"? (Do-C)" is a new business launched by nine hours, a company running a capsule hotel chain "9h (nine hours)" in the Tokyo metropolitan area. While the 9h hotels offer a new image of a contemporary capsule hotel by completely redesigning and building new capsules from scratch, the company decided to take a different approach in designing ? and asked us to renovate an existing capsule hotel.

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Architects: Schemata Architects

Location: 1 Chome-8-1 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, T?ky?-to 150-0013, Japan

Architect In Charge: Jo Nagasaka

Project Team: Ryosuke Yamamoto, Matthieu Darcourt

Area: 726163.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Nacasa & Partners
Construction: ZYCC CORPORATION; Thermarivm Co., Ltd.; DAIDOPolymer; OKAMURA CORPORATION, BPA Co.,Ltd.; KOTOBUKI SEATING CO.,LTD

Collaboration: Hiromura Design Office, Design Studio S

Site Area: 125.122 m2

Building Area: 105.287 m2

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"? (Do-C)" is a new business launched by nine hours, a company running a capsule hotel chain "9h (nine hours)" in the Tokyo metropolitan area. While the 9h hotels offer a new image of a contemporary capsule hotel by completely redesigning and building new capsules from scratch, the company decided to take a different approach in designing ? and asked us to renovate an existing capsule hotel.
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