Flow By Daisuke Sugawara

Photos Koichi Torimura.

Daisuke Sugawara used multifunctional shelving to articulate this elemental office space for a Japanese paper company in Tokyo.

In order to incorporate five functions � working, meeting, waiting, reception and display � into the small office space of a Tokyo paper company, designer Daisuke Sugawara drew inspiration from the topography of Japanese landscape drawings. �This project integrates cutting-edge 3D computer technology with traditional Japanese architectural space,� he explains. �To heighten the perception of the space, I aimed for the look of a landscape with a topographic form.� Complex, sweeping, wooden shelving units work variously as partitions, display areas, counters, benches and screens, each function flowing seamlessly into the others. �This design enables not only multiple functions and areas, but also diverse experiences,� comments the designer. �These experiences are created by shifting forms of space, the texture of the wooden object, and the changing light and shadow as we walk through it. The interior seems both modern and human, artificial and natural, and simple and complex in terms of atmosphere � reminding us of time spent in fields or mountains.�

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