Photography:SS Hokuriku

This building incorporates a 9-level office block, a self-operated multi-level car-park, elevated walkways that connect the two blocks and an arcade that opens out onto the sidewalk to the front of the facility.
The project site is located next to Ishikawa's verdant "Kenmin-no-Mori" prefectural forest in front of the Ishikawa Prefectural Government offices. Consequently, the project was required to act in concord with district plans to promote the development of "Green Promenades" that serve as "Routes leading to the Kenmin-no-Mori". The exterior of the multistory car-park facing the crossroads has been planted, and the thick volume of greenery (Mori) adds color to the cityscape.
Meanwhile, as the workplace for a ubiquitous society, the design of the office block adopts a configuration that maximizes the value of coming together to work in a common workplace, while from an outward perspective, the structure of a light transparent box acts like a showroom displaying working attitudes and atmosphere. The interior space combines an openness boasting an exceptional vista floating above the greenery of the promenades with the unifying feel of the atrium to form a comfortable fluid space that engenders a sense of anticipation towards gathering and working in this environment.
The "Eco-shaft" atrium of the office block, which extends through the first to ninth floors, forms a vertical shaft that functions as a core component of the building's natural ventilation system. For the milder seasons, when clement weather negates the need for air conditioning, the vertical shaft achieves gravitational ventilation even on windless days, while ventilation windows installed on the roof open and close in response to variations in atmospheric pressure to draw changes brought by the wind into the interior. Wind control on days of strong winds and corrections to ventilation imbalances caused by differences in elevation are controlled by constant-air-volume ventilation devices attached to the exterior walls of each floor. In addition, scheduled annual operation and controls that are implemented according to internal/external temperature differences, weather, etc, complete this comfortable and natural ventilation system that services the entire building.