COLLECTIONS › FOCUS BOOTHS & PHONE ROOMS
Collection
Where people in Japanese offices go to concentrate, or to take a call — booths, boxes and rooms built for one.
01 · Osaki, Tokyo
A focus booth
FREEPORT and ANCHOR are free workspaces in the Osaki head office — open space for talking, booths for concentrating, and private booths for online meetings, with one area built entirely around deep focus.
Read the SEGA SAMMY office →
02 · Tokyo
The open space on 5F
At the back are private booths for online calls, named Fire, Water and Grass.
Read the PIXIV office →
03 · Tokyo
The co-creation wall
A calmer area holds solo-focus booths and walled sofa boxes where teams can argue without an audience.
Read the BANDAI NAMCO office →
04 · Shinjuku, Tokyo
The tele-booth
The meeting space sits inside the same soft light; a tele-booth with high partitions takes the calls.
Read the TAISEI DESIGN office →
05 · Tokyo
Web-meeting booths
enclosed booths for web meetings so a call does not take a room
Read the NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS office →
06 · Roppongi, Tokyo
Web booths
Web-meeting booths, a focus area for concentrating and a chat area for short conversations sit along the edges of the floor.
Read the HANASAKU LIFE office →
07 · Chayamachi, Osaka
A booth to work alone in
The working floors keep the company’s red as the accent colour, in banquettes between the desks and in single booths along the edge.
Read the YANMAR office →
08 · Bunkyo, Tokyo
Lockers and booths on DOCK
DOCK works as the practical floor, with storage and booths along the edges and a long bench down the middle.
Read the MARUBENI I-DIGIO office →
09 · Shibuya, Tokyo
Room signage
Two kinds of booth: some set up for online meetings, others placed where the whole of Shibuya is visible.
Read the SONY BIZ NETWORKS office →
10 · Tokyo
Private booths
Private booths cut the surrounding sound for online meetings; solo and semi-solo booths sit between the open floor and the closed room.
Read the NTT DATA CUSTOMER SERVICE office →
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