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Totetsu Training Institute Sistim Wayfinding by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.

Totetsu Training Institute Sistim Wayfinding by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Perak in Antarmuka Competition Category.


PerakAntarmuka· 2022

Totetsu Training Institute Sistim Wayfinding

by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.

Client: Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Antarmuka Category

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The Design

About Totetsu Training Institute Sistim Wayfinding

Klién, diadegkeun ku paménta tilas Kamentrian Kareta api pikeun ngajaga sareng nguatkeun sistem rel Jepang, mangrupikeun perusahaan konstruksi umum anu gaduh kaahlian anu jauh dina widang konstruksi anu aya hubunganana sareng rel. Désainer Takuya Wakizaki, pangadeg MOTIVE Inc., nyiptakeun sistem pencari jalan pikeun lembaga, anu diwangun ku klien pikeun ngembangkeun sumber daya manusa. Pikeun motif desain, desainer nganggo jalur rel-identitas inti klien. Ngaliwatan desain, désainer narékahan pikeun nyiptakeun rohangan anu bakal ngabantosan para pelatih ngarasa reueus dina karyana.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Totetsu Training Institute Sistim Wayfinding mangrupa juara A' Design Award Perak, pangakuan anu luar biasa bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain kelas luhur, endah jeung matak kagum. Para juara Perak téh karya anu pohara cemerlang jeung pohara kréatif anu ngagambarkeun kaahlian, bakat jeung kapinteran para désainerna. Totetsu Training Institute Sistim Wayfinding diharepkeun jadi karya anu éndah, karya andalan anu pohara profésional jeung pohara inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Perak ieu mangrupa panemuan anu pohara kasohor jeung dikagumi anu mangpaat sarta ngamajukeun watesan seni, élmu, desain jeung téknologi. Totetsu Training Institute Sistim Wayfinding mangrupa kréasi anu pohara diirikeun anu ngahudang kahayang, ngabawa rasa positip, jeung ngahudangkeun rasa heran jeung kagum.

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

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