Won the Grand Prize and other awards at the "JCD Design Award 2018"

The "Shizuoka Mt. Fuji World Heritage Center," for which we helped create the space, won the Grand Prize at the "JCD Design Award 2018" (sponsored by the Japan Commercial Environmental Design Association). In addition, "Saitama City Child & Family General Center "Palette Square"" and "GENESIS ROOM" were selected as BEST100.

This award is a well-known honor in the industry, and is given to works that are recognized for their new value and potential in spatial design, particularly in commercial environments. It is a great encouragement for our designers and everyone involved. We would also like to thank our client for giving us this opportunity, as well as 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.

Grand Prize

Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka

【concept】
The Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha Shrine in Fujinomiya City was established as a base for protecting the universal value of the World Heritage Site "Mount Fuji - a place of worship and a source of artistic inspiration" and passing it on to future generations.
The exhibition building, shaped like an upside-down Fuji and clad in Fuji cypress, reflects its image in a water basin that uses spring water from Mount Fuji, creating a contrast and harmony with the real Mount Fuji.
Inside the exhibition hall, visitors climb the 193m-long slope that runs along the exterior wall, and are enveloped in time-lapse panoramic landscape Video and local environmental sounds that allow them to stand at each altitude and see Mount Fuji from the sea, through the plains, the fifth station, the tree line, and the summit. This is Spatial Production that transcends time and space, and gives a simulated experience of "entering" the mountain, or "worshipping" Mount Fuji as an object of worship.
At the top of the climb, you will be confronted with a real "Mt. Fuji" cropped into a "picture window." Other exhibits include a plastered wall of a cross section of Mt. Fuji made with soil from Mt. Fuji itself, and a 4K theater Video without any narration or subtitles. Mt. Fuji Spatial Production and exhibited with an emphasis on the "texture" of the material, depending on the content and purpose of the exhibit.
It was created as a base facility for the World Heritage site of Mount Fuji, where visitors can experience and appreciate Mount Fuji in a variety of ways no matter when they visit or see it, after numerous workshops were held involving Shizuoka Prefecture, Architectural Design, exhibition design, exhibition advisors, and more, and after much heated discussion.

[Employer] Shizuoka Prefecture

[Designers] Shigeru Ban (Shigeru Ban Architectural Design), Edwin Schlossberg (ESI Design), Hisaya Takahashi, Hirofumi Doi, Takashi Fukuda (Tanseisha)
※Titles omitted

[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

This project brought together top creators from around the world, befitting Japan's greatest mountain, Mount Fuji: Architectural Design by Ban Shigeru, exhibition content supervision by Takemura Shinichi, exhibition design supervision by Edwin Schlossberg, Graphic Design by Hara Kenya, exhibition design by Takahashi Hisaya (titles omitted). Every workshop is stimulating, and I believe that the results of this have led to this award. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the WS, all those involved, and Shizuoka Prefecture for giving us this opportunity to discuss things together. (Exhibition design: Doi Hirofumi)

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BEST100

Saitama City Children and Family Center "Palette Square"

[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

GENESIS ROOM

[Our staff] Designer: Taisuke Uegakiuchi / Application development: Akihiro Suzuki / Museum curation: Hiromi Ishida / Design assistance: Miwa Tachikawa