Y HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
Small, comfortably homelike offices are becoming an emerging typology to counteract the alienation of long working hours in huge headquarter complexes.
So far many poor office buildings – in Japanese jargon pencil buildings- hosted employees of medium to small size companies.
Y HEADQUARTERS BUILDING sets itself apart from this category because of few key reasons:
1. it belongs to a small company catering for high quality services: it therefore requires multiple individual spaces where each worker may concentrate;
2. on the other hand it requires transparency and overall permeability to encourage human relations;
This refined headquarter hosts 15 employees and is located in a residential district of downtown Tokyo. It is a composition of two volumes facing each other across a sunken garden. The block on the right hand side faces a street junction and is used as an interface with the public; the one on the left contains the workstations. The two volumes overlook onto a central void through entirely glazed facades; this helps remarkably to set a visual communication between employees and customers and visitors.
- LOCATION
- Tokyo, JP
- PROGRAM
- Office
- YEAR
- 2018
- SIZE
- 497 sqm
- STRUCTURE
- Reinforced concrete
- LEAD ARCHITECT
- Satoshi Okada
- TEAM
- Tatsuya Terada, Lisa Tomiyama
- COLLABORATORS
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- STRUCTURAL DESIGN:
- Hojo Structural Laboratory
- LANDSCAPE DESIGN:
- SOLSO
- EARTHEN WALL:
- Naoki Kusumi, Sakan Co. Ltd.
- GLASS SANITARY WARES:
- Takahiro Tsuchihashi
- CONTRACTOR:
- Watanabe Kensetsu Co.
- PHOTO CREDITS:
- Satoshi Shigeta
