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Spaces where teams, departments and outside partners work on one project together.
Co-creation — kyōsō (共創) — is one of the most used words in Japanese office design. It means rooms and floors where different teams, or a company and its partners, work side by side on the same project.
01 · Kyoto
The collaboration room
Beyond the ordinary rooms, Kyoto holds a collaboration room, a hall that takes more than a hundred people, a theatre room with a 170-inch screen — and a tea room, used by the company’s tea-ceremony club.
Read the SUKEN SHUPPAN office →
02 · Toranomon, Tokyo
The collaboration area
Beyond the café the collaboration area runs into open seating, and the company notes that the view and the facilities change depending on which spot or which meeting room you pick.
Read the MIZUHO LEASING office →
03 · Shinagawa, Tokyo
A customisable project area
The top working floor is a laboratory for KOKUYO-style projects: teams can change the area, the shape and even the lighting to build the environment that suits them.
Read the KOKUYO office →
04 · Toyosu, Tokyo
Collaboration areas in the pilot office
One floor of the Annex, home to the Facility Management division, has been rebuilt as a next-generation pilot office: free address to save cost, lower CO₂ and easier collaboration, a test bed for the offices that follow.
Read the NTT DATA office →
05 · Tokorozawa, Saitama
Collaboration tables
The design team looked back to an older Japan, where the shop at the front of a house led straight into the home behind it: work and life on one continuous ground, and community growing out of it.
Read the KADOKAWA office →
06 · Takeshiba, Tokyo
Community space
SoftBank’s stated value is “Smart & Fun!”, and the Takeshiba building was designed as a community-style workspace where each person can do their best work.
Read the SoftBank office →
07 · Tokyo
The co-creation wall
It began as an idea for a library-like archive of games and books, and grew into a co-creation space for the whole group.
Read the BANDAI NAMCO office →
08 · Hibiya, Tokyo
The Hub
The firm names four things in the working space: HUB space, monitor space, JIT rooms and spaces, and Surface Hub.
Read the EY Japan office →
09 · Chūō, Tokyo
The group community room
Between the two sits the group community room, which contains a small convenience store and a beer server that starts serving at five.
Read the TOKYO TATEMONO office →
10 · Shibuya, Tokyo
The collaboration room
The collaboration room runs from deep sofas at one end to high tables at the other, so that the same room takes a long conversation and a short one.
Read the DONUTS office →Questions
WALL has picked 10: SUKEN SHUPPAN (Kyoto), MIZUHO LEASING (Toranomon, Tokyo), KOKUYO (Shinagawa, Tokyo), NTT DATA (Toyosu, Tokyo), KADOKAWA (Tokorozawa, Saitama), SoftBank (Takeshiba, Tokyo), BANDAI NAMCO (Tokyo), EY Japan (Hibiya, Tokyo), TOKYO TATEMONO (Chūō, Tokyo), DONUTS (Shibuya, Tokyo).
They are spread across 3 places: Tokyo (8), Kyoto (1), Saitama (1).
Most are private workplaces and not open to the public. WALL reports on them from the companies’ own published material; each office page links to its source.
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