NARUSE・INOKUMA ARCHITECTS

We design places for sharing.

Society is changing now.
Today, society is changing more rapidly than ever. Fluidization and globalization has brought about more opportunities for people around the world to come into contact. This has impacted lifestyles, businesses and local communities, and conventional models of business and society are becoming, in effect, defunct.

In this constantly changing society, what we strive towards is to continually redefine richness in life through architecture. Diversity in housing that is not simply bound by the ties of family, lodging that connects various countries and regions, commercial facilities that place more emphasis on experience as opposed to the simple purchasing of commodities, new offices in an age in which communication and innovation will bring about new business opportunities, nursing and care facilities fit to an individual’s life; while these places are all meant for differing uses, they all give birth to new values through the concept of “sharing.”

An architect’s individuality is oftentimes marked by form or materials, but what we hope to pursue is what kinds of activities will be born in the spaces we create. We design spaces through a consideration of both the hard (built elements) and soft (management and use) aspects of a space.

Because such spaces are still currently in development, both in terms of spatial design as well as management, a unique set of design skills is necessary to carefully adjust the design to management methods and other demands. Based on our accumulation of skills and knowledge, we propose concepts and designs best fit to each place.