架构师提供的文本描述。Koil(Kashiwa-no-ha开放创新实验室)是一个创新中心，旨在支持创业者的创业、促进企业发展和刺激日本的经济活动。它就像一个平台，公司和个人在传统框架之外共同努力，将想法、技能和知识融为一体，以产生创新产品和服务，系统在投资者的支持下推动和实现了创新产品和服务。

Text description provided by the architects. 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.

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因此，KOIL包括各种跨越领域的顺畅沟通功能，例如吃饭、制造、演讲和放松。用户可以自由地从建筑群内的不同地点选择自己的位置，并与其他用户共享空间和设施，这样用户就可以与其他用户进行不同的联系。中心变成一个城市的缩影，在那里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.

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为了使这些活动得以开展，在中央公共区域内有不同用途和相交的区域，以及不同的天花板高度、灯的色温以及为配合这些区域的功能而设计的内部饰面，创造了不同的空间。这似乎增加了限制空间和使用性质的限制，但布局的有机运作使空间能够满足所有用户的各种工作风格。与20世纪建立在管理者统一灵活性基础上的办公室不同，这一空间代表了每个员工的灵活性。

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.

 Floor Plan

在视觉元素方面，设计中强调了未完成的氛围，旨在使人们的活动本身具有空间的魅力。共用区域的天花板暴露了反射灯的管道。其他元素只是简单地完成使用的基础材料，如木材羊毛水泥板，纤维增强水泥板，和灰泥平抹灰与清漆。通过这样的细节，设计的目的是避免限制意义或特定的风格，从最终完成。

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

Location 178 Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Category Offices Interiors

Art Direction LEMONLIFE & CO

Area 2576.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

Photographs Masao Nishikawa