From the architect. This nursery school in Sakura, Chiba was planned to accommodate 60 pupils. Seiyu-Kai, a local social welfare firm specializing in elderly care facilities approached us for this project. The overarching concept for this plan started with an idea: “a nursery school is a large house.”
The Hakusui Nursery School in Sakura, Chiba was wanted to suit 60 students. Seiyu-Kai, a nearby social welfare firm spend significant time in elderly care offices approached us for this project. The general idea for this arrangement began with a thought: “a nursery school is a huge house. Encompassed by mountains and timberland, the southern zone of the site lays on a delicate incline. Putting this geography to utilize, we designed the school space to look like a substantial arrangement of stairs. One novel highlight of this “huge house,” for instance, is that a 3-year old kid is in the same room as a 5-year old and these offspring of diverse ages can collaborate in the wide, one-room space. Moreover, ought to a 3 year-old kid be dozing while a 5 year old tyke plays adjacent, these distinctions in beat fortify the “local” characteristics of this “expansive house.”
The Hakusui Nursery School project is keeping in accordance with Seiyu-kai’s longstanding (26-year) theory, the designer made it a need to minimize the quantity of blind sides inside the room so as to keep wellbeing measures as unintrusive as could be expected under the circumstances. Using vast sliding window outlines along the northern and southern appearances, alongside the space made by the incline, ventilation is made as a breeze attracts from the south of the structure, goes through the woodland like interior columns advancing upwards before at long last smothering over the porch on the northern side.
A little lake on the southern end which assembles water and additionally water from sprinklers introduced on the southward-inclined rooftop likewise adds to the wind stream as the water is retained into the wind that blows into the structure. This was a piece of an extensive arrangement to make a space that was conjoined from the environment that encompasses the Hakusui Nursery School. They accept that in seeking after the first idea of a “nursery school as an extensive house” they attained to something similar to the houses in cultivating groups that encompass it. The objective was to make a space that was a good time for the kids as well as through mixing into the nature around it, cultivate an experience that was more noteworthy than the total of its components.