IMPROVIDE OFFICE（内装設計）
弊社代表の赤坂が、独立前に師事していた建築家・中井仁実氏の設計による「メープルコート」（竣工1991年・札幌市中央区／『新建築』1992年8月号掲載）。
幸運にもその4〜5階を、IMPROVIDE社のオフィスとして改装する機会をいただいた。
神社の豊かな自然と都市との境界に位置する敷地性を体現した「メープルコート」の設計コンセプトに呼応し、既存建築が実践する環境との連続性や、都市空間との柔軟な関係性を丁寧に読み解きながら計画を進めた。
中井氏が語る「建物空間から都市空間への積極的な関わり」に倣い、内部空間においても、人・自然・都市が緩やかにつながる、開かれた関係性の創出を試みた。

Photo.:Koji Sakai

“Maple Court” was designed by architect Yoshimi Nakai, under whom our principal, Akasaka, apprenticed before establishing the practice. ( Completed in 1991 in Chuo-ku, Sapporo, the project was featured in the August 1992 issue of Shinkenchiku.)
We were fortunate to be given the opportunity to renovate its 4th and 5th floors as offices for IMPROVIDE Inc.

Responding to the original design concept of Maple Court—which embodies the site’s unique position at the threshold between the rich natural setting of a nearby shrine and the surrounding urban fabric—we carefully developed the project by interpreting the building’s existing continuity with its environment and its flexible relationship with the city. Inspired by Nakai’s idea of “actively engaging urban space from architectural space,” the renovation sought to create an open interior environment in which people, nature, and the city are gently interconnected.