Public Space Study

I have been given the chances to involve in projects of various commercial spaces. When I see commercial spaces I see a lot of empty box that I feel like the architects and designers only cared about the visual of the space. When I corroborated with the architect, Mitsuru Koga, he mentioned about this situation as “I see many spaces that are DRY.” It is because architects and designers tend to ignore the construction of the project and focus only on the visual. The projects we are involved in are our clients’ business not our piece of artwork. To make the commercial space be successful, we need strategies to make a profit and the space to make it happen. It is important to find a solid concept based on a strong philosophy, and when you bring the concept out from the philosophy, you must have a dream because it is the dream which the project staff feel sympathy for and units them together to accomplish the project goal. The space created for architects and designers’ self-satisfaction that only focused on the visual won’t survive in the market. We need to dig deeper in the background, the history and the concept of the project, and visualized the philosophy into the space. Things that are one of the kinds with its own solid opinion and never to compromised are strong in every aspect. It is because those things have a clear understanding in why they are here.