Press Release
Sachiko Umeoka Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Crossover Lab Office Design in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Sachiko Umeoka for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Crossover Lab Office Design by Sachiko Umeoka, designed for MITSUI Designtec Co.,Ltd.. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Crossover Lab Office Design
When reimagining the future of the post-pandemic office, the future office needs to be aimed at creating added value through collaboration, not only a place to work alone. Therefore, office space should be redefined as a place where people gather to amplify ideas. Also, adopting the unique ideas of wellbeing, sustainability, and locality is essential to fulfill social responsibility as an interior design firm. Crossover Lab is thoroughly designed to embody those ideas to be the compass for the future workplace.
About Sachiko Umeoka
Mitsui Designtec Co, Ltd is an interior design firm based in Tokyo that offers wide range of space design extending to Offices, Homes, Hotels and others. The corporate philosophy of Mitsui Designtec is to design new style of work and life through designing spaces. Japan's social structure is changing significantly both in quality and quantity as represented by the declining birth rate and aging, shrinking population. At the same time, the accelerating digitalization and the uncertainties triggered by the spread of the coronavirus has made us realize the importance of well-being, a healthy physical and mental state.
Award Record
With this recognition, Sachiko Umeoka is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/144187
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/144187
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!144187
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/333239
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/3xlVceI
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Crossover Lab Office Design
- Function
- Office Design
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Sienna, Rosy Brown, Saddle Brown and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- MITSUI Designtec Co.,Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sachiko Umeoka
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #144187
Credits
- Team
- Shinichi Mitsuki, Midori Sano, Kana Honda, Kyohei Otsuka, Taku Sugiyama and Yusuke Fujimoto
- Image Credits
- #1: Photographer Nacasa & Partners Inc. , 2022 #2: Photographer Nacasa & Partners Inc. , 2022 #3: Photographer Nacasa & Partners Inc. , 2022 #4: Photographer Nacasa & Partners Inc. , 2022 #5: Photographer Nacasa & Partners Inc. , 2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- When reimagining the future of the post-pandemic office, the future office needs to be aimed at creating added value through collaboration, not only a place to work alone. Therefore, office space should be redefined as a place where people gather to amplify ideas. Also, adopting the unique ideas of wellbeing, sustainability, and locality is essential to fulfill social responsibility as an interior design firm. CROSSOVER Lab is thoroughly designed to embody those ideas to be the compass for the future workplace.
- Inspiration
- We renovated three floors of the building that has carved a history of 60 years into unique spaces, based on the concept of CROSSOVER. The idea is to combine our knowledge and methods of space creation cultivated in various fields with the personality and expertise of individuals.
- Research
- Firstly, we reviewed our Corporate Identity to re-share how our firm should be. Also, interviews with managers, workshops by selected employees and analysis of work style by each department were executed to search for new style of work and to apply new functions to the new office. In design phase, we thoroughly researched the history of East Ginza and incorporated it into our new office design. After completion, “infiltrating program” was executed for all employees to instill new style of work at the new office.
- Challenge
- Expressing our company's design policy, "Combine new value while making use of the old" by merging simple texture of concrete with sophisticated Japanese technology. Art wall decorated with “Sakan paint” an ancient Japanese plasterer technology combines a wall monitor which visualizes our collaboration with various clients using the digital art content technology. Artworks depicting Sakuma Shozan who used to live in the neighborhood, the thinker of “Bakumatsu", the end of Edo period, was installed on the reception area wall to symbolize the new workstyle in this office.
- Realization and Technology
- Upcycled and sustainable materials were proactively incorporated in our design. For instance, a mix of wood residue and resin was used as a tabletop in the reception area, waste clothes were reused as surface materials, sustainable cork and carbon neutral carpet tiles were adopted into flooring materials and wall panels made from coffee grounds were installed on the work area wall.
- Operation and Interaction
- To activate the idea of CROSSOVER at the office, we designed a variety of workspaces in each floor for staff to choose by their needs. It drives more serendipities and chances of co-creation.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2020 and finished in June 2021 in Tokyo.
- Specifications
- This project spans across 3 levels, with a total area of 6,506 square meters in size.
- Keywords
- Office, CROSSOVER Design, Corporate identity, Sustainable, History of Ginza, Wellbeing, locality
