[bews / Building Environment Workshop - CORONA ELECTRIC HEAD OFFICE AND FACTORY PHASE 1+2 - COVER IMG] View from the north side. Various volumes shaped like a rectangle called “USB rooms”connect to the main manufacturing area from east to west. photo by satosi asakawa

CORONA ELECTRIC HEAD OFFICE AND FACTORY PHASE 1+2

PrizeHonorable Mention in Architectural Design / Industrial Buildings
Firm LocationTokyo, Japan
Companybews / Building Environment Workshop
Lead ArchitectSachie ISAKA
Design Team・Architectural Design:bews / Building Environment Workshop (project architects_phase 1:Yuji TANABE・Kohichiro TOKIMORI・Kazuko MURAKAMI, phase 2:Yuta OTSUKA) ・Structural design:Jun SATO Structural Design Office(Jun SATO・ Yoshihiro FUKUSHIMA)・Environmental facility design:System Design Laboratory ・Landscape design:hondaGREEN ・Construction :TOTETSU KOGYO CO.,LTD, Mito branch
ClientCORONA ELECTRIC Co.,Ltd.

This project is the recovering from the Great East Japan Earthquake. The theme of this recovery is to make a human centered manufacture base, not the machine creates the machines. Therefore, the terrace corridor was placed to make a circle around the manufacturing area. When people walk here, the view will be widely opened and the whole area can be a sequence communication area. What kind of architecture will produce the thing can meet the needs of the times? We imagined “The whole space is the continuous communication area” to aim to bear and spread the next generation of this local region.