JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
Concept
Three things the company asked of the office
Build no walls. No physical walls and no walls in the mind: a place that connects to people inside and outside the company, so that different kinds of meeting can happen.
Never finish it. Staff keep asking how the workplace could be better and keep changing it. It is also a live office: MUJI designs flexible furniture here, collects opinions from the people using it, and improves it.
01 · Product shelves
The catalogue, on the floor
MUJI’s own products fill the office as furniture and as work material, which turns the floor into a place to check the catalogue at a glance.
02 · Work floor
One floor instead of eight
The company had outgrown its old office and the eight floors kept departments apart. The new floor is open, lit by pendant lamps, and planted with greenery.
03 · Tea corner
A one-tsubo tea stand
A small tea stand, the size of the traditional one-tsubo shop, sits in the middle of the floor — the kind of corner MUJI builds in its stores, built here for its own staff.
04 · Window seats
Counters facing the city
Counters and low seats line the windows, giving the floor somewhere to work that is not a desk.
05 · Meetings & storage
A room to close the door, a wall to hang work on
Meeting rooms with glass walls take the conversations that need a door, and a wall of framed work turns a corridor into a small gallery. Lockers at the back hold what free address leaves homeless.
