Totetsu Training Institute ʻōnaehana ʻimi Ala by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.

Totetsu Training Institute ʻōnaehana ʻimi Ala by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Pilina, Launa a me ʻIke Mea Hoʻohana Competition Category.

KalaPilina· 2022

Totetsu Training Institute ʻōnaehana ʻimi Ala

by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.

Client: Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Pilina Category

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The Design

About Totetsu Training Institute ʻōnaehana ʻimi Ala

ʻO ka mea kūʻai, i hoʻokumu ʻia ma ke noi ʻana o ke Kuhina Kūʻai mua e mālama a hoʻoikaika i ka ʻōnaehana kaʻaahi o Iapana, he hui kūkulu hale ākea me ka ʻike mamao loa i ka hana o ka hana kaʻa. ʻO ka mea hoʻolālā ʻo Takuya Wakizaki, ka mea nāna i hoʻokumu iā MOTIVE Inc., i hana i kahi ʻōnaehana ʻimi ala no ka institute, kahi i kūkulu ʻia e ka mea kūʻai aku e hoʻomohala i nā kumuwaiwai kanaka. No ke kumu hoʻolālā, ua hoʻohana ka mea hoʻolālā i nā laina laina-ʻo ka ʻike kumu o ka mea kūʻai aku. Ma o ka hoʻolālā ʻana, ua hoʻoikaika ka mea hoʻolālā e hana i kahi ākea e kōkua i ka poʻe aʻo i ka haʻaheo i kā lākou hana.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Totetsu Training Institute ʻōnaehana ʻimi Ala i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Totetsu Training Institute ʻōnaehana ʻimi Ala he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Totetsu Training Institute ʻōnaehana ʻimi Ala e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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
Team Members: Architect - Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Construction - Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Image Credits: All Images: Photographer Takeshi Shinto, 2021