Winner of the Gold Award at the DSA KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2018 and other awards

We are pleased to announce that the "Shizuoka Mt. Fuji World Heritage Center," for which we helped create the space, won the gold prize at the "DSA KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2018" (sponsored by the Japan Space Design Association), while the "Saitama City Children and Family General Center "Palette Square"" and the "Saitama Prefecture Disaster Prevention Learning Center" won silver prizes. In addition, the following cases, for which we and our group companies helped create the space, have Award.

This award is a well-known honor in the industry and is the world's largest spatial and environmental design award. We would like to express our gratitude to our clients for giving us this opportunity, as well as to everyone who helped us along the way.

Going forward, we will continue to keep in mind the perspective of those who will use the space and work to create rich spaces that can contribute to our customers' businesses.

DSA KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2018 Gold Award

Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka

[Design intent]
A facility that conveys the universal value of Mount Fuji, a World Heritage Site.
The exhibition hall is shaped like an "upside-down Fuji." Inside, visitors climb the slope along the exterior wall, and are enveloped in panoramic Video of the scenery that can be seen at each altitude, from Mount Fuji from the sea, to the plains, to the fifth station, to the tree line, to the summit, and are given a simulated experience of climbing Mount Fuji in Spatial Production that transcends time and space. Once at the top, a cropped view of the real Mount Fuji spreads out before them through a "picture window." Video Production, including the theater, has been designed in a space that allows everyone, including foreigners, to "experience Mount Fuji" without the addition of explanatory text or narration.

[Employer] Shizuoka Prefecture

[Our staff] Exhibition Direction: Takahashi Hisaya / Exhibition design: Doi Hirofumi, Fukuda Takashi / Display Planning: Hashimoto Yukiko, Ito Makoto / Video Direction: Shiota Tatsuro (Tansei Research Institute) / Drawing Direction: Nakai Hiroshi, Hasezawa Yoshiteru / Exhibition production: Sawabata Toshinari, Yamada Akihiro, Nakajima Kazumi, Sato Takuto

The workshops where we discussed the concept, story, exhibition methods, etc. were always stimulating. The interior of the exhibition hall was a space I had never experienced before, so it took a lot of trial and error to bring this idea to fruition. I would like to express my gratitude to the staff who patiently promoted this and to everyone who cooperated with us.
(Exhibition design: Doi Hirofumi)

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DSA Japan Space Design Silver Award

Saitama City Children and Family Center "Palette Square"

[Design intent]
This playground is a gathering place for childcare support facilities that are equipped with a specialized consultation desk and a mental health center to solve problems surrounding children and families. Based on the nature of the facility, the diversity of children's minds and bodies, which is difficult to put into words, is perceived as a variety of colors, and the concept of the playground is a palette that accepts all of those colors. The colors of the space are composed and developed using materials created by children in workshops using washi paper, with each area based on the theme of a colorful natural environment.

[Employer] Saitama City

[Our staff] General manager: Tsuyoshi Kato / Design Direction: Toshitake Tanaka / Planning: Hanae Yoshino / Design: Satomi Utsumi / Production, Construction: Shogo Suzuki / Project Management: Masayuki Mashita

We had thorough discussions with Saitama City about the nature of the concerns parents and children have and the shape of the plaza, right from the design planning stage, and we are grateful that all of our staff were able to work so hard on the project.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude for being selected for this prestigious award. My three-year-old daughter is also overjoyed.
(Design Direction: Toshitake Tanaka)

Saitama Prefecture Disaster Prevention Learning Center

[Design intent]
This is a renovation of a facility where people can learn how to respond to disasters through experience. It is difficult to raise awareness of disaster prevention in daily life, so we would like to find possibilities in first feeling the threat of a sudden disaster. This plan is a proposal that values the "emotions" that arise in people's hearts when they witness a disaster, and by experiencing disaster prevention with emotion, it will lead to daily disaster prevention actions. As a measure to avoid disconnecting each experience, the changes in the emotions that arise (1st floor) and the determination (2nd floor) are graphically expressed on the floors, walls, and pillars, and are deployed as emotional guidance signs when walking around the building.

[Employer] Saitama Prefecture

[Our staff] General manager: Tsuyoshi Kato / Planning Direction: Kanako Chiba / Design Direction: Toshitake Tanaka / Planning: Mayuko Kumagai / Design: Satomi Utsumi / Production, Construction: Yasuteru Irie, Shotaro Nara / Project Management: Akira Tanuma, Shinichi Okamoto (operation)

With the cooperation of many people, including those in the affected areas, Saitama Prefecture, the Tanseisha Project Promotion Team, and the Management Team worked together to tackle this project. By delving into the true nature of a disaster and discussing it in depth, and defining it as "the instantaneous loss of what was once taken for granted as 'everyday life' (a sense of loss)," I believe we were able to express a mechanism that would induce "emotions" about disaster prevention through the space and content. As a result, we are very happy to have received this kind of evaluation.
(Planning Direction: Kanako Chiba)

Special Award: Planning and Research Award

Innovation Space DEJIMA

[Design intent]
As a place to turn ideas into reality, it is an activity space for companies and local governments working on open innovation to collaborate with venture companies to generate ideas. It is an internal space that is highly extroverted, but also creates opportunities for innovation while continuously communicating with the outside world, and allows for efficient prototype development and verification.
DEJIMA is derived from "Dejima" and is a hub for the exchange of trade, technology, and crafts. It inherits this former context with a modern interpretation, and is intended to serve as a hub for the exchange of new ideas and IT technology.

