2024.09.30
Update
Case 11, "Smart Innovation Ecosystem Novare ("New" Japanese Scarf Joint )" added.

Shimizu celebrated its 220th anniversary in November 2023. Novare’s mission is to inherit the DNA of knowledge, technology, and human resources cultivated over the long history and tie it into innovations.
One of the five comprising facilities is the Novare Hub. Providing the core functions, it serves to connect all the facilities. It realizes a new creative space that promotes innovation by introducing systems, environmental plans, and new technology capable of responding flexibly to continually changing programs.
To bring greater warmth to the Novare Hub, where many people come and go or stay, a number of distinctive and bold wooden beams were installed in the third-floor hall and office. Here is a project that has developed and evolved traditional technologies into architectural construction that is only possible in the modern age.