Yodogawa Labor Standard Inspection Office

Concept

The basis was to build architecture that not only meets the needs of the era, safety, and the users’ requests, but a long-lasting architecture; and as a public building, an economically reasonable architecture. We wanted to make a simple facility, one which can create new cityscape while harmonizing the new with the old. The entrance is monotone, but filled with warmth due to the material and the elegant design. Also, as this architecture should become the face of the urban environment, we contributed to better amenity by planting boulevard trees, and used natural resources effectively to save energy. It is designed to be human and environment friendly as a contribution to normalization.