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Towards a world
everyone has their favorite city.
everyone has
their favorite city.
Your attempts become
other's fun!
Heart Beat Plan
HBP is an urban design firm based in Osaka, Japan. In order to create positive situations that make people want to challenge, we work with people who live in, and reorganize the relationships among people, tangible things, and happenings.
Outline
What is HBP ?
We are the urban design firm that weaves into exciting cities.
We work with people to make your city more attractive, where your hopes become someone else's fun.
We are a group of experts with the big picture and expertise that stands on ground. While dealing with both the public and private sectors equally, we engage in appropriate planning. We even do the necessary projects for cities beside our duties.
Our Mission
Finding ways to realize visions through series of questions and dialogues
Our goal is to create exciting situations in cities.
By reorganizing relationships among appropriate people, tangible assets, and intangible assets, we work with the people to realize cities with the people where what you want to do can be fun for someone else.
Based on our experience in various cities, we continue to ask everyone about their ideal life and issues. Through various discussions triggered by our questions, we redesign relationships and find unique visions. We present roadmaps for realizing those visions.
Our Values
We accompany people involved from the beginning to the end of projects to change cities.
We emphasize both the process and the results, and work with the people of the city in every part of the project to ensure its success. In order to promote the project, we work to realize the vision through the following flow.
・Analysis of the current situation and identify assets
・Formulate the vision
・Presentation of realization processes (problem setting and solution methods)
・Verification
・Implementation (commercialization and management)
・Sustainable operation
Especially, we focus on "Formulate the vision" and "Presentation of realization processes" to make cities more attractive.
01
Macro and Micro Planning
We create a vision not only from a bird's eye view, but also from the perspective of each and every person who lives, works, plays, or visits the city. By planning with a high level of resolution and in accordance with the motivations of the people, we realize a vision unique to each city.
02
Best Project Team Composition
We have a network to collaborate with experts across disciplines such as urban planning, landscape, architecture, lighting, civil engineering, transportation, tourism, finance, art, waterway, and gastronomy. We assemble the best team to drive the project forward, consisting of local residents, business and local players, government, and a team of experts.
03
Building Strategic Processes for Realization
In order to understand the individuality of an area and create the lifestyle that people want, we assemble each key theme identified in the planning process into a strategic and integrated process.
Rather than the traditional Japanese top-down processes of "build then utilize," we take "utilize then build (creation)" processes that develop hardware while identifying users and operators. Depending on the region, the priorities of the initiatives are examined, and appropriate teams are formed. We take responsibility for realizing visions by putting reviewed processes into practice.
Our Next Action
In addition to city planning consultation, we are challenging a new way of interaction with cities through independent business management.
Since its founding, we have been engaged in city planning projects.
Recently, we started small businesses with our own financial resources, such as a shared house. We named these projects "Heart Beat Projects". Through these projects, we aim to become more deeply and continuously involved in regions as a member of communities.
Also we expand our scope of business as a company. We explore future of urban design firms in Japan.
This is our challenge.
Company Overview
- Name:
- Heart Beat Plan Co., Ltd.
- Chair:
- Hideaki Izumi
- Director:
- Takano Ariga, Satoshi Sonoda
- Contact:
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Ikeda Building 2F, 1-14-7 Tenjinbashi, Kita-ku,
Osaka City, OSAKA 530-0041 JAPAN
info@hbplan.jp
+81-6-6358-0795
- Company establishment date:
- 17th May, 2004
Our services
Research and planning, planning and design, consensus building, project promotion, and management related to the following
・Revitalization of city centers, industrial areas, commercial areas, and villages
・Waterfront revitalization
・Community-based tourism and internal migration
・Renovation of public spaces
・Use of district planning system and local rules
・Communalization, condominium maintenance, management and revitalization
・Support for community development
・Other
(city and region master plan, urban design, landscape formation,urban disaster prevention, and crime prevention)
Awards & Honors
・Takaida Machizukuri with coexistence of residential and industrial use
Grand prize, Yoji Kusumoto Award, 2010
(Japan Society of Urban and Regional Planners)
・Aqua Metropolis Osaka Project
Ishikawa Prize, 2015
(The City Planning Institute of Japan)
・Oto River Project
Grand prize, Handmade Hometown Award, 2019
(The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan)
・Shin Toyo Park
IFUD Prize, Advanced Land Use Award, 2020
(Institute for Future Urban Development)
・Nagato Yumoto Onsen sightseeing town development project
GOOD DESIGN AWARD, 2020
(Japan Institute of Design Promotion)
・Regeneration of Nagato Yumoto Onsen Centered on Tourism
Grand prize, CIVIL ENGINEERING DESIGN PRIZE ,2021
(Landscape&Design Committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineers)