The Office for a small product design firm, located in the suburb of Nagoya.

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Architects: D.I.G Architects

Location: Obu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Architect In Charge: Maki + Akinori Yoshimura D.I.G Architects

Area: 280.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Tomohiro Sakashita

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From the architect. The Office for a small product design firm, located in the suburb of Nagoya. As a design office, a set of office function like a computer drawing room, modeling workshop and meeting room?should be arranged, but not only those orthodox working space, but various kinds of space for break, brainstorming and communication were also strongly required. Office as an incubator of inspirations and ideas should contain accidental space.
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To realize this ?accidental? office, we first focused on contiguity of spaces. For a start, we worked on the volume model of functional zooming and inside/outside space. Inside and outside adjoin each other on a plane and on a section. This study brought a 3-dimensional checker-like model, with continuous outer space and detached inner space.

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Then, we started working on architectural frames, by adding simple op...