JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED RESEARCH LABS8 labs
Research labs with timber interiors
8 research labs in Japan that make use of timber, according to official information. Areas include Toride, Seika, Yokohama, Shimogyo, Sodegaura, Tsukuba. Each page has interior photos, the architects, whether you can visit, and the careers page.
The Nest, an all-timber building with no columns thanks to wooden trusses
Open areas of wooden terraces that shift and overlap
A drug-discovery base with a 300 m corridor, the Spine, linking every building
A Kyoto lab whose desks are whole logs from Hida
A meeting space with wooden floors, reshaped by researchers with their own hands
A ZEB research office wrapped in plants and a curved ceiling
A workspace of Tochigi timber and Oya stone under a big roof
150-metre offices joined by a 6-metre-wide “band core”
