All steelwork in the staircase is painted black to give the building a more generic warehouse feel rather than a showcase feel. It almost feels like the space is external as the studio space and press space is glazed off from this area. In the studio spaces on the 2nd and 3rd floors the ceilings are painted black too, which makes the space feel higher as you cannot read where the ceiling stops.

The circulation though the building is very simple. Guests arriving to view the press collection on arriving get a hint of the double height basement through the expanded metal floor and then proceed to the press tube on the 2nd floor without having to disturb the design studio.

Under Cover Lab...............Tokyo, Japan