INTLOOP — Tokyo: an office designed as a loop

Concept

Three words, one loop

The company wanted a workplace where circles of people — colleagues, clients, partners — keep widening, and built the plan on three C words: connection, creativity and clarity. Transparency, it argues, is what lets trust and ideas grow.

The fit-out was run by an internal project team that collected what staff actually wanted, and the result merges an office with a cafeteria: the room where people eat is also the room where work is discussed.

01 · Connection

Where people meet

The connection area is the widest part of the floor, built for the conversations that happen on the way past.

02 · Creativity

Rooms for making things

The creativity zone holds the spaces where work is drafted and argued over.

03 · Clarity

Glass, and long sightlines

Clarity is the plainest of the three and the most visible: glass rather than walls, so that the floor can be read from any point in it.