Argentu Interfaccia · 2022
Totetsu Training Institute Sistema Di Wayfinding
by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.
- A' Design Award d'Argentu 2022 in Interfaccia
- CLIENT: Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 37,718
- Verification code 4787BB3100 · Verify this award
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About Totetsu Training Institute Sistema Di Wayfinding
U cliente, fundatu à a dumanda di l'anzianu Ministeriu di Ferrovie per mantene è rinfurzà u sistema ferroviariu di u Giappone, hè una cumpagnia di custruzzione generale cù una vasta cumpetenza in u campu di a custruzzione ferroviaria. U designer Takuya Wakizaki, u fundatore di MOTIVE Inc., hà criatu un sistema di ricerca per l'istitutu, chì u cliente hà custruitu per sviluppà risorse umane. Per u mutivu di disignu, u designer hà utilizatu linee ferroviarie - l'identità core di u cliente. À traversu u disignu, u designer s'impegna à creà un spaziu chì aiutava i trainees à sente un sensu di orgogliu in u so travagliu.
About the A' Design Award d'Argentu
Totetsu Training Institute Sistema Di Wayfinding hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu, una ricunniscenza straordinariamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di alta gamma, splendidi è impressiunanti. I vincitori d'Argentu sò opere tremendamente brillanti è estremamente creative chì illustranu l'espertisa, u talentu è l'acutezza eccezziunali di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Totetsu Training Institute Sistema Di Wayfinding sia una opera maravigliosa di mostra, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è prufondamente innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu hè una invenzione assai nutevule è ammirata chì benefizia è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Totetsu Training Institute Sistema Di Wayfinding hè una creazione assai invidiata chì evoca disideri, introduce sentimenti pusitivi è accende stupore è maraviglia.
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- Unique Properties
- Due to the characteristics of the space, some of the rooms in the facility are in blind areas. The rail-line design marks flow lines to those rooms, offering affordances for spatial movement. In addition, the design team used rail scrap for the facility’s name sign and portions of the stairs to capture the company's personality with creative aesthetic accents.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Facility’s name sign - H174 x W2690
Rail line width - 60mm - Tags
- Wayfinding, Signage, Orientation Design, Environmental Design, Graphic
- Production Technology
- Facility’s name sign - Used rail scrap
Rail line-1 - Steel
Rail line-2 - PVC flooring
Typography - Floor marking film - Design Challenge
- Due to the characteristics of the space, some of the rooms in the facility are in blind areas. The rail-line design marks flow lines to those rooms, offering affordances for spatial movement. In other words, the rail-line design becomes a flow line. This line had to run through the building uninterrupted, and safety had to be taken to prevent users from stumbling. Since the rail lines were constructed by connecting the divided parts, severe dimensional accuracy is required. The rail lines' curves, intersections, branches, etc., were very difficult construction.
- Research
- You can find animals' whereabouts, such as foxes, by following the footprints left on the snow-covered ground.
Many people will have had the experience of walking across the pedestrian crossing only on the white line as a child.
If multiple shapes are drawn on the ground, Hopscotch will start. These unknowingly acquired behavioural habits, which are difficult to prove chemically, can be a hint for designing a wayfinding system. The marks on the floor are great for informing, inducing, and controlling behaviour. - Inspiration
- Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd., founded at the request of the former Ministry of Railways to maintain and reinforce Japan’s rail system, is a general construction company with far-reaching expertise in the field of rail-related construction. For the design motif, the design team used rail lines-the core identity of Totetsu Kogyo, which continues to thrive in the rail sector.
- Project Duration
- The project started in June 2019.
The project finished in December 2021.
Located in Ibaraki, JAPAN. - Operation Flow
- Rooms in blind areas or rooms that need to be accessed through narrow corridors are less likely to be recognized by users. With the rail-line design, users can see a destination in blind areas or beyond narrow corridors and change the inactive space into an active one.
- Patents
- Not applicable
- Image Credits
- All Images: Photographer Takeshi Shinto, 2021
