Silver Interior · 2023

Bitkey Office

by Canuch Inc.

Silver A' Design Award 2023 in Interior
CLIENT: Bitkey
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About Bitkey Office

Bitkey is an office interior located in the Kyobashi district of Tokyo. The design is informed by the Bitkey logo, which expresses an infinite world through simple triangular shapes. Transparent logo pattern graphics are layered inside the office to create a structure of infinite patterns. Large curtains along the circulation routes carry the product colors and allow varied use of the space. Visitors and employees move through the building using facial recognition. The free address layout includes solo and four person work booths, a product development lab and a communication lounge.

About the Silver A' Design Award

Bitkey Office is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Bitkey Office is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Bitkey Office is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: Bitkey Inc., headquartered in Tokyo Kyobashi district, is the provider of the Bitkey platform, a unique digital key technology based on autonomous distributed systems. The design is informed by the Bitkey logo, which expresses an infinite world through the combination of simple triangular shapes.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total Floor Area 2459.62m2
Tags: bitkey, bitlock, workhub, homehub, smartlock, digital key platform,
Production Technology: Tenant areas of the building are seamlessly connected to the shared entrance. From the entrance, visitors can move to the elevator and conference room for scheduled meetings solely using facial recognition technology. Similarly, employees move through the building using facial recognition and mobile FeliCa, a contactless communication platform for cell phones. The Bitkey office has a free address system, with various types of seating available for use and bookable via a smartphone app.
Design Challenge: An in house technology work hub in the office eliminates divisions between teams and encourages collaboration.
Research: In addition, by stacking transparent logo pattern graphics within the office, a structure of infinite patterns is created within which people can move freely. This layering is a spatial expression of Bitkey crossover workstyle, in which overlapping work responsibilities encourage innovation.
Inspiration: The office design is intended to promote a constant awareness of Bitkey's services at every point within the space. Large curtains hung along circulation routes reflect the intent and colors of Bitkey’s products, enhancing brand image and enabling a varied use of space with comfortable transitions between zones. The distinctive communication lounge incorporates company culture throughout its design, serving as a place to share Bitkey’s central message of connection.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2020 in Tokyo and finished in August 2021
Operation Flow: These include 29 solo work booths and 6 four person work booths. In addition, information on the location of employees in the office, congestion levels in each area, and conference-room use is presented visually on tablets and monitors inside the office. The office is also equipped with a product development lab, where the development team creates products in close collaboration with the sales and support teams.
Image Credits: Photography: Nacasa & Partners