World Service Head Office Office Building by Michihiro Matsuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2020
World Service Head Office Office Building
Client: Michihiro Matsuo: METAPH ARCHITECT ASSOCIATES
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About World Service Head Office Office Building
This is the headquarters plan of a company that manufactures and sells weddings and tablecloths. He quotes the shape of the table and the softness of the cloth in the buildings and materials, structurally supports the large overhanging circular parts, and gives a sense of floating to create the future. The design is impressive with a large volume, but harmonized with the natural and local environments.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
World Service Head Office Office Building is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. World Service Head Office Office Building is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. World Service Head Office Office Building splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This is the headquarters plan of a company that manufactures and sells weddings and tablecloths.While citing the shape of the table and the softness of the cloth in the building and the material, the floating large circular form that feels light is empty and the world , Showing the possibility of expanding into the future.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Site area:6408.97㎡ Size:2138.77㎡ Structure:Steel frame Floor: 2
- Tags
- Office, Warehouse , Steel , Architecture
- Production Technology
- In order to express the soft cloth used for the table, a large corrugated iron plate is used for the circular part, and the design gently wraps the building.
- Design Challenge
- Structural support of the large overhanging circular section, and the material that feels light is superimposed on this large volume to form a shape. In addition, it must be in harmony with the natural environment and the local environment in the shape that images the future.
- Research
- Many visitors related to the wedding visit and use the building. By overlaying the future of marriage with the future imagined by the appearance and shape of the building, we want to test the emotions associated with architecture.
- Inspiration
- We quoted the shape of the table and the softness of the cloth in the building and the material, and made it a large circular shape with a feeling of floating and lightness. In addition, we created an architecture that allows us to imagine the future and marriage associated with shapes.
- Project Duration
- The project was completed in Osaka, Japan in February 2020
- Operation Flow
- It will be used as an office, but a multipurpose hall will be opened if necessary. This hall is largely connected to the outside, and the connection between the inside and outside enables expansion of space and use.
- Patents
- Copyrights
- Team Members
- Advance Architects Co., Ltd.
- Image Credits
- Michihiro Matsuo: METAPH ARCHITECT ASSOCIATES
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