Issei Suma: Koya

Issei Suma transformed a cowshed in a rural area near Tokushima into an office, enclosing the interior in a steel frame to protect the existing 100 years old building.

Suma completed a satellite office of a Tokyo IT, in Kamiyama, Tokushima.

Although the office is located in the rural district where the unspoilt landscape is still maintained, the office is fully equipped with the same digital infrastructure as the main office in Tokyo, but in a less stressing context for the employees.

While the office is built inside the cowshed, the 100 years old, beautifully aged structure is left untouched. The steel structure is designed to take to whole load of the cowshed in order to function as a keystone, in case of major disaster or simply when the cowshed keeps degrading.