We adore this renovated office in a leafy Japanese resort town 😍
Kanagawa-based architect Yuji Tanabe transforms an existing commercial building into a modern, flexible office in Japan’s Karuizawa
Yuji Tanabe has completed a thorough conversion of a tired, existing commercial building in the pretty resort town of Karuizawa in Japan, into a modern, flexible office space. The structure, which used to host a restaurant, has now been updated with contemporary design strokes inside, and a modern folly structure just outside the main building, aiming to bring some fun and lightness into the composition.
The original structure occupied a V-shaped footprint, with one wing spanning two levels and the other just one. The redesign maintained this arrangement, dedicating the whole ground floor to workspace, interspersed with break areas and a cafe for users to relax and socialise. The cafe spills out onto a large terrace, where guests can enjoy the site’s – and wider area’s – green scenery.
By reinforcing structural columns, the architects were able to free the interior from many partitions, especially on the upper level that was previously divided into small, darker rooms.
In a similar way, the landscaping outside was cleared to give way to pathways and the site’s signature tree – the birch. The grey painted, geometric timber folly – which matches the tone on the main building’s cedar wood cladding – is also placed just outside the main entrance, providing extra seating space among the trees.
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