YSK e-com — Kōfu: shoes off, free address, calories on the stairs

Concept

Unbalance

The chairman’s guiding idea is “unbalance”: rather than settle on the average, bring in sharp, unusual elements and turn the inspiration into challenges.

Each floor and corner offers change, stimulus or calm. The office is shoes-off, and the stairs show the calories burned climbing them.

01 · Ground floor

Two ten-person rooms

The ground floor has meeting booths, a pantry and two ten-person meeting rooms equipped for online meetings, each made to feel different by its tables and chairs.

02 · First floor

About 70 free-address seats

The first floor holds about 70 free-address seats. Engineers first doubted it would work; visits to see free address in use changed minds.