KOIL（柏之叶开放创新实验室）是一个创新中心，旨在支持企业家的创业，促进企业发展，刺激日本的经济活动。它是一个类似于平台的地方，在这里，公司和个人超越传统的框架一起工作，融合思想、技能和技术，以生产创新产品和服务，在投资者的支持下，由系统提供便利和实现。

KOIL (Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab) is an innovation center intended to support start-ups of entrepreneurs, promote enterprise developments and stimulate economic activities in Japan. It is a place like a platform where companies and individuals work together beyond a traditional framework and fuse ideas, skills and know-how to produce innovative products and services, which is facilitated and realized by the system with investors’ supports.

因此，KOIL包括各种功能，以实现跨领域的顺利沟通，如吃饭、生产、做报告和放松。用户可以在建筑群内的不同地点自由选择自己的位置，并与其他用户共享空间和设施，这使得用户可以与其他人进行不同的接触。该中心成为一个像城市缩影的地方，各种活动和事件同时发生。

KOIL, therefore, includes various functions for smooth communication crossing over fields, such as having a meal, manufacturing, making presentations and relaxation. Users may choose their place from various locations within the complex freely and work as sharing the spaces and facilities with other users, which allows users to contact with others diversely. The center becomes a place like a miniature of urban city, where various activities and events occur simultaneously.

对于允许这种活动的地方，多样化的空间已经被创造出来，这些区域有不同的应用，并在中央公共区域内相交，有不同的天花板高度，灯光的色温，以及室内装修的设计，以配合区域的功能。这似乎增加了限制空间和用途的特点，然而，布局的有机运作使空间能够满足所有用户的各种工作方式。与20世纪的办公室相比，这个空间代表了每个工人的灵活性，而20世纪的办公室是基于管理人员的统一灵活性而建立的。

For the place allowing such activities, the diverse space has been created with areas that have different applications and intersect within the central public zone and with various ceiling heights, color temperature of the lights, and finishes of interior designed to match the areas’ functions. It seems to increase restrictions to limit the characters of spaces and usages, however, the layout functioning organically altogether enables the space to meet all kinds of working style of all users. In contrast with offices during the 20th century which were made up based on uniform flexibilities for managers, this space represents the flexibilities for each worker.

关于视觉元素，设计中强调了未完成的氛围，旨在使人们的活动本身成为空间的魅力所在。共享区的天花板上有暴露的管道，反射着灯光。其他元素都是用基础材料简单完成的，如木丝水泥板、纤维增强水泥板和用腻子抹平的石膏板，上面涂有透明涂料。通过这样的细节，设计打算避免限制性的含义或从最终完成的特定风格的印象。

About the visual elements, the unfinished atmosphere is emphasized in the design aiming to make the people’s activities themselves to the charm of the space. The ceiling of share area has exposed duct pipes reflecting the lights. The other elements are simply finished using the base materials such as wood wool cement boards, fiber reinforced cement boards, and plaster board leveled with putty covered with clear paint. Through such details, the design intends to avoid restricted meanings or a particular style imaged from the final finish.

Architects: Naruse Inokuma Architects
Area : 2576 m²
Year : 2014
Photographs :Masao Nishikawa
Furniture : Battanation Co, Naruse Inokuma Architects
Lighting : Izumi Okayasu Lighting Design
Construction : Nomura Co.Ltd.
Art Direction : LEMONLIFE & CO
Project Planning & Production : Mitsui Fudosan Co.Ltd, Loftwork Inc
Logo Design : MOTOMOTO inc
Curtains : Yoko Ando Design
City : Kashiwa
Country : Japan