The Ohana Floor, Salesforce’s signature amenity floor, offers uninterrupted views of central Tokyo and the Imperial Gardens. A unique departure from other global namesake projects, the Tokyo Ohana Floor afforded the opportunity to investigate the intersections of the company’s corporate design standards and traditional Japanese culture. A traditional Japanese house and garden is strategically placed in the heart of the space and is surrounded by native trees, low-lying vegetation, and a reflecting pool that forms a connection to the Imperial Moats.
The house is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Japanese home, divided in two zones, one for informal gatherings and the other for traditional dining. Defining features of the home include an engawa (porch) that encircles the house, with hinoki-framed glass panels that emulate shoji screens and connect the space to the local culture. These sliding glass panels allow for a variety of spatial configurations to accommodate everything from private meetings to an open stage for large performances. To ensure accessibility to the house for all, a gentle ramp, over the reflecting pools provides universal access to the engawa.
Bio Mark Cavagnero Associates is a San Francisco-based architecture firm built on a foundation of serving civic, cultural and institutional clients. We approach each project with a focus on the immediate and greater community it will serve. The firm has completed a wide range of architectural and master planning projects based on this ideal, including large and small scale institutional, non-profit, and commercial projects. The firm provides a full range of services, from programming, master planning, site planning and conceptual design, through construction documents and administration.
Other prizes In addition to being well-received by users and the community, our work has garnered more than 100 design awards from local, state, national and international organizations. Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects was honored with the AIA California Council’s 2012 Firm of the Year Award, the highest honor that the organization bestows upon a firm, recognizing distinguished architecture and a culture of mentoring the next generation of architects. The firm ranks in Architect magazine’s 2015 The Architect 50, the ranking of the top 50 architectural firms in the country. Mark Cavagnero was personally honored with the AIA California Council’s 2015 Maybeck Award, a lifetime achievement award often referred to as the “Gold Medal of California.” In every project we design we strive for logic, strength, functional excellence, clarity, sustainability, economical use of materials, and, of course, beauty. Ultimately, the challenge of our work is to build something that authentically represents our core values and innate beliefs: fairness, stability, strength, and openness.
