The OB Kindergarten designed by Youji No Shiro and HIBINOSEKKEI (also designers of the very cool D.S. Nursery see post here) in Nagasaki, Japan responds to it's ocean-fronted, yet urban dense site with a form that both makes the most of it's blue view and lack of outdoor space for play with a rooftop playground.
Seen below, a central feature of the kindergarten design is a rope loft that can only be accessed by the children having to climb up the rope-made tunnel to be greeted with a rooftop terrace facing the ocean.
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Blackboard walls, house-shaped hideouts and dens, varying types of lighting and materiality and texture makes for a creatively stimulating and physically fun place to explore one's capabilities and in which to grow a "challenging mind".
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A sunny indoor and outdoor terraced double-height glazed dining hall is a central coming-together point in which the children can share their all important meal times.
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The architects believe that art is also especially important and have provided "messy" spaces (along with the many blackboard walls) for this activity to occur.
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I'm well impressed with Youji No Shiro's continuing work in the area of EC architecture and look forward to seeing what more they come up with.
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I'm well impressed with Youji No Shiro's continuing work in the area of EC architecture and look forward to seeing what more they come up with.
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