| This training facility has been constructed
in a section of the Asahi Glass Keihin Plant in Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama.
These days, like many manufacturing companies, Asahi Glass faces a crisis
with regard to handing down skills, due to the skilled workers becoming
older and the baby boomers reaching retirement. This is why the company
considered enhancing the training facilities an important matter. This
training center is composed of two wings: the "training wing," mainly
for lectures, and the "practical wing," where employees can get hands-on
training with regard to furnaces and operational methods. The four-story
training wing has small to medium-sized training and discussion rooms
on the first to third floors, and on the fourth floor, with a 5.5-meter
ceiling height, there is a large training room, conversation room as well
as an outside terrace. A glass atrium has been built in the center of
the building, reaching up to the fourth floor, and a refreshment corner
where plenty of sunshine is drawn in from the inside atrium has also been
built, designed to enliven communication between the trainees. With regard
to the construction materials, glass, which is the identity of the company,
has been used with the concepts of a "light spectrum" displayed by the
light passing through the glass, and that brilliance. With the theme of
"visible light" from ultraviolet rays through to infrared rays, this was
an attempt to put architectural form to this light, conceptually extracted
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The front facade, designed with slits
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