Works#2024

At the Kobe factory, which began offering factory tours in 2007, the traditional factory tours were suspended in the fall of 2019 for a renovation of the tour facilities. This renovation transformed the facility into one where children can deepen their understanding of familiar milk and dairy products while having fun, and learn about efforts to ensure food safety and environmentally conscious initiatives toward achieving the SDGs. Although online factory tours were conducted midway through due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person factory tours resumed in March 2024. Our company provided total production services, from the facility concept to spatial concept design, displays design and production, and various content creation.

This project involved the renovation of the Morioka City Library, including seismic retrofitting. After being closed for approximately two and a half years, it reopened on April 2, 2024. The library's concept is "A library where knowledge circulates and people and the city grow freely." Like the ecosystem of Takamatsu Pond that spreads out before it, the library aims to be a place where Morioka's knowledge and people naturally gather, connect, and circulate back into the community. Our company was responsible for the planning, design, production, and construction of the facility's interior space, as well as the visual identity, including the logo.

Tokyu Plaza Harajuku "Harakado" is a new commercial facility that inherits and further develops the culture of the former "Harajuku Central Apartments." Located at the southwest corner of the Jingumae intersection where Omotesando and Meiji-dori intersect, it stands shoulder to shoulder with Laforet Harajuku across the street and Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku "Omokado" diagonally across from it, aiming to become a new landmark in the Harajuku/Omotesando area and a hub for cultural dissemination. Our company was responsible for the basic plan of the entire facility environment, design, layout of each section, the concept and planning of some of the facility's merchandising, tenant leasing for the food and beverage floor, and the design and construction of some of the restaurants.

Based on the concept of "co-creation," the TOTO Technical Center Tokyo, a place that collaborates with business users to create the bathroom spaces of the future, reopened in April 2024 after renovations. The concept for this renovation is "Fine & Flow," expressing "the free, delicate, and beautiful behavior of water and its seamless transitions." The aim was not only to convey the dedication of bathroom professionals and TOTO's reliable quality, but also to create a facility and atmosphere befitting co-creation, and a proposal facility that is appropriate for the digital age. Our company was in charge of the overall design, construction, and system development.

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

This is the 15th directly managed store by Seiban, the company famous for its "Angel's Wings" school bags. Each store is concept design with a unique concept, taking into account the local characteristics of the area. In the Yokohama Kohoku area, there are many greenways that blend seamlessly into daily life, and these greenways are not just paths but parks where children play. Therefore, the concept for this store is "SEIBAN GREEN PARKWAY," incorporating the organic curves and green elements of the greenways, as well as the various colors encountered in nature, to concept design a space that makes you want to venture further in.

Fukui Prefecture and Fukui City have launched the "Fukui Station Area Dinosaur displays Project" to promote "Fukui, the Dinosaur Kingdom" to visitors and create a lively atmosphere using dinosaurs, in preparation for the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line between Fukui and Tsuruga in the spring of 2024. Fukui City is in charge of the east exit area of Fukui Station, and has installed a monument of a parent and child Triceratops with the theme of parental love in the east exit plaza. The parent Triceratops is a life-sized dinosaur robot that expresses parental love by moving and making sounds at set times. Meanwhile, the shelter area of Fukui Station is designed to resemble the world of land. Visitors can interact with three baby dinosaurs, including a Spinosaurus, and the egg monument is a photo spot where visitors can go inside and take pictures. In addition, the adjacent pedestrian walkway is designed to resemble the world of the sky. A bench where a child dreaming of becoming a paleontologist sits, and a sign reading "Pterosaur Sanctuary" have been installed. On the outer wall of Echizen Railway Fukui Station, facing the road beyond, a 20-meter-long mural of a herd of pteranodons is painted. Furthermore, the area under the elevated tracks is designed to evoke the world of the sea, with an internally illuminated "Marine Lizard Sanctuary" sign based on the blue of the ocean and benches adorned with reliefs of marine dinosaurs such as plesiosaurs. In this way, each area has a different theme, and the points of interest change to encourage visitors to explore the area.

"Sea", one of the co-creation spaces opened by Okamura with the concept of "a place to connect with the waves," is a place where people who gather in Tokyo in various contexts can break free from their bonds, connect with curiosity, and create co-creation. With the relocation and renewal of the Okamura Garden Court showroom, we have been in charge of construction of the design supervision and interiors construction work and have worked 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 visitor facility showcasing the appeal of the sauce has been opened. The facility was created while carefully listening to the employees' deep passion for their products. In the history area, which tells the story of the long 120-year history, the iconic square bottle is used as the motif for interiors, and the design is optimized for ease of operation, with cartoon-style graphics and content in which the bulldog, which is also the logo, narrates the story. In displays area, which appeals to the commitment to the sauce and the blessings of nature, elements that allow visitors to learn independently have been incorporated, such as small hands-on fixtures and a board game 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, graphics that convey the speed of production and safety and security are also incorporated to strengthen the learning element, and elements that can be used for social studies field trips have been scattered throughout.

For the purpose of promoting Obayashi-gumi's efforts at the 2025 Japan World Expo (Osaka-Kansai Expo), we set up a visitor room in the Expo site office and planned a facility where Obayashi-gumi's stakeholders and guests of the Exposition Association will be attended. The displays structure is centered on a circular theater that evokes the image of the large roof ring of the Expo, and the surrounding area displays an overview of the Expo and explanations and mockups of the pavilion construction by Obayashi Gumi. displays The fixtures are made of wooden single pipes, and the graphics output by the plotter are displayed using clamps, expressing the "sense of the scene" that takes advantage of the background of the field office and the "sense of presence" that the Expo is being created in real time at this place, and the plan is to be updated so that the "now" of the site can be displays. In addition, we displays materials that reuse CLT panels used in the demonstration experiment of the large roof ring, graphics with the motif of drawing frames, and the latest construction photos, aiming for a displays concept design space that will grow with the site until the Expo is held.

This is displays project for the "Panasonic Group Booth" at CES 2024. At CES 2024, our company was responsible for the overall design, layout of the booth, which showcased "the future lifestyle envisioned by the Panasonic Group," balancing the resolution of global environmental issues with a better quality of life. Specifically, we introduced the future lifestyle and initiatives envisioned by the Panasonic Group in three categories: "Sustainable Energy (CO2 emission reduction)," "Circular Economy (circular manufacturing)," and "Resource Optimization (resource optimization)," and further displays the latest products and solutions that contribute to improving the "quality of life" for 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 chain with the most Michelin stars in mainland China. The interior concept design was handled by a Hong Kong-based concept design company, and our company was responsible for the local design work, which was highly complex and based on the work of an overseas designer, as well as construction work, which required a high level of completion.

T-LOGI Fukuoka Island City is located on Fukuoka City's only artificial island, surrounded by the sea and a container terminal. This facility is the largest logistics warehouse in Kyushu, with a total floor area of approximately 45,000 tsubo (approximately 135,000 square meters), and was jointly developed by Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd., Tokyu Land Corporation, Nishinippon Shimbun Co., Ltd., and Marubeni Corporation. Our company participated from the planning of concept design concept and basic concept, and was in charge of the design and construction of the employee break room and approach, as well as the design of the facility's common areas.