Crossover Lab Office Design by Sachiko Umeoka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
SilverInterior· 2023
Crossover Lab Office Design
Client: MITSUI Designtec Co.,Ltd.
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Crossover Lab Office Design
When reimagining the future of the post-pandemic office, the future office needs to be aimed at creating added value through collaboration, not only a place to work alone. Therefore, office space should be redefined as a place where people gather to amplify ideas. Also, adopting the unique ideas of wellbeing, sustainability, and locality is essential to fulfill social responsibility as an interior design firm. Crossover Lab is thoroughly designed to embody those ideas to be the compass for the future workplace.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Crossover Lab Office Design is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Crossover Lab Office Design is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Crossover Lab Office Design is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Where to Get It
Interior Design Services for Modern Spaces
We transform offices, homes, hotels and commercial spaces through innovative interior design that balances wellbeing, sustainability and functionality. Our Tokyo-based team combines 60 years of expertise with forward-thinking approaches to create environments that inspire collaboration and enhance quality of life.
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- Unique Properties
- When reimagining the future of the post-pandemic office, the future office needs to be aimed at creating added value through collaboration, not only a place to work alone. Therefore, office space should be redefined as a place where people gather to amplify ideas.
Also, adopting the unique ideas of wellbeing, sustainability, and locality is essential to fulfill social responsibility as an interior design firm.
CROSSOVER Lab is thoroughly designed to embody those ideas to be the compass for the future workplace. - Dimensions & Packaging
- This project spans across 3 levels, with a total area of 6,506 square meters in size.
- Tags
- Office, CROSSOVER Design, Corporate identity, Sustainable, History of Ginza, Wellbeing, locality
- Production Technology
- Upcycled and sustainable materials were proactively incorporated in our design.
For instance, a mix of wood residue and resin was used as a tabletop in the reception area, waste clothes were reused as surface materials, sustainable cork and carbon neutral carpet tiles were adopted into flooring materials and wall panels made from coffee grounds were installed on the work area wall. - Design Challenge
- Expressing our company's design policy, "Combine new value while making use of the old" by merging simple texture of concrete with sophisticated Japanese technology.
Art wall decorated with “Sakan paint” an ancient Japanese plasterer technology combines a wall monitor which visualizes our collaboration with various clients using the digital art content technology. Artworks depicting Sakuma Shozan who used to live in the neighborhood, the thinker of “Bakumatsu", the end of Edo period, was installed on the reception area wall to symbolize the new workstyle in this office. - Research
- Firstly, we reviewed our Corporate Identity to re-share how our firm should be. Also, interviews with managers, workshops by selected employees and analysis of work style by each department were executed to search for new style of work and to apply new functions to the new office. In design phase, we thoroughly researched the history of East Ginza and incorporated it into our new office design. After completion, “infiltrating program” was executed for all employees to instill new style of work at the new office.
- Inspiration
- We renovated three floors of the building that has carved a history of 60 years into unique spaces, based on the concept of CROSSOVER. The idea is to combine our knowledge and methods of space creation cultivated in various fields with the personality and expertise of individuals.
- Project Duration
- The project started in May 2020 and finished in June 2021 in Tokyo.
- Operation Flow
- To activate the idea of CROSSOVER at the office, we designed a variety of workspaces in each floor for staff to choose by their needs. It drives more serendipities and chances of co-creation.
- Team Members
- Creative Director: Shinichi Mitsuki
Chief Designer: Midori Sano
Chief Designer: Sachiko Umeoka
Chief Designer: Kana Honda
Chief Designer: Kyohei Otsuka
Chief Designer: Taku Sugiyama
Chief Designer: Yusuke Fujimoto - Image Credits
- #1: Photographer Nacasa & Partners Inc. , 2022
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