Tetsuo Kobori

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NICCA INNOVATION CENTER

NICCA INNOVATION CENTER
  • Location : Fukui, Japan
  • Year : 2017
  • Category : Laboratory
  • Structure : RC and Steel Flame
  • Structure/ Mechanical Engineer : Arup
  • Landscape Design : Studio Terra
  • Lightening Design : Izumi Okayasu Lightening Design
  • Textile Design : Yoko Ando Design
  • Furniture : Okamura Corporation, Yamato Scientific
  • Fire Protection Engineering : AFRI
  • Construction : Shimizu Corporation
  • Photographer : Takahiro Arai
  • Architect : Tetsuo Kobori Architects
私たちは、研究者たちを「実験」という個人的な活動から解放し、他者との衝突やダイレクトな感動を身体的レベルで共有するため、実践共同体の場として本質的にオープンであることが必要だと感じた。そこで、今まで閉じられていた実験室をすべてガラス張りにし、中心に「コモン」を配置した。ガラスの実験室は視覚的、距離的にも近くシームレスに繋がり、一体的な研究コミュニティを形成しながらスピーディーな交流を生む。「コモン」は、「人、自然環境、活動、道具」が常に変化し続ける空間であり、2,3階の「コモン」も今後、発展的に他者へと開いていく場となるよう計画している。
 
NICCA INNOVATION CENTERのホームページ
https://nic.niccachemical.com/

In designing this facility, we felt the need to release researchers from confinement of individual “experiment” activities and create a community of practice where they come into direct contact with others and mutually inspire each other, and we thought that it should be “open” in every sense. For this reason, we exposed experiment rooms hidden behind closed walls, enclosed them with glass, and placed a common space (the “Common”) in the center. The glass-clad experiment rooms, visually and physically easily accessible, connect seamlessly and create an integrated research community while facilitating fast-paced interactions. The “Common” is a space where people, natural environment, activities, and experiment apparatus and equipment constantly keep changing. We are planning to hold a bazaar,  the second floor and the third floor of the “Common” in the future and actively open the facility to public.