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Brick 8
By : MEC Design International Corp.
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 17th edition
Discipline : Interior Design
Categories : Office / Co working : Silver Certification
Categories : Office / Agile work Environment : Gold Certification
Categories : Special Awards / Interior Design +Wood : Bronze Certification
Marunouchi Park Building needed to improve the ancillary facilities to compete with other buildings. Client’s request was to increase the satisfaction of the existing tenants as well as to attract the new tenants. Unlike the old buildings, the new buildings have many amenity areas such as the lounge area and work area for employees can freely use. Client requested us to modify some spaces into the co-working and community lounge space to enhance more communications.
This project, Brick 8 is located on the eighth floor above the building park near the Tokyo station. Our mission was to create an agile co-working space which all tenant workers can use as the alternative flexible work environment. Our design concept is the Rooftop Gallery, and we designed the interior terrace along the windows relayed to the sky above. The community lounge and work lounge area located in the center to increase communication, and the café lounge near the entrance are casually used. We addressed three design key words – Harmony, Authentic, and Sophisticated. To harmonize with its architecture and landscape, we incorporated this building’s unique characters and lush green into our interior design to express the sense of authenticity using the special materials and details.
Because the tenant space was changed to the common space, the access to the lift lobby and corridor was not easy. For this reason, we demolished the wall and replaced with a glass wall to increase visibility.
We planned the zoning plan to allow users to choose where to sit depending on the different scenes such as working, talking, eating, or resting. The floor plan spreads out in a fan shape from entrance door to the inside of the building, so we arranged for the people to move around and created the variety of seating options for users to choose from easily.
We incorporated both history and culture into our design details by blending old and new. This building was the first office building in Marunouchi in Tokyo in 1864. While restoring building, Marunouchi Park Building is a place built with many elements of Mitsubishi Ichigokan as essence of its architecture, landscape, and interior design at time of its construction. There are some homages to the Ichigokan building such as arch opening shape, ceiling molding design, wooden counter edge detail, and using brass finish to pendant light and legs of chairs. We also introduced the similar materials used in the Ichigokn building such as bricks and wood to reminiscent of good design from the history.
The “importance of communication” has increased as a way of working after the Corona Disaster, and close communication, which is difficult to achieve in an office, and providing a place for “hospitality” to office visitors by enhancing ancillary facilities can improve the image of tenants, and by reducing the cost and physical (waste) materials by renovating the private areas (in-house investment), it can be sustainable as a result.
