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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Arup Tokyo New Office in Japan by tomomi kito architect & associatesNovember 30th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: tomomi kito architect & associates This is the interior design project for a new Arup’s office in Tokyo. Arup’s staff designed their own office and also managed the relocation project by themselves. Before commencing design, a questionnaire on workplace for all staff was conducted. The result showed that they hope for a “well-being” office which allows them to work comfortably, while representing Arup’s brand and culture.  Entrance-view, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta
 Reception-daytime, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta * “Core” and “Place” The office features “Core”, a centred large volume, and “Place”, a surrounding space. “Core” serves as a core of innovation that facilitates communication, socialisation, collaboration as well as concentration, where meeting rooms, a refreshment space, a giant working table and teleconference booths are contained. “Core” is enclosed by bookshelves so as to represent a hub of innovation while the various openings on the bookshelves provide an adequate sense of distance and openness. Engineers and consultants can feel adjacent activities and atmosphere through the openings. The bookshelves containing documents on the completed projects, company journals and architectural/design magazines act as a catalyst for innovation providing engineers inspiration.  Reception, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Refresh-room, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta “Place” is a field where engineers and consultants develop and implement the innovation, including personal and collaborative workspace. “Place” is carefully designed to ensure comfortable view and circulation of the whole office, and to offer a variety of spaces. Approximately half of the seats have been prepared as hot desks, which is laid out along the building’s façade with comfortable view and various furnishing. Hot desks are also acting as a place for active communication amongst staff as they are situated along the office circulation.  Hot-desk, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Giant-table-for-hot-desk, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta * IoT for “well-being” “Well-being” is also promoted by state-of-the-art technology, Internet of Things (IoT). A lot of IoT sensors are placed in the office to gather various data including the number of people, room temperature, CO2 concentration, and noise level of each area. It is expected to utilize the data to continuously improve the office environment in the future, analysing it with measured data of weather, natural light, artificial light and staff’s autonomic nervous system. The data is also presented in real time within office, which assists engineers to find a comfortable working space.  Giant-table-for-hot-desk, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Hot desk, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta Entertainment contents for our visitors using IoT are also provided including interactive display at the entrance using a face recognition system. As a part of digitalization approach, visitors are also able to experience Arup’s projects through Virtual Reality (VR). * Arup’s “well-being” Skilful experts pursuing the quality of work and sustaining the organization, this is our organisational goal as stated in The Key Speech by the founder, Ove Arup. This, in essence, is the “well-being” for Arup and the origin of its brand and culture. This new office is the project to realize the Arup’s “wellbeing” by our own staff. (Tomomi Kito)  Corridor-viewing-reception, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Meeting-room, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Refresh-room, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Corridor-viewing-meeting-room, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Conference-booth, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Corridor-viewing-meeting-room, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Corridor-viewing-meeting-room, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Lounge, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Sofa-detail, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  H-beam-lighting-cover, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Logo stand, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Logo stand, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Giant table detail, Image Courtesy © satoshi shigeta  Monitor, Image Courtesy © Arup  Sensor, Image Courtesy © Arup
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