dedicated clamps from the "Tsunagi" project, planned and produced by Nikken Sekkei.

The main building is a historical entertainment facility with the theme of Maebashi's "crisis and people's power." Maebashi was called the "flower of Kanto" during the Edo period and flourished as a castle town, and continued to develop as the prefectural capital of Gunma Prefecture after the Meiji period. During that time, however, our ancestors overcame four crises with the "people's power" and achieved reconstruction: the collapse of Maebashi Castle due to erosion of the Tone River, the abolition of feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures due to the Meiji Restoration, the suspension of operations in the silk industry, which was the city's main industry, due to the Great Depression, and the burning of 80% of the city area in air raids during World War II. The main building calls Maebashi, which developed as the "flower of Kanto" and the "prefectural capital," "the Flower Capital," and was opened with the hope that it would be an opportunity for citizens to trace the history of their hometown and think about Maebashi's future.

LOGI'Q Minamiibaraki, the flagship facility of Tokyu Land Corporation's LOGI'Q brand, will be completed in January 2024 as one of the largest logistics facilities in the Kansai region, and we were responsible for design, layout construction, sign concept design, etc. We designed cafeterias on the first and fourth floors with different concept design themes that characterize the facility. Considering that the first floor area faces the mountainous area, we used plenty of wood and realized a spacious space that takes advantage of the high ceilings, while the fourth floor area is located on the urban and industrial area side, so we finished it with a sharp and modern composition using metal and stone. In addition, we concept design a large, eye-catching logo outdoors and a lounge located at the main entrance, providing a comfortable experience for customers visiting the facility and creating a space that will encourage communication through art and displays.