Company Office Building Plan 1,
Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture
(2015, completed)

This is the head office and home of the owner of a taxi firm that was forced to relocate inland following the Great East Japan Earthquake. Adopting a two-layer structure over the entire site, we created the first level from scratch using reinforced concrete. The lower level comprised the company head office and taxi depot, while the upper level consisted of a meeting space and residence. Even if a similar disaster to the Great East Japan Earthquake were to occur again, people would be able to evacuate to the upper level residence and continue their lives. This structure is currently only adopted on this site, however, if neighboring buildings were renovated or newly constructed based on the same concept, it would become possible to achieve the two-layer structure community that we couldn’t realize in Rikuzen-Takata.