“ The design team aimed to create a place of open exchange and co-creation for 49,000 employees with this project .
ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS
Creating a Kaisho of the modern time : A New Meeting Place
The design team started by thinking about the significance of a place for people gather in a rapidly changing and unpredictable society in terms of what it means to gather and learn together . During the design phase , three workshops were held in total with members from across the entire Daiwa House Group to incorporate the opinions and ideas of many people who would be using this facility .
Based on keywords that emerged from the workshop sessions , they decided that the concept for this facility would be “ MORI no KAISHO ,” or a “ Meeting Place of Forest ”. “ Forest ” refers to the Yoshino forest , the birthplace of the Daiwa House Group ’ s founder , with its beautiful landscape of light , wind , and water that nurtures an abundant ecosystem .
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