This kindergarten has been contributed to the community in the City of Toyota for more than 40 years by supporting many families based in Toyota. They decided to build a new nursery facility next to the existing kindergarten to upgrade the management system to Nintei- Kodomoen(certified child care facilities).
*Nintei-Kodomoen has combined characteristics of kindergartens and nurseries so they could provide variety of assistance programs to the community.
This is a support center for the disabled consisting of 4 different kinds of facilities, an office, and cafe space, whose concept is “The Station connecting the disabled and the local community”.
In Japan, most of facilities for the disabled are so closed with windows of opaque glass that people inside can’t be seen from outside. But it’s important that such a welfare facility is open to outside and the public for users to live close to the society with their mental health.
In front of the building, there is a café space, where anyone can come and drop in freely.
Charles Moore says, “When I see the map, the coastal rich variety such as bays and ports, islands and archipelagos, coves and estuaries is more interesting than a simple coastline where the land hits the ocean.” ” And the room is a spacious ocean ground architectural version. ”
And he says “Places like complicated topography to the ocean are Alcove etc., which enables basic human actions.”
This building is a shop combined housing built in Kitami city which is the east town of Hokkaido.
It is a wooden house of a flat store built in Satsumasendai City. It is a building of a characteristic space with sloping sloping roof and ceiling, segmented garden / courtyard.
Combine gradually different angles and different gradients to form a continuous roof like an origami and stretch the ceiling with a gradient. The height of the ceiling is also different depending on the space, with some changes in the floor height, we gradually segment the fluid space by the height. The roof and the exterior wall emphasized the solid feeling by making it the same material of the white gauze roofing of the white steel plate and aimed at expression of a new wooden which is not a flat roof.
This house was planned for a married couple living in a quiet residential area in Chiba. Three boxes were randomly stacked, and the resulting margins were included in the indoor area. It is like being outside, while actually being inside. Because these residences will be lived in while left constantly open, the plan is to avoid using air conditioners as much as possible. Japan's Kanto region tends to have strings of extremely hot days. The Kanto region is also one of the world's most densely populated regions, making it difficult for people to live there openly. The “open while closing” concept is an easier way to solve this problem.
Oyu onsen is a famous hot spring in Kazuno, Akita. We designed a community center here incorporating a shop, café, open-air theater, park, footbath, and biotope under one large roof. In order to create a dynamic space which varies according to the diverse programs, we referred to mage wappa, a round lunch basket made of thin wood, a traditional craft in Akita’s. Cylinders of LVL (laminated veneer lumber) reference mage wappa and comprise the structure of the building. The assemblage of those rings then functions not only as a transparent structure but also as a partition or a shelf when needed.
The birth rate in Japan is on a constant decline resulting decrease in the number of siblings proportionately. As a result, the different age children aren’t able to develop a strong connection which results in developing complex, restricting them to freely communicate with others. This site is located in an area where this tendency can be seen remarkably. Hence we started with 'connection' as the key concept.
The site is located in Nerima-ku, Tokyo, a little away at the end of a crowded shopping street.
Originally, the site was owned by the father-in-law of the client, who ran a business there. At the timing of his retirement, the client was considering moving from the previous home, and a family meeting was held. After that, as another way of using the site, they decided that they had the house remodeled to a two-family houses.
Furthermore, the site is 25 tsubo (about 83㎡), category 1 exclusive districts for low-rise residential buildings is applied, building coverage ratio is 50%, it’s in quasi-fire prevention districts, and a parking space for father and mother-in-law is required.
The premises are easily accessible and fairly wide, located in a category 1 medium- and high-rise exclusive residential district, and have a busy road, albeit one-way, right in front and tall apartment buildings on both sides. This made it necessary for us to devise a way to achieve the duality of harmonization with the surrounding environment and the owner’s request for a quiet and free home, that is, a house which blocks the line of sight from the outside but is also spacious, and has a strong presence among tall buildings while also blending in with the scenery—we were required to achieve coexistence of conflicting elements (closeness/openness and assertion/harmonization of the house).
It is a house built in a mini development area in the hill of Kagoshima-shi. It is located at the tip of a cliff opened in the southwest direction and the neighboring south and west sides are lower by 1.5 stories lower so it is unlikely that future obstacles will be built up in the future. In order to amplify the splendor of the view, we decided to set up all the main rooms including the water on the second floor, which was lifted by two strong structural cores composed of wall pillars with the first floor as a pillow . The home-made area that has opened up a small mountain often carries out cut-out earthworks, and the site on which the donation road of the L-type premises hits the embankment part. Considering the L shape of the premises, the state of the supporting ground mentioned above, wind blowing, etc., we placed the “main house” open to the view in parallel to the road and away from the cliff. At the tip of the remaining cliff, we set up a “separation” for enjoying panoramic view, and made it a layout to approach by a bridge as a transition device to an extraordinary space.
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