品川区立環境学習交流施設 エコルとごし

An environmental learning facility that fosters the lush Togoshi Park and the people who support the children, with the "children who will create the future" as the main players.

  • Cultural Spaces
  • Community Lounge: A place for local residents to relax and socialize freely, with a wide entrance that connects them to the surrounding Togoshi Park.

    Community Lounge: A place for local residents to relax and socialize freely, with a wide entrance that connects them to the surrounding Togoshi Park.

  • A wooden shelf made from materials produced in Tama displays the works created in the workshops, as well as books and illustrated guides on the environment, which visitors can freely pick up and look at.

    A wooden shelf made from materials produced in Tama displays the works created in the workshops, as well as books and illustrated guides on the environment, which visitors can freely pick up and look at.

  • Balance Planet: An immersive Video space where you can learn about the balance between the environment and your lifestyle in a fun and physical way, set in the space where you live.

    Balance Planet: An immersive Video space where you can learn about the balance between the environment and your lifestyle in a fun and physical way, set in the space where you live.

  • Toykake Time: An experiential exhibition space that allows visitors to reexamine their environment through the various scales of time they spend.

    Toykake Time: An experiential exhibition space that allows visitors to reexamine their environment through the various scales of time they spend.

  • Signs and explanations that ask visitors environmental messages on a recycled wooden board made from everyday waste materials

    Signs and explanations that ask visitors environmental messages on a recycled wooden board made from everyday waste materials

  • Message Exhibition Room: A space where people can imagine the environment 100 years from now, envision what they can do now, and display the budding ideas of their consciousness.

    Message Exhibition Room: A space where people can imagine the environment 100 years from now, envision what they can do now, and display the budding ideas of their consciousness.

  • The entrance façade features a logo mark that represents the diverse environmental conservation efforts that form a circle around the facility.

    The entrance façade features a logo mark that represents the diverse environmental conservation efforts that form a circle around the facility.

  • 品川区立環境学習交流施設 エコルとごし
  • Community Lounge: A place for local residents to relax and socialize freely, with a wide entrance that connects them to the surrounding Togoshi Park.
  • A wooden shelf made from materials produced in Tama displays the works created in the workshops, as well as books and illustrated guides on the environment, which visitors can freely pick up and look at.
  • Balance Planet: An immersive Video space where you can learn about the balance between the environment and your lifestyle in a fun and physical way, set in the space where you live.
  • Toykake Time: An experiential exhibition space that allows visitors to reexamine their environment through the various scales of time they spend.
  • Signs and explanations that ask visitors environmental messages on a recycled wooden board made from everyday waste materials
  • Message Exhibition Room: A space where people can imagine the environment 100 years from now, envision what they can do now, and display the budding ideas of their consciousness.
  • The entrance façade features a logo mark that represents the diverse environmental conservation efforts that form a circle around the facility.

Photo: Masato Kono Nacása & Partners Inc. Video: Marutora Co., Ltd.

About the Project

Overview This is a learning and exchange facility in Tokyo, newly built in Togoshi Park in Shinagawa City. It is the first public building in Tokyo to be certified as Nearly ZEB under the Building Energy Efficiency Labeling System (BELS). In addition to energy-saving air conditioning equipment that utilizes geothermal heat, it also uses many Environmental Consideration technologies that create their own energy (energy creation), such as solar power generation. In response to the growing need for environmental education against the backdrop of global environmental issues, the basic philosophy is "Connect, Continue, Create - Towards an Eco-Friendly Future". The main targets are "children who will create the future" and "people who support children". The exhibition space on the third floor is composed of Video exhibition room where you can enjoy using your body and a permanent exhibition room where you can learn environmental information through experience.
Issues/Themes The goal is to help users recognize the environment as something that concerns them personally, and to create an opportunity for them to think about their current and future environment and lifestyle, rather than having an image of the environment that is too vague to imagine, or too familiar to be aware of.
Space Solution/Realization How can we make the environment our own? In order to raise awareness of this issue, we aimed to create an exhibition that would encourage people to think about the connection between themselves and the environment. With an emphasis on experiences and sensations as its core, the exhibition encourages people to think about the balance between the environment and their lifestyle from the perspective of the "space" in which they live. It also encourages people to look at the environment through the various scales of "time" that they spend. Through these, we designed the exhibition to encourage people to take environmental issues personally and think about the future 100 years from now.
Design for Environment 3R design: The signs and explanations within the facility are made of recycled materials from daily life, and are designed to raise environmental awareness.
Energy-saving design: In keeping with the "Nearly ZEB" certification of the building, the facility was designed to enable rational control of various facilities during operation.

Basic Information

Client Shinagawa City
Services Provided Facility Concept Planning, Display Planning, Design, Layout, Production, Construction, Research & Analysis, Website Creation, Project Management
Our Team Planning Direction: Koichi Shinohara
Design Direction: Toshitake Tanaka
Planning: Makoto Ito, Miho Toyama of Tansei Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Design, Layout: Katsuhisa Ohashi, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Shunpei Hashimoto
Signed Direction: Kenji Takahashi
Production, Construction: Tomoya Higuchi, Ichigo Takahashi
Large-scale Video Technical Direction: Akihiro Suzuki
Website Creation: Munehiro Takahashi
Project Management: Otowa Terunobu
Awards "16th Kids Design Award"
"KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2022" Shortlist
Selected for the 56th Japan Sign Design Award
"2022 Good Design Award"
"iF DESIGN AWARD 2023"
Location Tokyo, Japan
Open May 2022
Website https://ecoru-togoshi.jp/
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Toshitake Tanaka

Design Direction

Toshitake Tanaka

He has worked on a wide range of facilities, including museums, children's facilities, and disaster prevention and earthquake disaster facilities. He is strongly committed to establishing a context that connects the theme of each facility to the spatial design, and to creating spaces that spread messages and activities. He is currently traveling around the country with the motto of "creating facilities that people want to visit again and again."

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Koichi Shinohara

Planning Direction

Koichi Shinohara

He is mainly in charge of planning information, experiences, and communication in museums and other cultural facilities, as well as exhibitions at cultural events. In recent years, he has been actively involved in creating spaces on themes that are socially trending both in Japan and overseas, such as nature, the environment, sustainability, and Japanese culture, including manga. He is a part-time lecturer at Shizuoka University.