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Mercari Base Tokyo

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Communication table made of recycled plastic material combined with a ready-made desk top With a combination that does not produce scrap plastic as possible. Wall graphics represent diversity with rock-paper-scissors motif. - Communication Area
Big table made by combining 6 ready-made tables and applying graphic sheets to them.  The chairs are also originally found in the office. - Lounge area
Lounge area is surrounded by many plants so that people can feel relax and communicate casually.The planting box can be turned over and turned into a low table by applying rubber tiles, a surplus flooring material, to the bottom. - Lounege
Communication table made of recycled plastic material combined with a ready-made desk top With a combination that does not produce scrap plastic as possible. Wall graphics represent diversity with rock-paper-scissors motif. - Communication Area

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JURY VOTES
Large Office
6.02
6.60
6.04
6.25
6.23
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann Director of Interior Architecture at Snøhetta
7.25
7.5
7.25
6.25
7.06
Dennis Vlietinck
Dennis Vlietinck Head of Design at Wink
6
7
7
6
6.5
Giovanni Zaccariello
Giovanni Zaccariello SVP Global Visual Experience  at Coach
6
7
6
6
6.25
Farid Ziani
Farid Ziani Partner Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB
4
6.5
4
5.5
5
Gilbert Khalil
Gilbert Khalil Director of Design and Technical Services at Sunset Hospitality Group
The office design boasts captivatin...
6
7
6
6
6.25
Nicolas Delefosse
Nicolas Delefosse Founder and Creative Director at NDDO
7
7
6
7.5
6.88
Lucy Bagshaw
Lucy Bagshaw Project Director at Tp Bennett
6
7
7
7
6.75
Asif Din
Asif Din Sustainability Director at Perkins&Will
7
7
7
6.5
6.88
Jocelyne Sacre
Jocelyne Sacre Design Strategist at Consultant
7
6.5
6.5
7
6.75
Cathy Figueiredo
Cathy Figueiredo Cofounder at Wanna
5
6
5
6.5
5.63
Deepak Jawahar
Deepak Jawahar Cofounder at The Architecture Story
6
7
7
6.5
6.63
Liqun Lin
Liqun Lin Executive Director at Xiamen Wenqu Decoration Design
7.5
7
7
7
7.13
Sontaya Bluangtook
Sontaya Bluangtook Associate Design Director at UNStudio
6
6.5
6
6
6.13
Lisa Adams
Lisa Adams Director of CitizenHKS & Sustainable Design Leader at HKS
6.75
7
6
6.5
6.56
Klein Dai
Klein Dai CEO at Algebraist Brand Management
5
6
5
6
5.5
Baoyu Tian
Baoyu Tian General Manager at Foshan Shengtianjia Lighting Equipment
6
7
6
6.5
6.38
Aaron Ye
Aaron Ye Founder and CEO at Atom Group
5
6
6
7
6
Bangsheng Yang
Bangsheng Yang Founder at Yang & Associates Group
6.4
6.44
6.09
5.65
6.15
Dirk Osinga
Dirk Osinga Founder at STUDIOSINGA
4
4
4
4
4
Woody Yao
Woody Yao Director at Zaha Hadid Design
6.5
6.5
6
5.5
6.13
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Client
Mercari
Floor area
8000 ㎡
Completion
2022
Budget
$3,000,000
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After COVID-19 we reexamined the meaning of office. People can work anywhere now so we need to make office that makes they want & need to come.

One of the concept of this office "YOUR CHOICE" was established to create an office that respects employees to freely choose where they work including working from home.

The office offers a variety of highly functional work and communication spaces, providing an environment where employees can work in their own way according to their individual work styles. For example Focus area, each individual seat is designed to be shut off from the surrounding environment, and each seat is equipped with a monitor and whiteboard to allow for ultra-concentrated work. Project area perfect for project collaboration surrounded by semi-closed, it can change layout depending on number of team members. Lounge where people can work&relax in a different atmosphere with furniture that would not normally set in an office. In Ideation area ideas can be visualized on a big whiteboard and it was seen by everyone so that anyone can join soon. The 4,000 m2 circular area is made up of these variety of spaces, walking around one floor, workers can access each of the various areas based on the YOUR CHOICE concept.

The office is also a place to foster the company’s foundation through its office functions and design. Another concept is “Embody Foundations”

Reflecting the business's commitment to sustainable activities, existing fixtures are upcycled and scraps of interior materials or sustainable materials are combined to create new forms and functions without using new fixtures. For example, surplus flooring carpet was used to make communication tables by matching it to ready-made table tops, and old planting boxes turned over and transformed into a low table, a rack became a blindfold for a focus desk. Creating a precedent for approaching each old product and transforming them into a new use.

Also the wall graphics that accent each area express the company's foundation of Diversity & Inclusion. That indicates the office is opening for anyone and welcoming.