New office of aTOKYO in Japan by GENETO

Article source: GENETO

It’s the project of the new office of “a TOKYO” which manages ART FAIR TOKYO. It is located on the 4th floor (100m2) of the building facing the intersection in Ikura Minato-ku, Tokyo. We inserted three box spaces as a meeting room, a president room and a chief director room, then the residual space becomes a staff office space and a meeting space.

Interior overview, employee workspaces are located in all areas besides the box insertions, Image Courtesy © Yasutake Kondo

• Architects: GENETO (Koji Yamanaka, Yuji Yamanaka, Asako Yamashita, Shizuka Yoshimatsu, Mitsuteru Nakada)
• Project: New office of aTOKYO
• Location: 1-9-12 Ikura, Azabudai Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
• Photography: Yasutake Kondo
  
• Construction : pivoto (Keiji Tsujii, Eichiro Shiro)
• Floor area: 103 m²

See the meeting room from the workspace, Image Courtesy © Yasutake Kondo

We considered that the event arising in this space, where an everyday routine work happens, could be changed to ART to the program as office after the necessary rooms were secured.

The idea that “changing the event to ART” is an attempt to rethink the daily living as a special existence by handling a person and a matter equivalently in the space.

Various framed windows, Image Courtesy © Yasutake Kondo

The interior view of the meeting room, Image Courtesy © Yasutake Kondo

It was required that three box spaces inserted closes the interior. At the same time, it needed the closing way to feel the interior. Then, by cutting out the outside wall by the frame, the view from there also cut out.

The frames consist of a clear glass, a mirror and a wall.

The openings cut out by the frames separate the space ambiguously and get the visibility to the both interior and exterior.

See the president room from the meeting room, Image Courtesy © Yasutake Kondo

The interior view of the president room, Image Courtesy © Yasutake Kondo

You will experience the both events, which happens inside and outside of the boxes.

The inside wall touching other boxes also consists of many openings and the view from the inside continues to another space through many openings.

The openings with the frames and the openings where a wall is just cut off gives a quite different impression each other although these are same size.

The interior view of the chairman room, Image Courtesy © Yasutake Kondo

The view through the window openings, Image Courtesy © Yasutake Kondo

That is to say the wall where an opening was clipped at random connects each rooms and becomes special filter to connect with the outdoor.

“Changing the event to ART” is that we expect commonplace activity becomes special discovery and memory in the office space to spend most of the day.

Image Courtesy © GENETO

Image Courtesy © GENETO

Image Courtesy © GENETO

Image Courtesy © GENETO

Tags: Japan, Tokyo

Category: Offices

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