Argent Interfàcia · 2022
Totetsu Training Institute Sistèma d'Orientacion
by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.
- A' Design Award d'Argent 2022 in Interfàcia
- 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 Sistèma d'Orientacion
Lo client, fondat a la demanda de l'ancian Ministèri dels Camins de Fèrre per mantenir e renforçar lo sistèma ferroviari del Japon, es una entrepresa generala de construccion amb una expertesa extensa dins lo domeni de la construccion ferroviària. Lo designer Takuya Wakizaki, lo fondator de MOTIVE Inc., a creat un sistèma d'orientacion per l'institut que lo client a bastit per desvelopar las ressorsas umanas. Pel motiu del design, lo designer a utilizat las linhas ferroviàrias - l'identitat centrala del client. A travèrs aqueste design, lo designer s'es esfòrçat de crear un espaci que ajudariá los estajants a sentir un sentiment de fiertat dins lor trabalh.
About the A' Design Award d'Argent
Totetsu Training Institute Sistèma d'Orientacion a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent, una reconeissença extraordinàriament prestigiosa acordada a de designs d'ort de gamma, esplendids e impressionants. Los ganhaires de l'Argent son d'òbras terriblament brilhantas e extrèmament creativas que illustran l'experiéncia, lo talent e la finessa excepcionals de lors designers. S'espèra que Totetsu Training Institute Sistèma d'Orientacion siá una òbra meravilhosa e de referéncia, notablament professionala e prigondament innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent es una invencion fòrça notabla e admirada, que fa un ben e fa avançar las frontièras de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia. Totetsu Training Institute Sistèma d'Orientacion es una creacion immensament envejada que desrevelha de desirs, aduch de sentiments positius e fa néisser l'estonament e l'esmaiment.
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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
