Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
ATM Nursery in Osaka, Japan by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro
November 17th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro
This is a nursery at the site which used to be a fire department. It is in a part of Chitose New Town straddling the border between Toyonaka city and Suita city. In this area, communities had been built and developed around the housing estates, but now they are tend to decline and disappear.
Nursery is a place to develop children’s personality and also, it’s important to tell children the history of their neighborhood and old scenery. Therefore, we reinterpret the housing estates, and plan a nursery as a hub of local communities.
For example, the exterior has different kinds of level and give variety in order to avoid the long and thin exterior which is a characteristic of housing estates but gives a ticky-tacky impression. We planned a balcony at the periphery of the building which is also a characteristic of housing estate, where there are undulation, climbing equipment, slope, bench, and a monkey bar. They make children take an exercise playing. In addition, the children’s activities are sent out to the neighborhood in the process.
Also, in this area, by allowing a light injury and failure, children will built further sense of advancement and challenge.
Making more contacts among people, we planned people’s eyes can be spread to any directions. For example, the kitchen and dining room is open to the street or outside of the building. They are also connected to the outside corridor and play terrace so that neighbors can take care of children’s activities and for teachers it became easier to notice what is happened outside.
In every nursery room, there are large windows at the side of the play terrace and the corridor so that it prompt different ages of children to communicate and feel their presence each other.
As a result, younger children yearn for older children and they eager to grow up. On the other.
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