実績

A new nursery school in Nakano Ward, Tokyo. The site consists of a district park, built about 40 years earlier, and an adjoining empty lot. It has been loved by local people for many years, as a green place for relaxing. The basic concept of this plan was a “forest nursery school” surrounded by trees, so to preserve as many as possible of the existing trees that have formed that good environment, our plan put the new nursery building on the adjoining empty lot. Trees that unavoidably had to be cut down were replaced with newly-planted trees. We installed wooden play equipment to tie the trees of the garden together and link them to the terrace of the nursery building. Our aim was to make an environment where children can feel close to the trees as they play around through it. The interior of the nursery building has individual spaces adapted to the growth stages of children aged zero to two years, who have undeveloped exercise capacity and need hygiene management. For children aged three to five years, on the other hand, we used movable partitions and furniture to allow the childcare rooms to adapt to diverse types of care and events etc.