ECD (Earth Centric Design Lab) ultra-environmentally friendly interior construction. An interior plan that creates space and time for thinking about the Earth as a stakeholder in design.
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An interior plan that creates space and time for thinking about the Earth as a stakeholder in design.
Fotografia © Noboru Inoue
This is an office interior plan for ECD (Earth Centered Design Institute), a new company established by TBWA HAKUHODO.
From design to completion, environmental considerations were thoroughly considered, reusing building materials and furniture from existing offices, and for those that could not be reused, an "industrial waste manifesto" was thoroughly managed to achieve 100% reuse, resulting in an extremely environmentally friendly interior construction. Under these conditions, the spatial design was created with an "Earth Centered" concept, to encourage consideration of the Earth.
Aiming to create a space for thinking about the Earth
Based on ECD's company concept of being "Earth-centric," we planned an "office with space and time to think about the Earth."
In the "Earth Room," 15 glass tables called "THE EARTH TABLE" are lined up, made by printing ancient maps onto glass, and the maps on the glass tops appear as projections on the floor.
It is a space where you can feel the Earth, with the intensity of the projection changing with changes in natural light.
The "Blue Counter", which lights up a 45m horizontal window space blue in the evening, is reminiscent of the surface of the earth as seen from outer space, and was planned in the hope of providing a time to think about the earth at a set time each day.
In the "Polar Bear Hall", which can be used for events with large numbers of people, there is a polar bear made by a waste material recycler using offcuts from the production of THE EARTH TABLE.
The company logo ECD at the "ECD Entrance" is made from recycled scallop shells, and the "Whole Earth Library" is lined with Whole Earth Catalogues, and each space is filled with elements that make you think about the Earth.
Earth Space / A room of maps created by humans pooling their wisdom and knowledge to understand the Earth. We obtained map data from ancient times to the present (and also obtained the copyright), printed it (film print) on a transparent tempered glass table top, and conceived a spatial design in which the light from the lighting directly above the table falls on the floor, projecting an image of the map onto the floor.
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During the daytime, when natural light comes in through the long horizontal windows, a faint image of the map is projected onto the floor.
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As darkness falls, the image on the map becomes more clearly illuminated. This change in the appearance of the space is caused by changes in the natural light that comes in through the long horizontal windows. This is a workplace plan that allows you to work while feeling the passage of time throughout the day with your body. We hope the "Earth space" will be a place for thinking about the Earth, expanding upon the time in which humanity has already contemplated the Earth.
Fotografia © Noboru Inoue
THE EARTH TABLE no.15 [ The Blue Marble ］/ We tried to project the image of a map printed on the glass tabletop onto the floor using LED lighting directly above the table.
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ECD entrance / The ECD logo is 3D printed from recycled scallop shells, a material called Shelltech. The blue paint was mixed by a painter using leftover paint cans from other construction sites (which would have otherwise been discarded and unused).
Fotografia © Noboru Inoue
Polar Bear Hall / In ECD's new office, it is expected that workshops will be held 3-4 times a month, with up to 50 people in attendance, and so a large, flexible space is required. In the workshop space, which is visited by many people from outside the company every week, we placed a polar bear, a recycled art piece by Seiya Kaji, and named it the "Polar Bear Hall." This life-size polar bear was made using scraps (domestic chestnut wood) generated during the production of the Earth Space tables (THE EARTH TABLE).
Fotografia © Noboru Inoue
Blue Counter / The counter glows blue for 30 minutes before and after sunset, evoking the earth rim (the light on the surface of the earth as seen from space) and creating another time and space to think about the earth.
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Windows can be opened to allow natural ventilation for PC work or reading a book.
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Whole Earth Library / This is a library where the Whole Earth Catalog (a favorite of Steve Jobs) is displayed on the wall. The cover of the first issue (Fall 1968) was a photo of the Earth floating in space, published by NASA. This book is famous for capturing the Earth from a bird's-eye view, and as a trace of humankind's thinking about the finite global environment. We at ECD believe that this is the time and space to think anew about the Earth, and so we created the Whole Earth Library on a wall in a corner of the Earth Space.
Fotografia © Noboru Inoue
Appearance at night / At 30 minutes past sunset, the blue counter glows blue and appears horizontally blue on the exterior of the building.
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The Earth Table no1-no15 list
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Material Generated Quantity Record / We picked up all existing materials and created a “Material Generated Quantity Record” (glass, automatic doors and sliding doors, carpet tiles, Lidac, furniture, home appliances, etc.). The company succeeded in recycling/reusing almost 100% of the building materials and 100% of the furniture and equipment through thorough management of the “industrial waste manifest.
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Industrial Waste Manifest and Flowchart / We paid attention to where waste was generated, and managed the whereabouts of these waste materials during renovation so that they would be reused instead of being incinerated or landfilled.
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ground plan
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Drawing of Blue counter
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Detail drawing of THE EARTH TABLE
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