Articles By Okamura

The Office Now, as Seen from Layout Data (Part 1)

In this issue, we introduce data that we can reference when setting benchmarks for office design, such as how much space should be allotted per employee, or how many meeting rooms are necessary.

Sustainability

Design never loses its place. The new values of design including reusability

What exactly is a business which designs with an awareness of the discarding stage of a product?

Sustainability

Slow is more , Architect Kengo Kuma

We ask Kengo Kuma, one of the architects behind the New National Stadium, how he sees Japan and the world after 2020.

Sustainability

Making a cozy future

Electricity is every nation’s backbone infrastructure, so power companies must be tightly controlled pyramidal organizations. Here’s a “green” electricity company that topples the

Sustainability

Architecture of Resistance

Beijing is transforming along with the advancement of the economy. Architects are taking a stand, sounding a warning about how good old cultures are disappearing.

Culture

6 values of the danish way

Denmark is a small country of 5.7 million people. How did it become one of the world’s happiest countries? Six key words for understanding the “ultra-welfare state”.

Culture

What the Japanese can learn from hygge

A Lesson from the Danish Ambassador

Workplace Survey

The Office Now, as Seen from Layout Data (Part 1)

In this issue, we introduce data that we can reference when setting benchmarks for office design, such as how much space should be allotted per employee, or how many meeting

Workplace Survey

The Office Now, as Seen from Layout Data (Part 2)

Regarding the shape of the desk top, bench desks are the most popular, accounting for about 70% (Fig. 5, top). Bench desks make it easier to adjust to fluctuations in the number of users, compared

Workplace Survey

A New Protocol for Online Meetings

Online meetings are a means of communication that is characterized by the sharing of visual and aural information among multiple people who are in remote locations, unlike telephone calls, which

Event Reports

Neocon 2022: A Day at the Show

We spent a day walking the show, checking out what is new and trending in 2022.



Event Reports

Neocon 2022: Is Hybrid Work Here to Stay?

During the pandemic many people began working from home. Now that life is returning to normal, will they return to the office, or will they continue to work remotely?

Ergonomics

The Posture

To keep ideal posture in each situation, Okamura recommends five different postures.


Ergonomics

How to Choose an Office Chair that Adapts to You

Sitting posture adds a tremendous amount of pressure to the back.