Directors & Officers Profile
Directors & Officers Profile
Director and Senior Managing Executive OfficerExecutive Manager of the Total Solutions Group.
Yukihiro Maeda
| 1965 | Born in Senba, Osaka. |
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| March 1987 | Graduated from the Osaka City University Faculty of Engineering Architecture Department. |
| April 1987 | After joining DAIKEN SEKKEI, was involved in architectural design at the Osaka Office. |
| 2017 | Made General Manager of Osaka Branch and has held that position to date. |
| 2023 | Assumed current position as Executive Manager of the Total Solutions Group. |
I was born in Osaka's Semba neighborhood the year after the first Tokyo Olympics were held. I stayed within Osaka City until married, when I moved to my current home in the suburbs. I have lived in Osaka since birth and have reached the point where I am incapable of not speaking in Osaka dialect. It also feels like a quirk of fate to join DAIKEN SEKKEI, a company which originated in Osaka.
Over the course of my 30-plus-year career, I have designed all kinds of buildings. Starting with the standard design for public housing, I drew up many handwritten blueprints under the guidance of seniors, including a concert hall, a public hospital, a private high school, a municipal gymnasium, a resort hotel, and a clubhouse for a golf course. Subsequently, I led the design team for a refrigerated warehouse, a corporate housing complex, a tower condominium, a lifelong learning facility, a public junior high school, urban redevelopment, a police station, and a government building. Many of these designs were for facilities in complexes.
I then served in the management of a stand-alone office as the Osaka Office Director, and now serve as General Manager of the Total Solutions Department, where I mainly coordinate engineers in offices across the country to engage in various projects.
Past works
Kaizuka City Cosmos Theater
My second year at the company, I was a team leader for the design competition (there was only a single award at the time), and our building was chosen. The complex holds a 1,200-seat concert hall, a 500-seat theater, and a community hall, linearly arranged in a simple configuration that connects them with a common entrance hall. Focusing on acoustic performance, the concert hall was equipped with the Kansai region's first traveling acoustic reflectors, ensuring a room volume of more than 10 m3 per seat to achieve rich sound. Incidentally, as a proud father, it was moving to see my daughter perform in the hall in her high school choral competition.
Miyakojima Marine Terminal
Built with private investment to promote tourism on the remote islands, this complex consists of a 1,000-seat multipurpose hall, a ferry terminal for inter-island routes, and a 136-room resort hotel. With a base concept of a Santa Fe style, the core of the resort hotel design was to fuse the colors of adobe clay with the texture of Ryukyu limestone. Finding skilled local general contractors was a challenge, but we filled out all the design details, including FF&E.
Laurel Tower Suminodo Sun Tower
A privately funded residential urban area integrated support project to develop a former prefectural public housing site in front of Suminodo Station. It consists of a 200-unit condominium tower, a lifelong learning facility in Daito City, and shopping facilities. The facilities connect directly to the station via a covered pedestrian deck, creating a bustling atmosphere on the south side of the station. The condominium tower is a memorable one in which I supervised the design while leading several interior coordinators. A free design allowing the plumbing to be configured was used for all units. I was involved from the planning and sales phase, spending several intensive years and even participating in interior design meetings with home buyers.
Kinokawa City Kokawa Junior High School
A new construction project for a relocated junior high school using the bonds issued as a result of a municipal merger. Built facing the square in front of Kokawa Station, which was developed at the same time, the site spreads out in the back in a convex shape, presenting a challenge in terms of the flow line from the school gate to the school building. From the school gate, two rows of cherry blossom trees were arranged, with a gymnasium on the south side, a school building, and a playground behind it, arranged such that each would be approached through a rich space. The school building is arranged in a square with a courtyard that can be seen when moving between classes, with places scattered around the courtyard where students can relax during breaks. At the building briefing after the completion ceremony, some current students asked me, "What do I have to study to become an architect who can design a school like this?" It made me glad to have chosen design as a career.
My Daily Life
Having decided to take an active role in the parenting of my own twins, I believe that gives me some insight into the struggles of employees who take childcare leave. Looking back on those days off when I brought my twins in to work with me, I’d like to think it was the path of a devoted father.
Family vacations and movies are my form of stress relief. Both allow me to forget my everyday concerns. My go-tos are theme parks, the aquarium, and hot springs. I love the uplifting feeling of traveling. It’s also soothing on days off to go to the theater where no one can disturb you and watch a fantastic action-packed movie like Star Wars.
