It?s the project of the new office of ?a TOKYO? which manages ART FAIR TOKYO. It is located on the 4th floor (100m2) of the building facing the intersection in Ikura Minato-ku, Tokyo. We inserted three box spaces as a meeting room, a president room and a chief director room, then the residual space becomes a staff office space and a meeting space.

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Architects: GENETO

Location: Azabudai, Minato, Tokyo 106-0041, Japan

Design Team: Koji Yamanaka, Yuji Yamanaka, Asako Yamashita, Shizuka Yoshimatsu, Mitsuteru Nakada

Construction : pivoto (Keiji Tsujii, Eichiro Shiro)

Area: 103.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Yasutake Kondo
From the architect. It?s the project of the new office of ?a TOKYO? which manages ART FAIR TOKYO. It is located on the 4th floor (100m2) of the building facing the intersection in Ikura Minato-ku, Tokyo. We inserted three box spaces as a meeting room, a president room and a chief director room, then the residual space becomes a staff office space and a meeting space.

© Yasutake Kondo

We considered that the event arising in this space, where an everyday routine work happens, could be changed to ART to the program as office after the necessary rooms were secured.

© Yasutake Kondo

The idea that "changing the event to ART" is an...