Hirooka Terrace, which creates interaction between inside and outside and semi-exterior spaces, is completed and opened

■ Hirooka Terrace: A prototype building that will be needed by the local community in the future

Today, the role expected of offices and office buildings as places where people gather and connect is undergoing major changes. At Hirooka Terrace, we aim to increase the openness and fluidity of the workplace, and to create a workplace that acts as a collaborative creation hub where diverse users can intersect and generate new innovations. We also believed that realizing this not just inside the building, but also as an environment where people can feel the natural surroundings outside, would open up new possibilities.
We will introduce various initiatives that are the first of their kind in the region, which actively incorporate indoor, outdoor, and semi-outdoor shared spaces in response to Kanazawa's climate.

① Tenant shared terraces provide a space for interaction and collaboration both inside and outside the building
Hirooka Terrace has fundamentally reconsidered the typical office building configuration of "large private areas and narrow common areas" and "common areas accessed from internal corridors," and created "generous common areas" "both inside and outside the building," thereby expressing the theme of creating a place for interaction and collaboration throughout the building.
The terrace located on the north side of the office (Keyaki Boulevard side) is continuous not only horizontally but also vertically via stairs and an atrium. It is a generous shared space that can be used freely by all tenants, rather than being divided into exclusive areas for each tenant. In typical office buildings, encounters and interactions between tenants only occur in the internal corridors, but in this building, the semi-external terrace also makes the space outside the windows the "outside," creating a structure that generates activity both inside and outside the building.

■ Working to promote sustainability

This building aims to be an architecture that grows alongside the local community, and is also working on a wide range of initiatives to promote sustainability.

① The largest-ever "MI Deck" was introduced, making abundant use of wood from Ishikawa Prefecture.
This building uses MI Deck, a reinforced concrete lumber system developed by MEC Industry Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Yusui-cho, Aira-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture), a joint venture established by seven companies ^* including Mitsubishi Estate Estate. This project marks the largest adoption of MI Deck to date (39.29 m3 of prefectural cedar and 95.87 m3 of southern Kyushu cedar). In addition to the ceilings, the building actively uses Ishikawa Prefecture-grown cypress (exterior wood on the second and third facade) and cedar offcuts (furniture and art), promoting the spread of wood-based architecture and carbon neutrality, while also supporting the recovery of the prefecture's lumber industry, which was damaged in the Noto Peninsula earthquake.