KOKUYO has opened a digital fabrication studio in its office THE CAMPUS to launch a new business that utilizes digital fabrication technology. In the midst of diversifying work styles, KOKUYO needs to build a new base and introduce technology to support the next era of manufacturing and space design.

Recycled Bottles Turned Hong Kong Starstreet Precinct Into “Enchanting Snowflakes” Christmas Wonderland

Starstreet Precinct is a vibrant destination for urbanites with unique lifestyle. With a focus on community and a passion to foster a sustainable lifestyle for all, Starstreet Precinct and its tenants are collectively working to build a better future together with neighborhood and public. AaaM Architects had curated and designed Christmas installation for Starstreet Precinct last year with sustainable materials, rattan. This year, we challenge to use renewable material as our main concept to promote sustainable lifestyle with technological input.

A project of a sales base of an automobile manufacturer Hyundai selling only ZEV* in Japan.
The first thing I thought about in this project, which started with the use of the existing “warehouse,” was how to combine the “nature of the warehouse” and the “clean” image of an EV vehicle. The plan was to adjoin the showroom with the vehicle maintenance shop. I thought that creating a spatial connection between these two functions, rather than completely separating them, would reflect Hyundai’s philosophy of “producing a clean, sustainable mobility environment.”

Semba Corporation completely renovated the head office into a Good Ethical Office that is friendly to the earth, people and society. We designed it to create new value by utilizing existing resources through a resource-recycling renovation process.

To realize KOKUYO's goal of Life Based Working, a satellite-type multipurpose space was built to accommodate employees' autonomous and personalized ways of working, learning, and living. By creating a place where employees can spend their disposable time in their way, we aimed for the simultaneous growth of both business and human resources. The company decided to provide employees with a place where they can freely use the space for their growth by encouraging personal growth from these relationships by feeling the space between employees, the city, and their families.

“TSO Sumida” is a shared office established by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to practice new work style. In addition to individual workspaces, it has a coworking space, rental offices which is enable to work on small short-term projects, and a workshop for craftmanship. With an emphasis on being “friendly for future”, we approached the entire process from an ethical perspective and renovated a 45-year-old textile research institution into a shared office. Rather than rebuilding itanew, we inherited and utilized the memories that had cultivated thus far by converting existing items into designed materials and furniture. We appealed “Ethical Design” visually, converting wastes boldly. We challenged to expand the possibility of reuse of industrial waste by committing to the esthetics thoroughly.