Totetsu Training Institute ウェイファインディングシステム by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.

Totetsu Training Institute ウェイファインディングシステム by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銀賞 in インターフェース・インタラクション・UXデザイン Competition Category.

銀インターフェース· 2022

Totetsu Training Institute ウェイファインディングシステム

by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.

Client: Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in インターフェース Category

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The Design

About Totetsu Training Institute ウェイファインディングシステム

発注者は、日本の鉄道網の維持・強化を目的として旧鉄道省の要請を受けて設立された、鉄道関連工事の分野で豊富な専門知識を持つ総合建設会社です。株式会社MOTIVEの創業者であるデザイナーの脇崎拓也氏が研究所向けにウェイファインディングシステムを開発し、クライアントが人材育成のために構築したものです。デザインモチーフには、クライアントのアイデンティティの核となる鉄道線を使用しました。設計者は、研修生が自分の仕事に誇りを持てるような空間づくりを心がけた。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀賞

Totetsu Training Institute ウェイファインディングシステムは、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Totetsu Training Institute ウェイファインディングシステムは、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Totetsu Training Institute ウェイファインディングシステムは、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。

Behind the Design

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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