[Employer] Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation

[Our staff member] Design: Naoki Yasumoto

It is deeply moving that this experimental space, which serves as a platform for new challenges in corporate activities, was selected for the DSA Special Award Planning and Research Award. At the same time, we strongly feel that now, as Japanese corporate activities are undergoing a period of transformation, spatial design has a role to play in facilitating such exchanges and co-creation between companies. We would like to once again express our gratitude to all those involved in the recognition, and we feel hopeful about the diversity of Business Spaces, future ways of working, and corporate communication design.
(Design: Yasumoto Naoki)

BEST50

Canon Gallery

[Employer] Canon Inc.
[Our staff] Direction: Masaki Ikeda / Design: Hiroko Ebine, Tetsuya Yamaguchi / Graphics: Yuka Watanabe / Planning: Masato Watanabe

Hizen Saga Bakumatsu Restoration Exhibition Bakumatsu Restoration Memorial Museum

[Sponsor] Hizen Saga Bakumatsu Restoration Expo Promotion Council
[Our staff] Produce: Akihiro Suzuki / Planning: Hanako Higashinakagawa / Design: Mayuko Sakata, Shinji Yoshida / Production, Construction: Yasuo Kawaminami, Isamu Kobayashi
Projects Hizen Saga Bakumatsu Restoration Exhibition Bakumatsu Restoration Memorial Museum

Selected

• "Glicopia CHIBA"
  [Employer] Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
  [Our staff] Direction: Masaki Ikeda / Design: Tomoko Matsuda / Planning: Hanako Higashinakagawa / Technical design: Isamu Kobayashi
• "Spa Resort Hawaiians "BIG ALOHA""
  [Employer] Tokiwa Kosan Co., Ltd.
  [Our staff] Direction: Junichi Nasuno / Design: Junichi Nasuno, Yuji Mukaiyama
• "Tokyo Metro Ueno Station (Ginza Line/Hibiya Line)"
  [Employer] Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd.
  [Our staff] Schematic Design Direction: Yuriko Sugawa / Schematic Design: Junichi Takahashi, Nobutaka Ozaki / Display & Video Direction: Hiromi Ishida
• "THE LANDMARK SQUARE OSAKA"
  [Employer] Positive Dream Persons Co., Ltd.
  [Our staff] Direction: Jun Manai / Design: Miki Koide, Katsura Homma
  Projects Miraiza Osaka Castle
• "FOREST KITCHEN with Outdoor Living"
  [Employer] Positive Dream Persons Co., Ltd.
  [Our staff] Direction: Jun Manai / Design: Miki Koide
• "Panasonic Beauty SALON Ginza"
  [Employer] Panasonic Corporation
  [Our staff] Direction: Satoko Machida / Design: Yume Yoneyama / Planning: Ako Tatematsu, Ayumi Takahashi / Graphics: Yuka Watanabe
  Projects Panasonic Beauty SALON Ginza
• "Hachioji Children's Science Museum (Konica Minolta Science Dome)"
  [Employer] Hachioji City
  [Our staff] Direction: Katsumi Saito / Planning: Naoki Ono / Design: Kazunori Morohoshi, Miwa Izawa
• "Hizen Saga Bakumatsu Restoration Exhibition: Real Kodokan and Hagakure Miraikan"
  [Sponsor] Hizen Saga Bakumatsu Restoration Expo Promotion Council
  [Our staff] Produce: Kenichi Nishiyama / Design: Kei Narita / Planning: Tomoko Nishino, Mugiko Komatsuda, Takashi Matsuzaka
• "SC Business Fair 2018 Tanseisha Booth"
  [Employer] Tanseisha
  [Persons in charge] Produce: Toru Kawamura / Direction: Shigemichi Tokumasu (Tansei Display) / Video content production: Takahiro Shimizu, Yusaku Igarashi, Chihiro Katashige
About the DSA KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2018

The "Kukan Design Award" is the world's largest spatial environment design award, sponsored by the Japan Design Space Association. Its predecessor, the "Display Design Award," was established in 1966 and has continued to honor excellent designs that aim to create communication design in space for half a century.
The winner of the DSA Japan Space Design Grand Prize 2018 has been decided as "Ginza Lighting - Takamichi Ito/Shiseido".
(Japan Design Space Association)

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